Their master
exhausted
himself in useless struggle,
While in the blood-wet foam they stained their bridles.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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_All_
counseyl; _I
propose_
reed.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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There was once a day, but old Time
wasythen
young,
That brave Caledonia, the chief of her line,
From some of your northern deities sprung,
(Who knows not that brave Caledonia's divine?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Except the heaven had come so near,
So seemed to choose my door,
The
distance
would not haunt me so;
I had not hoped before.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Here on your heart my heart now understands; Home have I come at last from alien
lands—
A pilgrim through the darkness to your eyes!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I
entrusted
him to you at a tender age.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Fix the water-colour,
Too fragile tints that run,
Painter
In enameller's oven;
Make Sirens blue
Tails
writhing
free
For you,
Monsters of heraldry;
And with triple halo
The Virgin and her Jesus
the globe
With the Cross above.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Chimene
Elvire, this suffering is enough for me,
Don't
multiply
it with dread augury.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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references
to Project Gutenberg,
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Great is Language--it is the
mightiest
of the sciences,
It is the fulness, colour, form, diversity of the earth, and of men and
women, and of all qualities and processes;
It is greater than wealth, it is greater than buildings, ships, religions,
paintings, music.
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Whitman |
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that
changeth
sides,
Or ever summer yields to winter's frost.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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[The gentleman to whom this
imperfect
note is addressed was Dr.
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Robert Forst |
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"
"Oh weep or laugh, but let me be,
And live or die, for all's in vain;
For life's in vain since we must part,
And parting must not meet again
"Till windflowers blossom on the sea,
And fishes skim along the plain;
Pale rose of roses let me be,
Your
breaking
heart breaks mine again.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
A son of God was the Goodly Fere That bade us his
brothers
be.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Then my Joy grew pale and weary because no other heart but mine
held its
loveliness
and no other lips kissed its lips.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Yet in herself she
dwelleth
not.
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James Russell Lowell |
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And about the temple dauncid alwaie
Women inow, of which some there ywere
Faire of 'hemself, and some of 'hem were gaie,
In kirtils all
disheveled
went thei there,
That was ther office or from yere to yere,
And on the temple sawe I white and faire
Of dovis sittyng many a thousande paire.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Man
redeemed from
barbarism
is the major theme of Book II.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Who thy last
reckoning
did so largely pay,
And with the public, gravity would come.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,--
A
creature
might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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In his letters to the wits at home he
sends greetings to, among others,
Christopher
Brooke, John Hoskins
(as 'Mr.
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John Donne |
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Yet
stranger
that the high sweet fire,
In hearts nigh foreign to desire,
Could burn, sigh, weep, and burn again
As oh, it never has since then!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The newly
recovered
section of the epic contains two legends which
supplied the glyptic artists of Sumer and Accad with subjects for
seals.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
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and
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Sara Teasdale |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I had the right, few days ago,
Thy steps to watch, thy place to know:
How have I
forfeited
the right?
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Emerson - Poems |
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The army craves today a skilful leader;
Basmanov
send, and firmly bear the murmurs
Of the boyars.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The warriors thus Orlando flung parforce,
As farrier throws the
struggling
ox or horse.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Lines longer than 78 characters are broken according to metre,
and the
continuation
is indented two spaces.
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Sara Teasdale |
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" And William heard,
And answered
something
madly; bit his lips,
And broke away.
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Tennyson |
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3 _dulcis musarum_ D:
_dulcissimus
har_(_u_ O)_um_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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e people of epicuriens
{and}
stoyciens
{and} many o?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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There, sir, stop;
Let us not burden our remembrances with
A
heaviness
that's gone.
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Shakespeare |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Keats |
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Is all that
desperate
Valour acts in vain?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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if this promised bliss by thundering Jove
(The prince
replied)
stand fix'd in fate above;
To thee, as to some god, I'll temples raise.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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'
This said, the
pleasing
feather'd omen ceased.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And who could reproduce the sun,
At period of going down --
The lingering and the stain, I mean --
When Orient has been outgrown,
And
Occident
becomes unknown,
His name remain.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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father-in-law descending from
the Alpine
barriers
and the fortress of the Dweller Alone, son-in-law
facing him with the embattled East.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Tis but a trial all must undergo;
To teach
unthankful
mortals how to prize
That happiness vain man's denied to know,
Until he's called to claim it in the skies.
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John Clare |
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Sweeping
terrible
down
the tide of battle he wakens fierce indiscriminate carnage, and flings
loose all the reins of wrath.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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_]
How
differently
works on me this sign!
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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XXI
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
Found no way to tame, this proud city,
That with a courage forged in adversity,
Sustained the shock of endless wars,
Though her ship, plagued at the source
By great waves, felt the world's enmity,
None ever saw the reefs of adversity
Wreak havoc on her
fortunate
course:
But, the object of her virtue failing,
Her power opposed its own flailing,
Like the voyager whom a cruel gale
Has long since separated from the shore,
Driven now by the storm's wild roar,
And shipwrecked there, when all efforts fail.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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My little son
pretended
he knew what to do, he kept seeking bitter plums to eat.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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) This poem was known familiarly
in the
household
as "The Rainbow," although not printed under that
title.
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| Question: |
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William Wordsworth |
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I should
not have dared to take this liberty with you, but that I am told, by
those who have the honour of your personal acquaintance, that to be a
poor honest
Scotchman
is a letter of recommendation to you, and that
to have it in your power to serve such a character, gives you much
pleasure.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Embroidered stuffs, and dainty tunics, and flowing
gowns, and golden ornaments,
everything
I have, I offer them you with all
my heart; take them all for your children, for your girls, against they
are chosen "basket-bearers" to the goddess.
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Aristophanes |
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I came at last to the ocean
And found it wild and black,
And I cried to the
windless
valleys,
"Be kind and take me back!
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Sara Teasdale |
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I, the old man, was feeling bad and lay several days with
vomiting
and diarrhea.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Now, Muse, recount
Pelasgic
Argos' powers,
From Alos, Alope, and Trechin's towers:
From Phthia's spacious vales; and Hella, bless'd
With female beauty far beyond the rest.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Hear ye in whose abode
My son
resides?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man on whose nose
Most birds of the air could repose;
But they all flew away at the closing of day,
Which
relieved
that Old Man and his nose.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The snow-flakes alone make thee hoary,
Nestling
close to thy branches in slumber,
And thee mantling with silence.
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James Russell Lowell |
|
Among those who will forthcoming numbers a
volumes for contribute to
Scudder Middleton Marguerite Wilkinson John Russell
McCarthy
Phoebe Hoffman Ellwood Lindsay Haines Esther Morton Smith Howard Buck
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John Hall Wheelock Laura Benet
Fullerton L.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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[Burns had a happy knack in
acknowledging
civilities.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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With fleecy clouds the sky is blanched,
And o'er the bay,
Slowly, in all his
splendors
dight,
The great sun rises to behold the sight.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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the
loiterers
call,
And thrones be tumbled in the mire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Wherefore
did he come to me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Such fate to
suffering
worth is giv'n,
Who long with wants and woes has striv'n,
By human pride or cunning driv'n
To mis'ry's brink,
'Till wrenched of every stay but Heav'n,
He, ruin'd, sink!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
140
"These given, what more need I desire
To stir, to soothe, or
elevate?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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And when the King our lord
spendeth
on us
This festival out of his rich heart, to shoot
Thy looks upon us as thou wouldst rebuke us?
| Guess: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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But who demands this profuse, wanton glee,
These shouts
prolonged
and wild festivity--
Not sure our city--web, more woe than bliss,
In any hour, requiring aught but this!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Or should the King himself
Of Ithaca, returning, undertake
T' expell the jovial suitors from his house,
Much as Penelope his absence mourns,
His presence should afford her little joy;
For fighting sole with many, he should meet 330
A
dreadful
death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Waldo Abigail Fithian Halsey Louis
Ginsberg
Marjorie Allen Seiffert J.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
]
Mighty
Empress!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Yet let her retain me, as she please,
For my
suffering
is not so rare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Tacitus |
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The Countess
Cathleen
comes!
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Yeats |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Stephen Crane |
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"
The Beaver had counted with scrupulous care,
Attending to every word:
But it fairly lost heart, and
outgrabe
in despair,
When the third repetition occurred.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
XXXVIII
Then gan the Pilgrim thus, I chaunst this day,
This fatall day, that shall I ever rew, 330
To see two knights in travell on my way
(A sory sight) arraung'd in battell new,
Both breathing vengeaunce, both of wrathfull hew:
My
fearefull
flesh did tremble at their strife,
To see their blades so greedily imbrew, 335
That drunke with bloud, yet thristed after life:
What more?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Digitized by VjOOQIC
106 THE POEMS
Well might thou scorn thy readers to allure
With
tinkling
rhyme, of thy own sense secure.
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Marvell - Poems |
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whose young childrens' children bred
Thermopylae
its heroes--not yet dead,
But in old marbles ever beautiful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
There, on
thoughts
that once were mine,
Day looks down the eastern steep,
And the youth at morning shine
Makes the vow he will not keep.
| Guess: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
11
As I have walk'd in Alabama my morning walk,
I have seen where the she-bird the mocking-bird sat on her nest in
the briers
hatching
her brood.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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For the king of Erech of the wide places
open,
addressing
thy speech as unto a husband.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And
oftentimes
I talked to him,
In very idleness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
The oak and elm have
pleasant
leaves
That in the spring-time shoot:
But grim to see is the gallows-tree,
With its alder-bitten root,
And, green or dry, a man must die
Before it bears its fruit!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
We've no
business
down there at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Mars hovers o'er them with his sable shield,
And adds new horrors to the darken'd field:
Pleased with his charge, and ardent to fulfil,
In Troy's defence, Apollo's
heavenly
will:
Soon as from fight the blue-eyed maid retires,
Each Trojan bosom with new warmth he fires.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
{74a} The
lopping of trees makes the boughs shoot out thicker; and the taking away
of some kind of enemies
increaseth
the number.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Here met the foe
Fierce Vulcan, queenly Juno here,
And he who ne'er shall quit his bow,
Who laves in clear
Castalian
flood
His locks, and loves the leafy growth
Of Lycia next his native wood,
The Delian and the Pataran both.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
And turning
straight
with his priceless freight,
He reached the dying one,
Whose passing sprite had been stayed for the rite
Without which bliss hath none.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Two figures, one Conon, in the midst he set,
And one- how call you him, who with his wand
Marked out for all men the whole round of heaven,
That they who reap, or stoop behind the plough,
Might know their several
seasons?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
There a menagerie was once outspread;
And there I saw, one morning at the hour
When toil awakes beneath the cold, clear sky,
And the road roars upon the silent air,
A swan who had escaped his cage, and walked
On the dry pavement with his webby feet,
And trailed his
spotless
plumage on the ground.
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Unheard Midnight counts out his empty number,
Wakefulness urges you never to close an eye,
Before in the ancient armchair's embrace my
Shade is
illuminated
by the dying embers.
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In chaunged vois, right for his verray drede,
Which vois eek quook, and ther-to his manere
Goodly abayst, and now his hewes rede,
Now pale, un-to Criseyde, his lady dere, 95
With look doun cast and humble yolden chere,
Lo, the
alderfirste
word that him asterte
Was, twyes, `Mercy, mercy, swete herte!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
On which Violet, who was
perfectly
acquainted with the art of
mitten-making, said to the Crabs, "Do your claws unscrew, or are they
fixtures?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He is most wonderful in his last half-hidden smile
or frown: by that flash of the moment of parting the one that sees it shall
be
encouraged
or terrified afterward for many years.
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Whitman |
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Her women
removed her wraps and
proceeded
to get her in readiness for the night.
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Our hearts are warm and cheery,
like
cottages
under drifts, whose windows and doors are half
concealed, but from whose chimneys the smoke cheerfully ascends.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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If I should n't be alive
When the robins come,
Give the one in red cravat
A
memorial
crumb.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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[i] The person here called
Corvinus
was the same as Corvinus Messala,
who flourished in the reign of Augustus, at the same time with Asinius
Pollio.
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