Sometimes indeed, when for an hour or two my spirits are a
little lightened, I _glimmer_ a little into futurity; but my principal
and indeed my only
pleasurable
employment is looking backwards and
forwards in a moral and religious way.
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Robert Burns |
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God is not only
merciful
to call
Men to repent, but when He strikes withal.
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Robert Herrick |
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CARL SANDBURG
AND SO TO-DAY
And so to-day--they lay him away--
the boy nobody knows the name of--
the buck private--the unknown soldier--
the
doughboy
who dug under and died
when they told him to--that's him.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Diaphenia
like the daffadowndilly
Doth then the world go thus, doth all thus move?
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Golden Treasury |
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Thrill of the Dawn
CAN such a pain be
branded?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Most of these Drawings and Rhymes were transferred to lithographic stones
in the year 1846, and were then first
published
by Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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, _massacre through cunning,
murderous
attack_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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A narrow wind complains all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is
sometimes
caught
Without her diadem.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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thou leadest me to summer clime,
And I must taste the
blossoms
that unfold
In its ripe warmth this gracious morning time.
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Keats |
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Curious persons
had
intercepted
their letters to each other.
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Petrarch |
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Tchaplitzky,
who died in poverty after having squandered millions, lost at one time,
at play, nearly three hundred
thousand
rubles.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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How bright shine the cutlasses of the
foremost
troops!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Right in we went, with soul intent
On Death and Dread and Doom:
The hangman, with his little bag,
Went shuffling through the gloom:
And each man trembled as he crept
Into his
numbered
tomb.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"For everybody said so, all our friends,
They all were sure our feelings would relate
So
closely!
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T.S. Eliot |
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I have a bum-bailiff in the
bedclothes
biting me.
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Aristophanes |
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In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear:
How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every
blackening
church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.
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blake-poems |
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_We are often made to feel, with a
shivering
delight,
that from an earthly harp are stricken notes which _cannot _have been
unfamiliar to the angels.
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Poe - 5 |
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The smitten rock that gushes,
The
trampled
steel that springs;
A cheek is always redder
Just where the hectic stings!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and brooding
stillnesses
which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
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Rilke - Poems |
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shall I win from thee
Not promise only, but
performance
kind
Of my request?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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We
understand
then do we not?
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| Answer: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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surely once some urn of Attic clay
Held thy wan dust, and thou hast come again
Back to this common world so dull and vain,
For thou wert weary of the sunless day,
The heavy fields of scentless asphodel,
The
loveless
lips with which men kiss in Hell.
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Wilde - Poems |
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2
occupied
by the title-page; ff.
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Robert Herrick |
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His satisfaction to declare,
Thus spoke their father to the pair:
"Take courage, children, have no care;
"The
nightingale
in cage is pent,
"May sing now to his heart's content.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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And then, your
Scottish
namesake marrying
The Dauphin, he would weld France, England, Scotland,
Into one sword to hack at Spain and me.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Take a silver minute from your
treasured
time; Listen to it tinkle a little chime
For the poor lost sheep of the Lord.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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SUCH folly don't commit, replied the spark;
Your wisest plan is nothing to remark:
The world at present is become so vile,
If you the truth divulge, they'll only smile;
Not one a word of treachery would believe,
But think you came--and money to receive:
Suppose, besides, it reached your husband's ears;
Th' effect has reason to excite your fears;
'Twould give displeasure and
occasion
strife:
Would you in duels wish to risk his life?
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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{a}t
is to sein
philosophers
?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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To let a creed, built in the heart of things,
Dissolve
before a twinkling atom!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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_Supplied
by conjecture_; F.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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You have already, as your auxiliary, the sober
detestation of mankind on the heads or your opponents; and I swear by
the lyre of Thalia to muster on your side all the votaries of honest
laughter, and fair, candid
ridicule!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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But all interference not
absolutely
inevitable
has been avoided.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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A quiet smile played round his lips,
As the eddies and dimples of the tide
Play round the bows of ships,
That
steadily
at anchor ride.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Liberty
On my notebooks from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On
physical
truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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]
Fines and confiscations,
And a forced loan from the refractory city,
Will fill our coffers: and the golden love _285
Of loyal
gentlemen
and noble friends
For the worshipped father of our common country,
With contributions from the catholics,
Will make Rebellion pale in our excess.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Pope dealt with the
question
of God in Nature, and the world of Man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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'He hath
outsoared
the shadow of our night'_
HIC finis rapto!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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), and will be induced
to inquire by what species of courtesy these
attempts
have been
permitted to assume that title.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Let these return: our voyage, or our stay,
Rest
undetermined
till the dawning day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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1909
Songs for the New Age The Century Company 1914
War and
Laughter
The Century Company 1915
The Book of Self Alfred A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Unauthenticated
Download
Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Retaking the Capital 357 The uniforms of the vanguard are stained with blood, 36 a windblown hair will split on the swords of the attack cavalry.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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(Sie pfluckt eine
Sternblume
und zupft die Blatter ab, eins nach dem
andern.
| Guess: |
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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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Tu vero, regina, tuens cum sidera divam
Placabis festis luminibus Venerem, 90
Vnguinis
expertem
non siris esse tuam me,
Sed potius largis adfice muneribus.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Lear's Protean powers as
exhibited in the
variation
of this simple type.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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The Ark no more now flotes, but seems on ground
Fast on the top of som high
mountain
fixt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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This long and sure-set liking,
This
boundless
will to please,
-Oh, you should live for ever
If there were help in these.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
"
The poems of Sappho so mysteriously lost to us seem to have consisted of at
least nine books of odes,
together
with _epithalamia_, epigrams,
elegies, and monodies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Sing Tempe too, glad youths, in strain as loud,
And Phoebus' birthplace, and that
shoulder
fair,
His golden quiver proud
And brother's lyre to bear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
'
This
courageous
young person of Norway.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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It has been conjectured that they allude to the fog banks
that often obscure the low coasts--a
phenomenon
likely to impress
the early navigators and to be reported by them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
"
That
repulsive
old person of Sestri.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Wilt thou, as things are now in this condition,
Present thyself for devil, or
magician?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
in the South
Kensington
Museum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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In the frith
Samos the rude, and Ithaca between,
The chief of all her suitors thy return
In
vigilant
ambush wait, with strong desire
To slay thee, ere thou reach thy native shore,
But shall not, as I judge, till the earth hide 40
Many a lewd reveller at thy expence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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By Hercules,
I do hold it, and will affirm it, before any prince in
Europe, to be the most
sovereign
and precious weed that
ever the earth tendered to the use of man.
| 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 |
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Sweet moan, sweeter smile,
All the
dovelike
moans beguile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Any
alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
Please check the Project
Gutenberg
Web pages for current donation
methods and addresses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The State, or Society (call her by what name you will), had
taken no manner of thought of him till she saw him swept out into the
street, the pitiful
leavings
of last night's debauch, with cigar-ends,
lemon-parings, tobacco-quids, slops, vile stenches, and the whole
loathsome next-morning of the bar-room,--an own child of the Almighty
God!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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_See
note_]
[311 take,] take _1633_]
[315 thunder-proofe: _Ed:_ thunder-proofe, _1633-69_]
[316 swallow'd]
swallowed
_1633_]
[322 at] as _A18_, _G_, _TCC_]
[337 this _1633:_ his _1635-69_
boate; _Ed:_ boate, _1635-69:_ boate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Courthope
qualifies
this statement somewhat on the next
page: 'From this spirit of cynical lawlessness he was
perhaps reclaimed by genuine love,' &c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
There, aping Gulnare's bard, he spanned
His
Hellespont
from bank to bank,
And then a cup of coffee drank,
Some wretched journal in his hand;
Then dressed himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Text and
interpretation
uncertain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
[16] The figure of
the servant later developed into that of the clown, and in
this type the
character
of the devil finally merged.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Own to light, love, attraction,
O pearls the sea mingles with its great masses,
O
gleaming
birds of the forest's sombre ocean!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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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: |
Wilde - Poems |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the secretaries of
Cardinal
Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
75
What moved my mind with
youthful
lords to roam?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
In England there are a few groups of men and
women who have good taste, whether in cookery or in books; and the
great
multitudes
but copy them or their copiers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
They have frequently
failed to recognize
allusions
as such, and have mistranslated them
accordingly, often turning proper names into romantic sentiments.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
XI
Aricia, Cora, Norba,
Velitrae, with the might
Of Setia and of Tusculum,
Were marshalled on the right:
The leader was Mamilius,
Prince of the Latian name;
Upon his head a helmet
Of red gold shone like flame:
High on a gallant charger
Of dark-gray hue he rode;
Over his gilded armor
A vest of purple flowed,
Woven in the land of sunrise
By Syria's dark-browed daughters,
And by the sails of
Carthage
brought
Far o'er the southern waters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
* * * * *
THE POEM
I saw an aged Beggar in my walk;
And he was seated, by the highway side,
On a low
structure
of rude masonry
Built at the foot of a huge hill, that they
Who lead their horses down the steep rough road 5
May thence remount at ease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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[40]
Where, mixed with graceful birch, the sombrous pine
And yew-tree [41] o'er the silver rocks recline;
I love to mark the quarry's moving trains,
Dwarf panniered steeds, and men, and numerous wains: 160
How busy all [42] the
enormous
hive within,
While Echo dallies with its [43] various din!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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But they that take offence where no name,
character, or signature doth blazon them seem to me like affected as
women, who if they hear
anything
ill spoken of the ill of their sex, are
presently moved, as if the contumely respected their particular; and on
the contrary, when they hear good of good women, conclude that it belongs
to them all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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For we to death with pipe and dancing go,
Nor would we pass the ivory gate again,
As some sad river wearied of its flow
Through the dull plains, the haunts of common men,
Leaps lover-like into the
terrible
sea!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
I'll have no adulteries,
No eyes but mine
enjoying
thee.
| 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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I know I am deathless,
I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass,
I know I shall not pass like a child's
carlacue
cut with a burnt
stick at night.
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"
He said: "Thine own expressions witness bear,
Thou know'st enough, yet I will all relate
To thee; 't will
somewhat
ease my heavy state.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Mee
thynckethe
wee bee notte yn Englyshe londe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Thus she her words, not heedless of my wish,
Began; and thus, as one who breaks not off
Discourse,
continued
in her saintly strain.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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-- Gui Barozai
Quand les astres de Noel
Brillaient, palpitaient au ciel,
Six gaillards, et chacun ivre,
Chantaient gaiment dans le givre,
"Bons amis,
Allons donc chez
Agassiz!
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Longfellow |
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The Men have recieved their death wounds & their Emanations are fled
To me for refuge & I cannot turn them out for Pitys sake
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vertically, up the left side of the page.
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Blake - Zoas |
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She doth thee require,
To show it to his knight,
according
his desire.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Like the sea that brooks no voyaging With the winds unleashed and free, Like the sea that he cowed at
Genseret
Wi' twey words spoke' suddently.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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--Puis, tu peux y compter, tu te feras des frais
Avec tes hommes noirs, qui prennent nos requetes
Pour se les
renvoyer
comme sur des raquettes
Et, tout bas, les malins se disent; <
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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