_ I will trust no man with
unlimited
lives.
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Byron |
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He set his Jenny on his knee,
All in his
Highland
dress;
For brawly weel he ken'd the way
To please a bonie lass.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Our own
Principle
of action often hid from
ourselves, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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At the spring fountains
together
we splash and play:
On the lovely trees together we climb and sport.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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E quest' altro
splendor
che ti si mostra
da la mia destra parte e che s'accende
di tutto il lume de la spera nostra,
cio ch'io dico di me, di se intende;
sorella fu, e cosi le fu tolta
di capo l'ombra de le sacre bende.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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received
the work electronically, the person or entity
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receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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We might safely
accept the sustained
judgment
of a thousand years of Greece.
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Sappho |
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Here, fierce and red, }
Portending
storms, Orion lifts his head; }
And here the Dogs their raging fury shed.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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ENCREASE
is in the optative subj.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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-- Atheling brave,
he was fated to finish this
fleeting
life, {31a}
his days on earth, and the dragon with him,
though long it had watched o'er the wealth of the hoard!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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He said; and mantled as he was, a quoit
Upstarting, seized, in bulk and weight all those
Transcending far, by the
Phaeacians
used.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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dar wel now suffren al the assautes of fortune {and} wel deffende me fro
hyr // {and} tho
remedies
whyche ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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'
Golden head by golden head,
Like two pigeons in one nest
Folded in each other's wings,
They lay down in their curtained bed:
Like two
blossoms
on one stem,
Like two flakes of new-fall'n snow,
Like two wands of ivory 190
Tipped with gold for awful kings.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Then you should see the nest I'd build,
The
wondrous
nest for you and me;
The outside rough, perhaps, but filled
With wool and down: ah, you should see
The cosey nest that it would be.
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Christina Rossetti |
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I am boiling, I am dying with
impatience
at your delays.
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Aristophanes |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Raised high above the hayseed world
He smokes his painted pipe,
And now surveys the orchard ways,
The damsons
clustering
ripe.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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as we glide along,
For him suspend the dashing oar,
And pray that never child of Song
May know his
freezing
sorrows more.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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No, no, no, a
thousand
times no!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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And the Quangle Wangle said
To himself on the Crumpetty Tree,
"When all these creatures move
What a
wonderful
noise there'll be!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I
recollect
it well!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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{29e} In hand he took
a golden goblet, nor gave he it back,
stole with it away, while the watcher slept,
by thievish wiles: for the warden's wrath
prince and people must pay
betimes!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Shall I not see myself clasped in her arms,
Breathless and
exhausted
by love's charms,
Die a sweet death in her embraces' arc?
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Ronsard |
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Then was the German raven seen, disguised,
Echoing the Roman eagle in the skies,
And once again towards Heaven spread
These brave hills once reduced to dust,
No longer fearing
lightning
overhead,
Borne by that eagle on the stormy gust.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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You are perhaps a
connoisseur?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Farming in those deserted
mountains?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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650
To
disentangle
that confusing problem, too
My sister would have handed you the fatal clew.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Lord, bless thy chosen in this place,
For here thou hast a chosen race:
But God
confound
their stubborn face,
And blast their name,
Wha bring thy elders to disgrace
And public shame.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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e be;
treccherie
& falshede, 266
Batailes & litel loue; sekenesse & haterede;
& ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
IX
On moonlit heath and
lonesome
bank
The sheep beside me graze;
And yon the gallows used to clank
Fast by the four cross ways.
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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But their glory shall never cease,
Nor their light be
quenched
in the light of peace.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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thy chariot flew
Before the king: he, cautious, backward drew
His horse compell'd; foreboding in his fears
The rattling ruin of the clashing cars,
The floundering
coursers
rolling on the plain,
And conquest lost through frantic haste to gain.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Then I sends a letter to Dravot
wherever
he be by land or by
sea.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I wondered, as Heatherlegh in his chair might have wondered, which
dreadful
alternative
I should adopt.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Versum uidetur
respexisse
Macrobius Sat.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
HARINGTON
MS.
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Petrarch |
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OUR wight the cash by Gasperin was lent;
And then the husband to the country went,
Without suspecting that his loving mate,
Designed
with horns to ornament his pate.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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--And
anciently all the oracles were called Carmina; or whatever
sentence
was
expressed, were it much or little, it was called an Epic, Dramatic,
Lyric, Elegiac, or Epigrammatic poem.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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To-day I thought what boots it what I
thought?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and
foretold
the rest--
I too awaited the expected guest.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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IT trembled on the grass
With a low, shadowy laughter;
You could see each bird as it woke and stared
Through the
shrivelled
foliage after.
| Guess: |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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l'Homme)
dlamants diamants (Solde de dlamants sans
controle!
| Guess: |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Jia Zhi, Dawn Court at Daming Palace, for My Colleagues in the Two
Ministries
Silver candles scent the heavens, stretching along on purple streets, colors of spring in the Forbidden City, lush in the morning.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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* Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Stephen Crane |
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[14] The drama and the epopoeia are in nothing so
different
as in
this--the subjects of the drama are inexhaustible, those of the epopoeia
are perhaps exhausted.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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She was dressed always in
clinging
dresses of Eastern silk, and
as she was so small, and her long black hair hung straight down
her back, you might have taken her for a child.
| Guess: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Five score
thousand
Franks swooned on the earth and fell.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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I have no wit that can suffyse
To
comprehenden
hir beaute;
But thus moche dar I seyn, that she
Was rody, fresh, and lyvely hewed; 905
And every day hir beaute newed.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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1570, The Rijksmuseun
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The world
Is great; my path is on the
highways
never
Thou'lt hear of me again.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The scientific movement brought with it a literature, which
was always tending to lose itself in
externalities
of all kinds, in
opinion, in declamation, in picturesque writing, in word-painting, or
in what Mr.
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Yeats |
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BROTHER TO A YOUNG LADY, A
PARTICULAR
FRIEND
OF THE AUTHOR'S.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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If she looks upon the hedge or up the leafing tree,
The
whitethorn
or the brown oak are made dearer things to me.
| Guess: |
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John Clare |
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exert your mettle,
To get auld
Scotland
back her kettle;
Or faith!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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' 'The spirit of Titian'--and
one must always remember that he had only seen poor engravings, and
what his disciple, Palmer, has called 'picture-dealers' Titians'--'was
particularly active in raising doubts concerning the possibility of
executing without a model; and when once he had raised the doubt it
became easy for him to snatch away the vision time after time'; and
Blake's imagination 'weakened' and 'darkened' until a 'memory of
nature and of the
pictures
of various schools possessed his mind,
instead of appropriate execution' flowing from the vision itself.
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Yeats |
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Make Athens
tributary
to my power.
| Guess: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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G, OLa1a:
_uallatum_
Baehrens
296 _quam_ Da: _qua_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Compare
this
conception
of melancholy with the passage in _Lamia_, i.
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Keats |
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We see no new-built palaces aspire,
No
kitchens
emulate the vestal fire.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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MEPHISTOPHELES
(fur sich):
Gelt!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The palfrey was as fleet as wind,
And they rode
furiously
behind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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"
And I drew the covers 'round him closer,
Smoothed
his pillow for him.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The value of the poem is in the ratio
of this
elevating
excitement.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
XIV
There pass the
careless
people
That call their souls their own:
Here by the road I loiter,
How idle and alone.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Debar retreat; trust thyself to level ground at
close
quarters
with me, and prepare to fight on foot.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Here in a world without a sky,
Without the ground, without the sea,
The one
unchanging
thing is I,
Myself remains to comfort me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Dit a l'autre: Vie et
splendeur!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Lo, hence I run for other arms to wield,
For missive javelins, and for helm and shield;
Fast by our side let either
faithful
swain
In arms attend us, and their part sustain.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Nor was that the meanest of mighty helps
which Hrothgar's orator offered at need:
"Hrunting" they named the hilted sword,
of old-time heirlooms easily first;
iron was its edge, all etched with poison,
with battle-blood hardened, nor blenched it at fight
in hero's hand who held it ever,
on paths of peril prepared to go
to
folkstead
{21b} of foes.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Then he
repeated
the operation with the left.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Evidently
Blake tried it as Night the Third and as Night the First at least twice.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Ozias here, as he hath whiled at ease
Upon the walls my stay in the camp yonder,
Hath fairly fancied all that I have done,
And more exactly, and with a
relishing
gust,
All that was done to me.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Prove it before these varlets here, thou
honourable
man,
prove it.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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'Don't know
anything
about the Regiment.
| Guess: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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310
laeua colum molli lana retinebat amictum,
dextera tum leuiter deducens fila supinis
formabat digitis, tum prono in pollice torquens
libratum tereti uersabat turbine fusum,
atque ita decerpens aequabat semper opus dens, 315
laneaque
aridulis haerebant morsa labellis,
quae prius in leui fuerant exstantia filo:
ante pedes autem candentis mollia lanae
uellera uirgati custodibant calathisci.
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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So
precious
to me are the fourscore words
That each letter changes into a bar of gold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Enid slipped through the sleeping
household
like a ghost to deliver the
prince's message to the landlord, hurried back to help Geraint with his
armor and came down with him to spring upon her palfrey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
{114a}
It is true, there is no sound but shall find some lovers, as the
bitterest confections are
grateful
to some palates.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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meantime
Thou hast
unquestionable
right to keep
Thy own, and to command in thy own house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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All his ideas merged into a single
one: how to turn to
advantage
the secret paid for so dearly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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A DREAM OF T'IEN-MU MOUNTAIN
(_Part of a Poem in
Irregular
Metre.
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Li Po |
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Robert Herrick |
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{28a}
"Nor haply will like it the Heathobard lord,
and as little each of his liegemen all,
when a thane of the Danes, in that doughty throng,
goes with the lady along their hall,
and on him the old-time
heirlooms
glisten
hard and ring-decked, Heathobard's treasure,
weapons that once they wielded fair
until they lost at the linden-play {28b}
liegeman leal and their lives as well.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The selfsame day
When, port and palace open thrown,
Low at thy
footstool
Egypt lay,
That selfsame day, three lustres gone,
Another victory to thine hand
Was given; another field was won
By grace of Caesar's high command.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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XLIII
He smiled on those bold Romans
A smile serene and high;
He eyed the
flinching
Tuscans,
And scorn was in his eye.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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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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Ronsard |
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The tsar Ivan sought in monastic toil
Tranquility; his palace, filled erewhile
With haughty minions, grew to all appearance
A monastery; the very
rakehells
seemed
Obedient monks, the terrible tsar appeared
A pious abbot.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Thou canst not ask me with thee here to roam
Over these hills and vales, where no joy is,--
Empty of
immortality
and bliss!
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Keats |
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And worse and worse, the drowsy curse
Yawned in him, till it grew a pest--
A wide
contagious
atmosphere, _735
Creeping like cold through all things near;
A power to infect and to infest.
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Shelley |
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Damp smoke, rank mist fill the dark square;
and round the bend six
bullocks
come.
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Imagists |
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They have 'wisdom and knowledge', but it is
immovably
set
to do ill.
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John Donne |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Stephen Crane |
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I am perjur'd most;
For all my vows are oaths but to misuse thee,
And all my honest faith in thee is lost:
For I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness,
Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy;
And, to
enlighten
thee, gave eyes to blindness,
Or made them swear against the thing they see;
For I have sworn thee fair; more perjur'd I,
To swear against the truth so foul a lie!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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