O vain, O vain;
Not flowers budding in an April rain, 980
Nor breath of sleeping dove, nor river's flow,--
No, nor the Eolian twang of Love's own bow,
Can mingle music fit for the soft ear
Of goddess
Cytherea!
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Keats |
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One knew that
some such attack was inevitable, for every
dramatic
movement that
brought any new power into literature arose among precisely these
misunderstandings and animosities.
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Yeats |
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is tyme
twelmonyth
take at ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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His feigned gravity
disappeared
at
once.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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4 _spe ctat_ G:
_tespectat_
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Latin - Catullus |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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A GRYFON, a
fabulous
animal, part lion and part eagle.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But if you had a little real love,
A little strength,
You would leave your
nonchalant
idle lovers
And go walking down the white road
Behind the waggoners.
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Imagists |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Cassel,
Whose nose
finished
off in a tassel;
But they call'd out, "Oh well!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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His spirit
responds
to his country's spirit: he
incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers and lakes.
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Whitman |
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Double, double, toile and trouble;
Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble
2 Fillet of a Fenny Snake,
In the Cauldron boyle and bake:
Eye of Newt, and Toe of Frogge,
Wooll of Bat, and Tongue of Dogge:
Adders Forke, and Blinde-wormes Sting,
Lizards legge, and Howlets wing:
For a Charme of
powrefull
trouble,
Like a Hell-broth, boyle and bubble
All.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Many a treasure
fetched from far was
freighted
with him.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Nor could I rise with you,
Because your face
Would put out Jesus',
That new grace
Glow plain and foreign
On my
homesick
eye,
Except that you, than he
Shone closer by.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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ne meahte ic æt hilde mid
Hruntinge
wiht
ge-wyrcan, 1661; sweorde ne meahte on þām āglǣcan .
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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The origin of Crowland was
in a
hermitage
founded in the 7th century by St.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Oenone
Great gods, what could you tell me that wouldn't yield
To the horror of seeing you die, my eyes
unsealed?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Please note neither this listing nor its
contents
are final til
midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement.
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| Question: |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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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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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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O how can beautie maister the most strong,
And simple truth subdue
avenging
wrong?
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| Question: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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dared I speak my
feelings!
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Byron |
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' 'We are born into the world, and there is
something
within
us which, from the instant that we live, more and more thirsts after
its likeness.
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Yeats |
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And so to-day--they lay him away--
and an understanding goes--his long sleep shall be
under arms and arches near the Capitol Dome--
there is an authorization--he shall have tomb companions--
the
martyred
presidents of the Republic--
the buck private--the unknown soldier--that's him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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She knows what eyes are turned upon
Her
passings
in the land!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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If on that godless race thou would'st attend,
Fate owes thee sure a
miserable
end!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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fforto
disputen
a?
| Guess: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Straightway I was 'ware,
So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move
Behind me, and drew me
backward
by the hair;
And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,--
"Guess now who holds thee!
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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^e
knowynge
of freele welefulnesse
// the amyable fortune maysthow sen alwey wyndynge {and} flowynge /
{and} eu{er}e mysknowynge of hir self // the contrarye fortune is
a-tempre {and} restreynyd {and} wys thorw excersyse of hir aduersyte //
at the laste amyable fortune w{i}t{h} hir flaterynges draweth mys
wandrynge men fro the souereyne good // the contraryos fortune ledith
ofte folk ayein to sothfast goodes / {and} haleth hem ayein as w{i}t{h}
an hooke / weenesthow thanne ?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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WILLIAM
DRUMMOND
OF HAWTHORNDEN.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
e
mou{n}taignes
is arestid {and} resisted ofte tyme by ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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While larks with little wing
Fann'd the pure air,
Tasting the
breathing
spring,
Forth I did fare:
Gay the sun's golden eye
Peep'd o'er the mountains high;
Such thy morn!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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t body {and}
byholde?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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We see in men even the
strongest
compositions had their
beginnings from milk and the cradle; and the wisest tarried sometimes
about apting their mouths to letters and syllables.
| 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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If they'd take
elsewhere
the honours they send me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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An exquisite sense
of the ridiculous belonged to the Greek character; and closely
connected with this faculty was a strong
propensity
to flippancy
and impertinence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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He hirples twa fauld as he dow,
Wi' his
teethless
gab and his auld beld pow,
And the rain rains down frae his red blear'd e'e;
That auld man shall never daunton me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Wolves rove among the
fearless
sheep;
The woods for thee their foliage strow;
The delver loves on earth to leap,
His ancient foe.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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and fling down
To float awhile upon these bushes near
Your blue
transparent
robes: take off my crown,
And take away my jealous veil; for here
To-day we shall be joyous while we lave
Our limbs amid the murmur of the wave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
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: |
Imagists |
|
He cut such a ridi-
culous figure, that, says the author, even the
King and his
courtiers
could not help laughing
at him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Death is consoler and Death brings to life;
The end of all, the
solitary
hope;
We, drunk with Death's elixir, face the strife,
Take heart, and mount till eve the weary slope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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O I never dreamed of parting or that trouble had a sting,
Or that
pleasures
like a flock of birds would ever take to wing,
Leaving nothing but a little naked spring.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
)
NIGHT IN ARIZONA
THE moon is a
charring
ember
Dying into the dark;
Off in the crouching mountains
Coyotes bark.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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O, so
unnatural
Nature,
You whose ephemeral flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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"Does spring hide its joy,
When buds and
blossoms
grow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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When the flesh that nourished us well
Is eaten piecemeal, ah, see it swell,
And we, the bones, are dust and gall,
Let no one make fun of our ill,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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O, all of you, forget your
darkened
faith.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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for through the long and common night,
Morris, our sweet and simple Chaucer's child,
Dear heritor of Spenser's tuneful reed,
With soft and sylvan pipe has oft beguiled
The weary soul of man in troublous need,
And from the far and
flowerless
fields of ice
Has brought fair flowers to make an earthly paradise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Lapraik, An Old
Scottish
Bard
Second Epistle To J.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
"
The nature of the reeking village was made plain now, and all that I had
known or read of the grotesque and the
horrible
paled before the fact
just communicated by the ex-Brahmin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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And you climbed yet
further!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
[3] Pay a trademark license fee to the Foundation of 20% of the
gross profits you derive
calculated
using the method you
already use to calculate your applicable taxes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
on weres
wæstmum
(_in man's form_), 1353; nom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
And woman's frailty always to
believe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Long years of havock urge their destined course,
And thro' the kindred
squadrons
mow their way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
]
[Sidenote C: Then they set about
breaking
the deer.
| 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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It
sufficeth I know what kind of persons I displease, men bred in the
declining and decay of virtue, betrothed to their own vices; that have
abandoned or prostituted their good names; hungry and ambitious of
infamy,
invested
in all deformity, enthralled to ignorance and malice, of
a hidden and concealed malignity, and that hold a concomitancy with all
evil.
| 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 |
|
]
And Boileau, whose rash envy could allow[mj]
No strain which shamed his country's
creaking
lyre,
That whetstone of the teeth--Monotony in wire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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a
terrible
space recovring in winter dire
Its wasted strength.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
By day she stands a lie: by night she stands,
In all the naked horror of the truth,
With pushing horns and clawed and
clutching
hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Nevertheless these rulers, although appearing
in the
pretentious
nomenclature as gods, appear to have been real
historic personages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
830
Wher shal I seye to yow "wel come" or no,
That
alderfirst
me broughte in-to servyse
Of love, allas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
White Beast Hall is
properly
White Tiger Hall, renamed because of the taboo on Tang Taizu?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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For I don't know when I may
See her, the
distance
is so far.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Dream--Darkness
LANDSCAPE I
THE wild
resplendence
of the year resolves,
The sombre mood of evening fades away
Within a wood, where from a late array
Of saffron, bronze and crimson--dole dissolves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Who bade you arise from your
darkness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought,
And hiving wisdom with each
studious
year,
In meditation dwelt, with learning wrought,
And shaped his weapon with an edge severe,
Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer;
The lord of irony,--that master spell,
Which stung his foes to wrath, which grew from fear,
And doomed him to the zealot's ready hell,
Which answers to all doubts so eloquently well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The touch of Zephyr and of Spring has loosen'd Winter's thrall;
The well-dried keels are wheel'd again to sea:
The
ploughman
cares not for his fire, nor cattle for their stall,
And frost no more is whitening all the lea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
" 10
O thou who art the
floweret
of Juventian race, not only of these now
living, but of those that were of yore and eke of those that will be in the
coming years, rather would I that thou hadst given the wealth e'en of Midas
to that fellow who owns neither slave nor store, than that thou shouldst
suffer thyself to be loved by such an one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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There in a thicket of
dedicated
roses,
Oft did a priestess, as lovely as a vision,
Pouring her soul to the son of Cytherea,
Pray him to hover around the slight canoe-boat,
And with invisible pilotage to guide it
Over the dusk wave, until the nightly sailor
Shivering with ecstasy sank upon her bosom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
I do not
remember
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
And once a maiden by my side
Gave me a harp, and bid me sing,
And touch the
laughing
silver string;
But when I sang of human joy
A sorrow wrapped each merry face,
And, Patric!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
_
Who
betrothed
her twelve years old, for the sake of dowry gold,
To his son Lord Leigh the churl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
From the
analogy of similar stories I suspect that Admetus
originally
did not know
his guest, and received not so much the reward of exceptional virtue as
the blessing naturally due to those who entertain angels unawares.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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And I have felt
A
presence
that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean, and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man,
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Once, in her arrogance even maintained that she had subjected
To her own will, as her slave, Jove's most
illustrious
son.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
<
l'anime degne di salire a Dio,
fur l'ossa mie per
Ottavian
sepolte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"
Then a dream of great pomp rises o'er,
And it
conquers
the god that it bore,
Till a shout casts us down far beneath;
We so small, and so stript before death.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Your
trumpets
sound, as many as ye bear!
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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at
coyntlych
closed
His thik ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
It is by no means unlikely that there were two old Roman lays
about the defence of the bridge; and that, while the story which
Livy has transmitted to us was preferred by the multitude, the
other, which
ascribed
the whole glory to Horatius alone, may have
been the favorite with the Horatian house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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On the morrow, when I told Marya my plans, she saw how
reasonable
they
were, and agreed to them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any
statements
concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Sooner or later in
political
life one has to
compromise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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how
trembled
in my thought,
When, looking at my side again to see
Beatrice, I descried her not, although
Not distant, on the happy coast she stood.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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er be a
blisfulnesse
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Quinci comprender puoi ch'esser convene
amor sementa in voi d'ogne virtute
e d'ogne
operazion
che merta pene.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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This poem tells the well-known story of Sarah Hoggins who married under
the
circumstances
related in the poem.
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Tennyson |
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Memory faileth, as the lotus-loved chimes
Sink into
fluttering
of wind, But we grow never weary For we are old.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The
pavements
and the palaces of cities
Hint at the nature of the neighboring hills.
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Longfellow |
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Sometimes a
horrible
marionette
Came out, and smoked its cigarette
Upon the steps like a live thing.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Through green bamboos a deep road ran
Where dark
creepers
brushed our coats as we passed.
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Li Po |
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The clock is on the stroke of twelve,
And Johnny is not yet in sight,
The moon's in heaven, as Betty sees,
But Betty is not quite at ease;
And Susan has a
dreadful
night.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Can I let this
offender
go free?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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--Ho, fling me a
Thessalian
steel!
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Euripides - Electra |
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It is the
earliest
dated play of
Euripides which has come down to us.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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