--Let not my
presence
trouble you--
Sit down!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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æt
sīðestan
(_in the end, at
last_), 3014.
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Beowulf |
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When the whole host of hatred stood hard by,
To watch and mock thee shrinking, thou hast smiled
With a sedate and all-enduring eye;
When Fortune fled her spoiled and
favourite
child,
He stood unbowed beneath the ills upon him piled.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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He was a good fellow, free-mouthed, quick-tempered, not bad-looking, able
to take his own part, witty,
sensitive
to a slight, ready with life
or death for a friend, fond of women, gambled, ate hearty, drank
hearty, had known what it was to be flush, grew low-spirited toward
the last, sickened, was helped by a contribution, died, aged forty-
one years--and that was his funeral.
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Whitman |
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--
Thy long sustained Song finally clos'd,
And thy deep voice had ceas'd--yet thou thyself
Wert still before mine eyes, and round us both 120
That happy Vision of beloved Faces--
(All whom, I
deepliest
love--in one room all!
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William Wordsworth |
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Whiffs of delectable fragrance swim by;
Spice-laden vagrants that float and entice,
Tickling
the throat and brimming the eye.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Around the board
Sit many
monstrous
shapes abhorred.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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When they can put me in
security
that they are
more than offended, that they hate it, then I will hearken to them, and
perhaps believe them; but many now-a-days love and hate their ill
together.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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e
mou{n}taignes
to kachen fisshe of
whiche ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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' 119
_Here endeth the
exclamacion
of the Deth of Pyte.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The
murderers
cut off his head, and both his hands.
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Tacitus |
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Four times fifty living men,
(And I heard nor sigh nor groan)
With heavy thump, a
lifeless
lump,
They dropped down one by one.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Whilere, men burnt men for a doubtful point,
As if the mind were
quenchable
with fire,
And Faith danced round them with her war-paint on,
Devoutly savage as an Iroquois;
Now Calvin and Servetus at one board
Snuff in grave sympathy a milder roast,
And o'er their claret settle Comte unread.
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James Russell Lowell |
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For change is a kind of refreshing in
studies, and infuseth
knowledge
by way of recreation.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Caucasio crystalla ferunt de uertice lynces,
grypes
Hyperborei
pondera fulua soli.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
The Goddess with a
discontented
air
Seems to reject him, tho' she grants his pray'r.
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Alexander Pope |
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The ivy shuns the city wall,
When busy clamorous crowds intrude,
And climbs the
desolated
hall
In silent solitude;
The time-worn arch, the fallen dome,
Are roots for its eternal home.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The poems of
Apollonius
Rhodius, Virgil, Lucan, Camoens, Tasso and
Milton are "literary" epics.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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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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"
A
thousand
knights they keep in retinue.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Note: Hercules, Alcmene's son, tormented by the shirt of Nessus
immolated
himself on a pyre on Mount Oeta, and was deified.
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Ronsard |
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and why
Trampled
ye thus on that which bare the Crown?
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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On it,
whatsoever
it were, I cast myself; it is
enough to have escaped the accursed tribe.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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(2) A
misprint
for _dire dropsie_ (Upton).
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
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| Question: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I tell the day, to please him thou art bright,
And dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven:
So flatter I the swart-complexion'd night,
When
sparkling
stars twire not thou gild'st the even.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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He, with birth and beauty graced,
The
trembling
client's champion, ne'er tongue-tied,
Master of each manly taste,
Shall bear thy conquering banners far and wide.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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NIGHT LITANY
oDIEU,
purifiez
nos coeurs!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Spearing
fish, 121-123.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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For he hears the lambs'
innocent
call,
And he hears the ewes' tender reply;
He is watchful while they are in peace,
For they know when their shepherd is nigh.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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O Sicilian shores of a marshy calm
My vanity plunders vying with the sun,
Silent beneath scintillating flowers, RELATE
'That I was cutting hollow reeds here tamed
By talent: when, on the green gold of distant
Verdure offering its vine to the fountains,
An animal whiteness
undulates
to rest:
And as a slow prelude in which the pipes exist
This flight of swans, no, of Naiads cower
Or plunge.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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" Luti said, and her laugh was dread,
And her eyes dilated wild--
"That the fair new love may her
bridegroom
prove,
And the father shame the child!
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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"
And
backward
now and forward
Wavers the deep array;
And on the tossing sea of steel
To and frow the standards reel;
And the victorious trumpet-peal
Dies fitfully away.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I am
sandaled
with wind and with flame,
I have heart-fire and singing to give,
I can tread on the grass or the stars,
Now at last I can live!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
How many colors taken
On
Revolution
Day?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Who canne unplyte the wurchys heaven can doe,
Or who
untweste
the role of shappe yn twayne?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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For hast thou not observed
How eyes, essaying to
perceive
the fine,
Will strain in preparation, otherwise
Unable sharply to perceive at all?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Here's little save the river scene
And grounds of oats in
rustling
green
And crowded growth of wheat and beans,
That with the hope of plenty leans
And cheers the farmer's gazing brow,
Who lives and triumphs in the plough--
One sometimes meets a pleasant sward
Of swarthy grass; and quickly marred
The plough soon turns it into brown,
And, when again one rambles down
The path, small hillocks burning lie
And smoke beneath a burning sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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the sullen Cares
And frantic
Passions
hear thy soft control.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
]
Now, vot'ries of the Muses, turn your eyes,
Unto the East, and say what there
appears!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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In order that the reader may judge fairly of these fragments of
the lay of Virginia, he must imagine himself a Plebeian who has
just voted for the
reelection
of Sextius and Licinius.
| 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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Pigs broke loose, scrambled west,
Scorned their
loathsome
stations,
Crossed the Appalachians,
Turned to roaming, foaming wild boars
Of the forest.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Not falsely to
constrain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Long years of havock urge their destined course,
And thro' the kindred
squadrons
mow their way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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The red-coats
stretched
in windrows as a mower rakes his hay;
Here a scarlet heap is lying, there a headlong crowd is flying
Like a billow that has broken and is shivered into spray.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The goat and the lion I equally hate,
And freemen alike value life and estate ;
Though the father and son be
different
rods,
Between the two scourgers we find little odds ;
Both infamous stand in three kingdoms' votes,
This for picking our pockets, that for cutting our
throats.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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--to God himself we cannot give
A holier name; and, under such a mask,
To lead a Spirit,
spotless
as the blessed,
To that abhorred den of brutish vice!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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meseems
Through gardens of the good I stray,
'Mid
murmuring
gales and purling streams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Coleridge, I happened to
fall in with the person to whom the name of
Benjamin
is given.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Thus lies the sea-shell
Under the rustling
twilight
of the sea;
No gods remember it, no understanding
Cleaves the long darkness with a sword of light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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"
Do we want laurels for
ourselves
most,
Or most that no one else shall have any?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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t[e] nat ben
souereyne
goode.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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" Is it not more likely an ancient Superstition; a
Libation
to
propitiate Earth, or make her an Accomplice in the illicit Revel?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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--strength they meant, virginal strength, a
rushing, lasting,
tireless
strength.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Surely we have been
abridged
into a race of pygmies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With
sorceries
sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's mysterious season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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As surely as the letter Jod
Once cried aloud, and spake to God,
So surely shalt thou feel this rod,
And
punished
shalt thou be!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
]
DISCUSSION ON THE FOREGOING PAPER
THE
CHAIRMAN
(MR.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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If it were not for such
families
as this, I think I
should move out of Concord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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--Yet
sometimes
my heart was trammelled
With fear, evader!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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:
_possis_
Froehlich: _posseis_ Baehrens
24 _haec tua_ ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
I have but lately left my home,
And with
profound
submission come,
To hold with one some conversation
Whom all men name with veneration.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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'Tis right; 'tis man's
prerogative
to give,
And custom bids thee without shame receive;
Yet never, never, from thy dome we move,
Till Hymen lights the torch of spousal love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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_Per mirar
Policleto
a prova fiso.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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On which that lady played her many pranks,
Circling the image of a
shooting
star, _450
Even as a tiger on Hydaspes' banks
Outspeeds the antelopes which speediest are,
In her light boat; and many quips and cranks
She played upon the water, till the car
Of the late moon, like a sick matron wan, _455
To journey from the misty east began.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Caput cristam quasi
pennarum
ostendit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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I skoal to the eyes as grey-blown mere (Who knows whose was that
paragon?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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I know they think me mad, for all night long
I haunt the sea-marge,
thinking
I may find
Some day the herb he offered unto me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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--People in the
restless
street,
Can it be, oh can it be
In the meeting of our eyes
That you know as much of me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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_
Wearied, not satisfied, with much delight,
Now here, now there, I turn'd my greedy sight,
And many things I view'd: to write were long,
The time is short, great store of passions throng
Within my breast; when lo, a lovely pair,
Join'd hand in hand, who kindly talking were,
Drew my attention that way: their attire
And foreign
language
quicken'd my desire
Of further knowledge, which I soon might gain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Without their
blessing
you would not be
happy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Soon, a young officer
appeared
at the corner of the
street; the girl blushed and bent her head low over her canvas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
| 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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& wet thy veil with dewy tears, *
In
slumbers
of my night-repose, infusing a false morning?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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When sometimes I am
reminded that the mechanics and shopkeepers stay in their shops not
only all the forenoon, but all the
afternoon
too, sitting with crossed
legs, so many of them,--as if the legs were made to sit upon, and not
to stand or walk upon,--I think that they deserve some credit for not
having all committed suicide long ago.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Beneath two trees he climbed the hill and looked,
And Rollant's strokes on three
terraces
knew,
On the green grass saw lying his nephew;
`Tis nothing strange that Charles anger grew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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There no mortal man dares to swear in vain: 1395
Against false oaths, his punishment is certain:
And fearing to meet there with inexorable death,
Nothing more surely constrains
deceitful
breath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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and for this the tears
And blood of earth flow on as they have flowed,
An
universal
deluge, which appears
Without an ark for wretched man's abode,
And ebbs but to reflow!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Lo, this day have I thrown
A net, which once
unbroken
from the sea
Drawn home, shall .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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My Lord of Warwick and my brother Gloucester,
Follow Fluellen closely at the heels;
The glove which I have given him for a favour
May haply
purchase
him a box o' th' ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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So bashful when I spied her,
So pretty, so
ashamed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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the
gratitude
of men
Has oftner left me mourning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Said I,
alighting
on the ground,
"What can it be, this piteous moan?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
>>
J'ai souvent evoque cette lune enchantee,
Ce silence et cette langueur,
Et cette
confidence
horrible chuchotee
Au confessionnal du coeur.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
'
Orlando, hearing this, no more delayed,
But issued from the bark with hurried pace,
And, in all kind and courteous usage bred,
His way
directed
where the ancient led.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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While worth in the mind o' my Phillis
Will
flourish
without a decay.
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Robert Burns |
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His small umbrella,
quaintly
halved,
Describing in the air
An arc alike inscrutable, --
Elate philosopher!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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BRANDER:
Doppelt
Schwein!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Some think him ill-tempered and queer,
But a few think him
pleasant
enough.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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No, no; thy bread, thy wine, thy jocund beer
Is not
reserved
for Trebius here,
But all who at thy table seated are
Find equal freedom, equal fare;
And thou, like to that hospitable god,
Jove, joy'st when guests make their abode
To eat thy bullock's thighs, thy veals, thy fat
Wethers, and never grudged at.
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Robert Herrick |
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The
mountains
rise to wond'rous height,
And in the heavens there is a weight; 1819.
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William Wordsworth |
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have I kept mine own--by our union and the
marriage
rites
preparing; if I have done thee any grace, or aught of mine hath once
been sweet in thy sight,--pity our sinking house, and if there yet be
room for prayers, put off this purpose of thine.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Meredith - Poems |
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As one who walks by the lamp's
flickering
blaze,
Far from the hum of men, the joys of earth--
Our mind arrives at last by tortuous ways,
At that drear gulf where but despair has birth.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Wilde - Poems |
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