Miser Catulle_
MISER Catulle, desinas ineptire,
et quod uides perisse
perditum
ducas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I'm ceded, I've stopped being theirs;
The name they dropped upon my face
With water, in the country church,
Is
finished
using now,
And they can put it with my dolls,
My childhood, and the string of spools
I've finished threading too.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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So, when thou
Beneath
Sicanian
billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Since then, all things have changed; to me you are
Some brightest, unknown
creature
from the skies.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Thy hallow'd soul exults in endless day;
'Tis I who linger on the toilsome way:
No balm relieves the anguish I endure;
Save the fond feeble hope that thou art near
To soothe my
sufferings
with an angel's tear.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Thus deeply musing on the rapid round
Of planetary speed, in thought profound
I stood, and long bewail'd my wasted hours,
My vain afflictions, and my squander'd powers:
When, in deliberate march, a train was seen
In silent order moving o'er the green;
A band that seem'd to hold in high disdain
The desolating power of Time's
resistless
reign:
Their names were hallow'd in the Muse's song,
Wafted by fame from age to age along,
High o'er oblivion's deep, devouring wave,
Where millions find an unrefunding grave.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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One morning, by the break of day,
The youthful, charming Chloe--
From
peaceful
slumber she arose,
Girt on her mantle and her hose,
And o'er the flow'ry mead she goes--
The youthful, charming Chloe.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Control the present: all beside
Flows like a river seaward borne,
Now rolling on its placid tide,
Now whirling massy trunks uptorn,
And waveworn crags, and farms, and stock,
In chaos blent, while hill and wood
Reverberate to the
enormous
shock,
When savage rains the tranquil flood
Have stirr'd to madness.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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_
In this difficult passage it is
probably
best to take _cursus_ as the
subject to teneant (_cursus teneant_, id est agantur.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Grand go the years in the crescent above them;
Worlds scoop their arcs, and
firmaments
row,
Diadems drop and Doges surrender,
Soundless as dots on a disk of snow.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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he who just now was seen a professed droll, or e'en
shrewder than such in gay speech, this same becomes more boorish than a
country boor
immediately
he touches poesy, nor is the dolt e'er as
self-content as when he writes in verse,--so greatly is he pleased with
himself, so much does he himself admire.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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We love to see any redness in the
vegetation
of the temperate zone.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But it is now Christmas time, and this is the New Year,
and I see around me many brave ones;--if any be so bold in his blood
that dare strike a stroke for another, I shall give him this rich axe
to do with it
whatever
he pleases.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Therefore
are feasts so solemn and so rare,
Since, seldom coming in that long year set,
Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,
Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Down
Pennsylvania
Avenue to-day the riders go,
men and boys riding horses, roses in their teeth,
stems of roses, rose leaf stalks, rose dark leaves--
the line of the green ends in a red rose flash.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Daffodil
bulbs instead of balls
Stared from the sockets of the eyes!
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T.S. Eliot |
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Leaving only kisses
To be
remembered
by.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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ON his return he passed the cradle by;
To place it as before he would not try,
But went to sleep; when presently a sound,
From something that had tumbled, rang around,
Awoke his wife, who ran below,
That what had
happened
she might clearly know.
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La Fontaine |
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The Wind in the Hemlock
Steely stars and moon of brass,
How
mockingly
you watch me pass!
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Sara Teasdale |
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degorgez
dans les gares!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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To think just how the fire will burn,
Just how long-cheated eyes will turn
To wonder what myself will say,
And what itself will say to me,
Beguiles the
centuries
of way!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Si disse prima; e poi: <
di nominar ciascun, da ch'e si munta
nostra
sembianza
via per la dieta.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Time bring back the order of classic days;
Earth has
shuddered
with prophetic breath.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And what I feel, across the
inferior
features
Of what I am, doth flash itself, and show
How that great work of Love enhances Nature's.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And now brave GAMA, and his
splendid
train,
Himself adorn'd in all the pride of Spain,
In gilded barges slowly bend to shore,
While to the lute the gently falling oar
Now, breaks the surges of the briny tide,
And now, the strokes the cold fresh stream divide.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Sweet moans, sweeter smiles,
All the
dovelike
moans beguiles.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The old
Countess no longer made the slightest
pretensions
to beauty, but she
still clung to all the habits of her youth, and spent as much time at
her toilet as she had done sixty years before.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The city about me
Resolves
itself into sound of many voices,
Rustling and fluttering,
Leaves shaken by the breeze.
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Imagists |
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The Rabbit
Rabbits
'Rabbits'
Frederick Bloemaert, Abraham Bloemaert, Nicolaes
Visscher
(I), after 1635 - 1670, The Rijksmuseun
There's another cony I remember
That I'd so like to take alive.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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The word is
probably
an adverb; hardly a word
for cup, mug (?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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e gou{er}nynge of it nis nat subgit ne
vnderput
696
to ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Thus is the door of doom, O nowise barred
Against the sky, against the sun and earth
And deep-sea waters, but wide open stands
And gloats upon them,
monstrous
and agape.
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Lucretius |
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But, above all, I
discovered around me,--it was near the end of June,--on the ends of
the topmost branches only, a few minute and
delicate
red cone-like
blossoms, the fertile flower of the white pine looking heavenward.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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You may copy it, give it away or
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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His robe, which spots indelible besmear,
In rags dishonest flutters with the air:
A stag's torn hide is lapp'd around his reins;
A rugged staff his trembling hand sustains;
And at his side a
wretched
scrip was hung,
Wide-patch'd, and knotted to a twisted thong.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And whence this
promise?
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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If with no
headache
they're tormented,
Nor dunned by landlord for his pay,
They're careless, unconcerned, and gay.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"I have been wondering
frequently
of late
(But our beginnings never know our ends!
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T.S. Eliot |
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He
laboreth
at every tree, --
A worm his utmost goal.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth, and where they did
proceed?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The sails drop; we swing back to the
oars; without delay the sailors
strongly
toss up the foam, and sweep
through the green water.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Because
Helen was wanton, and her master knew
No curb for her: for that, for that, he slew
My
daughter!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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know sweet love I always write of you,
And you and love are still my argument;
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending
again what is already spent:
For as the sun is daily new and old,
So is my love still telling what is told.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not received written
confirmation
of compliance.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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And shall that which could not fill the expectation of few
hours, entertain and take up our whole lives, when even it
appeared
as
superfluous to the possessors as to me that was a spectator?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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In notes which he made at some date after
1608, we find him
inquiring
for 'Satyres, Elegies, Epigrams etc.
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John Donne |
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Unauthenticated
Download
Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 286 ?
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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my heart
For better lore would seldom yearn,
Could I but teach the
hundredth
part
Of what from thee I learn.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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strange
You thus allow
yourself
about to range;
Did I not tell you when the wine you took,
'Twould make many sad misfortunes hook?
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La Fontaine |
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Or failing so, yet that I put the Moor
At least into a
jealousy
so strong
That judgement cannot cure.
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Shakespeare |
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active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
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Sara Teasdale |
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that scarce themselves know how to hold
A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least
That to the faithful herdman's art
belongs!
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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'
But thou brook'st not disturbance at thy wine:
And France is wild for one to lead her souls;
But thou art huge and fat and laggest back
Among the
remnants
of forsaken camps.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
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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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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_deuincta
tenentem_ uel _tenet dum_; cf.
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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And death
pursuing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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THE PATCHWORK BONNET
Across the room my silent love I throw,
Where you sit sewing in bed by candlelight,
Your young stern profile and
industrious
fingers
Displayed against the blind in a shadow-show,
To Dinda's grave delight.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Was it not yesterday we spoke
together?
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Sweet smiles, in the night
Hover over my
delight!
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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addunt
_celeri_
quod
uocabulum transferebat omissa _i_ ad finem u.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
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alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_ 'Thou prechest
abstinence
also?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Ils auront vu la Suisse et
traverse
la France.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Among other
mistakes
it reads (with _S96_)
'Thee' for 'them' in l.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
In the
Epitaph on the
Marchioness
of Winchester, it reads--' And som flowers
and some bays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Papa he said, "Oh,
dreadful
man!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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active links or
immediate
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Cloud another lord awaited,
Or that in scenes Le Notre's art created
For
princely
sport and ease,
Crimean steeds, trampling the velvet glade,
Should browse the bark beneath the stately shade
Of the great Louis' trees?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Oh, some
scholar!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
For do you love her, do you hate,
She knows not--cares not she:
Only the living feel the weight
Of
loveless
misery!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
But the 1645 text and Milton's manuscript read self-consum'd; after
which word there is to be
understood
a metrical pause to mark the
violent transition of the thought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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740 Nē þæt se āglǣca yldan þōhte,
ac hē gefēng hraðe forman siðe
slǣpendne
rinc, slāt unwearnum,
bāt bān-locan, blōd ēdrum dranc,
syn-snǣdum swealh: sōna hæfde
745 unlyfigendes eal gefeormod
fēt and folma.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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POISON PERDU
Des nuits du blond et de la brune
Pas un
souvenir
n'est reste;
Pas une dentelle d'ete,
Pas une cravate commune.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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They pricked their steeds and moving all
together
bore down upon him
like a wild wave that upsets a ship.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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i'th' name of truth
Are ye fantasticall, or that indeed
Which
outwardly
ye shew?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
" --Alas, what a
misapprehension!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Ah,
happiest
spot of earth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
--Semele, the
daughter
of Cadmus and Hermione and mother of
Bacchus; both seduced by Zeus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
I have nothing to say to
any one as to which sect he belongs to, or what creed he believes: but
I look on the man, who is firmly persuaded of infinite wisdom and
goodness, superintending and directing every
circumstance
that can
happen in his lot--I felicitate such a man as having a solid
foundation for his mental enjoyment; a firm prop and sure stay, in the
hour of difficulty, trouble, and distress; and a never-failing anchor
of hope, when he looks beyond the grave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
<>,
disse 'l maestro, ansando com' uom lasso,
<
dipartir
da tanto male>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
There were packed in it a trunk
and a box
containing
a tea service, and some napkins tied up full of
rolls and little cakes, the last I should get of home pampering.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
What are we to think of
this
behaviour?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Grand go the years in the crescent above them;
Worlds scoop their arcs, and
firmaments
row,
Diadems drop and Doges surrender,
Soundless as dots on a disk of snow.
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LXXIII
He, that with other scope had thither soared,
Pauses not all these wonder to peruse:
But led by the disciple of our Lord,
His way towards a spacious vale pursues;
A place wherein is wonderfully stored
Whatever
on our earth below we lose.
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(editorial,
December
12, 1832), pp.
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Byron |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Take ye the truth, that Atreus, this man's sire,
The lord and monarch of this land of old,
Held with my sire
Thyestes
deep dispute,
Brother with brother, for the prize of sway,
And drave him from his home to banishment.
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Aeschylus |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Lewis Carroll |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Abundance
of berries for all who will eat,
But an aching meat.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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It
cost, in 1710, from twelve to twenty-eight
shillings
per pound.
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Alexander Pope |
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With what a deadly sore my soul doth smart;
My heart, with venom filled, doth like a hammer
Beat in mine ears reproach; all things revolt me,
And my head whirls, and in my eyes are children
Dripping
with blood; and gladly would I flee,
But nowhere can find refuge--horrible!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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How sweet its
streamlet
murmurs in mine ear!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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