I
remember
a man, though, who told me, the night after
Amdheran, when we were picketed under Jagai, and he'd left his sword--by
the way, did you ever pay Ranken for that sword?
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Kipling - Poems |
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And, like a cloud, mine enemy above
Darkens my fall with
victory!
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Shelley |
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Has he all faithfulness, all love, so far forgotten,
The
drudgery
by day and night!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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TO Fred'rick's eye an angel she appeared;
But shame he felt, that she, his soul revered,
Should find him poor:--no
servants
to attend,
Nor means to give a dinner to a friend.
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La Fontaine |
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He
_cannot_
give me happiness.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The poets in this volume do not
represent
a clique.
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Imagists |
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Elvire
All my thoughts are still
enchanted
by them:
He esteems Rodrigue, as you love him,
Reading his soul, if I am free from error,
He'll wish you to take him as your lover.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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That robe of quality so struts and swells,
None see what parts of nature it conceals:
The
exactest
traits of body or of mind,
We owe to models of an humble kind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Sleep is
supposed
to be,
By souls of sanity,
The shutting of the eye.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Diegue
And yet to be denied seems
scarcely
best.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Death I would have them till thou comest; yea,
The earthly stone whereof man's fortune here
Is made, strongly into
deliberate
death
I have built about my soul, to fend its life
From gazes of the world.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Judith, be not too
scornful
of their noise.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Praise they that will times past; I joy to see
Myself now live: _this age best
pleaseth
me_.
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Robert Herrick |
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[The levity with which Burns sometimes spoke of things sacred, had
been
obliquely
touched upon by his good and anxious friend Mrs.
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Robert Forst |
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The Cretan monster would have
perished
there,
At your hand, despite the toils of his vast lair.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Hard strove the
frightened
maiden, and screamed with look aghast;
And at her scream from right and left the folk came running fast;
The money-changer Crispus, with his thin silver hairs,
And Hanno from the stately booth glittering with Punic wares,
And the strong smith Muraena, grasping a half-forged brand,
And Volero the flesher, his cleaver in his hand.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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So they kept us close till nigh on noon,
And then they rang the bell,
And the Warders with their jingling keys
Opened each
listening
cell,
And down the iron stair we tramped,
Each from his separate Hell.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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And midst the fluttering legion
Of all that ever died
I follow, and before us
Goes the
delightful
guide,
With lips that brim with laughter
But never once respond,
And feet that fly on feathers,
And serpent-circled wand.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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To this information
Monzaida added, that the Moors, suspecting his attachment to Gama, had
determined to assassinate him; that he had narrowly escaped from them;
that it was impossible for him to recover his effects, and that his only
hope was in the
protection
of Gama.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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--Ce qu'on ne sait pas, c'est peut-etre terrible:
Nous
saurons!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The moralities and
tragedies
give no indication of
hostility between Vice and devil.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Her word is steadfast, and I know
That
plighted
firm are we:
But she has caught new love-calls since
She smiled as maid on me!
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But in another book it must be sought,
And is a quite
peculiar
chapter.
| 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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I am the pool of blue
That
worships
the vivid sky;
My hopes were heaven-high,
They are all fulfilled in you.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Beowulf spake, -- his
breastplate
gleamed,
war-net woven by wit of the smith: --
"Thou Hrothgar, hail!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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No poppy in the May-glad mead Would match her
quivering
lips' red If 'gainst her lips it should be laid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
- You comply with all other terms of this
agreement
for free
distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
And as he walked he looked from side to side
To find some pleasant nook for his repast,
Since
appetite
was come to munch at last
The princely morsel!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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4150
And first, the roses for to kepe,
Aboute hem made he a diche depe,
Right wondir large, and also brood;
Upon the whiche also stood
Of squared stoon a sturdy wal, 4155
Which on a cragge was founded al,
And right gret
thikkenesse
eek it bar.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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XXVI
In my young days of wild delight
On balls I madly used to dote,
Fond
declarations
they invite
Or the delivery of a note.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Conquerors and Kings,
Founders of sects and systems, to whom add
Sophists, Bards, Statesmen, all unquiet things
Which stir too strongly the soul's secret springs,
And are
themselves
the fools to those they fool;
Envied, yet how unenviable!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Infected
be the Ayre whereon they ride,
And damn'd all those that trust them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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A hundred times already the sun had leaped, radiant or saddened, from
the immense cup of the sea whose rim could scarcely be seen; a hundred
times it had again sunk,
glittering
or morose, into its mighty bath of
twilight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
At once she pitch'd
headlong
into the bilge
Like a sea-coot, whence heaving her again, 580
The seamen gave her to be fishes' food,
And I survived to mourn her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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At this time several
officers
were cashiered, Antonius Taurus and
Antonius Naso of the Guards, Aemilius Pacensis of the City Garrison,
and Julius Fronto of the Police.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
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: |
Lewis Carroll |
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How high he treads and how
enlarged
he moves!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Beating the
cliffs and
circling
the rocks, they thunder in a thousand valleys.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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what a
wretched
Mother I!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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They, like a spasm of the Hydra, hearing the angel
Once grant a purer sense to the words of the tribe,
Loudly
proclaimed
it a magic potion, imbibed
From some tidal brew black, and dishonourable.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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ben so, che
dolorose
prede 96
Lasso, che mal accorto fui da prima 64
Lasso, ch' i' ardo, ed altri non mel crede 181
Lasso me, ch' i' non so in qual parte pieghi 67
Lasso!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Perhaps no writer who has given such strong proofs of the poetic nature
has left less
satisfactory
poetry than Thomson.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
]
[Footnote 10: Let the
indiscriminate
admirer of "first editions" turn to
this quarto, and perhaps even he may wonder why it has been rescued from
oblivion.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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XX
Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
But I know fairer far:
Those are as
beautiful
again
That in the water are;
The pools and rivers wash so clean
The trees and clouds and air,
The like on earth was never seen,
And oh that I were there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Whither, Bacchus, tear'st thou me,
Fill'd with thy
strength?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Biel, bield, a shelter; a
sheltered
spot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
"
Let the night be; it has neither
knowledge
nor pity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
We would prefer to send you
information
by email.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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ADMETUS (_almost
breaking
down_).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Oh sea, look
graciously!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Two heralds now, despatch'd to Troy, invite
The Phrygian monarch to the
peaceful
rite.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Double, double, toile and trouble;
Fire burne, and
Cauldron
bubble
2 Fillet of a Fenny Snake,
In the Cauldron boyle and bake:
Eye of Newt, and Toe of Frogge,
Wooll of Bat, and Tongue of Dogge:
Adders Forke, and Blinde-wormes Sting,
Lizards legge, and Howlets wing:
For a Charme of powrefull trouble,
Like a Hell-broth, boyle and bubble
All.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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neque_ O
5, 8
_pulcre_
GORVen
6 _linea_ B: num _iuncea_?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Money, root of ill,
Doubt it not, still grows apace:
Yet the scant heap has
somewhat
lacking still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
[_He seizes the book and pronounces
mysteriously
the sign of the spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
But I have,
And I'm off now to
practise
with my notions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Phaedra
The son of that Amazon mother:
You must know that prince I myself
oppressed
so long?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Chimene
complains
he has killed her father,
Yet I'd have done so, if I'd been younger.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
This is probably the
original
form of the line, corrected later to
avoid the clashing of the 'but's.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
To most Germans
Schiller
is still a great poet;
but to the rest of Europe hardly one at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
No, not if the blow
Is as the
lightning
blasting a tree,
I fear you not, puffing braggart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
, 615, 641, 1949, 2026; epithet of women of
princely
rank.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Of wealthy lustre was the banquet-room,
Fill'd with pervading
brilliance
and perfume:
Before each lucid pannel fuming stood
A censer fed with myrrh and spiced wood,
Each by a sacred tripod held aloft,
Whose slender feet wide-swerv'd upon the soft
Wool-woofed carpets: fifty wreaths of smoke
From fifty censers their light voyage took
To the high roof, still mimick'd as they rose
Along the mirror'd walls by twin-clouds odorous.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Some moment, nailed on sorrow's cross,
May meditate a whole youth's loss,
Some
windfall
joy, we know not whence,
Redeem a lifetime's rash expense,
And, suddenly wise, the soul may mark, 29
Stripped of their simulated dark,
Mountains of gold that pierce the sky,
Girdling its valleyed poverty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
non me praegrauat, ut putas, senectus,
nec sum grandine uerberata dura,
nec gemmas modo germine exeuntis
seri
frigoris
ustulauit aura,
nec uenti pluuiaeue siccitasue,
quod de se quererer, malum dederunt;
non sturnus mihi gracculusue raptor
aut cornix anus aut aquosus anser
aut coruus nocuit siticulosus:
sed quod carmina pessimi poetae
ramis sustineo laboriosis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
"These fields"--an unknown voice beyond the wall
Murmurs--"were once the
province
of the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
what of her, of her is left,
Who,
breathing
Love's own air,
Me of myself bereft,
Who reign'd in Cinara's stead, a fair, fair face,
Queen of sweet arts?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
The church and state you safely may invade ;
So
boundless
Lewis in full glory shines,
Whilst your starved power in legal fetters pines.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
The old graves are
ploughed
up into fields,
The pines and cypresses are hewn for timber.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
These bones, how they grind in the granite of frost and are
nothing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
The word is
probably
an adverb; hardly a word
for cup, mug (?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
This day Rollanz, my nephew shall be dead:
I hear his horn, with
scarcely
any breath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
THE EPIC SERIES
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art
has constantly
responded
to the profound needs of the society in which
it was made.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
_ A variation upon the Horatian theme:--
"Exegi
monumentum
aere perennius
Regalique situ pyramidum altius".
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
SAS}
Luvah & Vala trembling & shrinking, beheld the great Work master
{According
to Erdman, the first rendition of the line read "beheld the lord of ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of the South,
Who had an
immoderate
mouth;
But in swallowing a dish that was quite full of Fish,
He was choked, that Old Man of the South.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Exeunt the TWO
STAFFORDS
and soldiers
CADE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Walls and
ceiling are adorned 'with the most
singular
witch-household stuff_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
"Or if, by happy chance, thy soul might flee
Thy victims, after, thou shouldst surely see
And hear thy crimes relate;
Streaked
with the guileless gore drained from their veins,
Greater in number than the reigns on reigns
Thou hopedst for thy state.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
On the Coast of Coromandel
Where the early
pumpkins
blow,
In the middle of the woods
Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Milton has been
foolishly blamed for making his
supernaturalism
too human.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
The Only Immortality_
_i_
HAEC urbem circa stulti monumenta laboris
quasque uides molis, Appia, marmoreas,
pyramidasque ausas uicinum attingere caelum,
pyramidas, medio quas fugit umbra die,
et Mausoleum, miserae solacia mortis,
intulit
externum
quo Cleopatra uirum,
concutiet sternetque dies, quoque altius exstat
quodque opus, hoc illud carpet edetque magis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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like Plutus, hold
Bosomfuls
of orchard-gold,
Learns he why that mystic core
Was sweet Venus' meed of yore?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
)-it-tam [44]
a-na mi-[ni] [45]
iluGilgamis
ma-si-il
la-nam sa- pi- il
e-si[ pu]-uk-ku-ul
i ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or
proprietary
form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Laud 740, in the
Bodleian
Library; Gg.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The truth does not more wonderfully walk,
Whose
gestures
are the stars, than in her ways
This queen's body sways.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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But your tresses are a tepid river,
Where the soul that haunts us drowns, without a shiver
And finds the
Nothingness
you cannot know!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Why a Nostril wide inhaling terror
trembling
& affright
Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy?
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blake-poems |
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Then turning to his friend, with
dauntless
mind:
"Oh keep the foaming coursers close behind!
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Iliad - Pope |
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[239] A
debauchee
of vile habits; a pathic.
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Aristophanes |
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XXIV
"The Greek shall come against thee,
The
conqueror
of the East.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Here,
seat
yourself
in front.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Gainst us their shields an hundred
thousand
bore,
That laced helms and shining hauberks wore;
And, bolt upright, their bright brown spearheads shone.
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Chanson de Roland |
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With ease
Heelwise he held the bull, and with one glide
Bared the white limb; then
stripped
the mighty hide
From off him, swifter than a runner runs
His furlongs, and laid clean the flank.
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Euripides - Electra |
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