--Il revait la prairie amoureuse, ou des houles
Lumineuses, parfums sains,
pubescences
d'or,
Font leur remuement calme et prennent leur essor!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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volunteers
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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If nine times you your
bridegroom
kiss,
The tenth you know the parson's is.
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Robert Herrick |
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"
Then a silence
suffuses
the story,
And a softness the teller's eye;
And the children no further question,
And only the waves reply.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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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 MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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"
And I must borrow every changing
find
expression
.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Already my spirit, longing for better ways,
Paces through my flesh, rebelliously,
And already brings the victim fuel to feed
His
immolation
in your vision's rays.
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Ronsard |
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*****
And the conditions force [the water and air]
Deeply to
penetrate
from the open sea,
And to out-blow abroad, and to up-bear
Thereby the flame, and to up-cast from deeps
The boulders, and to rear the clouds of sand.
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Lucretius |
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Surprised at trembling, though it was with cold,
Who ne'er had trembled out of fear, the veterans bold
Marched stern; to grizzled
moustache
hoarfrost clung
'Neath banners that in leaden masses hung.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Fresh as the first beam
glittering
on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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But peers beyond her mesh,
And wishes, and denies, --
Lest
interview
annul a want
That image satisfies.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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O shield our Caesar as he goes
To furthest Britain, and his band,
Rome's
harvest!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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while others of the human race
Die only once,
appointed
twice to die!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I'd earn more worth than any other,
If such a
nightgown
were given me
As Iseult handed to her lover,
For it was never worn, certainly.
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Troubador Verse |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Their long cries enter the blue clouds;
Their
flapping
wings tirelessly beat and throb.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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[Note 78: This touching scene
produced
a lasting impression on
Pushkin's mind.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
To whom the
hospitable
swain rejoins:
"Thy passion, prince, belies thy knowing mind.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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For their design is not to make love, or inspire it; they decorate
themselves
in this manner as they proceed to war, in order to seem taller and more terrible; and dress for the eyes of their enemies.
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Tacitus |
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Perhaps, if I the cup should hold awry,
The liquor out might on a sudden fly;
I'm sometimes awkward, and in case the cup
Should fancy me another, who would sup,
The error, doubtless, might unpleasant be:
To any thing but this I will agree,
To give you pleasure, Damon, so adieu;
Then Reynold from the
antlered
corps withdrew.
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La Fontaine |
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SCENE: The
Athenian
Ecclesia on the Pnyx; afterwards Dicaeopolis' house
in the country.
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Aristophanes |
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While in sweet cadence rising small and still
The far-off
minstrels
of the haunted hill,
As the last bleating of the fold expires,
Tune in the mountain dells their water lyres.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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It had been
declared
by an ancient
oracle that Nineveh could never be taken unless the river became an
enemy to the city.
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Byron |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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At noonday tumbled
Leaflets,
changing
with delight upon your lips,
And as you slept there played with you, bunches,
bushes,
Billows of roses.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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on thine:--thou wert my purer mind;
Thou wert the
inspiration
of my song; _10
Thine are these early wilding flowers,
Though garlanded by me.
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Shelley |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the changing breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks
pricking
us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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He poses as a person of
infinite leisure (which is what we should most like our friends to
possess) and free from worldly
ambitions
(which constitute the greatest
bars to friendship).
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"But I sent on my messenger,
With cunning arrows
poisonous
and keen,
To take forthwith her laughing life from her,
And dull her little een,
"And white her cheek, and still her breath,
Ere her too buoyant Hodge had reached her side;
So, when he came, he clasped her but in death,
And never as his bride.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
Then I: "But she, my only choice,
Is now at
Kingsbere
Grove?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Tout droit dans son armure, un grand homme de pierre
Se tenait a la barre et coupait le flot noir;
Mais le calme heros, courbe sur sa rapiere,
Regardait
le sillage et ne daignait rien voir.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Who 'll let me out some gala day,
With implements to fly away,
Passing
pomposity?
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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For the
transport
in their rhythm
Was the throb of thy desire,
And thy lyric moods shall quicken 35
Souls of lovers yet unborn.
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Sappho |
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Yet it remains one of the most characteristic
and
delightful
of Euripidean dramas, as well as, by modern standards, the
most easily actable.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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He spake no dream, for as his words had end,
Our Saviour lifting up his eyes beheld
In ample space under the broadest shade
A Table richly spred, in regal mode, 340
With dishes pil'd, and meats of noblest sort
And savour, Beasts of chase, or Fowl of game,
In pastry built, or from the spit, or boyl'd,
Gris-amber-steam'd; all Fish from Sea or Shore,
Freshet, or purling Brook, of shell or fin,
And
exquisitest
name, for which was drain'd
Pontus and Lucrine Bay, and Afric Coast.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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O, this world's
transience!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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John Finley and the
_Atlantic
Monthly_:--"The Road to Dieppe"; Mr.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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| Question: |
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Villon |
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WARD,
ADOLPHUS
WILLIAM.
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Had Lycius liv'd to hand his story down,
He might have given the moral a fresh frown,
Or clench'd it quite: but too short was their bliss
To breed
distrust
and hate, that make the soft voice hiss.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
'
And the Soul was a-tremble like as a new-born thing,
Till the spark of the dawn wrought a
conscience
in heart as in wing,
Saying, `Thou art the lark of the dawn; it is time to sing.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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The wasps flourish greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A
necklace
of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Forth they fared by the footpaths thence,
merry at heart the
highways
measured,
well-known roads.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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'My eye,
piercing
the reeds, speared each immortal
Neck that drowns its burning in the water
With a cry of rage towards the forest sky;
And the splendid bath of hair slipped by
In brightness and shuddering, O jewels!
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
It is one of
the few
passages
in Homer that must lie at the mercy of conjecture.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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When the enemies of Inez had
persuaded him that her death was
necessary
to the welfare of the state,
he took a journey to Coimbra, that he might see the lady, when the
prince, his son, was absent on a hunting party.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And she to that
answerde
him as hir leste;
And with hir goodly wordes him disporte
She gan, and ofte his sorwes to comforte.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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All the past we leave behind,
We debouch upon a newer
mightier
world, varied world,
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,
Pioneers!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Dehors le mur est plein d'aristoloches
Ou vibrent les
gencives
des lutins.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Their
children
cried, "O ma and pa!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
The
question
of the number, the character, and the length of the Notes,
which a wise editor should append to the works of a great poet, (or to
any classic), is perhaps still 'sub judice'.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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"
"How can you expect me to be
thinking?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The great Li Po is no
exception
to this rule.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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_est_) G ||
_pinguis_
TO: _pingues_ GR
et cett.
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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'308 painted child':
Hervey was
accustomed
to paint his face like a woman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
LIII
Art thou the top-most apple
The
gatherers
could not reach,
Reddening on the bough?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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In the beauty of poems are the tuft and final
applause
of science.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Songs of a Strolling Player
THROUGH the
blossoms
softly simmer
Drops profound and fair
Since the light-beams o'er them shimmer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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He built soon
after a house,
sometimes
railed the Saint's Rest, which still stands in
Ipswich on the slope of Heart-break Hill, close by Labour-in-vain Creek.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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That
sightless
are those orbs of hers?
| 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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Are they
conspiring
to cause me inner pain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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O weary fa' the
waukrife
cock,
And the foumart lay his crawin!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
For the heart of man must seek and wander, 5
Ask and question and
discover
knowledge;
Yet above all goodly things is wisdom,
And love greater than all understanding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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A drop of blood, as if athwart a dream,
Fell on the shroud, and
reddened
his right hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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From Kelso town I took the road
By the full-flood Tweed;
The black clouds swept across the moon
With
devouring
greed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
You'll have five
lectures
every day;
Be in at the stroke of the bell I pray!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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But, close behind,
I heard a voice, which, like the western wind,
That whispers softly through the summer shade,
These solemn accents to mine ear convey'd:--
"Man is a falling flower; and Fame in vain
Strives to protract his momentaneous reign
Beyond his bounds, to match the rolling tide,
On whose dread waves the long olympiads ride,
Till, fed by time, the deep
procession
grows,
And in long centuries continuous flows;
For what the power of ages can oppose?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Chorus--O why should Fate sic pleasure have,
Life's dearest bands
untwining?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And the Banker,
inspired
with a courage so new
It was matter for general remark,
Rushed madly ahead and was lost to their view
In his zeal to discover the Snark.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
org),
you must, at no
additional
cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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THIS compliment was followed by his sighs,
And frank confession, both from tongue and eyes;
Our lover far in little time could go;
At length, he offered on her to bestow,
His hand and heart, and ev'ry thing beside,
Which custom
sanctions
when we seek a bride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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"O ye, whom wrath
consumes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
--Essays on the
patriotic
side will fetch no more than what
the copy is sold for.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
So late from Heaven--that dew--it fell
(Mid dreams of an unholy night)
Upon me--with the touch of Hell,
While the red flashing of the light
From clouds that hung, like banners, o'er,
Appeared
to my half-closing eye
The pageantry of monarchy,
And the deep trumpet-thunder's roar
Came hurriedly upon me, telling
Of human battle, where my voice,
My own voice, silly child!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
XXXIV
=Song=
Who can say
Why To-day
To-morrow will be
yesterday?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
<
Virgilio
se ne vada,
non pianger anco, non piangere ancora;
che pianger ti conven per altra spada>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Pinckney
to have been born too far south.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Ach, die
Erinnrung
totet mich
Vergab sie mir nur noch in diesem Leben!
| Guess: |
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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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It is
unnecessary
to
say that I seized the first favourable opportunity to resume my
interrupted proposal, and this time Marya heard me more patiently.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
The long _u_ is
due to analogy with _namassu_ a
Sumerian
loan-word with nisbe ending.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Let me lay lance in rest, O noble host,
For this dear child, because I never saw,
Though having seen all beauties of our time,
Nor can see elsewhere,
anything
so fair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Omar Khayyam was born at
Naishapur
in Khorassan in the latter half of
our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth
Century.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The lady sprang up suddenly,
The lovely lady,
Christabel!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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[707] Scaphephoros, bearer of the vases
containing
the honey required for
the sacrifices.
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Aristophanes |
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A story born out of the dreaming eyes
And crazy brain and
credulous
ears of famine.
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Yeats |
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'99-112'
In this famous passage Pope shows how the belief in immortality is found
even among the most
ignorant
tribes.
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Alexander Pope |
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Mild zephyrs waft thee to life's farthest shore,
Nor think of me and my
distress
more,--
Falsehood accurst!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The white dew wets the moor-grasses,--
With sudden
swiftness
the times and seasons change.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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--The puffing gale of morn,
That of its charms divests the dewy lawn,
And robs each
floweret
of its gem,--and dies;
A cobweb hiding disappointment's thorn,
Which stings more keenly through the thin disguise.
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John Clare |
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That the English-
speaking public may gain at any rate some faint idea
of his genius, it has been my joyous task to translate
the
following
small selection of his works.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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