That
Emperour
to Rencesvals doth fare.
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Chanson de Roland |
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with
additions
of
That arm which nerved with thundering fate,
Braved usurpation's boldest daring!
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Robert Burns |
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have their colours caught:
There are some
feelings
Time cannot benumb,
Nor torture shake, or mine would now be cold and dumb.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Hop-Frog, and a young girl very little less
dwarfish
than himself
(although of exquisite proportions, and a marvellous dancer), had been
forcibly carried off from their respective homes in adjoining provinces,
and sent as presents to the king, by one of his ever-victorious
generals.
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Poe - 5 |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
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Imagists |
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Why should poor beauty
indirectly
seek
Roses of shadow, since his rose is true?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The mouth cannot be sure
Of tasting
anything
in its bite
Unless your princely lover cares
In that mighty brush of hair
To breathe out, like a diamond,
The cry of Glory stifled there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Now shield with shield, with helmet helmet closed,
To armour armour, lance to lance opposed,
Host against host with shadowy squadrons drew,
The sounding darts in iron
tempests
flew,
Victors and vanquish'd join'd promiscuous cries,
And shrilling shouts and dying groans arise;
With streaming blood the slippery fields are dyed,
And slaughter'd heroes swell the dreadful tide.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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My
Faenzetta
has my heart!
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Hugo - Poems |
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The drip of
widening
waters seemed to weep,
All fountains sobbed and gurgled as they sprang,
Somewhere a cataract cried out in its leap
Sheer down a headlong steep;
High over all cloud-thunders gave a clang.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Me for this
struggle
the Scyldings'-friend
paid in plenty with plates of gold,
with many a treasure, when morn had come
and we all at the banquet-board sat down.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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'
The
Waggoner
takes what is now the middle road, of the three leading
from Rydal to Grasmere (see the note to 'The Primrose of the Rock').
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William Wordsworth |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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But when they turned their faces,
And on the farther shore
Saw brave
Horatius
stand alone,
They would have crossed once more.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Instead of orient pearls of jet
I sent my love a carcanet;
About her
spotless
neck she knit
The lace, to honour me or it:
Then think how rapt was I to see
My jet t'enthral such ivory.
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Robert Herrick |
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Shun him and fear him,
Lest the
Bridegroom
hear him;
Scout him and rout him
With his ominous eye about him.
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Christina Rossetti |
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), but is
conveniently
classed with it as being also
largely levelled against the fair sex.
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Aristophanes |
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: _suplicus_ O
5 _conteptam_ GR:
_conten{p}tam
p_ admodum exigua O ||
_animis_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Redistribution is
subject to the
trademark
license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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The sister in
possession
ne'er inclined
To cede a post so pleasant to her mind;
Theresa raised her hand to give a stroke;
And what of that?
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La Fontaine |
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"
And Sir Walter Raleigh well says, "The stars are instruments of far
greater use than to give an obscure light, and for men to gaze on
after sunset;" and he quotes
Plotinus
as affirming that they "are
significant, but not efficient;" and also Augustine as saying, "_Deus
regit inferiora corpora per superiora_:" God rules the bodies below by
those above.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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His bed perchance was yon smooth mound
On which the herd is feeding:
And haply from this crystal pool,
Now peaceful as the morning,
The water-Wraith
ascended
thrice,
And gave his doleful warning.
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Golden Treasury |
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His enemies' spilt blood drowns out justice,
As a new trophy for his crimes does service;
We swell the pomp, and
scornful
of the law,
Follow his chariot, with two kings before.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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He
expressed
a desire to be buried there, but when he
died they buried him at Tung-lin.
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Li Po |
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We fled inland with our flocks,
we
pastured
them in hollows,
cut off from the wind
and the salt track of the marsh.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
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Villon |
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And didst thou bear,
Bear in thy bitter pain,
To life, thy
murderer?
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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So they all landed,
taking with them the tea-kettle,
intending
to gather some of the oranges,
and place them in it.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Not light the task
of
entrance
for any of earth-born men!
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Be it lawful I love thee, as thou lov'st those
Whom thine eyes woo as mine
importune
thee:
Root pity in thy heart, that, when it grows,
Thy pity may deserve to pitied be.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"The ace wins," remarked Herman, turning up his card without
glancing
at
it.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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King
Marsilies
and his great host draw round.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Song--Out Over The Forth
Out over the Forth, I look to the North;
But what is the north and its
Highlands
to me?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And then the bray of brazen horns 5
Arose above their
clanking
march,
As the long waving column filed
Into the odorous purple dusk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Virgilio
mi venia da quella banda
de la cornice onde cader si puote,
perche da nulla sponda s'inghirlanda;
da l'altra parte m'eran le divote
ombre, che per l'orribile costura
premevan si, che bagnavan le gote.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I reached Khasan, a
miserable
town, which I found laid waste, and
well-nigh reduced to ashes.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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But hear me,
princes!
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"A title,
Dempster
merits it;
A garter gie to Willie Pitt;
Gie wealth to some be-ledger'd cit,
In cent.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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If thou, a nameless vagrant
Couldst
wonderfully
blind two nations, then
At least thou shouldst have merited success,
And thy bold fraud secured, by constant, deep,
And lasting secrecy.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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' I had met
The fierce
encounter
of the voluble rock.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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General Information About Project Gutenberg{~TRADE MARK SIGN~}
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Iliad - Pope |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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In the
glistening
gold of the morning bright,
It shines, detaching some lance of light,
Or, as warrior's armor rings;
It forages forests that ferment around,
Or bathed in the sun-red gleams is found,
Where the west its radiance flings.
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Hugo - Poems |
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In the
beginning
was the Word.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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What goodly
prospects
o'er the hills expand!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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If you allow us to use the chance
towards seeking Aeneas in
Pallanteum
town, you will soon descry us here
at hand with the spoils of the great slaughter we have dealt.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Driven behind the stove by my spells,
Like an
elephant
he swells;
He fills the whole room, so huge he's grown,
He waxes shadowy faster and faster.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Pyrrhus was
completely
defeated.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Must thou too fall,
surrendering
me
To flat, dull, ever-slackening courses to
A dusty grave?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And with the
bitterness
of tears
These eyes of azure troubled grow?
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Je
voudrais
vous casser les hanches
D'avoir aime!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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What woman's this, that, like an apparition,
Haunts this
deserted
homestead in broad day?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Then she
questioned
him:--
"Had he been long here, and where from?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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OSWALD
Herbert!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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What are you
bothering
him for?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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'
And right anoon, as he that bold was ay, 795
Thoughte
in his herte, `Happe how happe may,
Al sholde I deye, I wole hir herte seche;
I shal no more lesen but my speche.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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has with
unnecessary
scrupulosity
recorded), slipt out of his mind, as well
they might.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And can ye thus
unfriended
leave me?
| Guess: |
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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He pointed out with the same view, the glowing lines on the
state of
exultation
in which Ben and his companions are under the
influence of liquor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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of the Life in the Durham
Cathedral
Library, but my enquiries about it have not yet elicited any answer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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They noted down their fetters, link by link;
Coarse was the hand that scrawled, and red the ink;
Rude was their score, as suits
unlettered
men,
Notched with a headsman's axe upon a block:
What marvel if, when came the avenging shock,
'Twas Ate, not Urania, held the pen?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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To these what Tory hosts oppos'd
With these what Tory warriors clos'd
Surpasses my descriving;
Squadrons,
extended
long and large,
With furious speed rush to the charge,
Like furious devils driving.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"and the
_Obsequies
to the Lo: Harrington_.
| Guess: |
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John Donne |
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TOOKS COURT,
CHANCERY
LANE,
LONDON.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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_diuidamus_)
G
17 _nunc_ T: _non_ ?
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Not only many in our towns have never witnessed it, but it is
scarcely
remembered
by the majority from year to year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And truly not the morning sun of heaven
Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east,
Nor that full star that ushers in the even,
Doth half that glory to the sober west,
As those two
mourning
eyes become thy face:
O!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Then mutual, thus they spoke: "Behold on wrong
Swift
vengeance
waits; and art subdues the strong!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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denique quaesitos tetigit tamen ille penatis,
quaeque diu petiit,
contigit
arua tamen:
at mihi perpetuo patria tellure carendum est,
ni fuerit laesi mollior ira dei.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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This is the time of his deepest dream, and upon this dream
and its guarding depends the final
realization
of his life's work.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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But in this view even the "metaphysical verse" of Cowley
is but
evidence
of the simplicity and single-heartedness of the man.
| Guess: |
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Poe - 5 |
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where we have not received written
confirmation
of compliance.
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Tennyson |
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He who hath loved not, here would learn that lore,
And make his heart a spirit: he who knows
That tender mystery, will love the more,
For this is Love's recess, where vain men's woes,
And the world's waste, have driven him far from those,
For 'tis his nature to advance or die;
He stands not still, but or decays, or grows
Into a boundless blessing, which may vie
With the
immortal
lights, in its eternity!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Here are only the rich, the happy; here is nothing that does not
inspire or exhale the pleasure of being alive, except the aspect of the
mob that presses against the outer barrier yonder, catching gratis, at
the will of the wind, a tatter of music, and
watching
the glittering
furnace within.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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For never, I fancy, did a golden cord
From off the firmament above let down
The mortal generations to the fields;
Nor sea, nor breakers
pounding
on the rocks
Created them; but earth it was who bore--
The same to-day who feeds them from herself.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Down the slippery slopes of Myrtle,
Where the early
pumpkins
blow,
To the calm and silent sea
Fled the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
--
I am too weak to stand; and Death is near,
And a slow darkness
stealing
on my sight.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Now one by one, the pious and the just
Are seated by us,
radiantly
risen
From their dull prison in the dust.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Some years ago I might have
been induced, by an
occasion
like the present, to attempt a formal
refutation of their doctrine; at present it would be a work of
supererogation.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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But here's the
happiest
light can lie on ground,
Grass sloping under trees
Alive with yellow shine of daffodils!
| Guess: |
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"
Clessammor rose in the
strength
of his steel, shaking his grizzly
locks.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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the
copyright
status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Lewis Carroll |
|
Guenes beholds: his sword in hand he takes,
Two fingers' width from scabbard bares the blade;
And says to it: "O clear and fair and brave;
Before this King in court we'll so behave,
That the
Emperour
of France shall never say
In a strange land I'd thrown my life away
Before these chiefs thy temper had essayed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Page 29
60
he
prechede
hire wi?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Profitless
usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
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Wherefore
did he come to me?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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_Stimpart_, the eighth part of a
Winchester
bushel.
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Robert Forst |
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where lies
(Her
easement
open to the skies)
Irene, with her Destinies!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
And when
yourself
you come my way
My vision does not cleave, but turns
Without a shiver or salute.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And Raphael now to Adam's doubt propos'd
Benevolent
and facil thus repli'd.
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Milton |
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Here glows the Spring, here earth
Beside the streams pours forth a
thousand
flowers;
Here the white poplar bends above the cave,
And the lithe vine weaves shadowy covert: come,
Leave the mad waves to beat upon the shore.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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TO A BUDDHA SEATED ON A LOTUS
Lord Buddha, on thy Lotus-throne,
With praying eyes and hands elate,
What mystic rapture dost thou own,
Immutable and
ultimate?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Phaedra
What benefit do you hope for from this
violence?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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