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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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But though I am a
daughter
to his blood,
I am not to his manners.
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Shakespeare |
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All
creation
slept and smiled.
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blake-poems |
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We are many and strong
Whom thou
standest
among,--
And we press on the air,
And we stifle thee back,
And we multiply where
Thou wouldst trample us down
From rights of our own
To an utter wrong--
And, from under the feet of thy scorn,
O forlorn,
We shall spring up like corn,
And our stubble be strong.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The judgment cannot
be praised which selected a farm with a wet cold bottom, and sowed it
with unsound seed; but that man who
despairs
because a wet season robs
him of the fruits of the field, is unfit for the warfare of life,
where fortitude is as much required as by a general on a field of
battle, when the tide of success threatens to flow against him.
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Robert Forst |
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SAS}
Thy brother Luvah hath smitten me but pity thou his youth
Tho thou hast not pitid my Age O Urizen Prince of Light
{According
to Erdman, "Blake first wrote and erased a different text for 8, ending ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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A flowery
kingdom?
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Stephen Crane |
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e
wedenysday
a ni?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Burns
March, 1787
Verses
Intended
To Be Written Below A Noble Earl's Picture^1
Whose is that noble, dauntless brow?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to understand you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll
remember
each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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docte sermones
utriusque
linguae,
uoueram dulcis epulas et album
Libero caprum prope funeratus
arboris ictu.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"Ah," he thought, "if the old
Countess
would only reveal the secret to
me.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And all the while
Artemis and bold Athene admired him,
Slaying stags without dogs or
treacherous
nets;
For he conquered them on foot.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Heathcote
himself, and such large-acred men,
Lords of fat E'sham, or of Lincoln fen,
Buy every stick of wood that lends them heat,
Buy every pullet they afford to eat.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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You, O
hospitable
god, will by no means now banish a stranger
From your Olympian heights back to the base earth again.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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1460
What
proferestow
thy light here for to selle?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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In
thieving
thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high, surmounted by a cross-beam.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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El comincio: <
de l'albero che vive de la cima
e frutta sempre e mai non perde foglia,
spiriti son beati, che giu, prima
che
venissero
al ciel, fuor di gran voce,
si ch'ogne musa ne sarebbe opima.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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BOREDOM, VERSUS ENJOYMENT
If you and I, dear Martial, might
Enjoy our days in Care's despite,
And could control each leisure hour,
Both free to cull life's real flower,
Then should we never know the halls
Of patrons or law's wearying calls,
Or
troublous
court or family pride;
But we should chat or read or ride,
Play games or stroll in porch or shade,
Visit the hot baths or "The Maid.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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With
Charlemagne
I soon will have thee friends;
To Guenelun such justice shall be dealt
Day shall not dawn but men of it will tell.
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Chanson de Roland |
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o'er whose early tomb
Tears, big tears, gushed from the rough soldier's lid,
Lamenting
and yet envying such a doom,
Falling for France, whose rights he battled to resume.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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This Seyd perceives, then first perceives how few,
Compared
with his, the Corsair's roving crew,
And blushes o'er his error, as he eyes
The ruin wrought by Panic and Surprise.
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Byron |
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His
rapturous
wedding ode, the _Epithalamion_,
which is, by general consent, the most glorious bridal song in our
language, and the most perfect of all his poems in its freshness, purity,
and passion, was also published in 1595.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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--Two wings this orb
Possess'd for glory, two fair argent wings,
Ever exalted at the God's approach:
And now, from forth the gloom their plumes immense
Rose, one by one, till all
outspreaded
were;
While still the dazzling globe maintain'd eclipse,
Awaiting for Hyperion's command.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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_ Slew he not
Beleses?
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| Source: |
Byron |
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These
travellers
were mounted on four dromedaries, and having passed through Spain, they went to Norway and from there to Babylon and the Holy Land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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As flavors cheer retarded guests
With banquetings to be,
So spices
stimulate
the time
Till my small library.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Redistribution is subject to the
trademark license, especially
commercial
redistribution.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Calico ban,
The little Mice ran
To be ready in time for tea;
Flippity
flup,
They drank it all up,
And danced in the cup:
But they never came back to me;
They never came back,
They never came back,
They never came back to me.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
The room
shakes, the
servitor
quakes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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uiderat ille fuga stratos in litore Achiuos
feruere et
Hectorea
Dorica castra face;
uiderat informem multa Patroclon harena
porrectum et sparsas caede iacere comas,
omnia formosam propter Briseida passus:
tantus in erepto saeuit amore dolor.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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In the
beginning
was the Word.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Lanier, as "that ample stretch
of generous soil, where the Appalachian ruggednesses calm themselves
into pleasant hills before dying quite away into the sea-board levels" --
where "a man can find such temperances of heaven and earth --
enough of struggle with nature to draw out manhood, with enough of bounty
to
sanction
the struggle -- that a more exquisite co-adaptation
of all blessed circumstances for man's life need not be sought.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Seated in companies they sit, with
radiance
all their own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Much use for years
Had
gradually
worn it an oblate
Spheroid that kicked and struggled in its gait,
Appearing to return me hate for hate.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
13, 1862]
The increasing moonlight drifts across my bed,
And on the churchyard by the road, I know
It falls as white and
noiselessly
as snow.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Yet by another sign thy offspring know;
The several trees you gave me long ago,
While yet a child, these fields I loved to trace,
And trod thy footsteps with unequal pace;
To every plant in order as we came,
Well-pleased, you told its nature and its name,
Whate'er my
childish
fancy ask'd, bestow'd:
Twelve pear-trees, bowing with their pendent load,
And ten, that red with blushing apples glow'd;
Full fifty purple figs; and many a row
Of various vines that then began to blow,
A future vintage!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Come on afoot a
thousand
Sarrazens,
And on horseback some forty thousand men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
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individual
Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
For gem-stoned rings, on hand,
They've
Egyptian
scarabs,
In well-cut buttonholes,
Dandelions from the wasteland.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
A bristly bear of
monstrous
size!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I arrived at Simbirsk during the night, where I was to stay twenty-four
hours, that
Saveliitch
might do sundry commissions entrusted to him.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Through green bamboos a deep road ran
Where dark
creepers
brushed our coats as we passed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Yet oft, to soothe this lone and anguish'd heart,
By pity led, she comes my couch to seek,
Nor find I other solace here below:
And if her thrilling tones my strain could speak
And look divine, with Love's enkindling dart
Not man's sad breast alone, but
fiercest
beasts should glow.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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ei weren
enfourmed
of my maneres.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
]
&
cortaysye
is closed so clene in hym-seluen,
[C] Couth not ly3tly haf lenged so long wyth a lady,
1300 Bot he had craued a cosse, bi his courtaysye,
Bi sum towch of summe tryfle, at sum tale3 ende.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
The sea, all water, yet
receives
rain still,
And in abundance addeth to his store;
So thou, being rich in 'Will,' add to thy 'Will'
One will of mine, to make thy large will more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Sanche
Her ardour
deceived
her, in spite of me:
I left the fight, Sire, to recount it swiftly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Around, by lifting winds forgot,
Resignedly beneath the sky
The
melancholy
waters lie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
His nature's a glass of
champagne
with the foam on 't,
As tender as Fletcher, as witty as Beaumont;
So his best things are done in the flush of the moment;
If he wait, all is spoiled; he may stir it and shake it, 720
But, the fixed air once gone, he can never re-make it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Sharp violins proclaim
Their jealous pangs and desperation,
Fury, frantic indignation,
Depth of pains, and height of passion
For the fair,
disdainful
dame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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ou co{m}mittest
[{and}]
bitakest
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
The eyes, the face, the limbs of heavenly mould,
So long the theme of my impassion'd lay,
Charms which so stole me from myself away,
That strange to other men the course I hold;
The crisped locks of pure and lucid gold,
The lightning of the angelic smile, whose ray
To earth could all of
paradise
convey,
A little dust are now!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
And, in the summer's heat,
Lay not your hand on it, for while the iron hours beat
Gray anvils in the sky, it glows again
With
unfulfilled
desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Has the
unprincipled
god, Cupid, seduced you now too?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Le Testament: Rondeau
Death, I cry out at your harshness,
That stole my girl away from me,
Yet you're not
satisfied
I see
Until I languish in distress.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word processing or
hypertext
form.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Thel answerd, O thou little virgin of the
peaceful
valley.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Then I cried in despair,
"I see
nothing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Quali a veder de' fioretti del melo
che del suo pome li angeli fa ghiotti
e perpetue nozze fa nel cielo,
Pietro e
Giovanni
e Iacopo condotti
e vinti, ritornaro a la parola
da la qual furon maggior sonni rotti,
e videro scemata loro scuola
cosi di Moise come d'Elia,
e al maestro suo cangiata stola;
tal torna' io, e vidi quella pia
sovra me starsi che conducitrice
fu de' miei passi lungo 'l fiume pria.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
38, before
quoting this poem,
"My feelings and imagination did not remain unkindled in this general
conflagration; and I confess I should be more
inclined
to be ashamed
than proud of myself if they had!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
O glad, exulting,
culminating
song!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Derriere les ennuis et les vastes chagrins
Qui chargent de leur poids l'existence brumeuse,
Heureux celui qui peut d'une aile vigoureuse
S'elancer vers les champs
lumineux
et sereins!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
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below, apply if you wish to copy and
distribute
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under the Project's "PROJECT GUTENBERG" trademark.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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But they, placed high on the top of all
virtue, looked down on the stage of the world and
contemned
the play of
fortune.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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A youth should not be made to hate
study before he know the causes to love it, or taste the bitterness
before the sweet; but called on and allured, entreated and praised--yea,
when he
deserves
it not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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On bravely through the sunshine and the
showers!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
But the great hall of
generations
dead
Has something more sepulchral and more dread
Than lurid glare from seven-branched chandelier
Or table lone with stately dais near--
Two rows of arches o'er a colonnade
With knights on horseback all in mail arrayed,
Each one disposed with pillar at his back
And to another vis-a-vis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
One of their reforms was the remodelling of the equestrian order;
and, having effected this reform, they
determined
to give to
their work a sanction derived from religion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Others for
Language
all their care express, 305
And value books, as women men, for Dress:
Their praise is still--the Style is excellent:
The Sense, they humbly take upon content.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
how can Love's eye be true,
That is so vexed with
watching
and with tears?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
In pride, in
reasoning
pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
LXV
Softly the wind moves through the radiant morning,
And the warm
sunlight
sinks into the valley,
Filling the green earth with a quiet joyance,
Strength, and fulfilment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Erinna
They sent you in to say
farewell
to me,
No, do not shake your head; I see your eyes
That shine with tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
For a
Roman, the chief matter for an epic poem would be Roman civilization;
for a Puritan, it would be the
relations
of God and man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
but in the
very gateway, within their native city and amid their
sheltering
homes,
they are pierced through and gasp out their life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
see how these brutes are
bursting
my
belly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Her
innocence in the original story was established by a combat in the
lists, but this the poet proposed to omit as
contrary
to the rules of
Aristotle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Di qua, di la, su per lo sasso tetro
vidi demon cornuti con gran ferze,
che li battien
crudelmente
di retro.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Bay State, singular effect
produced
on military officers by leaving it.
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James Russell Lowell |
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A hundred fruits, all mixed up together;
A
thousand
branches, flowering in due rotation.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Petrarch wrote repeatedly to De Bury for his promised
explanations respecting Thule; but, whether our
countryman
had found
nothing in his library to satisfy his inquiries, or was prevented by his
public occupations, there is no appearance of his having ever answered
Petrarch's letters.
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Petrarch |
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Yea, and eastward thou art free
To the portals of the sea,
And Pelion, the unharboured, is but
minister
to thee.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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e laste I
may
conclude
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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After
lurking awhile under the clothes
considering
what it all meant, Gawayne
unlocked his eyelids, and put on a look of surprise, at the same time
making the sign of the cross, as if afraid of some hidden danger (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And if Rollant was
forfeited
to Guenes
Still your service to him full warrant gave.
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Chanson de Roland |
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e hende kyng at hert hade wonder,
468 He let no
semblaunt
be sene, bot sayde ful hy3e
To ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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+------------------------------------------------------------+
SEA GARDEN
The editors and publishers concerned have kindly given me permission to
reprint some of the poems in this book which
appeared
originally in
"Poetry" (Chicago), "The Egoist" (London), "The Little Review"
(Chicago), "Greenwich Village" (New York), the first Imagist anthology
(New York: A.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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where
The dancers will break footing, from the care
Of watching up thy
pregnant
lips for more.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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, _to esteem, to make
prominent
with praise_: III.
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Beowulf |
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[Sidenote: Yet, though now hidden in its fleshly members, it hath
some
remembrance
of its pure state--it retains the sums of things,
but has lost their particulars.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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When
pleasant
it shall seem to thee, so much
That upward going shall be easy to thee.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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280
This Pandare, that of al the day biforn
Ne mighte han comen Troilus to see,
Al-though he on his heed it hadde y-sworn,
For with the king Pryam alday was he,
So that it lay not in his
libertee
285
No-wher to gon, but on the morwe he wente
To Troilus, whan that he for him sente.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Chaucer's worst
ribaldry
is learned by rote,
And beastly Skelton heads of houses quote:
One likes no language but the Faery Queen;
A Scot will fight for Christ's Kirk o' the Green:
And each true Briton is to Ben so civil,
He swears the Muses met him at the devil.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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