Remembrance
shows
Too clear at last the source of all my woes,
When Jealousy, and Love, and Envy drew
That nurture from my heart by which they grew.
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Petrarch |
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<
pria che Beatrice
discendesse
al mondo,
fummo ordinate a lei per sue ancelle.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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On came the turbulent
multitude
in war,
Dashing against the city's walls; and swept
Through all the streets, and robbed and burned and killed.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the
original
volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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(_Taking the_ LITTLE GIRL
_to her_) What good
And gentle care will guide thy
maidenhood?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Philomel, by the
barbarous
king
So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale 100
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
"Jug Jug" to dirty ears.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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With thy clear voice
sounding
5
Through the silver twilight,--
What is the lost secret
Of the tacit earth?
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Sappho |
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_ 6:
Democritus
divitias
projecit, onus illas bonae mentis existimans.
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Robert Herrick |
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And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears,
And I sunned it with smiles
And with soft
deceitful
wiles.
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blake-poems |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
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Appoloinaire |
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But when his evening wheels o'erhung the main,
Glad
conquest
rested on the Grecian train.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Look, look I the very embers of themselves
Have caught the altar with a
flickering
flame,
While I delay to fetch them: may the sign
Prove lucky!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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" the thousand,
thousandth
time!
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Hugo - Poems |
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The
Spaniard
sees in thee the pathway, where
His patron saint descended in the sheen
Of his celestial armor, on serene
And quiet nights, when all the heavens were fair.
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Longfellow |
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Im Sausen spruht das Zauberchor
Viel tausend
Feuerfunken
hervor.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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According
to Erdman, this change was made while 'sorrow & care' was in its earlier form, 'eternal fear.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The
narcissus
has copied the arch
of your slight breast:
your feet are citron-flowers,
your knees, cut from white-ash,
your thighs are rock-cistus.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Yet can I not perswade me thou art dead
Or that thy coarse corrupts in earths dark wombe, 30
Or that thy
beauties
lie in wormie bed,
Hid from the world in a low delved tombe;
Could Heav'n for pittie thee so strictly doom?
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Milton |
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)
Resemble
nothing that is ours.
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Poe - 5 |
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As for me, I have found my _black tulip_
and my _blue
dahlia_!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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FAUST:
O war ich nie
geboren!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I
remember
I never could catch you,
For no one could match you,
You had wonderful, luminous, fleet,
Little wings to your feet.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Or that thy sense shall ever meet
The bean-flower's deep-embosom'd sweet
Exhaling
with an evening blast?
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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And there was great rejoicing in that distant city of Wirani,
because its king and its lord
chamberlain
had regained their reason.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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no harm of course;
She might have
lectured
him with double force.
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La Fontaine |
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I coude reken you many a ten;
Ye, wel nigh alle these holy wimmen, 6240
That men in
chirchis
herie and seke,
Bothe maydens, and these wyves eke,
That baren many a fair child here,
Wered alwey clothis seculere,
And in the same dyden they, 6245
That seyntes weren, and been alwey.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Narcissa's nature,
tolerably
mild,
To make a wash, would hardly stew a child;
Has even been proved to grant a lover's prayer,
And paid a tradesman once to make him stare;
Gave alms at Easter, in a Christian trim,
And made a widow happy, for a whim.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Wu Yun was
summoned
by the Emperor,
and Po went with him to Ch'ang-an.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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* You comply with all other terms of this
agreement
for free
distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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For seven years you've
lingered
in this land
They have endured much pain and sufferance.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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On
innocent
delights I dote,
Upon my lake I love to float,
For law I _far niente_ take
And every morning I awake
The child of sloth and liberty.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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It is from a
catalogue
of Maggs Bros.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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The suns were beauteous in those
twilights
warm.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But for all time in truth will I love thee, always will I sing
elegies made gloomy by thy death, such as the Daulian bird pipes 'neath
densest shades of foliage,
lamenting
the lot of slain Itys.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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adversari
ac repugnare videtur.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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But canst thou not array
Thyself in rare disguise,
And feign like truth, for one mad day,
That Earth is
Paradise?
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Summer Sadness
The sun, on the sand, O
sleeping
wrestler,
Warms a languid bath in the gold of your hair,
Melting the incense on your hostile features,
Mixing an amorous liquid with the tears.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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[35] Huai-nan is
associated
with laurel-branches, owing to a famous
poem by the King of Huai-nan.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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dayly with himselfe in place, 205
Did wonder much at her
celestiall
sight:
Oft had he seene her faire, but never so faire dight.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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>>
--La
premiere
audace permise,
Le rire feignait de punir!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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" "Thessalians,"
answered
young
Orestes: "to Alpheus journeying,
With gifts to Olympian Zeus.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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It seasoned comfort to our hearts' desire,
We felt thy kind
protection
like a friend
And edged our chairs up closer to the fire,
Enjoying comfort that was never penned.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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And cruel was the grief that played
With the queen's spirit; and she said:
"What do I hear,
reigning
alone?
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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310
To make it more renomed than before,
(I, tho a Saxon, yet the truthe will telle)
The Saxonnes steynd the place wyth Brittish gore,
Where nete but bloud of
sacrifices
felle.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Is not he bound to thee, as thou to him,
By vows,
unwhispered
here, yet heard above?
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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I, a human chaos, a nebula of
confused
elements, I move amongst
finished worlds--peoples of complete laws and pure order, whose
thoughts are assorted, whose dreams are arranged, and whose visions
are enrolled and registered.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Vasco de
Gama, a gentleman of good family, who, in a war with the French, had
given signal proofs of his naval skill, was commissioned admiral and
general, and his brother Paul, with his friend
Nicholas
Coello, were
appointed to command under him.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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_--In pursuance of the reasons assigned in the
preface, the
translator
has here taken the liberty to make a
transposition in the order of his author.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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quis angusta malis cum moenia uexarentur, 80
ipse suum Theseus pro caris corpus Athenis
proicere optauit potius quam talia Cretam
funera
Cecropiae
nec funera portarentur.
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Latin - Catullus |
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With throat unslack'd, with black lips bak'd
Agape they hear'd me call:
Gramercy!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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was changed to "Edmund"; in later
editions
"Edmund" was
changed to "Lady," except in the seventh stanza, where "Otway" is
substituted.
| Guess: |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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As to the details of the battle, it has not been thought
desirable to adhere minutely to the
accounts
which have come down
to us.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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You have hands to square and hew
Vast marble-blocks, hard on your day of doom,
Ever
building
mansions new,
Nor thinking of the mansion of the tomb.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The local
expression
"under the hack" is kindly explained
by an authority in middle Georgia dialect, Richard Malcolm Johnston,
author of `The Dukesborough Tales' and other Georgia stories.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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But surely France must be a
pleasant
place
That greets the stranger with so fair a face;
The English maiden blushes down the dance,
But few can equal the fair maid of France.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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how can I but offer you divine leaves, that you also be
eligible
as I am?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Sweet smiles, in the night
Hover over my
delight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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20
LII
Lo, on the
distance
a dark blue ravine,
A fold in the mountainous forests of fir,
Cleft from the sky-line sheer down to the shore!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Didst fight beneath the walls
Of
Seversk?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In five minutes we reached a little
house,
brilliantly
lit up.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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He seems to have settled
permanently
at Ch'ang-an in 801.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Light will still rise from it; millions of bright
Facets of brilliance, shaming the white
Glass of the moon,
inflaming
the night.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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One, one man only breeds my just offence;
Whom crimes gave wealth, and wealth gave impudence:
Time brings all natural events to pass,
And made him an
attorney
of an ass.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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From the silence of Cicero in his Letters (the
Epistles of Pliny furnish a notable
contrast)
we may reasonably infer
that the custom was not known to him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Breaths of new buds from off some drying lea
With news about the Future scent the sea:
My brain is beating like the heart of Haste:
I'll loose me a bird upon this Present waste;
Go,
trembling
song,
And stay not long; oh, stay not long:
Thou'rt only a gray and sober dove,
But thine eye is faith and thy wing is love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Yet others rapt in
pleasure
seem,
And taste of all that I forsake:
Oh!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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A damp and death-like odour from the hollow
--Where all must slumber--rises, yet I follow
Thy wafture still, which fire
enkindles
new
And Thy great love which ever watches true.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Yea, let her prove me to the uttermost,
For loyal to the
uttermost
am I.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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They say that 'time assuages,' --
Time never did assuage;
An actual
suffering
strengthens,
As sinews do, with age.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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When will you bring back the
standard
and axe,1 40 unite our forces and sweep away the ill-omened comet?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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" he
answered
"What matter?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,--
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe
outstretched
beneath the tree.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Another misconception, a
critical
one, is the case of Poe and
Baudelaire.
| 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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One day I heard it said:
'Men are clamouring, women, children, clamouring to be fed;
Men like
famished
dogs are howling in the streets for bread.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Then how can
cuckoldom
an evil be?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Wherefore I hope that e'en in heaven she mourns
My heavy anguish, and on me the while
Her sweet face
eloquent
of pity turns,
And that when shuffled off this mortal coil,
Her way to me with that fair band she'll wend,
True follower of Christ and virtue's friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Dear heart, and can it be that such
raptures
meet decay?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy
whatever
I touch or am
touch'd from,
The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer,
This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And we, that now make merry in the Room
They left, and Summer dresses in new Bloom,
Ourselves
must we beneath the Couch of Earth
Descend, ourselves to make a Couch--for whom?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The Ball no
Question
makes of Ayes and Noes,
But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes;
And He that toss'd Thee down into the Field,
He knows about it all--HE knows--HE knows!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Why a Nostril wide
inhaling
terror trembling & affright
Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Unity is not
merely an
external
affair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Love to one death
conducted
us along, 10
But Caina[352] waits for him our life who ended:"
These were the accents uttered by her tongue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Were this
misfortune
viewed with proper eyes,
Such ills from cuckoldom would ne'er arise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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For thou canst never tell my humble tale
In sounds that will prevail,
Nor gentle
thoughts
in her inspire;
All thy vain mirth lay by,
Bid thy strings silent lie,
Sleep, sleep again, my Lyre, and let thy master die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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They were at once ascribed to Poe, and in order to satisfy
questioners, an
editorial
paragraph subsequently appeared saying
they were by "A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
From gloomy Tartarus
The Fates have
summoned
us
To whisper in her ear, who lies asleep,
A tale to fan the fire
Of her insane desire
To know a secret that the Gods would keep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Summer
surprised
us, coming over the Starnbergersee
With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, 10
And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
Ils
ecoutent
le bon pain cuire
Le boulanger au gras sourire
Chante un vieil air.
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Stretched on the ground, beautiful-crowned
Of the piteous willow that
wreathed
above,
`But I cannot find where ye have found
Hell,' quoth Love.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Many translations exist, the best
being those of Legge in English and of
Couvreur
in French.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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--Scyld dies, 26; his body, upon a
decorated
ship, is
given over to the sea (32 ff.
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Although
this while her eyes with tears o'erflow,
Clear tokens of a heart oppressed with woe.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Ils prennent en songeant les nobles attitudes
Des grands sphinx allonges au fond des solitudes,
Qui
semblent
s'endormir dans un reve sans fin;
Leurs reins feconds sont pleins d'etincelles magiques,
Et des parcelles d'or, ainsi qu'un sable fin,
Etoilent vaguement leurs prunelles mystiques.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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