]
[Sidenote G: The two halves are next bound
together
and hung upon a pole.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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es better weren;
ysustened
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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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!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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With the
lessening
smoke and thunder,
Our glasses around we aim--
What is that burning yonder?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And now the four,
Ulysses, dauntless Hero, and his friends
All hurl'd their spears
together
in return,
Himself Ulysses, city-waster Chief,
Wounded Eurydamas; Ulysses' son
Amphimedon; the swine-herd Polybus;
And in his breast the keeper of the beeves
Ctesippus, glorying over whom, he cried.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Lazily I lounge through labyrinthine corridors,
And with eyes suddenly altered,
I peer into an office I do not know,
And wonder at a
startled
face that penetrates my own.
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Imagists |
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--my
thoughts
do twine and bud
About thee, as wild vines, about a tree,
Put out broad leaves, and soon there's nought to see
Except the straggling green which hides the wood.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The story is further
discredited by the fact that we find no mention of it in Greek literature--
even among those Attic
comedians
who would have clutched at it so eagerly
and given it so gross a turn--till a date more than two hundred years after
Sappho's death.
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Sappho |
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Trumpets
sound, and drums]
ALL.
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Shakespeare |
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Form is half their art and
crucially
their poems were set to music, a large amount of which survives.
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Troubador Verse |
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And let our Ship of State to harbor sweep,
Her ports all up, her battle-lanterns lit,
And her leashed thunders
gathering
for their leap!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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THE QUEEN: Great
Heavens!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"
They grasp their jade drum-sticks: they beat the
sounding
drums.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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15
Otium et reges prius et beatas
Perdidit
urbes.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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FAUST:
Hast wieder
spioniert?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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What slender youth,
besprinkled
with perfume,
Courts you on roses in some grotto's shade?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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A train went through a burial gate,
A bird broke forth and sang,
And trilled, and quivered, and shook his throat
Till all the
churchyard
rang;
And then adjusted his little notes,
And bowed and sang again.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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' Thus
he
restrained
them, awakening a sense of duty in all the sager
breasts, and appealing to the fears of the younger men.
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Tacitus |
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I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches,
Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous of dark green,
And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself,
But I wonder'd how it could utter joyous leaves
standing
alone there
without its friend near, for I knew I could not,
And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it and
twined around it a little moss,
And brought it away, and I have placed it in sight in my room,
It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends,
(For I believe lately I think of little else than of them,)
Yet it remains to me a curious token, it makes me think of manly love;
For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana
solitary in a wide in a wide flat space,
Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near,
I know very well I could not.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Theseus' widow dares to love
Hippolytus!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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e
captiuitee
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls
wreathed
with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
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T.S. Eliot |
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And she hadde on a cote of grene
Of cloth of Gaunt; withouten wene,
Wel semed by hir
apparayle
575
She was not wont to greet travayle.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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<>,
comincio
Beatrice, <
aver le luci tue chiare e acute;
e pero, prima che tu piu t'inlei,
rimira in giu, e vedi quanto mondo
sotto li piedi gia esser ti fei;
si che 'l tuo cor, quantunque puo, giocondo
s'appresenti a la turba triunfante
che lieta vien per questo etera tondo>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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230
Phaeacian Chiefs and Senators, I speak
The dictates of my mind,
therefore
attend!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Sir Eglamour, a
thousand
times good morrow!
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Shakespeare |
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"Agricola," as Hume observes, "was the general who finally established the
dominion
of the Romans in this island.
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Tacitus |
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or did I see all
The glory as I dreamed, and fainted when
Too
vehement
light dilated my ideal,
For my soul's eyes?
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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It becomes
intelligible
as
soon as we observe that Sophocles was deliberately seeking what he
regarded as an archaic or "Homeric" style (cf.
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Euripides - Electra |
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"
All of the gods kept their counsel, and none would reply to the braggart,
Lest in a pique she devise
vengeance
against one of them.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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THE FUTURE
After ten
thousand
centuries have gone,
Man will ascend the last long pass to know
That all the summits which he saw at dawn
Are buried deep in everlasting snow.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the
assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's
goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will
remain freely available for
generations
to come.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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That he would crave your grace, if consciously
From the right path my guilty
footsteps
stray.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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In the
Highlands
of Scotland may
still be gleaned some relics of the old songs about Cuthullin and
Fingal.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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A few days after writing this letter, as the Cardinal of Boulogne had
not kept his word about
returning
to Avignon, and as he heard no news of
him, Petrarch determined to set out for Italy.
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Petrarch |
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Act IV Scene VI (Phaedra, Oenone)
Phaedra
Dear Oenone, do you know what I have
learned?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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A
specimen of his
sentimental
poetry will be found on p.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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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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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Whether a book is still in
copyright
varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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For al Appollo, or his clerkes lawes,
Or calculinge
avayleth
nought three hawes;
Desyr of gold shal so his sowle blende,
That, as me lyst, I shal wel make an ende.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Washington's
Monument
February, 1885
Ah, not this marble, dead and cold:
Far from its base and shaft expanding--the round zones circling,
comprehending,
Thou, Washington, art all the world's, the continents' entire--not
yours alone, America,
Europe's as well, in every part, castle of lord or laborer's cot,
Or frozen North, or sultry South--the African's--the Arab's in his tent,
Old Asia's there with venerable smile, seated amid her ruins;
(Greets the antique the hero new?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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He ate,
standing
up and walking about, whatever he might find on
the sideboard, and this is not good for the insides of human beings.
| Guess: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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It's not time but we
ourselves
who pass,
And soon beneath the silent tomb we lie:
And after death there'll be no news, alas,
Of these desires of which we are so full:
So love me now, while you are beautiful.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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If I were to suspect death, I should die now:
Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited toward
annihilation?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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We cannot
overcome
destiny.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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With shaded eyes your vision follows
The gentle swans'
receding
train.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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With shaded eyes your vision follows
The gentle swans'
receding
train.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The summer trees have clad
themselves
in shade;
The autumn "lan"[51] already houses the dew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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how shall summer's honey breath hold out,
Against the wrackful siege of
battering
days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong but Time decays?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I go without my clothes now,
One thin shirt for me,
For noble love
protects
now
From the chilly breeze.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Pan first with wax taught reed with reed to join;
For sheep alike and
shepherd
Pan hath care.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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his carcas long unfed; 430
His mind was full of
spirituall
repast,
And pyn'd his flesh, to keepe his body low and chast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
"When shall this slough of sense be cast,
This dust of
thoughts
be laid at last,
The man of flesh and soul be slain
And the man of bone remain?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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That some
disaster
cleft Thy scheme
And tore us wide apart,
So that no cry can cross, I deem;
For Thou art mild of heart,
And would'st not shape and shut us in
Where voice can not he heard:
'Tis plain Thou meant'st that we should win
Thy succour by a word.
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And nothing ever came so neare to this,
As
contemplation
of that Prince, wee misse.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
]
Sara Teasdale
Sara
Teasdale
was born in St.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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the experienced sisters and the
inexperienced
sisters!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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'Tis said, a child was in her womb,
As now to any eye was plain;
She was with child, and she was mad,
Yet often she was sober sad
From her
exceeding
pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
LXIV
Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground,
Why do you stand,
expectant?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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My minnie does
constantly
deave me,
And bids me beware o' young men;
They flatter, she says, to deceive me,
But wha can think sae o' Tam Glen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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They, believing they'd
achieved
surprise,
Fearless, closed, anchored, disembarked,
And then they ran against us in the dark.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Alexander
the Great was wont to say, "He
hated that gardener that plucked his herbs or flowers up by the roots.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The tapers slowly fade
Thou
speedest
from these halls,
Now that thy love is dead--
And sound of weeping falls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Her women
removed her wraps and proceeded to get her in
readiness
for the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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and suppose that a wild little Horse of Magic
Came cantering out of the sky,
With bridle of silver, and into the saddle I mounted,
To fly--and to fly;
And we stretched up into the air, fleeting on in the sunshine,
A speck in the gleam,
On
galloping
hoofs, his mane in the wind out-flowing,
In a shadowy stream;
And oh, when, all lone, the gentle star of evening
Came crinkling into the blue,
A magical castle we saw in the air, like a cloud of moonlight,
As onward we flew;
And across the green moat on the drawbridge we foamed and we snorted,
And there was a beautiful Queen
Who smiled at me strangely; and spoke to my wild little Horse, too--
A lovely and beautiful Queen;
And she cried with delight--and delight--to her delicate maidens,
'Behold my daughter--my dear!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Dreaming
when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky
I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry,
"Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup
Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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On Chalais'
Vicomtess
I call;
I'd have her give instantly
Her throat and hands to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Henry, who
reigned by the title of Count, improved every
advantage
which offered.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Or is this deeper
darkness
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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It is a
perilous
tale!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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To know of these who would not pay
attention?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
' But all the manuscripts which contain the
one poem contain also the next, 'If great men wrong me,' and though
none have added the
initials
'J.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
What
indignity
hath marred thy serene visage?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
15
I pardon thee, than Sapphic Muse more learn'd,
Damsel: for truly sung in sweetest lays
Was by
Cecilius
Magna Mater's praise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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for
herdsman
and for herd!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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But these between a silver streamlet glides,
And scarce a name distinguisheth the brook,
Though rival
kingdoms
press its verdant sides.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
Before beginning to relate those strange events to which I was witness,
I must say a few words about the state of affairs in the
district
of
Orenburg about the end of the year 1773.
| 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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Behold the
blackness
shrink, and flee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Not always actions show the man: we find
Who does a kindness, is not therefore kind;
Perhaps prosperity
becalmed
his breast,
Perhaps the wind just shifted from the east:
Not therefore humble he who seeks retreat,
Pride guides his steps, and bids him shun the great:
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave,
He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave:
Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,
His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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But----May I tell you
something?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Owneth thy sire one third, one third is right of thy mother,
Only the third is thine: stint thee to strive with the others,
Who to the
stranger
son have yielded their dues with a dower!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Why, God would be content
With but a
fraction
of the love
Poured thee without a stint.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Although love cause me to sigh,
I'll not
complain
of a thing;
For the noblest, I choose to die,
Though evil for good may sting,
So long as she consents that I
Hope, mercy she yet may bring,
Whatever suffering I may buy,
I'll not claim for anything.
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Troubador Verse |
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One
of the two thieves
crucified
with Him is converted.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The leaves
unhooked
themselves from trees
And started all abroad;
The dust did scoop itself like hands
And throw away the road.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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For thou, to keep thy body to thy soul,
Must swing a censer, wear a holy stole,
And chaunt Te Deums with
unbelief
between.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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'Tis he, the man by whom men live and die;
But could one look beyond that phantom eye,
As by the wall he leans a little space,
And see what shadows fill his soul's dark place,
Not the fair child, the waters clear, the flowers
Golden with sunset--not the birds, the bowers--
No; 'neath that eye, those fatal brows that keep
The fathomless brain, like ocean, dark and deep,
There, as in moving mirage, should one find
A fleet of ships that go before the wind:
On the foamed wave, and 'neath the starlight pale,
The strain and rattle of a fleet in sail,
And through the fog an isle on her white rock
Hearkening
from far the thunder's coming shock.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Each highest joy of earth must yield its zest,
Not all the world--the
boundless
azure--
Can fill the void within his craving breast.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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In what
miserable
cafe she
dines I know not, nor in what manner.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Chanson de Roland |
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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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The warlike
clarions
ceast.
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Blake - Zoas |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Yet no hall that wealth e'er plann'd
Waits you more surely than the wider room
Traced by Death's yet
greedier
hand.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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