I have not followed
original
spacing exactly, except where it genuinely appears to add impact to the verse.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"
"What
rascals?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Gradually
he
calmed down, though he still grumbled from time to time, shaking his
head--
"A hundred roubles, it is easy to talk!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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at a
comloker
kny3t neuer Kryst made,
hem ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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*
Why is the light of [[Vala]]
Enitharmon
darken'd in her dewy morn *
Why is the silence of [[Vala lightning]] Enitharmon a Cloud terror & her smile a whirlwind *
Uttering this darkness in my halls, in the pillars of my Holy-ones
Why dost thou weep [[O]] as Vala?
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Blake - Zoas |
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' This drew from the connoisseur
one of the
politest
letters[6] that have been written in English, in
which the simple and elegant sentences expressed with a very charming
courtesy the interest and curiosity of its author.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I know the grass
Must grow somewhere along this
Thracian
coast, If only he would come some little while and find
it me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Tennyson |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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One sees it must indeed own the riches
of the summer and winter, and need never be
bankrupt
while corn grows from
the ground, or the orchards drop apples, or the bays contain fish, or men
beget children.
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Whitman |
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1010
Les cheveus ot blons et si lons
Qu'il li
batoient
as talons;
Nez ot bien fait, et yelx et bouche.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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See them,
sounding
the flood that floats them on,
Moving their sides like human forms.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Quivi venimmo; e quindi giu nel fosso
vidi gente
attuffata
in uno sterco
che da li uman privadi parea mosso.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something
must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer
cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler
architectural
order, of
some aesthetic quality at any rate.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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She to delay her death awhile essayed,
Until she pity moved with
mournful
mien.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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What hast thou to do
With looking from the lattice-lights at me,
A poor, tired,
wandering
singer, singing through
The dark, and leaning up a cypress tree?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Meredith - Poems |
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A number of personal references are best pursued by reading a biography of Nerval, of his early meeting with 'Adrienne' and later
relationship
with the actress Jenny Colon.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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* * * * *
The
background
against which the figure of Rainer Maria Rilke is
silhouetted is so varied, the influences which have entered into his
life are so manifold, that a study of his work, however slight, must
needs take into consideration the elements through which this poet has
matured into a great master.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"'Tis not the queen of hell who thee deceives;
All, all are such, when life the body leaves:
No more the substance of the man remains,
Nor bounds the blood along the purple veins:
These the
funereal
flames in atoms bear,
To wander with the wind in empty air:
While the impassive soul reluctant flies,
Like a vain dream, to these infernal skies.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Through the
straight
pass of suffering
The martyrs even trod,
Their feet upon temptation,
Their faces upon God.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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'And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my
brothers
more?
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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O the cursed
tormentors!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Two things--a
portrait
and a map there were--
Here hung the pictured world, an infant there:
That framed his genius, this enshrined his love.
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
Immediate
Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Still through the ivy flits the bee
Where Amaryllis lies in state;
O Singer of
Persephone!
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Wilde - Poems |
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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.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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For thrice three hundred years the full parade
Files past, a
cavalcade
of fear and wonder.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I answer'd thee in
*thunder
deep *Be Sether ragnam.
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Milton |
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Harmless and silent as the
pestilence!
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Longfellow |
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Under the
Sultanate of Malik Shah, he came to Merv, and
obtained
great praise
for his proficiency in science, and the Sultan showered favors upon
him.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Hauksbee
to me--she looked a trifle faded and jaded in
the lamplight: "Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a
clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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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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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"Here, silent as thou art, I know thy doubt;
And gladly will I loose the knot, wherein
Thy subtle
thoughts
have bound thee.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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--
The
loveliest
vision of a woman!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Greetings, in pale
libation
and madness,
Don't think to some hope of magic corridors I offer
My empty cup, where a monster of gold suffers!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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These fellows are but
thoughts
of mine; my whole
Army, that treads down all the earth and breaks
The banks of fending rivers into marsh,
Is nought but my forth-going imagination.
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Her lamp has fallen; her eyes are wet;
Frozen she stands, she lingers yet;
But through the garden's gladness steals
A whisper that each heart congeals--
A moan of grieving
Beyond relieving,
Which makes the
proudest
of them shiver.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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veil your
deathless
tree, --
Him you chasten, that is he!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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qu'on ne sache plus si c'est
bataille
ou danse!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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One sea-gull, paired with a shadow, wheels, wheels;
Circles the lonely ship by wave and trough;
Lets down his feet, strikes at the
breaking
water,
Draws up his golden feet, beats wings, and rises
Over the mast.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
But Psyche, uplifting her finger,
Said--"Sadly this star I mistrust--
Her pallor I
strangely
mistrust--
Ah, hasten!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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e iles of
Anglesay
on lyft half he halde3,
& fare3 ouer ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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High-bounding o'er the fosse, the whirling car
Smokes through the ranks, o'ertakes the flying war,
And thunders after Hector; Hector flies,
Patroclus
shakes his lance; but fate denies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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And sholde I preye, and weyve
womanhede?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
However much
The trunk be mangled, with the limbs lopped off,
The soul
withdrawn
and taken from the limbs,
Still lives the trunk and draws the vital air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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It happened that Vibius Crispus,[224] a man whose wealth,
influence, and ability had won him a reputation that was great rather
than good, had impeached before the senate a man of equestrian rank,
called Annius Faustus, who had been a professional
informer
under
Nero.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
April is the
cruellest
month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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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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Dead is Aeschere,
of Yrmenlaf the elder brother,
my sage adviser and stay in council,
shoulder-comrade in stress of fight
when
warriors
clashed and we warded our heads,
hewed the helm-boars; hero famed
should be every earl as Aeschere was!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
I weave a web of fancies
Of tears and
darkness
spun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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She
prefaced
half a hint of this
With, "God forbid it should be true!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And who are you whom my
misfortunes
have
moved to pity?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
"Upon hearing of your duel and wound your mother fell ill with sorrow,
and she is still
confined
to her bed.
| 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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Thy soul was
generous
and
mild, like the hour of the setting sun.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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It is impossible not to regret that Moore has written so little in this
sweet and
genuinely
national style.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Whiles the hero his harp bestirred,
wood-of-delight; now lays he chanted
of sooth and sadness, or said aright
legends of wonder, the wide-hearted king;
or for years of his youth he would yearn at times,
for
strength
of old struggles, now stricken with age,
hoary hero: his heart surged full
when, wise with winters, he wailed their flight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Comrades, known by faith the clearest,
Tried when death was near and nearest,
Bound we are by ties the dearest,
Brothers
evermore
to be.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Naught see I
permanent
or sure in thee!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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And as one sees most fearful things
In the crystal of a dream,
We saw the greasy hempen rope
Hooked to the blackened beam,
And heard the prayer the hangman's snare
Strangled
into a scream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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[90]
With restless
interchange
at once the bright
Wins on the shade, the shade upon the light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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On the cairn are fixed her eyes
Where her
murdered
father lies,
And a voice remote and drear
She seems to hear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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So all my spirit fills
With pleasure infinite,
And all the
feathered
wings of rest
Seem flocking from the radiant West
To bear me thro' the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Not of adamant and gold
Built he heaven stark and cold;
No, but a nest of bending reeds,
Flowering grass and scented weeds;
Or like a traveller's fleeing tent,
Or bow above the tempest bent;
Built of tears and sacred flames,
And virtue
reaching
to its aims;
Built of furtherance and pursuing,
Not of spent deeds, but of doing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
When all the children sleep
She turns as long away
As will suffice to light her lamps;
Then, bending from the sky
With infinite affection
And
infiniter
care,
Her golden finger on her lip,
Wills silence everywhere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Well, so be it,
charming
people!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
To either maid wished well that
youthful
knight;
For both were loved, but not alike were dear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
With one and twenty sail he
attacked
fifty-four large galleys of
the Moors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
You've stolen away that great power
My beauty ordained for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was
abandoned
readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Yet here the farmer drove his cart,
Here
friendly
folk would meet and pass,
Here bore the good wife eggs to mart
And old and young walked up to Mass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
XXXIII
Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the
mountain
tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
With ugly rack on his celestial face,
And from the forlorn world his visage hide,
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:
Even so my sun one early morn did shine,
With all triumphant splendour on my brow;
But out!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Flame passes under us
and sparks that unknot the flesh,
sorrow, splitting bone from bone,
splendour athwart our eyes
and rifts in the splendour,
sparks and
scattered
light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Don Sanche suits her choice, and he'll suffice
Since this duel will be the first he fights;
His lack of experience pleases her;
Since he lacks renown she lacks all fear;
And her calm reveals to us readily
She seeks a duel to
discharge
her duty,
One that will give Rodrigue swift victory,
And render him no more her enemy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Harmless and silent as the
pestilence!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Black is night's cope;
But death will not appal
One who, past
doubtings
all,
Waits in unhope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
In
punishment
no terror lies; the terror
Doth lie in thy disfavour; in thy presence
Dare I use cunning?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
And while they wept,
they looked out into the distance and saw the deep
mountain
of Tsang-wu.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Then this insult touches me, the honour
Of one whom I have made my son's tutor;
To contest my choice, is to
challenge
me,
Make an assault upon the power supreme.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
Came, as through
bubbling
honey, for Love's sake,
And thus; while Hermes on his pinions lay,
Like a stoop'd falcon ere he takes his prey.
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Keats |
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WANDERING SINGERS
(Written to one of their Tunes)
Where the voice of the wind calls our
wandering
feet,
Through echoing forest and echoing street,
With lutes in our hands ever-singing we roam,
All men are our kindred, the world is our home.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A man who thus twice
crucifies
his God
May well .
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Shelley |
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But, when he came to know me well,
_He kicked me out_, _her testy Sire_:
_And when I stained my hair_, _that Belle_
_Might note the change_, _and thus admire_
And love me, it was sure to dye
_A muddy green or staring blue_:
_Whilst one might trace_, _with half an eye_,
_The still
triumphant
carrot through_.
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Lewis Carroll |
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To think thus, to feel thus much, and then to cease
thinking
and
feeling when a certain star rises above yonder horizon.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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--yet soon
Night closes round, and they are lost for ever:
Or like
forgotten
lyres, whose dissonant strings _5
Give various response to each varying blast,
To whose frail frame no second motion brings
One mood or modulation like the last.
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Shelley |
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So must be fulfilled the rite
That giveth me the dead year's might;
And at dawn I shall arise
A spirit, though with human eyes,
A human form and human face;
And where'er I go or stay,
There the summer's
perished
grace
Shall be with me, night and day.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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`Was ther non other broche yow liste lete
To feffe with your newe love,' quod he,
`But thilke broche that I, with teres wete, 1690
Yow yaf, as for a
remembraunce
of me?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I pluck
chrysanthemums
under the eastern hedge,
Then gaze long at the distant summer hills.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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E tutto in dubbio dissi: <
Beatrice?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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It is hardly too much to say that all
the rest of Pope's work is
directly
traceable to Bolingbroke.
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Alexander Pope |
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