4 The pheasant tail fans were part of the
imperial
regalia.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But yet it was not long before
There opened in the sky a narrow door,
Made with pearl lintel and pearl sill;
And the earth's night seem'd
pressing
there,--
All as a beggar on some festival would peer,--
To gaze into a room of light beyond,
The hidden silver splendour of the moon.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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It is then most gracious
in a prince to pardon when many about him would make him cruel; to think
then how much he can save when others tell him how much he can destroy;
not to consider what the impotence of others hath demolished, but what
his own
greatness
can sustain.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The death of this good man forms one of those
little domestic
tragedies
— not infrequent in real
life — to which imagination itself can scarcely add
one touching incident,, and which are as affecting
as any that fiction can furnish.
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Marvell - Poems |
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I am no longer
surprised
he never came to me.
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Aristophanes |
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It has already appeared that the
duties of all "authentic" epic are broadly the same, and the poems of
this kind, though two
thousand
years may separate their occurrence, may
be properly brought together as varieties of one sub-species.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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But tell me now,
Was not the mother sister to a Templar,
Conrade of
Stauffen?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Open the envelope quickly;
O this is not our son's writing, yet his name is signed;
O a strange hand writes for our dear son--O
stricken
mother's soul!
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Whitman |
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For each wife shall take her husband's life,
Staining
a two-edged dagger in his throat.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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(The doors are opened; a crowd of
Russians
and Poles enters.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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'
Shame on such wooers' dapper
mercery!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Great are the hosts, their horns come
sounding
through.
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Chanson de Roland |
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All have not appeared in the form of snowflakes but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp
sorcerers
and obey them.
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Appoloinaire |
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Then I am shaken as a
sweeping
storm
Shakes a ripe tree that grows above a grave
'Round whose cold clay the roots twine fast and warm--
And Youth's fair visions that glowed bright and brave,
Dreams that were closely cherished and for long,
Are lost once more in sadness and in song.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The
Conquest
of Summer
THE blue-toned campions and the blood-red poppies
Escape the murmuring and fleeting grain!
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Emerson - Poems |
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46 --_Brother kings:_
Menelaus
and Agamemnon.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Ay, joy from super-earthly
fountains!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Three
thousand
sons went down on Welsted's lie.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
|
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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As it is a great point of art, when
our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it
in and contract it, is of no less praise, when the
argument
doth ask it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And other
withered
stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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When the two little friends obeyed the summons of the king they found
him sitting at his wine with the seven members of his cabinet council;
but the monarch
appeared
to be in a very ill humor.
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Poe - 5 |
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But they're fine
fellows!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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This is quite in
accordance
with Jonson's
custom (see Wilke, p.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I called not thee to burial of my dead,
Nor count thy
presence
here a welcome thing.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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SQUIRE
ELEGY
I vaguely wondered what you were about,
But never wrote when you had gone away;
Assumed you better,
quenched
the uneasy doubt
You might need faces, or have things to say.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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_145
NOTE:
_132
shattered]scattered
Rossetti.
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Shelley |
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O cities memories of cities
cities draped with our desires
cities early and late
cities strong cities intimate
stripped of all their makers
their
thinkers
their phantoms
Landscape ruled by emerald
live living ever-living
the wheat of the sky on our earth
nourishes my voice I dream and cry
I laugh and dream between the flames
between the clusters of sunlight
And over my body your body extends
the layer of its clear mirror.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Herman
regarded
her in
silence.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Oft, in the passion's wild
rotation
tost,
Our spring of action to ourselves is lost:
Tired, not determined, to the last we yield,
And what comes then is master of the field.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And when, at times, wrapped in her languor deep,
Earthward
she lets a furtive tear-drop flow,
Some pious poet, enemy of sleep,
Takes in his hollow hand the tear of snow
Whence gleams of iris and of opal start,
And hides it from the Sun, deep in his heart.
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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La Fontaine |
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I have just heard a poem spoken
with so delicate a sense of its rhythm, with so perfect a respect for
its meaning, that if I were a wise man and could
persuade
a few people
to learn the art I would never open a book of verses again.
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Yeats |
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But thou, Ravenna, better loved than all,
Thy ruined palaces are but a pall
That hides thy fallen
greatness!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And what the potent say so oft, can it fail to be
somewhat
true?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Mine arms enfold
That, which
unswayed
by me grew up and bloomed
To other worlds:
Mine own, and yet so infinitely far.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Banner:
Demons and death then I sing,
Put in all, aye all will I, sword-shaped pennant for war,
And a pleasure new and ecstatic, and the prattled yearning of children,
Blent with the sounds of the
peaceful
land and the liquid wash of the sea,
And the black ships fighting on the sea envelop'd in smoke,
And the icy cool of the far, far north, with rustling cedars and pines,
And the whirr of drums and the sound of soldiers marching, and the
hot sun shining south,
And the beach-waves combing over the beach on my Eastern shore,
and my Western shore the same,
And all between those shores, and my ever running Mississippi with
bends and chutes,
And my Illinois fields, and my Kansas fields, and my fields of Missouri,
The Continent, devoting the whole identity without reserving an atom,
Pour in!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Shall I not see that hour before I die,
When I shall cull the flower of her springtime
Who makes my being
languish
in the dark?
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Ronsard |
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Or e'er the jealous queens of nations greet,
Doth Tayo
interpose
his mighty tide?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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if a man could restrain
the fury of his gullet and groin, and think how many fires, how many
kitchens, cooks, pastures, and ploughed lands; what orchards, stews,
ponds and parks, coops and garners, he could spare; what velvets,
tissues, embroideries, laces, he could lack; and then how short and
uncertain his life is; he were in a better way to
happiness
than to live
the emperor of these delights, and be the dictator of fashions; but we
make ourselves slaves to our pleasures, and we serve fame and ambition,
which is an equal slavery.
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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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Si un rayon me blesse,
Je
succomberai
sur la mousse.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Says she: but womanly words that are spoken to
desireful
lover
Ought to be written on wind or upon water that runs.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Close, close it is pressed to the window,
As if those
childish
eyes
Were looking into the darkness,
To see some form arise.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
In this
ponderous folio of the "Ptolemy of his age," said to be the first
general atlas published after the revival of the
sciences
in Europe,
only one page of which is devoted to the topography of the _Novus
Orbis_, the St.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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46--Omitted with the
majority
of the best MSS.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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It was probably a vast mound of
earth with a
declivity
outwards.
| Guess: |
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Iliad - Pope |
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There
receiving
the sweet
forgiveness of the queen, he became a true knight of the Round Table,
and at the last died in battle while he fought for his king.
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Tennyson |
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So
encloistered
had Mdlle.
| Guess: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Here glows the Spring, here earth
Beside the streams pours forth a
thousand
flowers;
Here the white poplar bends above the cave,
And the lithe vine weaves shadowy covert: come,
Leave the mad waves to beat upon the shore.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Three times
circling
beneath heaven's veil,
In devotion, round your tombs, I hail
You, with loud summons; thrice on you I call:
And, while your ancient fury I invoke,
Here, as though I in sacred terror spoke,
I'll sing your glory, beauteous above all.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Somehow my soul seems suddenly free
From the
weighing
of fate and the sad discussion of sin,
By the length and the breadth and the sweep of the marshes of Glynn.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Or if bare arses yet were tax'd;
The news o' princes, dukes, and earls,
Pimps, sharpers, bawds, and opera-girls;
If that daft buckie, Geordie Wales,
Was
threshing
still at hizzies' tails;
Or if he was grown oughtlins douser,
And no a perfect kintra cooser:
A' this and mair I never heard of;
And, but for you, I might despair'd of.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Thou hast no hands to wipe away thy tears,
Nor tongue to tell me who hath martyr'd thee;
Thy husband he is dead, and for his death
Thy
brothers
are condemn'd, and dead by this.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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'Twas AEneas' tale to Dido, and thereabout of it
especially
where he speaks of Priam's slaughter.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Veronensi,
incertum
quo
anno, qua regione terrarum, codex qui fons uidetur esse eorum qui nunc
extant omnium.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Qu'on
patiente
et qu'on s'ennuie,
C'est si simple!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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may each
domestic
bliss be thine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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The sun, that flar'd behind, with ruddy beam
Before my form was broken; for in me
His rays
resistance
met.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see
Sections
3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And we shall be dead, Guy
dear--dead and cast into the outer
darkness
where there is--
HE.
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Kipling - Poems |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Let my despair burst forth, at liberty,
Your speech has now too long
restrained
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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And 'tis a
twelvemonth
now since her, in quest
Of my French kin, I left with grief opprest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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To his guard king
Norandino
spake the word,
And bade them enter, and the duel stay:
They part the knight, whom they asunder bear,
And much the king is lauded for his care.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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I particularly hope
you'll like the Angel's song, where I have
endeavored
to convey,
in one line each, the philosophies of Art, of Science, of Power,
of Government, of Faith, and of Social Life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
LVIII
Passes the night and opens the clear day;
That
Emperour
canters in brave array,
Looks through the host often and everyway;
"My lords barons," at length doth Charles say,
"Ye see the pass along these valleys strait,
Judge for me now, who shall in rereward wait.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"And when I also claim a nook,
And your feet tread me in,
Bestow me, under my old name,
Among my kith and kin,
That
strangers
gazing may not dream
I did a husband win.
| 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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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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--If all the poets and all the lovers of poetry should
be asked to name the most
precious
of the priceless things which time has
wrung in tribute from the triumphs of human genius, the answer which would
rush to every tongue would be "The Lost Poems of Sappho.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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GOETZ: Have the gate
barricaded
with beams and stones.
| 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 |
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The dragon
discovers
the loss and exacts
fearful penalty from the people round about.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Scarcely was heard to float some
gentlest
sound,
Scarcely some low breathed word,
As in a forest fallen asleep, is found
Just one belated bird.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Superb-faced
Manhattan!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
what a
terrible
state we are in!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
deserves
not this thy care,
Our troops to hearten, and our toils to share?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
In some respects it was stupid, in
some respects it was unjust, but of one thing there can be no doubt--it
had a most
salutary
effect.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
And I forgot thee, as the berried holly
By shepherds is forgotten, when, in June,
Tall
chesnuts
keep away the sun and moon:--
I rush'd into the folly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
, _throne_,
figuratively
for _rule_: acc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Is it only over you that love has
triumphed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
The passage in Mungo Park's
_Journal
of a Mission to the Interior of
Africa_, 1815, p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
His inclinations, however, pointed so
decisively
in the direction of the
finer arts of life that he left the Military Academy after a very short
attendance to devote himself to the study of philosophy and the history
of art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Men died with love on
entering
her room.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
copyright law in
creating
the Project
Gutenberg-tm collection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
And then I knew that Love is worth its pain
And that my heart was richer for his sake,
Since lack of love is
bitterest
of all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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In those brave days our fathers stood firmly side by side;
They faced the Marcian fury; they tamed the Fabian pride:
They drove the
fiercest
Quinctius an outcast forth from Rome;
They sent the haughtiest Claudius with shivered fasces home.
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'Twixt woe and woe I dwell--
I dare not like a recreant fly,
And leave the league of ships, and fail each true ally;
For
rightfully
they crave, with eager fiery mind,
The virgin's blood, shed forth to lull the adverse wind--
God send the deed be well!
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Aeschylus |
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or if you must offend
Against the precept, ne'er transgress its End;
Let it be seldom, and compell'd by need; 165
And have, at least, their
precedent
to plead.
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Alexander Pope |
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Wilbur, through the
medium of a young man at present
domiciled
in my family.
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James Russell Lowell |
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To SEND
DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any particular
state visit www.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The poor are wise, more charitable, more kind, more
sensitive
than we
are.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Yonder's the
criminal!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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In 1824 he once more fell under the
imperial
displeasure.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The_ PEASANT _is
discovered
in front of the hut_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Mimes, in the form of God on high,
Mutter and mumble low,
And hither and thither fly--
Mere puppets they, who come and go
At bidding of vast formless things
That shift the scenery to and fro,
Flapping
from out their Condor wings
Invisible Wo!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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There is none but he,
Whose being I doe feare: and vnder him,
My Genius is rebuk'd, as it is said
Mark
Anthonies
was by Caesar.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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