Alone for
Holofernes
am I come.
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Though many a victim from my folds went forth,
Or rich cheese pressed for the unthankful town,
Never with laden hands
returned
I home.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Thou
believest
all I say?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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There 's triumph of the finer mind
When truth,
affronted
long,
Advances calm to her supreme,
Her God her only throng.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Que ce sont bien intrigues de genies
Cette depense et ces
desordres
vains!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"As the
generation
of leaves,
so is the generation of men.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And then the
lighting
of the lamps.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Is your sole virtue
committing
outrage?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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but the third morn
Astonishd he found Enion hidden in the darksom Cave
She spoke What am I
wherefore
was I put forth on these rocks
Among the Clouds to tremble in the wind in solitude
Where is the voice that lately woke the desart Where the face
That wept among the clouds & where the voice that shall reply
No other living thing is here.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Costello knew that it was Bridget Delaney,
a deaf and dumb beggar; and she, when she saw him, stood up and made
a sign to him to follow, and led him and his
companion
up a stair and
down a long corridor to a closed door.
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Yeats |
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Whene'er Ulysses roams the realm of night,
Should
factious
power dispute my lineal right,
Some other Greeks a fairer claim may plead;
To your pretence their title would precede.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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But I look to the west when I gae to rest,
That happy my dreams and my
slumbers
may be;
For far in the west lives he I loe best,
The man that is dear to my babie and me.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Now Anne of Austria shared their drinks,
Collinga
knew her fame,
From Tarnau in Galicia
To Juan Bazaar she came,
To eat the bread of infamy
And take the wage of shame.
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Kipling - Poems |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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from the
innocuous
flames, a lovely birth,
With its own Virtues springs another earth: 1820.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Hence
shall spring a race of tempered
Ausonian
blood, whom thou shalt see
outdo men and gods in duty; nor shall any nation so observe thy
worship.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Allume ta
prunelle
a la flamme des lustres!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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So they kept us close till nigh on noon,
And then they rang the bell,
And the Warders with their jingling keys
Opened each listening cell,
And down the iron stair we tramped,
Each from his
separate
Hell.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I
worshipped
the god's temple, an ancient pile of
stone.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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[In order to
complete
the Life of Solomon, of which his Book of Wisdom, &c.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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XV
"From sunrise unto sunset
All earth shall hear thy fame:
A glorious city thou shalt build,
And name it by thy name:
And there,
unquenched
through ages,
Like Vesta's sacred fire,
Shall live the spirit of thy nurse,
The spirit of thy sire.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Thine this
universal
frame,
Thus wondrous fair--Thyself how wondrous then!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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* * * * *
Does not your ladyship think that an Edinburgh theatre would be more
amused with affectation, folly, and whim of true
Scottish
growth, than
manners which by far the greatest part of the audience can only know
at second hand?
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Robert Burns |
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but now few, large, and bright,
The stars are round the
crescent
moon!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I regret that its length
renders it
unsuitable
for the purposes of this lecture.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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He
laboreth
at every tree, --
A worm his utmost goal.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I can't help wishing I could send you one,
In wishing you
herewith
a Merry Christmas.
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Robert Forst |
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I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky,
And at every
drifting
cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
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Wilde - Poems |
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It whirred like the water at a mill, and rushed and re-echoed,
terrible
to hear.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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why melt your voice
In
dolorous
strains, because the perjured fair
Has made a younger choice?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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THE SUMMONS
A sterner errand to the silken troop
Has quenched the uneasy blush that warmed my cheek;
I am commissioned in my day of joy
To leave my woods and streams and the sweet sloth
Of prayer and song that were my dear delight,
To leave the rudeness of my
woodland
life,
Sweet twilight walks and midnight solitude
And kind acquaintance with the morning stars
And the glad hey-day of my household hours,
The innocent mirth which sweetens daily bread,
Railing in love to those who rail again,
By mind's industry sharpening the love of life--
Books, Muses, Study, fireside, friends and love,
I loved ye with true love, so fare ye well!
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Emerson - Poems |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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And when he raised it
dripping
once and tried
The creepy edge of it with wary touch,
And viewed it over his glasses funny-eyed,
Only disinterestedly to decide
It needed a turn more, I could have cried
Wasn't there danger of a turn too much?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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enne such a
glauerande
glam of gedered rachche3
Ros, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Non fur piu tosto dentro a me venute
queste parole brievi, ch'io compresi
me
sormontar
di sopr' a mia virtute;
e di novella vista mi raccesi
tale, che nulla luce e tanto mera,
che li occhi miei non si fosser difesi;
e vidi lume in forma di rivera
fulvido di fulgore, intra due rive
dipinte di mirabil primavera.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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340
For, Norcie, could thie myghte and skilfulle lore
Preserve
thee from the doom of Alfwold's speere;
Couldste thou not kenne, most skyll'd Astrelagoure.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Soon as returning life regains its seat,
And his breath lengthens, and his pulses beat:
"Yes, I believe (he cries)
almighty
Jove!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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XII
All of those greats: Alexander, Caesar and Henry and Fredrick,
Gladly would share with me half of their hard fought renown,
Could I but grant them my bed for one single night, and its comfort,
But the poor
wretches
are held stark in cold Orkian grip.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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for whensoe'er the sire
Breathed forth
rebellious
fire--
What time his household overflowed the measure
Of bliss and health and treasure--
His children's children read the reckoning plain,
At last, in tears and pain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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enne gedere3 he to
Gryngolet
with ?
| 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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John's Vale and the Vale of Keswick seen
by day-break--'Skiddaw touched with rosy light,' and the prospect from
Nathdale Fell 'hoar with the frost-like dews of dawn:' thus giving a
beautiful and well-contrasted Panorama, produced by the most delicate
and
masterly
strokes of the pencil.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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"
Thus with emotion he asked, and together
answered
the children,
"Yes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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HEROLD:
Dass die
Hochzeit
golden sei,
Solln funfzig Jahr sein voruber;
Aber ist der Streit vorbei,
Das golden ist mir lieber.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Meredith - Poems |
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A
plague of all
cowards!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife Ambroise de Lore, as though
composed
by him.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Each bristl'd hair stood like a stake,
When wi' an eldritch, stoor quaick--quaick--
Amang the springs,
Awa ye squatter'd, like a drake,
On
whistling
wings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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_strings
in hollow shells.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Sweet smiles, in the night
Hover over my
delight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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No portion where the maidens throng to praise
Castor--my Castor, whom in ancient days,
Ere he passed from us and men worshipped him,
They named my
bridegroom!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The chain of iron, the
Scythian
sword,
It yields and shivers at thy word;
Thy heart is as the rock, and knows
No ruth, nor turning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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35
Pleases the bevy unwed with feigned
complaints
to accuse thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Upon the gallows hung a wretch,
Too sullied for the hell
To which the law
entitled
him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
10
Why are Selene's white horses
So long
arriving?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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'At Dawn I Love You'
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
All night I have gazed at you
I've all to divine I am certain of shadows
They give me the power
To envelop you
To stir your desire to live
At my
motionless
core
The power to reveal you
To free you to lose you
Invisible flame in the day.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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org/dirs/2/4/2/2428
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Thou hast her: may no god
begrudge
your joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Another placed
The silver stands, with golden
flaskets
graced:
With dulcet beverage this the beaker crown'd,
Fair in the midst, with gilded cups around:
That in the tripod o'er the kindled pile
The water pours; the bubbling waters boil;
An ample vase receives the smoking wave;
And, in the bath prepared, my limbs I lave:
Reviving sweets repair the mind's decay,
And take the painful sense of toil away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Then I cried in despair,
"I see
nothing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Biron was a friend of Henri IV, Lusignan a famous family, both
associated
with the Valois.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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A fever burns me, Phaon; 5
My knees quake on the threshold,
And all my
strength
is loosened,
Slack with disappointment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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) de
originibus
rerum p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Promise was that I
Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver;
Ask for this great Deliverer now, and find him 40
Eyeless in Gaza at the Mill with slaves,
Himself in bonds under Philistian yoke;
Yet stay, let me not rashly call in doubt
Divine Prediction; what if all foretold
Had been fulfilld but through mine own default,
Whom have I to
complain
of but my self?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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The pride of fools, and slaves'
insulting
scorn?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Nor was I hungry; so I found
That hunger was a way
Of persons outside windows,
The
entering
takes away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged men, wise
guardians
of the poor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Oh I have been to Ludlow fair
And left my necktie God knows where,
And carried half-way home, or near,
Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer:
Then the world seemed none so bad,
And I myself a
sterling
lad;
And down in lovely muck I've lain,
Happy till I woke again.
| 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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Þā cwōm
Wealhþēo
forð
gān under gyldnum bēage, þǣr þā gōdan twēgen
1165 sǣton suhter-gefæderan; þā gȳt wæs hiera sib ætgædere
ǣghwylc ōðrum trȳwe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Sound understanding and good sense
Speak out with little art or rule;
And when you've
something
earnest to utter,
Why hunt for words in such a flutter?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Including
his Letters, Journals,
etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
s in Boeotia were
esteemed
highly by
epicures.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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The
schoolboy
hears and brushes through the trees
And runs about till drabbled to the knees.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Or the
glistening
Eye to the poison of a smile!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Pure felon I, if e'er I that
concede!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Not a grave of the
murdered
for freedom but grows seed for freedom, in its
turn to bear seed,
Which the winds carry afar and resow, and the rains and the snows nourish.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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She dresses aye sae clean and neat,
Both decent and genteel;
And then there's
something
in her gait
Gars ony dress look weel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
GD}
He could
controll
the times & seasons, & the days & years
She could controll the spaces, regions, desart, flood & forest
But had no power to weave a Veil of covering for her Sins
She drave the Females all away from Los
And Los drave all the Males from her away
They wanderd long, till they sat down upon the margind sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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And there we stood in silence,
And waited with a frown,
To greet with bloody welcome
The
bulldogs
of the Crown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I, should unhallowed
Pleasure
woo me now,
Will to the wanton sorc'ress say, "Begone!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I would regret that he was shut
out from what, to me and to others, were such
superlative
sources of
enjoyment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
'108 thy ruling Star':
the star that
controls
thy destinies, a reference to the old belief in
astrology.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
--ELINOURE and JUGA,
_written
three hundred
years ago by_ T.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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<>,
mi disse, <
poi sopra 'l vero ancor lo pie non fida,
ma te rivolve, come suole, a voto:
vere
sustanze
son cio che tu vedi,
qui rilegate per manco di voto.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Stephen Crane |
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Since I have seen falling to my life's flood
The leaf of a rose
snatched
from out your days,
Now at last I can say to the fleeting years:
- Pass by!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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But best of all is this which another writer has
expressed: "_Sapiens
adjuvabit
opus astrorum quemadmodum agricola
terrae naturam_:" a wise man assisteth the work of the stars as the
husbandman helpeth the nature of the soil.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Crackling with fever, they essay;
I turn my
brimming
eyes away,
And come next hour to look.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Whether a book is still in
copyright
varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Scorn & Indignation rose upon Enitharmon
Then
Enitharmon
reddning fierce stretchd her immortal hands *
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Blake - Zoas |
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The poet
predicts that, under the peaceful
administration
of Augustus, the
Romans will, over their full goblets, sing to the pipe, after the
fashion of their fathers, the deeds of brave captains, and the
ancient legends touching the origin of the city.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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bād beadwa ge-þinges, _waited for the combats_
(with
Grendel)
_that were in store for him_, 710.
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Beowulf |
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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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O, Oft with me in
troublous
time
Involved, when Brutus warr'd in Greece,
Who gives you back to your own clime
And your own gods, a man of peace,
Pompey, the earliest friend I knew,
With whom I oft cut short the hours
With wine, my hair bright bathed in dew
Of Syrian oils, and wreathed with flowers?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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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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The great
boulevards
are intersected by lanes,
Wherein are the town-houses of Royal Dukes.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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