Ah,
Postumus!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Now like a mighty wild they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like
harmonious
thunderings the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged man, wise guardians of the poor.
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blake-poems |
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Good horses and good armour seeks the knight
And goodly swords and lances, far and near,
For him and his; meseems to you is known
How none of those three
warriors
had his own.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Then,
With painful scrambling scratched and raw,
Two hands that seemed like hands of men
Eased down two legs and a body through
The blazing fire, and forth there came
Before our wide and wondering view
A figure
shrinking
half with shame,
And half with weakness.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Why, nothing, only,
Your
inference
therefrom!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Jupiter's welcome to more from his Juno if he can get it;
Let any mortal find rest, softer,
wherever
he can.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I hear a tongue,
shriller
than all the music,
Cry "Caesar.
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Shakespeare |
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But now you may stare as you like and there's nothing to scan;
And
brushing
your elbow unguessed-at and not to be told
They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,
The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Their powers of mind
seem to be
rendered
torpid, so that they have a horror of any thing like
action, and like nothing in the world so well as to lie quietly in bed
and "nurse their grief," as the old ladies express it--that is to say,
ruminate over the trouble.
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Poe - 5 |
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God hath made
us
conquerors
over the evil that was in us.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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here is the coming autumn, though it also suggests the
violence
of the times.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Dykes
Campbell, for many suggestions, and for his unwearied
interest
in this
work,--which I think was second only to his interest in Coleridge--and
also to Mr.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Our
satisfaction
will there scarcely endanger a world.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Lest there grow
From thee the
avenger?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Sweet smiles, mother's smiles,
All the
livelong
night beguiles.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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What he
acquired there his works discover; an intimacy with the classics, equal
to that of a Scaliger, but
directed
by the taste of a Milton or a Pope.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Visiting churches and palaces, all of the ruins and the pillars,
I, a
responsible
man, profit from making this trip.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Now, my dear Sir, with the freedom
which
characterizes
our correspondence, I must not, cannot alter
"Bonnie Lesley.
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Robert Burns |
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His clients from the battle
Bare him some little space,
And filled a helm from the dark lake,
And bathed his brow and face;
And when at last he opened
His
swimming
eyes to light,
Men say, the earliest words he spake
Was, "Friends, how goes the fight?
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I never take care, yet I've taken great pain
To acquire some goods, but have none by me:
Who's nice to me is one I hate: it's plain,
And who speaks truth deals with me most falsely:
He's my friend who can make me believe
A white swan is the
blackest
crow I've known:
Who thinks he's power to help me, does me harm:
Lies, truth, to me are all one under the sun:
I remember all, have the wisdom of a stone,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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Villon |
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Your flying wings may smite, but they can never spill
The cup
fulfilled
of love, from which my lips are wet.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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O God of the night,
What great sorrow
Cometh unto us,
That thou thus
repayest
us
Before the time of its coming?
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive
Foundation
are tax deductible to the full extent
permitted by U.
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Sara Teasdale |
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I think the hemlock likes to stand
Upon a marge of snow;
It suits his own austerity,
And
satisfies
an awe
That men must slake in wilderness,
Or in the desert cloy, --
An instinct for the hoar, the bald,
Lapland's necessity.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Now thou art lifted up, draw mee to thee,
And at thy death giving such
liberall
dole,
_Moyst, with one drop of thy blood, my dry soule_.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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To bedde as fast thou wolt thee dight, 2555
Where thou shalt have but smal delyt;
For whan thou wenest for to slepe,
So ful of peyne shalt thou crepe,
Sterte in thy bedde aboute ful wyde,
And turne ful ofte on every syde; 2560
Now
dounward
groffe, and now upright,
And walowe in wo the longe night,
Thyne armis shalt thou sprede a-brede,
As man in werre were forwerreyd.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO
OTHER WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I feel as if the grass were pleased
To have it intermit;
The
surreptitious
scion
Of summer's circumspect.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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, the victor, seized a great part of his
estate, his widow, the
daughter
of Gonsalo Tereyro, grand master of the
Order of Christ, and general of the Portuguese army, was not reduced
beneath her rank.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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150
Yet then did
_Dennis_
rave in furious fret;
I never answer'd,--I was not in debt.
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Alexander Pope |
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'
'It is to my sweetheart I will go, to Mary Lavelle,' said Hanrahan; 'it
is too long I have delayed, how do I know what might have
happened
her
in the length of a year?
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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be duly lowered at sunset;
Burn high your fires, foundry
chimneys!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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"O star," said the
tremulous
ray,
"Grief and struggle I found.
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Act III Scene V (Don Diegue)
Diegue
Never do we find perfect happiness:
Our
sweetest
days are tinged with sadness.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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But come with old Khayyam, and leave the Lot
Of
Kaikobad
and Kaikhosru forgot:
Let Rustum lay about him as he will,
Or Hatim Tai cry Supper--heed them not.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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ābroten
hæfdon, _had killed
him_ (the dragon), 2708.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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ORESTES
Ay, right
prophetic
was thy visioned fear.
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Aeschylus |
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) deemed I 'twas preference matter
Or AEmilius' mouth choose I to smell or his ----
Nothing is this more clean, uncleaner nothing that other,
Yet I ajudge ---- cleaner and nicer to be;
For while this one lacks teeth, that one has cubit-long tushes, 5
Set in their battered gums favouring a muddy old box,
Not to say aught of gape like wide-cleft gap of a she-mule
Whenas in summer-heat wont
peradventure
to stale.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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May't please your
Highnesse
sit
Macb.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Aelius, of Lamus' ancient name
(For since from that high parentage
The
prehistoric
Lamias came
And all who fill the storied page,
No doubt you trace your line from him,
Who stretch'd his sway o'er Formiae,
And Liris, whose still waters swim
Where green Marica skirts the sea,
Lord of broad realms), an eastern gale
Will blow to-morrow, and bestrew
The shore with weeds, with leaves the vale,
If rain's old prophet tell me true,
The raven.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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He was
confined
at the hospital at Oboukov,
where he spoke to no one, but kept constantly murmuring in a monotonous
tone: "The tray, seven, ace!
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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140
Meanwhile
did Gyrthe unto Kynge Harolde ride,
And tolde howe he dyd with Duke Willyam fare.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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si-iz-ba sa[na-ma-]as-[te]-e
i-te- en- ni- ik
ka-ia-na i-na [libbi] Uruk-(ki) kak-ki-a-tum [46]
id-lu-tum u-te-el-li- lu
sa-ki-in ip-sa- nu [47]
a-na idli sa i-tu-ru zi-mu-su
a-na
iluGilgamis
ki-ma i-li-im
sa-ki-is-sum [48] me-ih-rum
a-na ilatIs-ha-ra ma-ia-lum
na- [di]-i- ma
iluGilgamish id-[ ]na-an(?
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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But if the Christmas field has kept
Awns the last gleaner overstept,
Or
shrivelled
flax, whose flower is blue
A single season, never two;
Or if one haulm whose year is o'er
Shivers on the upland frore,
-Oh, bring from hill and stream and plain
Whatever will not flower again,
To give him comfort: he and those
Shall bide eternal bedfellows
Where low upon the couch he lies
Whence he never shall arise.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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A Golgotha, upon whose carrion clay
Justice of myriad men still in the womb
Shall heave two crosses; crucify and flay
Two memories accurs'd; then in the tomb
Of world-wide
execration
give them room.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Camp and
city rose at once; the Ten were pulled down; the Tribuneship was
reestablished; and Appius escaped the hands of the executioner
only by a
voluntary
death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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_"
["I do think," says Burns, in allusion to this song, "that I have
improved the
simplicity
of the sentiments by giving them a Scottish
dress.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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They look upon his eyes,
Filled with deep surprise;
And
wondering
behold
A spirit armed in gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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God shall this day the right shew, us
between!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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No lots they cast for keeping the hoard
when once the
warriors
saw it in hall,
altogether without a guardian,
lying there lost.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
275
'No, such a Genius never can lie still;'
And then for mine
obligingly
mistakes
The first Lampoon Sir _Will_, or _Bubo_ makes.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Gazing into her eyes, holding hands, giving kisses, exchanging
Syllables sweet and those words lovers alone understand,
Murmuring our
conversations
we stutter in sweet oratory.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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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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1909
Songs for the New Age The Century Company 1914
War and
Laughter
The Century Company 1915
The Book of Self Alfred A.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
'
And always use, in answering,
The phrase 'Your Royal
Whiteness!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
in
Schweigh
Herodot t.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Chanter, bagpipes; the pipe of the bag-pipes which
produces
the
melody; song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
(To Don Diegue)
See how her face
abruptly
changes hue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Readjusting the battery, we
now applied the fluid to the bisected nerves--when, with a movement of
exceeding life-likeness, the Mummy first drew up its right knee so as to
bring it nearly in contact with the abdomen, and then, straightening the
limb with
inconceivable
force, bestowed a kick upon Doctor Ponnonner,
which had the effect of discharging that gentleman, like an arrow from a
catapult, through a window into the street below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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) This Relation of Pot and Potter to Man and his Maker
figures far and wide in the Literature of the World, from the time of
the Hebrew
Prophets
to the present; when it may finally take the name
of "Pot theism," by which Mr.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
XIX
"But thy father loves the clashing
Of broadsword and of shield:
He loves to drink the steam that reeks
From the fresh battlefield:
He smiles a smile more dreadful
Than his own
dreadful
frown,
When he sees the thick black cloud of smoke
Go up from the conquered town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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who those sun-like eyes
So sweetly didst inform and
brightly
fill,
Who the apt words didst frame and tender sighs
Which in my fond heart have their echo still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Approving all, she faded at self-will,
And shut the chamber up, close, hush'd and still,
Complete and ready for the revels rude,
When
dreadful
guests would come to spoil her solitude.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Delusions of the days that once have been,
Witchcraft and wonders of the world unseen,
Phantoms of air, and
necromantic
arts
That crushed the weak and awed the stoutest hearts,--
These are our theme to-night; and vaguely here,
Through the dim mists that crowd the atmosphere,
We draw the outlines of weird figures cast
In shadow on the background of the Past,
Who would believe that in the quiet town
Of Salem, and, amid the woods that crown
The neighboring hillsides, and the sunny farms
That fold it safe in their paternal arms,--
Who would believe that in those peaceful streets,
Where the great elms shut out the summer heats,
Where quiet reigns, and breathes through brain and breast
The benediction of unbroken rest,--
Who would believe such deeds could find a place
As these whose tragic history we retrace?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
How quickly the heroic mood
Responds
to its own ringing;
The scornful heart, the angry blood
Leap upward, singing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
I could not bear the bees should come,
I wished they 'd stay away
In those dim
countries
where they go:
What word had they for me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
A
friendship
so respect'd, heav'n forefend!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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sēl gebǣran, _I did not hear that a troop bore itself
better, maintained a nobler deportment_, 1013; hē on eorðan geseah þone
lēofestan līfes æt ende blēate gebǣran, _saw the best-beloved upon the
earth, at the end of his life,
struggling
miserably_ (i.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Oh, swift as light they speed, The first light into
darkness
hurled, Each to his work, above, below,
The sons of God that make the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
If you are willing to pledge me your heart, lover,
I'll offer mine: and so we will grasp entire
All the
pleasures
of life, and no strange desire
Will make my spirit prisoner to another.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Here the knight doffed his armour and put on rich robes,
which so well became him, that all
declared
that a more comely knight
Christ had never made (ll.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
mais l'air est tout plein d'une odeur de
bataille!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Who bade you
awake from your sleep
And track me beyond the
cerulean
foam of the
deep?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
[Y]
So might--and with that prelude _did_ begin
The record; and, in
faithful
verse, was given
The doleful sequel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
ai
schullen
ywedded be; take hem a man of wytte.
| 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 |
|
Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
'
This said, he commands the feast and the wine-cups to be replaced whence
they were taken, and with his own hand ranges them on the grassy seat,
and welcomes Aeneas to the place of honour, with a lion's shaggy fell
for cushion and a
hospitable
chair of maple.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
A DREAM
Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass
methought
I lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Sea Garden
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
The broken
fingernails
of dirty hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
how
entirely
he looks the rogue!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
"
With conscious shame they hear the stern rebuke,
Nor longer durst sustain the
sovereign
look.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
As a stage play, "Goetz" is ill-constructed,
but
otherwise
it stands a veritable literary triumph, and a worthy
predecessor to "Faust.
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1575
Compleyned
eek Eleyne of his syknesse
So feithfully, that pitee was to here,
And every wight gan waxen for accesse
A leche anoon, and seyde, `In this manere
Men curen folk; this charme I wol yow lere.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"Then
choosing
out few words most horrible.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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About seven minutes later, there was a wild
hurroosh
at the Club.
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Kipling - Poems |
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670
And thou conceal not,
artfully
reserv'd,
What I shall ask, far better plain declared
Than smother'd close; who art thou?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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And his
children
set forth to seek for the spot
Where stands the great Church which he forgot.
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Rilke - Poems |
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By
thoughts
I lead
Bards to say what nations need;
What imports, what irks and what behooves,
Framed afar as Fates and Loves.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Epilogue to the Vergilian Catalepton_
VATE
Syracosio
qui dulcior Hesiodoque
maior, Homereo non minor ore fuit,
illius haec quoque sunt diuini elementa poetae
et rudis in uario carmine Calliope.
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You do extend
These
thoughts
of horror further than you shall
Find cause in Caesar.
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Shakespeare |
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modified
and printed and given
away--you may do practically ANYTHING in the United States with eBooks
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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XLII
O heart of
insatiable
longing,
What spell, what enchantment allures thee
Over the rim of the world
With the sails of the sea-going ships?
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Sappho |
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) hardly fain
Hast e'er refrained; now do
refrain!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The green-swathed grasshopper, on treble pipe,
Sings there, and dances, in mad-hearted pranks;
There bees go
courting
every flower that's ripe,
On baulks and sunny banks;
And droning dragon-fly, on rude bassoon,
Attempts to give God thanks
In no discordant tune.
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John Clare |
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Siriskas,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Act I Scene IV (Phaedra, Oenone, Panope)
Panope
I wished to hide the
sorrowful
news from you,
My lady: but now I must reveal it to you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Riley was happy and cheerful, and, as is often
the case in consumption,
healthiest
in mind when the body was weakest.
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Kipling - Poems |
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