When
Biondello
comes, he waits on thee;
But I will charm him first to keep his tongue.
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Shakespeare |
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I brought it hither,
purposing
to make
Libation to thee, if to pity inclined
Thou would'st dismiss us home.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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A Queen out of the
strongest
tribe, that'll
make them your blood-brothers, and that'll lie by your side and tell
you all the people thinks about you and their own affairs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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First his
patrimony
was mangled; secondly the
Pontic spoils; then thirdly the Iberian, which the golden Tagus-stream
knoweth.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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An almes, sir
prieste!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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" He had ceased to
look at the sketch, but was staring
straight
in front of him across the
room.
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Kipling - Poems |
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slakke {and} delitable
sou{n} of
strenges
how ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Copyright, 1916, by the editors, trading as
CONTEMPORARY
VERSE.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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This is the
practice
in cities, but especially
in the countries.
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Tacitus |
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_For_ ne had
_perhaps
read_ nad.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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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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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Da geht's, mein Herr, nicht immer mutig zu;
Doch
schmeckt
dafur das Essen, schmeckt die Ruh.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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He held at this time the post of
assistant
secretary to the Princes'
tutor.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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II
THE BRIDE OF WAR
(ARNOLD'S MARCH TO CANADA, 1775)
I
The trumpet, with a giant sound,
Its harsh war-summons wildly sings;
And, bursting forth like mountain-springs,
Poured from the hillside camping-ground,
Each swift
battalion
shouting flings
Its force in line; where you may see
The men, broad-shouldered, heavily
Sway to the swing of the march; their heads
Dark like the stones in river-beds.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Like Love and the Sirens, these birds sing so
melodiously
that even the life of those who hear them is not too great a price to pay for such music.
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Appoloinaire |
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Such welcome, and
vnwelcom
things at once
'Tis hard to reconcile.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Some lowly cot in the rough fields our home,
Shoot down the stags, or with green osier-wand
Round up the
straggling
flock!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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He had a lark-like cheerfulness and alacrity
breaking
out at
odd moments.
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Yeats |
|
- You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free
distribution
of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Strong beer, good smart tobacco, and the waist
Of a right
handsome
gall, well rigg'd, now that's my taste.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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For since the blind-born, who have ne'er surveyed
The light of sun, yet
recognise
by touch
Things that from birth had ne'er a hue for them,
'Tis thine to know that bodies can be brought
No less unto the ken of our minds too,
Though yet those bodies with no dye be smeared.
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Lucretius |
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PRAY recollect my very life 's at stake,
And do not many
difficulties
make.
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La Fontaine |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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"
Two early night-winged
butterflies
together
Be-chase themselves from halm to halm in jest,
The balk prepares from out the shrubs and weather,
The balm of evening for the soul distressed.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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VIII
Like swelling river waves that strain,
Onward the people crowd
In serried,
billowing
train.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Above all law is might:--'twill take its course;
Entire
submission
is the last resource.
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La Fontaine |
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Slombrestow
as in a lytargye?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
The
last two, both dedicated to Shapcott, are
distinctly
connected by their
opening lines, and "Oberon's Chapel," dedicated to Mr.
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Robert Herrick |
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EMPEROR: I am tired of these merchants with their eternal
complaints!
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Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Peaceful
as some immeasurable plain
By the first beams of dawning light impress'd,
In the calm sunshine slept the glittering main.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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We need your
donations
more than ever!
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Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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_Tecum habita_, _ut noris quam sit tibi curta
supellex_
{11}
PERS.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"Sir," I
addressed
him,
"Let me read.
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Stephen Crane |
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CXXXI
Thronging
about the ignoble car, appear
Brazen-faced boy and girl of evil fame,
Who, each in turn, will play the charioteer,
And all assail the knight with bitter blame.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow,
Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen;
Him in thy course untainted do allow
For beauty's pattern to
succeeding
men.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to
reproduce
her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Thus, by these subtle trains,
Do several passions invade the mind,
And strike our reason blind:
Of which usurping rank, some have thought love
The first: as prone to move
Most frequent tumults, horrors, and unrests,
In our
inflamed
breasts:
But this doth from the cloud of error grow,
Which thus we over-blow.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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tell thou the silent sky,
And tell the stars, and tell yon rising sun,
Earth, with her
thousand
voices, praises GOD.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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How could such sweet and
wholesome
hours
Be reckon'd, but with herbs and flowers!
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Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Please consult the
manuscript
page.
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Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
II
Perhaps it may be that my mind is wrought
To a fever* by the moonbeam that hangs o'er,
But I will half believe that wild light fraught
With more of sovereignty than ancient lore
Hath ever told-or is it of a thought
The unembodied essence, and no more
That with a
quickening
spell doth o'er us pass
As dew of the night-time, o'er the summer grass?
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Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Uncountenanced
by his
original, Fanshaw--
"Teems with many a dead-born just.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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A kinde
goodnight
to all.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
[Illustration]
There was an old person of China,
Whose
daughters
were Jiska and Dinah,
Amelia and Fluffy, Olivia and Chuffy,
And all of them settled in China.
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Lear - Nonsense |
|
"What are you
thinking
of?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And now again, since food
Augments and
nourishes
the human frame,
'Tis thine to know our veins and blood and bones
And thews are formed of particles unlike
To them in kind; or if they say all foods
Are of mixed substance having in themselves
Small bodies of thews, and bones, and also veins
And particles of blood, then every food,
Solid or liquid, must itself be thought
As made and mixed of things unlike in kind--
Of bones, of thews, of ichor and of blood.
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Source: |
Lucretius |
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XVII
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high
deserts?
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Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
He made this somewhat ironic alba in 1257, a fitting coda to the
troubadour
era.
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Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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870
But why expose them to such
confrontation?
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Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Eager, I seized
such heap from the hoard as hands could bear
and
hurriedly
carried it hither back
to my liege and lord.
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Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
No, but the soul
Void of words, and this heavy body,
Succumb to noon's proud silence slowly:
With no more ado,
forgetting
blasphemy, I
Must sleep, lying on the thirsty sand, and as I
Love, open my mouth to wine's true constellation!
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Mallarme - Poems |
|
)
I look up and see / his
curtains
and bed:
I look down and examine / his table and mat.
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Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And sin I shal no
ferthere
out of Troye
Than I may ryde ayein on half a morwe,
It oughte lesse causen us to sorwe.
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Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
The very
roughness
of her
rendering is part of herself, and not lightly to be touched; for it
seems in many cases that she intentionally avoided the smoother and
more usual rhymes.
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Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Through diver passages, the world's bright lamp
Rises to mortals, but through that which joins
Four circles with the
threefold
cross, in best
Course, and in happiest constellation set
He comes, and to the worldly wax best gives
Its temper and impression.
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Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
1225
For what new torment have I
reserved
myself?
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Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Whatever
makes you with him disagree,
At all events, I'm full as bad as he.
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Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
'
_'Tresvolontiers;' _and he
proceeded
to his library, brought me a Dr.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
this Errours den,
A monster vile, whom God and man does hate: 115
Therefore
I read beware.
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Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
I'll give you the best help I can:
Before you up the
mountain
go,
Up to the dreary mountain-top,
I'll tell you all I know.
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Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
At length it comes among the forest oaks,
With sobbing ebbs, and uproar
gathering
high;
The scared, hoarse raven on its cradle croaks,
And stockdove-flocks in hurried terrors fly,
While the blue hawk hangs oer them in the sky.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
John Clare |
|
"
The apple tree is also
mentioned
by Homer and Herodotus.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
PART I
It is an ancient Mariner,
And he
stoppeth
one of three.
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Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
His
everlasting
jokes about the
Commandant's family, and, above all, his witty remarks upon Marya
Ivanofna, displeased me very much.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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our troop
Floats
lovingly
up
With a quick-oaring stroke
Of wings steered to the rock,
Having softened the soul of our father below.
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Um zu erläutern, wie
dadurch die Lichtintensität des Spectrums geändert werde,
beschränken wir unsere Betrachtung
zunächst
auf einen einzi-
gen Spalt.
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Source: |
Helmholtz - 1851 - Theorie der zusammengesetzten Farben |
|
"So at last have
journeyed
hither,
Seeking out some better sport;
I intend to try my prowess
On the mighty Atta Troll.
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Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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" There was simplicity, as well as strength,
in the way in which the
initials
were cut.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
II I accept frailty and white hair in my life, in lonely
isolation
now at the ends of the earth.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
_ Observe the fitting
slowness
of the
first half of the line, and the sudden leap forward of the second.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Keats |
|
This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Villon |
|
O, this world's
transience!
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Where were ye, Nymphs, when the
remorseless
deep
Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas?
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Of snow, frost, and ice,
That jagged cut, and wound, and sting;
And dead the calls, cries, trills and whistles,
Among the twigs, and
leafless
bristles.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Even yet, however, he was not completely
satisfied
and from time to time
he added a touch to his work until he finally produced the finished
picture which we know as 'The Rape of the Lock'.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy
highways
where I went
And cannot come again.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
Do their tongues ever shrivel with a pain of fire
Across those simple
syllables
"sac-ri-fice"?
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
org/donate
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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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
How many summers lived
The
murdered
boy?
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
|
Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
-- Dey's
mightily
in de grass, grass,
Dey's mightily in de grass.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
|
Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
And still within a summer's night
A
something
so transporting bright,
I clap my hands to see;
Then veil my too inspecting face,
Lest such a subtle, shimmering grace
Flutter too far for me.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Waldo Abigail Fithian Halsey Louis Ginsberg
Marjorie
Allen Seiffert J.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Ah
luckless
poet!
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
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Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Nearly all the individual
works in the
collection
are in the public domain in the United
States.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
"
"I must have stepped on
something
when I was alive and walking about and
it has bounced up and hit me.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
They climb over cliffs, where each hill had a hat
and a mist-cloak, until the next morn, when they find
themselves
on a
full high hill covered with snow.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Brutus with the knife,
Rienzi with the fasces, throb beneath
Rome's stones,--and more who threw away joy's fife
Like Pallas, that the beauty of their souls
Might ever shine untroubled and entire:
But if it can be true that he who rolls
The Church's
thunders
will reserve her fire
For only light,--from eucharistic bowls
Will pour new life for nations that expire,
And rend the scarlet of his papal vest
To gird the weak loins of his countrymen,--
I hold that he surpasses all the rest
Of Romans, heroes, patriots; and that when
He sat down on the throne, he dispossessed
The first graves of some glory.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
It's on your slopes, visited by Venus
Setting in your lava her heels so artless,
When a sad slumber
thunders
where the flame burns low.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
The
landlord
had not yet returned from the field with his men, and the
cows had yet to be milked.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But their glory shall never cease,
Nor their light be
quenched
in the light of peace.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Did the harebell loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as
formerly?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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He passed through
Kiukiang
on his way,
and released the prisoners there.
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Li Po |
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ELECTRA
Right well in this too hast thou
schooled
my thought.
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Aeschylus |
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