The fine slender shoulder-blades:
The long arms, with
tapering
hands:
My small breasts: the hips well made
Full and firm, and sweetly planned,
All Love's tournaments to withstand:
The broad flanks: the nest of hair,
With plump thighs firmly spanned,
Inside its little garden there?
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Villon |
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Some gaze
astonished
at the deadly gift of Minerva the
Virgin, and wonder at the horse's bulk; and Thymoetes begins to advise
that it be drawn within our walls and set in the citadel, whether in
guile, or that the doom of Troy was even now setting thus.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
I take my hat: how can I make a
cowardly
amends
For what she has said to me?
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T.S. Eliot |
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mitten im Gesange sprang
Ein rotes
Mauschen
ihr aus dem Munde.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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III
A dimness of a glory glimmers here
Thro' veils and distance from the space remote, 30
A faintest far vibration of a note
Reaches to us and seems to bring us near,
Causing our face to glow with braver cheer,
Making the serried mist to stand afloat,
Subduing langour with an antidote,
And
strengthening
love almost to cast out fear,
Till for one moment golden city walls
Rise looming on us, golden walls of home,
Light of our eyes until the darkness falls;
Then thro' the outer darkness burdensome 40
I hear again the tender voice that calls,
'Follow me hither, follow, rise, and come.
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Christina Rossetti |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With sorceries sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's
mysterious
season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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572
The
Assyrian
came down like the wolf on the fold (_Hebrew Melodies_),
iii.
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Byron |
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Latterly
he was regular in his habits;
rose early, retired late, and managed to get along with but very
little sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Jupiter's welcome to more from his Juno if he can get it;
Let any mortal find rest, softer,
wherever
he can.
| Guess: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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PART III
The ancient Mariner
beholdeth
a sign in the element afar off.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Yes, when the
preacher
is a player, granted:
As often happens in our modern ways.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Phaedra
I've already
prolonged
its guilty thread too far.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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While the shadow of freedom
remained
in Portugal, the greatest
men of that nation, in the days of Lusian heroism, thought and conducted
themselves in the spirit of Camoens.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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ai nolde bilaue, 21
And to
penaunce
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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proposes
stȳred, = _ordered, decreed_, for strēd.
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Beowulf |
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That others could exist
While she must finish quite,
A
jealousy
for her arose
So nearly infinite.
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The pigeons from the dove cote cooed over the old lane,
The crow flocks from the oakwood went flopping oer the grain;
Like lots of dear old
neighbours
whom I shall see no more
They greeted me that morning I left the English shore.
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John Clare |
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= Traines, of course,
is merely
carrying
out Merecraft's plot to 'achieve the ring' (3.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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* * * * *
ROBERT GRAVES
LOST LOVE
His eyes are
quickened
so with grief,
He can watch a grass or leaf
Every instant grow; he can
Clearly through a flint wall see,
Or watch the startled spirit flee
From the throat of a dead man.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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8 how can I bear to hear it
wherever
I go?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The more serious abbreviation by which it
has been attempted to bring Crashaw's "Wishes" and Shelley's "Euganean
Hills" within the limits of lyrical unity, is
commended
with much
diffidence to the judgment of readers acquainted with the original
pieces.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Please check the Project
Gutenberg
Web pages for current donation
methods and addresses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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my own
inspired
bard!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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A patch of
flowering
grass,
low, trailing--
you brushed this:
the green stems show yellow-green
where you lifted--turned the earth-side
to the light:
this and a dead leaf-spine,
split across,
show where you passed.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Among which glories, crowned with sacred bays
And flatt'ring ivy, two recite their plays--
Beaumont
and Fletcher, swans to whom all ears
Listen, while they, like syrens in their spheres,
Sing their Evadne; and still more for thee
There yet remains to know than thou can'st see
By glim'ring of a fancy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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A
paleness
took the poet's cheek:
"Must I drink _here_?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Earth
breathes
him like an eternal spring: he is a second sky over
the Earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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It dawns in Asia, tombstones show
And
Shropshire
names are read;
And the Nile spills his overflow
Beside the Severn's dead.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
But I cried out,--"That is a false prophet; for I shall be a
musician, and naught but a
musician
shall I be.
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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So light his step, so merry his smile,
A milkmaid loitered beside a stile,
Set down her pail and rested awhile,
A wave-haired milkmaid, rosy and white;
The Prince, who had
journeyed
at least a mile,
Grew athirst at the sight.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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(For what to shun will no great
knowledge
need;
But what to follow is a task indeed.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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For ever left alone am I,
Then
wherefore
should I fear to die?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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This
murtherous
Shaft that's shot,
Hath not yet lighted: and our safest way,
Is to auoid the ayme.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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She dried her feet on the
riverside
grass;
She looked at me once again,
And the playful beauty then took thought.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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O'erpower'd with joy unhop'd the sailors stood,
To find such
kindness
on a shore so rude.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
XVI
It nods and
curtseys
and recovers
When the wind blows above,
The nettle on the graves of lovers
That hanged themselves for love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
1565
And er that ye
Iuparten
so your name,
Beth nought to hasty in this hote fare;
For hasty man ne wanteth never care.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And later, in August it may be,
When the meadows
parching
lie,
Beware, lest this little brook of life
Some burning noon go dry!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Doubt we his presence, when he now
appears!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Thus am I Dante for a space and am One Francois Villon, ballad-lord and thief Or am such holy ones I may not write, Lest
blasphemy
be writ against my name; This for an instant and the flame is gone.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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I smiled, and bade him once more prove,
And by some cross-line show it,
That I could ne'er be Prince of Love,
Though here the
Princely
Poet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Poetry in
Translation
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Francois Villon
Poems
Francois
Villon
'Francois Villon'
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (p329, 1902)
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Villon |
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"
"Do you remember that I paid it you ten days later, and you put it at
the bottom of the
tobacco?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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hic habitat nullo
constricta
Licentia nodo
et flecti faciles Irae uinoque madentes
Excubiae Lacrimaeque rudes et gratus amantum
Pallor et in primis titubans Audacia furtis
iucundique Metus et non secura Voluptas;
et lasciua uolant leuibus Periuria uentis.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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--So the green-gowned faeries say
Living over
Blackmoor
way.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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It has been omitted by
Chambers
in his
"People's Edition" of Burns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
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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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
For, in these unobtrusive pages, there is nothing shunned
which makes the
spectacle
of life parade its dark and painful, its
ironic and cynical burdens, as well as those images with happy and
exquisite aspects.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
LXIII
A
beautiful
child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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at
haluendel
& more,
And was hym-self of hungred sore,
And took it in good entent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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SACKVILLE-WEST
A Saxon Song (from 'Orchard and Vineyard')
Mariana in the North " " "
Full Moon " " "
Sailing Ships " " "
Trio " " "
Bitterness
" " "
Evening " " "
EDWARD SHANKS
The Rock Pool (from 'The Island of Youth')
The Glade " " "
Memory " " "
Woman's Song
The Wind
A Lonely Place
J.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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PAUL KING: All of you who have been lately in China must be struck
with the extraordinary
difference
between the China described in these
poems and the China which has come into being since the revolution.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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We noticed
smallest
things, --
Things overlooked before,
By this great light upon our minds
Italicized, as 't were.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Griefs in our breasts, vanity in our arms;
Fleeting delights are there, and weighty harms:
Repentance swiftly
following
to annoy:
(Such Tarquin found it, and the bane of Troy)
All that whole valley with the echoes rung
Of running brooks, and birds that gently sung:
The banks were clothed in yellow, purple, green,
Scarlet and white, their pleasing springs were seen;
And gliding streams amongst the tender grass,
Thickets and soft winds to refresh the place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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The noble freedom and manly
indignation with which he
mentions
the foible of his prince, and the
flatterers of his court, would do honour to the greatest names of Greece
or Rome.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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But the bones didn't try
The door; they halted
helpless
on the landing,
Waiting for things to happen in their favor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Hast thou a
crucifix
fit for this thing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely
comprehend
the plot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Non est qui
requirat
animam meam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Perchance
she cannot meet him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
[13] Here this late text includes both variants
_pasaru_
and
_zakaru_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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He said he knew me in my
swaddling
bands,
Had often danced me in his careful hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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more
horrible
than that
Is a curse in a dead man's eye!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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To him who
speaketh
words as fair as these, Say that I also know the "Yearly Slain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Thus
speaketh
one Ferdinand in the words of the play--
"She died full young"--one Bossola answers him--
"I think not so--her infelicity
"Seemed to have years too many"--Ah luckless lady!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
How a
stranger
watched his face
In the Esthonian market-place,
Scanned his features one by one,
Saying, "We should know each other;
I am Sigurd, Astrid's brother,
Thou art Olaf, Astrid's son!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Here is no sap for seed,
No ferment for your need--
Ungrateful
ground!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
With the great gale we journey
That breathes from gardens thinned,
Borne in the drift of blossoms
Whose petals throng the wind;
Buoyed on the heaven-heard whisper
Of dancing
leaflets
whirled
From all the woods that autumn
Bereaves in all the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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To create new rhythms--as the
expression
of new moods--and not to copy
old rhythms, which merely echo old moods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
xlv
even without any
acknowledgment
on his own
part, that Swift studied and profited by the prose
of Marvell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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For I have
followed
the white folk of the forest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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have their colours caught:
There are some
feelings
Time cannot benumb,
Nor torture shake, or mine would now be cold and dumb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
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compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form,
including
any
word processing or hypertext form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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If I meet him again----
GASSE:
Saverny!
| 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 |
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I think that
Macaulay
says that great
flights of imagination are peculiar to the early periods of a nation's
civilization, and that story-telling reaches its highest form as an art
before printing has been much in vogue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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walze die teuflischen Augen
ingrimmend
im Kopf herum!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
There are long
passages
now
before us of the most despicable trash, with no merit whatever
beyond that of their antiquity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
"
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!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
The
whispered
"No"--how little meant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Sweet moan, sweeter smile,
All the
dovelike
moans beguile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
But the very same plan to the Beaver occurred:
It had chosen the very same place:
Yet neither betrayed, by a sign or a word,
The disgust that
appeared
in his face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Ill
LOVE calls not worthy him whoe'er
renounced
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
We consider Bibles and
religions
divine--I do not say they are not divine;
I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still;
It is not they who give the life--it is you who give the life;
Leaves are not more shed from the trees, or trees from the earth, than they
are shed out of you.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Among some ancient ballads thrust,
He found them in an almanac,
And the
sagacious
Triquet back
To light had brought them from their dust,
Whilst he "belle Nina" had the face
By "belle Tattiana" to replace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
]
The mist of the morning is torn by the peaks,
Old towers gleam white in the ray,
And already the glory so
joyously
seeks
The lark that's saluting the day.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Obverse III 28-32
describes
Enkidu the slayer of lions and
panthers.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Falls there are a drug, and we became quite
dissipated
in respect to
them.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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p_ G) OG:
_seniore
copto_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Apollinax visited the United States
His
laughter
tinkled among the teacups.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Poets and
musicians
fight their battles best in the region of the
ideal.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Still, the
alacrity
with
which a Russian hostess will turn her house topsy-turvy for
the accommodation of forty or fifty guests would somewhat
astonish the mistress of a modern Belgravian mansion.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Was willst du so
vergebens
lodern?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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"
"I'll show the way,"
Blackmouth says; an' leads toward dawn of day,
Till they come straight out beside the brink
Of a precipice that seems to sink
Into
everlasting
gulfs below.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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God's kindly earth
Is
kindlier
than men know,
And the red rose would but blow more red,
The white rose whiter blow.
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Wilde - Poems |
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