Certe ego te in medio versantem turbine leti
Eripui, et potius
germanum
amittere crevi, 150
Quam tibi fallaci supremo in tempore dessem.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Gone is that King, and the old spear laid low
That
Tantalus
wielded when the world was young.
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Euripides - Electra |
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"
exclaimed
Lisa, drying her eyes.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The
harlot
commands
him to eat and drink also:
"It is the conformity of life,
Of the conditions and fate of the Land.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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He served Aimery IV,
Viscount
of Narbonne, as well as Alfonso el Sabio, King of Castile.
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Troubador Verse |
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God has a right hand, but is quite bereft
Of that which we do
nominate
the left.
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Robert Herrick |
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She preserves the body
of his friend from corruption, and commands him to assemble the army, to
declare his
resentment
at an end.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The sky is low, the clouds are mean,
A
travelling
flake of snow
Across a barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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If aught grateful or acceptable can
penetrate
the silent graves from our
dolour, Calvus, when with sweet regret we renew old loves and beweep the
lost friendships of yore, of a surety not so much doth Quintilia mourn her
untimely death as she doth rejoice o'er thy constant love.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Yet,
(Knowing the while that they were very kind)
Remembrance
clamoured
in him: 'She was wild and free,
Magnificent in giving; she was blind
To gain or loss, and, loving, loved but me,--but me!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"Nay, take a seat with us,
Honor and eat with us,"
They
answered
grinning:
"Our feast is but beginning.
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Christina Rossetti |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Thus
strangers
may be hal'd and abus'd.
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Shakespeare |
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Winged Love
meseemed
like Folly in the face;
Stinged Worm meseemed loathly in his place;
Lily and Rose were flowers of grace.
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Christina Rossetti |
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But that is worse which
proceeds
out of
want, than that which riots out of plenty.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I swear I think there is nothing but
immortality!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the
woodlands
I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
"A fable,"
remarked
Herman; "perhaps the cards were marked.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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His state the king
reposing
keeps.
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Tennyson |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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O for a poisonous tornado,
winged from the torrid zone of Tartarus, to sweep the
spreading
crop
of their villainous contrivances to the lowest hell!
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Robert Burns |
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_ In 1608 there was
issued a proclamation containing "Orders conceived by the Lords of his
Maiestie's Privie Counsell and by his
Highnesse
speciall direction,
commanded to be put in execution for the restraint of killing and eating
of flesh the next Lent".
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Robert Herrick |
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"
[Picture: He sits]
The Third Voice
[Picture: Quick tears were raining down his face]
Not long this
transport
held its place:
Within a little moment's space
Quick tears were raining down his face
His heart stood still, aghast with fear;
A wordless voice, nor far nor near,
He seemed to hear and not to hear.
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Lewis Carroll |
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1912
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed The Macmillan Company 1914
Men, Women and Ghosts The Macmillan Company 1916
Can Grande's Castle The Macmillan Company 1918
Pictures of the
Floating
World The Macmillan Company 1919
Legends Houghton Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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He called an architect in counsel;
'I want,' said he, 'a--you know what,
(You are a builder, I am Knott)
A thing complete from chimney-pot
Down to the very grounsel;
Here's a half-acre of good land;
Just have it nicely mapped and planned 20
And make your workmen drive on;
Meadow there is, and upland too,
And I should like a water-view,
D'you think you could
contrive
one?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Verrall's
famous essay in _Euripides the Rationalist_,
explaining
it as a
psychological criticism of a supposed Delphic miracle, and arguing that
Alcestis in the play does not rise from the dead at all.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And,
according
to information, it has
been shown that he, the accursed Grishka, has fled to the
Lithuanian frontier.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But who has ne'er with
scolding
tongue
Blamed out of season.
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Hugo - Poems |
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He
withstands, even as a rock in ocean unremoved, as a rock in ocean when
the great crash comes down, firm in its own mass among many waves
slapping all about: in vain the crags and
boulders
hiss round it in
foam, and the seaweed on its side is flung up and sucked away.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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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?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Though a professional writer, he did his
share of
fighting
for his country, and is reported to have taken part
in the battles of Marathon, Salamis, and Plataea.
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Aeschylus |
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The lords of war are beaten down, your
glorious
task is done;
You fought to make the whole world free, and the victory is won.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And I had quite
forgotten
you,
You and your name.
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Imagists |
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Long Susan lay deep lost in thought,
And many
dreadful
fears beset her,
Both for her messenger and nurse;
And as her mind grew worse and worse,
Her body it grew better.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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(And I
Tiresias
have foresuffered all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Then slowly climb the many-winding way,
And frequent turn to linger as you go,
From loftier rocks new loveliness survey,
And rest ye at 'Our Lady's House of Woe;'
Where frugal monks their little relics show,
And sundry legends to the
stranger
tell:
Here impious men have punished been; and lo,
Deep in yon cave Honorius long did dwell,
In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Soon spreads the dismal shade
Of Mystery over his head,
And the
caterpillar
and fly
Feed on the Mystery.
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blake-poems |
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Instruct
me how to thank thee!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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e kyng was of hem sore adrad; &
graunted
hem onon.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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OCEANUS
Thy word is said to me in act to go:
For lo, my
hippogriff
with waving wings
Fans the smooth course of air, and fain is he
To rest his limbs within his ocean stall.
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Aeschylus |
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During my time I never knew any one to entertain so singular a fancy
as that the
universe
(or this world if you will have it so) ever had
a beginning at all.
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Poe - 5 |
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that far above me float and pause,
Whose pathless march no mortal may
controul!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Neither is Queen
Juno
forgetful
of us.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
IX
On moonlit heath and
lonesome
bank
The sheep beside me graze;
And yon the gallows used to clank
Fast by the four cross ways.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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I
Now Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings,
leader beloved, and long he ruled
in fame with all folk, since his father had gone
away from the world, till awoke an heir,
haughty Healfdene, who held through life,
sage and sturdy, the
Scyldings
glad.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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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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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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His eldest
daughter
was Biatrix.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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The story of his
insanity, so
beautifully
treated by Tennyson, may or may not be true.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Every household is selling hairpins and
bracelets
40 waiting only to present the spring ale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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And if the sufferer loves the malady,
There's
scarcely
call for any remedy!
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Like Wagner, Baudelaire painted in his sultry music
the
profundities
of abysms, the vastness of space.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Where is the justice that
condemns
him?
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Greeks were the ones who began it, and only to Greeks they proclaimed it
Even within Roman walls: "Come to the
sanctified
night.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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For in the Market-place, one Dusk of Day,
I watch'd the Potter
thumping
his wet Clay:
And with its all obliterated Tongue
It murmur'd--"Gently, Brother, gently, pray!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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At a touch sweet
Pleasure
melteth
Like to bubbles when rain pelteth.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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They listen to the beat
Of the
hammered
bell,
And think of the feet
Which beat upon their tops;
But what they think they do not tell.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
|
And why not players strut in courtiers'
clothes?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"There was Plato, too," continued his Majesty, modestly declining the
snuff-box and the
compliment
it implied--"there was Plato, too, for
whom I, at one time, felt all the affection of a friend.
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Poe - 5 |
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Are we not
tempted to explore it,--to penetrate to the shores of its Lake Tchad,
and
discover
the source of its Nile, perchance the Mountains of the
Moon?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
I shall wear the bottoms of my
trousers
rolled.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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"
Her visage
scorched
him ere she spoke:
"There are," she said, "a kind of folk
Who have no horror of a joke.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
310
Ah
conversant
with woe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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The first
form of government was patriarchal; then
monarchies
arose in which
virtue, "in arms or arts," made one man ruler over many.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Now it was a dogma of the
critical
creed of the day, which Pope devoutly
accepted, that every epic must have a well-recognized "machinery.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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I
don't envy them their
happiness
who have such notions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Of
the
efficacy
of this act no means of judging has come down to us.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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But finally a plain report came to Inachus,
Clearly enjoining him and telling
Out of my home and country to expel me,
Discharged
to wander to the earth's last bounds;
And if he was not willing, from Zeus would come
A fiery thunderbolt, which would annihilate all his race.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
"
When I awoke, before I had time to speak,
A
knocking
on the door sounded "Doong, doong!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
THE CHURCH-BUILDER
I
THE church flings forth a battled shade
Over the moon-blanched sward;
The church; my gift; whereto I paid
My all in hand and hoard:
Lavished my gains
With
stintless
pains
To glorify the Lord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
] Unuk-(ki) ri-bi-tim [22]
ha-as-si-nu na-di-i-ma
e-li-su pa-ah- ru
ha-as-si-nu-um-ma sa-ni bu-nu-su
a-mur-su-ma ah-ta-ta a-na-ku
a-ra-am-su-ma ki-ma as-sa-tim
a-ha-ap-pu-up el-su
el-ki-su-ma as-ta-ka-an-su
a-na a-hi-ia
um-mi
iluGilgamish
mu-da-at ka-la-ma
[iz-za-kar-am a-na iluGilgamish]
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Emily Dickinson scrutinized
everything
with clear-eyed frankness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
IV
A son reveil,--minuit,--la fenetre etait blanche
Devant le soleil bleu des rideaux illunes;
La vision la prit des
langueurs
du Dimanche,
Elle avait reve rouge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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what a torment wouldst thou prove,
Were it not thy sour leisure gave sweet leave,
To
entertain
the time with thoughts of love,
Which time and thoughts so sweetly doth deceive,
And that thou teachest how to make one twain,
By praising him here who doth hence remain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Ring the Alarum Bell, blow Winde, come wracke,
At least wee'l dye with
Harnesse
on our backe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of
electronic
works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd
Of the Two Worlds so wisely--they are thrust
Like foolish
Prophets
forth; their Words to Scorn
Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Therewith a second Tiphys shall there be,
Her hero-freight a second Argo bear;
New wars too shall arise, and once again
Some great
Achilles
to some Troy be sent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Among those who will forthcoming numbers a
volumes for contribute to
Scudder Middleton Marguerite Wilkinson John Russell
McCarthy
Phoebe Hoffman Ellwood Lindsay Haines Esther Morton Smith Howard Buck
Mary Humphreys Samuel Roth
John Hall Wheelock Laura Benet
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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'697 Leo's golden days:'
the
pontificate
of Leo X (1513-1521).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
According
to them also the Healing
Power of Jesus resided in his Breath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
He
answered
her he knew not what:
Like shaft from bow at random shot,
He spoke, but she regarded not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
But if, unheard, in vain
compassion
plead,
Revere the gods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
owre the
Citizens
Creame 'gain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
They lived by the side of the great Lake
Pipple-Popple (one of the seven families, indeed, lived _in_ the lake), and
on the outskirts of the city of Tosh, which,
excepting
when it was quite
dark, they could see plainly.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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MAHMUD:
What sound of the
importunate
earth has broken
My mighty trance?
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Shelley |
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Kastrill, who is
described
as an 'angry boy', comes to consult Subtle
as to how to 'carry a business, manage a quarrel fairly'.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Some cursed fraud
Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,
And me with thee hath ruined; for with thee
Certain my
resolution
is to die.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And London thus alarms with loyal cries :
** Though common danger does
approach
so nigh.
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Marvell - Poems |
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A deep displeasure overcame my feelings;
His death
destroyed
the object I was seeking.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"
[9] The fragments which have been assigned to Book II in the British
Museum
collections
by Haupt, Jensen, Dhorme and others belong to
later tablets, probably III or IV.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Did I think of you last
evening?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Nought doth he now but
aggravate
thy shame.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Fair pledges of a
fruitful
tree, I.
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Robert Herrick |
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All trees direct the traveler
to its brink, all paths seek it out, birds fly to it, quadrupeds flee
to it, and the very ground
inclines
toward it.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare,
And those that after some TO-MORROW stare,
A Muezzin from the Tower of
Darkness
cries,
"Fools!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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