Tut nicht ein braver Mann genug,
Die Kunst, die man ihm ubertrug,
Gewissenhaft
und punktlich auszuuben?
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auertit uultus Erycis quae possidet arces:
sunt quoque qui lacrimas
continuisse
negant.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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--
That
thousands
of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.
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blake-poems |
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He
selected
his card and placed upon it his fresh stake.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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These
are
commonly
the off-scouring and dregs of men that do these things, or
calumniate others; yet I know not truly which is worse--he that maligns
all, or that praises all.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I to the knyghtes onne everyche syde wylle burne, 585
Telleynge
'hem alle to make her foemen blede;
Sythe shame or deathe onne eidher syde wylle bee,
Mie harte I wylle upryse, & inne the battelle slea.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I laughed, and spoke to one near me,
"Will he
prevail?
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Stephen Crane |
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La prima voce che passo volando
'Vinum non habent'
altamente
disse,
e dietro a noi l'ando reiterando.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"My father lived at Blenheim then,
Yon little stream hard by;
They burnt his
dwelling
to the ground,
And he was forced to fly:
So with his wife and child he fled,
Nor had he where to rest his head.
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Golden Treasury |
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Your son my Lord, ha's paid a souldiers debt,
He onely liu'd but till he was a man,
The which no sooner had his
Prowesse
confirm'd
In the vnshrinking station where he fought,
But like a man he dy'de
Sey.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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net/
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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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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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Laden with shining arms the men-folk tread
By the long wagons where their goods lie hidden;
They watch the heaven with eyes grown wearied
Of
hopeless
dreams that come to them unbidden.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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[439]
Tithrasios
was a part of Libya, fabled to be peopled by Gorgons.
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Aristophanes |
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On entering, soft, a touch of hand,
And at the dole of parting-time,
A kiss, with an
adornment
bland,
As farewell gift: a gentle rhyme.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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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.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The judge accurst, incontinent,
And
stranger
dame have dragg'd thee down.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Visitation
SUNLIGHT
slantingly
flows
Down through the rampart notches
Onto thine house by the thicket,
Onto thy garden-close.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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This stanza occurs only in the
editions
of 1800 to 1815.
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William Wordsworth |
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"
And
straight
against that great array
Forth went the dauntless Three.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second
opportunity
to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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`And
trusteth
this, that certes, herte swete, 1590
Er Phebus suster, Lucina the shene,
The Leoun passe out of this Ariete,
I wol ben here, with-outen any wene.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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LXV Vnius uersus spatium in O _AD
ORTALEM_
GRVenC Laur.
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Latin - Catullus |
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]
OTUS AND
EPHIALTES
HOLDING MARS CAPTIVE.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Waldo Abigail Fithian Halsey Louis Ginsberg
Marjorie
Allen Seiffert J.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Lest the world should
separate
;
Sudden parting closer glues.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Hans, holding jeers and
cuckoldom
in dread,
Would have his precious rib with caution tread,
And nothing but the Bible e'er peruse;
All other books he daily would abuse;
Blamed secret visits; frowned at loose attire;
And censured ev'ry thing gallants admire.
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La Fontaine |
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I
write you this on the account of an accident, which I must take the
merit of having partly
designed
to.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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At length in the year
of the city 378, both parties mustered their whole strength for
their last and most
desperate
conflict.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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all hold
conflicting
views of this passage: _Beit.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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They look on thee and me, a
stricken
twain,
Who have wrought no sin that God should have thee slain.
| Guess: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Hart was the
originator
of the Project
Gutenberg-tm concept of a library of electronic works that could be
freely shared with anyone.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or
redistribute
this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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Li Po |
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The Elephant
Two Elephants
'Two Elephants'
Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594, The Rijksmuseun
I carry
treasure
in my mouth,
As an elephant his ivory.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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I will confess the
sweetest
of all crimes,
A maiden wooed and won.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
50
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is
something
he carries on his back,
Which I am forbidden to see.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
, by Lewis Carroll
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
V
"She whispers it in each pathetic strenuous slow endeavour,
When in
mothering
she unwittingly sets wounds on what she loves;
Yet her primal doom pursues her, faultful, fatal is she ever;
Though so deft and nigh to vision is her facile finger-touch
That the seers marvel much.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
"--'Mid the sound
Of flutes and viols, ravishing his heart,
Endymion
from Glaucus stood apart,
And scatter'd in his face some fragments light.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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This hour shall be
A glass of wine
Poured out into the
unremembering
sea Without regret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Owneth thy sire one third, one third is right of thy mother,
Only the third is thine: stint thee to strive with the others,
Who to the
stranger
son have yielded their dues with a dower!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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'19-20'
An imaginary
portrait
of a mad poet who keeps on writing verses even in
his cell in Bedlam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
O
children
of the light, now in our grief Give us again the solace of belief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But then the
beauteous
hill of moss
Before their eyes began to stir;
And for full fifty yards around,
The grass it shook upon the ground;
But all do still aver
The little babe is buried there,
Beneath that hill of moss so fair.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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O Memory cast down thy
wreathed
shell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Now the streets are
swarming
with people.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Kitty and I entered Hamilton's shop together, and there,
regardless of the order of affairs, I
measured
Kitty for the ring in
the presence of the amused assistant.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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I
had rather be a
giantess
and lie under Mount Pelion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Was it not well beleev'd, that hee would make 35
This
generall
peace, th'Eternall overtake,
And that his times might have stretch'd out so farre,
As to touch those, of which they emblems are?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Something
o' that, I said.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
In the
background
Jacinta (a servant maid) leans carelessly
upon a chair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
The
brambles
so thick that in summer one cannot pass!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
NEW POEMS
EARLY APOLLO
As when at times there breaks through branches bare
A morning vibrant with the breath of spring,
About this poet-head a splendour rare
Transforms
it almost to a mortal thing.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean,
Rising with her tiara of proud towers
At airy distance, with majestic motion,
A ruler of the waters and their powers:
And such she was; her daughters had their dowers
From spoils of nations, and the
exhaustless
East
Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
XXXVIII
Once more to idleness consigned,
He felt the
laudable
desire
From mere vacuity of mind
The wit of others to acquire.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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quemne ipsa reliqui, 180
Respersum
iuvenem fraterna caede secuta?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Strength
to these twain, to right their father's wrong!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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thy unhappy son;
Slow dragged the steeds his batter'd chariot on:
Achilles
saw, and pitying thus begun:
"Behold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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"I
embarked
at Nice, the first maritime town in Italy (he means the
nearest to France).
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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_
My heart was fill'd with wonder and amaze,
As one struck dumb, in silence stands at gaze
Expecting
counsel, when my friend drew near,
And said: "What do you look?
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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In
jealousy
of a Hebe's fate
Rising over this cup at your lips' kisses,
I spend my fires with the slender rank of prelate
And won't even figure naked on Sevres dishes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Modern Paris is often the
background
of the _New Poems_, and the crass
play of light and shadow upon the waxen masks of Life's disillusioned in
the Morgue is caught with the same intense realistic vision as the
flamingos and parrots spreading their vari-coloured soft plumage in the
warmth of the sun in the Avenue of the Jardin des Plantes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Chatterton had shown (by his article on
Christmas
games, &c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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He ceased--then tenfold
indignation
fired
Eurymachus; he furrow'd deep his brow 480
With frowns, and in wing'd accents thus replied.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Now like a mighty wild they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like
harmonious
thunderings the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged man, wise guardians of the poor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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to teare
My tender sides in this rough rynd embard,
But fly, ah fly far hence away, for feare
Least to you hap, that
happened
to me heare, 275
And to this wretched Lady, my deare love,
O too deare love, love bought with death too deare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
All
motionless
the coursers horrible,
That formed a legion lured by Death to war,
These men and horses masked, how dread they are!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
A smile
suffused
Jehovah's face;
The cherubim withdrew;
Grave saints stole out to look at me,
And showed their dimples, too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
And mark the word, his greatness shall appear
When next my course to India's strand I steer,
Such proofs I'll bring as never man before
In deeds of strife, or peaceful
friendship
bore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
How many do we see, by slow degrees,
And, step by step, accord their ALL to please,
Who, at the onset, never dreamed to grant
The
smallest
favour to their fond gallant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
) can copy and
distribute it in the United States without permission and
without paying
copyright
royalties.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Only one favor I beg of you, Graces (I ask it in secret--
Fervent my prayer and deep, out of a
passionate
breast):
My little garden, my sweet one, protect it and do not let any
Evil come near it nor me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
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active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and
charitable
donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Marks,
notations
and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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My mother taught me
underneath
a tree,
And, sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And, pointed to the east, began to say:
"Look on the rising sun: there God does live,
And gives His light, and gives His heat away,
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
`But Troilus, I pray thee tel me now, 330
If that thou trowe, er this, that any wight
Hath loved
paramours
as wel as thou?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
II
The Babylonian praises his high wall,
And gardens high in air; Ephesian
Forms the Greek will praise again;
The people of the Nile their
Pyramids
tall;
And that same Greek still boasting will recall
Their statue of Jove the Olympian;
The Tomb of Mausolus, some Carian;
Cretans their long-lost labyrinthine hall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
His
sympathy
was excited by the misery with which the world is burning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Westwards, like tiger's skin, each
separate
isle
Spotted the surface of the yellow Nile;
Gray obelisks shot upwards from the soil.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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[93] A
plaintive
love-song, to which Po Chu-i had himself written words.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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She'll speak to no one now, and every day,
Morning and evening, she's at the gate
Gazing like a fey
creature
on that head
She was so stricken to behold--you mind it?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Note: Selene, the Moon, loved
Endymion
on Mount Latmos, while he slept.
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Ronsard |
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"
Miss Charlotte Holmes
Crawford
and _Scribner's Magazine_:--"_Vive la
France!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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He ceased; wide
conflagration
blazing round;
The bubbling waters yield a hissing sound.
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Iliad - Pope |
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YESTERDAY
This Day's Madness did prepare;
TO-MORROW's Silence, Triumph, or Despair:
Drink!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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ECLOGUE II
ALEXIS
The
shepherd
Corydon with love was fired
For fair Alexis, his own master's joy:
No room for hope had he, yet, none the less,
The thick-leaved shadowy-soaring beech-tree grove
Still would he haunt, and there alone, as thus,
To woods and hills pour forth his artless strains.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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What private feuds the
troubled
village stain!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And the age of the thief
Grishka" (looking at
VARLAAM)
"about fifty, and his
height medium; he has a bald head, grey beard, fat
belly.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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