our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my
comrades
four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my companions was a bent bow;
My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Who are you, lying in his place on the bed
And rigid and
indifferent
to me?
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Imagists |
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That were a life to make time
envious!
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Longfellow |
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If only
centuries
delayed,
I'd count them on my hand,
Subtracting till my fingers dropped
Into Van Diemen's land.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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But word
distinct
can utter none.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Did not their lips with foreign speech
The native Russian tongue
impeach?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Apollinax rolling under a chair,
Or
grinning
over a screen
With seaweed in its hair.
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T.S. Eliot |
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A cloudless gale 360
Propitious
blowing from the North, our ship
Ran right before it through the middle sea,
In the offing over Crete; but adverse Jove
Destruction plann'd for them and death the while.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Then, as I turn'd my roving eyes around,
Quirinus I beheld with laurel crown'd,
And five
succeeding
kings.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And in that silence, and in my despair, _235
I questioned every
tongueless
wind that flew
Over my tower of mourning, if it knew
Whither 'twas fled, this soul out of my soul;
And murmured names and spells which have control
Over the sightless tyrants of our fate; _240
But neither prayer nor verse could dissipate
The night which closed on her; nor uncreate
That world within this Chaos, mine and me,
Of which she was the veiled Divinity,
The world I say of thoughts that worshipped her: _245
And therefore I went forth, with hope and fear
And every gentle passion sick to death,
Feeding my course with expectation's breath,
Into the wintry forest of our life;
And struggling through its error with vain strife, _250
And stumbling in my weakness and my haste,
And half bewildered by new forms, I passed,
Seeking among those untaught foresters
If I could find one form resembling hers,
In which she might have masked herself from me.
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Shelley |
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elyche bestes
considere
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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bearhtm ongeāton, gūðhorn galan, _perceived the noise_, (heard) _the
battle-trumpet sound_, 1432; syððan hīe
Hygelāces
horn and bȳman gealdor
ongeāton, 2945.
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Beowulf |
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"
Aunt Helen
Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt,
And lived in a small house near a fashionable square
Cared for by
servants
to the number of four.
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T.S. Eliot |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
In this mood of mind Burns was unconsciously
approaching
the land of
poesie.
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Robert Burns |
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But as
Ivan
Kouzmitch
was one of the most upright and sincere of men he could
not think of any other way than that which he had already employed on a
previous occasion.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Offerings
A thousand perfect men and women appear,
Around each gathers a cluster of friends, and gay
children
and
youths, with offerings.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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What is that sound high in the air
Murmur of maternal lamentation
Who are those hooded hordes swarming
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth 370
Ringed by the flat horizon only
What is the city over the mountains
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
Falling towers
Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
Vienna London
Unreal
A woman drew her long black hair out tight
And fiddled whisper music on those strings
And bats with baby faces in the violet light 380
Whistled, and beat their wings
And crawled head downward down a blackened wall
And upside down in air were towers
Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and
exhausted
wells.
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Gongora is out of the question, for Gongora did not begin to cultivate
the extravagant conceits of his later poetry till he came under the
influence of Carillo's
posthumous
poems in 1611 (Fitzmaurice Kelly:
_Spanish Literature_, 283-5); nor is there much resemblance between
his high-flown Marinism and Donne's metaphysical subtleties.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Perseus escaped by looking
only at her
reflection
in his shield.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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And I, could I stand by
And see you freeze,
Without my right of frost,
Death's
privilege?
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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_The Book of Poverty and Death_
Her mouth is like the mouth of a fine bust
That cannot utter sound, nor breathe, nor kiss,
But that had once from Life received all this
Which shaped its subtle curves, and ever must
From
fullness
of past knowledge dwell alone,
A thing apart, a parable in stone.
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Rilke - Poems |
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However much
The trunk be mangled, with the limbs lopped off,
The soul
withdrawn
and taken from the limbs,
Still lives the trunk and draws the vital air.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Read then of faith
That shone above the fagot;
Clear strains of hymn
The river could not drown;
Brave names of men
And
celestial
women,
Passed out of record
Into renown!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Thus was Ulysses left
Alone, and
planning
sat in solitude,
By Pallas' aid, the slaughter of his foes.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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B
[Illustration]
B was a bat,
Who slept all the day,
And
fluttered
about
When the sun went away.
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| Question: |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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You have many
opportunities
to cut him off.
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| Question: |
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Shakespeare |
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I
understand
it all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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You descend from them, you are my issue;
Your first sword-thrust
equalled
mine too;
And with fine ardour your lively youth
Attains my fame with this single proof.
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| Question: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Flushed and decided, he
assaults
at once;
Exploring hands encounter no defence; 240
His vanity requires no response,
And makes a welcome of indifference.
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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In the schools
of rhetoricians [b], who think
themselves
the fountain-head of
eloquence, every thing is false and vitiated.
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Tacitus |
|
The circumscription of time wherein the whole Drama
begins and ends, is
according
to antient rule, and best example, within
the space of 24 hours.
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| Question: |
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Milton |
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If, at any time, any very long poem
_were
_popular
in reality, which I doubt, it is at least clear that no
very long poem will ever be popular again.
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| Question: |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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VINCENT MILLAY
Renascence Mitchell
Kennerley
1917
A Few Figs from Thistles Frank Shay 1920
The Lamp and the Bell Frank Shay 1921
Aria Da Capo Mitchell Kennerley 1921
Second April Mitchell Kennerley 1921
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of American Poetry, 1922, by
Edna St.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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It was agreed, therefore, that Guy should go and ask the Mice,
which he
immediately
did; and the result was, that they gave a walnut-shell
only half full of custard diluted with water.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Solde de
diamants
sans controle!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Mean while the Adversary of God and Man,
Satan with
thoughts
inflam'd of highest design, 630
Puts on swift wings, and toward the Gates of Hell
Explores his solitary flight; som times
He scours the right hand coast, som times the left,
Now shaves with level wing the Deep, then soares
Up to the fiery concave touring high.
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Milton |
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Fresh as the first beam
glittering
on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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And now say, from topmost bough,
Towering
shaft, and peak of snow,
And heaven's arch--O, can you see
One white plume that like a star,
Streams along the plain afar,
And a steed that from the war
Bears my lover back to me?
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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skich, Biblioteka Narodowa, 1975, Wikimedia Commons
Annie
On the coast of Texas
Twixt Mobile and Galveston there was a
Great garden full of roses
That also
contained
a villa
Like a giant rose.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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This parting now makes me rue
The
Seigneury
of Poitou!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The
harlot
commands
him to eat and drink also:
"It is the conformity of life,
Of the conditions and fate of the Land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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That Davison is the author of this particular Psalm
is
strongly
suggested by the poetical _Induction_ which in style and
verse resembles the psalm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the
requirements
of paragraphs 1.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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In a minute there is time
For decisions and
revisions
which a minute will reverse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Many of these ballads still survive, but in all these
traditions it is quite impossible to
disentangle
fact from fiction.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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If I am engaged I don't want all
creation
to know about it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Many of these ballads still survive, but in all these
traditions it is quite impossible to
disentangle
fact from fiction.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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lest the world should task you to recite
What merit lived in me, that you should love
After my death,--dear love, forget me quite,
For you in me can nothing worthy prove;
Unless you would devise some
virtuous
lie,
To do more for me than mine own desert,
And hang more praise upon deceased I
Than niggard truth would willingly impart:
O!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
One could
almost imagine that Euripides had not yet
conceived
that bad opinion of
the sex which so many of the subsequent dramas exhibit.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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For Time, in taking him, had oped
An
unexpected
door
Of bliss for me, which grew to seem
Far surer than before .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Even the little sketch of Sir Plume
is
instinct
with life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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If I am engaged I don't want all
creation
to know about it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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And I to this jay, who has torn every nail from my
fingers!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Unauthenticated
Download
Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 288 ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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I like the taxes, when they're not too many;
I like a seacoal fire, when not too dear;
I like a beef-steak, too, as well as any;
Have no
objection
to a pot of beer;
I like the weather,--when it is not rainy,
That is, I like two months of every year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
"
Last eve, as I was leading the king's
children
From the pasture where they played,
A fairy bugle sounded from an oak-tree Where tired elves had strayed;
And as it thrilled across the purple uplands And dropped to one soft note,
A golden birdie darted from the branches With white and silver throat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"
Last eve, as I was leading the king's
children
From the pasture where they played,
A fairy bugle sounded from an oak-tree Where tired elves had strayed;
And as it thrilled across the purple uplands And dropped to one soft note,
A golden birdie darted from the branches With white and silver throat.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I had not yet
attempted any explanation as regarded Vassilissa
Igorofna
and her
husband.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
[R]
Long may they float upon this flood serene;
Theirs be these holms untrodden, still, and green,
Where leafy shades fence off the
blustering
gale, 235
And breathes in peace the lily of the vale!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Who is he that would become my
follower?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Tapestries
were hung on
the walls, and willing hands prepared the banquet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
O
konntest
du in meinem Innern lesen,
Wie wenig Vater und Sohn
Solch eines Ruhmes wert gewesen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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We had a long and merry chat with the family this
Sunday evening in their
spacious
kitchen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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if it
wasn't mesilf thin that was mad as a
Kilkenny
cat I shud like to be
tould who it was!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
"Where shall I be sent," thought I, "if not to
Petersburg?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
'tis a dull and endless strife,
Come, hear the
woodland
linnet,
How sweet his music; on my life
There's more of wisdom in it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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She has vassals to attend her:
She will bring, in spite of frost,
Beauties that the earth hath lost; 30
She will bring thee, all together,
All delights of summer weather;
All the buds and bells of May,
From dewy sward or thorny spray
All the heaped Autumn's wealth,
With a still,
mysterious
stealth:
She will mix these pleasures up
Like three fit wines in a cup,
And thou shalt quaff it:--thou shalt hear
Distant harvest-carols clear; 40
Rustle of the reaped corn;
Sweet birds antheming the morn:
And, in the same moment--hark!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any
specific
use of any specific book is allowed.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in
shuttered
rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
But
these will soon occur; he that gathers the
greatest
quantity of fruit
will be envied by the less industrious.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
She gave them, and they drank,--
When, smiting each with her
enchanting
wand,
She shut them in her sties.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
e kyng 'fore; his men
bileueden
no?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
What weight, and what
authority
in thy speech!
| 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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My Lord, I dare to say here that heaven, 615
In this case, wished to make me an
exception!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Other accounts say, that Brahma
produced
the priests from his
head, the more ignoble tribes from his breast, thighs, and feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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how he fell a swearin, a swearin,
But
heavens!
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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When each bird in his sweet language,
In the
freshness
of the morn
Sings, joyful of his advantage,
At ease with his mate, at dawn.
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Troubador Verse |
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XVI
From that day forth Duessa was his deare,
And highly honourd in his haughtie eye,
He gave her gold and purple pall to weare,
And triple crowne set on her head full hye,
And her endowd with royall majestye: 135
Then for to make her dreaded more of men,
And peoples harts with awfull terrour tye,
A
monstrous
beast?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The facts, moreover, were
unknown to the other armies, nor was any report sent to their emperor,
although this
treacherous
outbreak could have been nipped in the bud
by the combined aid of all the provinces.
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Tacitus |
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Among the Poems which Wordsworth suppressed, in his final edition, is
the Latin
translation
of 'The Somnambulist' by his son.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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That seems impossible, and, to my mind, poets have the right to hope after their death for the everlasting
happiness
that obtains complete knowledge of God, that is to say of the sublime beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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this is not for
profaner
ears;
Let them drink molten pearls nor dream the cost.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Now each
partakes
the feast, the wine prepares,
Portions the food, and each his portion shares.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Until a few years ago, known only to a
relatively
small community on the
continent but commanding an ever increasing attention which has borne
his name far beyond the boundary of his country, the personality of
Rainer Maria Rilke stands to-day beside the most illustrious poets of
modern Europe.
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Rilke - Poems |
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No, I don't like at all this new-made
burgomaster!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Say I: scarce
courteous
is he crowned,
The man who shall of Love despair.
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Troubador Verse |
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A prince to be pitied is before your eyes,
A
memorable
example of reckless pride.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Death
only consolation
exists, thoughts - balm
but what is done
is done - we cannot
return to the absolute
contained in death -
- and yet
to show that if,
life once abstracted,
the
happiness
of being
together, all that - such
consolation in its turn
has its root - its base -
absolute - in what
(if we wish
for example a
dead being to live in
us, thought -
is his being, his
thought in effect)
ever he has of the best
that transpires, through our
love and the care
we take
of being -
(being, being
simply moral and
about thought)
there is in that a
magnificent beyond
that rediscovers its
truth - so much
purer and lovelier than
the absolute rupture
of death - become
little by little as illusory
as absolute ( so we're
allowed to seem
to forget the pain)
- as this illusion
of survival in
us, becomes absolutely
illusory - (there is
unreality in both
cases) has been terrible
and true
39.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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So warr'd both armies on the
ensanguined
shore,
While the black vessels smoked with human gore.
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Iliad - Pope |
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--That I at last
Might stamp the image of my glorious dream
Upon the world, even though it be wax
And the fires are
kindling
that must melt it out.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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