Here lilac, with a branch of pine,
Here, out of my pocket, some moss which I pulled off a live-oak in Florida,
as it hung trailing down,
Here some pinks and laurel leaves, and a handful of sage,
And here what I now draw from the water, wading in the pond-side,
(O here I last saw him that tenderly loves me--and returns again, never to
separate from me,
And this, O this shall
henceforth
be the token of comrades--this Calamus-
root[1] shall,
Interchange it, youths, with each other!
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Whitman |
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IN THE
MOUNTAINS
ON A SUMMER DAY
Gently I stir a white feather fan,
With open shirt, sitting in a green wood.
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Li Po |
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The frankness of speech which we have abandoned is an
interesting
evidence
how the tone of manners changes.
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Robert Herrick |
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To-morrow shall be thine
A kid, whose crescent brow
Is
sprouting
all for love and victory.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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For some it may radiate from the Shropshire life he so finely
etches; for others, in the vivid artistic simplicity and unity of
values, through which Shropshire lads and
landscapes
are presented.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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If this interpretation be correct
the
preterite
_edir_ is established.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Besides, the waters of
themselves
did rise.
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Marvell - Poems |
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LXXVI
From the other part, a pagan Esturganz;
Estramariz
also, was his comrade;
Felons were these, and traitors miscreant.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Sanguine hanc etiam mihi (sed
tacebitis)
aram 15
Barbatus linit hirculus, cornipesque capella:
Pro queis omnia honoribus haec necesse Priapo
Praestare, et domini hortulum, vineamque tueri.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Wikkid-Tunge, that the covyne
Of every lover can devyne 3800
Worst, and addith more somdel,
(For Wikkid-Tunge seith never wel),
To me-ward bar he right gret hate,
Espying me erly and late,
Til he hath seen the grete chere 3805
Of
Bialacoil
and me y-fere.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Chimene
It would offend the King who
promised
justice.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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_ They are such in this
Our state as render
retribution
easier
Than 'mongst remoter nations.
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Byron |
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Thou wast not born for death,
immortal
Bird!
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Keats |
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"
"God save thee, ancient
Mariner!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And yit moreover, wurst of alle,
Ther is set to kepe, foule hir
bifalle!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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chief
Of pains
resistless!
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Keats |
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34, only 19
comprise
the standard text block; the rest are marginal additions, with 2 sizeable columns at the foot of the page, a 5-line stanza written up the lower righthand side of the page, and 2 additional larger stanzas appearing in the lefthand margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Yet only noble womanhood
The wife her dauntless part could teach:
She shared with him the last dry food
And thronged with hopefulness her speech,
As when hard by her home the flood
Of rushing
Conestoga
fills
Its depth afresh from springtide rills!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are
confirmed
as Public Domain in the U.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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I have made some small
alterations
in what I before had
printed.
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Robert Forst |
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Walpole 'in any future edition of his truly
entertaining
anecdotes
of painting.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Are not men
thoughtless?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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_116
shattered]scattered
cj.
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Shelley |
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Did I think of you last
evening?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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In the startled ear of night
How they scream out their
affright!
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Poe - 5 |
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_templa_
R: num _fana_?
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Latin - Catullus |
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It is
two years ago now since Ivan
Kouzmitch
took it into his head to fire his
cannon on my birthday; she was so frightened, the poor little dove, she
nearly ran away into the other world.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Now all is done, save what shall have no end:
Mine
appetite
I never more will grind
On newer proof, to try an older friend,
A god in love, to whom I am confin'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
Gawayne rises, dresses himself in noble array, and
conceals
the "love
lace" where he might find it again.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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WHISPERS
OF HEAVENLY DEATH
Darest Thou Now O Soul
Darest thou now O soul,
Walk out with me toward the unknown region,
Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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REVOLT
AGAINST THE
CREPUSCULAR
SPIRIT IN MODERN POETRY
WOULD shake off the lethargy of this our time, I and give
For shadows shapes of power, For dreams men.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Et les pantins choques enlacent leurs bras greles:
Comme des orgues noirs, les poitrines a jour
Que serraient autrefois les gentes damoiselles,
Se
heurtent
longuement dans un hideux amour.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift
As meditation or the
thoughts
of love,
May sweep to my revenge.
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Shakespeare |
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Come on afoot a
thousand
Sarrazens,
And on horseback some forty thousand men.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"This Herman," continued Tomsky, "is a romantic character; he has the
profile of a
Napoleon
and the heart of a Mephistopheles.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
Cain, sleeping not, dreamed at the
mountain
foot.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Thou art Lucina, Juno hight
By mothers lien in painful plight,
Thou
puissant
Trivia and the Light 15
Bastard, yclept the Lune.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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For o'er each letter broods and dwells,
(Like light from running waters thrown
On flowery swaths) the
blissful
flame
Of his sweet eyes, that, day and night,
With pulses thrilling thro' his frame
Do inly tremble, starry bright.
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Tennyson |
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" their leader cried,
"Your fame already these our regions own,
How your bold prows from worlds to us unknown
Have brav'd the horrors of the southern main,
Where storms and darkness hold their endless reign,
Whose whelmy waves our
westward
prows have barr'd
From oldest times, and ne'er before were dar'd
By boldest leader: earnest to behold
The wondrous hero of a toil so bold,
To you the sov'reign of these islands sends
The holy vows of peace, and hails you friends.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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The
daughter
of beauty wip'd her pitying tears with her white veil,
And said, Alas!
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blake-poems |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Once we met at the Southern end of Wei Bridge, but
scattered
again to
the north of the Tso Terrace.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Now even I, a fond woman,
Frail and of small understanding, 20
Yet with
unslakable
yearning
Greatly desiring wisdom,
Come to the threshold of reason
And the bright portals.
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Sappho |
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I thinke withall,
There would be hands vplifted in my right:
And heere from
gracious
England haue I offer
Of goodly thousands.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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They steered by stars the elder shipmen knew,
And laid their courses where the
currents
draw
Of ancient wisdom channelled deep in law.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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All stood
together
on the deck,
For a charnel-dungeon fitter:
All fix'd on me their stony eyes
That in the moon did glitter.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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C'est la que j'ai vecu dans les
voluptes
calmes,
Au milieu de l'azur, des vagues, des splendeurs
Et des esclaves nus, tout impregnes d'odeurs,
Qui me rafraichissaient le front avec des palmes,
Et dont l'unique soin etait d'approfondir
Le secret douloureux qui me faisait languir.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Finding her inflexible, he
told her that as she had incurred this peril to
oblige him, he felt himself ** bound in honour and
conscience" not to desert her, and, having pre-
vailed on some boatmen to hazard the passage,
they
embarked
together.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Here too Rogero comes; where getting sight
Of his lost love, the County strives in fray
With fierce Ferrau, and, after
slaughter
fell
Amid the paynim host, finds Isabel.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Antilochus, as Thoon turn'd him round,
Transpierced his back with a dishonest wound:
The hollow vein, that to the neck extends
Along the chine, his eager javelin rends:
Supine he falls, and to his social train
Spreads his
imploring
arms, but spreads in vain.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Ah the homeliest of them is
beautiful
to her.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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London: documents at sight,
Asked me in demotic French
To
luncheon
at the Cannon Street Hotel
Followed by a weekend at the Metropole.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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" cried everybody
streaming
round.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Its
business
office is located at 809
North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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The smitten rock that gushes,
The
trampled
steel that springs;
A cheek is always redder
Just where the hectic stings!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Paraphrase Of The First Psalm
The man, in life
wherever
plac'd,
Hath happiness in store,
Who walks not in the wicked's way,
Nor learns their guilty lore!
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Coiled
serpents spring more
powerfully
for the coiling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
The
following
passage from
Dr.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Dolphins, playing in the sea
Hurling his ink at skies above,
Medusas, miserable heads
In your pools, and in your ponds,
The female of the Halcyon,
Do I know where your ennui's from, Sirens,
Dove, both love and spirit
In spreading out his fan, this bird,
My poor heart's an owl
Yes, I'll pass fearful shadows
This
cherubim
sings the praises
PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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But there were those amongst us all
Who walked with
downcast
head,
And knew that, had each got his due,
They should have died instead:
He had but killed a thing that lived,
Whilst they had killed the dead.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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"
I leaned forward and looked into his face as
steadily
as I could.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Assai
leggeramente
quel salimmo;
e volti a destra su per la sua scheggia,
da quelle cerchie etterne ci partimmo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
and he knew that it was mine, --
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe
outstretched
beneath the tree.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
17
And with five
bastions
it did fence,
As aiming one for every sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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And don't you see that changeableness,
Is to lose time's joy in heart's
yearning?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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TO ZANTE
FAIR isle, that from the fairest of all flowers,
Thy gentlest of all gentle names dost take
How many
memories
of what radiant hours
At sight of thee and thine at once awake!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Quivi venimmo; e quindi giu nel fosso
vidi gente
attuffata
in uno sterco
che da li uman privadi parea mosso.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic
work is posted
with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
'68'
Chloe: a
fanciful
name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to
darkness
utterly,
It might be well perhaps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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what more jocund light is borne aloft in the
heavens?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Not from that day, when on this earth I first
Beheld her charms, up to that view of them,
Have I with song
applausive
ever ceas'd
To follow, but not follow them no more;
My course here bounded, as each artist's is,
When it doth touch the limit of his skill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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No, ever to behold your face,
To follow you in every place,
Your smiling lips, your beaming eyes,
To watch with lovers' ecstasies,
Long listen, comprehend the whole
Of your perfections in my soul,
Before you
agonized
to die--
This, this were true felicity!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
"
May her eyes and her cheek be fair
To all men except the King of Aragon,
And may I come
speedily
to Beziers
Whither my desire and my dream have preceded
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Upon its bank, beneath a cooling shade,
They found two
warriors
and a damsel laid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I mean, has ne'er your heart been smitten
slightly?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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of strong necessitee,
Which fast is tyde to Joves
eternall
seat?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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For by myn hidde sorwe y-blowe on brede 530
I shal bi-Iaped been a
thousand
tyme
More than that fool of whos folye men ryme.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Yet have they many baits, and
guilefull
spells
To inveigle and invite th' unwary sense
Of them that pass unweeting by the way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
A Number 1
HARVARD^ 'university]
We need you now, strong guardians of our hearts, Now, when a
darkness
lies on sea and land,
When we of weakening faith forget our parts And bow before the falling of the sand.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Among his most valued
friends he numbered Launcelot Andrews,
afterward
Bishop of Winchester,
Edward Kirke, a young man of Spenser's own age, who soon after edited his
friend's first important poem, the _Shepheards Calender_, with elaborate
notes, and most important of all, the famous classical scholar, a fellow of
Pembroke, Gabriel Harvey, who was a few years older than Spenser, and was
later immortalized as the Hobbinoll of the _Faerie Queene_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Here schoolboys
lingered
in the way,
Here the bent packman laboured by,
And lovers at the end o' the day
Whispered their secret blushingly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Out of his barge issues their admiral,
Espaneliz goes forth at his right hand,
Seventeen
kings follow him in a band,
Counts too, and dukes; I cannot tell of that.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
XXXIX
Ah dearest Lord (quoth she) how might that bee,
And he the
stoughtest
knight, that ever wonne?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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If folk would but stop attributing to God, motives, opinions, arrangements and likings, which they'd
con|sider
an insult to set down to any wise and good friend of their own, how much useless bother would come to an end!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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1793
The True Loyal Natives
Ye true "Loyal Natives" attend to my song
In uproar and riot rejoice the night long;
From Envy and Hatred your corps is exempt,
But where is your shield from the darts of
Contempt!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Thereafter
will arises;
For no one starts to do a thing, before
The intellect previsions what it wills;
And what it there pre-visioneth depends
On what that image is.
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Lucretius |
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For there I lost my father dear,
My father dear, and
brethren
three.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Hard strove the frightened maiden, and
screamed
with look aghast;
And at her scream from right and left the folk came running fast;
The money-changer Crispus, with his thin silver hairs,
And Hanno from the stately booth glittering with Punic wares,
And the strong smith Muraena, grasping a half-forged brand,
And Volero the flesher, his cleaver in his hand.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The palfrey was as fleet as wind,
And they rode
furiously
behind.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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'Pore men han maad hir lord of me;
Although
they not so mighty be,
That they may fede me in delyt, 5995
I wol not have hem in despyt.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Who
calleth?
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Christina Rossetti |
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, This is
the sort of thing I must become
accustomed
to, if I am to
remain on earth.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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In Bayard Taylor's The Echo Club we
find on page 24 this criticism: "There was a
congenital
twist about Poe
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Once I had a lover bright like running water,
Once his face was
laughing
like the sky;
Open like the sky looking down in all its laughter
On the buttercups--and buttercups was I.
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Imagists |
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