oh faith of ancient
prophecies!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Her life was the normal
blossoming
of a nature
introspective to a high degree, whose best thought could not exist
in pretence.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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My life's long warfare seem'd about to cease,
Peace had my spirit's contest well nigh freed;
But levelling Death, who doth to all concede
An equal doom, clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace:
As zephyrs chase the clouds of gathering fleece,
So did her life from this world's breath recede,
Their vision'd light could once my
footsteps
lead,
But now my all, save thought, she doth release.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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38 _Kymeno
kymeneae
kymenales kymeno kymene?
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Latin - Catullus |
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On the
morn he arrives at an immense forest,
wondrously
wild, surrounded by
high hills on every side, where he found hoary oaks full huge, a
hundred together.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
Then Maclean he set hardly his tooth to his lip that his tooth was red,
Breathed
short for a space, said: "Nay, but it never shall be!
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Sidney Lanier |
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" --Alas, what a
misapprehension!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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'Tis strange--he prophesied my doom,
And I have smiled--I then could smile--
When
Prudence
would his voice assume, 1230
And warn--I recked not what--the while:
But now Remembrance whispers o'er[et]
Those accents scarcely marked before.
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Byron |
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+ Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is
essential
for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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Meredith - Poems |
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KAU}
The
wondrous
work flow forth like visible out of the invisible
For the Divine Lamb Even Jesus who is the Divine Vision
Permitted all lest Man should fall into Eternal Death
For when Luvah sunk down himself put on the robes of blood
Lest the state calld Luvah should cease.
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Blake - Zoas |
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To-day there is another question that we must make up our minds about,
and an even more pressing one, What is a
National
Theatre?
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Yeats |
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_
[49] If one would trace the true character of Cortez and the Americans,
he must have
recourse
to the numerous Spanish writers, who were either
witnesses of the first wars, or soon after travelled in these countries.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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But the child slept, and the fire danced, for
the one was too ignorant and the other too full of gaiety to know what
a
dreadful
being stood there.
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Yeats |
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com in Word format,
Mobipocket
Reader
format, eReader format and Acrobat Reader format.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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There's
threesome
reels, there's foursome reels,
There's hornpipes and strathspeys, man;
But the ae best dance e'er cam to the land
Was--the deil's awa wi' the Exciseman.
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Robert Forst |
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[The name of the lady to whom this and the three
succeeding
letters
were addressed, seems to have been known to Dr.
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Robert Burns |
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)
To find a friend who has these qualities,
Who has, and gives
Those
qualities
upon which friendship lives.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Well might the plant grow beautiful and strong,
Even if the air and sun had smiled not on it;
For one wept o'er it all the winter long
Tears pure as Heaven's rain, which fell upon it _70
Hour after hour; for sounds of softest song
Mixed with the stringed
melodies
that won it
To leave the gentle lips on which it slept,
Had loosed the heart of him who sat and wept.
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Shelley |
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The channel, that I know no more, Whence, to
unfathomed
oceans, rolls The current of my being, now 1
Into the dark is turning me.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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but issuing from the shades,
Why cease I straight to learn what sound
invades?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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In the edition of 1836 these two
couplets
of 1815 were compressed into
one, and in that edition lines 200-201 preceded lines 198-199.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Back to my breast,
ungrateful
sigh!
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| Question: |
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James Russell Lowell |
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)
Erkennst
du mich?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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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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"
I know not if I here too far presum'd,
But in this strain I answer'd: "Tell me now,
What
treasures
from St.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It is
difficult
to believe from the slope of the outcrop
of rock that a wall could ever have been at the summit.
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William Wordsworth |
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, Woking_
Introduction[1]
The _Electra_ of
Euripides
has the distinction of being, perhaps, the best
abused, and, one might add, not the best understood, of ancient tragedies.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Captain Harris has had a careful
transcript
of
the poems made, and he allowed me after collating the original with
the transcript to keep the latter by me for a long time.
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John Donne |
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Who knows where
repentance
might have led?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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While yet upon the shadowy grove
Splinter
the arrows of the moon.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The pole of the hop
Place in the aleshop
To
bethwack
us,
If ever we think
So much as to drink
Unto Bacchus.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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He liked the advice and then soon it essayed,
And
presents
crowd headlong to give good
example.
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| Question: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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'Please God, now, night fail us not cruelly,
Nor my friend be parted far from me,
Nor day nor dawn, let the
watchman
see!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The bodies made one are the Sphere
in which the two
Intelligences
meet and command.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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No more against my bosom press thee,
Seek no more that my hands caress thee,
Leave the sad lips thou hast known so well;
If to my heart thou lean thine ear,
There grieving thou shalt only hear
Vain
murmuring
of an empty shell.
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| Question: |
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
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Imagists |
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I lived on dread; to those who know
The
stimulus
there is
In danger, other impetus
Is numb and vital-less.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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But he did show them to close friends,
one of whom was the wonderful
dramatist
Friedrich Schiller.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Of
waistcoats
Harry has no lack,
Good duffle grey, and flannel fine;
He has a blanket on his back,
And coats enough to smother nine.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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God
Almighty
shall give joy for pain,
Shall comfort him who grieves:
Lo!
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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E'en as in balmy slumbers lapt to lie
(The spirit parted from the form below),
In her appear'd what th' unwise term to die;
And Death sate
beauteous
on her beauteous brow.
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
e
Emperour
whan he was brou?
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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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Baptized before without the choice,
But this time consciously, of grace
Unto supremest name,
Called to my full, the
crescent
dropped,
Existence's whole arc filled up
With one small diadem.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
"
Far and faint, yet each moment clearer, Straight as an arrow down the sound,
An old-time
freighter
is drawing nearer, "City of Taunton" westward bound.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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where she comes
creeping
yonder!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
proud courts,
withdraw
your blaze!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Not merely to be
feasting
with delight
Man's senses, I refuse; but even his heart
I will not serve.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
The last edition of Donne's poems which bears evidence of recourse
to manuscript sources, and which
enlarged
the canon of the poems, was
that of 1669.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
It is certain that the
remaining
books of 'The Prelude' were all written
in the spring and early summer of 1805; the seventh, eighth, ninth,
tenth, eleventh, and part of the twelfth being finished about the middle
of April; the last 300 lines of book twelfth in the last week of April;
and the two remaining books--the thirteenth and fourteenth--before the
20th of May.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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We will swap horses with the rising moon,
And mend that funny skillet called Orion,
Color the stars like San Francisco's street-lights,
And paint our sign and signature on high
In planets like a bed of crimson pansies;
While a million fiddles shake all listening hearts,
Crying good fortune to the Universe,
Whispering
adventure
to the Ganges waves,
And to the spirits, and all winds and gods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Title: War is Kind
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Language: English
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Nowe bie Seyncte Marie, gyff onn all the fielde
Ycrasedd[115] speres and helmetts bee besprente[116],
Gyff everyche knyghte dydd houlde a piercedd[117] sheeld,
Gyff all the feelde wythe champyonne blodde bee stente[118],
Yett toe
encounterr
hymm I bee contente.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
" "Good morrow," quoth Gawayne, "I shall act according to your
will with great pleasure, but permit me to rise that I may the more
comfortably
converse
with you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium
and
discontinue
all use of and all access to other copies of
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
But see, it is Alcmena's son once more,
My lord King, cometh
striding
to thy door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too,
The world's heart breaks beneath its wars,
All things are changed, save in the east
The
faithful
beauty of the stars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Though accompanied,
during his northern excursions, by friends whose
socialities
and
conversation forbade deep thought, or even serious remark, it will be
seen by those who read his lyrics with care, that his wreath is
indebted for some of its fairest flowers to the Highlands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Je suis de la
canaille!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
) And can that earth-artificer
have a freer power over his brother potsherd (both being made of the
same metal), than God hath over him, who, by the strange
fecundity
of
His omnipotent power, first made the clay out of nothing, and then him
out of that?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this
agreement
violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
MAGNIFICENT
(for her he now replied,)
This flame you'll soon no reason have to hide
Through dread or fear of my old jealous fool,
Who wisely fancies he can woman rule.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Contrary to the text,
Socrates
held that a man should care for his bodily
health.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
)
Why we have not
developed
into friends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
And I get nothing whatever of the
paternal
property?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
1230 - 1292)
One of the last, if not the last, of the true Provencal troubadours, Guiraut survived the Albigensian Crusade and the wars that effectively destroyed the
cultured
society that had supported them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Thy specious
prologue
means no good, I trow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Say,
heavenly
Muse, shall not thy sacred vein
Afford a present to the Infant God?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose 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 |
|
Lest these
enclasped
hands should never hold,
This mutual kiss drop down between us both
As an unowned thing, once the lips being cold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
1400
`Y-wis, myn owene dere herte trewe,
I woot that, whan ye next up-on me see,
So lost have I myn hele and eek myn hewe,
Criseyde
shal nought conne knowe me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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at is
Maidenes
spouse.
| 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 |
|
Youth and health will be but vain,
Beauty
reckoned
of no worth:
There a very little girth
Can hold round what once the earth
Seemed too narrow to contain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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nur das
geistige
Band.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
In thieving thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high,
surmounted
by a cross-beam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
There is the despot who
tyrannises
over the soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
I, proud of my murmur, intend to speak at length
Of goddesses: and with idolatrous paintings
Remove again from shadow their waists' bindings:
So that when I've sucked the grapes' brightness
To banish a regret done away with by my pretence,
Laughing, I raise the emptied stem to the summer's sky
And
breathing
into those luminous skins, then I,
Desiring drunkenness, gaze through them till evening.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Double, double, toyle and trouble,
Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble
2 Coole it with a
Baboones
blood,
Then the Charme is firme and good.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
I
[Illustration]
I was an
Inkstand
new,
Papa he likes to use it;
He keeps it in his pocket now,
For fear that he should lose it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
I am
scattered
like
the hot shrivelled seeds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Then I cried in despair,
"I see
nothing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,
And how, how rare and strange it is, to find
In a life
composed
so much, so much of odds and ends,
(For indeed I do not love it .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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So, in haste
(For shame of Summer's long delay,
Yet gazing still what way she paced),
"He
summoned
Autumn, slanting down
The second bar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
_
THE UNION OF BEAUTY AND VIRTUE IS
DISSOLVED
BY HER DEATH.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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1673 reads--
And hearken, if I may her
business
hear.
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Milton |
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In one is a lion, which
my father's slaves brought from the desert of Ninavah; in the other
is a
songless
sparrow.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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OSWALD (to Host)
We are ready--
(to
HERBERT)
Sir!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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There is a hint of the
intrigues
of
Mary Queen of Scots and the libels of the Jesuits on Queen Elizabeth
designed to bring back the English nation to Romish allegiance.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Latin - Catullus |
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" This was a most
melancholy
affair, which I
cannot yet bear to reflect on, and had very nearly given me one or two
of the principal qualifications for a place among those who have lost
the chart, and mistaken the reckoning of rationality.
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Robert Burns |
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My
follower
held in his
hand the memorandum, and was contemplating it with an air of deep
regret.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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the Heaven
And Enion
desolate
where art though Tharmas O return
Three days she waild & three dark nights sitting among the Rocks
While the bright spectre hid himself among the ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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The following is an outline of the story of Gawayne's adventures, more or
less in the words of the writer himself:--
Arthur, the
greatest
of Britain's kings, holds the Christmas festival
at Camelot, surrounded by the celebrated knights of the Round Table,
noble lords, the most renowned under heaven, and ladies the loveliest
that ever had life (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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He married his 'step-daughter' Anor, to his son, later Guilhem X, and in turn their daughter Alianor (Eleanor), Duchess of Aquitaine and
Countess
of Poitou, became Queen of France, and by her second marriage to Henry, Duke of Normandy, later Henry II, became Queen of England also.
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Troubador Verse |
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