"Thou art end and remnant of all our race
the
Waegmunding
name.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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from his
helpless
Creature be repaid
Pure Gold for what he lent him dross-allay'd--
Sue for a Debt he never did contract,
And cannot answer--Oh the sorry trade!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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What man would watch life's oozy element
Creep Letheward forever, when he might
Down some great river drift beyond men's sight,
To where the
undethroned
forest's royal tent
Broods with its hush o'er half a continent?
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James Russell Lowell |
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The Rabbit
Rabbits
'Rabbits'
Frederick Bloemaert, Abraham Bloemaert, Nicolaes
Visscher
(I), after 1635 - 1670, The Rijksmuseun
There's another cony I remember
That I'd so like to take alive.
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Appoloinaire |
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And even the
Abstract
Entities
Circumambulate her charm;
But our lot crawls between dry ribs
To keep our metaphysics warm.
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T.S. Eliot |
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When Li Yang-ping became
Governor
of T'ang-tu, Po went to live near him.
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Li Po |
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[Picture: Image of Blake's
original
page of The Tyger]
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
AND
SONGS OF EXPERIENCE
BY WILLIAM BLAKE
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LONDON: R.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Presumably
Du Fu is referring to the loss of Tang Central Asia territories to Tibet.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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All have not
appeared
in the form of snowflakes but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp sorcerers and obey them.
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| Question: |
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Appoloinaire |
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Now Media dreads our Alban steel,
Our
victories
land and ocean o'er;
Scythia and Ind in suppliance kneel,
So proud before.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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--
The little
children
of men go hungry all,
And stiffen and cry with numbing cold.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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ing
summittid
to ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a
flattering
word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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In every issue there is sure to be at least one poem so
interesting
as to justify the publication of that number of the magazine.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Sweet roses do not so;
Of their sweet deaths, are sweetest odours made:
And so of you,
beauteous
and lovely youth,
When that shall vade, by verse distills your truth.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
"Great
goodness!
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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In such heroic games I yield to none,
Or yield to brave Laodamas alone:
Shall I with brave Laodamas
contend?
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| Question: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
Supposing that, when Pistol uttered the well-known words--
"Under which king,
Bezonian?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Sometimes
these cogitations still amaze
The troubled midnight and the noon's repose.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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And grant, Lord, that my verse the height may gain
Of her great praises, else in vain essay'd,
Whose peer in worth or beauty never stay'd
In this our world,
unworthy
to retain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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That day is not far off; let me but first
Subdue the
insurrection
of the people.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Lean penury within that pen doth dwell
That to his subject lends not some small glory;
But he that writes of you, if he can tell
That you are you, so dignifies his story,
Let him but copy what in you is writ,
Not making worse what nature made so clear,
And such a
counterpart
shall fame his wit,
Making his style admired every where.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Clear with the clear beams of the morrow's sun,
The future
presseth
on.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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looking down the Bay,
There
flaunted
the Rebel Rag--
The Ram is again under way,
And heading dead for the Flag!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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This put the man in such a
desperate
mind, }
Between revenge, and grief, and hunger joined }
Against the foe, himself, and all mankind, }
He leaped the trenches, scaled a castle wall,
Tore down a standard, took the fort and all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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As when the months are clad in flowery green,
Sad Philomel, in bowery shades unseen,
To vernal airs attunes her varied strains;
And Itylus sounds
warbling
o'er the plains;
Young Itylus, his parents' darling joy!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
Self-scourged, like a monk, with a throne for wages,
Stripped like the iron-souled Hindu sages,
Draped like a statue, in strings like a scarecrow,
His helmet-hat an old tin pan,
But worn in the love of the heart of man,
More sane than the helm of Tamerlane,
Hairy Ainu, wild man of Borneo,
Robinson
Crusoe--Johnny Appleseed;
And the robin might have said,
"Sowing, he goes to the far, new West,
With the apple, the sun of his burning breast--
The apple allied to the thorn,
Child of the rose.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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But all the fear I keep
obedient
by me
Now to the gather'd world I openly shew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And I heard the song
Of spheres and spirits rejoicing over me:
One cried: "Our sister, she hath
suffered
long.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Father, part of his double
interest
329
Westmoreland MS.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Does my joy
sometimes
erupt?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
XX
Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
But I know fairer far:
Those are as
beautiful
again
That in the water are;
The pools and rivers wash so clean
The trees and clouds and air,
The like on earth was never seen,
And oh that I were there.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Now the streets are
swarming
with people.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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No breadth of treatment gives
monotony when there is
movement
and change of lighting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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If I speak gruffly, this mood is
Mere
indignation
at my own
Shortcomings, plagues, uncertainties;
I forget the gentler tone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Alchemically
she is De Nerval's feminine principle to be fused with the masculine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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For Nature also, cold and warm,
And moist and dry,
devising
long,
Thro' many agents making strong,
Matures the individual form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Transcriber's Endnotes
Numeration
Errors in the Hesperides:
Errors in the numbering system, despite the corrections mentioned in
the NOTE TO SECOND EDITION, still exist in the text.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Alas for my
garland!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
' This account was in the best
Rowleian manner, with strange spelling and uncouth words, but for
the most part quite
intelligible
to the ordinary reader.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Act I Scene IV (Phaedra, Oenone, Panope)
Panope
I wished to hide the
sorrowful
news from you,
My lady: but now I must reveal it to you.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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In all these poems, we see an epic intention still
combined
with a
recognizably epic manner.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The two last fail, and by
experience
make
Known, not they give again, they take.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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_And always use_, _in answering_,
_The phrase_ '_Your Royal
Whiteness_!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
By day a lonely shadow creep,
At night-time languish,
Oft raising in his broken sleep
The moan of
anguish?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
,
He was launched (life is always
compared
to a sea)
With just enough learning, and skill for the using it,
To prove he'd a brain, by forever confusing it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Glory is but my menial, Pride my own chained slave,
Humbly
standing
when Zizimi is in his seat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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1713 Issues
proposals
for translation of Homer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Cupid will hold out his hand:
O, and
entrusting
myself to the rascal, I beg you please may I
Do so in pleasure with no danger or worry or fear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
The
changes were made chiefly with the view of
harmonizing
the words with
the music--an Italian mode of mending the harmony of the human voice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
His critical
instinct
had become much more delicate since
1800: and it is not surprising to find--as we do find--that between the
text of the "Lyrical Ballads" of 1800, and that of 1802, there are many
important variations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
I should find
Some way
incomparably
light and deft,
Some way we both should understand,
Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Here Sappho was the
acknowledged
queen of song--revered,
studied, imitated, served, adored by a little court of attendants and
disciples, loved and hymned by Alcaeus, and acclaimed by her fellow
craftsmen throughout Greece as the wonder of her age.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
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: |
Emerson - Poems |
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"But if the host's a man like you--
I mean a man of sense;
And if the house is not too new--"
"Why, what has _that_," said I, "to do
With Ghost's
convenience?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The
Grecians
gaze around with wild despair,
Confused, and weary all the powers with prayer:
Exhort their men, with praises, threats, commands;
And urge the gods, with voices, eyes, and hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
_ You must first be
convinced
that the good are
always strong and powerful and the wicked destitute of strength.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Eftsones I heard the dash of oars,
I heard the pilot's cheer:
My head was turn'd
perforce
away
And I saw a boat appear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
The
kingfisher
flies like an arrow, and wounds the air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
"
She, proudly,
thinning
in the gloom:
"Though, since troth-plight began,
I've ever stood as bride to groom,
I wed no mortal man!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Soon as th'
unwelcome
news
From Earth arriv'd at Heaven Gate, displeas'd
All were who heard, dim sadness did not spare
That time Celestial visages, yet mixt
With pitie, violated not thir bliss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
He was an early friend
and
judicious
adviser of Pope himself, who showed him much of his early
work, including the first draft of this very poem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Or when the lust of play so curse
mankind?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
A
proclamation
made that the journey ahead is urgent, the good man treats his gentlemen generously.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
Wilt thou not beware
Lest thy mood now press our minds to venturous
despair?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Take counsel from thy
counsellor
the snake,
And boast no more in grief, nor hope from pain,
My docile Eve!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Dolphins, playing in the sea
Hurling his ink at skies above,
Medusas, miserable heads
In your pools, and in your ponds,
The female of the Halcyon,
Do I know where your ennui's from, Sirens,
Dove, both love and spirit
In spreading out his fan, this bird,
My poor heart's an owl
Yes, I'll pass fearful shadows
This
cherubim
sings the praises
PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
' The
incident
was
thought fit for the purpose, and adopted accordingly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou
shouldst
bear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
What serener palaces,
Where I may all my many senses please,
And by mysterious sleights a hundred thirsts
appease?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Haply the
faithful
vows, and zealous prayers,
And pious tears by holy mortals shed,
Have come before the mercy-seat above:
Yet vows of ours but little can bestead,
Nor human orison such merit bears
As heavenly justice from its course can move.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Or else he sat with those who watched
His anguish night and day;
Who watched him when he rose to weep,
And when he
crouched
to pray;
Who watched him lest himself should rob
Their scaffold of its prey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to
reproduce
her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
[The account of himself,
promised
to Murdoch by Burns, was never
written.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
You that are old
consider
not the capacities of us
that are young; you do measure the heat of our livers with the
bitterness of your galls; and we that are in the vaward of our
youth, must confess, are wags too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Then I will dream of blue horizons deep;
Of gardens where the marble fountains weep;
Of kisses, and of ever-singing birds--
A sinless Idyll built of
innocent
words.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
And now she's high upon the down,
Alone amid a
prospect
wide;
There's neither Johnny nor his horse,
Among the fern or in the gorse;
There's neither doctor nor his guide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Whose yet
unfeathered
quills her fail ;
The edge all bloody from its breast
He draws, and does In's stroke detest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
So we win of
doubtful
fate,
Andy if good to us she meant,
We that good shall antedate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
I rushed everywhere,
encouraging
our men,
Making these advance, supporting them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
The paper intervenes each time as an image, of itself, ends or begins once more, accepting a succession of others, and, since, as ever, it does nothing, of regular
sonorous
lines or verse - rather prismatic subdivisions of the Idea, the instant they appear, and as long as they last, in some precise intellectual performance, that is in variable positions, nearer to or further from the implicit guiding thread, because of the verisimilitude the text imposes.
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AGAMEMNON
Then, if thou wilt, let some one stoop to loose
Swiftly these sandals, slaves beneath my foot:
And
stepping
thus upon the sea's rich dye,
I pray, _Let none among the gods look down
With jealous eye on me_--reluctant all,
To trample thus and mar a thing of price,
Wasting the wealth of garments silver-worth.
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The Cossack eats Poland,
Like stolen fruit;
Her last noble is ruined,
Her last poet mute:
Straight, into double band
The victors divide;
Half for freedom strike and stand;--
The astonished Muse finds
thousands
at her side.
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Emerson - Poems |
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DEATH BY WATER
Phlebas the Phoenician, a
fortnight
dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
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She was the
mother of Charles Baudelaire, and
inquired
rather anxiously of Du Camp:
"My son has talent, has he not?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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" It is the
prophets
who teach most plainly
"What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so;
What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Sovra le spalle, dietro da la coppa,
con l'ali aperte li giacea un draco;
e quello affuoca
qualunque
s'intoppa.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Harp and psaltery, harp and
psaltery
make drunk my spirit.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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OATHS OF FRIENDSHIP
In the country of Yueh when a man made friends with another they set up
an altar of earth and sacrificed upon it a dog and a cock,
reciting
this
oath as they did so:
(1)
If you were riding in a coach
And I were wearing a "li,"[9]
And one day we met in the road,
You would get down and bow.
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Yet when I described the monster (which
I distinctly saw, and calmly
surveyed
through the whole period of
its progress), my readers, I fear, will feel more difficulty in being
convinced of these points than even I did myself.
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Sed neque barbaricis Latio
transmissus
ab oris:
Smyrna tibi gentile solum potusque uerendo
fonte Meles Hermique uadum, quo Lydius intrat
Bacchus et aurato reficit sua cornua limo.
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