London: documents at sight,
Asked me in demotic French
To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel
Followed
by a weekend at the Metropole.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Prom leaflets that bedeck the ground
Renewed and goodly scents arise,
The
coloured
volume I expound,
While you repeat the words I prize.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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' The full line is: [Greek:
h_e gl_ott' om_omok', h_e de phr_en an_omotos,] "my tongue has taken an
oath, but my mind is unsworn," a bit of
casuistry
which the critics were
never tired of bringing up against the author.
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Aristophanes |
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Soon as gay morn ascends her purple car,
The
plaintive
warblings of the new-waked grove,
The murmuring streams, through flowery meads that rove,
Fill with sweet melody the valleys fair.
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Petrarch |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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So next
Some wiser heads
instructed
men to found
The magisterial office, and did frame
Codes that they might consent to follow laws.
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Lucretius |
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28
theye were allwaye blythe and hende,
In hope that god shollde hem sende
[folio 145b] Some maydyn chyllde, or some man,
That theyre
herytages
myght hane;
So long theye prayed with good entent, 33
that a man chyllde god hem sent;
Page 24
whan they wyst ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I went to thank her,
But she slept;
Her bed a funnelled stone,
With
nosegays
at the head and foot,
That travellers had thrown,
Who went to thank her;
But she slept.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The content is however universal enough, I think, for a reader of any spiritual
persuasion
to respond in their own manner, within their own belief system.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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My
mistress
is no more, and with her gone my heart;
To follow her, I must need
Break short the course of my afflictive years:
To view her here below
I ne'er can hope; and irksome 'tis to wait.
| Guess: |
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Petrarch |
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Wild flowers of the glen,
Caves swoll'n with shadow, where sunshine
Has pierced not, far from men;
Ye sacred hills and antique rocks,
Ye oaks that worsted time,
Ye limpid lakes which snow-slide shocks
Hurl up in storms sublime;
And sky above,
unruflfed
blue,
Chaste rills that alway ran
From stainless source a course still true,
What think ye of this man?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Sawcy, and ouer-bold, how did you dare
To Trade, and Trafficke with Macbeth,
In Riddles, and
Affaires
of death;
And I the Mistris of your Charmes,
The close contriuer of all harmes,
Was neuer call'd to beare my part,
Or shew the glory of our Art?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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His black beard was beginning to turn grey;
his large quick eyes roved
incessantly
around.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Sample copies can be supplied only at the full
subscription
price, fifteen cents.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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deathless
flame Gave thee thine aureole, what Lord thy strength?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Let her
consider
his frailty, and then
judge of my merit.
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Shakespeare |
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"
Aunt Helen
Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt,
And lived in a small house near a
fashionable
square
Cared for by servants to the number of four.
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T.S. Eliot |
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this strange man has left me
Troubled
with wilder fancies, than the moon
Breeds in the love-sick maid who gazes at it,
Till lost in inward vision, with wet eye
She gazes idly!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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A few brief years flew by,
When she, for whom I so desire to die,
By black and
pitiless
Death, who could not slay
A fairer form than hers, was snatch'd away!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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O'er odorous Olympus and its snows _425
A
murmuring
tumult as they came arose,--
55.
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Shelley |
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_--The
characters
all represent various virtues and
vices, whose intrigues and warfare against each other symbolize the
struggle of the human soul after perfection.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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_Laniere_,
Nicholas
Laniere (1590?
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Robert Herrick |
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Giving to those that cannot crave, the voiceless, the o'er tired
The breath doth nourish the innocent lamb, he smells the milky garments
He crops thy flowers while thou sittest smiling in his face,
Wiping his mild and meekin mouth from all
contagious
taints.
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blake-poems |
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how can the entire household be
together
again?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and
reported
to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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| Question: |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Why has not man a
microscopic
eye?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Patroling Barnegat
Wild, wild the storm, and the sea high running,
Steady the roar of the gale, with incessant undertone muttering,
Shouts of demoniac laughter fitfully piercing and pealing,
Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing,
Out in the shadows there milk-white combs careering,
On beachy slush and sand spirts of snow fierce slanting,
Where through the murk the easterly death-wind breasting,
Through cutting swirl and spray
watchful
and firm advancing,
(That in the distance!
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Form and face
Of
womanhood
complete!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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He seems the center around which stars glow
While all earth's
ostentations
surge below.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Aye, me
And this my brother, loveless,
solitary?
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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590
The place he found beyond expression bright,
Compar'd with aught on Earth, Medal or Stone;
Not all parts like, but all alike informd
With radiant light, as glowing Iron with fire;
If mettal, part seemd Gold, part Silver cleer;
If stone, Carbuncle most or Chrysolite,
Rubie or Topaz, to the Twelve that shon
In Aarons Brest-plate, and a stone besides
Imagind rather oft then elsewhere seen,
That stone, or like to that which here below 600
Philosophers
in vain so long have sought,
In vain, though by thir powerful Art they binde
Volatil Hermes, and call up unbound
In various shapes old Proteus from the Sea,
Draind through a Limbec to his Native forme.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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* * * * *
Quiet as a grave beneath a spire
I lie and watch the pointed
climbing
fire,
I lie and watch the smoky weather-cock
That climbs too high, and bends to the breeze's shock,
And breaks, and dances off across the skies
Gay as a flurry of blue butterflies.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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An
introduction
to the poem, setting
forth these facts, is omitted.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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org
While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited
donations
from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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FAUST (laut):
Gretchen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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INDIAN DANCERS
Eyes ravished with rapture, celestially panting,
what passionate bosoms aflaming with fire
Drink deep of the hush of the hyacinth
heavens that glimmer around them in
fountains of light;
O wild and entrancing the strain of keen music
that
cleaveth
the stars like a wail of desire,
And beautiful dancers with houri-like faces
bewitch the voluptuous watches of night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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At last, laying aside his terror, he speaks
thus:
'"I am from an Ithacan home,
Achemenides
by name, set out for Troy in
luckless Ulysses' company; poor was my father Adamastus, and would God
fortune had stayed thus!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Homage
Each Dawn however numb
To raise a fist obscure
Against
trumpets
of azure
Sounded by her, the dumb,
Has the shepherd with his gourd
Joined to a rod struck harshly
Along the path to be
Till the vast stream's outpoured
Already thus solitary
You live O Puvis
De Chavannes
never alone
Lead our age to quench its thirst
From the shroud-less nymph, the one
Whom your glory will rehearse
.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Since the lecturer has raised the question whether Li T'ai-po or Tu
Fu is the greater poet, I would say that the Chinese of the present
day
consider
Tu Fu to be the greater.
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Li Po |
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_
Constable
& Co.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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O brown halo in the sky, near the moon,
drooping
upon the sea!
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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"
Alde
answered
him: "That word to me is strange.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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'
Thus he ended, and the
soothsayer
thus began: 'Whence, O Palinurus, this
fierce longing of thine?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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To him the Fates were known
Of orbs dim
hovering
on the skirts of space,
Unprescient, through God's mercy, of his own!
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Aeschylus |
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e
chaunceler
wel loude grad
whan he ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And thus to Betty's question, he
Made answer, like a
traveller
bold,
(His very words I give to you,)
"The cocks did crow to-whoo, to-whoo,
"And the sun did shine so cold.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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_
the
Standard
in Cheap.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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_ A telling
expression
for the dread of loss
which haunts so many wealthy people.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Among the old Germans, an estate
was separated by a fence from the
property
of others.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Monzaida offered to be interpreter for the
admiral, and to serve him in whatever besides he might
possibly
befriend
him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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`And al thonour that men may doon yow have, 120
As
ferforth
as your fader dwelled here,
Ye shul han, and your body shal men save,
As fer as I may ought enquere or here.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Happy then be your life, too: in it
antiquity
lives.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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charitable
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Keats - Lamia |
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They were subborned,
Malcolme, and
Donalbaine
the Kings two Sonnes
Are stolne away and fled, which puts vpon them
Suspition of the deed
Rosse.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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) A very
mysterious
Line in the Original:
O danad O danad O danad O--
breaking off something like our Wood-pigeon's Note, which she is said
to take up just where she left off.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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--Now the
initiate
youths, having followed this tale, all astonished,
Turned and beckoned their loves--love, do you comprehend?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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IV
Often an early King or Queen,
And storied hero onward, knew his sheen;
'Twas
glimpsed
by Wolfe, by Ney anon,
And Nelson on his blue demesne.
| 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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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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at it was a
necessarie
cause wyse men to taken {and} desire ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Who wishes to receive
visitations
often,
Mustn't load with too many flowers the stone
My finger raises with a dead power's boredom.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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You see it, mistress, and start to hide once more:
Do you hate the
daylight
you were searching for?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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[_The Attendant leads_
HERACLES
_into the house_.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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In short, Pierre Bon-Bon
not only saw plainly that his Majesty had no eyes whatsoever, but
could
discover
no indications of their having existed at any previous
period--for the space where eyes should naturally have been was, I am
constrained to say, simply a dead level of flesh.
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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THIS speech so well succeeded to inspire,
That
scarcely
could the men retain their ire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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My
insatiate
eyes
Meanwhile to heav'n had travel'd, even there
Where the bright stars are slowest, as a wheel
Nearest the axle; when my guide inquir'd:
"What there aloft, my son, has caught thy gaze?
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old man of Port Grigor,
Whose actions were noted for vigour;
He stood on his head till his waistcoat turned red,
That
eclectic
old man of Port Grigor.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Your castle has a hundred quiet halls,
A hundred chambers, where the shadows lie
On things put by,
forgotten
long ago.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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XLVII
It was my chance (my chance was faire and good) 410
There for to find a fresh unproved knight,
Whose manly hands imbrew'd in guiltie blood
Had never bene, ne ever by his might
Had throwne to ground the unregarded right:
Yet of his prowesse proofe he since hath made 415
(I witnesse am) in many a cruell fight;
The groning ghosts of many one dismaide
Have felt the bitter dint of his
avenging
blade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Chatterton had moved upon her husband's
death there was still a sufficient number of these old manuscripts to
make a considerable trove for the boy who, then nine or ten years old,
had first learnt to read in black-letter and was in a few years to
produce poetry which should pass for
fifteenth
century with many
well-reputed antiquaries.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Now right across proud Tarquin
A corpse was Julius laid;
And Titus groaned with rage and grief,
And at
Valerius
made.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Then where are your
feathers?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Ah, who will stay these hungry tears,
Or still the want of
famished
years,
And crown with love my marriage-bed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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LXXI
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line,
remember
not
The hand that writ it, for I love you so,
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"We sing old Sagas, songs of weal and woe,
Mystic because too cheaply understood;
Dark sayings are not ours; men hear and know,
See Evil weak, see
strength
alone in Good,
Yet hope to stem God's fire with walls of tow.
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Leonor
Madame, pardon me,
If I'm at fault for censuring this folly,
A great princess so
strangely
to forget
Herself, and love a simple knight as yet!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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' they cried, 'The world is wide,
But
fettered
limbs go lame!
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Wilde - Poems |
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To
gratulate
with mee!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I wot 'twere shame
on the law of our land if alone the king
out of Geatish
warriors
woe endured
and sank in the struggle!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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brandished pikes are thick,6 the mansions of
meritorious
officials rise high.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Far the calling bugles hollo,
High the
screaming
fife replies,
Gay the files of scarlet follow:
Woman bore me, I will rise.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Centuries
ago--in the Dark Ages, before I
ever met you, dear.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of
damages.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Unto his horse, that's feeding free,
He seems, I think, the rein to give;
Of moon or stars he takes no heed;
Of such we in
romances
read,
--'Tis Johnny!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"Not you," sighed I, "but my own
inconstancy!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Here the forest contracts, there the mead extends,
Of all that was ours, there is little left--
Like the ashes that wildly are whisked by winds,
Of all
souvenirs
is the place bereft.
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Hugo - Poems |
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And there
Aegisthus
stayed,
The omens in his hand, dividing slow
This sign from that; till, while his head bent low,
Up with a leap thy brother flashed the sword,
Then down upon his neck, and cleft the cord
Of brain and spine.
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Euripides - Electra |
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XCIII
When in the spring the swallows all return,
And the bleak bitter sea grows mild once more,
With all its thunders
softened
to a sigh;
When to the meadows the young green comes back,
And swelling buds put forth on every bough, 5
With wild-wood odours on the delicate air;
Ah, then, in that so lovely earth wilt thou
With all thy beauty love me all one way,
And make me all thy lover as before?
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Sappho |
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that
such a stinking
creature
can have gone to the gods.
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Aristophanes |
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