could I thus my Laura's
presence
share,
How would my patient heart its sorrows bear!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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To
Aufidius
thus
I will appear, and fight.
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Shakespeare |
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These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Cheetah
I
remember
a slice of lemon, and a bitten macaroon.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Li Po |
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Not once have I thus
Broken accord,
Order ignored,
Unless I'm floored,
Too low to grace
Her lovely body's dwelling place;
So I fear
slanderers
have their say,
Who cause ladies and lovers dismay,
Lower us, and drive all joy away,
And each and every way harm me.
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Troubador Verse |
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to the President
at his levee,
And he says Good-day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugar-field,
And both
understand
him and know that his speech is right.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It is I too, the sleepless widow looking out on the winter midnight,
I see the
sparkles
of starshine on the icy and pallid earth.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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They neither love god, ne drede;
They kepe more than it is nede,
And in her bagges sore it binde, 5775
Out of the sonne, and of the winde;
They putte up more than nede ware,
Whan they seen pore folk forfare,
For hunger dye, and for cold quake;
God can wel
vengeaunce
therof take.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Now heaven's dread arms her mighty limbs invest,
Jove's cuirass blazes on her ample breast;
Deck'd in sad triumph for the
mournful
field,
O'er her broad shoulders hangs his horrid shield,
Dire, black, tremendous!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The pillow of this daring head
Is pungent evergreens;
His larder -- terse and
militant
--
Unknown, refreshing things;
His character a tonic,
His future a dispute;
Unfair an immortality
That leaves this neighbor out.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And my Sorrow grew like all living things, strong and beautiful
and full of
wondrous
delights.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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God hath made
us
conquerors
over the evil that was in us.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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She dried her feet on the
riverside
grass;
She looked at me once again,
And the playful beauty then took thought.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Yon nightingale, whose bursts of thrilling tone,
Pour'd in soft sorrow from her tuneful throat,
Haply her mate or infant brood bemoan,
Filling the fields and skies with pity's note;
Here
lingering
till the long long night is gone,
Awakes the memory of my cruel lot--
But I my wretched self must wail alone:
Fool, who secure from death an angel thought!
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Petrarch |
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Oft as in council under Ilium's walls 620
We met, he ever foremost was in speech,
Nor spake erroneous; Nestor and myself
Except, no
Greecian
could with him compare.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
Nor the seas change us, nor the
tempests
bend;
Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars:
And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,
We should but vow the faster for the stars.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Nous
regagnerions
le village
Au ciel mi-noir;
Et ca sentirait le laitage
Dans l'air du soir:
Ca sentirait l'etable pleine
De fumiers chauds,
Pleine d'un rythme lent d'haleine,
Et de grands dos
Blanchissant sous quelque lumiere;
Et, tout la-bas,
Une vache fienterait fiere,
A chaque pas!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Now through the passing cloud she seems to stoop,
Now up the pure
cerulean
rides sublime.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Honor
redeemed
though paid by parlous price,
Though lost be sunlit sports, wild boyhood's spice,
The Gates, the cheers of mates for bright device!
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
This same Whitehall may black its front with crape,
And this broad window be the portal twice
To lead upon a
scaffold!
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| Question: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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four books,
amounting
to
about 2500 lines.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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"
NURSE'S SONG
When voices of
children
are heard on the green,
And whisperings are in the dale,
The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind,
My face turns green and pale.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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TO THE SHAH
FROM ENWERI
Not in their houses stand the stars,
But o'er the
pinnacles
of thine!
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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A dimmer Renown might strike
If Death lay square alongside--
But the Old Flag has no like,
She must fight,
whatever
betide--
When the war is a tale of old,
And this day's story is told,
They shall hear how the Hartford died!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Did you
grate out to the
soldiers
what was given you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Naught are all women: I say no,
Since for one bad, one good I know:
For Clytemnestra most unkind,
Loving
Alcestis
there we find:
For one Medea that was bad,
A good Penelope was had:
For wanton Lais, then we have
Chaste Lucrece, a wife as grave:
And thus through womankind we see
A good and bad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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on voit trainer a terre,
Epars autour des lits, des
vetements
de deuil:
L'apre bise d'hiver qui se lamente au seuil,
Souffle dans le logis son haleine morose!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Who trusts an harlot's smile,
And by her wiles are led,
Plays, with a sword the while
Hung
dropping
oer his head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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I'd missed her,
She came anew,
To play i' the fount alone but for her sister,
And bared to view
The finest, rosiest, most
tempting
ankle,
Like that of child--
Oh!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
1115
Phaedra alone
bewitched
your lustful senses.
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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FAUST:
Ja, wenn der Pfarrer ein
Komodiant
ist;
Wie das denn wohl zuzeiten kommen mag.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Thy deep eyes, a double Planet,
Gaze the wisest into madness
With soft clear fire,--the winds that fan it
Are those thoughts of tender
gladness
_10
Which, like zephyrs on the billow,
Make thy gentle soul their pillow.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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_ Why then begin; and all the while we make
Our slothful passage o'er the Stygian Lake,
Thou and I'll sing to make these dull shades merry,
Who else with tears would
doubtless
drown my ferry.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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He was
incorporated
at Oxford in 1628, where he took the degree of
D.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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" methought she said,
"These eyes not yet from thee
withdraw
their light.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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" One verse,
interpolated
by Beattie, is here
omitted:--it contains two good lines, but is quite out of harmony with
the original poem.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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She turned away, but with the autumn weather
Compelled
my imagination many days,
Many days and many hours:
Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
For Youth and
Pleasance
will not stay,
And ye are withered, worn, and gray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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There's an
advantage
in ruin," said she.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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You own'd persons
dropping
sweat-drops or blood-drops!
| 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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There, two gleaming rubies stand erectly,
Whose crimson rays set off that ivory,
Smoothed so
uniformly
on every side:
There all grace abounds, and every worth,
And beauty, if there's any on this earth,
Flies to rest there in that sweet paradise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Nearer To Us
Run and run towards deliverance
And find and gather everything
Deliverance and riches
Run so quickly the thread breaks
With the sound a great bird makes
A flag always soared beyond
Open Door
Life is truly kind
Come to me, if I go to you it's a game,
The angels of
bouquets
grant the flowers a change of hue.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Homing at dawn, I thought to see
One of the
Messengers
standing by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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He has almost supt: why haue you left the
chamber?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Neath the willow's wavy boughs,
Dolly, singing, milks her cows;
While the brook, as bubbling by,
Joins in
murmuring
melody.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
And through the solitudes remote and strange
The golden gloss of eve, from tree to tree,
Descends, amid the yellow, flamingly,
Then
darksome
mists o'er darksome bushes range.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
wherefore
did you blind
Yourself from his quick eyes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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"A
thousand
times I've been about to say,
Orlando too presumptuously goes on;
Here are we, counts, kings, dukes, to own thy sway,
Hamo, and Otho, Ogier, Solomon,
Each have to honour thee and to obey;
But he has too much credit near the throne,
Which we won't suffer, but are quite decided
By such a boy to be no longer guided.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
MENALCAS
You shall not balk me now; where'er you bid,
I shall be with you; only let us have
For auditor- or see, to serve our turn,
Yonder
Palaemon
comes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
the
measureless
waters of human tears?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Marks,
notations
and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Heav'n left to men the moulding of their fate:
To live as wolves or pile the pillar'd State--
Like boars and bears to grunt and growl in mire,
Or dwell aloft,
effulgent
gods, elate.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Will these buds be always
unblown?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Himself in the interior palace lay,
Where couch and cov'ring for her antient spouse
The consort Queen had
diligent
prepar'd.
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The Dalliance of the Eagles
Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,)
Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles,
The rushing amorous contact high in space together,
The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel,
Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling,
In
tumbling
turning clustering loops, straight downward falling,
Till o'er the river pois'd, the twain yet one, a moment's lull,
A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing,
Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate diverse flight,
She hers, he his, pursuing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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_ HILMAR
TONNESEN
_comes
through the garden gate.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"
So again I saw,
And leaped, unhesitant,
And struggled and fumed
With outspread
clutching
fingers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Under
these
circumstances
a wise man will look with great suspicion on
the legend which has come down to us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I see Freedom,
completely
armed, and victorious, and very haughty, with Law
by her side, both issuing forth against the idea of caste;
--What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Nor is it for nothing that the
fashion of Vergilian quotation so long
dominated
our parliamentary
eloquence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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What irksome hand, weaving these knots around,
Has
gathered
my hair with such care on my brow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
To mask my
departure
I'll stay here a moment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
]
This
Quatrain
Mr.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
at tu non una
potuisti
nocte uacare,
impia, non unum sola manere diem!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
" The officers, having tried those they
believed for their purpose, and found the majority still to persevere
in their duty, did, in
concurrence
with the General, settle the time for
falling with the sword upon the most notoriously guilty and turbulent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
The burning goads of
youthful
hearts, made hot
With frenzy of the spirit, not of wine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
XXXVI
When I pass thy door at night
I a
benediction
breathe:
"Ye who have the sleeping world
In your care,
"Guard the linen sweet and cool, 5
Where a lovely golden head
With its dreams of mortal bliss
Slumbers now!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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But
the truth is, that it has not lain in the ground so long, but is
regularly planted each year by various
quadrupeds
and birds.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
[6]
In the midst of the courtyard grows a cassia-tree,--
And candles on its
branches
flaring away in the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I have often reflected upon the subject; but what seems
to others a full answer, with me serves only to
increase
the
difficulty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Quenched in his blood,
the lamp he had trimmed with a skilful hand gave no more light; the
language of Tully and Virgil soon ceased to be spoken; and many ages
were to pass away, before learned diligence
restored
its purity, and the
union of genius with imitation taught a few modern writers to surpass in
eloquence the Latinity of Boethius.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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_Phil_,
otherwise
Philip or Phip, was a pet name for a sparrow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Archaic and variable
spelling
and hyphenation is preserved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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dignus cui leges, dignus cui pignora tanti
principis et rerum
commendarentur
habenae.
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One warm, flush'd moment, hovering, it might seem
Dash'd by the wood-nymph's beauty, so he burn'd;
Then, lighting on the printless verdure, turn'd
To the swoon'd serpent, and with languid arm,
Delicate, put to proof the lythe
Caducean
charm.
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Keats - Lamia |
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I, Madame, but
returnes
againe to Night
Lady.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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_Enter other_ SIGNORS OF THE NIGHT, _with_
BERTUCCIO
FALIERO _prisoner_.
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Byron |
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--tell me--tell me, I
implore!
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Poe - 5 |
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Would ye, to please
The house of Godunov, uplift a hand
Against the lawful tsar, against the grandson
Of
Monomakh?
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--No need,
I think, to bring up into speech the years
Since in the barley-field
Manasses
lay
Shot by the sun.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I know a place where summer strives
With such a
practised
frost,
She each year leads her daisies back,
Recording briefly, "Lost.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Ab fina joia comenssa
With noble joy commences
This verse that rhymes sweet words,
Where nothing harms the senses;
Yet I'd rather none might learn them
If my song does not concern them:
For may no
wretched
singer there,
Who'd render any song absurd,
Turn my sweet tune to braying.
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Troubador Verse |
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7 or obtain
permission
for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Damned Fact,
How it did greeue
Macbeth?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Ond' elli avvien ch'un
medesimo
legno,
secondo specie, meglio e peggio frutta;
e voi nascete con diverso ingegno.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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