" If Blake hesitated to choose either reading, an editor
hesitates
to reject either.
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Blake - Zoas |
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When they draw nigh the citadel above,
From the palace they hear a mighty sound;
About that place are seen pagans enough,
Who weep and cry, with grief are waxen wood,
And curse their gods,
Tervagan
and Mahum
And Apolin, from whom no help is come.
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Chanson de Roland |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Peradventure
I
Could wail among you.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Whereupon the
Vitellians impatiently rose from their ambush and, while Celsus slowly
retired,
followed
him further and further until they plunged headlong
into an ambush themselves.
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Tacitus |
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_ This is the text of the 1633
edition made
consistent
with itself, and it has the support of several
MSS.
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John Donne |
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Was ever
idleness
like this?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And jist wid that in cum'd the little willian himself, and then he made
me a broth of a bow, and thin he said he had ounly taken the liberty
of doing me the honor of the giving me a call, and thin he went on to
palaver at a great rate, and divil the bit did I
comprehind
what he wud
be afther the tilling me at all at all, excipting and saving that he
said "pully wou, woolly wou," and tould me, among a bushel o' lies, bad
luck to him, that he was mad for the love o' my widdy Misthress Tracle,
and that my widdy Mrs.
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Poe - 5 |
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Does not Fortuna, your daughter, when strewing her
glorious
presents,
After the manner of girls, yield to each passing whim?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The tree of life has been shaken,
And but few of us linger now,
Like the Prophet's two or three berries
In the top of the
uppermost
bough.
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Longfellow |
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Has he money in a stocking,
Or cider in the cellar,
Or
flitches
in the chimney,
Or anything anywhere but his own idleness?
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Yeats |
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling
across the floors of silent seas.
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T.S. Eliot |
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No more thou dreamest of a peace
reserved
alone for thee,
While friends are fighting for thy cause beyond the guardian sea:
The battle that they wage is thine; thou fallest if they fall;
The swollen flood of Prussian pride will sweep unchecked o'er all.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And so for the sorrow his soul endured,
men's
gladness
he gave up and God's light chose.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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XV
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Too calm and sad a face in front of thine;
For we two look two ways, and cannot shine
With the same
sunlight
on our brow and hair.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Presently, while the whole party from the boat was gazing at him with
mingled affection and disgust, he suddenly arose, and, in a somewhat
plumdomphious manner, hurried off towards the setting sun,--his steps
supported by two superincumbent confidential Cucumbers, and a large number
of Waterwagtails
proceeding
in advance of him by three and three in a
row,--till he finally disappeared on the brink of the western sky in a
crystal cloud of sudorific sand.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Whatever is
realised
is right.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Lucretius indeed, with such material as Epicurus furnished, satisfied
himself with the theory of a vast machine fortuitously constructed,
and acting by a Law that implied no Legislator; and so composing
himself into a Stoical rather than Epicurean severity of Attitude, sat
down to contemplate the mechanical drama of the
Universe
which he was
part Actor in; himself and all about him (as in his own sublime
description of the Roman Theater) discolored with the lurid reflex of
the Curtain suspended between the Spectator and the Sun.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Cortez set out to take gold by force, and not
by establishing any system of
commerce
with the natives, the only just
reason for effecting a settlement in a foreign country.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Dark Muchtar his son to the Danube is sped,
Let the yellow-haired Giaours view his horsetail with dread;
When his Delhis come dashing in blood o'er the banks,
How few shall escape from the
Muscovite
ranks!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Ma io rimasi a riguardar lo stuolo,
e vidi cosa ch'io avrei paura,
sanza piu prova, di contarla solo;
se non che
coscienza
m'assicura,
la buona compagnia che l'uom francheggia
sotto l'asbergo del sentirsi pura.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And, what's more, when sorrow's beating
Down on me, through Fate's
incessant
rage,
Your sweet glance its malice is assuaging,
Nor more or less than wind blows smoke away.
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Villon |
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Profitless
usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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1, 1862]
_These verses were written in memory of General Philip Kearny,
killed at
Chantilly
after he had ridden out in advance of his men
to reconnoitre.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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_
Duckworth
& Co.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Death is a
dialogue
between
The spirit and the dust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Yea, man's
stubborn
lust
To feed his heart upon your beauty, is all
The strength your lives have, all that holdeth you
Safe in the world,--propt like a rotten house.
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Madame, you must
remember
your promise.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Singet Sawnie, Singet Sawnie,
Are ye herding the penny,
Unconscious
what danger awaits?
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Mark me now--
The gods' thwart purpose doth
confront
mine eyes,
And all is terror to me; in mine ears
There sounds a cry, but not of triumph now--
So am I scared at heart by woe so great.
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Aeschylus |
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All glory
twinkled
through some sweat of fight,
From each tall chimney of the roaring time
That shot his fire far up the sooty night
Mixt fuels -- Labor's Right and Labor's Crime --
Sent upward throb on throb of scarlet light
Till huge hot blushes in the heavens blent
With golden hues of Trade's high firmament.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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The successful man has thrust himself
Through the water of the years,
Reeking wet with mistakes,--
Bloody mistakes;
Slimed with victories over the lesser,
A figure
thankful
on the shore of money.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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[13] Here this late text
includes
both variants _pasaru_ and
_zakaru_.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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There is a penny for thee;
remember
me in
thy prayers.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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If
lifeless
on the listed field to lie
Surer than sure, -- in fight with Ulien's son.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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92 how could I bring myself to discuss our
livelihood?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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"'
Then replied the King:
'Far
lovelier
in our Lancelot had it been,
In lieu of idly dallying with the truth,
To have trusted me as he hath trusted thee.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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He has published _The Song of the Guns_, which was
later
republished
as _The Hell-Gate of Soissons_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
For a description of the Manuscript, and particulars relating to the
authorship and dialect of the present work, the reader is
referred
to the
preface to Early English Alliterative Poems.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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XIV
But deems it foul, with blood of man to stain
Unarmed and of so base a sort, her brand;
For well, without his death, she may obtain
The costly ring; and so
suspends
her hand.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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It was
formerly supposed to be merely a
development
of the judicial duel or
combat, but this is uncertain.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"
Haply some youth shall sighing envious say,
"Enough has borne the bard so fond, so true,
For that bright beauty,
brightest
of his day!
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Petrarch |
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Finally, she
remembered
a friend of hers, Count
Saint-Germain.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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T is easily
confounded
with F.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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"
The words of Marya
Ivanofna
enlightened me, and made many things clear
to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Teems not each ditty with the
glorious
tale?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The rite decrees our hands must quench the torch
Against the iron mass of your tomb's porch:
None at this simple ceremony should forget,
Those chosen to sing the absence of the poet,
That this
monument
encloses him entire.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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THE husband 'gan to turn it in his mind;
Thought he, if present, what can be
designed?
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Nor does your beauty in its excellence
Excel a thousand in the daily sun,
Yet must I put a period to pretence,
And with my logic's
catalogue
have done,
For act and word and beauty are but keys
To unlock the heart, and you, dear love, are these.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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{106a} As Livy before Sallust, Sidney before Donne; and beware of
letting them taste Gower or Chaucer at first, lest, falling too much in
love with antiquity, and not apprehending the weight, they grow rough and
barren in
language
only.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
Florenz makes some rather haphazard and
inaccurate
selections
from this chronology.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Toward God a mighty hymn,
A song of collisions and cries,
Rumbling wheels, hoof-beats, bells,
Welcomes, farewells, love-calls, final moans,
Voices of joy, idiocy, warning, despair,
The unknown appeals of brutes,
The
chanting
of flowers,
The screams of cut trees,
The senseless babble of hens and wise men--
A cluttered incoherency that says at the
stars;
"O God, save us!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
XXXVI
Let me confess that we two must be twain,
Although our
undivided
loves are one:
So shall those blots that do with me remain,
Without thy help, by me be borne alone.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Here's a
knocking
indeede: if a man were
Porter of Hell Gate, hee should haue old turning the
Key.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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To the theatre he repairs
Where each young critic ready stands,
Capers applauds with clap of hands,
With hisses
Cleopatra
scares,
Moina recalls for this alone
That all may hear his voice's tone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The flight of Cranes is most
famously
mentioned in Homer's Iliad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
The fee is
owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
has agreed to donate
royalties
under this paragraph to the
Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
And now the god, from forth his sacred fane,
Produced
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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The sun he went down--the last gleam from his brow
Flung a smile of repose on the holiday plough;
The glooms they approached, and the dews like a rain
Fell thick and hung pearls on the old sorrel mane
Of the horse that the miller had brought to be shod,
And the morning awoke, saw a sight rather odd--
For a bit of the halter still hung at the door,
Bit through by the horse now at feed on the moor;
And the old tinker's budget lay still in the weather,
While all kept on singing and
drinking
together.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Tell them youth and mirth and glee
Run a course as well as we;
Time, stern
huntsman!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Nature, hating art and pains,
Baulks and baffles plotting brains;
Casualty and Surprise
Are the apples of her eyes;
But she dearly loves the poor,
And, by marvel of her own,
Strikes the loud
pretender
down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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TO-DAY
I rake no coffined clay, nor publish wide
The
resurrection
of departed pride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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I thought, from the look he had last night, I'd found
That great, brave,
irresistible
love!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
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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.
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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One barrow, borne of women, lifts them high,
Built up of many a
thousand
human dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Hymne profond,
delicieux!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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5 From the Capital Secretly Making My Way to Fengxiang and Delighting to Reach the Temporary Palace I I think back on the news from Qiyang to the west, that no one
successfully
got back.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime,
Said then the lost Arch Angel, this the seat
That we must change for Heav'n, this
mournful
gloom
For that celestial light?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Or if some erring crossbow-bolt should break
Thine unarmed head, shot from behind a house,
So, evil falls, and a fool
foretells
the truth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Further, our eye-balls tend to flee the bright
And shun to gaze thereon; the sun even blinds,
If thou goest on to strain them unto him,
Because his strength is mighty, and the films
Heavily
downward
from on high are borne
Through the pure ether and the viewless winds,
And strike the eyes, disordering their joints.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
If the
question
were put to me I should probably evade it by
pointing out that Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Doff the black token,
Don the red shoon,
Right and retune
Viol-strings broken;
Null the words spoken
In
speeches
of rueing,
The night cloud is hueing,
To-morrow shines soon--
Shines soon!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a pleasant fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the
livelong
day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
It
requires
more unselfishness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
I asked three gay young dogs from town
To join us in our folly,
Whose mirth, I thought, might serve to drown
My sister's melancholy:
The lively Jones, the
sportive
Brown,
And Robinson the jolly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
And I'd have him say, this
messenger
I send,
That excess of pride works harm on many men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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TO cede, at first, their numbers forced the train;
But rallied by our knight they were again;
A desp'rate push he made;
repulsed
their force;
And by his valour stopt, at length, their course;
In which attack a mortal wound he got,
But was not left for dead upon the spot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I am at present quite occupied with the charming
sensations
of the
toothache, so have not a word to spare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
And gently
balanced
on the wing
Of the wild whirlwind we will ride,
Rejoicing with the joyous thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And since I am so loyal to you, lady,
That Love grants me no power to love elsewhere,
But lets me pay court to one, maybe,
Who might remove the heavy grief I bear;
So when I think of you to whom joy bows,
All other love's
forgotten
and displaced:
With her my heart holds dearest, there it stays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
_A new edition with
additional poems_,
_including
Ravenna_, _The Sphinx_, _and The Ballad of
Reading Gaol_, _was first published_ (_limited issues on hand-made paper
and Japanese vellum_) _by Methuen & Co.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
The
following
additional errors have been corrected:
p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
5540
For freend in court ay better is
Than peny in [his] purs, certis;
And Fortune, mishapping,
Whan upon men she is [falling],
Thurgh
misturning
of hir chaunce, 5545
And casteth hem oute of balaunce,
She makith, thurgh hir adversitee,
Men ful cleerly for to see
Him that is freend in existence
From him that is by apparence.
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'On me, on me, I am here, I did it, on
me turn your steel, O
Rutulians!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Great is
Liberty!
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Whitman |
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[71] A
calumniator
and a traitor (see 'The Acharnians').
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Aristophanes |
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Liberty
On my notebooks from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On
physical
truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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--b
(local), elles hwǣr,
_somewhere
else_, 138; elles hwergen, 2591.
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Beowulf |
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In distant
countries
I have been,
And yet I have not often seen
A healthy man, a man full grown
Weep in the public roads alone.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And sometimes again we catch
glimpses
of a lyric strain,
sustained perhaps but for a line or two at a time, and making the
reader regret its sudden cessation.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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For this the
Archbishop
of Braga
excommunicated Gonzalo Mendez, the chancellor; and Honorius, the pope,
excommunicated the king, and put his dominions under an interdict.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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They may be modified and printed and given
away--you may do practically
ANYTHING
in the United States with eBooks
not protected by U.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The artifice of criticism is to detect
what
peculiar
radiance each element contributes to the whole light; but
this no more affects the singleness of the compounded energy in poetry
than the spectroscopic examination of fire affects the single nature of
actual flame.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's
pleasant
king;
Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,
Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing,
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
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Golden Treasury |
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the animation of delight
Which wraps me, like an
atmosphere
of light,
And bears me as a cloud is borne by its own wind.
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Shelley |
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