The outlines of the distant streets grow shorter,
A
murmuring
bids the wanderer to respite;
Is it the music of some hidden water?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Of "The History," only four books have been
preserved; and they contain the events of a single year: a year, it is
true, which, saw three civil wars, and four
Emperors
destroyed; a year
of crime, and accidents, and prodigies: there are few sentences more
powerful, than Tacitus' enumeration of these calamities, in the opening
chapters.
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Tacitus |
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And besides,
To touch on proof that we
pronounced
before,
Just as we see the eggs of feathered fowls
To change to living chicks, and swarming worms
To bubble forth when from the soaking rains
The earth is sodden, sure, sensations all
Can out of non-sensations be begot.
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Lucretius |
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The wizard-fingers never rest,
The purple brook within the breast
Still chafes its narrow bed;
Still rears the East her amber flag,
Guides still the sun along the crag
His caravan of red,
Like flowers that heard the tale of dews,
But never deemed the dripping prize
Awaited their low brows;
Or bees, that thought the summer's name
Some rumor of delirium
No summer could for them;
Or Arctic creature, dimly stirred
By tropic hint, -- some
travelled
bird
Imported to the wood;
Or wind's bright signal to the ear,
Making that homely and severe,
Contented, known, before
The heaven unexpected came,
To lives that thought their worshipping
A too presumptuous psalm.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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e
belleward
him wend.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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non illam vir prior attigerit, 20
Languidior tenera cui pendens sicula beta
Numquam se mediam
sustulit
ad tunicam:
Sed pater illius gnati violasse cubile
Dicitur et miseram conscelerasse domum,
Sive quod inpia mens caeco flagrabat amore, 25
Seu quod iners sterili semine natus erat,
Et quaerendus is unde foret nervosius illud,
Quod posset zonam solvere virgineam.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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There lands the Fiend, a spot like which perhaps
Astronomer
in the Sun's lucent Orbe
Through his glaz'd Optic Tube yet never saw.
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Milton |
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And under scent and song of flowers and birds,
Far inland out of the golden bays the air
Is charged with briny savour, and whispered news
Gentle as
whitening
oats the breezes stroke.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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enne Eufemian with-stod,
and
grantede
wi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Nor smile, nor tear, nor
haughtiest
lord's command,
Avails t' unclasp the cold and closed hand.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Full on this casement shone the wintry moon,
And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast,
As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon;
Rose-bloom fell on her hands,
together
prest, 220
And on her silver cross soft amethyst,
And on her hair a glory, like a saint:
She seem'd a splendid angel, newly drest,
Save wings, for heaven:--Porphyro grew faint:
She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.
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Keats |
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86-88;
4 of ELISHA, his
purifying
a well with salt, 214-225 (2 Kings ii.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Some thought it mounted to the lunar sphere,
Since all that man e'er lost is
treasured
there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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or if those women you note
Reflect your
fabulous
senses' desire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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This elder
Appius had been Consul more than seventy years before the
introduction of the
Licinian
laws.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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_Laurence Binyon_
VERDUN
Three hundred thousand men, but not enough
To break this
township
on a winding stream;
More yet must fall, and more, ere the red stuff
That built a nation's manhood may redeem
The Master's hopes and realize his dream.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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What time upon her airy bounds I hung
One half the garden of her globe was flung
Unrolling as a chart unto my view--
Tenantless
cities of the desert too!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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let not English women drag their flight
Fainting
beneath the burthen of their babes,
Of the sweet infants, that but yesterday
Laughed at the breast!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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If there shall be love and content between the father and the son,
and if the
greatness
of the son is the exuding of the greatness of the
father, there shall be love between the poet and the man of demonstrable
science.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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O how
the
glorious
triumph swells my heart!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Besides this, the inhabitants
supported their fellow citizen, and in the hope of future
aggrandizement rendered
enthusiastic
service to the party.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Constructed by
whatever
law,
So poor a job I never saw,
As I'm a living Wraith!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Now you hear the glory of the king of kings,
That he knows Vashti, that he lives
In this
pleasure
always.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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In har'st, at the shearing, nae youths now are jeering,
Bandsters
are lyart, and runkled and gray;
At fair or at preaching, nae wooing, nae fleeching--
The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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All
creation
slept and smiled.
| 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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On every
prominent
ledge you could see
England's hands holding the Canadas, and I judged by the redness of
her knuckles that she would soon have to let go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Erect stood He,
scanning
his work proudly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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The editors and
publishers
of the future may possibly prefer it
to the plan now adopted, and it will commend itself to many readers from
the mere fact that 'it was Wordsworth's own'; but in an edition such as
the present--which is meant to supply material for the study of the Poet
to those who may not possess, or have access to, the earlier and rarer
editions--no method of arrangement can be so good as the chronological
one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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I
wondered
at you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"I've often spent ten pounds on stuff,
In
dressing
as a Double;
But, though it answers as a puff,
It never has effect enough
To make it worth the trouble.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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"The chimes will ring on
Christmas
Day, The chimes will ring on Christmas Day, And rich and poor will kneel and pray.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN
PARAGRAPH
F3.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Lastly, whatso thou markest to disperse
Upon the instant--smoke, and cloud, and flame--
Must not (even though not all of smooth and round)
Be yet co-linked with atoms intertwined,
That thus they can, without
together
cleaving,
So pierce our body and so bore the rocks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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"
La Figlia Che Piange
Stand on the highest pavement of the stair--
Lean on a garden urn--
Weave, weave the
sunlight
in your hair--
Clasp your flowers to you with a pained surprise--
Fling them to the ground and turn
With a fugitive resentment in your eyes:
But weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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"With this you make a kind of slide
(It answers best with suet),
On which you must contrive to glide,
And swing
yourself
from side to side--
One soon learns how to do it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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XXIX
When he these bitter byting wordes had red,
The tydings
straunge
did him abashed make,
That still he sate long time astonished, 255
As in great muse, ne word to creature spake.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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O I wish I could impress others as you and the waves have just been
impressing
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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It is the
conformity
of life,
of the conditions and the fate of the land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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--On the other hand, unpopular
essays will not even be accepted; and you must pay to have them
printed: but then you seldom lose by it, as courtiers are so sensible
of their deficiency in merit, that they
generously
reward all who know
how to dawb them with the appearance of it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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_
HE RETURNS THE GLOVE,
BEWAILING
THE EFFECT OF HER BEAUTY.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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"
The Eye
Said the Eye one day, "I see beyond these valleys a
mountain
veiled
with blue mist.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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or if those women you note
Reflect your
fabulous
senses' desire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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The
compressed
and punctuated translation is offered as an aid to grasping the poem as a whole, in a swift reading.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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= The magic circle is one of the things
most frequently
mentioned
among the arts of the conjurer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Around both urns we piled a noble tomb,
(We warriors of the sacred Argive host)
On a tall
promontory
shooting far
Into the spacious Hellespont, that all
Who live, and who shall yet be born, may view
Thy record, even from the distant waves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Que les soleils sont beaux dans les chaudes
soirees!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
X
"To him sage Merlin shows, that well nigh all
Those other monarchs that in France will reign,
By murderous steel will see their people fall,
Consumed
by famine, or by fever slain;
And that short joy, long sorrow, profit small,
And boundless ill shall recompense their pain;
Since vainly will the lily seek to shoot
In the Italian fields its withered root.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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My friend, blood shaking my heart
The awful daring of a moment's surrender
Which an age of
prudence
can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed
Which is not to be found in our obituaries
Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider
Or under seals broken by the lean solicitor
In our empty rooms 410
DA
Dayadhvam: I have heard the key
Turn in the door once and turn once only
We think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison
Only at nightfall, aetherial rumours
Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus
DA
Damyata: The boat responded
Gaily, to the hand expert with sail and oar 420
The sea was calm, your heart would have responded
Gaily, when invited, beating obedient
To controlling hands
I sat upon the shore
Fishing, with the arid plain behind me
Shall I at least set my lands in order?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
19-24, 1846]
_The assaulting
American
army at the attack on Monterey numbered
six thousand six hundred and twenty-five; the defeated Mexicans
were about ten thousand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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What
references
to the Bible do you find?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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how I faint when I of you do write,
Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,
And in the praise thereof spends all his might,
To make me tongue-tied
speaking
of your fame!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And when Sumter sinks at last
From the heavens, that shrink aghast,
Hell shall rise in grim
derision
and make room!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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In man
ambition
is the common'st thing;
Each one by nature loves to be a king.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Thus the Barrister dreamed, while the
bellowing
seemed
To grow every moment more clear:
Till he woke to the knell of a furious bell,
Which the Bellman rang close at his ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The bravest
traveller
in balloon,
Mounting as if to reach the moon,
Was never half so blessed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Thy master and thy
mistress
live.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
"
Then says the count: "I will not have them, me I
Confound
me God, if I fail in the deed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
111; and compare also
_Sermons_
80.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
40
Hast thou no passion nor pity
For thy
deserted
companions?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
His
fantastically
decorated
apartments were frequented by the painters,
poets, sculptors, romancers, of the day--that is, carefully selected
ones such as Liszt, George Sand, Merimee, and others whose verve or
genius gave them the privilege of saying Open Sesame!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
--more like an out-of-tune
Worn viol, a good singer would be wroth
To spoil his song with, and which,
snatched
in haste,
Is laid down at the first ill-sounding note.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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" Being reprinted immediately
in the "Home Journal," it was copied into various
publications
with the
name of the editor, N.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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for
herdsman
and for herd!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Qui si rimira ne l'arte ch'addorna
cotanto affetto, e
discernesi
'l bene
per che 'l mondo di su quel di giu torna.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
14)
suggests
hwǣr hēo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Strike us they will with lances and with spears:
Battle with them we'll have,
prolonged
and keen;
Never has man beheld such armies meet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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thou who for thy flock art dying,
O, wash away these scarlet sins, for thou
Rejoicest at the
contrite
sinner's vow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
If thought is life
And
strength
and breath
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Nay, pluck it too, it is not half so sweet
As thou thyself, my soul's
idolatry!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Lazily I lounge through labyrinthine corridors,
And with eyes
suddenly
altered,
I peer into an office I do not know,
And wonder at a startled face that penetrates my own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
The mention of Saffron Walden had
apparently
been
ridiculed, and the author in this year joins in the laugh, and in 1669
omits the paragraph altogether.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Heart's palfrey
caracoled
gayly round,
Heart tra-li-ra'd merrily;
But Brain sat still, with never a sound,
So cynical-calm was he.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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And then retreted for to guarde his kynge, 195
On dented launce he bore the harte awaie;
An arrowe came from
Auffroie
Griel's strynge,
Into hys heele betwyxt hys yron staie;
The grey-goose pynion, that thereon was sett,
Eftsoons wyth smokyng crymson bloud was wett.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
In this
conspiracy
we fell; nor did we alone suffer, our country was
deeply wounded.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
But I will stake,
Seeing you are so mad, what you yourself
Will own more priceless far- two beechen cups
By the divine art of Alcimedon
Wrought and embossed, whereon a limber vine,
Wreathed round them by the graver's facile tool,
Twines over
clustering
ivy-berries pale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Surely, when we consider that some of those were infants, and
one a martyr to asthma now nearly subdued, we may
challenge
any
seventeen persons taken at random in this city to exhibit a parallel
case.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
My soul awakes
At a smile that breaks
In sun; and
sunlight
is everywhere!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
_ Master Idenstein,
How fare you in your
purpose?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Thus Aeacus has 'scaped the Stygian wave,
By grace of poets and their silver tongue,
Henceforth
to live the happy isles among.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Sickness more courage doth command
Than health, so with a
trembling
hand
A love epistle he doth scrawl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Again at these mine innocent iamb-lines
Wi' wrath be wrothest; unique
Emperor!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I shall abide the first blow just as
I sit, and will stand him a stroke, stiff on this floor,
provided
that
I deal him another in return.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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To a Certain Cantatrice
Here, take this gift,
I was
reserving
it for some hero, speaker, or general,
One who should serve the good old cause, the great idea, the
progress and freedom of the race,
Some brave confronter of despots, some daring rebel;
But I see that what I was reserving belongs to you just as much as to any.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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Meredith - Poems |
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It 's far, far
treasure
to surmise,
And estimate the pearl
That slipped my simple fingers through
While just a girl at school!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And other
withered
stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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LXIX
Like a tall forest were their spears,
Their banners like a silken sea,
When the great host in
splendour
passed
Across the crimson sinking sun.
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Sappho |
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I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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In small
proportions
we just beauties see;
And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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how I faint when I of you do write,
Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,
And in the praise thereof spends all his might,
To make me tongue-tied
speaking
of your fame!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Great and varied as the merits of his
pictures
are, Lear hardly succeeded
in achieving any great popularity as a landscape-painter.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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to the Project Gutenberg
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Keats - Lamia |
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70
The grete Ioye that was betwix hem two,
Whan they be met, ther may no tunge telle,
Ther is no more, but unto bed they go,
And thus in Ioye and blisse I let hem dwelle;
This worthy Mars, that is of
knighthod
welle, 75
The flour of fairnes lappeth in his armes,
And Venus kisseth Mars, the god of armes.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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'But then an awful terror began to
encircle
me; I stood in amaze; there
rose before me the likeness of my loved father, as I saw the king, old
as he, sobbing out his life under the ghastly wound; there rose Creusa
forlorn, my plundered house, and little Iulus' peril.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Pursue what chance or fate
proclaimeth
best;
Peace waits us on the shores of Acheron:
There no forced banquet claims the sated guest,
But Silence spreads the couch of ever welcome rest.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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