"
Owing to the high combustibility of both the flax and the tar to which
it adhered, the dwarf had
scarcely
made an end of his brief speech
before the work of vengeance was complete.
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Poe - 5 |
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It cannot be my spirit,
For that was thine before;
I ceded all of dust I knew, --
What opulence the more
Had I, a humble maiden,
Whose
farthest
of degree
Was that she might,
Some distant heaven,
Dwell timidly with thee!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Stephen Crane |
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'Dearest of
distillation!
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Robert Forst |
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And sage Idaeus on the part of Troy,
Between the swords their peaceful
sceptres
rear'd;
And first Idaeus' awful voice was heard:
[Illustration: HECTOR AND AJAX SEPARATED BY THE HERALDS.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Even
Baudelaire
had his sane moments.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Pyrrhus pursues him fiercely
with aimed [530-563]wound, just
catching
at him, and follows hard on
him with his spear.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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_"
Imagine how our amiable pair,
At this proposal, all so frank and fair,
Were
mutually
troubled!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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blake-poems |
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yet so it was),
A weight of ages did at once descend
Upon my heart; no thought embodied, no
Distinct
remembrances, but weight and power,--
Power growing under weight: alas!
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William Wordsworth |
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Graham and
him, I have been partly forgiven; only I understand that all hopes of
my getting
officially
forward, are blasted.
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Robert Forst |
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'
Quod Troilus, `I hope, and god to-forn,
My dere frend, that I shal so me bere, 1640
That in my gilt ther shal no thing be lorn,
Ne I nil not rakle as for to greven here;
It nedeth not this matere ofte tere;
For
wistestow
myn herte wel, Pandare,
God woot, of this thou woldest litel care.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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If with mists of evening dew
Thou dost nourish these young flowers
Till they grow, in scent and hue,
Fairest children of the Hours, _10
Breathe thine
influence
most divine
On thine own child, Proserpine.
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Shelley |
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Surely all
pleasant
things had gone before,
Low-buried fathom deep beneath with thee,
NO MORE!
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Tennyson |
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nor she
Scrupled
to tell at once her father's home.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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XXXI
On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;
His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;
The gale, it plies the
saplings
double,
And thick on Severn snow the leaves.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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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.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The softened season all the
landscape
charms;
Those hills, my native village that embay,
In waves of dreamier purple roll away, 20
And floating in mirage seem all the glimmering farms.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Queen Anne visited it
occasionally, and cabinet
meetings
were sometimes held there.
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Alexander Pope |
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Be still thyself, in arms a mighty name;
Maintain
thy honours, and enlarge thy fame.
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Iliad - Pope |
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But as men seen in toune, and al aboute, 680
That wommen usen frendes to visyte,
So to
Criseyde
of wommen com a route
For pitous Ioye, and wenden hir delyte;
And with hir tales, dere y-nough a myte,
These wommen, whiche that in the cite dwelle, 685
They sette hem doun, and seyde as I shal telle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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]
They steek their een, and grape an' wale
For muckle anes, an'
straught
anes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Is 't perchance
The dark dominion of the
Tartars?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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His love, that
brighter
and larger was
Than the starry places, into firm stone
He sent, as if the stone were glass
Fired and into beauty blown.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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50
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is something he carries on his back,
Which I am
forbidden
to see.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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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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Wilde - Poems |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Nous reprendrons la route
Blanche qui court,
Flanant, comme un
troupeau
qui broute,
Tout a l'entour.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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From the first mention of
Lucretia
to the
retreat of Porsena nothing seems to be borrowed from foreign
sources.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
In spite of new poems revealing a
Napoleonic
bias, Victor was invited to
see Charles X.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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the theme surmounts the
loftiest
strains.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The fine slender shoulder-blades:
The long arms, with tapering hands:
My small breasts: the hips well made
Full and firm, and sweetly planned,
All Love's
tournaments
to withstand:
The broad flanks: the nest of hair,
With plump thighs firmly spanned,
Inside its little garden there?
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Villon |
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The
Merovingian
or Frankish race.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Beowulf |
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From
chrysanthemums
hung this autumn?
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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They
were
restored
by Gilbert Burns, without naming the lady.
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Robert Burns |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
"No; is he a
soldier?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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[Sidenote: Upon the whole, then, none of those
enjoyments
which
thou didst consider as thy own did ever properly belong to thee.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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And bound for the same bourn as I,
On every road I wandered by,
Trod beside me, close and dear,
The beautiful and death-struck year:
Whether in the woodland brown
I heard the beechnut rustle down,
And saw the purple crocus pale
Flower about the autumn dale;
Or littering far the fields of May
Lady-smocks a-bleaching lay,
And like a skylit water stood
The
bluebells
in the azured wood.
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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'
But your tresses are a tepid river,
Where the soul that haunts us drowns, without a shiver
And finds the
Nothingness
you cannot know!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Do not let it serve some impious
purpose!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Les tout petits enfants ont le coeur si
sensible!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Soon, for love,
Distraught
went she--
'Twas said for love of me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for
destruction
ice
Is also great,
And would suffice.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Dear Brook, [22]
farewell!
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| Question: |
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William Wordsworth |
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[Sidenote A: Scarcely had he blessed himself thrice]
[Sidenote B: when he saw a
dwelling
in the wood, set on a hill,]
[Sidenote C: the comeliest castle that knight ever owned.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And sleep'st thou
careless
of the bridal day!
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Wet or dry it was the same:
She would come in at all hours,
Set me eating and drinking
And say I must grow strong; 280
At last the day seemed long
And home seemed
scarcely
home
If she did not come.
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Christina Rossetti |
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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The
Revelations
of Devout and Learn'd
Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd,
Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep
They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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For al among that fare 860
The harm is doon, and fare-wel
feldefare!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Though it
is one of the most highly
artistic
works in the language, it is at the same
time one of the most didactic.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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te circum
Alcyones
pennis planxere uolantes
fleueruntque tuos miserando carmine casus
et tibi contextas umbram fecere per alas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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, _ship whose stem is provided with iron rings_
(cramp-irons),
especially
of sea-going ships (cf.
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Beowulf |
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_
TO A FRIEND,
ENCOURAGING
HIM TO PURSUE POETRY.
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Petrarch |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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WHEN home returned, the girl, each day and night,
Amused her mind with prospects of delight;
By fancy's aid she saw the future pope,
And all prepared to greet her fondest hope;
But what arrived the whole at once o'erthrew
Hats, dukedoms, castles, vanished from the view:
The
promised
elevation of the NAME
Dissolved to air:-a little female came!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Among other things, this
requires
that you do not remove, alter or modify the
etext or this "small print!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
" He affected, indeed, to despise his assailants,
but there is only too good
evidence
that their poisoned arrows rankled
in his heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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"--a
phrase I had learned from the
Devonshire
shrimpers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Fierce Love it was once steeled a mother's heart
With her own offspring's blood her hands to imbrue:
Mother, thou too wert cruel; say wert thou
More cruel, mother, or more
ruthless
he?
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Her household motions light and free,
And steps of virgin-liberty;
A
countenance
in which did meet
Sweet records, promises as sweet;
A creature not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food,
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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e pore man his bone; 291
he
grantede
him to clo?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"God save thee, ancyent
Marinere!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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One might almost say the
"comic" type if, for the moment, we may
remember
that that word is
directly derived from 'Komos.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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His steed and he right well agree,
For of this pony there's a rumour,
That should he lose his eyes and ears,
And should he live a
thousand
years,
He never will be out of humour.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Then with eyes to the front all,
And with guns horizontal,
Stood our sires;
And the balls
whistled
deadly,
And in streams flashing redly
Blazed the fires;
As the roar
On the shore,
Swept the strong battle-breakers o'er the green-sodded acres
Of the plain;
And louder, louder, louder cracked the black gunpowder,
Cracking amain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
His
thoughts
became unbounded and he shouted loudly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
The
creatures
pass to the sounds
Of my tortoise, and the songs I sing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
But on mine ear
Sudden a sound of
lamentation
smote,
Whereat mine eye unbarr'd I sent abroad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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FROSCH:
Will keiner
trinken?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
"I know you--
"All day
stuffing
your belly,
"Burying your heart
"In grass and tender sprouts:
"It will not suffice you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
The cross with hideous
laughter
Demons mock, 70
By [D] angels planted on the aereal rock.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
And
standing
on the altar high,
"Lo, what a fiend is here!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Was halt mich ab, so schlag ich zu,
Zerschmettre
dich und deine Katzengeister!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
I only knew what hunted thought
Quickened
his step, and why
He looked upon the garish day
With such a wistful eye;
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
"
XLVIII
He his
discourse
with more beside pursues,
That might from death to life the Child recall;
And all this while Rogero's hands doth loose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Tear--
tear us an altar,
tug at the cliff-boulders,
pile them with the rough stones--
we no longer
sleep in the wind,
propitiate
us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Torquains nigh, a sterner spectre stood,
His fasces all besmear'd with filial blood:
He
childless
to the shades resolved to go,
Rather than Rome a moment should forego
That dreadful discipline, whose rigid lore
Had spread their triumphs round from shore to shore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow falls in the river,
A moment white--then melts for ever;
Or like the
Borealis
race,
That flit ere you can point their place;
Or like the Rainbow's lovely form
Evanishing amid the storm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
omnia si facias_:
quem plerique secuti sunt
LXXXVIII
Quid facit is, Gelli, qui cum matre atque sorore
prurit et
abiectis
peruigilat tunicis?
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Lord Raoul drew rein with all his company,
And urged his horse i' the crowd, to gain fair view
Of him that spoke, and stopped at last, and sat
Still, underneath where Gris Grillon was laid,
And heard, somewhile, with languid
scornful
gaze,
The friar putting blame on priest and knight.
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Sidney Lanier |
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At the end of Book I in the
Assyrian
text and at the end of Col.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I swear,
Here at the gate she shall stand
palpable!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Soon as had Atys (bastard-she) this lay to comrades sung
The Chorus sudden lulliloos with quivering, quavering tongue,
Again the nimble timbrel groans, the scooped-out cymbals clash,
And up green Ida flits the Choir, with
footsteps
hurrying rash.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Rome is no more: if downed architecture
May still revive some shade of Rome anew,
It's like a corpse, by some magic brew,
Drawn at deep
midnight
from a sepulchre.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Once, among the Bong-trees walking
Where the early
pumpkins
blow,
To a little heap of stones
Came the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Whence this
delusion?
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La Fontaine |
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But
O O O O that
Shakespeherian
Rag--
It's so elegant
So intelligent 130
"What shall I do now?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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A narrow
compass!
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Golden Treasury |
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