'
How mighte it ever y-red ben or y-songe,
The pleynte that she made in hir
distresse?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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A war on tick's ez dear 'z the deuce,
But it wun't leave no lastin' traces, 50
Ez 'twould to make a sneakin' truce
Without no moral specie-basis:
Ef
greenbacks
ain't nut jest the cheese,
I guess ther' 's evils thet's extremer,--
Fer instance,--shinplaster idees
Like them put out by Gov'nor Seymour.
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James Russell Lowell |
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XV
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
Who joyful in the bright light of day
Created all that arrogant display,
Whose dusty ruin now greets our visit:
Speak, spirits (since that shadowy limit
Of Stygian shore that ensures your stay,
Enclosing you in thrice threefold array,
Sight of your dark images, may permit),
Tell me, now (since it may be one of you,
Here above, may yet be hid from view)
Do you not feel a greater depth of pain,
When from hour to hour in Roman lands
You
contemplate
the work of your hands,
Reduced to nothing but a dusty plain?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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•
Many and many a day he had been failing, And I knew the end must come at last—
The poor
fellow—I
had loved him dearly, It was hard for me to see him go.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was
scarcely
visible,
The cornice but a mound.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Why with the animals
wanderest
thou on the plain?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"The Holy Fair," though
stained in one or two verses with personalities, exhibits a scene
glowing with character and incident and life: the aim of the poem is
not so much to satirize one or two Old Light divines, as to expose and
rebuke those almost indecent festivities, which in too many of the
western parishes accompanied the
administration
of the sacrament.
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Robert Burns |
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Fondly I gaz'd
Upon those patterns of meek humbleness,
Shapes yet more precious for their artist's sake,
When "Lo," the poet whisper'd, "where this way
(But slack their pace), a
multitude
advance.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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| Question: |
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La Fontaine |
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"Such still, such ages weave ye, as ye run,"
Sang to their spindles the consenting Fates
By Destiny's
unalterable
decree.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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But over them, lying there,
shattered
and mute,
What deep echo rolls?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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How can you shame to act this part
Of
unswerving
indifference to me?
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Imagists |
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Two separate--yet most
intimate
things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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A LETTER FROM A CANDIDATE IN THE
PRESIDENCY
IN ANSWER
TO SUTTIN QUESTIONS PROPOSED BY Mr.
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James Russell Lowell |
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507-583)
The road that I came by mounts eight
thousand
feet:
The river that I crossed hangs a hundred fathoms.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The larger portion of the
original
draft
subsequently became the property of the present editor, but it is not
considered just to the poet's memory to publish it.
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Poe - 5 |
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Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright
Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night,
And flamed, one
brilliant
instant, on the world,
Then back into the historic moat was hurled
And Night was King again, for many years.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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He did: and with an absolute Sir, not I
The clowdy
Messenger
turnes me his backe,
And hums; as who should say, you'l rue the time
That clogges me with this Answer
Lenox.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
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Appoloinaire |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this
agreement
violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Why with
thoughts
too deep
O'ertask a mind of mortal frame?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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) I could give
you many
instances
to the contrary, though not from memory.
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Li Po |
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Note: The last two lines remain perplexing, but suggest that Guillaume was
inviting
a similarly ironic song, a counter or duplicate, in reply.
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| Question: |
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Troubador Verse |
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Next in order have these
mourners their place whose own
innocent
hands dealt them death, who
flung away their souls in hatred of the day.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Give me O God to sing that thought,
Give me, give him or her I love this quenchless faith,
In Thy ensemble, whatever else
withheld
withhold not from us,
Belief in plan of Thee enclosed in Time and Space,
Health, peace, salvation universal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Sometimes, as on the Western Railroad,
you are whirled over mountainous embankments, from which the scared
horses in the valleys appear
diminished
to hounds.
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| Question: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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LIV
With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a
lightfoot
lad.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And we
probably
never shall see her more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Steamer,
straining
at your ropes
Lift your anchor towards an exotic rawness!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
As we approached Orenburg we saw a crowd of
convicts
with cropped heads,
and faces disfigured by the pincers of the executioner.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Tertius van Dyke and the _Spectator_:--"Oxford
Revisited
in
War-Time.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"Sit and roast there with your meat, sit and bake there with your bread,
You who sat to see us starve," one
shrieking
woman said:
"Sit on your throne and roast with your crown upon your head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
But
where the prince is good,
Euripides
saith, "God is a guest in a human
body.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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=
'This ill-timed compliment to himself, Jonson might have spared, with
some
advantage
to his judgment, at least, if not his modesty.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The styles are taken from
Classical
art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Ronsard |
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Young Charlie Cochran
Was the sprout of an aik;
Bonnie and bloomin'
And
straught
was its make:
The sun took delight
To shine for its sake,
And it will be the brag
O' the forest yet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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"Will he obey when one
commands?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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A
wretched
life and worse death they'll win,
A grievous time, whether far or near;
And Saracen, Turk, Persian, Paynim,
Who, more than all, found you to dread,
Will grow in pride and power instead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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These bungalows are
objectionable
places to put up in.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Shatter the sky with
trumpets
above my grave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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And thus it led me back, ashamed and slow,
To see those eyes with love's own lustre rife
Which I am watchful never to offend:
Thus may I live
perchance
awhile below;
One glance of yours such power has o'er my life
Which sure, if I oppose desire, shall end.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
550
My cries alone make the
woodlands
ring,
And the idle horses all forget my calling.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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quae_ G:
_Orcique_
COVen ||
_bella al.
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Latin - Catullus |
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We will swap horses with the rising moon,
And mend that funny skillet called Orion,
Color the stars like San Francisco's street-lights,
And paint our sign and signature on high
In planets like a bed of crimson pansies;
While a million fiddles shake all listening hearts,
Crying good fortune to the Universe,
Whispering
adventure to the Ganges waves,
And to the spirits, and all winds and gods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
To male
acquaintances
he bows,
And finally he deigns let fall
Upon the stage his weary glance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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A month has flown already
Since,
cloistered
with his sister, he forsook
The world's affairs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
I have no earthly spot where I can live,
I have no love, I have no household fane,
And all the things to which myself I give
Impoverish me with
richness
they attain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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So
afterwards
they made sky ladders and hanging bridges.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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sed quicumque deus, quicumque
uocaberis
heros,
sit soror et mater, sit puer incolumis.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Additional
terms will be linked
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Gow has published a
variation
of this fine tune as his own
composition, which he calls "The Princess Augusta.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
In a cottaged vale She dwells,
Listening
to the Sabbath bells!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
why not with mind content
Take now, thou fool, thy
unafflicted
rest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Then he
bethought
him
To take from us our privilege of hiring
Our serfs at will; we are no longer masters
Of our own lands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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All his life was riot and pillage,
But at length, to escape the threatened doom
Of the everlasting penal fire,
He died in the dress of a
mendicant
friar,
And bartered his wealth for a daily mass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
NEATH
trembling
tree tops to and fro we wander
Along the beech-grove, nearly to the bower,
And see within the silent meadow yonder,
The almond tree a second time in flower.
| 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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There was
apparently
a greater equality of condition among the
habitans of Montmorenci County than in New England.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
[Illustration]
"I
wondered
what on earth they were,
That looked all head and sack;
But Mother told me not to stare,
And then she twitched me by the hair,
And punched me in the back.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The Rais, or captain, knew Gama's ship by the admiral's ensign, and made
up to her, saluting her with loud huzzas and
instruments
of music.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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30
VII
The Cyprian came to thy cradle,
When thou wast little and small,
And said to the nurse who rocked thee
"Fear not thou for the child:
"She shall be kindly favoured, 5
And fair and
fashioned
well,
As befits the Lesbian maidens
And those who are fated to love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
"
And through the misty air
Passed like the
mournful
cry
Of sunward sailing cranes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Now havynge done oure mattynes & oure vowes,
Lette us for the intended fyghte be boune, 590
And everyche champyone potte the joyous crowne
Of certane mastershhyppe upon hys
glestreynge
browes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Polydamas laid Otus on the sand,
The fierce
commander
of the Epeian band.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
He consumes an eternal passion, and is indifferent which chance happens,
and which possible contingency of fortune or misfortune, and persuades
daily and hourly his
delicious
pay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
"Let my father
condescend
to understand that that is the bill of my
master's goods which have been taken away by the rascals.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
But, wretched nothings, think ye not to flee
Out of this rock; I,
standing
at the outlet,
Will bar the way and catch you as you pass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
34 Retaking the Capital I The immortal Guard left the
Cinnabar
Pole Star,1 demon stars shone on the steps of jade He was compelled to leave the palace and run, 4 he could not just stay, clinging to his mansion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
= The
readings
of 'Whalley and Gifford are distinctly
inferior to the original.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Or that young god, the Tyrian, who was more amorous than the dove
Of
Ashtaroth?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
ENTER
BEATRICE
AND ORSINO, AS IN CONVERSATION.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
The robber was ashamed
of himself,
although
this long and lean Bashkir hoss and this peasant's
'_touloup_' be not worth half what those rascals stole from us, nor what
you deigned to give him as a present, still they may be useful to us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Dost
comprehend
things mortal, how they grow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
To Whom be Glory Evermore Amen [kai eskanosen en -[h]amen]
[ [What] are the Natures of those Living Creatures the
Heavenly
Father only
[Knoweth] no Individual [Knoweth nor] Can know in all Eternity] *{These lines, included in Erdman's transcription are unmistakably erased.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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For, fisherman, what fresh or
seawater
catch
equals him, either in form or savour,
that lovely divine fish, Jesus, My Saviour?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Les loups vont
repondant
des forets violettes:
A l'horizon, le ciel est d'un rouge d'enfer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
[322]
Simonides
was very avaricious, and sold his pen to the highest
bidder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
This is the reward for my
excessive
care:
I search for my self: and yet find no one there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
And other
withered
stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
It also tells you how
you may
distribute
copies of this eBook if you want to.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
You were my
playmate
by the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Here's one
outlived
his peers,
And told forth fourscore years;
He vexed time, and busied the whole state;
Troubled both foes and friends;
But ever to no ends:
What did this stirrer but die late?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
' --
`Hold
straight
into the West,' I said again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told
suggesting
her beauty, and independence of mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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The warlike wight
Who hides behind the ranks of France to fight,
Greek Sinon's blood crossed thick with Judas-Jew's,
The Traitor who with smile which true men woos,
Lip
mouthing
pledges--hand grasping the knife--
Waylaid French Liberty, and took her life.
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The same man utterly
different
in
different places and seasons, v.
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Thus far to-day your favors reach,
O fair, appeasing
presences!
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Emerson - Poems |
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She painted the cruelty of her husband in the darkest
colors, and ended by telling the Count that she
depended
upon his
friendship and generosity.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The chill air comes around me oceanly,
From bank to bank the waterstrife is spread;
Strange birds like
snowspots
oer the whizzing sea
Hang where the wild duck hurried past and fled.
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John Clare |
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The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Song--In The
Character
Of A Ruined Farmer
Tune--"Go from my window, Love, do.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Departed
out of parlement echone,
This Troilus, with-oute wordes mo,
Un-to his chaumbre spedde him faste allone, 220
But-if it were a man of his or two,
The whiche he bad out faste for to go,
By-cause he wolde slepen, as he seyde,
And hastely up-on his bed him leyde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Or he is formed for
abjectness
and woe,
To grovel on the dunghill of his fears, _160
To shrink at every sound, to quench the flame
Of natural love in sensualism, to know
That hour as blessed when on his worthless days
The frozen hand of Death shall set its seal,
Yet fear the cure, though hating the disease.
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Shelley |
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A glove hung by him {28f}
wide and wondrous, wound with bands;
and in artful wise it all was wrought,
by
devilish
craft, of dragon-skins.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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