You've stolen away that great power
My beauty ordained for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was
abandoned
readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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The soundest and
easiest
criterion
of right and wrong policy is to consider what you
would have approved or condemned in another emperor.
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Tacitus |
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Objects are
concealed
from our view, not so much because
they are out of the course of our visual ray as because we do not
bring our minds and eyes to bear on them; for there is no power to see
in the eye itself, any more than in any other jelly.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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e sonne-bem; 28
Of diuers
coloures
hij weren,
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Now am I but the place thy beauty brightens,
And of myself I have no light of sense
Nor certainty of being: I am made
Empty of all my wont of life before thee,
A vessel where thy
splendour
may be poured,
After the way the great vessel of air
Accepts the morning power of the sun.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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e rounde table
Ouer-walt wyth a worde of on wy3es speche;
For al dares for drede, with-oute dynt
schewed!
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And what in me seems wanting, but that I 450
May also in this poverty as soon
Accomplish
what they did, perhaps and more?
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Milton |
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"
We soon saw
twinkling
the fires of Berd.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The student was not, however,
prepared
with answers to Mr.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Phaedra
I hear that a swift
departure
takes you far
From us, my Lord.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Rodrigue
Chasing the harsh course of my
wretched
fate.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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As where Rhone
stagnates
on the plains of Arles,
Or as at Pola, near Quarnaro's gulf,
That closes Italy and laves her bounds,
The place is all thick spread with sepulchres;
So was it here, save what in horror here
Excell'd: for 'midst the graves were scattered flames,
Wherewith intensely all throughout they burn'd,
That iron for no craft there hotter needs.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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First his
patrimony
was mangled; secondly the
Pontic spoils; then thirdly the Iberian, which the golden Tagus-stream
knoweth.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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zip *******
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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With a certain
description
of the clergy, as well as laity, it
met with a roar of applause.
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Robert Burns |
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CANTO IV
'8 Cynthia':
a
fanciful
name for any fashionable lady.
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Alexander Pope |
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Not youthful kings in battle seized alive,
Not
scornful
virgins who their charms survive,
Not ardent lover robbed of all his bliss, 5
Not ancient lady when refused a kiss,
Not tyrants fierce that unrepenting die,
Not Cynthia when her manteau's pinned awry,
E'er felt such rage, resentment, and despair,
As thou, sad virgin!
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Alexander Pope |
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Meantime the Cicons, to their holds retired,
Call on the Cicons, with new fury fired;
With early morn the gather'd country swarms,
And all the
continent
is bright with arms;
Thick as the budding leaves or rising flowers
O'erspread the land, when spring descends in showers:
All expert soldiers, skill'd on foot to dare,
Or from the bounding courser urge the war.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Carrying her
before him on his breast, he sought a long ridge of lonely woodland; on
all sides angry weapons pressed on him, and
Volscian
soldiery spread
hurrying round about.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Fire-breathing,
venomous
once, they no longer now depredate our
Flocks and meadows and woods, fields of golden grain.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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For
my own part, a thing that I have just
composed
always appears through
a double portion of that partial medium in which an author will ever
view his own works.
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Robert Forst |
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De l'antique douleur eternel
alambic!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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t,
&
Anticrist
to de?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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O Tiburnian groves,
And orchards saturate with
shifting
streams!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Nay, lord; thy father, walking old and grey;
And
followers
bearing burial gifts and brave
Gauds, which men call the comfort of the grave.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"Then he'll ride among the hills
To the wide world past the river,
There to put away all wrong;
To make straight
distorted
wills,
And to empty the broad quiver
Which the wicked bear along.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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to Britain's pride
Once so
faithful
and so true,
On the deck of fame that died
With the gallant good Riou:
Soft sigh the winds of heaven o'er their grave!
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Golden Treasury |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The moaning and groaning,
The sighing and sobbing,
Are quieted now,
With that horrible throbbing
At heart:--ah, that horrible,
Horrible
throbbing!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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II
You are useless,
O grave, O beautiful,
the
landsmen
tell it--I have heard--
you are useless.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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790
I've played, I've danced, [89] with my narration;
I
loitered
long ere I began:
Ye waited then on my good pleasure;
Pour out indulgence still, in measure
As liberal as ye can!
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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With that fair hand, so long desired in vain,
She check'd my tears, while at her accents crept
A
sweetness
to my soul, intense, divine.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger
When Uricon the city stood:
'Tis the old wind in the old anger,
But then it
threshed
another wood.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"And did you really walk," said I,
"On such a
wretched
night?
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Lewis Carroll |
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Who are you that wanted only a book to join you in your
nonsense?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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'And now beside thee,
bleating
lamb,
I can lie down and sleep,
Or think on Him who bore thy name,
Graze after thee, and weep.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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With melted snow I boil
fragrant
tea;
Seasoned with curds I cook a milk-pudding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But not the new birds singing in the brake,
And not the buds of our discovery,
The deeper blue, the wilder green, the ache
For beauty that we shadow as we see,
Made heaven, but we, as love's
occasion
brings,
Took these, and made them Paradisal things.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Its
catastrophes
happen in the wrong
way and to the wrong people.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Light was my sleep; my days in
transport
roll'd:
With thoughtless joy I stretch'd along the shore
My father's nets, or watched, when from the fold
High o'er the cliffs I led my fleecy store,
A dizzy depth below!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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On towers of Ilion, free no more,
Hast flung the mighty mesh of war,
And closely girt them round,
Till neither warrior may 'scape,
Nor stripling lightly overleap
The
trammels
as they close, and close,
Till with the grip of doom our foes
In slavery's coil are bound!
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Our king and his lord
chamberlain
have lost their reason.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Hungry for Spring I bent my head,
The perfume fanned my face,
And all my soul was dancing
In that lovely little place,
Dancing with a
measured
step from wrecked and shattered towns
Away .
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
So two
whispered
by my door, not thinking I could hear,
Vulgar, naked truth, ungarnished for a royal ear;
Fit for cooping in the background, not to stalk so near.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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On him who by the altar stands,
On him thy
blessing
fall,
Speak through his lips thy pure commands,
Thou heart that lovest all.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Let there be between our faces
Green turf and a branch or two of back-tossed trees;
Set firmly over questioning hearts
The deep
unquenchable
answer of the wind.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Roses
IN white and glowing
blossomy
undulation,
From shrubs encircling distant heights and hollows,
You lost yourself .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Like the sea that brooks no
voyaging
With the winds unleashed and free, Like the sea that he cowed at Genseret Wi' twey words spoke' suddently.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The
carriage
held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"
Starboard
it was--and so,
Like a black squall's lifting frown,
Our mighty bow bore down
On the iron beak of the Foe.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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No wonder then if my soul, while grieving,
With
impatience
waits upon their wedding;
You see, my peace of mind depends on it.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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But still your honour better to secure,
From slander's tongue, and virtue to ensure,
I'd have you to our country-house repair;
The city quit:--these sly gallants beware;
Their presents too, accurst invention found,
With danger fraught, and ever much renowned;
For always in the world, where lovers move,
These gifts the parent of
assentment
prove.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Loudly roared his iron cannon,
Mingling ever in the strife,
And beside him, firm and daring,
Stood his
faithful
Irish wife.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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To keep my wits I must
endeavor!
| 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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'Tis a
positive
fact, I don't know of one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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470
Eat me, drink me, love me;
Laura, make much of me:
For your sake I have braved the glen
And had to do with goblin
merchant
men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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To this our Reynold
seriously
replied,
Myself, on secret spells, I do not pride;
But still some WORDS I have that I repeat,
Each morn I travel, that I may not meet
A horrid lodging where I stop at night;
'Tis called SAINT JULIAN'S PRAYER that I recite,
And truly I have found, that when I fail
To say this prayer, I've reason to bewail.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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And what
shoulder
and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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They live in
brothers
again ready to defy you,
They were purified by death, they were taught and exalted.
| 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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All men know well that I am thy goodfather;
Thou hast decreed, to
Marsiliun
I travel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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"
And we walked on, till in a quiet cover we saw a man
scooping
up
the foam and putting it into an alabaster bowl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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By this the stars were almost gone,
The moon was setting on the hill,
So pale you
scarcely
looked at her:
The little birds began to stir, 405
Though yet their tongues were still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of
derivative
works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Round
paradise
is such a wall,
And all the day, in such a way,
In paradise the wild birds call.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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He
was transported to his
residence
and expired after several days
passed in extreme agony.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Particularly I remark
An English
countess
goes upon the stage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Ma
perciocche
giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero,
Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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According
to
that sentence fathered upon Solon, [Greek: Onto daemosion kakon erchetai
oikad ekasto] This unclean spirit is skilful to assume various shapes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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id mea me multis docuit regina querellis
inuisente
nouo proelia torua uiro.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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If thou hast read it not, nor hither flown,
How canst thou but a
prisoner
be, or dead?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Homeward then went Hiawatha
To the lodge of old Nokomis,
And the seven days of his fasting
Were
accomplished
and completed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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It was
impossible
to say
in which branch of his profession he took the greater pride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Thus they talked of their skill and their labour till noon
When the sober man's toil was exactly half done,
And there the plough lay--people hardly could pass
And the horses let loose
polished
up the short grass
And browsed on the bottle of flags lying there,
By the gipsey's old budget, for mending a chair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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You lie, in faith, for you are call'd plain Kate,
And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst;
But, Kate, the
prettiest
Kate in Christendom,
Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate,
For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate,
Take this of me, Kate of my consolation-
Hearing thy mildness prais'd in every town,
Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded,
Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs,
Myself am mov'd to woo thee for my wife.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Nothing is sure for me but what's uncertain:
Obscure,
whatever
is plainly clear to see:
I've no doubt, except of everything certain:
Science is what happens accidentally:
I win it all, yet a loser I'm bound to be:
Saying: 'God give you good even!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
30
But when ended the term, and wisht-for light of the day-tide
Uprose, flocks to the house in concourse mighty convened,
Thessaly all, with glad
assembly
the Palace fulfilling:
Presents afore they bring, and joy in faces declare they.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for
generations
on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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As he
was retiring, Turullius
Cerialis
with a large force of marines, and
Julius Briganticus[260] with a few cavalry, came over to his side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Abortive then and shapeless ye remain,
Like the
untimely
embryon of a worm!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
XXXI
Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,
Which I by lacking have
supposed
dead;
And there reigns Love, and all Love's loving parts,
And all those friends which I thought buried.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Their
hauberks
tear; the girths asunder start,
The saddles slip, and fall upon the grass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Defeat means nothing but defeat,
No drearier can
prevail!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Forthwith
alighted
on the ground
To learn what voice the piteous moan
Had made, a little girl I found, C.
| Guess: |
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Soon as he saw me, "Hither haste," he cried,
"O
Meliboeus!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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This was an
allusion
to the Hawley Boy, who was in the habit of riding
all across Simla in the Rains, to call on Mrs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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reads, _the
sleeping
keys_; for
_yet forc't they are to go_ it has _and yet are forc't to go_; _drinking
to the odd Number of Nine_ for _Number of Wine_, as to which see below;
_turned her home_ for _twirled her home_; _dear soul_ for _rare soul_.
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Robert Herrick |
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e
corbeles
fee ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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" Shelley, who knew
what he was talking about when poetry was the subject, has said it, and
with a profundity of truth Whitman seems in a peculiar degree marked out
for "legislation" of the kind
referred
to.
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Whitman |
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Guarinus
LXV
Etsi me assiduo confectum cura dolore
seuocat a doctis, Ortale, uirginibus,
nec potis est dulcis Musarum expromere fetus
mens animi, tantis fluctuat ipsa malis:
namque mei nuper Lethaeo in gurgite fratris 5
pallidulum
manans alluit unda pedem,
Troia Rhoeteo quem subter litore tellus
ereptum nostris obterit ex oculis.
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Latin - Catullus |
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1820
Explicit
Liber Tercius.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Mysteriously glowing through a background dim
When he was
suffering
she came to him,
And all the heavy pain within his heart
Rose in his hands and stole into his art.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Herman did not recover his usual
composure
during the entire day.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I observed that
the upper and lower tiers of wings were
connected
by a strong chain.
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Poe - 5 |
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That was the going out of the brigade of the
youngest
men, two thousand
strong,
Few return'd, nearly all remain in Brooklyn.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The
Patience
of the People--_G.
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Hugo - Poems |
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