Then, in rising day,
On the grass they play;
Parents were afar,
Strangers
came not near,
And the maiden soon forgot her fear.
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blake-poems |
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I have heard the
mermaids
singing, each to each.
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T.S. Eliot |
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--
I never heard of such as dare
Approach
the spot when she is there.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work
electronically
in lieu of a refund.
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William Wordsworth |
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The series of
itinerary sonnets,
published
along with them in the Yarrow volume of
1835, is the record of another Scottish tour, taken in the year 1833;
and Wordsworth says of them that they were "composed 'or suggested'
during a tour in the summer of 1833.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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One of the most
interesting
strands of thought common to the twin
poems is the reflection on the disintegrating effect of the New
Learning.
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John Donne |
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This allowed the
fashionable
lady who rose
at noon time to do a little shopping and perform "the long labours of
the toilet.
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Alexander Pope |
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CHORUS
Lo, on this shrine, the
semblance
of a bird.
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Aeschylus |
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those that are dated before the _Index_,
and
consequently
not altered.
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Tacitus |
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hip_, on the
perfecting
the pattent.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Most
willingly
your lover I'd have been;
But time it is our story should be seen.
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La Fontaine |
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We will not
henceforth
be oblivious
Of our own lives, because ye lived before,
Nor of our acts, because ye acted well.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
"Now both himself and me he wrongs,
The man who thus
complains!
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Golden Treasury |
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His smile was luminously kind
Like glint of ivory enshrined,
Like a home longing undivined,
Like Christmas snows where dark ways wind,
Like sea-pearls about turquoise twined,
Like
moonlight
silver when combined
With a loved book's rare gold.
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Rilke - Poems |
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It is one to me that they come or go
If I have myself and the drive of my will,
And
strength
to climb on a summer night
And watch the stars swarm over the hill.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The celebrated travel book entitled: 'History of Prince Don Pedro of Portugal, in which is told what happened to him on the way composed for Gomez of
Santistevan
when he had covered the seven regions of the globe, one of the twelve who bore the prince company', reports that the Prince of Portugal, Don Pedro of Alfaroubeira, set out with twelve companions to visit the seven regions of the world.
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Appoloinaire |
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A youth should not be made to hate
study before he know the causes to love it, or taste the bitterness
before the sweet; but called on and allured, entreated and praised--yea,
when he
deserves
it not.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Where have you
disposed
of their carcasses?
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Whitman |
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The Seven Selves
In the stillest hour of the night, as I lay half asleep, my seven
selves sat together and thus
conversed
in whisper:
First Self: Here, in this madman, I have dwelt all these years,
with naught to do but renew his pain by day and recreate his sorrow
by night.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Indeed thou didst,
And
answeredst
them with love.
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Longfellow |
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If your fair hand had not made a sign to me then,
White hand that makes you a daughter of the swan,
I'd have died, Helen, of the rays from your eyes:
But that gesture towards me saved a soul in pain:
Your eye was pleased to carry away the prize,
Yet your hand
rejoiced
to grant me life again.
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Ronsard |
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So, in the year, my
favourite
season is the last slow part of summer that just precedes autumn, and, in the day, the hour when I walk is when the sun hesitates before vanishing, with rays of yellow bronze over the grey walls, and rays of red copper over the tiles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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For that, too,
Happens at times, and the
celestial
vaults
Glow into fire, and rainy tempests rise
In heavier congregation, when, percase,
The seeds of water have foregathered thus
From out the infinite.
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Lucretius |
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Jerome says, he spake but the sense
of the whole party, for this was the
ordinary
style and language of all
the rest.
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Tacitus |
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Nothing particular
occurred
for some days after these events, except that,
as the travellers were passing a low tract of sand, they perceived an
unusual and gratifying spectacle; namely, a large number of Crabs and
Crawfish--perhaps six or seven hundred--sitting by the water-side, and
endeavoring to disentangle a vast heap of pale pink worsted, which they
moistened at intervals with a fluid composed of lavender-water and
white-wine negus.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Now let
him perish, and pay forfeit to the Trojans of his
innocent
blood.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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594)
returned
to his native Kuaiji.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Does my joy
sometimes
erupt?
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Appoloinaire |
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Awa' wi' your
witchcraft
o' beauty's alarms.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Talk with
prudence
to a beggar
Of 'Potosi' and the mines!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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He made this somewhat ironic alba in 1257, a fitting coda to the
troubadour
era.
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Troubador Verse |
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" And she tells me that she is drinking
in the beauty like wine, "wine, golden and scented, and shining,
fit for the gods; and the gods have drunk it, the dead gods of
Etruria, two
thousand
years ago.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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One of us, pierced in the flank,
dragged himself across the marsh,
he tore at the bay-roots,
lost hold on the
crumbling
bank--
Another crawled--too late--
for shelter under the cliffs.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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49
Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows 50
There were no ruins, neither
fragments
51
In sorrow day and night the disciple watched 52
Sunlight slantingly flows 53
The wild resplendence of the year resolves 54
Doth live for thee again, Beloved that October?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garment of
Repentance
fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly--and Lo!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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All
these poems are
probably
spurious.
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Tennyson |
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]
[Sidenote D: In
cleanness
and courtesy he was never found wanting,]
[Sidenote E: therefore was the endless knot fastened on his shield.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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By using or reading any part of this PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm
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this "Small Print!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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If thus and thus I do,
Dazed by the thought of you,
Walking my sorrowful way in the early dew,
My heart cut through and through
In this despair of you,
Starved for a word or a look will my hope renew:
Give then a thought for me
Walking so miserably,
Wanting relief in the
friendship
of flower or tree;
Do but remember, we
Once could in love agree,
Swallow your pride, let us be as we used to be.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Weialala leia
Wallala leialala
Elizabeth
and Leicester
Beating oars 280
The stern was formed
A gilded shell
Red and gold
The brisk swell
Rippled both shores
Southwest wind
Carried down stream
The peal of bells
White towers
Weialala leia 290
Wallala leialala
"Trams and dusty trees.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Six years ago this very night
I saw them fall and
wondered
why
The angel dropped them from the sky--
But when I saw your eyes I knew
The angel sent the stars to you.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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19, 1864]
_General Early
surprised
and routed the Union troops during
General Sheridan's absence in Washington.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Why behold we
Marks of his lightnings most on
mountain
tops?
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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`And therfor wostow what I thee
beseche?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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130
There shall ye find grazing the flocks and herds
Of the all-seeing and all-hearing Sun,
Which, if
attentive
to thy safe return,
Thou leave unharm'd, though after num'rous woes,
Ye may at length arrive in Ithaca.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are
confirmed
as not protected by copyright in
the U.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Thus gentle Lamia judg'd, and judg'd aright,
That Lycius could not love in half a fright,
So threw the goddess off, and won his heart
More
pleasantly
by playing woman's part,
With no more awe than what her beauty gave,
That, while it smote, still guaranteed to save.
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Keats - Lamia |
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_Read_
Throughout
the yerd?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The Porter watches at the gate,
The
servants
watch within;
The watch is long betimes and late,
The prize is slow to win.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Et c'est depuis ce temps que Lesbos se
lamente!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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per text is nominally estimated at one dollar then we produce $2
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And on Sundays they rang the bells,
From Baptist and Evangelical and
Catholic
churches.
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Imagists |
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132 In their feasts, they generally deliberate on the
reconcilement
of enemies, on family alliances, on the appointment of chiefs, and finally on peace and war; conceiving that at no time the soul is more opened to sincerity, or warmed to heroism.
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Tacitus |
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other)
_sonnetes
by W.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Trust not too much to colour,
beauteous
boy;
White privets fall, dark hyacinths are culled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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E'en now, a
helpless
wrack,
You drift, despoil'd of oars;
The Afric gale has dealt your mast a wound;
Your sailyards groan, nor can your keel sustain,
Till lash'd with cables round,
A more imperious main.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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All thou couldst have of mine, stern Death, thou hast:
The parent, friend, and now the more than friend;
Ne'er yet for one thine arrows flew so fast,
And grief with grief continuing still to blend,
Hath
snatched
the little joy that life had yet to lend.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Now must our
measures
and our modes be changed
An we would anywise our cause advance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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"
I
interrupted
his speech.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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But now he sang of faith to things unseen,
Of freedom's
birthright
given to us in trust; 50
And words of doughty cheer he spoke between,
That made all earthly fortune seem as dust,
Matched with that duty, old as Time and new,
Of being brave and true.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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For thy ill life what blame on me
recoils?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Lay this laurel on the one
Too
intrinsic
for renown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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To you and to
my father Latinus I Turnus,
unexcelled
in bravery by any of old,
consecrate my life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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--
That
thousands
of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the
judgment
day;
Love and tears for the Blue;
Tears and love for the Gray.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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bards of the peaceful
inventions!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But if any
one should order us to
celebrate
the Sun or Minerva, we ought most
gladly to sing hymns to their praise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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, =
_necessitatem
imponere_: pret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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The garden walks are
pleasant
at this hour;
The nightingales among the sheltering boughs
Of populous and many-nested trees
Shall teach me how to woo thee, and shall tell me
By what resistless charms or incantations
They won their mates.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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'Tis not wise until the latest hour
To enjoy delight's ephemeral dower:
Birds to
southern
seas have taken flight,
Fading flow'rs wait till the snows alight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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But why this dwelling place, this life
Of
loneliness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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No poet will ever take the written word as a
substitute
for
the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken
word only, that his art is founded.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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If thou, a
nameless
vagrant
Couldst wonderfully blind two nations, then
At least thou shouldst have merited success,
And thy bold fraud secured, by constant, deep,
And lasting secrecy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"I should like to be those two flying swallows
Who are
carrying
clay to nest in the eaves of your house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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In singing-bouts
I'll see you play the
challenger
no more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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For three long years they will not sow
Or root or
seedling
there:
For three long years the unblessed spot
Will sterile be and bare,
And look upon the wondering sky
With unreproachful stare.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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The volume
purported
to have no editor, yet
a collection without an editor was pronounced preposterous.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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He feels with emotion what a
beautiful
act it
would have been for his old father.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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And cannot friends be firm and fast,
And yet bear
parting?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
What has
happened
since then,
Since I lay with my face to the wall,
The most despairing of men!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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E 'ntanto per la costa di traverso
venivan genti innanzi a noi un poco,
cantando
'Miserere' a verso a verso.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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75
Claustra
pandite ianuae,
Virgo ades.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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The robin is the one
That
interrupts
the morn
With hurried, few, express reports
When March is scarcely on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"Les saules trempes, et des
bourgeons
sur les ronces--
C'est la, dans une averse, qu'on s'abrite.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Wild strain of Scalds, that in the sea-worn caves
Rehearsed
their war-spell to the winds and waves;
Or fateful hymn of those prophetic maids,
That call'd on Hertha in deep forest glades;
Or minstrel lay, that cheer'd the baron's feast;
Or rhyme of city pomp, of monk and priest,
Judge, mayor, and many a guild in long array,
To high-church pacing on the great saint's day.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Quickly breasting the wave,
Eager the prize to win,
First of us all the brave
Monongahela
went in
Under full head of steam--
Twice she struck him abeam,
Till her stem was a sorry work,
(She might have run on a crag!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Hosea Biglow was preceded by the
"Idyl of the Bridge and the Monument," which set forth another side
of
American
feeling at the British words and deeds consequent on
the unauthorized capture, by Commodore Wilkes, of the "Trent,"
conveying to England two Confederate Commissioners.
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Blest a hundredfold
The tie of sword and lyre; the
selfsame
laurel
Binds them in friendship.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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net),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its
original
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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It must not be
forgotten
that Coleridge is never fantastic.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Who fears the
Parthian
or the Scythian horde,
Or the rank growth that German forests yield,
While Caesar lives?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Smoothed
by long fingers,
Asleep.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Cast thine eye to yonder sky,
There the milky way doth lie ;
*Tis a sure, but rugged way,
That leads to
everlasting
day.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Milton |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The Kentysh menne in fronte, for strenght renownd,
Next the Brystowans dare the bloudie fyghte,
And last the
numerous
crewe shall presse the grounde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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