]
[Sidenote: The assertion that nothing happens but by necessity,
must be proved by arguments drawn from causes connected and
agreeing
with this necessity, and not from signs or foreign
causes.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Modern Paris is often the background of the _New Poems_, and the crass
play of light and shadow upon the waxen masks of Life's disillusioned in
the Morgue is caught with the same intense
realistic
vision as the
flamingos and parrots spreading their vari-coloured soft plumage in the
warmth of the sun in the Avenue of the Jardin des Plantes.
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Rilke - Poems |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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When the flesh that
nourished
us well
Is eaten piecemeal, ah, see it swell,
And we, the bones, are dust and gall,
Let no one make fun of our ill,
But pray that God absolves us all.
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Villon |
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And
this
diffusion
is in its origin and aim rhetorical.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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THE SWORD DHAM
"How shall we honor the man who
creates?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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While
he stood
unshaken
in royalty and potent in the councils of the kings, we
too wore a name and honour.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And as he stood in the street
of Erech of the wide places,
the people assembled
disputing round about him:--
"How is he become like
Gilgamish
suddenly?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Thus in my dreem
Criseyde
I have biholde' --
And al this thing to Pandarus he tolde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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How direct me to perform a
baseness?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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As Cybele
could do nothing with her rites, his son took him again to Aegina and
forcibly made him lie one night in the temple of Asclepius, the God of
Healing, but before
daylight
there he was to be seen at the gate of the
tribunal.
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Aristophanes |
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And with tears of blood he
cleansed
the hand,
The hand that held the steel:
For only blood can wipe out blood,
And only tears can heal:
And the crimson stain that was of Cain
Became Christ's snow-white seal.
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Wilde - Poems |
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_] G
[355] 46
_Engine_
1716 Engine W engine G
[356] 51 bounds 1692, f.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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His
inaccessible
heart is opposed to love:
Let's find a weaker spot that he might be moved.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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If I
renounced
her love, she'd scorn me:
She ought not, for love it is adorns me.
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Troubador Verse |
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So, when you had risen
from all the
lethargy
of love and its heat,
you would have summoned me, me alone,
and found my hands,
beyond all the hands in the world,
cold, cold, cold,
intolerably cold and sweet.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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It might be a
beautiful
word, but it is the most debased coin in
the currency of language.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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at doost me
destresse!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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If Jove prolong my days, and Pallas crown
The growing virtues of my youthful son,
To you shall rites divine be ever paid,
And
grateful
offerings on your altars laid.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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My feet kept drowsing,
drowsing
still,
My fingers were awake;
Yet why so little sound myself
Unto my seeming make?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Yeats |
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"
The Wayfarer
Love entered in my heart one day,
A sad,
unwelcome
guest;
But when he begged that he might stay,
I let him wait and rest.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Are you
persecuting
her, my lord, indeed?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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A term of
familiarity
or endearment.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the
starkest
madness.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Was he afraid, or
tranquil?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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As on them more direct mine eye descends,
Each wondrously seem'd to be revers'd
At the neck-bone, so that the countenance
Was from the reins averted: and because
None might before him look, they were compell'd
To' advance with
backward
gait.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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)]
195 (return)
[ Nerva was consul the fourth time, and Trajan the second, in the 85lst year of Rome; in which Tacitus
composed
this treatise.
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Tacitus |
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Even honest Men delight will take
To spare your
failings
for his sake,
Will flatter you,--.
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William Wordsworth |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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--Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and
imperfect
thing; settled
in the imagination, but never arriving at the understanding, there to
obtain the tincture of reason.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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]
[Footnote G: If any of my readers should ever visit the Lake of Como, I
recommend it to him to take a stroll along this
charming
little pathway:
he must chuse the evening, as it is on the western side of the Lake.
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William Wordsworth |
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Now, thank God,
The golden fire has gone, and your face is ash
Indistinguishable
in the grey, chill day,
The night has burnt you out, at last the good
Dark fire burns on untroubled without clash
Of you upon the dead leaves saying me yea.
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Imagists |
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Then these holidays will be the last I
shall see
anything
of you; and I go back to school next week.
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Kipling - Poems |
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salue, magna parens frugum,
Saturnia
tellus,
magna uirum: tibi res antiquae laudis et artis
ingredior sanctos ausus recludere fontis,
Ascraeumque cano Romana per oppida carmen.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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no beauty to be had but
in wresting and
writhing
our own tongue!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But ere the circle
homeward
hies
Far, far must it remove:
White in the moon the long road lies
That leads me from my love.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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But see how oft
ambitious
aims are cross'd,
And chiefs contend 'till all the prize is lost!
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CXXXV
Sweet beauty,
murderess
of my life,
Instead of a heart you've a boulder:
Living, you make me waste and shudder,
Impassioned by amorous desire.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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And should I wait thy word, to endure
A little for thine easing, yea, or pour
My strength out in thy toiling
fellowship?
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Then, take my note and sing,
Filling it with the longing
And the blithe, unfettered thronging
Of your spirit's
blossoming!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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he loves him
although
he is
not related to him by blood, 1881; dat.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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He left
those who wished a patron to the tender mercies of Halifax, who fed fat
on
flattery
and repaid his flatterers merely with a good word or a seat
at his table.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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"
Then they followed
Where the vision led,
And saw their
sleeping
child
Among tigers wild.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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When age's
pinching
air
Strips summer's rich possession,
And leaves the branches bare,
My secret in confession
Still thus with you I'll share:
I loved you once, but now--
I love you more than ever.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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In early times with their own innocence
More was not wanting, than the parents' faith,
To save them: those first ages past, behoov'd
That circumcision in the males should imp
The flight of innocent wings: but since the day
Of grace hath come, without baptismal rites
In Christ accomplish'd,
innocence
herself
Must linger yet below.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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unica amicitia,
cum uesana meas
torreret
flamma medullas.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
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: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
As I walk these broad majestic days of peace,
(For the war, the struggle of blood finish'd, wherein, O terrific Ideal,
Against vast odds erewhile having gloriously won,
Now thou stridest on, yet perhaps in time toward denser wars,
Perhaps to engage in time in still more dreadful contests, dangers,
Longer campaigns and crises, labors beyond all others,)
Around me I hear that eclat of the world, politics, produce,
The
announcements
of recognized things, science,
The approved growth of cities and the spread of inventions.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
GD}
Over the joyful Earth & Sea, and ascended into the Heavens {It looks as though a strike line
crossing
out this line has been erased.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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When, more than twenty years ago, I wrote the first of the series, I had
no definite plan and no
intention
of ever writing another.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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The elements are less
reserved
and
distinct.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"Now
hearken!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
_ Mournful maid,
farewell
to you;
_Earth afford ye flowers to strew_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Great art thou,
Carthage!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Are you done with reviews and
criticisms
of life?
| 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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Here mie
meneynge
see.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Alterations
in "Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled"
CCLXXV.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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" In Attar's "Bird-parliament" she is reproved
by the Leader of the Birds for sitting still, and for ever harping on
that one note of
lamentation
for her lost Yusuf.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The gesture, the movement begins in _Advent_ and _Celebration_ to
disturb the
stillness
prevailing in the first two volumes of poems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Her heart no more will beat
To feel the touch of that soft palm,
That ever seemed a new surprise
Sending glad thoughts up to her eyes
To bless him with their holy calm,--
Sweet
thoughts!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
The sheep too stood around-
Of us they feel no shame, poet divine;
Nor of the flock be thou ashamed: even fair
Adonis by the rivers fed his sheep-
Came
shepherd
too, and swine-herd footing slow,
And, from the winter-acorns dripping-wet
Menalcas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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I would give
The longest and the
happiest
day that fate
Has marked on my existence but to feel
ONE soul-reviving kiss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Diseases
like snakes
crawling
over the earth, leaving trails of slime.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
9, 77 II 13;
_uttakkalu_
< _uttakkaru_, Ebeling, KTA.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"In free debate, my friends, your
sentence
speak;
For me, I move, before the morning break,
To raise our camp: too dangerous here our post,
Far from Troy walls, and on a naked coast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
My little book seems scarcely to admit of
prefatory
words: either it
will speak for itself, or all my additions must fail to speak for it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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GHOST OF DARIUS
She wastes by famine a too
countless
foe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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for we ne mowe nat
co{n}sider{e}
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
--
There, at the resurrection of the just,
When the last trumpet with earth-shaking sound
Shall wake her sleepers from their couch profound;
Then, when that spotless and
immortal
mind
In a material mould once more enshrined,
With wonted charms shall wake seraphic love,
How will the beatific sight improve
Her heavenly beauties in the climes above!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Through this two clear and
murmuring
rivers stray:
Upon their banks a fresher herbage grows;
While the twin streams their passage slowly clear,
Make music with the stones, and please the ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Omittendum esse _credo_ ratus est
Tartara tamquam additum ab eo qui dubitationem suam de scriptura
sic declarauit
9
_ludere_
(suprascr.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
My heart bleeds fresh with agonizing pain;
The bowl and tasteful viands tempt in vain;
Nor sleep's soft power can close my
streaming
eyes,
When imaged to my soul his sorrows rise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
You are the cause of honest wives of honest citizens drinking
hemlock, so greatly have your
Bellerophons
made them blush.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
e
p{ur}ueau{n}ce
{and} ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Alas, that love should be a blight and snare
To those who seek all
sympathies
in one!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
'Tis an
antipathy
of thine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
260
Thou neither own'st the courage nor the force,
Ulysses, now, which nine whole years thou showd'st
At Ilium, waging battle obstinate
For high-born Helen, and in horrid fight
Destroying
multitudes, till thy advice
At last lay'd Priam's bulwark'd city low.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Through charity will no one take the lead,
And, by example, get her to
proceed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Let
a brave, devout man spend the year in the woods of Maine or Labrador,
and see if the Hebrew
Scriptures
speak adequately to his condition and
experience, from the setting in of winter to the breaking up of the
ice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
They have
forgotten
me across the water by this time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Pope's argument was
attacked
with violence my M.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Users are free to copy, use, and
redistribute
the work in part or in whole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Moreover in these their feasts, they
generally
deliberate
about reconciling parties at enmity, about forming affinities, choosing
of Princes, and finally about peace and war.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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nicht ohne
Narrheit
horen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
'
Then from the dawn it seemed there came, but faint
As from beyond the limit of the world,
Like the last echo born of a great cry,
Sounds, as if some fair city were one voice
Around a king
returning
from his wars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Auld, cantie Kyle may weepers wear,
An' stain them wi' the saut, saut tear;
'Twill mak her poor auld heart, I fear,
In
flinders
flee:
He was her Laureat mony a year,
That's owre the sea!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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There was no
comprehending
one word.
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Aristophanes |
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How is earth good to look on, woods and fields
The seasons' garden, and the
courageous
hills,
All this green raft of earth moored in the seas?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The desired proofs have not yet been
adduced, and there is, at present, nothing but internal
evidence
to
guide us.
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Poe - 5 |
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--Ho, fling me a
Thessalian
steel!
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Euripides - Electra |
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XLIX
And
farewell
thou, my gloomy friend,
Thou also, my ideal true,
And thou, persistent to the end,
My little book.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Why behold we
Marks of his lightnings most on
mountain
tops?
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Lucretius |
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His persistence finally roused an
interest
entirely
strange to her.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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