_Panchaia_, a
fabulous
spice island in the Erythrean Sea.
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Robert Herrick |
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He is a seer--he is individual--he is
complete
in
himself: the others are as good as he; only he sees it, and they do not.
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Whitman |
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[50] The verb _la'atu_, to pierce, devour, forms its
preterite
_ilut_;
see VAB.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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GREECE
THE sea was sapphire coloured, and the sky
Burned like a heated opal through the air;
We hoisted sail; the wind was blowing fair
For the blue lands that to the
eastward
lie.
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Wilde - Poems |
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A ce veoir, vierge, veus
Soie par toy et receus,
Oste
chaussement
d'ordure.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And the shy stars grew bold and scattered gold,
And
chanting
voices ancient secrets told,
And an acclaim of angels earthward rolled.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Wast for such a name, O most
puissant
father-in-law and
son-in-law, that ye have spoiled the entire world.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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'
ast Amor
euigilans
dixit 'mea pinna, uolemus'.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Now springs on these, now those, with
vigorous
bound;
And these and those betake themselves to flight.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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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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Golden Treasury |
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Heavenly hurt it gives us;
We can find no scar,
But internal difference
Where the
meanings
are.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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'
But your tresses are a tepid river,
Where the soul that haunts us drowns, without a shiver
And finds the
Nothingness
you cannot know!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
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Villon |
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In
"The Twa Herds," "Holy Willie's Prayer," "Address to the Unco Guid,"
"The Holy Fair," and others, he
manifested
sympathy with the protest of
the so-called "New Light" party, which had sprung up in opposition to
the extreme Calvinism and intolerance of the dominant "Auld Lichts.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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One sea-gull, paired with a shadow, wheels, wheels;
Circles the lonely ship by wave and trough;
Lets down his feet, strikes at the
breaking
water,
Draws up his golden feet, beats wings, and rises
Over the mast.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Thus we find, both in
the Homeric poems and in Hesiod, [several
examples
of common
phrases, in Greek].
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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High-eminent amid the works divine,
Where heaven's far-beaming brazen
mansions
shine.
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Iliad - Pope |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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nō hīe fæder cunnon, hwæðer him ǣnig wæs
ǣr ācenned dyrnra gāsta, _they_ (the people of the country) _do not know
his_ (Grendel's) _father, nor whether any evil spirit has been before born
to him_ (whether he has
begotten
a son), 1357.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Woe to the eyes you dazzle without cloud
Untried!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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He was the 'first' troubadour, that is, the first
recorded
vernacular lyric poet, in the Occitan language.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Sometimes you will see many small ones in a swamp turned quite crimson
when all other trees around are still perfectly green, and the former
appear so much the
brighter
for it.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Now men say "They are not":
But in the dusk
Ere the white sun comes--
A gay child that bears a white candle--
I am afraid of their rustling,
Of their
terrible
silence,
The menace of their secrecy.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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_32 and
saddest]the
saddest Fa.
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Shelley |
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/
London:/ Printed and
Published
by W.
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Byron |
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Nature, so ordered from the God,
Has given strength to man and work to do,
But to woman gave that she should be delight
For man, else like an
overdriven
ox
Heart-broke.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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NOTES
Of the many verses from time to time ascribed to the pen of Edgar Poe,
and not included among his known writings, the lines
entitled
"Alone"
have the chief claim to our notice.
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Poe - 5 |
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And now to
business!
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Title: The Golden Threshold
Author: Sarojini Naidu
Posting Date: August 30, 2008 [EBook #680]
Release Date: October, 1996
Language: English
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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For Wyrd oft saveth
earl
undoomed
if he doughty be!
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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we have learnt
A
different
lore: we may not thus profane
Nature's sweet voices, always full of love
And joyance!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Nay;
He is my lord;
therefore
I hold my peace.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Free us, for we perish
In this ever-flowing
monotony
Of ugly print marks, black Upon white parchment.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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In the rymes the
equiva|lence
of final '?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Almost every one who has ever busied himself with such
matters has come, in trance or dream, upon some new and strange symbol
or event, which he has
afterwards
found in some work he had never read
or heard of.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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| Question: |
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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e sterres {and}
attempre?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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In the eulogy pronounced over his body
all the great exploits of his
ancestors
were doubtless recounted
and exaggerated.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Standards
obscure the sun: the foe roll up like clouds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Upon her aching
forehead
be there hung
The leaves of willow and of adder's tongue;
And for the youth, quick, let us strip for him
The thyrsus, that his watching eyes may swim
Into forgetfulness; and, for the sage,
Let spear-grass and the spiteful thistle wage
War on his temples.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Perhaps I have
the more sympathy with them because they are despised by the farmer,
and occupy sterile and
neglected
soil.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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This translation or rather
adaptation
contains many of the two hundred or so fragments, in some cases fragments of the fragments, excluding things I found too partial or obscure to resonate.
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| Question: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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We will proceed no further in this Businesse:
He hath Honour'd me of late, and I haue bought
Golden
Opinions
from all sorts of people,
Which would be worne now in their newest glosse,
Not cast aside so soone
La.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And it seems questionable
whether we have enough _formal_ "belief"
nowadays
to allow of such a
story appearing as solid and as vividly credible as epic poetry needs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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For were it not their wont
Thuswise to swerve, down would they fall, each one,
Like drops of rain, through the unbottomed void;
And then
collisions
ne'er could be nor blows
Among the primal elements; and thus
Nature would never have created aught.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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20
Himself had loved a theme like this;
Must I be its
entomber?
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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The wet clouds to
Northward
beat;
And Lord Ammon's desert seat
Crieth from the South, unslaken,
For the dews that once were sweet,
For the rain that God hath taken.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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}
Above the rest, as chief of all the band
Was Picus plac'd, a buckler in his hand;
His other wav'd a long
divining
wand.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Counting the police inside and outside the theatre,
there were,
according
to some evening papers, five hundred.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Ah
traytoure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Was shown beside upon the solid floor
How dear
Alcmaeon
forc'd his mother rate
That ornament in evil hour receiv'd:
How in the temple on Sennacherib fell
His sons, and how a corpse they left him there.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Some news is
brought?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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that
dwellest
where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not received written
confirmation
of compliance.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Weaves in thy
fluttering
hair, Sweet,
Ivy and celandine.
| Guess: |
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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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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Lone in the light of that magical grove,
I felt the stars of the spirits of Love
Gather and gleam round my
delicate
youth,
And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth;
To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Pride answers, "'Tis for mine:
For me kind Nature wakes her genial power,
Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower;
Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew
The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew;
For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings;
For me, health gushes from a thousand springs;
Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise;
My
footstool
earth, my canopy the skies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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He entered the service of Charles of Anjou, and probably accompanied him (1265) on his Naples expedition; in 1266 he was a
prisoner
in Naples.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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]
SCENE--The inside of a poor Cottage
ELEANOR and IDONEA seated
IDONEA The storm beats hard--Mercy for poor or rich,
Whose heads are
shelterless
in such a night!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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With hoists and levers, joists and poles,
With knives and cleavers, ropes and saws,
Down the long slopes to the gaping maws,
The angels hasten; hacking and carving,
So nought will be lacking for the starving
Chosen of God, who in frozen wonderment
Realize now what the
terrible
thunder meant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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We bring thee our songs and our
garlands
for tribute,
The gold of our fields and the gold of our fruit;
O giver of mellowing radiance, we hail thee,
We praise thee, O Surya, with cymbal and flute.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Art footless and art handless
evermore?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Through his personality; his pathos and
ethology he has furthermore engendered a new ideal;
a synthesis of
Christian
and Pagan feeling which in
this form has not existed before.
| Guess: |
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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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Gyges cried, how truly, king, you're blessed;
The skin how fair--how
charming
all the rest!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Once a
youthful
pair,
Filled with softest care,
Met in garden bright
Where the holy light
Had just removed the curtains of the night.
| Guess: |
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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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I need not say that the Brutus Books we possess do not contain the
legend here set forth, though it is not much more improbable than some of
the
statements
contained in them.
| 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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"Now meet thy fate," th'
incensed
virago cried, 140
And drew a deadly bodkin from her side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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HAD Fate decreed our YOUTH, at early morn,
To view the angel features you adorn,
The
captivating
pow'rs AURORA bless,
Or airy SPRING bedecked in beauteous dress,
And all the azure canopy on high
Had vanished like a dream, once you were nigh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Like a man making himself in drunken sleep
A king, my soul, drunk with its earthly war,
Kept idle all its terrible want of thee,
Believed itself managing arms with God;
Yea, when my
trampling
hurry through the earth
Made cloudy wind of the light human dust,
I thought myself to move in the dark danger
Of blinding God's own face with blasts of war!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Africa, Spain, neither are you disgraced,
Nor that race that holds the English firth,
Nor, by the French Rhine,
soldiers
of worth,
Nor Germany with other warriors graced.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And wider still those billows of war
Thundered along the horizon's bar;
And louder yet into
Winchester
rolled
The roar of that red sea uncontrolled,
Making the blood of the listener cold,
As he thought of the stake in that fiery fray,
And Sheridan twenty miles away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The drum your Honour hears
marcheth
from Warwick.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
--The
remaining
poems in this section are taken from a series,
numbering several hundred brief pieces, written by Clare in the winter
of 1835-6.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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If in these verses I around should twirl,
Some wily knave and easy simple girl,
'Tis with
intention
in the breast to place;
On such occasions, dread of dire disgrace;
The mind to open, and the sex to set
Upon their guard 'gainst snares so often met.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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He too bewailed his faults with penance sore,
Ay, and his
wretched
luck bemoaned a great deal more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Who's yon, that, near the waterfall,
Which
thunders
down with headlong force,
Beneath the moon, yet shining fair,
As careless as if nothing were,
Sits upright on a feeding horse?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
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with the
assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"
The New Pleasure
Last night I
invented
a new pleasure, and as I was giving it the
first trial an angel and a devil came rushing toward my house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Ah, those learned
fellows!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And said: until thy latest minute
Preserve,
preserve
my Talisman;
A secret power it holds within it--
'Twas love, true love the gift did plan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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I saw him, I blushed: I paled at the sight:
Pain swelled in my
troubled
heart outright:
My eyes saw nothing: I couldn't speak for pain: 275
I felt my whole body frozen, and in flame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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There was a little figure plump
For every little knoll,
Busy needles, and spools of thread,
And
trudging
feet from school.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
By what fearful design are you being
tempted?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Now, of my
threescore
years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
| 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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Racine - Phaedra |
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I seek my lord who has
forgotten
me.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The construction is very
condensed
here; "effluvia" may
be regarded like "touch" as a subject of "were given" (l.
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Alexander Pope |
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Their sharp, full cheer, from rank on rank,
Rose joyously, with a willing breath--
Rose like a
greeting
hail to death.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And since your actions are so nobly meant
Humble, in trembling, my love I phrase,
For there is no lover as
faithful
always
As I to you, Lady, through this world's extent.
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Troubador Verse |
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Ein Lied vom neusten
Schnitt!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"Franks, chevaliers," says the
Emperour
then, Charles,
"Choose ye me out a baron from my marches,
To Marsilie shall carry back my answer.
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Chanson de Roland |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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At the outset of my work
the Governing Body of Christ Church, Oxford, lent me the copy of
the edition of 1633 (originally the possession of Sir John Vaughan
(1603-1674) Chief Justice of the Common Pleas) on which the present
edition is based, and also their copies of the
editions
of 1639, 1650,
and 1654.
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John Donne |
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War is a
terrible
trade; but in the cause that is righteous,
Sweet is the smell of powder; and thus I answer the challenge!
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Longfellow |
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Valerio was the name that
stranger
bore;
A name I shall remember evermore.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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