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Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
Lifting earthly vapours through the air,
Forming a bow, and then drinking there
By plunging deep in Tethys' hoary sheen,
Next, climbing again where it has been,
With bellying shadow darkening everywhere,
Till finally it bursts in
lightning
glare,
And rain, or snow, or hail shrouds the scene:
This city, that was once a shepherd's field,
Rising by degrees, such power did wield,
She made herself the queen of sea and land,
Till helpless to sustain that huge excess,
Her power dispersed, so we might understand
That all, one day, must come to nothingness.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Royalty
payments should be clearly marked as such and sent to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation at the address specified in
Section 4, "Information about donations to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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_ Her paleness showing her great love
for him; and, moreover,
indicating
that they will soon be reunited.
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Keats |
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These
spectres
are to us as if they were not.
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Longfellow |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Ho for the women, their beauty and my
pleasure!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Are so
superfluous
cold,
I would as soon attempt to warm
The bosoms where the frost has lain
Ages beneath the mould.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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what conqueror hath
committed
this cruelty upon you?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the
cleverest
there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of delicate little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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in this sad distemper,
The doctor's self would hardly spare,
Unworthy
things she talked and wild,
Even he, of cattle the most mild,
The pony had his share.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Oh,
Good and noble, you,
Your face should sweeter show,
Light my heart through and
through!
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Troubador Verse |
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Du furchtest, sie
wiederzusehen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The dawn flowed forth, and from its purple fountains
I drank those hopes which make the spirit quail,
As to the plain between the misty mountains _2055
And the great City, with a countenance pale,
I went:--it was a sight which might avail
To make men weep exulting tears, for whom
Now first from human power the reverend veil
Was torn, to see Earth from her general womb _2060
Pour forth her swarming sons to a
fraternal
doom:
39.
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Shelley |
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"I dare say Milton
preferred
'Comus' to either-.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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On a Dead Lady
She was beautiful, if Night
Who sleeps in the
darkened
chapel
Where Michelangelo made light,
Unmoving, can be beautiful.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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_Both omit;
supplied
as in_
Morris; F.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
Tides
Love in my heart was a fresh tide flowing
Where the
starlike
sea gulls soar;
The sun was keen and the foam was blowing
High on the rocky shore.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Acursed may wel be that day,
That povre man
conceyved
is;
For god wot, al to selde, y-wis, 470
Is any povre man wel fed,
Or wel arayed or y-cled,
Or wel biloved, in swich wyse
In honour that he may aryse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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No law
prevents
a man growing tired of
a woman.
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Kipling - Poems |
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It would be equally
difficult
to define accurately the
difference between the couplets of Pope and those of William Morris.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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III
Great guns were gleaming there, living things seeming there,
Cloaked in their tar-cloths,
upmouthed
to the night;
Wheels wet and yellow from axle to felloe,
Throats blank of sound, but prophetic to sight.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The maker of Bonnets ferociously planned
A novel
arrangement
of bows:
While the Billiard-marker with quivering hand
Was chalking the tip of his nose.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Solid and square to the world
the houses stand,
their windows blocked with
venetian
blinds.
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Imagists |
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What are these,
So wither'd, and so wilde in their attyre,
That looke not like th'
Inhabitants
o'th' Earth,
And yet are on't?
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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The way I read a letter 's this:
'T is first I lock the door,
And push it with my fingers next,
For
transport
it be sure.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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MEPHISTOPHELES
(herumspurend):
Nicht jedes Madchen halt so rein.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Since Theocritus, a perverse kind of pleasure has often been
obtained
by
putting some of the peculiarities of epic--peculiarities really required
by a very long poem--into the compass of a very short poem.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Yet even they are but a making ready
For what I
perfectly
intend: in them
Joy of self-bound desire hath burnt itself
To extreme purity; I am free thereby
To work my meaning through them, my divinity.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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That all your
subjects
do each minute fear :
One drop of poison, or a popish knife.
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| Question: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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How
pleasant
near the tranquil lake to stray, 1815.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Black day he chose for planting thee,
Accurst he rear'd thee from the ground,
The bane of
children
yet to be,
The scandal of the village round.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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If we examine the finest effusions of genius, we shall find
that the most genuine poetical feeling has often dictated those similes
which are drawn from
familiar
and low objects.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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BOOK III
PROEM
O thou who first uplifted in such dark
So clear a torch aloft, who first shed light
Upon the profitable ends of man,
O thee I follow, glory of the Greeks,
And set my
footsteps
squarely planted now
Even in the impress and the marks of thine--
Less like one eager to dispute the palm,
More as one craving out of very love
That I may copy thee!
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Lucretius |
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how concise and
convincing
is his style!
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Aristophanes |
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]
[Footnote 58: a meteor, from _gron_, a fen, and _fer_, a
corruption
of
fire; that is, a fire exhaled from a fen.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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_ high and low:
The
sweetness
of Christ's Mother pierced so
His heart, that her to praise, to her to pray, 105
He cannot stop his singing by the way.
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William Wordsworth |
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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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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For you, on Latmos,
fondling
your sleeping boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As restraint for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the daylight that your night forgot.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Harum rerum notitiam semper ambivit
ingenium
humanum, nunquam
attigit.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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"We late-lamented, resting here,
Are mixed to human jam,
And each to each
exclaims
in fear,
'I know not which I am!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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4030
This have I herd ofte in seying,
That man [ne] may, for no daunting,
Make a
sperhauke
of a bosarde.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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OCEANUS
Thy word is said to me in act to go:
For lo, my
hippogriff
with waving wings
Fans the smooth course of air, and fain is he
To rest his limbs within his ocean stall.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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To you, gone emblem of our
happiness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Shall Trade aye salve his conscience-aches
With jibes at Chivalry's old
mistakes
--
The wars that o'erhot knighthood makes
For Christ's and ladies' sakes,
Fair Lady?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Pale fear gave speed to my weak
trembling
feet.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
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Ronsard |
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At the end of each canto he would conclude, "And that
gave me some notion of
handling
colour," or light, or whatever it might
be that he had set out to pursue and understand.
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| Question: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
LXIII
While thus Rinaldo speaks, so swiftly borne
By the quick current flies that nimble yawl;
Not to the lure more swiftly makes return
The falcon,
hurrying
at his lord's recall.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM
Respectfully
Seeing Off Guo Yingyi, Vice Censor in Chief and Chief Minister 311 The sinking sun lights up your carriage awning, a strong wind ripples the streamers and flags.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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10
CHARLES BAWDIN, and hys
fellowes
twaine,
To-daie shall surelie die.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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In spite
of all that is in these days being written about Sappho, it is perhaps not
out of place now to inquire, in a few words, into the substance of this
supremacy which towers so
unassailably
secure from what appear to be such
shadowy foundations.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire
Sprinkled
with stars, like Ariadne's tiar:
Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet!
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| Source: |
Keats |
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'T is not enough, your counsel still be true;
Blunt truths more
mischief
than nice falsehoods do;
Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.
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Alexander Pope |
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Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its thousand feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And microbes more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of
Rosamunde!
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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And so, though not revive, embalme and spice
The world, which else would
putrifie
with vice.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour,
Content to dwell in
decencies
for ever.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Come, let me change my sour for sweet,
And smile complacent as before:
Hear me my
palinode
repeat,
And give me back your heart once more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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But it is also true that
Napoleon had no need to
manufacture
complaints, that he was exposed to
unnecessary discomforts, that useless and irritating precautions were
taken to prevent his escape, that the bottles of champagne and madeira,
the fowls and the bundles of wood were counted with an irritating
preciseness, inconsistent with the general scale of expenditure, which
saved a little waste, and covered both principals and agents with
ridicule.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
What premonition,
O purple swallow, 10
Told thee the happy
Hour of
migration?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Redistribution is
subject to the
trademark
license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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was administered for your comfort and honor, while a most affectionate wife sat beside you; yet fewer tears were shed upon your bier, and in the last light which your eyes beheld,
something
was still wanting.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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--then take
yourself off, away with you; a
mountebank
is no
companion for a priest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But in disposition of
the several parts of a poem, in carrying the balance of rhyme and tone
through a composition of several hundred or even in some cases of a
thousand words, in grandeur of inspiration combined with harmonious
rhythm and deep feeling, in emphasis of
parallel
clauses, in exclusion
of the vulgar or modern--in all these qualities Li is not worthy to
approach Fu's front hedge, let alone his inner chamber!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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(thus
answered
then
The power that mediates between god and men)
Nor dogs nor vultures have thy Hector rent,
But whole he lies, neglected in the tent:
This the twelfth evening since he rested there,
Untouch'd by worms, untainted by the air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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The Romans would have been wise
to have
supported
Rienzo, taking even his foibles into the account.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Three years by such
contrivance
she deceived 140
The Greecians; but when (three whole years elaps'd)
The fourth arriv'd, then, conscious of the fraud,
A damsel of her train told all the truth,
And her we found rav'ling the beauteous work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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II
THIRD OPAL
_He won her love; and so this opal sings
With all its tints in maze, that seem to quake
And leap in light, as if its heart would break:_
Gleam of the sea,
Translucent air,
Where every leaf alive with glee
Glows in the sun without shadow of grief--
You speak of spring,
When earth takes wing
And sunlight, sunlight is
everywhere!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A proud man was Lars Porsena
Upon the
trysting
day.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And on one, that's Earth, a yellow dot, Paris,
Where hangs, a light, a poor ageing fool:
In the frail
universal
order, unique miracle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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o'er aft thy joes hae starv'd,
'Mid a' thy
favours!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
LIX
"To hear of one of thy famed race prepare,
Whom liberal studies and good works engage;
Of whom, I know not well, if she more fair
May be entitled, or more chaste and sage;
The noble-minded Isabel, who, where
It stands on Mincius' bank, in other age
Shall gild the town, of Ocnus' mother hight,
With her own
glorious
rays by day and night;
LX
"Where, with her worthiest consort she will strain,
In honoured and in splendid rivalry,
Which best shall prize the virtues' goodly train,
And widest ope the gates to courtesy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The water
caressed
the shore so gently!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch
Matthew and Waldo,
guardians
of the faith,
The army of unalterable law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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And now and here,
Little enough we're busied with the selves
We were aforetime, nor,
concerning
them,
Suffer a sore distress.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Upon the left shore of the Tyrrhene sea,
Where, broken by the winds, the waves complain,
Sudden I saw that honour'd green again,
Written for whom so many a page must be:
Love, ever in my soul his flame who fed,
Drew me with
memories
of those tresses fair;
Whence, in a rivulet, which silent there
Through long grass stole, I fell, as one struck dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
George,
I was the first man that entered the breach; and had I
not
effected
it with resolution, I had been slain if I had
had a million of lives.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
"
M said, "A
Mulberry
or two might give him satisfaction.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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But, in our later lays,
Full
freighted
with your praise,
Fair memory harbors those whose lives, laid down
In gallant faith and generous heat,
Gained only sharp defeat.
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Greetings, in pale
libation
and madness,
Don't think to some hope of magic corridors I offer
My empty cup, where a monster of gold suffers!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Courting
friends of high rank!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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xv:
_guioclero_
GORAC:
_guiodero_ Ven: spatium uacuum in D _cliuo_ h fortasse _guro_:
_circo_ Froehlich
7 _sqq.
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Latin - Catullus |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With sorceries sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's
mysterious
season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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You may doubt I find comfort in England
But, there, 'tis a refuge from
dangers!
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Hugo - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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II
Such, such is Death: no triumph: no defeat:
Only an empty pail, a slate rubbed clean,
A
merciful
putting away of what has been.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Others say that in the reign
of Isis the
superfluous
population of Egypt, under the leadership of
Hierosolymus and Juda, discharged itself upon the neighbouring
districts, while there are many who think the Jews an Ethiopian stock,
driven to migrate by their fear and dislike of King Cepheus.
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Tacitus |
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Rich music breathes in summer's every sound;
And in her harmony of varied greens,
Woods, meadows, hedge-rows, corn-fields, all around
Much beauty intervenes,
Filling with harmony the ear and eye;
While oer the mingling scenes
Far spreads the
laughing
sky.
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John Clare |
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"You may charge me with murder--or want of sense--
(We are all of us weak at times):
But the
slightest
approach to a false pretence
Was never among my crimes!
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Lewis Carroll |
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They threw up the filthy rain-water from the hollow lines
And then the water ran back
Full of
brownish
foam bubbles.
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Imagists |
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The first, as I
afterwards
learnt, was the deserter, Corporal
Beloborodoff.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The dull nights go over, and the dull days also,
The soreness of lying so much in bed goes over,
The physician, after long putting off, gives the silent and terrible look
for an answer,
The children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters are
sent for;
Medicines stand unused on the shelf--(the camphor-smell has long pervaded
the rooms,)
The faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dying,
The twitching lips press lightly on the forehead of the dying,
The breath ceases, and the pulse of the heart ceases,
The corpse
stretches
on the bed, and the living look upon it,
It is palpable as the living are palpable.
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Whitman |
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Lady, a happy
evening!
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Shakespeare |
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And he
flung himself down on the ground in a
lonesome
spot, and wept and
groaned in terror, for the time was coming fast when he must die.
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Yeats |
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