And shouldn't we be able to recognise
The heart of a
treacherous
mortal by sure signs?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Whereas if flame, already fashioned, lay
Stored up within the forests, then the fires
Could not for any time be kept unseen,
But would be laying all the
wildwood
waste
And burning all the boscage.
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Lucretius |
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and
research.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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My heart failed me; I burst into tears and
murmured
the
name of my loved one.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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FAUST:
Du hast nun die
Antipathie!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Hers to sow the seed of bread,
That man and all the kinds be fed;
And, when the sunlight fills the hours,
Dissolves the crust,
displays
the flowers.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The long _u_ is
due to analogy with
_namassu_
a Sumerian loan-word with nisbe ending.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Give me, instead of Beauty's bust,
A tender heart, a loyal mind
Which with
temptation
I would trust,
Yet never link'd with error find,--
One in whose gentle bosom I
Could pour my secret heart of woes,
Like the care-burthen'd honey-fly
That hides his murmurs in the rose,--
My earthly Comforter!
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Golden Treasury |
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'Tis his maine hope:
For where there is aduantage to be giuen,
Both more and lesse haue giuen him the Reuolt,
And none serue with him, but
constrained
things,
Whose hearts are absent too
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Then he thought of her, and Indian people;
Tryin' to measure, by the church's steeple,
Just how
Christian
our great nation's been
Toward those native tribes so full of sin.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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" The Poem was
communicated
by Burns
to his friend Rankine of Adam Hill, in Ayrshire.
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Robert Burns |
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These kings,
Though it be but a lightning-moment struck
Upon the
darkness
of their ignorant hearts,
Must know what I know; that there is a beauty,
Only in thee shown forth in bodily sign,
Which can of life make such triumphant glee,
The force of the world seems but man's spirit utter'd.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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That the maker of cities grew faint
with the
splendour
of palaces,
paused while the incense-flowers
from the incense-trees
dropped on the marble-walk,
thought anew, fashioned this--
street after street alike.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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_
_In the space between each toe,
Kingdoms
rise and saviours go;
Epochs fall and causes die
In the lifting of his eye.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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On the morrow morning
Pugatchef
sent someone to call me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The grass does not refuse
To
flourish
in the spring wind;
The leaves are not angry
At falling through the autumn sky.
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Li Po |
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Mighty too is the
emulation
amongst these followers, of each to be first
in favour with his Prince; mighty also the emulation of the Princes,
to excel in the number and valour of followers.
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Tacitus |
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"And shall I nowe, forr feere of dethe,
Looke wanne and bee
dysmayde?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Why be
frightened
of a love, though, that's so chaste?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"
That
exhaustive
old Lady of Winchelsea!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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[folio 146a]
In holy chyrche vppon a daye 59
They were spousyde in goddys laue;
Atte here
spousyng
I wott there stode
Beshoppys felle and prestes goode;
Sythen theye made a mangery
With all the beste of here aleye;
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All that comyn thyder ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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If
inverted
commas are to be used at all
it seems to me they would need to be extended to 'gone' (l.
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John Donne |
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'
Already Heaven with thee its lot has cast,
For only it can
absolutely
deal.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Already these brilliant trees
throughout
the street,
without any more variety, are at least equal to an annual festival and
holiday, or a week of such.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The one finished by complete
failure what he commenced in the
grossest
misconception; the other, by
a path which could not possibly lead him astray, arrived at a triumph
which is not the less glorious because hidden from the profane eyes of
the multitude.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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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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60
O Afflem, son of Cuthbert, holie Sayncte,
Come ayde thy freend, and shewe Duke Wyllyams payne;
Take up thy pencyl, all hys features paincte;
Thy
coloryng
excells a synger strayne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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--
One morning we set forth with thoughts aflame,
Or heart o'erladen with desire or shame;
And cradle, to the song of surge and breeze,
Our own
infinity
on the finite seas.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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They have
many faults, but are seen at their worst when
Chatterton
is trying
to exhibit some eternal truth.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The
Macmillan
Co.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He passed through Kiukiang on his way,
and
released
the prisoners there.
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Li Po |
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to tell his griefe:
Which knowne, and all that noyd his heavie spright 210
Well searcht, eftsoones he gan apply relief
Of salves and med'cines, which had passing priefe,
And thereto added words of
wondrous
might;?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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So through the
moonlight
lanes they go,
And far into the moonlight dale,
And by the church, and o'er the down,
To bring a doctor from the town,
To comfort poor old Susan Gale.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Beneath the silken silence
The crystal branches slept,
And
dreaming
thro' the dew-fall
The cold white blossoms wept.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"To-day be wise and great,
And put off
hesitation
and go forth 5
With cheerful courage for the diurnal need.
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Sappho |
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'That land is like an Eagle, whose young gaze
Feeds on the
noontide
beam, whose golden plume
Floats moveless on the storm, and in the blaze _4425
Of sunrise gleams when Earth is wrapped in gloom;
An epitaph of glory for the tomb
Of murdered Europe may thy fame be made,
Great People!
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Shelley |
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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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"
CIX
Kind
Mandricardo
on his feet once more,
Exclaims, "And be it as it pleases thee.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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***END OF THE PROJECT
GUTENBERG
EBOOK ESSAY ON MAN***
******* This file should be named 2428.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Prone on his face he sinks beside the wheel:
Atrides o'er him shakes his
vengeful
steel;
The fallen chief in suppliant posture press'd
The victor's knees, and thus his prayer address'd:
"O spare my youth, and for the life I owe
Large gifts of price my father shall bestow.
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Iliad - Pope |
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"
—Sioux
City, Iowa, Daily Tribune
"Has in it finer stuff than we've seen in many another more pre tentious journal.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Slow he woke with a drowsy pang,
Shook himself without much debate,
Turned where he saw green
branches
hang,
Started though late.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Thou art the mystic homeless One;
Into the world Thou never came,
Too mighty Thou, too great to name;
Voice of the storm, Song that the wild wind sings,
Thou Harp that
shatters
those who play Thy strings!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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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: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
Then thus to Hermes the command was given:
"Hermes, thou chosen
messenger
of heaven!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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" say pagans, each to each;
"These
Frankish
men, their horns we plainly hear
Charle is at hand, that King in Majesty.
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Chanson de Roland |
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La Grand-Ville a le pave chaud
Malgre vos douches de petrole
Et
decidement
il nous faut
Nous secouer dans votre role.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Sotheby sate
sweating
behind her;
But what are all these to the Lay
Of Gally i.
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Byron |
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The
population
which we had seen the last two days--I mean the
habitans of Montmorenci County--appeared very inferior, intellectually
and even physically, to that of New England.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Also, because the
restrictions of rhyme necessarily injure either the vigour of one's
language or the
literalness
of one's version.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Grasp'st thou after the
thunder?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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_The Son_
But the
headboard
of mother's bed is pushed
Against the attic door: the door is nailed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The words of Tomsky made a deep impression upon her, and
she realized how
imprudently
she had acted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The flames of the Dog Days keep
Far from your green steep,
Because your shade around
Is always close and deep,
For the shepherds
changing
ground,
The weary oxen, the sheep,
And the cattle that wander round.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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[47]
Just where a cloud above the mountain rears [48]
An [49] edge all flame, the
broadening
sun appears; 170
A long blue bar its aegis orb divides,
And breaks the spreading of its golden tides;
And now that orb has touched the purple steep
Whose softened image penetrates the deep.
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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The
being called God by no means answers with the
conditions
prescribed by
Newton; it bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to
hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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And
straightway
round him gathered
A pale and trembling crowd,
And when they knew him, cries of rage
Brake forth, and wailing loud:
And women rent their tresses
For their great prince's fall;
And old men girt on their old swords,
And went to man the wall.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Would you tear from my lintels these sacred
green
garlands
of leaves?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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LATE LEARND, having been
recently
taught.
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| Question: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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From amidst them forth he passd, 900
Long way through hostile scorn, which he susteind
Superior, nor of violence fear'd aught;
And with retorted scorn his back he turn'd
On those proud Towrs to swift
destruction
doom'd.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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you relapse into revenge,
If you regret your enemy's
bloodless
death.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Ye cliffs, the haunts of sailing earns,
Where Echo
slumbers!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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AMY LOWELL
AMY LOWELL
VENUS TRANSIENS
Tell me,
Was Venus more beautiful
Than you are,
When she topped
The
crinkled
waves,
Drifting shoreward
On her plaited shell?
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Ou l'Homme, dont jamais l'esperance n'est lasse,
Pour trouver le repos court
toujours
comme un fou!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Now thou art gone the use of life is past, 5
The meaning and the glory and the pride,
There is no joyous friend to share the day,
And on the
threshold
no awaited shadow.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Did you suppose there
could be only one
Supreme?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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muirland
Jock, when the Lord makes a rock,
To crush common-sense for her sins;
If ill-manners were wit, there's no mortal so fit
To confound the poor Doctor at ance,
Muirland Jock!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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To whom, discrete,
Telemachus
replied.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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FIREFLIES IN THE CORN
_A Woman taunts her Lover_
Look at the little
darlings
in the corn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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ORESTES
There lies our country's twofold tyranny,
My father's slayers,
spoilers
of my home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Ask how your brave cicada on the bough
Keeps the long sweet insistence of his cry;
Ask how the Pleiads steer across the night 5
In their serene unswerving mighty course;
Ask how the wood-flowers waken to the sun,
Unsummoned save by some mysterious word;
Ask how the wandering swallows find your eaves
Upon the rain-wind with returning spring; 10
Ask who commands the ever-punctual tide
To keep the
pendulous
rhythm of the sea;
And you shall know what leads the heart of man
To the far haven of his hopes and fears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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It shall be customary in the houses and streets to see manly affection;
The most dauntless and rude shall touch face to face lightly;
The
dependence
of Liberty shall be lovers,
The continuance of Equality shall be comrades.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Is't pity to recall to feeling
The wretch too happy to escape to Death
By the
compassionate
trance, poor Nature's last
Resource against the tyranny of pain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Shall bloom that wreath thou well hast won;
While Scotia, with
exulting
tear,
Proclaims that Thomson was her son.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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For some of the letters and
religious
poems it is our sole
authority.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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'The fine Cockle or Muscle shels
which
painters
put their colours in.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Adam
more and more perceiving his fall'n condition heavily bewailes, rejects
the
condolement
of Eve; she persists and at length appeases him: then to
evade the Curse likely to fall on thir Ofspring, proposes to Adam
violent wayes, which he approves not, but conceiving better hope, puts
her in mind of the late Promise made them, that her Seed should be
reveng'd on the Serpent, and exhorts her with him to seek Peace of the
offended Deity, by repentance and supplication.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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The
time it takes us, a rather
conservative
estimate, is fifty hours
to get any etext selected, entered, proofread, edited, copyright
searched and analyzed, the copyright letters written, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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_
Dictionary
of National Biography.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Higelāc
þǣr æt hām wunað, 1924.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Criticism never stops short nor
ever wants for subjects on which to
exercise
itself: even if those I am
able to foresee were taken from it, it would soon have discovered others.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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I stand in the dark with drooping eyes by the worst-suffering and
the most restless,
I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them,
The restless sink in their beds, they
fitfully
sleep.
| 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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So from the mountain lazily
The
avalanche
of snow first bends,
Then glittering in the sun descends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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shrink you not from crime whose punishment
Falls on your
innocent
children?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The ancient nobility I will lay by,
And new ones create their rooms to supply,
And they shall raise
fortunes
for my own fry.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And must he patient stay,
Tracing
fantastic
figures with his spear?
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Keats |
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It came without a
flourish
— dimply print ed some very good contributions.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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AND yet what joy it were for me
To turn my feet unto the south,
And journeying towards the Tiber mouth
To kneel again at
Fiesole!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But, this half-year, at least, observe
From
regularity
never to swerve.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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My Lord, I have seen your
unfortunate
son
Dragged by the horses nourished by his hand.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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ou art holden good & hende,
Alesed of gret
Almesse!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Through helmet plumes the arrows flit,
And plated breasts the
pikeheads
split.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Flushed and decided, he assaults at once;
Exploring hands
encounter
no defence; 240
His vanity requires no response,
And makes a welcome of indifference.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I speak dumb words to thee; but know thou, Gast,
My soul is looking at the time to come,
And seeing it not as a cavern lit
With smoky burning
brandons
of thy fear,
But as a day shining with my new joy.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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