The sabbath comes, a day of blessed rest;
What hallows it upon this
Christian
shore?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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It is that settled, ceaseless gloom
The fabled Hebrew
wanderer
bore,
That will not look beyond the tomb,
But cannot hope for rest before.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Her head upon my
throbbing
breast,
She, sinking, said, 'I'm thine for ever!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Your
Lordship
may not have so long to wait.
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Tennyson |
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Per ch'elli a me: <
conosce il danno; e pero non s'ammiri
se ne
riprende
perche men si piagna.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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[Note 81: The "Demon," a short poem by Pushkin which at its first
appearance created some
excitement
in Russian society.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But it is not to be
taken as an evidence of the
populousness
of the country in general,
hardly even of the river-banks.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I woke; it was the
midnight
hour,
The clock was echoing in the tower;
But though my slumber was gone by,
This dream it would not pass away--
It seems to live upon my eye!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And you of
centuries
hence when you listen to me!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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For since 'tis fluid, smooth its atoms are
And round, with painful rough ones mixed therein;
Yet need not these be held
together
hooked:
In fact, though rough, they're globular besides,
Able at once to roll, and rasp the sense.
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Lucretius |
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Through many a
startled
hamlet
Thundered his flying feet;
He rushed through the gate of Tusculum,
He rushed up the long white street;
He rushed by tower and temple,
And paused not from his race
Till he stood before his master's door
In the stately market-place.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And when in the silent hours
I whisper your sacred name,
Like an altar-fire it showers
My blood with
fragrant
flame!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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copyright
law in creating the Project
Gutenberg-tm collection.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Epicurus and the Fear of Death_
E TENEBRIS tantis tam clarum extollere lumen
qui primus potuisti inlustrans commoda uitae,
te sequor, o Graiae gentis decus, inque tuis nunc
ficta pedum pono pressis uestigia signis,
non ita certandi cupidus quam propter amorem
quod te imitari aueo; quid enim
contendat
hirundo
cycnis, aut quidnam tremulis facere artubus haedi
consimile in cursu possint et fortis equi uis?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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CXCI
The pagan race would never rest, but come
Out of the sea, where the sweet waters run;
They leave Marbris, they leave behind Marbrus,
Upstream
by Sebre doth all their navy turn.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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But always there comes,
Out from the flame of my being Smoke with its wavering fingers Running athwart my joy;
Always the dark fingers weaving Out of the smoke of my sinning
Curtains
to shut me from God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Naval
adventurers
were now
invited from all parts to the town of Sagrez, and in 1418 Juan Gonsalez
Zarco and Tristran Vaz set sail on an expedition of discovery, the
circumstances of which give us a striking picture of the state of
navigation ere it was remodelled by the genius of Henry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Wide o'er the decks the
spreading
sails they throw;
From each tall mast the waving streamers flow;
All seems a festive holiday on board
To welcome to the fleet the island's lord.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Barons of France weep
therefore
and complain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see
Sections
3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Denying that which mine own spirit guesses
--Our great and ancient fame is also known--
Can I tear off the scarf which veils my tresses,
And with an early
widowhood
atone?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
hast thou eaten of the Tree
Whereof I gave thee charge thou
shouldst
not eat?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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31
I know you step within mine house 32
'Tis not wise until the latest hour 32
The hill where o'er we wander lies in shadow 33
Needs must thou be upon the
wastelands
yearning .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
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: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
--But, above all,
Think not to speak unto the people; they 550
Are now by thousands
swarming
at the gates,
But these are closed: the Ten, the Avogadori,
The Giunta, and the chief men of the Forty,
Alone will be beholders of thy doom,
And they are ready to attend the Doge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Of the Calfucci still the branchy trunk
Was in its strength: and to the curule chairs
Sizii and
Arigucci
yet were drawn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Once a
youthful
pair,
Filled with softest care,
Met in garden bright
Where the holy light
Had just removed the curtains of the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And if there be of love a dream
Rose-scented as the west,
Which shows, each time it comes, a gleam,--
A
something
sweet and blest,--
A dream of which heaven is the pole,
A dream that mingles soul and soul,
I fain of it would make the goal
Where thy mind should rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Your opening
promises
some grand design,
And purple patches with broad lustre shine
Sewed on the poem; here in laboured strain
A sacred grove, or fair Diana's fane
Rises to view; there through delightful meads
A murmuring stream its winding water leads.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
then return,
And leave thee
sleeping
in thy urn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Would you cast your jewels all to the breezes
blowing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
X
Yet, love, mere love, is
beautiful
indeed
And worthy of acceptation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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An
unfrocked
monk against us
Leads rascal troops, a truant friar dares write
Threats to us!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
What strange
disguise
hast now put on
To make believe that thou art gone?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
_ 1812:
Durae
peragunt
pensa sorores, Nec sua retro fila revolvunt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
The
collection
of Songs was my _vade mecum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Despite all the torment that I suffer
To
renounce
true love is not my plan,
Though I'm exiled to a desert shore,
These words shall rhyme the whole affair:
More than ploughmen, lovers toil so;
In the tale, Monclis no more admires
Audierna, than I for my love have sighed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
II
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,
Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now,
Will be a tatter'd weed of small worth held:
Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies,
Where all the treasure of thy lusty days;
To say, within thine own deep sunken eyes,
Were an all-eating shame, and
thriftless
praise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
An expression of interior
agitation
passed over the face of the old
woman; then she relapsed into her former apathy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But, notwithstanding
that inequality, the balance of Happiness among Mankind is kept even by
Providence, by the two
Passions
of Hope and Fear, v.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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if I
For once could have thee close to me,
With happy heart I then would die,
And my last
thoughts
would happy be,
I feel my body die away,
I shall not see another day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
'
The abbot pulled his night-cap off and crumpled it in his hands, and
the circular brown patch of hair in the middle of his bald head looked
like an island in the midst of a pond, for in
Connaught
they had not
yet abandoned the ancient tonsure for the style then coming into use.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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For there I lost my father dear,
My father dear, and
brethren
three.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
What answer was it you brought me, good
Baldazzar?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Sharply thou hast
insisted
on rebuke,
And urg'd me hard with doings, which not will
But misery hath rested from me; where 470
Easily canst thou find one miserable,
And not inforc'd oft-times to part from truth;
If it may stand him more in stead to lye,
Say and unsay, feign, flatter, or abjure?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
As to ascend
That steep, upon whose brow the chapel stands
(O'er Rubaconte, looking lordly down
On the well-guided city,) up the right
Th'
impetuous
rise is broken by the steps
Carv'd in that old and simple age, when still
The registry and label rested safe;
Thus is th' acclivity reliev'd, which here
Precipitous from the other circuit falls:
But on each hand the tall cliff presses close.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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But in the tiny
landscapes
of the Prose Poems there is
nothing rigid or artificial.
| 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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And what the potent say so oft, can it fail to be
somewhat
true?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
His lectures were still in
demand; he was often asked to speak by
literary
societies at orthodox
colleges.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Ye airy, tender youths, your numbers
Have sung him into
sweetest
slumbers!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
The
sweetest
sonnets of Belleau,
Offered by gallants ere they fight
For your delight;
And many fawning rhymers who
Inscribe their first thin book to you
Will contemplate upon the stair
Your slipper fair;
And many a page who plays at cards,
And many lords and many bards,
Will watch your going forth, and burn
For your return;
And you will count before your glass
More kisses than the lily has;
And more than one Valois will sigh
When you pass by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or
proprietary
form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
And as you left, suspired
confused
and jaded
In sighful accents the deserted glade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Many ancient
writings
were erased,
for example, in order to get parchment for monkish chronicles and
commentaries.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
also Shirley,
Prologue
to _The Doubtful Heir_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark
as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Her face is rounder than the moon,
And ruddier than the gown
Of orchis in the pasture,
Or
rhododendron
worn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Nevertheless these rulers,
although
appearing
in the pretentious nomenclature as gods, appear to have been real
historic personages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Myself would hold it shame
To abase this
daughter
of a royal name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
"'
And yet it seemeth not to me
That the high gods love tragedy;
For Saadi sat in the sun,
And thanks was his contrition;
For
haircloth
and for bloody whips,
Had active hands and smiling lips;
And yet his runes he rightly read,
And to his folk his message sped.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
I'll be under the earth, a
boneless
phantom,
At rest in the myrtle groves of the dark kingdom:
You'll be an old woman hunched over the fire,
Regretting my love for you, your fierce disdain,
So live, believe me: don't wait for another day,
Gather them now the roses of life, and desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Happily now I've escaped, and my
mistress
knows Werther and Lotte
Not a whit better than who might be this man in her bed:
That he's a foreigner, footloose and lusty, is all she could tell you,
Who beyond mountains and snow, dwelt in a house made of wood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
That
sufferance
was my sinne; now I repent;
'Cause I did suffer I must suffer paine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
'73 sylphids':
a
feminine
form of "sylphs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
The
Immediate
Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
DE
PROFUNDIS
CLAMAVI
J'implore ta pitie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_--I have already
described
the technical developments of poetry
during this dynasty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
_Pedestrians
of all descriptions stroll forth_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Meanwhile the sun paused ere it should alight,
Over the horizon of the mountains;--Oh,
How beautiful is sunset, when the glow _55
Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee,
Thou
Paradise
of exiles, Italy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
, il sollicitait l'amitie de Sainte-Beuve et de Flaubert (tout
recemment
poursuivi
pour avoir ecrit _Madame Bovary_), des moyens
de defense dont les minutes ont ete conservees et dont il transmettait
la teneur a son avocat, Me Chaix d'Est-Ange.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
How shall I behold the face 1080
Henceforth
of God or Angel, earst with joy
And rapture so oft beheld?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
"
Then I left my friend and
approached
the blind man and greeted him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Into my
courtyard
paved with stones
That keep the names, that keep the bones,
Of none but English men who came
Free of their lives, to guard my fame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
O fairest
miracle!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
"Superstitione
Christianorum
ubique deleta," &c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Marya looked
sometimes
thoughtfully upon me and sometimes upon the road,
and did not seem either to have recovered her senses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Can much pondering so
hoodwink
you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
LIII
Beneath the castle, safe from wind and swell,
Of many ships and stout, a
squadron
lay;
Which, in the harbour, at a sound from bell, --
A word, were fit for action, night or day;
And thus by land and sea was battle, fell
And furious, waged on part of either fay:
Whence was Alcina's realm turned upside down,
Of which she had usurped her sister's crown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Upward I reach
To draw chill curtains and shut out the dark,
Pausing an instant, with uplifted hand,
To watch, between black ruined portals of cloud,
One star,--the
tottering
portals fall and crush it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
He does not wake at dawn to see
Dread figures throng his room,
The shivering
Chaplain
robed in white,
The Sheriff stern with gloom,
And the Governor all in shiny black,
With the yellow face of Doom.
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_, the
entrance
of day follows
hard on the entrance of night.
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"Still men and nations reap as they have strawn,"
So sang they, working at their task the while;
The fatal raiment must be cleansed ere dawn;
For
Austria?
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"Introduce me, now there's a good fellow," he said,
"If we happen to meet it
together!
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DAMOETAS
"You, picking flowers and
strawberries
that grow
So near the ground, fly hence, boys, get you gone!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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EVENING OF
DECEMBER
3, 1879.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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O
countless
the brave acts, courageousness
Concealed itself from knowledge in the darkness,
Where each, the sole true witness of his blows,
Could not discern whose side fortune chose!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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Thus others' talents having nicely shown,
He came by sure
transition
to his own:
Till I cried out: "You prove yourself so able,
Pity!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Haply my style to some may seem too free
In praise of her who holds my being's chain,
Queen of her sex
describing
her to reign,
Wise, winning, good, fair, noble, chaste to be:
To me it seems not so; I fear that she
My lays as low and trifling may disdain,
Worthy a higher and a better strain;
--Who thinks not with me let him come and see.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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heere on his throne
in his bright
imperial
crowne 15
hee sitts.
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Among your heart-shaped leaves
Orange orioles hop like music-box birds and sing
Their little weak soft songs;
In the crooks of your branches
The bright eyes of song
sparrows
sitting on spotted eggs
Peer restlessly through the light and shadow
Of all Springs.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkerchief about your brows-
The best I had, a princess wrought it me-
And I did never ask it you again;
And with my hand at midnight held your head;
And, like the
watchful
minutes to the hour,
Still and anon cheer'd up the heavy time,
Saying 'What lack you?
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Not alone
Through operation of the mighty orbs,
That mark each seed to some predestin'd aim,
As with aspect or fortunate or ill
The
constellations
meet, but through benign
Largess of heav'nly graces, which rain down
From such a height, as mocks our vision, this man
Was in the freshness of his being, such,
So gifted virtually, that in him
All better habits wond'rously had thriv'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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What is called good is perfect, and what is called bad is just as perfect,
The
vegetables
and minerals are all perfect, and the imponderable fluids
are perfect;
Slowly and surely they have passed on to this, and slowly and surely they
yet pass on.
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