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I have wished in the grief of my heart to know
If the vase yet treasured that nectar so clear,
And to see what this
beautiful
valley could show
Of all that was once to my soul most dear.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Up to the time of the publication of these volumes, Rilke's poems
possessed a quietude, a stillness suggested in the
straight
unbroken yet
delicate lines of the picture which he portrays and in the soft, almost
unpulsating rhythm of his words.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Then Mary
Bayfield
seeks the glen,
The white hawthorn and grey oak tree,
And nought but heaven can tell me then
How dear thy beauty is to me.
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John Clare |
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Your company to th' Capitol; where, I know,
Our
greatest
friends attend us.
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Shakespeare |
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AWAY the silly lad with ardour flew,
And left no time
objections
to renew.
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La Fontaine |
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A rime he makes,
sorrow-song for his son there hanging
as rapture of ravens; no rescue now
can come from the old,
disabled
man!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Appoloinaire |
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Those we've loved and those we've hated,
All, to-day, the rite will keep,
All, to-day, their dishes heap
With plump
Thanksgiving
turkey.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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21, 1864]
_After Sherman left Tennessee in May, to the taking of Atlanta
September 2, there was hardly a day without its battle; after he
left Atlanta he marched to the sea and took Savannah; then he went
to Columbia and the
backbone
of the Rebellion was broken.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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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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As strange a
question
as
this was, I hesitated not a moment to tell him 'Stepney'; the parish in
which I live when in London.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Her answer'd, then,
Penelope
discrete.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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For you a
programme
of chants.
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Whitman |
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We will swap horses with the rising moon,
And mend that funny skillet called Orion,
Color the stars like San Francisco's street-lights,
And paint our sign and signature on high
In planets like a bed of crimson pansies;
While a million fiddles shake all
listening
hearts,
Crying good fortune to the Universe,
Whispering adventure to the Ganges waves,
And to the spirits, and all winds and gods.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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cum bene surrexit uersu noua pagina primo,
attenuat neruos proximus ille meos;
nec mihi materiast numeris
leuioribus
apta,
aut puer aut longas compta puella comas.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I have
filled up the void with lines from a fragment left by the author
having
reference
to this canto.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of
chestnuts
in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Also, to avoid any
appearance
of precedence,
they have been put in alphabetical order.
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Imagists |
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I spoke to him of garlic,
he
answered
asparagus; consulted him of marriage, he tells me of hanging,
as if they went by one and the same destiny.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The seruice, and the
loyaltie
I owe,
In doing it, payes it selfe.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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She wings her way, and darts in a
whirlwind
to earth.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Neither Camilla, nor the warlike host
That cut their breasts, could so much valour boast
Nor Caesar in
Pharsalia
fought so well,
As she 'gainst him who pierceth coats of mail;
All her brave virtues arm'd, attended there,
(A glorious troop!
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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To me thy bearing
Stamps thee of Grecian, not of
Scythian
race.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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He wrote to
Cardinal
Colonna the following
account of his voyage.
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Petrarch |
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Je te
frapperai
sans colere
Et sans haine,--comme un boucher!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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ou art welcome vs vntille,
Her-Inne
schaltou
wone;
Page 44
216
I was out after ?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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O voices
strangely
speaking,
Voices of man and woman, voices of bells,
Diversely making comment on our time
Which flows and bears us with it into dusk,
Repeat the things you say!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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He thither guided, where but forest-trees
He thinks to find, a
sumptuous
palace sees.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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795
Swefte, as yer shyppes, the vanquyshed Dacyannes flie;
Swefte, as the rayne uponne an Aprylle daie,
Pressynge
behynde, the Englysche soldyerres slaie.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars,
Like petals from a rose,
When
suddenly
across the June
A wind with fingers goes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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What angry gods to these dark regions led
Thee, yet alive,
companion
of the deed?
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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The Emperor sent him a gold
embossed
cup of admirable
workmanship, accompanied by a letter, expressing his high regard, and
repeating his request that he would pay him a visit in Germany.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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three, four, or more, seek shelter, they
That first arrive, in peace their
quarters
take.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Lone in the light of that magical grove,
I felt the stars of the spirits of Love
Gather and gleam round my
delicate
youth,
And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth;
To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Let Bourbon exult in his gay gilded lilies,
And England triumphant display her proud rose:
A fairer than either adorns the green valleys,
Where Devon, sweet Devon,
meandering
flows.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Canst legibler write than Concord's large-stroked Act,
Or when at Bunker Hill the clubbed guns
cracked?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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"
la la
To
Carthage
then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou pluckest me out
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 310
IV.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Southey and Cottle's edition is very
compendious
so
far as matter goes, and contains much that is printed for the first
time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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It happens, too,
That hither to the skies from the Beyond
Do come those
particles
which make the clouds
And flying thunderheads.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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As by the dead we love to sit,
Become so
wondrous
dear,
As for the lost we grapple,
Though all the rest are here, --
In broken mathematics
We estimate our prize,
Vast, in its fading ratio,
To our penurious eyes!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And
sweetest
in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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E'en when thou
strivest
there within Art's sky
(Each star must o'er a strenuous orbit fly),
Full calm thine image in our love doth lie,
A Motion glassed in a Tranquillity.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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--a
clamorous
curse,
A dirge of ruin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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It sickens me yet, that
slaughter!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The
troubled
plumes of midnight were
The plumes upon a hearse:
And bitter wine upon a sponge
Was the savour of Remorse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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[Illustration]
The
Worrying
Whizzing Wasp,
who stood on a Table, and played sweetly on a
Flute with a Morning Cap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Only the maidens
question
not
The bridges that lead to Dream;
Their luminous smiles are like strands of pearls
On a silver vase agleam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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he ne'er designed
To slay himself with blade or ball,
Indifferent he became to all,
And like Childe Harold gloomily
He to the
festival
repairs,
Nor boston nor the world's affairs
Nor tender glance nor amorous sigh
Impressed him in the least degree,--
Callous to all he seemed to be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Should Frisian, moreover, with foeman's taunt,
that
murderous
hatred to mind recall,
then edge of the sword must seal his doom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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--how
Each by his own strength sought his own Ideal,--
The ultimate
Perfection
leaning bright
From out the sun and stars to bless the leal
And earnest search of all for Fair and Right
Through doubtful forms by earth accounted real!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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The
fountain
sang and sang
And on the marble rim
The milk-white peacocks slept,
Their dreams were strange and dim.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Till mighty Brahma puts his golden palm
Within the gipsy king's great striped tent,
And asks his fortune told by that great love-line
That winds across his palm in
splendid
flame.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Moreover, you must walk like a camel, which is said to be the only
beast which
ruminates
when walking.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Existence may be borne, and the deep root
Of life and
sufferance
make its firm abode
In bare and desolate bosoms: mute
The camel labours with the heaviest load,
And the wolf dies in silence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Perhaps, and no
unlikely
thought!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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[_He breaks into
inarticulate
weeping_
CHORUS.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
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things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm
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works
even without complying with the full terms of this agreement.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Was it in my
guidance
the [92-125]adulterous Dardanian broke
into Sparta?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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And boyhood is a summer sun
Whose waning is the
dreariest
one--
For all we live to know is known,
And all we seek to keep hath flown--
Let life, then, as the day-flower, fall
With the noon-day beauty--which is all.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Ah, well,
Brief is the glory that hero earns,
Briefer the story of poor John Burns:
He was the fellow who won renown,--
The only man who didn't back down
When the rebels rode through his native town;
But held his own in the fight next day,
When all his
townsfolk
ran away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Firelight
he saw,
beams of a blaze that brightly shone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Then warm moist hours steal in,
Such as can draw the year's
First fragrance from the sap of cherry wood
Or from the leaves of budless violets;
And
travellers
in lanes
Catch the hot tawny smell
Reynard's damp fur left as he sneakt marauding
Across from gap to gap:
And in the larch woods on the highest boughs
The long-eared owls like grey cats sitting still
Peer down to quiz the passengers below.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Possibly
it means that all things high and low are filled
alike with the divine spirit and in this sense all things are equal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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But upon Padus' brink shall die Volusius his annals
And to the
mackerel
oft loose-fitting jacket afford.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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This refers to the
relation
between the Consort Zheng Qianyao and Zheng Qian.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Neat little
inkstand!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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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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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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non fuit in terris uocum
simulantior
ales:
reddebas blaeso tam bene uerba sono!
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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--All honest hearts
Must sorrow for a
brightness
that departs,
A good life worn away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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= Owing to
irregularity
in contents and arrangement in
different copies, the second volume of the First Folio has been
much discussed.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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20
qui natam possis complexu auellere matris,
complexu matris
retinentem
auellere natam,
et iuueni ardenti castam donare puellam.
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
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distributing
any Project Gutenberg(TM) works unless
you comply with paragraph 1.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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By the way, now that you have rested a little--I
wouldn't ask the old
question
before--what d'you think of the country?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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"Tell him it was n't a practised writer,
You guessed, from the way the
sentence
toiled;
You could hear the bodice tug, behind you,
As if it held but the might of a child;
You almost pitied it, you, it worked so.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"
"I will go where I am wanted, where there's room for one or two,
And the men are none too many for the work there is to do;
Where the
standing
line wears thinner and the dropping dead lie thick;
And the enemies of England they shall see me and be sick.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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This small
river falls
perpendicularly
nearly two hundred and fifty feet at one
pitch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And since I've neither heart nor might,
How should I sing or find
delight?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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org
Title: The World's
Greatest
Books -- Volume 17 -- Poetry and Drama
Author: Various
Editor: Arthur Mee
J.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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<
histoire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Now- for a breath I tarry
Nor yet
disperse
apart-
Take my hand quick and tell me,
What have you in your heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men
On the hills o' Galilee,
They whined as he walked out calm between, Wi' his eyes like the grey o' the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The excitement, we may well
suppose, would have been
peculiarly
intense at the annual
election of Tribunes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Lest as a pilgrim, again,
In such
twilight
shadows,
HE should alight, peradventure
Onto our earth, and then
Over the way he should glide,
--Parting the leaves with his radiance-
Through the copse to thy threshold,
There awhile to abide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Will it give place to flexure and low
bending?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
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: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I give thee back thy false, ephemeral vow;
But, O beloved comrade, ere we part,
Upon my
mournful
eyelids and my brow
Kiss me who hold thine image in my heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Tutti li lor
coperchi
eran sospesi,
e fuor n'uscivan si duri lamenti,
che ben parean di miseri e d'offesi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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You offend the gods,
creators
of your reality:
You betray the man to whom you pledged all loyalty:
You betray your children, those unfortunates,
Whom you drive beneath the yoke's harsh weight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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So leave they take of Coelia, and her
daughters
three.
| Guess: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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See for what may have given the hint for this
fragment
_Morte D'Arthur_,
bk.
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Tennyson |
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But he did show them to close friends,
one of whom was the
wonderful
dramatist Friedrich Schiller.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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They are eaten with
comparatively
little zest,
and have no real _tang_ nor _smack_ to them.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Love's
orchards
climbed to the heavens of the West,
And snowed the earthly sod with flowers.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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"
It was chiefly economic necessity which forced the poets of China into
the meshes of bureaucracy--backed by the Confucian
insistence
on public
service.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Dich kleidet's wie ein
Rasender
zu toben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Is wealth thy
restless
game?
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John Clare |
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Those times: the times when I was quite alone
By memories wrapt that
whispered
to me low,
My silence was the quiet of a stone
Over which rippling murmuring waters flow.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Scyros
desert remains, they leave Phthiotic Tempe, Crannon's homes, and the
fortressed walls of Larissa; to
Pharsalia
they hie, 'neath Pharsalian roofs
they gather.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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For
_resembling_
other copies give _refining_: the correct
reading is perhaps _revealing_.
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Golden Treasury |
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