on
previendra
les reflux d'incendie,
Voila les quais!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Mucius Scaevola held his hand in the fire to
illustrate
to Porsenna Roman
fearlessness; Cato is Cato Uticensis, the philosophic suicide; "high
Atilius" will be more easily recognised as the M.
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Robert Herrick |
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7 or obtain
permission
for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Sudden the door flies open wide, and lets
Noisily in the dawn-light
scarcely
clear,
And the good fisher, dragging his damp nets,
Stands on the threshold, with a joyous cheer.
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Hugo - Poems |
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On the occasion, too, of the Duke of Tarento
being announced at the Austrian Ambassador's ball, February, 1827, as
plain "Marshal Macdonald," Victor became the mouthpiece of indignant
Bonapartists in his "Ode to the
Napoleon
Column" in the Place Vendome.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Then with eyes to the front all,
And with guns horizontal,
Stood our sires;
And the balls
whistled
deadly,
And in streams flashing redly
Blazed the fires;
As the roar
On the shore,
Swept the strong battle-breakers o'er the green-sodded acres
Of the plain;
And louder, louder, louder cracked the black gunpowder,
Cracking amain!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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But belief is utterly
distinct
from and
unconnected with volition: it is the apprehension of the agreement or
disagreement of the ideas that compose any preposition.
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Shelley |
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He
regards the _Alcestis_ simply as a triumph of pathos,
especially
of
"that peculiar sort of pathos which comes most home to us, with our views
and partialities for domestic life.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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They sat down together, she lay beside him and kissed his feet as if in
the deepest
reverence
and love.
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Tennyson |
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Approving all, she faded at self-will,
And shut the chamber up, close, hush'd and still,
Complete
and ready for the revels rude,
When dreadful guests would come to spoil her solitude.
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Keats - Lamia |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of
Replacement
or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Fourth Self: I, amongst you all, am the most miserable, for naught
was given me but odious hatred and
destructive
loathing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Lean penury within that pen doth dwell
That to his subject lends not some small glory;
But he that writes of you, if he can tell
That you are you, so
dignifies
his story,
Let him but copy what in you is writ,
Not making worse what nature made so clear,
And such a counterpart shall fame his wit,
Making his style admired every where.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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| Question: |
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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" The friends of Petrarch shed tears
of joy, and Stefano Colonna, his
favourite
hero, addressed the assembly
in his honour.
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Petrarch |
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CHORUS
To my
blessing
now give ear.
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Aeschylus |
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Too weak to win, too fond to shun
The tyrants of his doom,
The much
deceived
Endymion
Slips behind a tomb.
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| Question: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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She went that evening from the abbey gray,
Her task
committing
to another's hand;
-- Left it to Fraud to feed, till her return,
The war, and make the fires she kindled burn;
XXVII
And she believed, that she with greater power
Should go, did Pride with her as well repair;
And she (for all were guested in one bower)
In search of her had little way to fare.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Vast clouds of spears and stones rise from the ground;
But every dart flies past and rocks rebound
To the
disheartened
angels falling around.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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MOPSUS
"For Daphnis cruelly slain wept all the Nymphs-
Ye hazels, bear them witness, and ye streams-
When she, his mother,
clasping
in her arms
The hapless body of the son she bare,
To gods and stars unpitying, poured her plaint.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Not now are we one of these spacious and haughty States, (nor any five, nor
ten;)
Nor market nor depot are we, nor money-bank in the city;
But these, and all, and the brown and spreading land, and the mines below,
are ours;
And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers great and small;
And the fields they moisten are ours, and the crops, and the fruits are
ours;
Bays and channels, and ships sailing in and out, are ours--and we over all,
Over the area spread below, the three
millions
of square miles--the
capitals,
The thirty-five millions of people--O bard!
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Whitman |
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Finery,
haughtiness
do not entice me.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
er be a
blisfulnesse
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
_First
published
in_ 1869.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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I have no host in battle him to prove,
Nor have I
strength
his forces to undo.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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the raskall routes appall,
Men into stones
therewith
he could transmew,
And stones to dust, and dust to nought at all;
And when him list the prouder lookes subdew,
He would them gazing blind, or turne to other hew.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But a cup of wine levels life and death
And a thousand things
obstinately
hard to prove.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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" we cry, and lo, apace
Pleasure
appears!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that
engenders
wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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point this day, leaving all the rest, to us over all--and
yet we know not why;
For what are we, mere strips of cloth,
profiting
nothing,
Only flapping in the wind?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Cease that proud temper: Venus loves it not:
The rope may break, the wheel may backward turn:
Begetting
you, no Tuscan sire begot
Penelope the stern.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The
coursers
at their master's threat
With quicker steps the sounding champaign beat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Jonson not
infrequently
refers to contemporary actors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Mahony)_
The
Favorite
Sultana
The Pasha and the Dervish
The Lost Battle--_W.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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nē his līf-dagas lēoda
ǣnigum nytte tealde (_nor did he count his life useful to any man_), 795;
þæt ic mē ǣnigne under swegles begong ge-sacan ne tealde (_I
believed
not
that I had any foe under heaven_), 1774; cwæð hē þone gūð-wine gōdne tealde
(_said he counted the war-friend good_), 1811; hē ūsic gār-wīgend gōde
tealde (_deemed us good spear-warriors_), 2642; pl.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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For this should
vengeance
follow, albeit slow,
Dealt by his consort and his sister dear;
And how he by his wife should long be sought,
With weary womb, with heavy burden fraught,
LXIII
'Twixt Brenta and Athesis, beneath those hills
(Which erst the good Antenor so contented,
With their sulphureous veins and liquid rills,
And mead, and field, with furrows glad indented,
That he for these left pools which Xanthus fills;
And Ida, and Ascanius long lamented,)
Till she a child should in the forests bear,
Which little distant from Ateste are;
LXIV
And how the Child, in might and beauty grown,
That, like his sire, Rogero shall be hight,
Those Trojans, as of Trojan lineage known,
Shall for their lord elect with solemn rite;
Who next by Charles (in succour of whose crown
Against the Lombards shall the stripling fight)
Of that fair land dominion shall obtain,
And the honoured title of a marquis gain;
LXV
And because Charles shall say in Latin `Este',
(That is -- be lords of the dominion round!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And later, in August it may be,
When the meadows
parching
lie,
Beware, lest this little brook of life
Some burning noon go dry!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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He quaff'd the gore; and straight his soldier knew,
And from his eyes pour'd down the tender dew:
His arms he stretch'd; his arms the touch deceive,
Nor in the fond embrace, embraces give:
His substance vanish'd, and his
strength
decay'd,
Now all Atrides is an empty shade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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The Emperor was so pleased with Po's talent that
whenever
he was
feasting or drinking he always had this poet to wait upon him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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I look to the west when I gae to rest,
That happy my dreams and my
slumbers
may be;
Far, far in the west is he I lo'e best,
The lad that is dear to my babie and me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
"
The last part of _The Book of Hours_, _The Book of Poverty and Death_,
is finally a symphony of variations on the two great
symbolic
themes in
the work of Rilke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Dans quel philtre, dans quel vin, dans quelle tisane
Noierons-nous ce vieil ennemi,
Destructeur
et gourmand comme la courtisane,
Patient comme la fourmi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays,
And yet deny the
careless
husband praise.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Beyond these things, there is no furniture, if we except
an Argand lamp, with a plain crimson-tinted ground glass shade, which
depends from He lofty vaulted ceiling by a single slender gold chain,
and throws a
tranquil
but magical radiance over all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Sleep is
supposed
to be,
By souls of sanity,
The shutting of the eye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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If thou hadst had a sword,
Insolent prisoner, then (pointing to his sword) with this I'd soon
Have
vanquished
thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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So
cowering
fled the sable heaps of ghosts,
And such a scream fill'd all the dismal coasts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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is still the cause
unfound?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Now when, declining from the noon of day,
The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray;
When hungry judges soon the sentence sign, 85
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine;
When merchants from th' Exchange return in peace,
And the long labours of the toilet cease,
The board's with cups and spoons, alternate, crowned,
The berries crackle, and the mill turns round; 90
On shining altars of Japan they raise
The silver lamp, and fiery spirits blaze:
From silver spouts the
grateful
liquors glide,
While China's earth receives the smoking tide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
And, as the year
Grows lush in juicy stalks, I'll
smoothly
steer
My little boat, for many quiet hours,
With streams that deepen freshly into bowers.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
He drifted from speculation to speculation,
often seeming to forget his aim by the way, in almost the collector's
delight over the
curiosities
he had found in passing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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and Latona and the tones of the Asiatic lyre, which wed so
well with the dances of the
Phrygian
Graces.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Then might you see the wild things of the wood,
With Fauns in
sportive
frolic beat the time,
And stubborn oaks their branchy summits bow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Can we alone in furious battle stand,
Against that
numerous
and determined band?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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"
And the Good God said, "But I too have been
mistaken
for you and
called by your name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Could you guess what word she
uttered?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
| 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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His
troops, being suddenly
surrounded
by a numerous party of the enemy, were
ready to fly, when, at the prayers of the bishop, a venerable old man,
clothed in white, with a red cross on his breast, appeared in the air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
_100
A man who thus twice
crucifies
his God
May well .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
But in general the
effect of reading many criticisms on the _Alcestis_ is to make a
scholar realize that, for all the seeming
simplicity
of the play,
competent Grecians have been strangely bewildered by it, and that after
all there is no great reason to suppose that he himself is more sensible
than his neighbours.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
' 525
'Yis,
thamendes
is light to make,'
Quod he, 'for ther lyth noon ther-to;
Ther is no-thing missayd nor do.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
_
[91] The historical
foundation
of the fable of Phaeton is this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
The inmates of the
Pyramids
assume
The hue of Rhamesis, black with the gloom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
v
All things worth praise
That unto Khadeeth's mart have
From far been brought through perils over-passed, All santal, myrrh, and spikenard that disarms The pard's swift anger; these would weigh but light 'Gainst thy delights, my
Khadeeth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Uc de Saint Circ has him ultimately
withdrawing
to the Cistercian abbey of Dalon and dying there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Les Amours de Cassandre: XCIV
Whether her golden hair curls languidly,
Or whether it swims by, in two flowing waves
That over her breasts wander there, and stray,
And across her neck float playfully:
Whether a knot, ornamented richly,
With many a ruby, many a rounded pearl,
Ties the stream of her
rippling
curls,
My heart delights itself, contentedly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
50
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is
something
he carries on his back,
Which I am forbidden to see.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
No,
gracious
lord, except I cannot do it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
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and accept all the terms of this license and
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property
(trademark/copyright) agreement.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
This is _monte potiri_, to get
the hill; for no perfect
discovery
can be made upon a flat or a level.
| 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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Some few there from the common road did stray;
Laelius and Socrates, with whom I may
A longer progress take: Oh, what a pair
Of dear
esteemed
friends to me they were!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
_The
Beautiful
Stranger_
I cannot know what country owns thee now,
With France's forest lilies on thy brow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
"
But when the summer day was past,
He looked to heaven and smiled at last,
Self-answered so--
"Because, O cloud,
Pressing with thy
crumpled
shroud
Heavily on mountain top,--
Hills that almost seem to drop
Stricken with a misty death
To the valleys underneath,--
Valleys sighing with the torrent,--
Waters streaked with branches horrent,--
Branchless trees that shake your head
Wildly o'er your blossoms spread
Where the common flowers are found,--
Flowers with foreheads to the ground,--
Ground that shriekest while the sea
With his iron smiteth thee--
I am, besides, the only one
Who can be bright _without_ the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
From the
forgotten
you call forth dreams; the
child
Reposing on the ground in the corn-clad fields,
In harvest-glow beside the naked mowers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
nīða genǣgdan nefan
Hererīces
(_in combats pressed hard upon H.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
How it woke one April morn,
Fame shall tell;
As from Moultrie, close at hand,
And the
batteries
on the land,
Round its faint but fearless band
Shot and shell
Raining hid the doubtful light;
But they fought the hopeless fight
Long and well,
(Theirs the glory, ours the shame!
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Thus far sped the sacred
contests
to their holy lord.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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How much better is it to be silent, or at least to speak
sparingly!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The Horse
Pegasus
'Pegasus'
Jacopo de' Barbari, 1509 - 1516, The Rijksmuseun
My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
That for reins will hold tight to frenzy,
My verses, the
patterns
of all poetry.
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Appoloinaire |
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"Now wenches listen, and let lovers lie,
Ye'll hear a story ye may profit by;
I'm your age treble, with some oddments to't,
And right from wrong can tell, if ye'll but do't:
Ye need not giggle
underneath
your hat,
Mine's no joke-matter, let me tell you that;
So keep ye quiet till my story's told,
And don't despise your betters cause they're old.
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Starlight is a usual occurrence
Any
pleasant
night beside the sea.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Mais le soleil eveille, a travers les feuillages,
Les vieilles couleurs des vitraux ensoleilles,
La pierre sent toujours la terre maternelle,
Vous verrez des monceaux de ces
cailloux
terreux
Dans la campagne en rut qui fremit, solennelle,
Portant, pres des bles lourds, dans les sentiers sereux,
Ces arbrisseaux brules ou bleuit la prunelle,
Des noeuds de muriers noirs ou de rosiers furieux.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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They were all
glittering
with rich robes and
arms.
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Keats |
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What rivers and what heights,
What shores and seas between
Me rise and those twin lights,
Which made the storm and blackness of my days
One
beautiful
serene,
To which tormented Memory still strays:
Free as my life then pass'd from every care,
So hard and heavy seems my present lot to bear.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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In the course of the evening, you find chance for certain
Soft
speeches
to Anne, in the shade of the curtain:
You tell her your heart can be likened to _one_ flower,
'And that, O most charming of women, 's the sunflower,
Which turns'--here a clear nasal voice, to your terror, 270
From outside the curtain, says, 'That's all an error.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Fuhr uns gut und mach dir Ehre
Dass wir
vorwarts
bald gelangen
In den weiten, oden Raumen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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At length along the flowery sward I saw
So sweet and fair a lady pensive move
That her mere thought inspires a tender awe;
Meek in herself, but haughty against Love,
Flow'd from her waist a robe so fair and fine
Seem'd gold and snow
together
there to join:
But, ah!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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EATING BAMBOO-SHOOTS
My new
Province
is a land of bamboo-groves:
Their shoots in spring fill the valleys and hills.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Et, faisant la victime et la petite epouse,
Son etoile la vit, une chandelle aux doigts,
Descendre
dans la cour ou sechait une blouse,
Spectre blanc, et lever les spectres noirs des toits.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And
Lancelot
bode a little, till he saw
Which were the weaker; then he hurled into it
Against the stronger: little need to speak
Of Lancelot in his glory!
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Tennyson |
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Gentle night, do thou
befriend
me,
Downy sleep, the curtain draw;
Spirits kind, again attend me,
Talk of him that's far awa!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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As
Harrington
fell, ye likewise fell --
At the door of the House wherein ye dwell;
As Harrington came, ye likewise came
And died at the door of your House of Fame.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The expression, however, is
classical, and
therefore
retained.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Too pressed to wait, upon her slate
Fame writes a name or two in doubt;
Scarce written, these no longer please,
And her own finger rubs them out:
It may ensue, fair girl, that you
Years hence this
yellowing
leaf may see,
And put to task, your memory ask
In vain, 'This Lowell, who was he?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Just gods, who see the grief that overwhelms me, 1165
How could I ever
engender
a child so guilty?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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