destined
to lead thy life," verse, 411.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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Appoloinaire |
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Goaded like the damned by some invisible wrath,
A will
stronger
than weariness, stronger than animal fear,
Implacable and monotonous.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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Villon |
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_Leman's_ is fair; but think not I forsake
The sweet
remembrance
of a dearer shore:
Sad havoc Time must with my memory make,
Ere that or thou can fade these eyes before;
Though, like all things which I have loved, they are
Resigned for ever, or divided far.
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Byron |
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The value of the poem is in the ratio
of this
elevating
excitement.
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Poe - 5 |
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It also tells you how
you can
distribute
copies of this etext if you want to.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Und soll schon
sterben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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How odd the girl's life looks
Behind this soft
eclipse!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The black disguise, the warning whistle shrill, 420
And ear still busy on its nightly watch,
Were not for me, brought up in nothing ill:
Besides, on griefs so fresh my
thoughts
were brooding still.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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ever gay with smiles,
Meet prelude to the
harmonies
of night;
As birds beneath the wing enfold their head,
Nestled in prayer the infant seeks its bed.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Wiht unhǣlo
grim and grǣdig gearo sōna wæs,
rēoc and rēðe, and on ræste genam
þrītig
þegna: þanon eft gewāt
hūðe hrēmig tō hām faran,
125 mid þǣre wæl-fylle wīca nēosan.
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Beowulf |
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While now I sojourn with sorrow, 5
Having remorse for my comrade,
What town is blessed with thy beauty,
Gladdened
and prospered?
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Sappho |
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I see a better state to me belongs
Than that which on thy humour doth depend:
Thou canst not vex me with
inconstant
mind,
Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Keats - Lamia |
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{a}t ben to comyn ben
yporueyid]
but as it 4468
were yt{ra}uailed.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Partiality--too much Love to a Sect,--to the
Ancients
or Moderns.
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Alexander Pope |
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when I read o'er the bitter lives
Of men whose eager heart's were quite too great
To beat beneath the cramped mode of the day,
And see them mocked at by the world they love, 290
Haggling with prejudice for pennyworths
Of that reform which their hard toil will make
The common
birthright
of the age to come,--
When I see this, spite of my faith in God,
I marvel how their hearts bear up so long;
Nor could they but for this same prophecy,
This inward feeling of the glorious end.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Next Anger rush'd, his eyes on fire,
In
lightnings
own'd his secret stings;
In one rude clash he struck the lyre
And swept with hurried hand the strings.
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Golden Treasury |
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Thus, we do not
necessarily keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper
edition.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"--"I thank you, friend,"
And saying this
Vladimir
drained
His cup unto his maiden dear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
Thus I, whereto the spirit
answering
spake:
"Long as 't is lawful for me, shall my steps
Follow on thine; and since the cloudy smoke
Forbids the seeing, hearing in its stead
Shall keep us join'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Thus did alone, with every wand'ring wended
As goal, the shimmer of two eyelets glow,
Thus your faint song as song of the year ascended,
And all befell, since you
ordained
it so.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Tennyson |
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'
But thou brook'st not
disturbance
at thy wine:
And France is wild for one to lead her souls;
But thou art huge and fat and laggest back
Among the remnants of forsaken camps.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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This
plaintive
ballad ought to have been called Child Maurice, and not
Gil Maurice.
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Robert Forst |
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VI
As in her chariot the
Phrygian
goddess rode,
Crowned with high turrets, happy to have borne
Such quantity of gods, so her I mourn,
This ancient city, once whole worlds bestrode:
On whom, more than the Phrygian, was bestowed
A wealth of progeny, whose power at dawn
Was the world's power, her grandeur, now shorn,
Knowing no match to that which from her flowed.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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' 1130
And hoom they go, with-oute more speche;
And comen ayein, but longe may they seche
Er that they finde that they after cape;
Fortune hem bothe
thenketh
for to Iape.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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What are we to think of
this
behaviour?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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It is a land of
poverty!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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A
mournful
glance Sir Fopling upwards cast,
"Those eyes are made so killing"--was his last.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Would it not be
wonderful?
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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In this
controversy
the two parties at
times were curiously mingled.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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And euen now
To Crown my
thoughts
with Acts: be it thoght & done:
The Castle of Macduff, I will surprize.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Or friends or
kinsfolk
on the citied earth,
To share our marriage feast and nuptial mirth?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Cry, Long live the tsar Dimitry
Ivanovich!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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His steed and he right well agree,
For of this pony there's a rumour,
That should he lose his eyes and ears,
And should he live a
thousand
years,
He never will be out of humour.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"
She sat in our midst, and judged us, and few knew what was
passing behind that face "like an
awakening
soul," to use one of
her own epithets.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"If that be so," she
straight
replied,
"Each heart with each doth coincide.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Of the Greek
generals
then
living Pyrrhus was indisputably the first.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Thus lies the sea-shell
Under the
rustling
twilight of the sea;
No gods remember it, no understanding
Cleaves the long darkness with a sword of light.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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6 In the course of fate
troubles
now end, in the cycles we again meet a time of harmony.
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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He'd pledged his oath by county Guenelon,
Gave him his sword, a
thousand
coins thereon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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How went the question,
A paltry
question
set on the elements
Of love and the wronged lover's obligation?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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In spring a
many-tinted wreath is placed upon me; in summer's heat ruddy grain; [in
autumn] a
luscious
grape cluster with vine-shoots, and in the bitter cold
the pale-green olive.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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So charmed, with
undeluded
eye we see
In history's fragmentary tale
Bright clues of continuity,
Learn that high natures over Time prevail,
And feel ourselves a link in that entail
That binds all ages past with all that are to be.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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The knight her lightly reared up againe,
And comforted with
curteous
kind reliefe: 325
Then, wonne from death, she bad him tellen plaine
The further processe of her hidden griefe:
The lesser pangs can beare, who hath endur'd the chiefe.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And hence something constrained and artificial blends with
the freshness of the
Elizabethan
literature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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er
In
pilerinage
fer & ner
wi?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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MEPHISTOPHELES
(zu Faust):
Komm!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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et j'avais, comme en un suair epais,
Le coeur
enseveli
dans cette allegorie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The myrtle groves are those of the Underworld in
Classical
mythology.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Let them
offer a prize of sixty or a hundred thousand florins to
whosoever
can
solve their ambitious problems!
| Guess: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The warders with their shoes of felt
Crept by each padlocked door,
And peeped and saw, with eyes of awe,
Gray figures on the floor,
And
wondered
why men knelt to pray
Who never prayed before.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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OPEN SPACE IN FRONT OF THE
CATHEDRAL
IN MOSCOW
THE PEOPLE
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The wind and I, we both were there,
But neither long abode;
Now through the
friendless
world we fare
And sigh upon the road.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Live not the Stars and
Mountains?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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"You gave me
hyacinths
first a year ago;
"They called me the hyacinth girl.
| Guess: |
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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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Yet should one complain,
Riper in years and elder, and lament,
Poor devil, his death more sorely than is fit,
Then would she not, with greater right, on him
Cry out, inveighing with a voice more shrill:
"Off with thy tears, and choke thy whines,
buffoon!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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When all the hungry pain of love I bear,
And in poor
lightless
thought but burn and burn,
And wit goes hunting wisdom everywhere,
Yet can no word of revelation learn;
When endlessly the scales of yea and nay
In dreadful motion fall and rise and fall,
When all my heart in sorrow I could pay
Until at last were left no tear at all;
Then if with tame or subtle argument
Companions come and draw me to a place
Where words are but the tappings of content,
And life spreads all her garments with a grace,
I curse that ease, and hunger in my heart
Back to my pain and lonely to depart.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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day — perhaps more than ever in her history—is in the minds and hearts of other nations, these two poetic and romantic
episodes
of her past are timely.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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A smile suffused Jehovah's face;
The
cherubim
withdrew;
Grave saints stole out to look at me,
And showed their dimples, too.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Kline (C) Copyright 2008 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted,
electronically
or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
XI
Lovely to look on, O South,
No longer stately-scornful
But
beautiful
still in pride,
Our hearts go out to you as toward a bride!
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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White Ammon was your
bedfellow!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
He felt his way to a bookstand that
supported
a pile of sketch-books,
and wrenched out one of the mahogany pillars.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Your apparition cannot satisfy me:
Since I myself
entombed
you in porphyry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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He arose
To raise a language, and his land reclaim
From the dull yoke of her barbaric foes:
Watering
the tree which bears his lady's name
With his melodious tears, he gave himself to fame.
| 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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) "I do not know how the world stands
with you; in all human
probability
I shall never know; but whatever I
may have said before, I pray for her sake more than for yours that all
may be well.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived
from the public domain (does not contain a notice
indicating
that it is
posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied
and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees
or charges.
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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But if ever its offence
distressed
your mind, 775
Can you forget the scornfulness of his pride?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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She feared lest Hippolytus,
learning
of my ardour,
Might reveal a passion that filled him with horror.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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what thy memory cannot contain,
Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find
Those children nursed, deliver'd from thy brain,
To take a new
acquaintance
of thy mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Ballad of Reading Gaol, by Oscar Wilde
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: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_The Old Cottagers_
The little cottage stood alone, the pride
Of
solitude
surrounded every side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Strange the story: he said it all, --
the Waelsing's wanderings wide, his struggles,
which never were told to tribes of men,
the feuds and the frauds, save to Fitela only,
when of these doings he deigned to speak,
uncle to nephew; as ever the twain
stood side by side in stress of war,
and
multitude
of the monster kind
they had felled with their swords.
| 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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--Of this spilt water there is a little to be
gathered up: it is a
desperate
debt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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, _having a
gleaming
blade_: acc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
The "friend," as Dykes Campbell
points out, was Southey, whose "Book of the Church" had been
attacked
by
Charles Butler.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Then hail, sweet Sirmio; thou that wast,
And art, mine own
unrivalled
Fair!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
There is yet another
question
she has just put to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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_ The
Lansdowne
MS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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I don't like sour, it sets my mouth awry,
Let mine have real
sweetness
in it!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Umgibt mich hier ein
Zauberduft?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
The
original
edition reads _And lay_
we _down_ our _pipes_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
*And Valisnerian lotus thither flown
From
struggling
with the waters of the Rhone:
**And thy most lovely purple perfume, Zante!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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At a meeting of "The Wordsworth Society" held at Grasmere, in July 1881,
it was
proposed
by one of the members, the Rev.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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He does not rise in piteous haste
To put on convict-clothes,
While some coarse-mouthed Doctor gloats, and notes
Each new and nerve-twitched pose,
Fingering a watch whose little ticks
Are like
horrible
hammer-blows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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that you were your self; but, love you are
No longer yours, than you your self here live:
Against this coming end you should prepare,
And your sweet semblance to some other give:
So should that beauty which you hold in lease
Find no determination; then you were
Yourself
again, after yourself's decease,
When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Colonel Hugo had become General, and there, besides being governor over
three provinces, was Lord High Steward at King Joseph's court, where his
eldest son Abel was
installed
as page.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
"Multiply and replenish the earth" is an
injunction
of the
best political philosophy ever given to man.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And we had not fought them in vain,
But in perilous plight were we,
Seeing forty of our poor hundred were slain,
And half of the rest of us maim'd for life
In the crash of the cannonades and the
desperate
strife;
And the sick men down in the hold were most of them stark and cold,
And the pikes were all broken or bent, and the powder was all of it
spent;
And the masts and the rigging were lying over the side.
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Hailie the bordeleire, who lyves to reste,
Ne ys att nyghtys flemynge hue dysmayde;
The starres doe scantillie[110] the sable brayde; 1010
Wyde ys the sylver lemes of comforte wove;
Speke, Celmonde, does ytte make thee notte
afrayde?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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PONT DU CARROUSEL
Upon the bridge the blind man stands alone,
Gray like a mist veiled monument he towers
As though of
nameless
realms the boundary stone
About which circle distant starry hours.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The scene is
generally
on the
sea-shore.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I can't believe in God's goodness;
I can believe
In many
avenging
gods.
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Imagists |
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" echoed he; no sooner said,
Than with a
frightful
scream she vanished:
And Lycius' arms were empty of delight,
As were his limbs of life, from that same night.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Ther nis no more, but here-after sone,
The voyde dronke, and travers drawe anon,
Gan every wight, that hadde nought to done 675
More in the place, out of the
chaumber
gon.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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