"
Sang the robin, the Opechee,
Sang the bluebird, the Owaissa,
"Do not shoot us,
Hiawatha!
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Longfellow |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But mad with reason, [so
miscalled]
of state, •
They know them not, and what they know not,
hate.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Such
embassies
delight me.
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Longfellow |
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It is discernible in the most
tedious and in the most
superficial
modern works on the early
times of Rome.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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--she's done harm to
herself?
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Robert Forst |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Him in iron case
(Reader, forgive the intolerable thought)
They hung not:--no one on _his_ form or face 660
Could gaze, as on a show by idlers sought;
No kindred sufferer, to his death-place brought
By lawless curiosity or chance,
When into storm the evening sky is wrought,
Upon his
swinging
corse an eye can glance, 665
And drop, as he once dropped, in miserable trance.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Still doth the
misanthrope
appear?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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These are your relatives, believe:
Those whom we ought to love, caress,
With spiritual tenderness;
Whom, as the custom is of men,
We visit about
Christmas
Day,
Or by a card our homage pay,
That until Christmas comes again
They may forget that we exist.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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How
Virgil and Statius have
imitated
Homer; how Horace, Archilochus; how
Alcaeus, and the other lyrics; and so of the rest.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He was accused of
prostituting
himself.
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Aristophanes |
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Thanatos
is not a god,
not at all a King of Terrors.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Hymen O Hymenaeus, Hymen hither O
Hymenaeus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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In an age when writing, if it exists at
all, is a rare and secret art, the mists of
antiquity
descend after a
very few generations.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Thenceforth I set myself to play
My
solitary
time away
With this ; and, very well content.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Happily the state of things which
generated
such men has long since passed away.
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Marvell - Poems |
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But the things I feel when wine
possesses
my soul
I will never tell to those who are not drunk.
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Li Po |
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So sunset shuts my
question
down
With clasps of chrysolite.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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No
question
then, but such a lick is sweet,
When a warm tongue does with such ambers meet.
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Robert Herrick |
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This form of poetry
has not been
introduced
in China, but I differ with your statement,
Sir, that Chinese poetry lacks imagination.
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| Question: |
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Li Po |
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The dinner was marred by the
sinister
disaster
of Eugene Hugo going mad.
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| Question: |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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To me, Amphinomus, endued thou seem'st
With much discretion, who art also son
Of such a sire, whose fair report I know,
Dulichian
Nysus, opulent and good.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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* * * * *
[The following Strictures on Scottish Song exist in the handwriting of
Burns, in the interleaved copy of Johnson's Musical Museum, which the
poet
presented
to Captain Riddel, of Friars Carse; on the death of
Mrs.
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Robert Forst |
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He
breaketh
bread
As He was wont.
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Longfellow |
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Still round him clung invisibly a chain
Which galled for ever,
fettering
though unseen,
And heavy though it clanked not; worn with pain,
Which pined although it spoke not, and grew keen,
Entering with every step he took through many a scene.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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With so much
quarrelling
and so few kisses
How long do you think our love can last?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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_Middin-creels_, dung-baskets,
panniers
in which horses carry manure.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Naevis and Livius
Andronicus
were probably among
the children whose mothers held them up to see the chariot of
Curius go by.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Pour from those lips soft syllables to win
Peace for the Romans,
glorious
Lady, peace!
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| Question: |
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Lucretius |
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Then to my lord, where by the meadow side
He prays the
woodland
nymphs.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Come, tell me what barbarian fair
Will serve you now, her
bridegroom
slain?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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This air, whereof I am reminding thee,
Winding athrough the iron's
abundant
pores
So subtly into the tiny parts thereof,
Shoves it and pushes, as wind the ship and sails.
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Lucretius |
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he is sunk down into a deadly sleep
But we immortal in our strength survive by stern debate
Till we have drawn the Lamb of god into a mortal form
And that he must be born is certain for One must be All
And comprehend within himself all things both small & great
We
therefore
for whose sake all things aspire to be be & live
Will so recieve the Divine Image that amongst the Reprobate
He may be devoted to Destruction from his mothers womb {This group of 9 lines, "Refusing.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The sonnets of Les
Antiquites
provide a fascinating comment on the Classical Roman world as seen from the viewpoint of the French Renaissance.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The first design of the Essay on Man
arranged
it into four books, each
consisting of a distinct group of Epistles.
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE
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POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH
DAMAGE.
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
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destroy all copies of the works possessed in a
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I too will pick
Quinces all silvered-o'er with hoary down,
Chestnuts, which
Amaryllis
wont to love,
And waxen plums withal: this fruit no less
Shall have its meed of honour; and I will pluck
You too, ye laurels, and you, ye myrtles, near,
For so your sweets ye mingle.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Tomorrow
your Dictator
Shall bring in triumph home
The spoils of thirty cities
To deck the shrines of Rome!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
IV
If my praise her grace effaces,
Then 't is not my heart that showeth, But the
skilless
tongue that soweth Words unworthy of her graces.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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--Entre le laurier-rose et le lotus jaseur
Glisse amoureusement le grand Cygne reveur
Embrassant
la Leda des blancheurs de son aile;
--Et tandis que Cypris passe, etrangement belle,
Et, cambrant les rondeurs splendides de ses reins,
Etale fierement l'or de ses larges seins
Et son ventre neigeux brode de mousse noire,
--Heracles, le Dompteur, qui, comme d'une gloire
Fort, ceint son vaste corps de la peau du lion,
S'avance, front terrible et doux, a l'horizon!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Bēo þū suna mīnum
"dǣdum gedēfe drēam
healdende!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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O how charmingly Nature hath array'd thee
With the soft green grass and juicy clover,
And with corn-flowers
blooming
and luxuriant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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XVII
Such one it was, as that
renowmed
Snake?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
[Illustration]
There was an old man in a tree,
Whose whiskers were lovely to see;
But the birds of the air pluck'd them perfectly bare,
To make
themselves
nests in that tree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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For
even the
briefest
epistle in the ordinary chirography is dangerous.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Hast thou
forgotten
that noble deed, by which
thou didst gain a regal wedlock, than which none dared other deeds bolder?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which
prisoners
call the sky,
And at every drifting cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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"
THE STUDENT'S TALE
THE FALCON OF SER FEDERIGO
One summer morning, when the sun was hot,
Weary with labor in his garden-plot,
On a rude bench beneath his cottage eaves,
Ser Federigo sat among the leaves
Of a huge vine, that, with its arms outspread,
Hung its delicious
clusters
overhead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Till then, he hoped his bones might there be laid
Close by my mother in their native bowers: 240
Bidding me trust in God, he stood and prayed;--
I could not pray:--through tears that fell in showers
Glimmered
our dear-loved home, alas!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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It is perhaps
a
consequence
of its origin that the imagination and the rhetoric never get
quite clear of one another, and that, in spite of some magical lines
(wholly Coleridge's) like:
"O struggling with the darkness all the night,
And visited all night by troops of stars:"
the poem remains somewhat external, a somewhat deliberate heaping up of
hosannas.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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But if one should look at me with the old hunger in Plank
her eyes,
How will I be
answering
her eyes?
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| Question: |
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO
OTHER WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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By foul play, as thou say'st, were we heav'd thence;
But
blessedly
holp hither.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Must then at once (the
character
to save)
The plain rough hero turn a crafty knave?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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When into air had
partially
dissolved
That vision, given to spirits of the night
And three chance human wanderers, in calm thought 65
Reflected, it appeared to me the type
Of a majestic intellect, its acts
And its possessions, what it has and craves,
What in itself it is, and would become.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
And that is the
wavering
commons; for their love
Lies in their purses; and whoso empties them,
By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Noi passamm' oltre, e io e 'l duca mio,
su per lo scoglio infino in su l'altr' arco
che cuopre 'l fosso in che si paga il fio
a quei che scommettendo
acquistan
carco.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And without beauty men are scurrying ants,
Rapid in endless purpose unenjoyed;
Or newts in holes under the banks of ponds,
Feeding and
breeding
without sound or light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
In this
confidence
I sent no embassy, I framed no crafty
overtures; myself I have presented mine own person, and come a suppliant
to thy courts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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X
MARCH
The sun at noon to higher air,
Unharnessing
the silver Pair
That late before his chariot swam,
Rides on the gold wool of the Ram.
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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anoyously
be cast
vndir many p{er}iles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Instead, with unhurrying stride
He came,
And
gathering
my tall frame,
Like a child, in his arms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Tasting, art thou,
What the Assyrians may have forced on me,
Ere thou hast well swallowed thy new
freedom?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
[Footnote 1: Most of this
introduction
is reprinted, by the kind
permission of the Editors, from an article in the _Independent Review_
vol.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
) can copy and distribute it in the United
States without
permission
and without paying copyright
royalties.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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What tale of terror, now, their
turbulency
tells!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Lotus-maiden, may you be
Fragrant
of all ecstasy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The meadows mine, the mountains mine, --
All forests,
stintless
stars,
As much of noon as I could take
Between my finite eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
"
"No, and the worser of it is, there is no
discharge
in this war.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Spadillio
first, unconquerable Lord!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Lycius to all made eloquent reply,
Marrying to every word a
twinborn
sigh;
And last, pointing to Corinth, ask'd her sweet,
If 'twas too far that night for her soft feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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'" I looked sternly at my friend while I thus addressed him;
for, to say the truth, I felt
particularly
puzzled, and when a man is
particularly puzzled he must knit his brows and look savage, or else he
is pretty sure to look like a fool.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
High raise, O boys, the torches: I see the
gleaming
veil approach.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
"
[Illustration]
There was an old person of Nice,
Whose
associates
were usually Geese.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Exeunt
LYSANDER
and DEMETRIUS
HERMIA.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Parthenius
208
_ingenerati_
OD
209 _Torcu_(_quu_ h2)_tus_ Oh2
210 _e_] _et_ O: fortasse _ex_
213 _semihiante_ Scaliger: _sed mihi ante_ ?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
"
At the sight of the weapon the
Countess
gave a second sign of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Thus your logic is not mine: however
I speak as a king, you as a soldier;
Whatever you say,
whatever
he believes,
No honour is lost in obeying me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
King
You wish us to believe the
impossible?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
5
Nor less in
promenade
titled from The Great
(Friend!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Whiter than a far-off sail
My form of beauty glows,
Fair as on a summer night
Dawns the sleep star's gentle light;
And
fragrant
as the early rose
That scents the green Arabian vale,
Soothing the pilgrim as he goes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Almost every poet has celebrated his patrons, particularly when they
were names dear to fame, and
illustrious
in their country; allow me,
then, my lord, if you think the verses have intrinsic merit, to tell
the world how much I have the honour to be,
Your lordship's highly indebted,
And ever grateful humble servant,
R.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
'Twas wrath that laid
Thyestes
low;
'Tis wrath that oft destruction calls
On cities, and invites the foe
To drive his plough o'er ruin'd walls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
You bewitched the rivers, flowers and woods,
With your lyre, in vain but beguilingly,
Yet not what your soul felt, the beauty
That dealt what was
festering
in your blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
A steer of five years' age, large limb'd, and fed,(92)
To Jove's high altars Agamemnon led:
There bade the noblest of the Grecian peers;
And Nestor first, as most
advanced
in years.
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The first contains short
extracts
from two MSS.
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Was it not enough, Stars, to have given me
This
marriage?
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Mit welchen
Schlagen
trifft sie meinen Nacken!
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X
[Illustration]
X was King Xerxes,
Who, more than all Turks, is
Renowned
for his fashion
Of fury and passion.
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And gratefu' still I hope ye'll ever find us,
For a' the
patronage
and meikle kindness
We've got frae a' professions, sets, and ranks:
God help us!
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"Moved at the sight, I for a apace resign'd
To soft affliction all my manly mind;
At last with tears: 'O what
relentless
doom,
Imperial phantom, bow'd thee to the tomb?
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Their hearts will burn (for well their hearts I know)
To pour your
vengeance
on the guilty foe.
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