The broken
fingernails
of dirty hands.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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But even in the middle of his song
He faltered, and his hand fell from the harp,
And pale he turned, and reeled, and would have fallen,
But that they stayed him up; nor would he tell
His vision; but what doubt that he foresaw
This evil work of
Lancelot
and the Queen?
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Tennyson |
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"I never saw aught like to them
"Unless
perchance
it were
"The skeletons of leaves that lag
"My forest brook along:
"When the Ivy-tod is heavy with snow,
"And the Owlet whoops to the wolf below
"That eats the she-wolf's young.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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They had paid a thousand men,
Yet they formed and came again,
For they heard the silver bugles
sounding
challenge to their pride,
And they rode with swords agleam
For the glory of a dream,
And they stormed up to the cannon's mouth and withered there, and
died.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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But the use of animal flesh and fermented liquors
directly
militates
with this equality of the rights of man.
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Shelley |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Love came to me as comes a cruel sun,
That on some rain-drenched morning, when the leaves
Are bowed beneath their
clinging
weight of drops,
Tears through the mist, and burns with fervent heat
The tender grasses and the meadow flowers;
Then suddenly the heavy clouds close in
And through the dark the thunder's muttering
Is drowned amid the dashing of the rain.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Attend, and speedy thou shalt pass the main:
Nigh where a grove with verdant poplars crown'd,
To Pallas sacred, shades the holy ground,
We bend our way; a bubbling fount distills
A lucid lake, and thence descends in rills;
Around the grove, a mead with lively green
Falls by degrees, and forms a beauteous scene;
Here a rich juice the royal
vineyard
pours;
And there the garden yields a waste of flowers.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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'Tis there that Agathon, the
celebrated
tragic poet,
dwells.
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Aristophanes |
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ON
LITERARY
BORROWING
If you would make a common theme your own,
Dwell not on incidents already known;
Nor word for word translate with painful care,
Nor be confined in such a narrow sphere.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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But Lilia pleased me, for she took no part
In our dispute: the sequel of the tale
Had touched her; and she sat, she plucked the grass,
She flung it from her, thinking: last, she fixt
A showery glance upon her aunt, and said,
'You--tell us what we are' who might have told,
For she was crammed with theories out of books,
But that there rose a shout: the gates were closed
At sunset, and the crowd were
swarming
now,
To take their leave, about the garden rails.
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Tennyson |
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]
ADMETUS (_steadily
refusing
to look_).
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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As children bid the guest good-night,
And then reluctant turn,
My flowers raise their pretty lips,
Then put their
nightgowns
on.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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goes on
thus: "And also the said Baldewyn, the said first yere of your noble
reign, at
Bristowe
in the shere of Bristowe, before Henry Erle of
Essex William Hastyngs of Hastyngs Knt.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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At last he comes to the notice of
Gilgamish
himself, who is
shocked by the newly acquired manner of Enkidu.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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They returned hand-in-hand, and the Bellman, unmanned
(For a moment) with noble emotion,
Said "This amply repays all the
wearisome
days
We have spent on the billowy ocean!
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| Question: |
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Lewis Carroll |
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ere was
establissed
or cried greuous
{and} inplitable coempciou{n} ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The same as of yore
All that has
happened
once again must be.
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Rilke - Poems |
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But my son is young
And
reckless
in his youth, and heedeth not
The warnings of my mouth.
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Aeschylus |
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e fraude hadde
ben schewed
ap{er}tly
if I hadde had libertee forto han vsed {and} ben
at ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of Jamaica,
Who
suddenly
married a Quaker;
But she cried out, "Oh, lack!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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that she
The common fate of all things rare
May read in thee:
How small a part of time they share
That are so
wondrous
sweet and fair!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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The
helpless
worm arose and sat upon the Lillys leaf,
And the bright Cloud saild on, to find his partner in the vale.
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blake-poems |
|
I have spoken of the philosopher in his
capacity
of _restaurateur_.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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For wel thow wost, my leve brother dere,
That alwey
freendes
may nought been y-fere.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
'
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 |
|
SAS}
Luvah & Vala
trembling
& shrinking, beheld the great Work master {According to Erdman, the first rendition of the line read "beheld the lord of ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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To Marc Chagall
Donkey or cow,
cockerel
or horse
On to the skin of a violin
A singing man a single bird
An agile dancer with his wife
A couple drenched in their youth
The gold of the grass lead of the sky
Separated by azure flames
Of the health-giving dew
The blood glitters the heart rings
A couple the first reflection
And in a cellar of snow
The opulent vine draws
A face with lunar lips
That never slept at night.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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It makes no difference abroad,
The seasons fit the same,
The
mornings
blossom into noons,
And split their pods of flame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
This disconcerted us so greatly that we thought it
advisable
to vary the
attack to Metaphysics.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Alcools, by Guillaume Apollinaire
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And near a
waterless
stream the piteous swan
Opened his beak, and bathing in the dust
His nervous wings, he cried (his heart the while
Filled with a vision of his own fair lake):
"O water, when then wilt thou come in rain?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
ULYSSES:
The strength of
tempests
bore me here by force.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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le larron de gauche dans la bourrasque
Rira de toi comme
hennissent
les chevaux
FEMME
Larron des fruits tourne vers moi tes yeux lyriques
Emplissez de noix la besace du heros
Il est plus noble que le paon pythagorique
Le dauphin la vipere male ou le taureau
CHOEUR
Ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Famed was this Beowulf: {0a} far flew the boast of him,
son of Scyld, in the
Scandian
lands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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He gazed upon the sleeping sea,
And joyed in its tranquillity,
And in that silence dead, but she
To muse a little space did seem,
Then, like the echo of a dream,
Harped back upon her
threadbare
theme.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
With honest fervour I commend
Those lips, those eyes; you need not fear
A rival,
hurrying
on to end
His fortieth year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
The voice of Saint John,
The beloved disciple,
Who
wandered
and waited
The Master's appearance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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For, in unwonted purlieus, far and nigh,
At whiles or short or long,
May be
discerned
a wrong
Dying as of self-slaughter; whereat I
Would raise my voice in song.
| 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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TO HIS
HONOURED
KINSMAN, SIR RICHARD STONE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
CHANGE
I am that
creature
and creator who
Loosens and reins the waters of the sea,
Forming the rocky marge anon anew.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Tu
compterais
dans tes lits
Plus de baisers que de lys
Et rangerais sous tes lois
Plus d'un Valois!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
240
As when a flyghte of cranes, that takes their waie
In householde armies thro the flanched skie,
Alike the cause, or
companie
or prey,
If that perchaunce some boggie fenne is nie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Why, untamed do you scare
At any
approach
you see?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
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who will
contribute
to
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But you, O
friends!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Lassie, say thou lo'es me;
Or if thou wilt no be my ain,
Say na thou'lt refuse me:
If it winna, canna be,
Thou, for thine may choose me,
Let me, lassie, quickly die,
Trusting
that thou lo'es me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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49
Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows 50
There were no ruins, neither fragments 51
In sorrow day and night the disciple watched 52
Sunlight slantingly flows 53
The wild resplendence of the year resolves 54
Doth live for thee again, Beloved that
October?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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But to win
A
princess!
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Euripides - Electra |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
Asked the Bedouin chief, the poet Antar;--
"Who unto the truth flings open our gates,
Or
fashions
new thoughts from the light of a star;
Or forges with craft of his finger and brain
Some marvelous weapon we copy in vain;
Or chants to the winds a wild song that shall
wander forever undying?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Here on my breast flows her hair, an
abundance
of curls, while her head rests,
Pressing my arm as it's bent, so as to pillow her neck.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Bolingbroke's views were for that time
distinctly
heterodox, and, if
logically developed, led to complete agnosticism.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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It is the
conformity
of life,
of the conditions and the fate of the land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Darkness again the wood investeth,
The moon midst clouds is seen to sail,
And once more on the margin resteth
The maiden
beautiful
and pale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Who are you, lying in his place on the bed
And rigid and
indifferent
to me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
But should any dream of licence, there's a lesson may be read,
How 'twas wine that drove the Centaurs with the
Lapithae
to fight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
End of Project Gutenberg's Helen of Troy and Other Poems, by Sara Teasdale
*** END OF THIS PROJECT
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***** This file should be named 400.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Again I knocked; and tardily
An inner step was heard,
And I was shown her
presence
then
With scarce an answering word.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
On a Dead Lady
She was beautiful, if Night
Who sleeps in the
darkened
chapel
Where Michelangelo made light,
Unmoving, can be beautiful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
At last the dead man walked no more
Amongst the Trial Men,
And I knew that he was
standing
up
In the black dock's dreadful pen,
And that never would I see his face
In God's sweet world again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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_As when a lion, rushing from his den,
Amidst the plain of some wide-water'd fen,_
(_Where num'rous oxen, as at ease they feed,
At large expatiate o'er the ranker mead_;)
_Leaps on the herds before the herdsman's eyes:
The
trembling
herdsman far to distance flies:
Some lordly bull_ (_the rest dispers'd and fled_)
_He singles out, arrests, and lays him dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
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of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Such is an old tramp wandering in the mire,
Dreaming
the paradise of his own desire,
Discovering cities of enchanted sleep
Where'er the light shines on a rubbish heap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
one by one, by sword
And
ravenous
plague, all perished: every tear
Dried up, despairing, desolate, on board
A British ship I waked, as from a trance restored.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Act IV Scene V (The King, Diegue, Arias, Alonso, Sanche, Chimene, Elvire)
King
Be content
Chimene, victory answers your intent:
Though Rodrigue
overcame
our enemies
He died before our eyes from wounds received.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
And whether the journeying moon illuminate
The regions round with bastard beams, or throw
From off her proper body her own light,--
Whichever
it be, she journeys with a form
Naught larger than the form doth seem to be
Which we with eyes of ours perceive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Tu te plais a plonger au sein de ton image;
Tu l'embrasses des yeux et des bras, et ton coeur
Se distrait quelquefois de sa propre rumeur
Au bruit de cette plainte
indomptable
et sauvage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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erinne oure lord was ybore; in
Bethleem
iwis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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What
blessedness
mortals may know!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
"
So I invoked the three in a loud voice, offering to dishonour myself as
often as necessary to obtain their favours; but I had without doubt too
deeply
offended
them, for they have never returned.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
375
While, at each change, the son of Libyan Jove
Now burns with glory, and then melts with love,
Now his fierce eyes with
sparkling
fury glow,
Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow:
Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, 380
And the world's victor stood subdu'd by Sound!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky
And the
affrighted
steed ran on alone,
Do not weep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
"
I argued for a while,
And did my best to prove the thing--
The Phantom merely listening
With a
contemptuous
smile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Hate hath
vanished
in the air!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
where man
May gaze on ghastly trophies of the slain,
Nor blush for those who conquered on that plain;
Here
Burgundy
bequeathed his tombless host,
A bony heap, through ages to remain,
Themselves their monument;--the Stygian coast
Unsepulchred they roamed, and shrieked each wandering ghost.
| 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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Index of First Lines
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
The anemone and flower that weeps
The angels the angels in the sky
I've gathered this sprig of heather
The strollers in the plain
My gipsy beau my lover
The gypsy knew in advance
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
Autumn ill and adored
The room is free
Our story's noble as its tragic
Love is dead within your arms
In the evening light that's faded
You've not surprised my secret yet
Evening falls and in the garden
You descended through the water clear
O my
abandoned
youth is dead
Admire the vital power
From magic Thrace, O delerium!
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Appoloinaire |
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Miss
Dickinson
was born in Amherst, Mass.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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ālǣtan
lǣn-dagas (_die_)
2592; so, ālǣtan līf and lēodscipe, 2751.
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Beowulf |
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The ancient Mariner earnestly
entreateth
the Hermit to shrieve him; and the
penance of life falls on him.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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O lover, in this radiant world
Whence is the race of mortal men, 10
So frail, so mighty, and so fond,
That fleets into the vast
unknown?
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Sappho |
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Yet is it true,
That as ofttimes but ill accords the form
To the design of art, through sluggishness
Of unreplying matter, so this course
Is sometimes quitted by the creature, who
Hath power, directed thus, to bend elsewhere;
As from a cloud the fire is seen to fall,
From its
original
impulse warp'd, to earth,
By vicious fondness.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Timotheus
placed on high
Amid the tuneful quire
With flying fingers touch'd the lyre:
The trembling notes ascend the sky
And heavenly joys inspire.
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Golden Treasury |
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Passion and love and longing and hot tears
Consume this mortal Sappho, and too soon
A great wind from the dark will blow upon me,
And I be no more found in the fair world,
For all the search of the
revolving
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And patient shine of everlasting stars.
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Sappho |
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The weather was tempestuous, and on
reaching
the river's side, accompanied by Mr.
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Marvell - Poems |
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His father slew Troy's
thousands
in their pride;
He hath but one to kill.
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Euripides - Electra |
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--my thoughts do twine and bud
About thee, as wild vines, about a tree,
Put out broad leaves, and soon there's nought to see
Except the
straggling
green which hides the wood.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Rejoice: forever you'll be
The Princess of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a
gurgling
spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
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Ronsard |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Horribly
beautiful!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Latin - Catullus |
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
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!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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