frenzied Lear
Should at thy bidding wander on the heath
With the shrill fool to mock him, Romeo
For thee should lure his love, and desperate fear
Pluck Richard's
recreant
dagger from its sheath--
Thou trumpet set for Shakespeare's lips to blow!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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whose high deeds,
Whose hot incursions and great name in arms
Holds from all soldiers chief majority
And military title capital
Through all the
kingdoms
that acknowledge Christ.
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Shakespeare |
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Withouten
stroke it mot be take
Of trepeget or mangonel;
Without displaying of pensel.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And though I must give my breath
And my
laughter
all to death,
And my eyes through which joy came,
And my heart, a wavering flame;
If all must leave me and go back
Along a blind and fearful track
So that you can make anew,
Fusing with intenser fire,
Something nearer your desire;
If my soul must go alone
Through a cold infinity,
Or even if it vanish, too,
Beauty, I have worshipped you.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Wherefore the more are they borne wandering on
By
blindfold
reason.
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Lucretius |
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Shakespeare stands less in need
of a
glossary
to most New-Englanders than to many a native of the Old
Country.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The
principal
productions were wheat, potatoes, oats, hay, peas,
flax, maple-sugar, etc.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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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.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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at thowe hast sent me;
Myne owne men that
shoullde
bee,
hate gewyn me of theyre cheryte.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The subject,
and some lines of the original version, having been
suggested
by the
poet's friend, Mrs.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You
sacrifice
time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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at is alwey
gapyng {and} gredy be
fulfilled
wi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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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 Huns have no trade but battle and carnage;
They have no
pastures
or ploughlands,
But only wastes where white bones lie among yellow sands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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_He has
evidently
bathed and changed his garments and
drunk his fill, and is now revelling, a garland of flowers on his head.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Try then,
instrument
of flights, O malign
Syrinx by the lake where you await me, to flower again!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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" He could bear no more, and so
Bent his soul
fiercely
like a spiritual bow,
And twang'd it inwardly, and calmly said:
"I would have thee my only friend, sweet maid!
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Keats |
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All Nature speaks, and ev'n ideal things
Flap shadowy sounds from
visionary
wings--
But ah!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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*** END OF THE PROJECT
GUTENBERG
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This file should be named 8388-8.
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Whitman |
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lest they say a lesser light
distraught
thee.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Thou maruell'st at my words: but hold thee still,
Things bad begun, make strong
themselues
by ill:
So prythee goe with me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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the
milkmaid
from the Okhta villages, a suburb of St.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Gunga Dass
was offensively jocular till I told him that if he
addressed
another
remark of any kind whatever to me I should strangle him where he sat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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He leaves worth clouded, and youth dolorous,
The world obscure,
shadowed
and in darkness,
Void of all joy, full of despair and sadness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Mirthful gold of a cymbal beaten with fists,
The sun all at once strikes the pure nakedness
That breathed itself out of my coolness of nacre,
Rancid night of the skin, when you swept over me,
Not knowing,
ungrateful
one, that it was, this make-up,
My whole anointing, drowned in ice-water perfidy.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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[83]
Frail and slender, the twisted-bamboo rope:
Weak, the
dangerous
hold of the towers' feet.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Thou flatt'ring mark of
friendship
kind,
Still may thy pages call to mind
The dear, the beauteous donor;
Tho' sweetly female ev'ry part,
Yet such a head, and more the heart
Does both the sexes honour:
She show'd her taste refin'd and just,
When she selected thee;
Yet deviating, own I must,
For sae approving me:
But kind still I'll mind still
The giver in the gift;
I'll bless her, an' wiss her
A Friend aboon the lift.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Would the gods my heart were
innocent
as well!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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ay hee's an
ingenious
youth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
One thing alone can hope to answer your fear;
It is that which
struggles
and blinds us and burns between us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Aught,
possessed
of.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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"Van Winkle Schuyler
Stuyvesant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
Thus while he spoke, the queen of heaven, enraged,
And queen of war, in close consult engaged:
Apart they sit, their deep designs employ,
And
meditate
the future woes of Troy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
4 Yuhua Palace had been
constructed
in 647 for Taizong as a summer palace to escape the heat of Chang?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
Faliero might truly say,--
"Thou den of drunkards with the blood of
princes!
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| Source: |
Byron |
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He was a Gentleman, on whom I built
An
absolute
Trust.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Ed: in 1669_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_,
_H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TCC_, _TCD_, _W_
Appeared in 1669 edition after the Elegies, unnumbered but
with the
heading_
To his Mistris going to Bed.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Asteropeus
with grief beheld the slain,
And rush'd to combat, but he rush'd in vain:
Indissolubly firm, around the dead,
Rank within rank, on buckler buckler spread,
And hemm'd with bristled spears, the Grecians stood,
A brazen bulwark, and an iron wood.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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But my guests
approach!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Dost promise me I shall recover
In this hodge-podge of
craziness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings covering the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume
enclosed
by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Contributions to the Project Gutenberg Literary
Archive Foundation are tax
deductible
to the full extent permitted by
U.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The spirit of Navarre chose well his time,
Planted his feet on land, and at one leap
Escaping
disappointed
their resolve.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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--
It is
impossible
to say just what I mean!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
We fight for it as for
a
principle
of liberty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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I learn from the highest authority that his favorite
reading was in
Shakespeare
and Milton, to which, of course, the Bible
should be added.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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To
unimaginable
happiness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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)-it-tam [44]
a-na mi-[ni] [45]
iluGilgamis
ma-si-il
la-nam sa- pi- il
e-si[ pu]-uk-ku-ul
i ?
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight
Bill.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Oft as her angel face
compassion
wore,
With tears whose eloquence scarce fails to move,
With bland and courteous speech, I boldly strove
To soothe my foe, and in meek guise implore:
But soon her eyes inspire vain hopes no more;
For all my fortune, all my fate in love,
My life, my death, the good, the ills I prove,
To her are trusted by one sovereign power.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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at was hys gest
[Sidenote: Regulus put his Carthaginian prisoners in chains, but
was
afterwards
obliged to submit to the fetters of his enemies.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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And, as our happy circle sat,
The fire well capp'd the company:
In grave debate or
careless
chat,
A right good fellow, mingled he:
He seemed as one of us to sit,
And talked of things above, below,
With flames more winsome than our wit,
And coals that burned like love aglow.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
:
_irruminatus
sum_ ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
I savoured it slowly and did not throw a coin through the window for fear of troubling my spirit and
discovering
that not only the instrument was playing.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
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and
research.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Literary Archive
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
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payable to "Project Gutenberg Association/Carnegie-Mellon
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to prepare)
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Kline (C) Copyright 2004 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted,
electronically
or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
I tell you this: whatever of dust to dust
Goes down, whatever of ashes may return
To its essential self in its own season,
Loveliness
such as yours will not be lost,
But, cast in bronze upon his very urn,
Make known him Master, and for what good reason.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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For there you sat a hundred miles away,
A rug upon your knees, your hands gone frail,
And daily bade your farewell to the day,
A music blent of trees and clouds a-sail
And figures in some old neglected tale:
And watched the sunset gathering,
And heard the
birdsong
fading,
And went within when the last sleepy lay
Passed to a farther vale,
Never complaining, and stepped up to bed
More and more slow, a tall and sunburnt man
Grown bony and bearded, knowing you would be dead
Before the summer, glad your life began
Even thus to end, after so short a span,
And mused a space serenely,
Then fell to easy slumber,
At peace, content.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And finally the merit of the later work,
even more than of the earlier, is due to the force and brilliancy of
detached
passages
rather than to any coherent, consistent, and
well-balanced system which it presents.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
V
Jouet de cet oeil d'eau morne, je n'y puis prendre,
O canot
immobile!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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S'il est partout,
pourquoi
lui elever des temples?
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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s forces retook the
capitals
he was sent in exile to�Taizhou.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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--La dedans sont des filles, infames
Parce que,--vous saviez que c'est faible, les femmes,
Messeigneurs
de la cour,--que ca veut toujours bien,
Vous avez crache sur l'ame, comme rien!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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_Necessity
makes dastards valiant men.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Some worker of the plough,
Or serving damsel at her early task
Will
presently
come by, whom we may ask
If here my sister dwells.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Of
Charlemagne
I wish to hear you tell,
He's very old, his time is nearly spent,
Two hundred years he's lived now, as 'tis said.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
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Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally
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and useful.
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Meredith - Poems |
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[4] Throughout the new text the name is written with
the abbreviation _d_Gi(s), [5] whereas the standard Assyrian text
has
consistently
the writing _d_GIS-TU [6]-BAR.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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" This granted (and to Coleridge it is essential that it should be
granted, for in less than the infinite he cannot find space in which to use
his wings freely) he has only to choose and define, to
discover
and to
illuminate.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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||
_tradis_
h2: _tardis_ ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Suddenly the walls of the hollow where I stood sundered with a crash,
and I looked down on a
bottomless
void of blue, where the sun and moon
gleamed on a terrace of silver and gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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To make mine unborn
children
low
And weak, even as my husband.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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A
COMPLEINT
TO HIS LADY.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Her smile's a gift frae 'boon the lift,
That maks us mair than princes;
A
sceptred
hand, a king's command,
Is in her darting glances;
The man in arms 'gainst female charms
Even he her willing slave is,
He hugs his chain, and owns the reign
Of conquering, lovely Davies.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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No, though they gave me Plutus himself and the
_silphium_
of
Battus.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Zwar ist's mit der Gedankenfabrik
Wie mit einem Weber-Meisterstuck,
Wo ein Tritt tausend Faden regt,
Die
Schifflein
heruber hinuber schiessen,
Die Faden ungesehen fliessen,
Ein Schlag tausend Verbindungen schlagt.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"My own Hrothulf" will surely not forget
these favors and
benefits
of the past, but will repay them to the
orphaned boy.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Know then, I came
From sacred Crete, and from a sire of fame:
Castor Hylacides (that name he bore),
Beloved and honour'd in his native shore;
Bless'd in his riches, in his
children
more.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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la bague etait brisee
Que s'ils etaient d'argent ou d'or
D'emeraude ou de diamant
Seront plus clairs plus clairs encore
Que les astres du firmament
Que la lumiere de l'aurore
Que vos regards mon fiance
Auront
meilleure
odeur encore
Helas!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Out from a deep-delved way my vision lit
On
housebacks
pink, green, ochreous--where a slit
Shoreward 'twixt row and row revealed the classic blue through it.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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What agony usurps that watery brain
For comradeship of twenty summers slain,
For such delights below the flashing weir
And up the sluice-cut, playing buccaneer
Among the minnows; lolling in hot sun
When bathing vagabonds had drest and done;
Rootling in salty flannel-weed for meal
And river shrimps, when hushed the
trundling
wheel;
Snapping the dapping moth, and with new wonder
Prowling through old drowned barges falling asunder.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"From his childhood the shell was
familiar
to him,
etc.
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Byron |
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Now thou'rt a
Celtiberian!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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When the child was seven years old the poets and the men of law were
called
together
by the chief poet, and all these matters weighed and
considered.
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Yeats |
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Shall we not heed the lesson taught of old,
And by the Present's lips
repeated
still,
In our own single manhood to be bold,
Fortressed in conscience and impregnable will?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLIX
That night Love drew you down into the ballroom
To dance a sweet love-ballet with subtle art,
Your eyes though it was evening, brought the day
Like so many
lightning
flashes through the gloom.
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Ronsard |
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It hath caught the strain
Of a wilder tune,
Ere the same night's noon,
When dreams and sleep forsake me,
And sudden dread doth wake me,
To hear the booming drums of heaven beat
The long roll to battle; when the knotted cloud,
With an echoing loud,
Bursts asunder
At the sudden resurrection of the thunder;
And the fountains of the air,
Unsealed
again, sweep, ruining, everywhere,
To wrap the world in a watery winding-sheet.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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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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So thou be good, slander doth but approve
Thy worth the greater being woo'd of time;
For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love,
And thou present'st a pure
unstained
prime.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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