) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Keats - Lamia |
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THAT WAS MY COUNTER-BLADE UNDER
LEONARDO
TERRONE, MASTER OF FENCE
i~* ONE while your tastes were keen to you, \J Gone where the grey winds call to you,
By that high fencer, even Death,
Struck of the blade that no man parrieth;
Such is your fence, one saith, One that hath known you.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Fair Acidalia, love's
celestial
queen,[544]
The graceful goddess of the fearless mien,
Her graceful freedom on his look bestow'd,
And all collected in his bosom glow'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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IV
O Pan of the
evergreen
forest,
Protector of herds in the meadows,
Helper of men at their toiling,--
Tillage and harvest and herding,--
How many times to frail mortals 5
Hast thou not hearkened!
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Sappho |
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*** There is cultivated in the king's garden at Paris, a
species of
serpentine
aloes without prickles, whose large
and beautiful flower exhales a strong odour of the vanilla,
during the time of its expansion, which is very short.
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Poe - 5 |
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Blancs de lunes particulieres
Aux pialats ronds,
Entrechoquez vos genouilleres
Mes
laiderons!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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`First, sin thou wost this toun hath al this werre
For
ravisshing
of wommen so by might,
It sholde not be suffred me to erre,
As it stant now, ne doon so gret unright.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Then the
character
of
the narrative changes.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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In
this desire to approach the
Nameless
One, the young Brother in _The Book
of a Monk's Life_ builds up about God parables, images and legends
reminiscent of those of the 17th century Angelus Silesius, but sustained
by a more pregnant language because exalted by a more ardent visionary
force.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Can I the funeral rite refrain,
Nor weep for
Polynices
slain?
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Aeschylus |
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{and} 3648
yif I
to{ur}ne
a?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Since now at length the powerful will of heaven
The dire destroyer to our arm has given,
Is not Troy fallen
already?
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Iliad - Pope |
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425
Thou in this dredful cas for me purveye;
For so
astonied
am I that I deye!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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My next will tell
How he
effected
this, and what befell.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The altar is not here four-square,
Nor in a form triangular;
Nor made of glass, or wood, or stone,
But of a little
transverse
bone;
Which boys and bruckel'd children call
(Playing for points and pins) cockall.
| Guess: |
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Robert Herrick |
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He is one of the
characters in the
_Dialogue
on Oratory_, and many passages
show that Tacitus admired him greatly, both for his character
and his eloquence.
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Tacitus |
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Thus would the men of former times, I say,
Treat the
degenerate
minions of to-day.
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Hugo - Poems |
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yet may shine
In
glorious
light,
While sordid sons o' Mammon's line
Are dark as night!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And down this terrible aisle,
While heaven's ranges roar aghast,
Pours a vast file of strange and hidden things:
Forbidden monsters, crocodiles with wings
And
perfumed
flesh that sings and glows
With more fresh colors than the rainbow knows.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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at wat3 comen his
compeyny
noble,
Alle ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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We love the hearth, the quiet hills, the song,
The friendly gossip come from every land;
And very peace were now a
nameless
wrong--
You thrust this bitter quarrel to our hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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A very
attractive
element of his classicism is his _worship of beauty_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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You will see me any morning in the park
Reading the comics and the
sporting
page.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Where sin
abounded
grace shall more abound!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Shall I not see that hour before I die,
When I shall cull the flower of her springtime
Who makes my being
languish
in the dark?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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I was first on the list--
They may forget you tried to shield me
as the
horsemen
passed.
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But while he was seeking with thimbles and care,
A
Bandersnatch
swiftly drew nigh
And grabbed at the Banker, who shrieked in despair,
For he knew it was useless to fly.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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El Desdichado (The Disinherited)
I am the darkness - the widower - the un-consoled,
The prince of
Aquitaine
in the ruined tower;
My sole star is dead - and my constellated lute
Bears the black sun of Melancholy.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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89-90;
7 of ANTICHRIST, 272; how he shall go into the Holy Land, 274; slay Enoch and Eli, who have come to earth from
Paradise
to fight him, 292-6; and shall then himself be smitten to death by the Holy Ghost in the form of a sword.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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ALTMAYER
(leise):
Sie sind vom Rheine, wie ich spure.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The azure vault in silver shimmers soft,
A dewy breeze with
fragrance
soars aloft.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
'
LII
"Much seems the king's proposal to content
The Roman youth; and thus it is, the twain,
To execute Astolpho's project bent,
Journey by many a hill and many a plain;
And find at last, well fitting their intent,
The daughter of a publican of Spain,
Of
presence
and of manners framed to win;
Whose father at Valencia kept his inn.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Enter
Malcolme
and Seyward.
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| Question: |
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Phlaccus, and
Professor
and Mrs.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Afraid,
however, of his father's resentment, the severity of whose temper he
knew, his
intercourse
with Donna Inez passed at the court as an intrigue
of gallantry.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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'
She looks into me
The unknowing heart
To see if I love
She has
confidence
she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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forsan et unus odor: sed celsior ille per auras
difflatur, spirat
proximus
iste magis.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Guardian of hill and woodland, Maid,
Who to young wives in childbirth's hour
Thrice call'd,
vouchsafest
sovereign aid,
O three-form'd power!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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To his wife Susanna,
daughter
of William Salter, Herrick addresses two
poems (522 and 977).
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Robert Herrick |
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If this be Love, how is the evil wrought,
That all men write against his
darkened
name?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Hymen o Hymenaee, Hymen ades o
Hymenaee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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However, as in duty bound, I approach my
bookseller
with an offering
in my hand--a few poetic clinches, and a song:--To expect any other
kind of offering from the Rhyming Tribe would be to know them much
less than you do.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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But here's the happiest light can lie on ground,
Grass sloping under trees
Alive with yellow shine of
daffodils!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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What martyrdom
endurest
thou!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
_
So
thirleth
with the poynt of remembraunce,
The swerd of sorowe, y-whet with fals plesaunce,
Myn herte, bare of blis and blak of hewe,
That turned is in quaking al my daunce,
My suretee in a-whaped countenaunce; 215
Sith hit availeth not for to ben trewe;
For who-so trewest is, hit shal hir rewe,
That serveth love and doth hir observaunce
Alwey to oon, and chaungeth for no newe.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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)
There, there it is; there is the Russian
frontier!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And the marsh dragged one back,
and another
perished
under the cliff,
and the tide swept you out.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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With leaping fish the blue pond is full;
With singing
thrushes
the green boughs droop.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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One man
repentant
is of more esteem, II.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Darf eine solche Menschenstimme hier,
Wo Geisterfulle mich umgab,
ertonen?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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_
HE
CONSOLES
HIMSELF WITH THE THOUGHT THAT HE WILL BE ENVIED BY
POSTERITY.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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A Prayer
Until I lose my soul and lie
Blind to the beauty of the earth,
Deaf though shouting wind goes by,
Dumb in a storm of mirth;
Until my heart is quenched at length
And I have left the land of men,
Oh, let me love with all my strength
Careless
if I am loved again.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Erdman does not note this
placement
in his edition.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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According
to Wang An-shih, his two
subjects
are wine and women.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Li Po |
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_x_) B:
_minsit_
D et
cod.
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Talk of
interpolation
here is absurd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The feud she avenged
that yesternight, unyieldingly,
Grendel in grimmest grasp thou killedst, --
seeing how long these
liegemen
mine
he ruined and ravaged.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"`And even while you're thus harassed,
I do believe, if out you went,
You'd go, in spite of all that's passed,
To the children of that
President!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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The styles are taken from
Classical
art.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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1 Moved to tears in the gray-green mist, 32 mountain gates, closed in ten
thousand
layers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Our horses are worn out and foundered:
Unsaddle them, take bridles from their heads,
And through these meads let them
refreshment
get.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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But now" (he winked a second time) "put your axe behind your
back,[23] the
gamekeeper
is abroad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Be patient to the end, and you shall sleep
Pillowed on
heartsease
and forget to weep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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This is included for the benefit of
reciters and their
audiences
who have found the entire poem too long for
declamation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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{5a} Either merely paved, the strata via of the Romans, or else
thought of as a sort of mosaic, an
extravagant
touch like the
reckless waste of gold on the walls and roofs of a hall.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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[7]
Collation made from copy in the library of Yale
University
at
New Haven.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
In later
editions
he altered it to
'leaflets'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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And for that riches where is my
deserving?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Produced by Judy Boss, and Gregory Walker
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Far along,
From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,
Leaps the live
thunder!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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All my brood was
sleeping
soundly, 36 he woke them and graced them with a meal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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I thought you were like the man who clung to the bridge:[24]
Not guessing I should climb the Look-for-Husband Terrace,[25]
But next year you went far away,
To Ch'u-t'ang and the
Whirling
Water Rocks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
The fluency and
ornaments
of the finest poems or music
or orations or recitations are not independent, but dependent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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With
doubling
Voices & loud Horns wound round wounding
Cavernous dwellers fill'd the enormous Revelry, Responsing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Blake - Zoas |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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"
He is the
corporate
Silence: dread him not!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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And there
Aegisthus
stayed,
The omens in his hand, dividing slow
This sign from that; till, while his head bent low,
Up with a leap thy brother flashed the sword,
Then down upon his neck, and cleft the cord
Of brain and spine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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For
whatever
effulgence
Hath first streamed off, no matter where it falls,
Is lost unto the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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When it
puckered
up with shame,
And I sought him, he never came.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
'
O strange New World, thet yit wast never young,
Whose youth from thee by gripin' need was wrung,
Brown foundlin' o' the woods, whose baby-bed 320
Was prowled roun' by the Injun's cracklin' tread,
An' who grew'st strong thru shifts an' wants an' pains,
Nussed by stern men with empires in their brains,
Who saw in vision their young Ishmel strain
With each hard hand a vassal ocean's mane,
Thou, skilled by Freedom an' by gret events
To pitch new States ez Old-World men pitch tents,
Thou, taught by Fate to know Jehovah's plan
Thet man's devices can't unmake a man,
An' whose free latch-string never was drawed in 330
Against the poorest child of Adam's kin,--
The grave's not dug where traitor hands shall lay
In fearful haste thy
murdered
corse away!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
"Tell him night finished before we finished,
And the old clock kept
neighing
'day!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell,
There God is
dwelling
too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Now would I
willingly
pitch such wight head first fro' thy bridge,
Better a-sudden t'arouse that numskull's stolid old senses,
Or in the sluggish mud his soul supine to deposit 25
Even as she-mule casts iron shoe where quagmire is stiffest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
10 _pristrino_ O
11 _si quae_ O
XCVIII
In te, si in quemquam, dici pote, putide Victi,
id quod
uerbosis
dicitur et fatuis.
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Latin - Catullus |
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And even the
Abstract
Entities
Circumambulate her charm;
But our lot crawls between dry ribs
To keep our metaphysics warm.
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T.S. Eliot |
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And me ashamed and slow along he drew
To see your eyes their
matchless
influence shower,
Which much I shun, afraid to give you pain.
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Petrarch |
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** I have often thought I could distinctly hear the sound of
the
darkness
as it stole over the horizon.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The reader of Pope, as of every author, is advised to begin by letting
him say what he has to say, in his own manner to an open mind that seeks
only to receive the
impressions
which the writer wishes to convey.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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[Sidenote C: Gawayne returns thanks for the honour and
kindness
shown to
him by all.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Is that a
happening
unknown among us?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"- Wer war's, der sie ins
Verderben
sturzte?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Whether with reason, or with
instinct
blest,
Know, all enjoy that power which suits them best;
To bliss alike by that direction tend,
And find the means proportioned to their end.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And the mighty nations would have crowned
me, who am crownless now and without name,
And some orient dawn had found me kneeling
on the
threshold
of the House of Fame.
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Wilde - Poems |
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