Yet but awhile the slumbering weather flings
Its murky prison round--then winds wake loud;
With sudden stir the startled forest sings
Winter's
returning
song-cloud races cloud.
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John Clare |
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--Je rentre dans la foule
Dans la grande canaille
effroyable
qui roule,
Sire, tes vieux canons sur les sales paves;
--Oh!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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THE PANTHER
His weary glance, from passing by the bars,
Has grown into a dazed and vacant stare;
It seems to him there are a
thousand
bars
And out beyond those bars the empty air.
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Rilke - Poems |
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At length the summer's
eternity
is ushered in by the cackle of the
flicker among the oaks on the hillside, and a new dynasty begins with
calm security.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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A LITTLE BOY LOST
"Nought loves another as itself,
Nor venerates another so,
Nor is it
possible
to thought
A greater than itself to know.
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blake-poems |
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Why fall the Sparrow & the Robin in the
foodless
winter?
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Blake - Zoas |
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And thence,
Rejected down the abhorring steeps, man's life
Is wasted in this country, set to run
A blind, ignorant, unremembered course,
Treading with hopeless feet of griev'd waters
Unending unblest spaces, the
shameful
road
Of dirt thickening into slime its flow,
An insane weather driving.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates
the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Yet, though he ate and
drank and sang with Jacobites, he was only as far as sympathy and
poesie went, of their number: his reason renounced the principles and
the religion of the Stuart line; and though he shed a tear over their
fallen fortunes--though he sympathized with the brave and honourable
names that perished in their cause--though he cursed "the butcher,
Cumberland," and the bloody spirit which commanded the heads of the
good and the heroic to be stuck where they would affright the
passer-by, and pollute the air--he had no desire to see the splendid
fabric of
constitutional
freedom, which the united genius of all
parties had raised, thrown wantonly down.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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And if to miss were merry,
And if to mourn were gay,
How very blithe the fingers
That
gathered
these to-day!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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XXXV
No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done:
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud:
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And
loathsome
canker lives in sweetest bud.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The man who regards his past is a man who
deserves
to have no future to
look forward to.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Was fasst mich fur ein
Wonnegraus!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Ah, what
slaughter
awaits the wretched Laurentines!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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or shall I leave
Woman amid these
hungers?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Dann sammelt sich der Jugend schonste Blute
Vor eurem Spiel und lauscht der Offenbarung,
Dann sauget jedes
zartliche
Gemute
Aus eurem Werk sich melanchol'sche Nahrung,
Dann wird bald dies, bald jenes aufgeregt
Ein jeder sieht, was er im Herzen tragt.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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BEQUEATHED
CARE, the charge intrusted to thee (by Una).
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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XXXI _AD SIRMIVM
INSVLAM_
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
Whereupon
a million strove to answer him.
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| Question: |
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Stephen Crane |
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We have no friends spiked on the
Scottish
Gate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Tout son
dandysme
fut fait de ce splendide isolement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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REPLACEMENT
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defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Perchance where Dunia pours out tea
The young
proprietor
we find;
To Dunia then they whisper: Mind!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Fine was the mitigated fury, like
Apollo's
presence
when in act to strike
The serpent--Ha, the serpent!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Turmoil grown visible beneath our peace,
And we that are grown
formless
rise above, Fluids intangible that have been men,
We seem as statues round whose high risen base Some overflowing river is run mad;
In us alone the element of calm !
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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' thought he, `Thus wole I seye and thus;
Thus wole I pleyne unto my lady dere;
That word is good, and this shal be my chere;
This nil I not
foryeten
in no wyse.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Contributions to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent permitted by
U.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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His wife, Alcestis, though no blood
relation,
handsomely
undertook it and died.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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| Question: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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From that time he
considered
himself the
dupe of his generous ideas .
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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'
And always use, in answering,
The phrase 'Your Royal
Whiteness!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Glamys, and Thane of Cawdor:
The
greatest
is behinde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Thus, when
perforce
the bridle he has won,
And helpless at his mercy I remain,
Against my will he speeds me to mine end
'Neath yon cold laurel, whose false boughs upon
Hangs the harsh fruit, which, tasted, spreads the pain
I sought to stay, and mars where it should mend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Boyd was no writer of
"fluent verse," though he published an unimportant volume, and the
literary
sympathies
of the friends were exclusively bestowed on Greek.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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LVIII
That god forbid, that made me first your slave,
I should in thought control your times of pleasure,
Or at your hand the account of hours to crave,
Being your vassal, bound to stay your
leisure!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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When health is all used up, when money goes,
When courage cracks and leaves a
shattered
will,
Then Christianity begins.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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SIEBEL (indem sich
Mephistopheles
seinem Platze nahert):
Ich muss gestehn, den sauern mag ich nicht,
Gebt mir ein Glas vom echten sussen!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you
something
different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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He then goes to bathe,
and is attended by Euryclea, who discovers him to be Ulysses by
the scar upon his leg, which he
formerly
received in hunting the
wild boar on Parnassus.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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"
Was the friend Sir James
Mackintosh?
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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We look thru the miles of air,
The cold blue miles between us and the city,
Over the edge of
eternity
we look
On all the lights,
A thousand times more numerous than the stars;
Oh lines and loops of light in unwound chains
That mark for miles and miles
The vast black mazy cobweb of the streets;
Near us clusters and splashes of living gold
That change far off to bluish steel
Where the fragile lights on the Jersey shore
Tremble like drops of wind-stirred dew.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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"
"Not so," said Boston, "good my lord,
We pay your governors here
Abundant for their bed and board,
Six
thousand
pounds a year.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
,
_victorious
warrior troop_: dat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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On it,
whatsoever
it were, I cast myself; it is
enough to have escaped the accursed tribe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Too well I know it is a
timeless
rite
Over a finished thing that cannot change!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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The apron's vertical long flow
Warped grandly
outwards
to display
His hale, round belly hung midway,
Whose apex was securely bound
With apron-strings wrapped round and round.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
The Battle of the Lake Regillus
The following poem is
supposed
to have been produced about ninety
years after the lay of Horatius.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Never mind my bruises,
Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices
Squeezed
from goblin fruits for you,
Goblin pulp and goblin dew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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have we gone forth
And borne to distant tribes slavery and pangs,
And,
deadlier
far, our vices, whose deep taint
With slow perdition murders the whole man,
His body and his soul!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Let us roll all our strength and all
Our
sweetness
up into one ball.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
les migrations plus enormes que les
anciennes
invasions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
He read and wondered--he warmed his fancy at their
flame, he corrected his own natural taste by theirs, but he neither
copied nor imitated, and there are but two or three allusions to Young
and
Shakspeare
in all the range of his verse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Often a hidden god
inhabits
obscure being;
And like an eye, born, covered by its eyelids,
Pure spirit grows beneath the surface of stones!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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O pearls that hang on your little silver chains, The innumerable voices that are whispering
Among you as you are drawn aside by the wind, Have brought to my mind the soft and eager speech Of one who hath great loveliness,
Which is subtle as the beauty of the rains That hang low in the
moonshine
and bring
The May softly among us, and unbind
The streams and the crimson and white flowers and
reach
Deep down into the secret places.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Never the treasures in her nest
The cautious grave exposes,
Building where
schoolboy
dare not look
And sportsman is not bold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
(he cries;)
Can these lean shrivell'd limbs,
unnerved
with age,
These poor but honest rags, enkindle rage?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
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 |
|
Paradiso
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
To Da and Bao were
attributed
the fall of the Shang ( Yin) and Western Zhou respectively.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
I can be as mawkish as I choose
And give my
thoughts
an airing, let them loose
For one last rambling stroll before--Now look!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Carven ivory have I none;
No golden cornice in my
dwelling
shines;
Pillars choice of Libyan stone
Upbear no architrave from Attic mines;
'Twas not mine to enter in
To Attalus' broad realms, an unknown heir,
Nor for me fair clients spin
Laconian purples for their patron's wear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Now,
farewell
Gawayne the noble!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
The family
returned
to
Europe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
But take it: if the smack is sour,
The better for the
embittered
hour;
It should do good to heart and head
When your soul is in my soul's stead;
And I will friend you, if I may,
In the dark and cloudy day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
From salty spray
The brown tint of his glowing cheek still rough;
Fruit quickly ripe,
'Neath foreign suns in
scorching
airs and heat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
See, the juice is
scarcely
dried
On the fine skin!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
'Tis improper to struggle,
thou whose father hath handed thee o'er, that father
together
with thy
mother to whom obedience is needed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
be it weeks, months, or years, an arm'd race is
advancing
to
welcome it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
He heareth not, he
stirreth
not, be moveth not;
The ape is dead, and I must conjure him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Long conversations she could rarely get,
And various obstacles the lovers met;
No interviews where they might be at ease,
But ev'ry thing
conspired
to fret and teaze.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
But never more will any see
The old secure felicity,
The
kindnesses
that made us glad
Before the world went mad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
The maister lesith his tyme to lere,
Whan the
disciple
wol not here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
The warders
stripped
him of his clothes,
And gave him to the flies:
They mocked the swollen purple throat,
And the stark and staring eyes:
And with laughter loud they heaped the shroud
In which the convict lies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Far on in this interval
he is found planning for leisure to work out in romance
the story of that savage insurrection of the French peasantry,
which the Chronicles of Froissart had
impressed
upon his boyish imagination.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
He needs not, he heeds not,
Or human love or hate;
Whilst I here must cry here
At perfidy
ingrate!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Male he created thee, but thy consort
Femal for Race; then bless'd Mankinde, and said, 530
Be fruitful, multiplie, and fill the Earth,
Subdue it, and
throughout
Dominion hold
Over Fish of the Sea, and Fowle of the Aire,
And every living thing that moves on the Earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Ye were yet within
The narrower circle; he had well nigh reached
The last, with which a region of white flame,
Pure without heat, into a larger air
Upburning, and an ether of black hue,
Investeth
and ingirds all other lives.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
And poets found, old writers say,
A yew tree where his body lay;
But a wild apple hid the grass
With its sweet blossom where hers was;
And being in good heart, because
A better time had come again
After the deaths of many men,
And that long
fighting
at the ford,
They wrote on tablets of thin board,
Made of the apple and the yew,
All the love stories that they knew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
So many
hurrying
home--
And thou still away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
--The nautical
terms in Beowulf would form an
interesting
study.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
They had found out, at least, the great
military
secret that soul weighs
more than body.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
A singularity we needs must own,
With this the wife was long
familiar
grown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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In al this world ther nis so cruel herte
That hir hadde herd compleynen in hir sorwe,
That nolde han wopen for hir peynes smerte,
So
tendrely
she weep, bothe eve and morwe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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AEGISTHUS
I will follow to
chastise
thee in my coming days of sway.
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Aeschylus |
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O, so
unnatural
Nature,
You whose ephemeral flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
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Ronsard |
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Ididnotknow
One half the substance of his speech with me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Rising from unrest,
The
trembling
woman pressed
With feet of weary woe;
She could no further go.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Believe me, it's enough to quench your fires:
He's
punished
who loses what he desires.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Still in marble stone stood he,
And
stedfastly
he looked at me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Stephen Crane |
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Strange that the feet so
precious
charged
Should reach so small a goal!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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They never leave, down all its patient way,
To meddle with its waters, till they be sour
As venom, salt as weeping, foully ailing
With foreign evil,--all the sort of desires
Whoring the
shuddering
life unto their lust.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Sing on, sweet thrush, upon the
leafless
bough,
Sing on, sweet bird, I listen to thy strain,
See aged Winter, 'mid his surly reign,
At thy blythe carol, clears his furrowed brow.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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