Goe not my Horse the better,
I must become a
borrower
of the Night,
For a darke houre, or twaine
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Thus, without theft, I reap another's field;
Thus, without tilth, I house a
wondrous
yield,
And heap my heart with quintuple crops concealed.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Foin de leur tabatiere a
sornettes!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
XXXII
So spake he; and was buckling
Tighter black Auster's band,
When he was aware of a
princely
pair
That rode at his right hand.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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THIS pilgrim, cried the maid, has got the means
Not only belles to get, but even queens;
Or
beauteous
goddesses he could obtain:--
He's worth a thousand Atis's 'tis plain.
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La Fontaine |
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I can say then that I have passed long days alone with my cat and alone with one of the last authors of the Roman decadence; for since the white creature is no more I have loved,
uniquely
and strangely, everything summed up in the word: fall.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The gesture, the movement begins in _Advent_ and _Celebration_ to
disturb the
stillness
prevailing in the first two volumes of poems.
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Rilke - Poems |
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III
Winter Sun
(_Lenox_)
There was a bush with scarlet berries,
And there were
hemlocks
heaped with snow,
With a sound like surf on long sea-beaches
They took the wind and let it go.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your
threshold
down,
Townsman of a stiller town.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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340
Or let him die, that
loatheth
living breath?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Dream yields to dream, strife follows strife,
And Death
unweaves
the webs of Life.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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, _Rollo
Duke of
Normandy_
4.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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& wet thy veil with dewy tears, *
In
slumbers
of my night-repose, infusing a false morning?
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Blake - Zoas |
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In Spenser's day, belief in astrology, the
pseudo-science of the
influence
of the stars on human lives, was still
common.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I DARE engage, two
fortresses
besiege
Leave one to Mars, and t'other to this liege.
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La Fontaine |
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should any mortal man inquire
To whom thy
shameful
loss of sight thou ow'st,
Say, to Ulysses, city-waster Chief,
Laertes' son, native of Ithaca.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling
everything
I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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So he
began,
following
his right hand with his left: "The badness of this
writing is because I am blind and cannot see my pen.
| Guess: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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He spent most of his career as court poet and close friend of
Boniface
I of Montferrat.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Who hath not,
With life's new quiver full of winged years,
Shot at a venture, and then,
following
on,
Stood doubtful at the Parting of the Ways?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Thrice round about
The hollow ambush,
striking
with thy hand
Its sides thou went'st, and by his name didst call
Each prince of Greece feigning his consort's voice.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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And the merry feast is freighted
With its
meanings
true and deep.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But wise and wary was that noble Pere, 60
And lightly leaping from so monstrous maine,
Did faire avoide the
violence
him nere;
It booted nought to thinke such thunderbolts to beare.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"Where,"
Cicero
mournfully
asks, "are those old verses now?
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CXCII
It was hot, and sleep, gently flowing,
Was
trickling
through my dreaming soul,
When the vague form of a vibrant ghost
Arrived to disturb my dreaming, softly
Leaning down to me, pure ivory teeth,
And offering me her flickering tongue,
Her lips were kissing me, sweet and long,
Mouth on mouth, thigh on thigh beneath.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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<
orgoglio
e dismisura han generata,
Fiorenza, in te, si che tu gia ten piagni>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Three times circling beneath heaven's veil,
In devotion, round your tombs, I hail
You, with loud summons; thrice on you I call:
And, while your ancient fury I invoke,
Here, as though I in sacred terror spoke,
I'll sing your glory,
beauteous
above all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The Grape that can with Logic absolute
The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute:
The sovereign
Alchemist
that in a trice
Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute;
LX.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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2003 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted,
electronically
or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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(To live and die is all I have to do:)
Maintain a poet's dignity and ease,
And see what friends, and read what books I please;
Above a patron, though I condescend
Sometimes to call a
minister
my friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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And euen now
To Crown my
thoughts
with Acts: be it thoght & done:
The Castle of Macduff, I will surprize.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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The
remaining
cohorts were despondent, 4 blazing glory, the repute of his family.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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"Oh let me love my Lord more fathom deep
Than there is line to sound with: let me love
My fellow not as men that
mandates
keep:
Yea, all that's lovable, below, above,
That let me love by heart, by heart, because
(Free from the penal pressure of the laws)
I find it fair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Let fraud and wrong and baseness shiver,
For still between them and the sky
The falcon Truth hangs poised forever
And marks them with his
vengeful
eye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Nevertheless, be ready--be not weary of watching:
He will soon return--his
messengers
come anon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Speak, Marilades, you have grey hair; well then,
have you ever been entrusted with a
mission?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Johns, who known to reader*
Contemporary
Verse as the
author "The Dance," "The Mad woman" and "The Interpreter", a poet who sees life clearly and
whose lyric gift has grown stronger from year to year, with his philos ophy life.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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It rustles at the window-pane, the smooth,
streaming
rain, and he is shut
within its clash and murmur.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Indulgence
bids the dropsy grow;
Who fain would quench the palate's flame
Must rescue from the watery foe
The pale weak frame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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= Jonson seems to have
been well
acquainted
with the wonders of the Peak of Derbyshire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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) 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: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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In sadness hope, in
gladness
fear
'Gainst coming change will fortify
Your breast.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Perhaps some
Allegory
less liable to mistake or abuse
had been better among so inflammable a People: much more so when, as
some think with Hafiz and Omar, the abstract is not only likened to,
but identified with, the sensual Image; hazardous, if not to the
Devotee himself, yet to his weaker Brethren; and worse for the Profane
in proportion as the Devotion of the Initiated grew warmer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Erleuchtet
nicht zu diesem Feste
Herr Mammon prachtig den Palast?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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To speak of Poetry is to speak of the most subtle, the most delicate,
and the most
accurate
instrument by which to measure Life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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I thought of the great storms of love as I
knew it,
Torn, miserable, and ashamed of my open
sorrow,
I thought of the
thunders
that lived in my
head,
And I wish to be an ogre,
And hale and haul my beloved to a castle,
And make her mourn with my mourning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Chimene
Nonetheless, it seems, my soul is troubled,
Rejects this joy, all its
confusion
doubled:
Fate may show different faces, all diverse,
And in my bliss I fear some cruel reverse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Bulging outcrush into old tumult;
Attainment, as of a narrow harbour,
Of some shop
forgotten
by traffic
With cool-corridored walls.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
"
And straight against that great array
Forth went the
dauntless
Three.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Go, leave the
hopeless
without hope;
Spare your trouble.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Introduction
Mallarme's second child, Anatole, born July 1871, became
seriously
ill when he was seven years old.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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]
121 (return)
[ Several
inscriptions
have been found in Britain commemorating the Tungrian cohorts.
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| Question: |
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Tacitus |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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He was the most
interesting
loafer that
I had the pleasure of knowing for a long time; and later on, he became
a friend of mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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_ A
business
transaction.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Of this,
although extremely indecent in his Majesty, the philosopher took no
notice:--simply kicking the dog, and
requesting
him to be quiet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
My house hath never learned
To fail its friend, nor seen the
stranger
spurned.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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But they say that bees,
If any
creeping
life invade their hive
Too gross to be thrust out, will build him round,
And bind him in from harming of their combs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
]
Under the tow-path past the barges
Never an eight goes
flashing
by;
Never a blatant coach on the marge is
Urging his crew to do or die;
Never the critic we knew enlarges,
Fluent, on How and Why!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get
yourself
some teeth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings covering the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume
enclosed
by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Phaedra
Just
heavens!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Own to light, love, attraction,
O pearls the sea mingles with its great masses,
O
gleaming
birds of the forest's sombre ocean!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
"
Most of the songs which he composed under the
influences
to which I
have alluded are of the first order: "Bonnie Lesley," "Highland Mary,"
"Auld Rob Morris," "Duncan Gray," "Wandering Willie," "Meg o' the
Mill," "The poor and honest sodger," "Bonnie Jean," "Phillis the
fair," "John Anderson my Jo," "Had I a cave on some wild distant
shore," "Whistle and I'll come to you, my lad," "Bruce's Address to
his men at Bannockburn," "Auld Lang Syne," "Thine am I, my faithful
fair," "Wilt thou be my dearie," "O Chloris, mark how green the
groves," "Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair," "Their groves of
sweet myrtle," "Last May a braw wooer came down the long glen," "O
Mally's meek, Mally's sweet," "Hey for a lass wi' a tocher," "Here's
a health to ane I loe dear," and the "Fairest maid on Devon banks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
This refers to
Taizong?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
CONTENTS
Gerontion
Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar
Sweeney Erect
A Cooking Egg
Le Directeur
Melange adultere de tout
Lune de Miel
The Hippopotamus
Dans le Restaurant
Whispers
of Immortality
Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Here
dwelling
on the hills
Little I know of Argos and its ills.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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They hanged him as a beast is hanged:
They did not even toll
A requiem that might have brought
Rest to his startled soul,
But
hurriedly
they took him out,
And hid him in a hole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Age, marmor, et pro solitd tu& humanitate,
(Ne, inter
parentum
dolorem et modestiam,
Supprimantur prasclari juvenis meritsB laudes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
470
Sythence
syke myghte ys placed yn thie honde,
Lette blowes thie actyons speeke, and bie thie corrage stonde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
than a spectre from the dead
More swift the room
Tattiana
fled,
From hall to yard and garden flies,
Not daring to cast back her eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
[Note 65: Lepage--a celebrated
gunmaker
of former days.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
"
Then through the field they go, their friends seek out,
And their eyes weep with grief and pain profound
For kinsmen dear, by hearty
friendship
bound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
XXXV
His malady, whose cause I ween
It now to
investigate
is time,
Was nothing but the British spleen
Transported to our Russian clime.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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ere to-morrow's dawn be here,
"Send forth my messengers over the sea,
To seek seven beautiful brides for me;
"Radiant of feature and regal of mien,
Seven
handmaids
meet for the Persian Queen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Light they disperse, and with them go
The summer Friend, the
flattering
Foe;
By vain Prosperity received
To her they vow their truth, and are again believed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Her, going to the wars we left a bride
New-wedded, and thy boy hung at her breast,
Who, man himself, consorts ere now with men
A prosp'rous youth; his father, safe restored
To his own Ithaca, shall see him soon,
And _he_ shall clasp his father in his arms
As nature bids; but me, my cruel one
Indulged
not with the dear delight to gaze
On my Orestes, for she slew me first.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
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 |
|
He wrote histories of the Revolution,
of
Napoleon
and of France.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Still, the
alacrity
with
which a Russian hostess will turn her house topsy-turvy for
the accommodation of forty or fifty guests would somewhat
astonish the mistress of a modern Belgravian mansion.
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Many small donations ($1 to
$5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt status with
the IRS.
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Stephen Crane |
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My days of life approach their end,
Yet I in idleness expend
The remnant destiny concedes,
And thus each
stubbornly
proceeds.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"All other orbs have kept in touch;
Their
voicings
reach me speedily:
Thy people took upon them overmuch
In sundering them from me!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Free scope he yields unto his glance,
Reviews both dress and countenance,
With all
dissatisfaction
shows.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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available
for generations to come.
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Byron |
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I'm
downright
dizzy wi' the thought,
In troth I'm like to greet!
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Golden Treasury |
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Strange unto her each
childish
game,
But when the winter season came
And dark and drear the evenings were,
Terrible tales she loved to hear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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He little deems that in this hand I clutch what still can save
Thy gentle youth from taunts and blows, the portion of the slave;
Yea, and from
nameless
evil, that passeth taunt and blow--
Foul outrage which thou knowest not, which thou shalt never know.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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" He
fired, and slightly wounded his opponent,
shouting
"Bravo!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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It is by far the finest poetic
compliment
I ever
got.
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Robert Burns |
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'Twas then in valleys lone, remote,
In spring-time, heard the cygnet's note
By waters shining tranquilly,
That first the Muse
appeared
to me.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Ripe apples drop about my head;
The
luscious
clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
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Golden Treasury |
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Heaven lit the fatal flame within my breast: 1625
That
detestable
Oenone managed all the rest.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not
substantial
things;
There is no armour against fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and Crown
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
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Golden Treasury |
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