Campania,
prescient
of her Pompey's fate,
Sent a kind fever to arrest his date:
When lo!
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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Villon |
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Nor was I hungry; so I found
That hunger was a way
Of persons outside windows,
The
entering
takes away.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Vielleicht
ist er gar tot!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the
marriage
of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Mountainous
land, a field for fierce tigers, 24 my heart knots within, I turn my head.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"Do you know
I have some very
beautiful
poems floating in the air," she wrote
to me in 1904; "and if the gods are kind I shall cast my soul
like a net and capture them, this year.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic
solitude!
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Poe - 5 |
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) Our
lecturer
tells us,
however, that he knows certain Chinese poets.
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Li Po |
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Lo, I have found no cause of death in him;
I will
chastise
him, and then let him go.
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Longfellow |
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Nicolas' own Edition Suf and Sufi are both
disparagingly
named.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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It is no
small trust that is reposed in him to whom the Bishop
sliall commit omne et omni modo suimi ingeniumy tarn
temporale quam,
spirUuale
; and, however it goes with
excommunication, they should take good heed to what
manner of person they delegate the keys of laughter.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Page [80]
636
Page 81
King Solomon's Book of Wisdom,
A BOOK OF MORAL
PRECEPTS
AND PRACTICAL ADVICE (lines 1-105),
Taken from the Laud MS.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Though at
present I am below the veriest prose, yet from you
everything
pleases.
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Robert Forst |
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But if we hold him off, will he not grant
The meed of a brave fight,
captivity?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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VII
Once more the sun deploys his rays:
Third in the trilogy of battle-days
The awful Friday comes:
A day of dread,
That should have moved with slow, averted head
And muffled feet,
Knowing what streams of pure blood shed,
What broken hearts and wounded lives must meet
Its
pitiless
tread.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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" say pagans, each to each;
"These
Frankish
men, their horns we plainly hear
Charle is at hand, that King in Majesty.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Beowulf |
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Passions, because most living, are most holy--and this was a
scandalous paradox in his time--and man shall enter
eternity
borne upon
their wings.
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Yeats |
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"Say who are ye, that
stemming
the blind stream,
Forth from th' eternal prison-house have fled?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Royalty
payments
must be paid
within 60 days following each date on which you prepare (or are
legally required to prepare) your periodic tax returns.
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John Donne |
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'545 Socinus':
the name of two famous heretics, uncle and nephew, of the sixteenth
century, who denied the
divinity
of Christ.
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Alexander Pope |
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Women claim she's ugly,
But for her the men go mad:
The
Archbishop
of Toledo
Kneels at her feet to say Mass;
For above her amber nape
Is coiled a large chignon
That, in her room, undone
Yields her body a cape.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The other, next to me that beats the sand,
Is Aldobrandi, name
deserving
well,
In the' upper world, of honour; and myself
Who in this torment do partake with them,
Am Rusticucci, whom, past doubt, my wife
Of savage temper, more than aught beside
Hath to this evil brought.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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True Virtue never knows defeat:
HER robes she keeps
unsullied
still,
Nor takes, nor quits, HER curule seat
To please a people's veering will.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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CONTEMPORARY
EVENTS
Birth of Edmund Spenser (about) 1552 Birth of Sir Walter Raleigh
1553 Death of Edward VI; Mary crowned.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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In
Langdale
Pike and Witch's Lair,
And Dungeon-ghyll so foully rent,
With ropes of rock and bells of air
Three sinful sextons' ghosts are pent,
Who all give back, one after t'other,
The death-note to their living brother;
And oft too, by the knell offended,
Just as their one!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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For in a season
troublous
to the state
Neither may I attend this task of mine
With thought untroubled, nor mid such events
The illustrious scion of the Memmian house
Neglect the civic cause.
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Lucretius |
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Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
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Ronsard |
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'
Right as the fresshe, rede rose newe
Ayen the somer-sonne coloured is,
Right so for shame al wexen gan the hewe
Of this formel, whan she herde al this; 445
She neyther
answerde
'wel,' ne seyde amis,
So sore abasshed was she, til that Nature
Seyde, 'doghter, drede yow noght, I yow assure.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Camoens describes that place, as Tasso some years after
depicted
his
island of Armida.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Ye mind me
marching
through these vales
When golden spur was ringing at my heel?
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Hugo - Poems |
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"
Among the windings of the violins
And the ariettes
Of cracked cornets
Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins
Absurdly
hammering
a prelude of its own,
Capricious monotone
That is at least one definite "false note.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN
PARAGRAPH
F3.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Dans l'ombre des
couloirs
aux tentures moisies,
En passant il tirait la langue, les deux poings
A l'aine, et dans ses yeux fermes voyait des points.
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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BEFORE THE SNOW
Autumn is gone: through the blue woodlands bare
Shatters
the rainy wind.
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| Question: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them
imprisoned
in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves, sounding out magic words, so they themselves are immortal.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Doe you not hope your
Children
shall be Kings,
When those that gaue the Thane of Cawdor to me,
Promis'd no lesse to them
Banq.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Wherefore
Priapus is bound to requite such honours by service,
Doing his duty to guard both vineyard and garth of his lordling.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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As now I take thee down with deep devotion,
In thee I
venerate
man's wit and art.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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But, like most of the numerous epigrams that have been made
about epic poetry, the remark does not describe the nature of epic, but
rather one of the
conspicuous
signs that that nature is fulfilling
itself.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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[37] The text cannot be correct since it has no
intelligible
sign.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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To whom Penelope
discrete
replied.
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
[12] According to Gedron, a second edition of the Lusiad
appeared
in the
same year with the first.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Yet not the less, for modern lights unapt,
I trust the bolts and cross-bars of the laws
More than the
Protestant
milk all newly lapt,
Impearling a tame wild-cat's whisker'd jaws!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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It seems, said he, I'm not alone in name,
And since a prince so
handsome
is the same,
Although a valet has supplied my place,
Yet see, the queen prefers a dwarf's embrace.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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--By giving the Socratic philosophers the name
of
Sciapodes
here ([Greek: _podes_], feet, and [Greek: _skia_], shadow)
Aristophanes wishes to convey that they are walking in the dark and
busying themselves with the greatest nonsense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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All at once I thought I
distinguished
something black.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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It's a
dreadful
affair
Is Saint Valentine's Day!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Thus Rilke's
monograph
on Auguste Rodin will
remain the poet's testament on Life and Art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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There is a _naviete_, a pastoral
simplicity, in a slight intermixture of Scots words and phraseology,
which is more in unison (at least to my taste, and, I will add, to
every genuine
Caledonian
taste) with the simple pathos, or rustic
sprightliness of our native music, than any English verses whatever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Dante
Alighieri
put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer-up of strife.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Oh that I had but
strength
to reach the place!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Only a still place
and perhaps some outer horror
some
hideousness
to stamp beauty,
a mark--no changing it now--
on our hearts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Doth it bear hidden in its heart
Water-line
patterns
of all art?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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" said she, "we ne'er can be
Made happy by
compulsion!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Oh in a hundred years
Not one of these blood-warm bodies
But will be
worthless
as clay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Suddenly
out of the mist, a flaring gas-jet
Shone from a huddled shop.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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at
shoullde
hym see.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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That ought to be sufficient for those American
Intellectuals
who are bemoaning the deca dence of poetry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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of
Replacement
or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you who hold it in your hands";
(Slowly
twisting
the lilac stalks)
"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,
And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
And smiles at situations which it cannot see.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Imagists |
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600
I spoke against you in public, and privately,
I wished to be parted from you by the sea:
I even
declared
a law that forbade, expressly,
Any man to dare to speak your name to me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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I know this people; and that underneath
A cold outside there burns a secret fire
That will find vent and will not be put out,
Till every remnant of these
barbarous
laws
Shall be to ashes burned, and blown away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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_
Sir; though (I thanke God for it) I do hate
Perfectly
all this towne, yet there's one state
In all ill things so excellently best,
That hate, toward them, breeds pitty towards the rest.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Do you see
nothing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Here is the hospitality which for ever
indicates
heroes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of
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it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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As thy day grows warm and high,
Life's
meridian
flaming nigh,
Dost thou spurn the humble vale?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
As the little tiny swallow or the chaffinch,
Round their warm and cosey nest are seen to hover,
So hovers there the mother dear who bore him;
And aye she weeps, as flows a river's water;
His sister weeps as flows a streamlet's water;
His
youthful
wife, as falls the dew from heaven--
The Sun, arising, dries the dew of heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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DAMON
"Rise, Lucifer, and,
heralding
the light,
Bring in the genial day, while I make moan
Fooled by vain passion for a faithless bride,
For Nysa, and with this my dying breath
Call on the gods, though little it bestead-
The gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Every household is selling
hairpins
and bracelets 40 waiting only to present the spring ale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
1340
Should I in making a statement all too sincere,
Cover with
shameful
blushes the brow of a father?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
LX
Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are
guttering
low:
Square your shoulders, lift your pack,
And leave your friends and go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Where Urizen & all his Hosts hang their
immortal
lamps
Thou neer shalt leave this cold expanse where watry Tharmas mourns
So spoke Los.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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What
beauties
doth Lisboa first unfold!
| 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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most
reverend
head, to whom I owe
All that I am in arts, all that I know--
How nothing's that!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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It was a short procession, --
The bobolink was there,
An aged bee
addressed
us,
And then we knelt in prayer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The
happiness
devised with so much labour
I have, perchance, destroyed for ever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Whoever laughs
somewhere
out in the night
Laughs without cause in the night
Laughs at me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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The other nonsense-poems are all good, but we have no space for further
quotation, and will take leave of our subject by
propounding
the following
set of examination questions which a friend who is deeply versed in Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
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permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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I heard the beat of centaurs' hoofs over the hard turf
As his dry and
passionate
talk devoured the afternoon.
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a cumbrous load,
Disguising oft the wretch of human kind,
Studied in arts of Hell, in
wickedness
refin'd!
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Robert Forst |
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In that school, the youth of expectation, such as I have delineated,
was reared and
educated
by the most eminent genius of the times.
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Tacitus |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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The celebrated travel book entitled: 'History of Prince Don Pedro of Portugal, in which is told what
happened
to him on the way composed for Gomez of Santistevan when he had covered the seven regions of the globe, one of the twelve who bore the prince company', reports that the Prince of Portugal, Don Pedro of Alfaroubeira, set out with twelve companions to visit the seven regions of the world.
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Appoloinaire |
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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.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The melody upon clear strings inflected
Were dull when o'er taut sense thy
presence
floweth, With quivering notes' accord that never palleth.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And
cigarettes
in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Not in the lyre of Orpheus,
Not in the songs of Musaeus,
Lurked the
unfathomed
bewitchment
Wrought by the wind in the grasses, 10
Held by the rote of the sea-surf,
In early summer.
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Sappho |
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