Art thou greater than great Babylon,
Which lies
overthrown?
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Si come l'occhio nostro non s'aderse
in alto, fisso a le cose terrene,
cosi
giustizia
qui a terra il merse.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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A light frost lay white on the
shoulder
of Dick's ulster.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Far over hill and valley
Their mighty host was spread;
And with their
thousand
watch-fires
The midnight sky was red.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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what eyes hath love put in my head
Which have no correspondence with true sight:
Or if they have, where is my judgment fled
That
censures
falsely what they see aright?
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Golden Treasury |
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And round this hayrick
stood a crowd of men--a
positive
crowd!
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Kipling - Poems |
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I rushed everywhere,
encouraging
our men,
Making these advance, supporting them.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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O but you've had such
practice
in being caught,
You'll break away quite easily when you want.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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No sleep that night the old man cheereth,
No prayer throughout next day he pray'd
Still, still, against his wish, appeareth
Before him that
mysterious
maid.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Such
prohibitions
binde not.
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Milton |
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In what
condition, mental and physical, is the Knight when
liberated?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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As thou didst, men do to thee; and heap the measure,
And heat the furnace
sevenfold
hot:
As thou once, now these to thee--who pitieth thee
From sea to sea?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Or even at times, when days are dark,
GAROTTE?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Thy beauty
brightens
with the evening sun
Across the long-lit meads and distant spire:
So sleep thou well--like his thy labour done;
Rest in thy glory as he rests in fire.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Quick, boy, the
chaplets
and the nard,
And wine, that knew the Marsian war,
If roving Spartacus have spared
A single jar.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Aricia,
princess
of the royal blood of Athens.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Know the stars yonder,
The stars everlasting,
Are
fugitive
also,
And emulate, vaulted,
The lambent heat lightning
And fire-fly's flight.
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Emerson - Poems |
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God burnt this sad, sterile champaign;
Naught living was left of this people destroyed,
And the unknown wind which blew over the void,
Each
mountain
changed into a plain.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Or suppose, besides,
We feign some thing, one of its kind and sole
With body born, to which is nothing like
In all the lands: yet now unless shall be
An
infinite
count of matter out of which
Thus to conceive and bring it forth to life,
It cannot be created and--what's more--
It cannot take its food and get increase.
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Lucretius |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up,
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or proprietary form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Great grief it was, when that
Archbishop
fell.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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individual
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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His olde wo, that made his herte swelte,
Gan tho for Ioye wasten and to-melte,
And al the
richesse
of his sykes sore
At ones fledde, he felte of hem no more.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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_
_In the space between each toe,
Kingdoms
rise and saviours go;
Epochs fall and causes die
In the lifting of his eye.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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O'er the face of the hills, o'er the face of the seas,
O'er
streamlets
of silver, and forests that ring
With a dirge for the dead, chanted low by the breeze;
The face of the waters, the brow of the mounts
Deep scarred but not shrivelled, and woods tufted green,
Their youth shall renew; and the rocks to the founts
Shall yield what these yielded to ocean their queen.
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Hugo - Poems |
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'
And when I hear him at this daring task,
'Peace, little bird,' I say, 'and take some rest;
Stop that wild,
screaming
fire of angry song,
Before it makes a coffin of your nest.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Let us exchange shields, and
accoutre
ourselves in Grecian
suits; whether craft or courage, who will ask of an enemy?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Didst thou at first, to flatter us withal,
Make us
partakers
of a little gain
That now our loss might be ten times so much?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Orpheus
The Death of Orpheus
'The Death of Orpheus'
Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594, The Rijksmuseun
The female of the Halcyon,
Love, the
seductive
Sirens,
All know the fatal songs
Dangerous and inhuman.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Lastly, he is very young, and is swept away by his
sister's
intenser
nature.
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Euripides - Electra |
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]
[Footnote 64: The banks of Garpal Water is one of the few places in the
West of Scotland, where those fancy-scaring beings, known by the name
of Ghaists, still continue
pertinaciously
to inhabit.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Today, without presuming anything about what will emerge from this in future, nothing, or almost a new art, let us readily accept that the
tentative
participates, with the unforeseen, in the pursuit, specific and dear to our time, of free verse and the prose poem.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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There rode the
Volscian
succors:
There, in the dark stern ring,
The Roman exiles gathered close
Around the ancient king.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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HWith your aid indiffeis
laughter
was submarine and profound
Like the old man of the sea's
Hidden under coral islands
Where worried bodies of drowned men drift down in the green silence,
Dropping from fingers of surf.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Now times are changed, and one poetic itch
Has seized the court and city, poor and rich:
Sons, sires, and grandsires, all will wear the bays,
Our wives read Milton, and our
daughters
plays,
To theatres, and to rehearsals throng,
And all our grace at table is a song.
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The last of the crew needs
especial
remark,
Though he looked an incredible dunce:
He had just one idea--but, that one being "Snark,"
The good Bellman engaged him at once.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Still it cry'd, Sleepe no more to all the House:
Glamis hath murther'd Sleepe, and
therefore
Cawdor
Shall sleepe no more: Macbeth shall sleepe no more
Lady.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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_
They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
They pursued it with forks and hope;
They
threatened
its life with a railway-share;
They charmed it with smiles and soap.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Mountains
mourn & Rivers faint & fail
There is no City nor Corn-field nor Orchard!
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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How much awaits him
of lief and of loath, who long time here,
through days of warfare this world
endures!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And yet this voice itself,
In passing through shut
chambers
of a house,
Is dulled, and in a jumble enters ears,
And sound we seem to hear far more than words.
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Lucretius |
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We wish it to be clearly understood that we do not
represent
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sympathy, and we propose to bring out our coöperative volume each year for
a short term of years, until we have made a place for ourselves and our
principles such as we desire.
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Imagists |
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could I thus my Laura's
presence
share,
How would my patient heart its sorrows bear!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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To
Aufidius
thus
I will appear, and fight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Cheetah
I
remember
a slice of lemon, and a bitten macaroon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Not once have I thus
Broken accord,
Order ignored,
Unless I'm floored,
Too low to grace
Her lovely body's dwelling place;
So I fear
slanderers
have their say,
Who cause ladies and lovers dismay,
Lower us, and drive all joy away,
And each and every way harm me.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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to the President
at his levee,
And he says Good-day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugar-field,
And both
understand
him and know that his speech is right.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It is I too, the sleepless widow looking out on the winter midnight,
I see the
sparkles
of starshine on the icy and pallid earth.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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They neither love god, ne drede;
They kepe more than it is nede,
And in her bagges sore it binde, 5775
Out of the sonne, and of the winde;
They putte up more than nede ware,
Whan they seen pore folk forfare,
For hunger dye, and for cold quake;
God can wel
vengeaunce
therof take.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Now heaven's dread arms her mighty limbs invest,
Jove's cuirass blazes on her ample breast;
Deck'd in sad triumph for the
mournful
field,
O'er her broad shoulders hangs his horrid shield,
Dire, black, tremendous!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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The pillow of this daring head
Is pungent evergreens;
His larder -- terse and
militant
--
Unknown, refreshing things;
His character a tonic,
His future a dispute;
Unfair an immortality
That leaves this neighbor out.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
And my Sorrow grew like all living things, strong and beautiful
and full of
wondrous
delights.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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God hath made
us
conquerors
over the evil that was in us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
She dried her feet on the
riverside
grass;
She looked at me once again,
And the playful beauty then took thought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Yon nightingale, whose bursts of thrilling tone,
Pour'd in soft sorrow from her tuneful throat,
Haply her mate or infant brood bemoan,
Filling the fields and skies with pity's note;
Here
lingering
till the long long night is gone,
Awakes the memory of my cruel lot--
But I my wretched self must wail alone:
Fool, who secure from death an angel thought!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Oft as in council under Ilium's walls 620
We met, he ever foremost was in speech,
Nor spake erroneous; Nestor and myself
Except, no
Greecian
could with him compare.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
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per text is nominally
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If these reach just 10% of the computerized population, then the
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
Nor the seas change us, nor the
tempests
bend;
Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars:
And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,
We should but vow the faster for the stars.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Nous
regagnerions
le village
Au ciel mi-noir;
Et ca sentirait le laitage
Dans l'air du soir:
Ca sentirait l'etable pleine
De fumiers chauds,
Pleine d'un rythme lent d'haleine,
Et de grands dos
Blanchissant sous quelque lumiere;
Et, tout la-bas,
Une vache fienterait fiere,
A chaque pas!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Now through the passing cloud she seems to stoop,
Now up the pure
cerulean
rides sublime.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Honor
redeemed
though paid by parlous price,
Though lost be sunlit sports, wild boyhood's spice,
The Gates, the cheers of mates for bright device!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
This same Whitehall may black its front with crape,
And this broad window be the portal twice
To lead upon a
scaffold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
four books,
amounting
to
about 2500 lines.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
"
NURSE'S SONG
When voices of
children
are heard on the green,
And whisperings are in the dale,
The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind,
My face turns green and pale.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
TO THE SHAH
FROM ENWERI
Not in their houses stand the stars,
But o'er the
pinnacles
of thine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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A dimmer Renown might strike
If Death lay square alongside--
But the Old Flag has no like,
She must fight,
whatever
betide--
When the war is a tale of old,
And this day's story is told,
They shall hear how the Hartford died!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Did you
grate out to the
soldiers
what was given you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Naught are all women: I say no,
Since for one bad, one good I know:
For Clytemnestra most unkind,
Loving
Alcestis
there we find:
For one Medea that was bad,
A good Penelope was had:
For wanton Lais, then we have
Chaste Lucrece, a wife as grave:
And thus through womankind we see
A good and bad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
on voit trainer a terre,
Epars autour des lits, des
vetements
de deuil:
L'apre bise d'hiver qui se lamente au seuil,
Souffle dans le logis son haleine morose!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Who trusts an harlot's smile,
And by her wiles are led,
Plays, with a sword the while
Hung
dropping
oer his head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
I'd missed her,
She came anew,
To play i' the fount alone but for her sister,
And bared to view
The finest, rosiest, most
tempting
ankle,
Like that of child--
Oh!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
1115
Phaedra alone
bewitched
your lustful senses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
FAUST:
Ja, wenn der Pfarrer ein
Komodiant
ist;
Wie das denn wohl zuzeiten kommen mag.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Thy deep eyes, a double Planet,
Gaze the wisest into madness
With soft clear fire,--the winds that fan it
Are those thoughts of tender
gladness
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Which, like zephyrs on the billow,
Make thy gentle soul their pillow.
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_ Why then begin; and all the while we make
Our slothful passage o'er the Stygian Lake,
Thou and I'll sing to make these dull shades merry,
Who else with tears would
doubtless
drown my ferry.
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He was
incorporated
at Oxford in 1628, where he took the degree of
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" methought she said,
"These eyes not yet from thee
withdraw
their light.
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" One verse,
interpolated
by Beattie, is here
omitted:--it contains two good lines, but is quite out of harmony with
the original poem.
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Golden Treasury |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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She turned away, but with the autumn weather
Compelled
my imagination many days,
Many days and many hours:
Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers.
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T.S. Eliot |
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For Youth and
Pleasance
will not stay,
And ye are withered, worn, and gray.
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Lewis Carroll |
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There's an
advantage
in ruin," said she.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
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Stephen Crane |
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You own'd persons
dropping
sweat-drops or blood-drops!
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There, two gleaming rubies stand erectly,
Whose crimson rays set off that ivory,
Smoothed so
uniformly
on every side:
There all grace abounds, and every worth,
And beauty, if there's any on this earth,
Flies to rest there in that sweet paradise.
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