The
kingfisher
flies like an arrow, and wounds the air.
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Wilde - Poems |
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So fickle fortune, in a luckless hour,
Had close consigned me to a tyrant's power,
Who cut the nerves that, with elastic force,
Had borne me on in Freedom's generous course--
So I, in noble
independence
bred,
Free as the roebuck in the sylvan glade,
By passion lured, a voluntary slave--
My ready name to Cupid's muster gave.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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[_He goes forth, just as he is, in the
direction
of the grave.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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e
prophete
mete; in wildernesse ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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After a thousand years I have found my Bao Shu,2 I have achieved something by his willingness to
befriend
me.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Unto thy
judgment
my soul have I given!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The stone-chat, or the sand-lark,
restless
Bird
Piping along the margin of the lake; 1815.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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It is a brilliant
performance, and a deliberate effort to carry on the
development
of
epic.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to
reproduce
her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Wer sich behaglich
mitzuteilen
weiss,
Den wird des Volkes Laune nicht erbittern;
Er wunscht sich einen grossen Kreis,
Um ihn gewisser zu erschuttern.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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--
Not marking how the knighthood mock thee, fool--
"Fear God: honour the King--his one true knight--
Sole follower of the vows"--for here be they
Who knew thee swine enow before I came,
Smuttier than blasted grain: but when the King
Had made thee fool, thy vanity so shot up
It
frighted
all free fool from out thy heart;
Which left thee less than fool, and less than swine,
A naked aught--yet swine I hold thee still,
For I have flung thee pearls and find thee swine.
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Tennyson |
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Tchaplitzky,
who died in poverty after having squandered millions, lost at one time,
at play, nearly three hundred
thousand
rubles.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And yet more--I, being lord
Of sea and land, to Sigismond award
The earth; to
Ladislaus
all the sea.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Driving the Female Emanations all away from Los *
I have refusd to look upon the Universal Vision
And wilt thou slay with death him who devotes himself to thee *
If thou drivst all the Males Females away from Vala Luvah I will drive all
The Males away from thee
Once born for the sport &
amusement
of Man now born to drink up all his Powers
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I heard the sounding sea; I heard the voice weaker and weaker;
The voice came & went like a dream, I awoke in my sweet bliss.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Madden
suggests
blunk (horse).
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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His first book,
"Nature," which he was
meditating
while in Europe, was finished here,
and published in 1836.
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| Question: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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A heauie Summons lyes like Lead vpon me,
And yet I would not sleepe:
Mercifull Powers,
restraine
in me the cursed thoughts
That Nature giues way to in repose.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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It was his custom once a year to hold a large
reception at his house, attended by all the
families
connected with
the institution and by the leading people of the town.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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They then,
according
to Caesar (Bell.
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| Question: |
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Tacitus |
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quam ieiuna pium
desideret
ara cruorem,
docta est amisso Laudamia uiro, 80
coniugis ante coacta noui dimittere collum,
quam ueniens una atque altera rursus hiems
noctibus in longis auidum saturasset amorem,
posset ut abrupto uiuere coniugio,
quod scibant Parcae non longo tempore abisse, 85
si miles muros isset ad Iliacos.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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THE
COMPLEYNT
OF MARS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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A boon above all gold is that thou prayest,
An unreached destiny,
As of the blessed land that far aloof
Beyond the north wind lies;
Yet doth your double prayer ring loud reproof;
A double scourge of sighs
Awakes the dead; th'
avengers
rise, though late;
Blood stains the guilty pride
Of the accursed who rule on earth, and Fate
Stands on the children's side.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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{21a}
Hrothgar
is probably meant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
XIII
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
Nor the cutting edge of conquering blade,
Nor the havoc ruthless soldiers made,
In sacking you, Rome, ever and again,
Nor the tricks that fickle fortune played,
Nor envious centuries corrosive rain,
Nor the spite of men, nor gods' disdain,
Nor your own power in civil strife displayed,
Nor the impetuous storms that you withstood,
Nor the river-god's winding course in flood,
That has so often drowned you in its thunder,
Not all
combined
have so abased your pride,
As that this nothing left you, by Time's tide,
Still makes the world halt here, and gaze in wonder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Come I am determin'd to unbare this broad breast of mine, I have
long enough stifled and choked;
Emblematic and capricious blades I leave you, now you serve me not,
I will say what I have to say by itself,
I will sound myself and comrades only, I will never again utter a
call only their call,
I will raise with it immortal reverberations through the States,
I will give an example to lovers to take permanent shape and will
through the States,
Through me shall the words be said to make death exhilarating,
Give me your tone therefore O death, that I may accord with it,
Give me yourself, for I see that you belong to me now above all, and
are folded inseparably together, you love and death are,
Nor will I allow you to balk me any more with what I was calling life,
For now it is convey'd to me that you are the
purports
essential,
That you hide in these shifting forms of life, for reasons, and that
they are mainly for you,
That you beyond them come forth to remain, the real reality,
That behind the mask of materials you patiently wait, no matter how long,
That you will one day perhaps take control of all,
That you will perhaps dissipate this entire show of appearance,
That may-be you are what it is all for, but it does not last so very long,
But you will last very long.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
If anybody's friend be dead,
It 's sharpest of the theme
The
thinking
how they walked alive,
At such and such a time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
For forty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Project
Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive
specific
permission.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And yet, as poor as I
Have
ventured
all upon a throw;
Have gained!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
So valiant a warrior
snatched
from you,
Un-avenged, kills the wish to serve you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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'Hither, to my obscure corner, by wind or steam, on
horseback
or
dromedary-back, in the pouch of the Indian runner, or clicking over the
magnetic wires, troop all the famous performers from the four quarters
of the globe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
I thought no living man but
Leagerie
could have stood against me; and
Leagerie himself could not have shoved past me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
I, with none beside,
Save hoarse cicalas
shrilling
through the brake,
Still track your footprints 'neath the broiling sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
The
Latin ballads
perished
forever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Right in we went, with soul intent
On Death and Dread and Doom:
The hangman, with his little bag,
Went shuffling through the gloom:
And each man trembled as he crept
Into his
numbered
tomb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
One autumn day, my mother was making honey jam in her parlour, while,
licking my lips, I was
watching
the operations, and occasionally tasting
the boiling liquid.
| 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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"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
This Auffroie was a manne of mickle pryde, 205
Whose featliest bewty ladden in his face;
His chaunce in warr he ne before han tryde,
But lyv'd in love and Rosaline's embrace;
And like a useless weede amonge the haie
Amonge the sleine
warriours
Griel laie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Quest' inno si
gorgoglian
ne la strozza,
che dir nol posson con parola integra>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
If, on the one hand, the latest were taken, it could
be shown that many of the changes introduced into it were for the worse,
and some of them very
decidedly
so.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
The
inducement lay in the fact that the "tiaglo" (see previous
note)
received
an additional lot of the communal land for
every male added to its number, though this could have formed
an inducement in the southern and fertile provinces of Russia
only, as it is believed that agriculture in the north is so
unremunerative that land has often to be forced upon the
peasants, in order that the taxes, for which the whole Commune
is responsible to Government, may be paid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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On earth myself, my heart in Eden dwelt,
Lost in sweet Lethe every other care,
As my live frame I felt
To marble turn, watching that wonder rare;
When old in years, but
youthful
still in air,
A lady briefly, quietly drew nigh,
And thus beholding me,
With reverent aspect and admiring eye,
Kind offer made my counsellor to be:
"My power," she said, "is more than mortals know--
Lighter than air, I, in an instant, make
Their hearts exult or ache,
I loose and bind whate'er is seen below;
Thine eyes, upon that sun, as eagles', bend,
But to my words with willing ears attend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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"For far-off fowls hae
feathers
fair,
And fools o' change are fain;
But I hae try'd this border-knight,
I'll try him yet again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
The Growth of English Industry and
Commerce
in Modern
Times.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
"
My guide winked in a meaning manner, and replied by the well-known
saying--
"The sparrow was flying about in the orchard; he was eating hempseed;
the
grandmother
threw a stone at him, and missed him.
| 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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Let us
remember and perpend the words of Paulus Emilius to the people of Rome;
that, 'if they judged they could manage the war to more advantage by any
other, he would willingly yield up his charge; but if they
confided
in
him, _they were not to make themselves his colleagues in his office, or
raise reports, or criticise his actions, but, without talking, supply
him with means and assistance necessary to the carrying on of the war;
for, if they proposed to command their own commander, they would render
this expedition more ridiculous than the former.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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My poor
forsaken
child!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
But first give heed, their bestiality
Will make a
glorious
demonstration.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Here Pope
declared
open war upon his enemies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
A fragment of the South
Babylonian
version of the tenth book was
published in 1902, a text from the period of Hammurapi, which showed
that the Babylonian epic differed very much from the Assyrian in
diction, but not in content.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Go therfore mighty powers,
Terror of Heav'n, though fall'n; intend at home,
While here shall be our home, what best may ease
The present misery, and render Hell
More tollerable; if there be cure or charm 460
To respite or deceive, or slack the pain
Of this ill Mansion: intermit no watch
Against a wakeful Foe, while I abroad
Through all the coasts of dark
destruction
seek
Deliverance for us all: this enterprize
None shall partake with me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
My eyes are dazzled, on seeing the light of day, 155
My knees,
trembling
beneath me, have given way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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He was picked
up, and, at the same moment,
Lisaveta
was carried out in a faint.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Fear no more the
lightning
flash
Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finish'd joy and moan:
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Oh, these men
overnice,
Who are shocked if a colour not
virtuous
is frankly put on by a
vice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Our master made
That order, that the
stranger
must not know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Condescendingly
accept
This poor fruit of my earnest toil.
| 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: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Who shames a
Scribbler?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of
windows?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Shall self-wrapt
husbands
aye forget
Kiss-pardons for the daily fret
Wherewith sweet wifely eyes are wet --
Blind to lips kiss-wise set --
Fair Lady?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
How many gazers mightst thou lead away,
if thou wouldst use the
strength
of all thy state!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Thus, we do not
necessarily keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper
edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Prior's 'echo' of this poem is well known:
'SO when I am weary of
wandering
all day,
To thee, my delight, in the evening I come;
No matter what beauties I saw in my way,
They were but my visits, but thou art my home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
at clerkes
schullen
fordo ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
And then he
stretched
his arms, how wild!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
A twofold curse, for wronging stranger-guests
Who are akin withal, confrontingly
Should rise before this city and be shown
A
ruthless
monster, fed on human doom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
auspice terras
linquo Ioue et celsam reserat dux
Iuppiter
aethram.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Thy ward is higher up: but have ye slain
The damsel's
champion?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
But the danger was past--they had landed at last,
With their boxes, portmanteaus, and bags:
Yet at first sight the crew were not pleased with the view
Which
consisted
of chasms and crags.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
) I see thou art ashamed
Of love not princely; so
pronounce
on me
The fatal word; my fate is in thy hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Tliee, the year's monster, let thy dam devour,
And constant Time, to keep his course yet right,
Fill up thy space with a
redoubled
night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
There
is much more holds us than
presseth
us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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" These we know to
have been jewels of a radiance so
imperishable
that the broken gleams of
them still dazzle men's eyes, whether shining from the two small brilliants
and the handful of star-dust which alone remain to us, or reflected merely
from the adoration of those poets of old time who were so fortunate as to
witness their full glory.
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Sappho |
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Cart ruts and horses'
footings
scarcely yield
A slur for boys, just crizzled and that's all.
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John Clare |
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of
matchless
mind,
Thou knowest now the whole; and that, which else
No other can, is nought to thy great power:
Deign then my grief to end,
Thus honour shall be thine, and safe my peace at last!
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Petrarch |
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(Bronzing under the tan and
bringing
down his hand very
quickly.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_ Plainly
homeward
thy words remand me.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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In poetry as in
everything
else
_urbem fecit quod prius orbis erat_.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The star of Love, all stars above,
Now reigns o'er earth and sky,
And high and low the
influence
know--
But where is County Guy?
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Golden Treasury |
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On visionary views would fancy feed,
Till his eye
streamed
with tears.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Let no unkind 'No' fair
beseechers
kill;
Think all but one, and me in that one 'Will.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Nein, ein Discours wie dieser da
Ist grade der, den ich am
liebsten
fuhre!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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But Beowulf, on general principles and from his observation
of the
particular
case, foretells trouble.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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But mine is the
midnight
of Death,
And Nature's morn
To my bosom forlorn
Brings but a gloomier night, implants a deadlier thorn.
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Shelley |
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Oh, in that blest, ecstatic hour,
I felt myself so small, so great;
Thou drovest me with cruel power
Back upon man's
uncertain
fate
What shall I do?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The hag be
confounded!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Music-hall posters squall out:
The passengers shrink together,
I enter
indelicately
into all their souls.
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Imagists |
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"
whispered
the oaks from oracular caverns of darkness:
And, from the moonlit meadow, a sigh responded, "To-morrow!
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Longfellow |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most
brightly
mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Only the houses are
blocking
the sun there, it's not yet the mountains.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Yet less for loss of your dear
presence
there
Than that I thus found lacking in your make
That high compassion which can overbear
Reluctance for pure lovingkindness' sake
Grieved I, when, as the hope-hour stroked its sum,
You did not come.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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