Strangely
the soldier paused: "Well, they were
punished.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Hast thou not tried us enough,
Jehovah?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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A
peaceful
rumbling there,
The town's at our feet.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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As for will and
testament
I leave none,
Save this: "Vers and canzone to the Countess of
Beziers
In return for the first kiss she gave me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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It has not to say, Life in the world _ought_ to mean
this or that; it has to show life
unmistakably
_being_ significant.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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There he the house of Saxony shall stay,
And prop the ruin with his saving hand;
This in his mother's right he shall possess,
And with his progeny
maintain
and bless.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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or am I pure of blame,
And is it sleep
From
dreamland
brings a form to trick
My senses?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
--Thus
answered
Johnny in his glory,
And that was all his travel's story.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And midst the
fluttering
legion
Of all that ever died
I follow, and before us
Goes the delightful guide,
With lips that brim with laughter
But never once respond,
And feet that fly on feathers,
And serpent-circled wand.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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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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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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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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Wordsworth - 1 |
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4390
If
Ielousye
doth thee payne,
Quyte him his whyle thus agayne,
To venge thee, atte leest in thought,
If other way thou mayest nought;
And in this wyse sotilly 4395
Worche, and winne the maistry.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And there right
suddenly
the fool looked up
And saw the crowd divided in two ranks.
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Sidney Lanier |
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--
Said one, console thyself:--past moments scan;
When thou hast rested here a thousand years,
Thou'lt then ascend amid the Heav'nly spheres;
But first in holy purgatory learn,
To cleanse thyself from sins that we discern;
One day thy soul shall leave this
loathsome
place,
And, pure as ice, repair to realms of grace.
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La Fontaine |
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"
Then he sounded, and down came kinsmen and
clansmen
all:
"Ten blows, for ten tine, on his back let fall,
And reckon no stroke if the blood follow not at the bite of thong!
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Sidney Lanier |
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If on the heath, below the moon,
I court and play with paler blood,
Me false to mine dare whisper none,--
One sallow
horseman
knows me good.
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Emerson - Poems |
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It must be confessed, he felt a little astonishment to see
the white letters which formed the words "Rituel Catholique" on the
book in his guest's pocket, momently changing both their color and their
import, and in a few seconds, in place of the
original
title the words
Regitre des Condamnes blazed forth in characters of red.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Both
learn to endure
patiently
until the end of the day.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Andeus, a Syrian of
Mesopotamia, was
condemned
for the opinion, as heretical.
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Poe - 5 |
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And while the old dames gossip at their ease,
And pinch the snuff-box empty by degrees,
The young ones join in love's
delightful
themes,
Truths told by gipsies, and expounded dreams;
And mutter things kept secrets from the rest,
As sweethearts' names, and whom they love the best;
And dazzling ribbons they delight to show,
And last new favours of some veigling beau,
Who with such treachery tries their hearts to move,
And, like the highest, bribes the maidens' love.
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John Clare |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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But it may
deserve observation that, in that line of coast, the southern of Lesser
Asia, ruins of cities, evidently of an age after Alexander, yet barely
named in history, at this day astonish the adventurous traveller by
their magnificence and elegance amid the
desolation
which, under a
singularly barbarian government, has for so many centuries been daily
spreading in the finest countries of the globe.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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He is said to have
discovered
the elixir of
life, the philosopher's stone, and many other equally marvelous things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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non
uniuersis
Italis ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ARE MADE TO YOU AS
TO THE ETEXT OR ANY MEDIUM IT MAY BE ON, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY
OR FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The windel-straw nor grass so shook and trembled;
As the good and gallant stripling shook and trembled;
A linen shirt so fine his frame invested,
O'er the shirt was drawn a bright pelisse of scarlet
The sleeves of that pelisse depended backward,
The lappets of its front were button'd backward,
And were spotted with the blood of unbelievers;
See the good and gallant stripling reeling goeth,
From his eyeballs hot and briny tears distilling;
On his bended bow his figure he supporteth,
Till his bended bow has lost its goodly gilding;
Not a single soul the stripling good encounter'd,
Till encounter'd he the mother dear who bore him:
O my boy, O my treasure, and my
darling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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He is about it, the Doores are open:
And the
surfeted
Groomes doe mock their charge
With Snores.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Zwar bin ich gescheiter als all die Laffen,
Doktoren, Magister,
Schreiber
und Pfaffen;
Mich plagen keine Skrupel noch Zweifel,
Furchte mich weder vor Holle noch Teufel-
Dafur ist mir auch alle Freud entrissen,
Bilde mir nicht ein, was Rechts zu wissen,
Bilde mir nicht ein, ich konnte was lehren,
Die Menschen zu bessern und zu bekehren.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Two long odes in a new and regular verse form, on
Gregorian
rhythm, and entitled "Flesh" and "Flower", areincluded, together with a selection of lyrics from those published in .
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I was looking all round in
hopes of perceiving some
indication
of a house or a road; but I could
not see anything but the confused whirling of the snowstorm.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And bound for the same bourn as I,
On every road I wandered by,
Trod beside me, close and dear,
The
beautiful
and death-struck year:
Whether in the woodland brown
I heard the beechnut rustle down,
And saw the purple crocus pale
Flower about the autumn dale;
Or littering far the fields of May
Lady-smocks a-bleaching lay,
And like a skylit water stood
The bluebells in the azured wood.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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A bowl on a white marble table stands,
Two goblets, and a ewer to wash my hands,
And hallowed cup of true Campanian clay
My pure
libation
to the gods to pay.
| 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 |
|
When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Voila le
souvenir
enivrant qui voltige
Dans l'air trouble; les yeux se ferment; le Vertige
Saisit l'ame vaincue et la pousse a deux mains
Vers un gouffre obscurci de miasmes humains;
Il la terrasse au bord d'un gouffre seculaire,
Ou, Lazare odorant dechirant son suaire,
Se meut dans son reveil le cadavre spectral
D'un vieil amour ranci, charmant et sepulcral.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second
opportunity
to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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'549'
Pope insinuates here that the clergy under William III hated an absolute
monarch so much that they even encouraged their hearers to
question
the
absolute power of God.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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But let the frame of things dis-ioynt,
Both the Worlds suffer,
Ere we will eate our Meale in feare, and sleepe
In the
affliction
of these terrible Dreames,
That shake vs Nightly: Better be with the dead,
Whom we, to gayne our peace, haue sent to peace,
Then on the torture of the Minde to lye
In restlesse extasie.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Such impious scorn the Moor's proud bosom swell'd,
When our thin squadrons took the battle-field;
Unconscious of the Power who led us on,
That Power whose nod confounds th' eternal throne;
Led by that Power, the brave Castilian bar'd
The shining blade, and proud Morocco dar'd
His conqu'ring brand the Lusian hero drew,
And on Granada's sons resistless flew;
The spear-staffs crash, the splinters hiss around,
And the broad
bucklers
rattle on the ground:
With piercing shrieks the Moors their prophet's name,
And ours, their guardian saint, aloud acclaim.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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The rain, it rains not every day
On the soak'd meads; the Caspian main
Not always feels the unequal sway
Of storms, nor on Armenia's plain,
Dear Valgius, lies the cold dull snow
Through all the year; nor northwinds keen
Upon
Garganian
oakwoods blow,
And strip the ashes of their green.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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What sea spued thee
conceived
from out the spume of his surges!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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You
neighbor
of the Danube!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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This covert have all the children
Early aged, and often cold, --
Sparrows
unnoticed
by the Father;
Lambs for whom time had not a fold.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Therefore they shall do my will
To-day while I am master still,
And flesh and soul, now both are strong,
Shall hale the sullen slaves along,
Before this fire of sense decay,
This smoke of thought blow clean away,
And leave with ancient night alone
The
stedfast
and enduring bone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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* Sir Bobert Howard, and Sir William
Bucknell
the brewer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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O war ich vor des hohen Geistes Kraft
Entzuckt, entseelt dahin
gesunken!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I have built a renowned city; I have seen my
ramparts
rise;
by my brother's punishment I have avenged my husband of his enemy;
happy, ah me!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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And in the silence
I hear a woman's voice make answer then:
"Well, they are green,
although
no ship can sail them.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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iactasse
indigne nomina tanta pudet;
nescio quem hunc spectans Acheloon et Inachon amnem
et potui nomen, Nile, referre tuum!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Hast any mortal name,
Fit
appellation
for this dazzling frame?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Ballantyne
does not choose to
interfere more in the business.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
what a silly
question!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Under mask of
quaintest irony, we detect here the deep, storm-tost (nigh ship-wracked)
soul, thunder-scarred, semi-articulate, but ever climbing hopefully
toward the
peaceful
summits of an Infinite Sorrow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Driving the Female
Emanations
all away from Los *
I have refusd to look upon the Universal Vision
And wilt thou slay with death him who devotes himself to thee *
If thou drivst all the Males Females away from Vala Luvah I will drive all
The Males away from thee
Once born for the sport & amusement of Man now born to drink up all his Powers
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I heard the sounding sea; I heard the voice weaker and weaker;
The voice came & went like a dream, I awoke in my sweet bliss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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' However, Blake seems to indicate a re-sequencing of the material to the order shown here,
indicating
the insertion of these 3 lines with a letter X at their head and a corresponding X at the end of the preceding section [ending '.
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Blake - Zoas |
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--_
"During a truce with the Moors, six
cavaliers
of the order of St.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Queen, is it well to be so
sorrowful?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Amid her ruin'd halls she stood
Unblench'd, and fearless to the end
Grasp'd the fell snakes, that all her blood
Might with the cold black venom blend,
Death's purpose
flushing
in her face;
Nor to our ships the glory gave,
That she, no vulgar dame, should grace
A triumph, crownless, and a slave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Isis was the Egyptian mother goddess (Cybele was her
equivalent
in Asia Minor): consort of Osiris she bore the child Horus-Harpocrates, the new sun (De Nerval's image here for the Christ-Child).
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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"
THYRSIS
"The field is parched, the grass-blades thirst to death
In the faint air; Liber hath grudged the hills
His vine's o'er-shadowing: should my Phyllis come,
Green will be all the grove, and Jupiter
Descend in floods of
fertilizing
rain.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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one hundred porters, either because many of the Athenian
porters were Egyptians, or as an allusion to the Pyramids and other great
works, which had habituated them to
carrying
heavy burdens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Pennant had a present made him in Skye, of a brass sword and a
denarius
found in that island.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Ye
babbling
winds!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
The few who any thing thereof have learned,
Who out of their heart's fulness needs must gabble,
And show their
thoughts
and feelings to the rabble,
Have evermore been crucified and burned.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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--lest her sweet soul, amid its
hallowed
mirth,
"Should catch the note, as it doth float--up from the damned Earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Fall'n nations gaze on Spain: if freed, she frees
More than her fell
Pizarros
once enchained.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The meadows in the sun are twice as green
For all the scatter of fresh red mounded earth,
The mischief of the moles:
No dullish red,
Glostershire
earth new-delved
In April!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Rising from unrest,
The
trembling
woman pressed
With feet of weary woe;
She could no further go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
"
Another thought the while, severe and sweet,
Laborious, yet
delectable
in scope,
Takes in my heart its seat,
Filling with glory, feeding it with hope;
Till, bent alone on bright and deathless fame,
It feels not when I freeze, or burn in flame,
When I am pale or ill,
And if I crush it rises stronger still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Their worst
distress
came from lack
of water.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Seldomm, or never, are armes vyrtues mede, (that is to say, coats of arms)
Shee
nillynge
to take myckle aie dothe hede
i.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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When he had prayed, upon his feet he stepped,
With the strong mark of virtue signed his head;
Upon his swift charger the King mounted
While Jozerans and Neimes his stirrup held;
He took his shield, his
trenchant
spear he kept;
Fine limbs he had, both gallant and well set;
Clear was his face and filled with good intent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Which blooming out from home did go
To Cadiz, Cairo, Rome, Moscow,
From Jemappes to
Montmirail
passed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
--
A while it was held by
Heorogar
king,
for long time lord of the land of Scyldings;
yet not to his son the sovran left it,
to daring Heoroweard, -- dear as he was to him,
his harness of battle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Upon this occasion the Commandant
decided upon assembling his
officers
anew, and in order to do that he
wished again to get rid of his wife under some plausible pretext.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Loke out of londe thou be not fare; 2710
And if such cause thou have, that thee
Bihoveth
to gon out of contree,
Leve hool thyn herte in hostage,
Til thou ageyn make thy passage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
We were
fighting
two foes--Time and Prussia--the moments were worth more
than troops.
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To him an heir was
afterward
born,
a son in his halls, whom heaven sent
to favor the folk, feeling their woe
that erst they had lacked an earl for leader
so long a while; the Lord endowed him,
the Wielder of Wonder, with world's renown.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of Nepaul,
From his horse had a
terrible
fall;
But, though split quite in two, with some very strong glue
They mended that man of Nepaul.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Methinks
she's near--but truth cries "'tis not so!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Naevius
celebrated
the First Punic War in
Saturnian verse, the old national verse of Italy.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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[25] _namastu_ a late form which has
followed
the analogy of _restu_
in assuming the feminine _t_ as part of the root.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Even to-day the little old
man wanted to prove
indubitably
to me that you were a spy, and should be
put to the torture and hung.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Painting
is truly a luminous language.
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Appoloinaire |
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_lucent fans_,
luminous
wings.
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Keats |
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No Orphic rune, no Thracian scroll,
Hath magic to avert the morrow;
No healing all those
medicines
brave
Apollo to the Asclepiad gave;
Pale herbs of comfort in the bowl
Of man's wide sorrow.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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It is
impossible
to pray for
tsar Herod; the Mother of God forbids it.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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and that
Is, to
eternity
compar'd, a space,
Briefer than is the twinkling of an eye
To the heaven's slowest orb.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Questi onde a me ritorna il tuo riguardo,
e 'l lume d'uno spirto che 'n pensieri
gravi a morir li parve venir tardo:
essa e la luce etterna di Sigieri,
che, leggendo nel Vico de li Strami,
silogizzo
invidiosi
veri>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Then believe me, my sweetheart, do,
While time still flowers for you,
In its freshest novelty,
Cull, ah cull your
youthful
bloom:
As it blights this flower, the doom
Of age will blight your beauty.
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Ronsard |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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But some had
opportunity
to squeal.
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Stephen Crane |
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The learned man
profits others rather than himself; the good man rather himself than
others; but the prince
commands
others, and doth himself.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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It does me so much good to meet with a man whose honest bosom glows
with the
generous
enthusiasm, the heroic daring of liberty, that I
could not forbear sending you a composition of my own on the subject,
which I really think is in my best manner.
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Robert Forst |
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For so it needs must be,
Thou shalt at once be
introduced
by me.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Yet swift as my heart they throb,
They fall thick as tears on the stone:
My spirit
perchance
may borrow
New strength from their eager tone.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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