Howe'er I'll now the diff'rent parts allot,
And thus divide the produce of the plot:--
What shall above the
heritage
arise,
I'll leave to thee; 'twill very well suffice;
But what is in the soil shall be my share;
To this attend, see ev'ry thing is fair.
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La Fontaine |
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But afterwards he
reflected
that 'every one is
free to sing what he pleases,' and that's all.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"
"You are an orphan; doubtless you have to complain of
injustice
or
wrong.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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On that low
thatched
cottage stop,
In the sooty chimney pop,
Where thy wife and family
Every evening wait for thee.
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John Clare |
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Conforte of hym forto haue,
her godes after hem to saue,
her londes & her ledes; 111
her eyre of hym forto make,
And her
richesse
hym bitake,
Palfreies & her stedes.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
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Yeats |
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"
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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Hos inter, qui a te mihi
redditus
iste libellus,
Non mihi tam charus, tam meus, ante fuit.
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John Donne |
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Where now the sheep graze,
mermaids
were at play,
Sea-horses galloped, and the great jeweled tortoise
Walked slowly, looking upward at the waves,
Bearing upon his back a thousand barnacles,
A white acropolis .
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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_insert_
the _before_ servyse; _but_ Tn.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
His sage advice the listening king obeys,
He stretch'd his hand the prudent chief to raise,
And from his seat
Laodamas
removed
(The monarch's offspring, and his best-beloved);
There next his side the godlike hero sate;
With stars of silver shone the bed of state.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I also undid packets of powder and mascara, sheets and
blankets
were amply arrayed.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The
annotated
musical directions which here accompany `The Cantata',
arranged for the composer's use, were first sent with the newly-completed text
in a private letter to Mr.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The gods, when they
supremely
bless, bestow
Firm union on their favourites below;
Then envy grieves, with inly-pining hate;
The good exult, and heaven is in our state.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Keats |
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Have you forgotten what is
promised
us,
Because of stinking days and rotting nights?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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What then are their
confederacies
abroad ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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e {and} schewyng
by
redenesse
hir schame ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Then was the German raven seen, disguised,
Echoing the Roman eagle in the skies,
And once again towards Heaven spread
These brave hills once reduced to dust,
No longer fearing
lightning
overhead,
Borne by that eagle on the stormy gust.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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enne
repreued
he ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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THIS
principle
allowed, why scruples make?
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La Fontaine |
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Now, Painter, show us in the
blackest
dye,
The counsellors of all this villany.
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Marvell - Poems |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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These his attendants to the ships convey'd,
Sad victims
destined
to Patroclus' shade;
Then, as once more he plunged amid the flood,
The young Lycaon in his passage stood;
The son of Priam; whom the hero's hand
But late made captive in his father's land
(As from a sycamore, his sounding steel
Lopp'd the green arms to spoke a chariot wheel)
To Lemnos' isle he sold the royal slave,
Where Jason's son the price demanded gave;
But kind Eetion, touching on the shore,
The ransom'd prince to fair Arisbe bore.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Betwixt the former pair, shall meet thine eyes;
Then turn'd toward them, cause behind thy back
A light to stand, that on the three shall shine,
And thus
reflected
come to thee from all.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Quae tamen etsi uno non est
contenta
Catullo, 135
Rara verecundae furta feremus erae,
Ne nimium simus stultorum more molesti.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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As in a
crescent
moon the sun.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Perhaps a
squirrel
may remain,
My sentiments to share.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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It is often
so indeed; but much of the father's
substance!
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Shakespeare |
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[464] There seems little to
recommend
Tacitus' theory of the
identity of the Idaei and Judaei, though it has been suggested
that the Cherethites of 2.
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Tacitus |
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thy soft cheek reclined
Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is
To sit beside our cot, our cot o'ergrown
With white-flowered Jasmin, and the broad-leaved
Myrtle,
(Meet emblems they of
Innocence
and Love!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Tis eight o'clock,--a clear March night,
The moon is up--the sky is blue,
The owlet in the
moonlight
air,
He shouts from nobody knows where;
He lengthens out his lonely shout,
Halloo!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But at his touch,
Such sanctity hath Heauen giuen his hand,
They
presently
amend.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The blossom'd shrubs in smiles are drest,
Now laughs his purple plain;
And shall the nymph a foe profest
To
tenderness
remain?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Fergusian
founders
this just babe exceeds,
In tlie arts of peace, and mighty martial d(3eda.
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Marvell - Poems |
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For al Appollo, or his clerkes lawes,
Or
calculinge
avayleth nought three hawes;
Desyr of gold shal so his sowle blende,
That, as me lyst, I shal wel make an ende.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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his
radiance
is here!
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Keats |
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e frendes ne
shollen nat ben
rekkened
among ?
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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I could laugh--
more beautiful, more
intense?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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XXIX
THE LENT LILY
'Tis spring; come out to ramble
The hilly brakes around,
For under thorn and bramble
About the hollow ground
The
primroses
are found.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Oh, workmen, seen by me sublime,
When from the tyrant
wrenched
ye peace,
Can you be dazed by tinselled crime,
And spy no wolf beneath the fleece?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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(An idiot enters, in an iron cap, hung round with
chains,
surrounded
by boys.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Anon, anon, I pray you
remember
the Porter.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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At this
point the epic brings in a new and powerful _motif_, the renunciation
of woman's love in the
presence
of a great undertaking.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The sailors, hearing the female Halycon sing,
prepared
to die, safe however around mid-December, when these birds make their nests, and one knows that then the sea will be calm.
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Appoloinaire |
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i of
reuerence
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Now, in such
exigencies
not to need,
Upon my word, you must be rich indeed;
A noble superfluity it craves,
Not for yourself, but for your fools and knaves:
Something, which for your honour they may cheat,
And which it much becomes you to forget.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Note: The Scythians at the extreme end of the Empire in Roman times were regarded as living
barbaric
lives (See Ovid's Tristia and Ex Ponto).
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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"
An expression of
interior
agitation passed over the face of the old
woman; then she relapsed into her former apathy.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms
Of young
imagination
have kept pure,
Stranger!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"And now beside thee,
bleating
lamb,
I can lie down and sleep,
Or think on Him who bore thy name,
Graze after thee, and weep.
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blake-poems |
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Thou must indeed: words such as thine
Never were
impudent
in men's ears before.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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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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nor seas, streams, heights,
So long have barr'd and bann'd,
But love alone, who with his haughty lights
The more allures me as he worse excites,
Till nature fails against his
constant
wiles.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And then her wrist she spanned;
And once when Mary was down-cast,
She took her by the hand,
And gazed upon her, and at first
She gently pressed her hand;
Then harder, till her grasp at length
Did gripe like a
convulsion!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Leave the
forsaken
Fauns
In peace beneath their trees!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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A true poet and a strong thinker like
yourself
was indeed likely
to see that.
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Whitman |
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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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o ubi campi
Spercheusque et uirginibus
bacchata
Lacaenis
Taygeta!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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So falls the hour of
twilight
and of love
With wizardry to loose the hearts of men,
And there is nothing more in this great world
Than thou and I, and the blue dome of dusk.
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| Answer: |
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Sappho |
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The point by which I'm cowered,
Is on the ledge, the
farthest
forward.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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29 Once Again on Passing by Zhaoling In those dark beginnings a hero arose, the
imperial
succession came with chants and songs.
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The other souls of men by death dismiss'd
Stood mournful by, sad
uttering
each his woes;
The soul alone I saw standing remote
Of Telamonian Ajax, still incensed
That in our public contest for the arms
Worn by Achilles, and by Thetis thrown
Into dispute, my claim had strongest proved,
Troy and Minerva judges of the cause.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Crucified
I cried to men, "I would be
crucified!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Around
him stood several of his principal chiefs, with a forced
expression
of
submission and respect.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Nay, and if it were,
What
likeness
could there be?
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The robin is the one
That overflows the noon
With her
cherubic
quantity,
An April but begun.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"--Project Gutenberg Editor's replacement of
original footnote]
Le Directeur
Malheur a la
malheureuse
Tamise!
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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| Question: |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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It was
a tender and
respectful
declaration of affection, copied word for word
from a German novel.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Lone in the light of that magical grove,
I felt the stars of the spirits of Love
Gather and gleam round my
delicate
youth,
And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth;
To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Still the right
explanation
remains to be made
about prudence.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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When you scrape up the coals with a
delicate
sound,
You enrapture my life with delight,
Your nose is so shiny, your head is so round,
And your shape is so slender and bright!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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_The Mother_
The only fault my husband found with me--
I went to sleep before I went to bed,
Especially
in winter when the bed
Might just as well be ice and the clothes snow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
LVIII
The sage
lectured
brilliantly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Et ce monde rendait une etrange musique
Comme l'eau
courante
et le vent,
Ou le grain qu'un vanneur d'un mouvement rythmique
Agite et tourne dans son van.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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If the Law should thee forget,
More
enamoured
serve it yet;
Though it hate thee, suffer long;
Put the Spirit in the wrong;
Brother, no decrepitude
Chills the limbs of Time;
As fleet his feet, his hands as good,
His vision as sublime:
On Nature's wheels there is no rust;
Nor less on man's enchanted dust
Beauty and Force alight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Most
sincerely
do I rejoice with you, dear Madam, in the good news of
Anthony.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Thy placid
Sphinxes
brooding o'er the Nile?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
I quaked at heart; and still afraid, to see
All the Court filled with
stranger
things than he,
Ran out as fast as one that pays his bail
And dreads more actions, hurries from a jail.
| Guess: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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| Question: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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VI
Then let not winter's ragged hand deface,
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd:
Make sweet some vial;
treasure
thou some place
With beauty's treasure ere it be self-kill'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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We let them pass; all
appearing
tranquil;
No soldiers at the port, the city still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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But tracing in my mind,
That she who form'd my
choicest
hope is dead
E'en in her blossom'd prime;
Thou knowest, Love, full well what I become:
She I trust sees it too, who dwells with truth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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ON
CESSNOCK
BANKS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
The gates of my house are built of yellow gold,
The hall of my house is paved with white jade,
On the hall table flagons of wine are set,
I have
summoned
to serve me dancers of Han-tan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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A
different
figure one would make.
| Guess: |
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Swift through the foamy flood the Trojans fly,
And close in rocks or winding caverns lie:
So the huge dolphin
tempesting
the main,
In shoals before him fly the scaly train,
Confusedly heap'd they seek their inmost caves,
Or pant and heave beneath the floating waves.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Jacopo di Carrara had
received
into his house his cousin Guglielmo.
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Petrarch |
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In the lair (the form) of the female hare superfetation (second
conception
during gestation) is possible.
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Appoloinaire |
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Woe on the man who first
announceth
woe--
Yet must I all the tale of death unroll!
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Aeschylus |
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Terrified
at their double danger,
they held a meeting.
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Tacitus |
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The
tiresome
man, her value knowing,
Yet curses on his fate bestowing,
Is full of frigid jealousy,
Mute, solemn, frowning gloomily.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Oh, what has
happened?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And did the
Ninevite
demon treat with them?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Spring up--sway forward--
follow the
quickest
one,
aye, though you leave the trail
and drop exhausted at our feet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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