e
emperour
began to chide,
& fele o?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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II
Far fall the day when England's realm shall see
The sunset of
dominion!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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tante chi stipa
nove
travaglie
e pene quant' io viddi?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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My heart erst alway sweet is bitter grown; As crimson ruleth in the good green's stead, So grief hath taken all mine old joy's share And driven forth my solace and all ease Where
pleasure
bows to all-usurping pain.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"You will be
laughing
now, remembering
We called you once Dead World, and barren thing.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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_Davoc_,
diminutive
of Davie, as Davie is of David.
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Robert Burns |
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Ill
LOVE calls not worthy him whoe'er
renounced
.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Tired with kisses sweet,
They agree to meet
When the silent sleep
Waves o'er heaven's deep,
And the weary tired
wanderers
weep.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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in the light
Of common day, so
heavenly
bright,
I bless Thee, Vision as thou art,
I bless thee with a human heart;
God shield thee to thy latest years!
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Golden Treasury |
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The Foundation is
committed
to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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40
Thou arte all Norman,
nothynge
of mie blodde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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_Josephine Preston Peabody_
MY SON
Here is his little cambric frock
That I laid by in
lavender
so sweet,
And here his tiny shoe and sock
I made with loving care for his dear feet.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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They were called
Troubadours
from the
word _trobar_, "to invent.
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Petrarch |
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Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,--
A
creature
might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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_To his
honoured
kinsman, Sir William Soame.
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Robert Herrick |
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Whoever dies
somewhere
in the world
Dies without cause in the world
Looks at me.
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Rilke - Poems |
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" He replied:
"Now who art thou, that smiting others' cheeks
Through
Antenora
roamest, with such force
As were past suff'rance, wert thou living still?
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Unfortunately
he did not
allow me.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Silent and
motionless
we lie;
And no one knoweth more than this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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"
Marsilie
gives the glove into his hand.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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AS I CAME DOWN IN THE HARBOR By Louis Ginsberg
As I came down in the harbor, I saw ships careening — Tall ships with taut sails, bulging slowly away;
As I came down in the harbor, like far swallows flying,
Delicate
were the sails I saw, poised faint and dim !
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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* * * * *
ROBERT GRAVES
LOST LOVE
His eyes are quickened so with grief,
He can watch a grass or leaf
Every instant grow; he can
Clearly through a flint wall see,
Or watch the
startled
spirit flee
From the throat of a dead man.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Additional terms will be linked
to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
permission of the copyright holder found at the
beginning
of this work.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Rumour flies suddenly,
spreading
over the little town, that they
ride in haste to the courts of the Tyrrhene king.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Si quicquam mutis gratum acceptumve sepulcris
Accidere a nostro, Calve, dolore potest,
Quo desiderio veteres renovamus amores
Atque olim missas flemus amicitias,
Certe non tanto mors
inmatura
dolorist 5
Quintiliae, quantum gaudet amore tuo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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_"
CORPORAL
ALEXANDER
ROBERTSON: To an Old Lady
Seen at a Guest-House for Soldiers
LIEUTENANT GILBERT WATERHOUSE: The Casualty
Clearing Station
LANCE-CORPORAL MALCOLM HEMPHREY: Hills of Home
XVI.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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FAR FROM HIS BELOVED, LIFE IS
MISERABLE
BY NIGHT AS BY DAY.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Pero ti prego, dolce padre caro,
che mi
dimostri
amore, a cui reduci
ogne buono operare e 'l suo contraro>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Among other things, this
requires
that you do not remove, alter or modify the
eBook or this "small print!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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They fled before the Moors,
and once, when a lion broke out of his den, they ran and crouched
in an
unseemly
hiding-place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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the
illustrious
Swede hath done
The thing which ought to be .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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SAS}
Whence is this Voice of Enion that soundeth in my ears Porches
Take thou
possession!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Yes, it is in this atmosphere that it would be good to live,--yonder,
where slower hours contain more thoughts, where the clocks strike the
hours of
happiness
with a more profound and significant solemnity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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LXXV
And yet again advised the martial maid,
(Counsel she had a
thousand
times bestowed)
Then left, Nor Bradamant through greenwood shade
More than two miles in narrow path had rode,
Before, by two fierce giants overlaid,
She saw a knight, who like Rogero showed,
So closely pressed, and labouring sore for breath,
That he appeared well nigh reduced to death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Musa gloriam Coronat,
gloriaque
musam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Greek sang and
Tcherkass
for his pleasure,
And Kergeesian captive is dancing;
In the eyes of the first heaven's azure,
And in those black of Eblis is glancing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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9, 77 II 13;
_uttakkalu_
< _uttakkaru_, Ebeling, KTA.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
This Troilus sat on his baye stede,
Al armed, save his heed, ful richely, 625
And wounded was his hors, and gan to blede,
On whiche he rood a pas, ful softely;
But swych a
knightly
sighte, trewely,
As was on him, was nought, with-outen faile,
To loke on Mars, that god is of batayle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
NIGHT
The sun
descending
in the west,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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And she hath watch'd
Many a Nightingale perch giddily
On blosmy twig still
swinging
from the breeze,
And to that motion tune his wanton song,
Like tipsy Joy that reels with tossing head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
It is unlighted;
everything
is in darkness.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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CHORUS
Go to now, trust the dead, a
matricide!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Dear Nature is the kindest mother still;
Though always changing, in her aspect mild:
From her bare bosom let me take my fill,
Her never-weaned, though not her
favoured
child.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I
bequeath
it to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
A LITTLE BOY LOST
"Nought loves another as itself,
Nor
venerates
another so,
Nor is it possible to thought
A greater than itself to know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Other previous contributors are Marguerite Wilkin son, John Hall Wheelock, Louis Ginsberg, Fhoebe Hcffman, John Russell
McCarthy
and Marjorie Allen Seiffert.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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REMBRANDT, sad hospital that a murmuring fills,
Where one tall crucifix hangs on the walls,
Where every tear-drowned prayer some woe distils,
And one cold, wintry ray
obliquely
falls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
LXIII
I Hoed and
trenched
and weeded,
And took the flowers to fair:
I brought them home unheeded;
The hue was not the wear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
International donations are
gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Morning at the Window
They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting
despondently
at area gates.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Oh the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Those grand,
majestic
pines!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
The door--as if it must, yet
scarcely
dare--
Had opened widely to the night's fresh air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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NIGHT
The night has cut
each from each
and curled the petals
back from the stalk
and under it in crisp rows;
under at an
unfaltering
pace,
under till the rinds break,
back till each bent leaf
is parted from its stalk;
under at a grave pace,
under till the leaves
are bent back
till they drop upon earth,
back till they are all broken.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Down upon us heavily runs,
Silent and sullen, the
floating
fort;
Then comes a puff of smoke from her guns,
And leaps the terrible death,
With fiery breath,
From each open port.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Chimene
My honour's there, I must be avenged, still;
However we pride ourselves on love's merit,
Excuse is
shameful
to a noble spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
I burned
Hot and cold, in a lasting fever, well-earned
By the mortal wound of your glance's
piercing
flight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Found on the sand there, stretched at rest,
their
lifeless
lord, who had lavished rings
of old upon them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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And then,
foreseeing
all thy life, I added:
But these thou wilt forget; and at the end
Of life the Lord will punish thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Ambrose
observes
in the Passion of St.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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He has many friends, lay men and clerical,
Old Foss is the name of his cat;
His body is perfectly spherical,
He weareth a
runcible
hat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
The Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Sturzen wir uns in das
Rauschen
der Zeit,
Ins Rollen der Begebenheit!
| 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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When I am come into the battle grand,
And blows lay on, by hundred, by thousand,
Of
Durendal
bloodied you'll see the brand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
"
Seven queens shone round her ivory bed,
Like seven soft gems on a silken thread,
Like seven fair lamps in a royal tower,
Like seven bright petals of Beauty's flower
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose
"Where is my rival, O King Feroz?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
" said the wife, "these
gentlemen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Still would her touch the strain prolong;
And from the rocks, the woods, the vale
She call'd on Echo still through all the song;
And, where her sweetest theme she chose,
A soft responsive voice was heard at every close:
And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair;--
And longer had she sung:--but with a frown Revenge
impatient
rose:
He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down;
And with a withering look
The war-denouncing trumpet took
And blew a blast so loud and dread,
Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
He's on the right
foundation!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Amid lush grasses soft and cool
They make their
feasting
ground,
With smilax and with bryony
Their rosy pates are crowned.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
at thy tomb, two
fledglings
of thy brood--
A man-child and a maid; hold them in ruth,
Nor wipe them out, the last of Pelops' line.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
)
Note
Not
meaningless
flurries like
Those that frequent the street
Subject to black hats in flight;
But a dancer shown complete
A whirlwind of muslin or
A furious scattering of spray
Raised by her knee, she for
Whom we live, to blow away
All, beyond her, mundane
Witty, drunken, motionless,
With her tutu, and refrain
From other mark of distress,
Unless a light-hearted draught of air
From her dress fans Whistler there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Many years after the temple of the Twin Gods had been built in
the Forum, an important addition was made to the
ceremonial
by
which the state annually testified its gratitude for their
protection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
And the Spirit,
stooping
earthward,
With his finger on the meadow
Traced a winding pathway for it,
Saying to it, "Run in this way!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
And with him Franks an hundred
thousand
mourn,
Who for Rollanz have marvellous remorse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Quando diritto al pie del ponte fue,
levo 'l braccio alto con tutta la testa
per
appressarne
le parole sue,
che fuoro: <
tu che, spirando, vai veggendo i morti:
vedi s'alcuna e grande come questa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Et, faisant la victime et la petite epouse,
Son etoile la vit, une chandelle aux doigts,
Descendre
dans la cour ou sechait une blouse,
Spectre blanc, et lever les spectres noirs des toits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Pouvons-nous
etouffer
l'implacable Remords?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Sallust's
orations
are read in
the honour of story, yet the most eloquent.
| 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 |
|
Habitavi cum
habitantibus
Cedar; multum incola fuit aninia mea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and brooding
stillnesses
which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
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I woke and chid my honest fingers, --
The gem was gone;
And now an
amethyst
remembrance
Is all I own.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Can such things be,
And
ouercome
vs like a Summers Clowd,
Without our speciall wonder?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The priests were singing, and the organ sounded,
And then anon the great
cathedral
bell.
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Longfellow |
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I was a boy; boyhood slid gayly by
And the
impatient
years that trod on it
Taught me new lessons in the lore of life.
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Emerson - Poems |
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How have I dwelt in fear of fate: 'tis done--
Immortal
bliss for me too hast thou won.
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Keats |
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King
Yet Love, far from registering this protest,
If
Rodrigue
wins, true justice will attest.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Greeks were the ones who began it, and only to Greeks they
proclaimed
it
Even within Roman walls: "Come to the sanctified night.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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They were both
denied any
opportunity
of a hearing or defence--and might as well have
been innocent.
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Tacitus |
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XII
When I watch the living meet,
And the moving pageant file
Warm and
breathing
through the street
Where I lodge a little while,
If the heats of hate and lust
In the house of flesh are strong,
Let me mind the house of dust
Where my sojourn shall be long.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I love all that thou lovest,
Spirit of
Delight!
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Golden Treasury |
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Alike in nothing but one lust of gold,
Just half the land would buy, and half be sold:
Their country's wealth our
mightier
misers drain,
Or cross, to plunder provinces, the main;
The rest, some farm the poor-box, some the pews;
Some keep assemblies, and would keep the stews;
Some with fat bucks on childless dotards fawn;
Some win rich widows by their chine and brawn;
While with the silent growth of ten per cent.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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You on the
Mississippi
and on all the branches and bayous of
the Mississippi!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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