The judgment cannot
be praised which selected a farm with a wet cold bottom, and sowed it
with unsound seed; but that man who
despairs
because a wet season robs
him of the fruits of the field, is unfit for the warfare of life,
where fortitude is as much required as by a general on a field of
battle, when the tide of success threatens to flow against him.
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Robert Forst |
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Beside the battered barricado's restless wreck,
A lad stood
splashed
with gouts of guilty gore,
But gemmed with purest blood of patriot more.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I tell you this: whatever of dust to dust
Goes down, whatever of ashes may return
To its essential self in its own season,
Loveliness
such as yours will not be lost,
But, cast in bronze upon his very urn,
Make known him Master, and for what good reason.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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For humankind, o'er wearied with a life
Fostered
by force, was ailing from its feuds;
And so the sooner of its own free will
Yielded to laws and strictest codes.
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Lucretius |
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XXIX
Whom thus recover'd by wise Patience
And trew Repentaunce they to Una brought:
Who joyous of his cured conscience, 255
Him dearely kist, and fairely eke besought
Himselfe
to chearish, and consuming thought
To put away out of his carefull brest.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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may find room
And food for meditation, nor pass by
Much, that may give us pause, if
pondered
fittingly.
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| Question: |
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Byron |
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Nor is it
difficult to imagine a mode in which the
transmission
might have
taken place.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the
sentence
set forth in paragraph 1.
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Imagists |
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We spread our
garments
on the ground!
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Longfellow |
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And there the lion's ruddy eyes
Shall flow with tears of gold:
And pitying the tender cries,
And walking round the fold:
Saying: 'Wrath by His meekness,
And, by His health, sickness,
Is driven away
From our
immortal
day.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Letts_
BETWEEN THE LINES
When consciousness came back, he found he lay
Between the opposing fires, but could not tell
On which hand were his friends; and either way
For him to turn was chancy--bullet and shell
Whistling and shrieking over him, as the glare
Of searchlights scoured the
darkness
to blind day.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Imagists |
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How your impudence excites my
passion!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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There's Donkin, the
Warder of Tounghoo Jail; there's
hundreds
that I could lay my hand on if
I was in India.
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Kipling - Poems |
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O light
impregnate
with exceeding virtue!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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THE AUDIT
Mere living wears the most of life away:
Even the lilies take thought for many things,
For frost in April and for drought in May,
And from no
careless
heart the skylark sings.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
[This was not the
original
title of this sweet poem: I have a copy in
the handwriting of Burns entitled "The Gowan.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
On a wreath of the
colours, a wood lark
perching
on a sprig of bay-tree, proper, for
crest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
XII
When I watch the living meet,
And the moving pageant file
Warm and
breathing
through the street
Where I lodge a little while,
If the heats of hate and lust
In the house of flesh are strong,
Let me mind the house of dust
Where my sojourn shall be long.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Now answer my
questions!
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| Question: |
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Aristophanes |
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Why do those deeds live no more,
Ingrafted
in eternal monuments
Of glory?
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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" she asked in a
frightened
whisper.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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GEORGIAN POETRY
1920-1922
EDITED BY SIR EDWARD MARSH
TO ALICE MEYNELL
The Poetry Bookshop
35
Devonshire
St.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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You would sacrifice
yourself
in favour of me!
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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And a-reaching out your long hands Between me and my
beloved?
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
[Illustration]
The Comfortable
Confidential
Cow,
who sate in her Red Morocco Arm Chair and
toasted her own Bread at the parlour Fire.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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(which did not you prolong,
The world had wanted many an idle song)
What _Drop_ or
_Nostrum_
can this plague remove?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
The motif of _The Monk's Life_ is
expressed
in the poem beginning
with the lines:
"I live my life in circles that grow wide
And endlessly unroll.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Eternalle
plagues devour thie baned tyngue!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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But every one has
listened
to you, every one
has learned the truth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Prince, where your radiant cities smile,
Grim hills their sombre vigils keep,
Your ancient forests hoard and hold
The legends of their centuried sleep;
Your birds of peace white-pinioned float
O'er ruined fort and storied plain,
Your
faithful
stewards sleepless guard
The harvests of your gold and grain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
[Illustration]
And as the four travellers were rather hungry, being tired of eating
nothing but soles and oranges for so long a period, they held a council as
to the
propriety
of asking the Mice for some of their pudding in a humble
and affecting manner, by which they could hardly be otherwise than
gratified.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Rejoice: forever you'll be
The
Princess
of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a gurgling spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
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querying
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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)
Es war ein Konig in Thule
Gar treu bis an das Grab,
Dem
sterbend
seine Buhle
Einen goldnen Becher gab.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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TWILIGHT
NIGHT.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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, _ring-hoard,
treasure
consisting of rings_: gen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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In summary, then, we find certain
conceptual
differences and certain
mechanical differences between "authentic" and "literary" epic.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I will strip the life from the bulb
until the ivory layers
lie like
narcissus
petals
on the black earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Thus I ordain it now, a council-court
Pure and
unsullied
by the lust of gain,
Sacred and swift to vengeance, wakeful ever
To champion men who sleep, the country's guard.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last
glimmers
of day
A face like all the forgotten faces.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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He used to follow him about to hear him
sing, not under compulsion--many a decent man
suffered
that fate--but
because he was the slave of his stomach, and had sold himself to
luxury.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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The lofty man
Sigh'd from his mighty soul, and thus began:
"I mourn the common cause: for, oh, my friends,
On me, on all, what grief, what shame
attends!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe everywhere in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not mysterious at all
We are the
evidence
ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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= Wittipol is
evidently
selecting
an appropriate name for Fitzdottrel's
buffoonery after the manner of the puppet-shows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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One gallant steed is
stretched
a mangled corse;
Another, hideous sight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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URBINUM, now _Urbino_, a city for ever famous for having given birth
to Raphael, the
celebrated
painter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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ys
tydynges
harde sche spokyn;
She com forthe in A sempyll pace,
Sory, I wott, welle ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Ma questa sonnolenza mi fu tolta
subitamente
da gente che dopo
le nostre spalle a noi era gia volta.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary
Woolnoth
kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
| 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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Bless'd in kind love, my years shall glide away,
Content with just
hereditary
sway;
There, deaf for ever to the martial strife,
Enjoy the dear prerogative of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
e
borelych
burne on bent, ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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VOLSCI, a powerful people of ancient Latium, extending from _Antium_,
their capital, to the _Upper Liris_, and the
confines
of _Campania_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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For captured
peasants
or for captured kings
Such words would have the right big sound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Purgatorio
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
la la
To Carthage then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou
pluckest
me out
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 310
IV.
| 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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3960
He was for drede in such affray,
That not a word durste he say,
But quaking stood ful stille aloon,
Til
Ielousye
his wey was goon,
Save Shame, that him not forsook; 3965
Bothe Drede and she ful sore quook;
[Til] that at laste Drede abreyde,
And to his cosin Shame seyde:
Shame,' he seide, 'in sothfastnesse,
To me it is gret hevinesse, 3970
That the noyse so fer is go,
And the sclaundre of us two.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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While I could hint a tale--
(But then I am her child)--
Would make her quail; 400
Would set her in the dust,
Lorn with no comforter,
Her glorious hair defiled
And ashes on her cheek:
The decent world would thrust
Its finger out at her,
Not much
displeased
I think
To make a nine days' stir;
The decent world would sink
Its voice to speak of her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
`Allas,
Fortune!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
I have
searched
all day for a grain of some sort, and
there is none to be found.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
The giant Polyphemus and his cave
described; the usage Ulysses and his
companions
met with there;
and, lastly, the method and artifice by which he escaped.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Death, however caused,
Abhorrence
moves in miserable man,
But death by famine is a fate of all
Most to be fear'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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For since I've travell'd all this realm throughout
To seek and find some few immortals out
To
circumspangle
this my spacious sphere,
As lamps for everlasting shining here;
And having fix'd thee in mine orb a star,
Amongst the rest, both bright and singular,
The present age will tell the world thou art,
If not to th' whole, yet satisfi'd in part.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Atte ches with me she gan to pleye;
With hir false
draughtes
divers
She stal on me, and took my fers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
They stood
together
on the beach,
They two alone,
And louder waxed his urgent speech,
His patience almost gone:
"O, say but one kind word to me,
Jessie, Jessie Cameron.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Start-, start-,
startles
the soldier.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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And well I
remember
how Teucer came to Sidon, when exiled from
his native land he sought Belus' aid to gain new realms; Belus my father
even then ravaged rich Cyprus and held it under his conquering sway.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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with his
religious
training, too!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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"
He found him in a little
moonlight
room,
Pale, lattic'd, chill, and silent as a tomb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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But others, rising as they see the sail
Increase upon the sunset, hasten down,
Hands out and eyes elated; for they see
Head over head, crowding from bow to stern,
Repeopling their long
loneliness
with smiles,
The faces of their friends; and such go forth
Content upon the ebb tide, with safe hearts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
"
"Mainly on oyster-patties," said the Blue-Bottle-Fly; "and, when these are
scarce, on
raspberry
vinegar and Russian leather boiled down to a jelly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Lucan in mute attention now may hear,
Nor thy disastrous fate,
Sabellus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
(_To
himself_)
I suppose not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
The accent,
which is very arbitrary in the Russian language, is indicated
unmistakably in a
rhythmical
composition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic
work is derived
from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied
and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees
or charges.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
but others move
In
intricate
ways biquadrate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
The soul sees through the senses, imagines, hears,
Has from the body's powers its acts and looks:
The spirit once
embodied
has wit, makes books,
Matter makes it more perfect and more fair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
ou fadir
creatour
of heuene {and} of er?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made, additional rights may need to be
obtained
independently of anything we can address.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
The cause was brought
before the
tribunal
of Appius.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
While this good
household
thus were living on 1800.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,
And how, how rare and strange it is, to find
In a life
composed
so much, so much of odds and ends,
(For indeed I do not love it .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Tout droit dans son armure, un grand homme de pierre
Se tenait a la barre et coupait le flot noir;
Mais le calme heros, courbe sur sa rapiere,
Regardait le sillage et ne
daignait
rien voir.
| Guess: |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Th'
enchaunter
vaine?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Be not offended:
I speake not as in
absolute
feare of you:
I thinke our Country sinkes beneath the yoake,
It weepes, it bleeds, and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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He
discovers
she's tame, playful and tender and sweet.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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o sir
Eufemian
was y-war
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Can la verz folha s'espan
When the
greenery
unfolds
And the branch is white with flower,
With sweet birdsong in that hour
My heart gently onward goes.
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Troubador Verse |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Stephen Crane |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
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Villon |
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But see, a
handmaid
cometh, and the tear
Wet on her cheek!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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A happy woman all believed his wife;
The husband's talents pleased her to the life:
For
gallantry
howe'er he was renowned,
And many am'rous dames, who dwelled around,
Would seek the artist with a double aim:
So all our chronicles record his fame.
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La Fontaine |
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V
It was not
chastity
that made me cold nor fear,
only I knew that you, like myself, were sick
of the puny race that crawls and quibbles and lisps
of love and love and lovers and love's deceit.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Yet suffer not thy soul to sink with dread;
From me no harm shall touch thy
reverend
head;
From Greece I'll guard thee too; for in those lines
The living image of my father shines.
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Iliad - Pope |
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