"
Betwixt the steep and plain a crooked path
Led us
traverse
into the ridge's side,
Where more than half the sloping edge expires.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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If
business
is battle, name it so:
War-crimes less will shame it so,
And widows less will blame it so.
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Sidney Lanier |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
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Wilde - Poems |
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There are a few
things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works
even without
complying
with the full terms of this agreement.
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Keats |
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[100]
Andalusia
and Granada.
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Tacitus |
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" she
continued
to stay,
That vexatious old person of Loo.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Joys of the free and
lonesome
heart, the tender, gloomy heart?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too,
The world's heart breaks beneath its wars,
All things are changed, save in the east
The
faithful
beauty of the stars.
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Sara Teasdale |
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I dreamt I saw thee, robed in purple flakes,
Break amorous through the clouds, as morning breaks,
And, swiftly as a bright
Phoebean
dart,
Strike for the Cretan isle; and here thou art!
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Keats - Lamia |
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And the warbler's voice
resounds
clear :?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"Son of a slave"--the Pacha said--
"From
unbelieving
mother bred,
Vain were a father's hope to see
Aught that beseems a man in thee.
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Byron |
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And, to the law of All each member consecrating,
Bids one
majestic
harmony resound?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"
With that she on the plate which
sheathed
the breast
(Cleft in three places) showed a crown imprest.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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TO TERZAH
Whate'er is born of mortal birth
Must be
consumed
with the earth,
To rise from generation free:
Then what have I to do with thee?
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blake-poems |
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_--Most Chinese
syllables
ended with a vowel or nasal sound.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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cedimus an subitum luctando
accendimus
ignem?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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do _I_ partake
The
desiccating
sin?
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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[102] This man had been prefect of Egypt, and had built
special baths for Nero, who was
expected
to visit Alexandria.
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Tacitus |
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It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,
I will have
thousands
of globes and all time.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Was never witnessed yet a
stranger
dance!
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Now sound no note O trumpeters,
Not at the head of my cavalry parading on spirited horses,
With sabres drawn and glistening, and
carbines
by their thighs, (ah
my brave horsemen!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The
pavements
and the palaces of cities
Hint at the nature of the neighboring hills.
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Longfellow |
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Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky
And the
affrighted
steed ran on alone,
Do not weep.
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Stephen Crane |
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Never sadder tale was heard
By a man of woman born:
The
Marineres
all return'd to work
As silent as beforne.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Toi, vetue a moitie de mousselines freles,
Frissonnante la-bas sous la neige et les greles,
Comme tu
pleurerais
tes loisirs doux et francs,
Si, le corset brutal emprisonnant tes flancs,
Il te fallait glaner ton souper dans nos fanges
Et vendre le parfum de tes charmes etranges,
L'oeil pensif, et suivant, dans nos sales brouillards,
Des cocotiers absents les fantomes epars!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_Thack_, thatch; _thack an' rape_,
clothing
and necessaries.
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Robert Burns |
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You'll have five
lectures
every day;
Be in at the stroke of the bell I pray!
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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Villon |
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--not me,
But you yourselves
triumphing
in me and over me.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Yon valley, that's so trim and green,
In five months' time, should he be seen,
A desart
wilderness
will be.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Anne,--he
answered
that there were.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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50
In the faint fragrance of flowers,
On the sweet draft of the sea-wind,
Linger strange hints now that loosen
Tears for thy gay gentle spirit,
O
Lityerses!
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Sappho |
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The fields and all the roads were filled with iron,
And points of iron
glistened
in the sun
And shed a terror through the city streets.
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Longfellow |
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Or on my
frailties
why are frailer spies,
Which in their wills count bad what I think good?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And whoso had
survived
that virulent flow
Of the vile blood, yet into thews of him
And into his joints and very genitals
Would pass the old disease.
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Lucretius |
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at
temporel
welefulnesse co{m}mendi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Of course,
discipline
before
everything; but is it thus one writes to an old comrade?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Hence I sign this salute over the sea,
And I do not deny that terrible red birth and baptism,
But remember the little voice that I heard wailing--and wait with perfect
trust, no matter how long;
And from to-day, sad and cogent, I maintain the bequeathed cause, as for
all lands,
And I send these words to Paris with my love,
And I guess some _chansonniers_ there will
understand
them,
For I guess there is latent music yet in France--floods of it.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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No, (so may I please
Caecilius
to whom I am now made over!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Thus he approached the place where
Evangeline
sat with her father,
And in the flickering light beheld the face of the old man,
Haggard and hollow and wan, and without either thought or emotion,
E'en as the face of a clock from which the hands have been taken.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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{117a} Ocean trembles as if
indignant
that you quit the land.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The
fundamental
objection
to it is that scarcely two minds--even among the
most competent of contemporary judges--will agree as to what the best
text is.
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William Wordsworth |
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While now I sojourn with sorrow, 5
Having remorse for my comrade,
What town is blessed with thy beauty,
Gladdened and
prospered?
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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As when some heifer, seeking for her steer
Through woodland and deep grove, sinks wearied out
On the green sedge beside a stream, love-lorn,
Nor marks the
gathering
night that calls her home-
As pines that heifer, with such love as hers
May Daphnis pine, and I not care to heal.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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My brother's hair
Is as a prince's and a rover's, strong
With
sunlight
and with strife: not like the long
Locks that a woman combs.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Guardate
che 'l venir su non vi noi>>.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
Search for the foe in thine own soul,
The sloth, the
intellectual
pride;
The trivial jest that veils the goal
For which, our fathers lived and died;
The lawless dreams, the cynic Art,
That rend thy nobler self apart.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Slay him, not for me, but for your crown,
For your grandeur, for your own renown;
Slay him, I say, Sire, for the royal good,
A man so proud of
spilling
noble blood.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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For those ashamed of him Cupid reserves the bitterest passions,
Mingling
for hypocrites their pleasure in vice and remorse.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And far away in the
twilight
sky
We heard them singing a lessening cry,--
Farther and farther, till out of sight,
And we stood alone in the silent night!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
Long had the doubtful conflict raged
O'er all that stricken plain,
For never fiercer fight had waged
The
vengeful
blood of Spain;
And still the storm of battle blew,
Still swelled the gory tide;
Not long, our stout old chieftain knew,
Such odds his strength could bide.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Is it real,
Or is this the thrice damned memory of a
better
happiness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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"And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love
And these black bodies and this
sunburnt
face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Please take a look at the important
information
in this header.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Moreover, only the last two of Davies' sonnets are 'couched in legal
terminology':
My case is this, I love
Zepheria
bright,
Of her I hold my harte by fealty:
and
To Love my lord I doe knights service owe
And therefore nowe he hath my wit in ward.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Now let us see, without more talk or fears,
If I know how to forge the
bantling
ears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Leonor
By keeping your noble rank in mind;
Heaven owes you a king, you love a
subject!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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O City city, I can sometimes hear
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, 260
The
pleasant
whining of a mandoline
And a clatter and a chatter from within
Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
Of Magnus Martyr hold
Inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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--
IDONEA O
miserable
Father!
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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IV
And they bore to the bluff, and alighted--
A dim-discerned train
Of sprites without mould,
Frameless souls none might touch or might hold--
On the ledge by the
turreted
lantern, farsighted
By men of the main.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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'131-172'
In this passage Pope imagines a
dialogue
between one of the proud
murmurers he has described and himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Sieurac, in an
unfinished
state,
precedes the Frontispiece.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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High o'er a gulfy sea, the Pharian isle
Fronts the deep roar of disemboguing Nile:
Her
distance
from the shore, the course begun
At dawn, and ending with the setting sun,
A galley measures; when the stiffer gales
Rise on the poop, and fully stretch the sails.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And jist wid that in cum'd the little willian himself, and then he made
me a broth of a bow, and thin he said he had ounly taken the liberty
of doing me the honor of the giving me a call, and thin he went on to
palaver at a great rate, and divil the bit did I
comprehind
what he wud
be afther the tilling me at all at all, excipting and saving that he
said "pully wou, woolly wou," and tould me, among a bushel o' lies, bad
luck to him, that he was mad for the love o' my widdy Misthress Tracle,
and that my widdy Mrs.
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Poe - 5 |
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Presented to Li [Siye], Lord Specially Advanced; composed on the�way from
Fengxiang
to Fuzhou, my route passing through Binzhou?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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VI
As in her chariot the
Phrygian
goddess rode,
Crowned with high turrets, happy to have borne
Such quantity of gods, so her I mourn,
This ancient city, once whole worlds bestrode:
On whom, more than the Phrygian, was bestowed
A wealth of progeny, whose power at dawn
Was the world's power, her grandeur, now shorn,
Knowing no match to that which from her flowed.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"Tell him night
finished
before we finished,
And the old clock kept neighing 'day!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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DEAR SIR,
I received your kind letter with double pleasure, on account of the
second
flattering
instance of Mrs.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Yet still his claim the injured ocean laid,
And oft at leap-frog o*er their
steeples
played,
As if on purpose it on land had come
To show them what's their mare liberum.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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And
standing
on the altar high,
"Lo, what a fiend is here!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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The only good
of these
inspectors
is to worry passers-by and rob us poor
folk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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_interlunar swoon_:
interval
of the Moon's invisibility.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
"
Then a dream of great pomp rises o'er,
And it
conquers
the god that it bore,
Till a shout casts us down far beneath;
We so small, and so stript before death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Through his personality; his pathos and
ethology he has furthermore engendered a new ideal;
a
synthesis
of Christian and Pagan feeling which in
this form has not existed before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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This
pitiable
city!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Throughout this land no
chevalier
is left,
But he be slain, or drowned in Sebres bed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Each day to me seems as a thousand years,
That I my dear and
faithful
star pursue,
Who guided me on earth, and guides me too
By a sure path to life without its tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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mægenes
cræft, 418; þurh
ānes cræft, 700; cræft and cēnðu, 2697; dat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Our living feet walk on dead ground:
Our high wills
surmount
the snares of Fate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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What as a gurgling softly
simmered
through
The soil, within the dead deserted brake,
--And no more than a drop of fragrant dew
That fell from flowerlet unto deepest lake:
Becomes the clinging mist that cleaves the heights,
And which in darkest midnights as a beam
The heart of the chasm suddenly be-smites
To spring and ramble like a ruddy stream.
| 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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How his old eye
pierceth
me,
As one that testeth silver and alloy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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They were contemporaries, and lived both about
Philip's time, the father of
Alexander
the Great.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Those corpses of young men,
Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets--those hearts pierced by the grey
lead,
Cold and
motionless
as they seem, live elsewhere with unslaughtered
vitality.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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I deemed our doom afar
In lap of time; but, if a king push forward to his fate,
The god himself allures to death that man
infatuate!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Nay, too, in
diseases
of body, often the mind
Wanders afield; for 'tis beside itself,
And crazed it speaks, or many a time it sinks,
With eyelids closing and a drooping nod,
In heavy drowse, on to eternal sleep;
From whence nor hears it any voices more,
Nor able is to know the faces here
Of those about him standing with wet cheeks
Who vainly call him back to light and life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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They gave me life; the gift was bountiful,
I lived with the swift singing
strength
of fire,
Seeking for beauty as a flame for fuel--
Beauty in all things and in every hour.
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Sara Teasdale |
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_hostile
at evening, night-enemy_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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HERBERT Dear
Daughter!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Do not let me hear you talking together
About titles and promotions;
For a single general's reputation
Is made out of ten
thousand
corpses.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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William Wordsworth |
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--Nothing is a
courtesy
unless it be meant us; and that
friendly and lovingly.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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No poppy in the May-glad mead Would match her
quivering
lips' red If 'gainst her lips it should be laid.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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820 TIIK POEMS
Upsala nee priseis impar memoratur Athenis,
JSgidaque et currus hie sua Pallas habet
mine O quales lieeat gperftsse liquores,
Quum Dea praMideat
fontibus
ipsa sacris !
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Marvell - Poems |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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They reduced to the simplest
standard
their houses, apparel, and food;
and discarded the load of book-learning which Confucianism imposed on
its adherents.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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