All good
thoughts
be near,
For thee to speak and me to understand!
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Euripides - Electra |
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230
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
One of the low on whom
assurance
sits
As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Although
his father's temple be fallen, and though of its pillars
Scarcely a pair yet records ancient glory adored,
Nevertheless the son's place of worship still stands, and forever
Will there the ardent requests alternate with the thanks.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"Hernani" is the
most famous play in the European literature of the
nineteenth
century.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The Hottentots eagerly devour the
marrow of the koodoo and other
antelopes
raw, as a matter of course.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Ay, my dear lady, in the mouths of two
Good
witnesses
each word is true;
I've a friend, a fine fellow, who, when you desire,
Will render on oath what you require.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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CXLVII
Oliver feels that death is drawing nigh;
To avenge himself he hath no longer time;
Through the great press most
gallantly
he strikes,
He breaks their spears, their buckled shields doth slice,
Their feet, their fists, their shoulders and their sides,
Dismembers them: whoso had seen that sigh,
Dead in the field one on another piled,
Remember well a vassal brave he might.
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Chanson de Roland |
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When the
Sergeant
learnt that we came from Fort Belogorsk he took us
direct to the General.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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[_The_
CONSPIRATORS
_write their names on pieces of
parchment, and throw them into an urn.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Raymond's interesting
observations
annexed to his
translation of Coxe's 'Tour in Switzerland'.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"
I bowed my head; despair
overwhelmed
me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And I
remember
still
The words, and from whom they came,
Not he that repeateth the name,
But he that doeth the will!
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Longfellow |
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He remarks, "The English
term _eagre_ still survives in
provincial
dialect for the tide-wave or bore
on rivers.
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Beowulf |
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THE CHILD'S GRAVE
I came to the
churchyard
where pretty Joy lies
On a morning in April, a rare sunny day;
Such bloom rose around, and so many birds' cries
That I sang for delight as I followed the way.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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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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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Her love, too, is quite
different
from
his.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
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Appoloinaire |
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"
So much I heard, and so much tell to thee,
Not knowing if I speak unto his kin
Who rule his home; but well, I deem, it were,
Such news should
earliest
reach a parent's ear.
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Aeschylus |
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Wilde - Poems |
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until the firmament
Outblackens
Erebus, and the full-cavern'd earth
Crumbles into itself.
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Keats |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Credo, sic mater, sic Liber avonculus eius, 5
Sic
maternus
avos dixerat atque avia.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee
So far from home into my deeds to pry,
To find out shames and idle hours in me,
The scope and tenure of thy
jealousy?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Perhaps a few on the ground show their red cheeks above the
early snow, and occasionally some even preserve their color and
soundness under the snow
throughout
the winter.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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VII
"But reached not France, for southern tempest's spite
Impelled me hither; lodged in royal bower
Ten months or more; for --
miserable
wight!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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e on
Emperoure
his honde vp took,
And wolde haue taken out ?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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any statements concerning tax
treatment
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outside the United States.
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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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org
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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_Eighth and Cheaper
Edition_
(_1s.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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It is no little thing, when a fresh soul
And a fresh heart, with their
unmeasured
scope
For good, not gravitating earthward yet,
But circling in diviner periods,
Are sent into the world,--no little thing,
When this unbounded possibility
Into the outer silence is withdrawn.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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However,
considering
the confusion, our
loss was less than might have been expected, for the Germans, not
daring to venture out of the marsh, withdrew to their camp.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Existence of undoubted
plagiarisms
from Shakespeare, Gray, &c.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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FAUST:
O glucklich, wer noch hoffen kann,
Aus diesem Meer des Irrtums
aufzutauchen!
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Far thee well Lord,
I would not be the
Villaine
that thou think'st,
For the whole Space that's in the Tyrants Graspe,
And the rich East to boot
Mal.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Bicaus hee fyghteth for hys
countryes
gare?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your
inexperience
on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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| Question: |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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'
He ended; and Ilioneus pursued his speech with these words:
'King, Faunus'
illustrious
progeny, neither hath black tempest driven us
with stress of waves to shelter in your lands, nor hath star or shore
misled us on the way we went.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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If I did know you, I knew too much of you since the first
beginning
of
my life!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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It was
precisely at the time at which the Roman people rose to
unrivalled political
ascendency
that they stooped to pass under
the intellectual yoke.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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At length the sun, gazing upon the earth,
Dispers'd those vapours that offended us;
And, by the benefit of his wished light,
The seas wax'd calm, and we discovered
Two ships from far making amain to us-
Of Corinth that, of
Epidaurus
this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Your folds ye
gateways
wide-ope swing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Even it indicted, what is that but fudge
To him who counted-in the
elective
judge?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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]
[Sidenote B: She desires some gift,]
[Sidenote C: by which to
remember
him.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
"Surely," replied this other;
"His
grandfathers
beat them many times.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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| Question: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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A Muse by these is like a
mistress
us'd,
This hour she's idoliz'd, the next abus'd;
While their weak heads like towns unfortify'd,
'Twixt sense and nonsense daily change their side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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--
Two other
minstrels
there I spied that bore
His name, renown'd on Arno's tuneful shore.
| Guess: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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By sea, too, the
Etesian[453] winds from the north-west favoured ships sailing
eastward, but
hindered
the voyage from the East.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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The truth, I fancy, this: bodies there are
Whose clashings, motions, order, posture, shapes
Produce the fire and which, by order changed,
Do change the nature of the thing produced,
And are thereafter nothing like to fire
Nor whatso else has power to send its bodies
With impact
touching
on the senses' touch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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If you would but eat
something
you'd find out
That you have had these thoughts from lack of food,
For hunger makes us feverish.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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`Wherfore I am, and wol be, ay redy
To peyne me to do yow this servyse;
For bothe yow to plese thus hope I 990
Her-afterward; for ye beth bothe wyse,
And conne it
counseyl
kepe in swich a wyse
That no man shal the wyser of it be;
And so we may be gladed alle three.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And, by the Lord,
Katrina!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Including
his Letters, Journals,
etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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■r
LIFE'S ALCHEMY By Abigail Fithian Halsey
For love that came with laughter And left us all in tears,
The sting that
followed
after
And haunted all our years
With love's remembered laughter And unforgotten tears;
For life that came with singing And changed with time to pain, Till years the meaning bringing
Had turned our loss to gain And given back the singing Made sweeter by the pain;
For all that love has taken, For all that life has left,
Say not, "We are forsaken," Nor cry, "We are bereft.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I saw that thing accurst
Wreak his worst
On the first and second crew:
Some with baited hook
He angled for and took,
Some dragged overboard in a net he threw,
Some he did to death
With hoof or horn or
blasting
breath.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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"
They shall
remember
how we used to walk
Here on the cliff beneath the oleanders
In the long limpid twilight of the spring,
Looking toward Lemnos, where the amber sky
Was pierced with the faint arrow of a star.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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MUSKETAQUID
Because I was content with these poor fields,
Low, open meads, slender and
sluggish
streams,
And found a home in haunts which others scorned,
The partial wood-gods overpaid my love,
And granted me the freedom of their state,
And in their secret senate have prevailed
With the dear, dangerous lords that rule our life,
Made moon and planets parties to their bond,
And through my rock-like, solitary wont
Shot million rays of thought and tenderness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Those who practice poetry search for and love only the
perfection
that is God Himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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The reading of Homer and Virgil
is counselled by Quintilian as the best way of
informing
youth and
confirming man.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Do you withdraw
yourself
a little while,
He will recover straight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Let me be
foremost
to defend the throne,
And guard my father's glories, and my own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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'Twas a
mistake?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Does thou know who made thee,
Gave thee life, and bid thee feed
By the stream and o'er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing, woolly, bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales
rejoice?
| 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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Of Argive
anguish!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Approving all, she faded at self-will,
And shut the chamber up, close, hush'd and still,
Complete
and ready for the revels rude,
When dreadful guests would come to spoil her solitude.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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And will this divine grace, this supreme perfection depart those for whom life exists only to
discover
and glorify them?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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VI
That modern meditation broke
His spell, that penmen's
pleadings
dealt a stroke,
Say some; and some that crimes too dire
Did much to mire his crimson cloak.
| 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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For change of
anything
from out its bounds
Means instant death of that which was before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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[1]
The Dog is not of mountain breed;
Its motions, too, are wild and shy; 10
With something, as the Shepherd thinks,
Unusual in its cry:
Nor is there any one in sight
All round, in hollow or on height;
Nor shout, nor whistle strikes his ear; 15
What is the
creature
doing here?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Leisurely
elephants
wind through the winding lanes,
Swinging their silver bells hung from their silver chains.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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, (a worthy
representative
of Massachusetts).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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"
An expression of
interior
agitation passed over the face of the old
woman; then she relapsed into her former apathy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch
A broader, browner shade,
Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech
O'er-canopies the glade,
Beside some water's rushy brink
With me the Muse shall sit, and think
(At ease reclined in rustic state)
How vain the ardour of the Crowd,
How low, how little, are the Proud,
How
indigent
the Great!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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CHORUS
Loved and honoured hadst thou lain
By the dead that nobly fell,
In the under-world again,
Where are throned the kings of hell,
Full of sway adorable
Thou hadst stood at their right hand--
Thou that wert, in mortal land,
By Fate's
ordinance
and law,
King of kings who bear the crown
And the staff, to which in awe
Mortal men bow down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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_
[Illustration]
CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES
WHITTINGHAM
AND CO.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Filey,
Of whom his acquaintance spoke highly;
He danced perfectly well, to the sound of a bell,
And
delighted
the people of Filey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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O hero-words that
glittered
like the stars
And stood and shone above the gloomy wars
When the hero-life was done!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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But he spoke to re-asure me,
And he kissed my pallid brow,
While a reverie came o're me,
And to the church-yard bore me,
And I sighed to him before me,
Thinking
him dead D'Elormie,
"Oh, I am happy now!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER
DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED
[FROM SCHILLER]
Strongly it bears us along in swelling and
limitless
billows,
Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Thence to th' Atrides' roof--in lineage fair,
A bright
posterity
of Ida's fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Henceforth new
prospects
open on your path;
Your faculties should grow with the demand;
I still will be your friend, will cleave to you
Through good and evil, obloquy and scorn,
Oft as they dare to follow on your steps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
org), you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense
to the user, provide a copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means
of
obtaining
a copy upon request, of the work in its original "Plain
Vanilla ASCII" or other form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Here's
righteous
metal!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
My father is a
dreamer himself, a great dreamer, a great man whose life has been
a
magnificent
failure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Though I lack the qualities for offering criticism, 12 I feared lest my ruler
overlook
some matter.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Lines are always
daringly
constructed, and
the "thought-rhyme" appears frequently,--appealing, indeed, to an
unrecognized sense more elusive than hearing.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be
savagely
still.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Rule 42 of the Code, "_No one shall speak to the Man at
the Helm_," had been
completed
by the Bellman himself with the words "_and
the Man at the Helm shall speak to no one_.
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Lewis Carroll |
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[Illustration]
After sailing on calmly for several more days, they came to another
country, where they were much pleased and
surprised
to see a countless
multitude of white Mice with red eyes, all sitting in a great circle,
slowly eating custard-pudding with the most satisfactory and polite
demeanor.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Wherefore
gentle wife,
Obey, it is thy vertue: hold no acts
Of di?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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unless
a
copyright
notice is included.
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Stephen Crane |
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Unhappily those who agree in
regarding
the metre as purely
accentual agree in little else.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Thee the fierce Sirian star, to madness fired,
Forbears
to touch: sweet cool thy waters yield
To ox with ploughing tired,
And lazy sheep afield.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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UPON HIS
DEPARTURE
HENCE.
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Robert Herrick |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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For thirty years, he produced and
distributed
Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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