One black night I stood
in a garden with
fireflies
in my hair like darting restless stars
caught in a mesh of darkness.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He was a great killer not
only of
malefactors
but of "keres" or bogeys, such as "Old Age" and "Ague"
and the sort of "Death" that we find in this play.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And he has left it
somewhere
buried?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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M'Gill, one of the clergymen of
Ayr, and his
heretical
book.
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Robert Forst |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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_
[Sidenote: I opposed
successfully
Coemption in Campania.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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*
Eternity groand & was troubled at the Image of Eternal Death
The Wandering Man bow'd his faint head and Urizen descended
And the one must have murderd the other if he had not descended *
Indignant
muttering
low thunders; Urizen descended
Gloomy sounding, Now I am God from Eternity to Eternity
Sullen sat Los plotting Revenge.
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Blake - Zoas |
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There
is indeed little doubt that
oblivion
covers many English songs
equal to any that were published by Bishop Percy, and many
Spanish songs as good as the best of those which have been so
happily translated by Mr.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Everything
was changed; dark
shadows seemed to come and go, and elfin chatter to pass upon the
breeze.
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Yeats |
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A
bystander
advised.
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James Russell Lowell |
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From an early period they had been
admitted
to some share
of political power.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I laid her down wi' meikle care,
On fair
Kirconnell
lea.
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Golden Treasury |
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And then its retreat, sailing so
steadily
away, is a kind of
advance.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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ACT I
SCENE--KING CHARLES _and some of his
noblemen
are creeping into the
courtyard of the palace of_ DON RUY GOMEZ DE SILVA _at Saragossa.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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He
tumbling
downe alive,
With bloudy mouth his mother earth did kis.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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He puts his action
far enough from home: the Spaniards are
conquering
Chili.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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and useful.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Or when the person fetcheth his translations
from a wrong place as if a privy councillor should at the table take his
metaphor from a dicing-house, or ordinary, or a vintner's vault; or a
justice of peace draw his
similitudes
from the mathematics, or a divine
from a bawdy house, or taverns; or a gentleman of Northamptonshire,
Warwickshire, or the Midland, should fetch all the illustrations to his
country neighbours from shipping, and tell them of the main-sheet and the
bowline.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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These in his hand he held:--the plaintiff drew
(So fate decreed) the
shortest
of the two.
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La Fontaine |
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This when the Thessalan youths had eyed with eager inspection
Fulfilled, place they began to provide for venerate Godheads,
Even as Zephyrus' breath, seas
couching
placid at dawn-tide,
Roughens, then stings and spurs the wavelets slantingly fretted-- 270
Rising Aurora the while 'neath Sol the wanderer's threshold--
Tardy at first they flow by the clement breathing of breezes
Urged, and echo the shores with soft-toned ripples of laughter,
But as the winds wax high so waves wax higher and higher,
Flashing and floating afar to outswim morn's purpurine splendours,-- 275
So did the crowd fare forth, the royal vestibule leaving,
And to their house each wight with vaguing paces departed.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I never hear of prisons broad
By soldiers
battered
down,
But I tug childish at my bars, --
Only to fail again!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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O
laughter
if only to royally invest
My absent tomb purple, down there, is spread.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Till the mortal stroke shall lay me low,
I'm thine, my
Highland
lassie, O.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Who else's
daughter
should I be?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Both are
trying painfully to be understood on a first hearing--or, rather, to
make, on a first hearing, the
emotional
or ethical effect at which they
aim.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The
universe
has not so nice a spot;
The world so beautiful a palace got!
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La Fontaine |
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I thirst for Thee, full fount and flood;
My heart calls Thine, as deep to deep:
Dost Thou forget Thy sweat and pain,
They
provocation
on the Cross?
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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And I a sheep-hook will bestow
To have his little King-ship know,
As he is Prince, he's
Shepherd
too.
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Robert Herrick |
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He gave man speech, and speech created thought,
Which is the measure of the universe;
And Science struck the thrones of earth and heaven,
Which shook, but fell not; and the harmonious mind _75
Poured itself forth in all-prophetic song;
And music lifted up the listening spirit
Until it walked, exempt from mortal care,
Godlike, o'er the clear billows of sweet sound;
And human hands first
mimicked
and then mocked, _80
With moulded limbs more lovely than its own,
The human form, till marble grew divine;
And mothers, gazing, drank the love men see
Reflected in their race, behold, and perish.
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Shelley |
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135
Annodherr launce, Marshalle,
anodherr
launce.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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El Desdichado (The Disinherited)
I am the darkness - the widower - the un-consoled,
The prince of
Aquitaine
in the ruined tower;
My sole star is dead - and my constellated lute
Bears the black sun of Melancholy.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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It was an
admirable
result.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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What is this sudden cradle song
That
gradually
lulls my poor being?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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how thy ducal
pageants
shrink
From thee!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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_
[308] The
character
of this great prince claims a place in these notes,
as it affords a comment on the enthusiasm of Camoens, who has made him
the hero of his episode.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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In the _Alcestis_, as it stands, the
famous act of
hospitality
is a datum of the story.
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the
publisher
to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Without it, proud Versailles, thy glory falls;
And Nero's terraces desert their walls:
The vast parterres a
thousand
hands shall make;
Lo!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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William Michie
Schoolmaster
of Cleish Parish, Fifeshire.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Traemmoci cosi da l'un de' canti,
in loco aperto,
luminoso
e alto,
si che veder si potien tutti quanti.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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In the
earliest
classical ages, garlands were given as a
reward to valour and genius.
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Petrarch |
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His
pleasing
words shortened the time and way.
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| Question: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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Thy specious
prologue
means no good, I trow.
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Apollinaire's Notes to the Bestiary
Admire the vital power
And nobility of line:
It praises the line that forms the images, marvellous
ornaments
to this poetic entertainment.
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Appoloinaire |
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Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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]
I'm sorry for it; but the guards are waiting
At his own gate, and such was my
contrivance
_75
That I might rid me both of him and them.
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Shelley |
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The spirit of sweet human love has sent
A vision to the sleep of him who spurned
Her
choicest
gifts.
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Shelley |
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XLIV
"If death by
drowning
in the foaming sea
Was not enough thy wrath to satiate,
Send, if thou wilt, some beast to swallow me,
So that he keep me not in pain!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern what you
can do with this work.
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Iliad - Pope |
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When my
courteous
guide began,
"Mantua," the solitary shadow quick
Rose towards us from the place in which it stood,
And cry'd, "Mantuan!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And now my conclusion I'll tell,
For faith I'm
confoundedly
dry;
The chiel that's a fool for himsel',
Guid Lord!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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So, in the present instance, it turned out with all the eloquence of
"Old Charley"; for, although he laboured earnestly in behalf of the
suspected, yet it so happened, somehow or other, that every syllable he
uttered of which the direct but unwitting
tendency
was not to exalt the
speaker in the good opinion of his audience, had the effect to deepen
the suspicion already attached to the individual whose cause he pleaded,
and to arouse against him the fury of the mob.
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Poe - 5 |
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I know my need, I know thy giving hand,
I crave thy
friendship
at thy kind command;
But there are such who court the tuneful Nine--
Heavens!
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Yet fly me not; so may thy
youthful
prime
Ne'er fly thy cheek on the grey wing of time.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Phantom assigned to this place by his brilliance,
The Swan in his exile is
rendered
motionless,
Swathed uselessly by his cold dream of defiance.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Onques mes n'avoie veue
Cele iaue qui si bien coroit:
Moult m'abelissoit et seoit
A
regarder
le leu plaisant.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Then the smith with his tools in Sir John made a breach,
And the toper he
hiccuped
and ended his speech;
And pulled at the quart, till the snob he declared
When he went to drink next that the bottom was bared.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Would it not be better to transfer the
war to Damascus, to Susa, or to
Memphis?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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O'er the roof of the helmet high, a ridge,
wound with wires, kept ward o'er the head,
lest the relict-of-files {15c} should fierce invade,
sharp in the strife, when that
shielded
hero
should go to grapple against his foes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Quam quoniam poenam misero
proponis
amori, 15
Numquam iam posthac basia surripiam.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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This preferment Petrarch is supposed to have
owed to the influence of
Cardinal
Colonna.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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ay for charyte
cherysen
a gest,
2056 & halden honour in her honde, ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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My undiminished
And
undiminishable
God!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Traveling
with me you find what never tires.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And so it was that, going day by day
Unto the church to praise and pray,
And crossing the green
churchyard
thoughtfully,
I saw how on the graves the flowers
Shed their fresh leaves in showers,
And how their perfume rose up to the sky
Before it passed away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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With cheerful heart one could be a
sojourner
in the wilderness, if he
were sure to find there the catkins of the willow or the alder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He, _Lady_, but hee's gone, 45
Vpon my
entreaty
of him, ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Please check the Project
Gutenberg
Web pages for current donation
methods and addresses.
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| Question: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Delfica
Do you know it, Daphne, that ballad of old,
At the sycamore-foot, or beneath the white laurels,
Under myrtle or olive or
trembling
willows,
That song of love that resounds forever?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And thus it led me back, ashamed and slow,
To see those eyes with love's own lustre rife
Which I am
watchful
never to offend:
Thus may I live perchance awhile below;
One glance of yours such power has o'er my life
Which sure, if I oppose desire, shall end.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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To these, thou hast thy times to go
And trace the hare i' th' treacherous snow;
Thy witty wiles to draw, and get
The lark into the trammel net;
Thou hast thy cockrood and thy glade
To take the
precious
pheasant made;
Thy lime-twigs, snares and pit-falls then
To catch the pilfering birds, not men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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"
To whom Sir
Tristram
smiling, "I am here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
What _are_ these
churches?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Le poete buter du front sur son
travail?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Shall his fevered eye
Through
towering
nothingness descry
The grisly phantom hurry by?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
þæt hē
sǣmannum
on-sacan
mihte (i.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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But my son is young
And
reckless
in his youth, and heedeth not
The warnings of my mouth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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There is a certain
latitude
in these things,
by which we find the degrees.
| 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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The 'potamus can never reach
The mango on the mango-tree;
But fruits of
pomegranate
and peach
Refresh the Church from over sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
This first John was a man of considerable importance, being twice
mentioned with the
honorable
prefix of _Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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' Scarce had he
uttered this, when a black tempest rages in
streaming
showers; earth
trembles [695-726]to the thunder on plain and steep; the water-flood
rushes in torrents from the whole heaven amid black darkness and
volleying blasts of the South.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
[B] Dost thou see
That
phantasm
of a woman?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Come la
navicella
esce di loco
in dietro in dietro, si quindi si tolse;
e poi ch'al tutto si senti a gioco,
la 'v' era 'l petto, la coda rivolse,
e quella tesa, come anguilla, mosse,
e con le branche l'aere a se raccolse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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that didst arise
But to be
overcast!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Is only matter
triumphant?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Dost
comprehend
things mortal, how they grow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
More blest the life of godly eremite,
Such as on lonely Athos may be seen,
Watching
at eve upon the giant height,
Which looks o'er waves so blue, skies so serene,
That he who there at such an hour hath been,
Will wistful linger on that hallowed spot;
Then slowly tear him from the witching scene,
Sigh forth one wish that such had been his lot,
Then turn to hate a world he had almost forgot.
| 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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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply
resembles
you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's sensitive conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Count
Of a sceptre which would be but metal
Without me: he values my great renown,
My head in falling would
dislodge
his crown.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And
ignorance
and want are only removed by intercourse
and the offices of society.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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I saw
disaster
unforeseen.
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Aeschylus |
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Ye came to
Paradise
incog.
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Robert Forst |
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The latter method of
writing the name is
apparently
cryptographic for _d_Gis-bar-aga-(mis);
the fire god _Gibil_ has also the title _Gis-bar_.
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"
"Is Marya
Ivanofna
gone?
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The thyrsus is the symbol of your astonishing duality, O
powerful
and
venerated master, dear bacchanal of a mysterious and impassioned Beauty.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But, O pigtails of Rome, still I'm
entrammled
in you.
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