For Nature beats in perfect tune,
And rounds with rhyme her every rune,
Whether she work in land or sea,
Or hide
underground
her alchemy.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The
transparency
of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Thou know'st her grace in moving, Thou dost her skill in loving,
Thou know'st what truth she proveth, Thou knowest the heart she moveth, O song where grief
assoneth
!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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active links or
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access to the full terms of the Project
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the
requirements
of paragraphs 1.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Les Odes: 'Pourquoy comme une jeune poutre'
Why like a
skittish
mare
Do you glance askance at me?
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Ronsard |
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[folio 146a]
In holy chyrche vppon a daye 59
They were
spousyde
in goddys laue;
Atte here spousyng I wott there stode
Beshoppys felle and prestes goode;
Sythen theye made a mangery
With all the beste of here aleye;
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All that comyn thyder ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And when I sing my songs my
neighbours
come not to listen.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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You'd gain more praise from me,
ensconced
there in the middle,
'Mongst that young rousing, tousing set.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The fountain sang and sang
The things one cannot tell,
The dreaming
peacocks
stirred
And the gleaming dew-drops fell.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Sometimes
a-dropping from the sky
I heard the sky-lark sing;
Sometimes all little birds that are,
How they seemed to fill the sea and air
With their sweet jargoning!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And I am blown along a
wandering
wind,
And hollow, hollow, hollow all delight.
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Tennyson |
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Between the most
intensely
poetical, and so, greatest, among the
French poets of this century, and Herrick, are many points of likeness.
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Robert Herrick |
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Thou seest
Dispersedly
the people are returning.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"The King of Plagues, the Chosen of Sinai,
Is he that, o'er the rushing waters driven,
A
vigorous
hand hath rescued for the sky;
Ye whose proud hearts disown the ways of heaven!
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Hugo - Poems |
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"For as the husbandman
bestrewing
the dense wheat-ears mows the harvest
yellowed 'neath ardent sun, so shall he cast prostrate the corpses of
Troy's sons with grim swords.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Alone Thou wanderest through space,
Profound
One with the hidden face;
Thou art Poverty's great rose,
The eternal metamorphose
Of gold into the light of sun.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Stephen Crane |
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"An inner impulse rent the veil
Of his old husk: from head to tail
Came out clear plates of
sapphire
mail.
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Tennyson |
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Anger as soon as fed is dead;
'T is
starving
makes it fat.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Is it
Ivan's grim punishments, the stormy Council
of
Novgorod?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Let me not to the
marriage
of true minds
Admit impediments.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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XVII
But from the
interview
what flowed?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Or soft Adonis, so
perfumed
and fine,
Drive to St.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Their admiral will stay no longer then;
Puts on a sark,
embroidered
in the hems,
Laces his helm, that is with gold begemmed;
After, his sword on his left side he's set,
Out of his pride a name for it he's spelt
Like to Carlun's, as he has heard it said,
So Preciuse he bad his own be clept;
Twas their ensign when they to battle went,
His chevaliers'; he gave that cry to them.
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Chanson de Roland |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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Their match will meet with issue fair,
Whereby for such a
dangerous
_two_
A single funeral will do!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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ubi uersus
nonnulli
exciderunt.
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Therefore, fii*st growing to thyself a law,
The
ambitious
shrubs thou in just time didst awe.
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| Question: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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You surely come back at last,
In things best known to you finding the best, or as good as the best,
In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest;
Happiness, knowledge, not in another place, but this place--not for another
hour, but this hour;
Man in the first you see or touch--always in friend, brother, nighest
neighbour--Woman in mother, sister, wife;
The popular tastes and employments taking
precedence
in poems or anywhere,
You workwomen and workmen of these States having your own divine and strong
life,
And all else giving place to men and women like you.
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Whitman |
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Great is the quality of Truth in man;
The quality of truth in man
supports
itself through all changes;
It is inevitably in the man--he and it are in love, and never leave each
other.
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Whitman |
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You ask again, do the healing days close up
The open darkness which then drew us in,
The dark that
swallows
all, and nought throws up.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Soft-curling tendrils,
Swim backwards from our image:
We are a red bulk,
Projecting
the angular city, in shadows, at our feet.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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ein
politisch
Lied
Ein leidig Lied!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Oh whence, I asked, and
whither?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Poi, forse per dar luogo altrui secondo
che presso avea,
disparve
per lo foco,
come per l'acqua il pesce andando al fondo.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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--
Shout for
England!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Thou, what befits the new Lord May'r,
And what the City Faction dare,
And what the Gallique arms will do,
And what the quiverbearing foe,
Art anxiously
inquisitive
to know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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***END OF THE PROJECT
GUTENBERG
EBOOK SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE***
******* This file should be named 2002-0.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Hakluyt's _Principall
Navigations_
appeared in 1589, Davis's _Worldes
Hydrographical Description_ in 1594, and descriptions of Hudson's
voyages in 1612-3.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Such is thy name with this my verse entwined;
And long as kinder eyes a look shall cast
On Harold's page, Ianthe's here enshrined
Shall thus be first beheld, forgotten last:
My days once numbered, should this homage past
Attract thy fairy fingers near the lyre
Of him who hailed thee, loveliest as thou wast,
Such is the most my memory may desire;
Though more than Hope can claim, could
Friendship
less require?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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VIII
What can I give thee back, O liberal
And
princely
giver, who hast brought the gold
And purple of thine heart, unstained, untold,
And laid them on the outside of the wall
For such as I to take or leave withal,
In unexpected largesse?
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Their gaze draws me into
infinite
space.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
How many bullets
bearest?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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the lotus-buds upon the stream
Are
stirring
like sweet maidens when they dream.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I'm
overjoyed
at being here,
And even among these rude ones;
For if bad spirits are, 'tis clear,
There also must be good ones.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The
sounding
furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Standing
after the dat.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
LI
Is the day long,
O Lesbian maiden,
And the night endless
In thy lone chamber
In
Mitylene?
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Sappho |
|
But the clearest
and most
probable
account of him is in the chronicle of Fleury, wherein
is preserved a fragment of French history, written by a Benedictine monk
in the beginning of the twelfth century, and in the time of Count Henry.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Hippolyte
Her
fruitless
enmity's not what I have in view.
| Guess: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I think the eyebrow, the forehead, the cheek, chin,
lip, or any part else are as
necessary
and natural in the place.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Why so glum,
comrade?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Such poems form the dullest section of Chinese poetry, and are
certainly
frequent
in Li's works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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The Jews,
The People of God, the Jews, lament their fortune;
Their souls are
violated
by the world;
Jewry is conquered; and the crop of men
Sown for the barns of God, is withered down,
Like feeblest grass flat-trodden by the sun,
In one short season of fear.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Would all
Christians
plain
Could have such joy anew,
As I felt, and feel all through,
For all else but this is vain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Clement's death was
ascribed
to
different causes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Our very Father hath
forsaken
us,
Our God hath cast us from Him: we oppress'd
Unto our foes are even marvellous,
A hissing and a butt for pointing hands,
Whilst God Almighty hunts and grinds us thus;
For He hath scattered us in alien lands,
Our priests, our princes, our anointed king,
And bound us hand and foot with brazen bands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Here in the midmost
struggle
combining--
Flags immingled and weapons crossed--
Still in union your States troop shining:
Never a star from the lustre is lost!
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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No more
Can we observe what's lost at any time,
When things wax old with eld and foul decay,
Or when salt seas eat under
beetling
crags.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Divine mere,
Aphrodite
marine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
The prison style is absolutely and
entirely
wrong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Erewhile 'twas corn
resplendent
and unstained,
Or crystal, that through morning radiance shone,
Now flowing agate, deep and sombre-veined,
Then like a crimson sparkling precious stone.
| Guess: |
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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So spake the Son of God, and Satan stood
A while as mute confounded what to say,
What to reply, confuted and convinc't
Of his weak arguing, and fallacious drift;
At length collecting all his Serpent wiles,
With
soothing
words renew'd, him thus accosts.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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For I know I shall never escape from this dull
barbarian
country,
Where there is none now left to lift a cool jade winecup,
Or share with me a single human thought.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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(Sie pfluckt eine
Sternblume
und zupft die Blatter ab, eins nach dem
andern.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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They look in every
thoughtless
nest
Where birds are covered warm;
They visit caves of every beast,
To keep them all from harm:
If they see any weeping
That should have been sleeping,
They pour sleep on their head,
And sit down by their bed.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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[First published,
_Letters
and Journals_, 1830, ii.
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Byron |
|
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providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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,
OF ARNISTON,
LATE LORD
PRESIDENT
OF THE COURT OF SESSION.
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Robert Forst |
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They roused him with muffins--they roused him with ice--
They roused him with mustard and cress--
They roused him with jam and judicious advice--
They set him
conundrums
to guess.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
<
tu vuo' saper>>, mi disse quelli allotta,
<
imperadrice
di molte favelle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Oh, there are words and looks _30
To bend the
sternest
purpose!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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ei ben boun
to wenden & sechen his deore sone,
in
eueriche
a ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Oh sea, look
graciously!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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quid datur a diuis felici
optatius
hora?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark
as set forth in paragraphs 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Even as you list invite your many guests;
But if, as now it seems, your vision rests
With any
pleasure
on me, do not bid
Old Apollonius--from him keep me hid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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It is
scarcely
necessary to say
that every day we met, Chvabrine and I.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
III
_Then dawned a mood of musing thoughtfulness;
As if he doubted whether he could bless
Her wayward spirit, through each fickle hour,
With love's serenity of
flawless
power,
Or she remain a vision, as when first
She came to soothe his fancy all athirst.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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ever gay with smiles,
Meet prelude to the
harmonies
of night;
As birds beneath the wing enfold their head,
Nestled in prayer the infant seeks its bed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
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It is the
greatest
part of
his liberality, his favour; and from whom doth he hear discipline more
willingly, or the arts discoursed more gladly, than from those whom his
own bounty and benefits have made able and faithful?
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In the budding chestnuts
Whose sticky buds glimmer and are half-burst open
The
starlings
make their clitter-clatter;
And the blackbirds in the grass
Are getting as fat as the pigeons.
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LONDON,
December
22, 1864.
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The Cloud
descended
and the Lily bowd her modest head:
And went to mind her numerous charge among the verdant grass.
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Sur La Mort de Marie: IV
As in May month, on its stem we see the rose
In its sweet youthfulness, in its freshest flower,
Making the heavens jealous with living colour,
Dawn
sprinkles
it with tears in the morning glow:
Grace lies in all its petals, and love, I know,
Scenting the trees and scenting the garden's bower,
But, assaulted by scorching heat or a shower,
Languishing, it dies, and petals on petals flow.
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More I will not say; and dark,
I know, my words are, but thy
neighbours
soon
Shall help thee to a comment on the text.
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Audientium me in gemitu esse nemo
consolatur
me.
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THEY carried ladders for the escalade,
And each was furnished with a tempered blade;
No other thing
embarrassing
they'd got;
No drums; but all was silent as the grot.
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Oh, swift as light they speed, The first light into
darkness
hurled, Each to his work, above, below,
The sons of God that make the world.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The "deflected" tones are
distinctly
more emphatic, and so have a faint
analogy to our stressed syllables.
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