But Scylla I as yet named not, (that woe
Without a cure) lest, terrified, my crew
Should all
renounce
their oars, and crowd below.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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" They
certainly
have more of the Scotch than Irish taste
in them.
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Robert Burns |
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Le Temps mange la vie,
Et l'obscur Ennemi qui nous ronge le coeur
Du sang que nous perdons croit et se
fortifie!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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and thus o'er all the creatures sway,
Thus let the wiser make the rest obey;
And, for those arts mere
instinct
could afford,
Be crowned as monarchs, or as gods adored.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"They should, by rights,
Give them a chance--because, you know,
The tastes of people differ so,
Especially
in Sprites.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came
Missiues
from
the King, who all-hail'd me Thane of Cawdor, by which Title
before, these weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to
the comming on of time, with haile King that shalt be.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And
you've denied me the
consolation
of breaking down.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of implied warranties or
the exclusion or
limitation
of consequential damages, so the
above disclaimers and exclusions may not apply to you, and you
may have other legal rights.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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That the English-
speaking public may gain at any rate some faint idea
of his genius, it has been my joyous task to translate
the following small
selection
of his works.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Your sons are stars who cluster to a dawn
And fade in light for you, O
glorious
France!
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| Question: |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes,
Brightly expressive as the twins of Loeda,
Shall find her own sweet name, that, nestling lies
Upon the page,
enwrapped
from every reader.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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But when thy glance rests on me then my whole
Being
quickens
and blooms like trees in May.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"Is
football
playing
Along the river shore,
With lads to chase the leather,
Now I stand up no more?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Pales,
bring gifts,
bring your
Phoenician
stuffs,
and do you, fleet-footed nymphs,
bring offerings,
Illyrian iris,
and a branch of shrub,
and frail-headed poppies.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,
Straight
I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore--
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking "Nevermore.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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No Greek among us
Has dealt such pain
Cruelty plain,
I would maintain,
As that I've seen:
In such misery and fear I've been,
My eyes scarcely move it seems
When I see her, fear so extreme,
Sweet,
gracious
words lacking I mean.
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Troubador Verse |
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"
"And," said the old Storks, "if you find a frog, divide it
carefully
into
seven bits, but on no account quarrel about it.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Such oracle my ancient
Mother told me,
Titanian
Themis;
But how and by what means, this needs long speech
To tell, and nothing, learning, wilt thou gain.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| Transcriber's Notes |
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| Page 10: torse _sic_ |
| Page 11: lower case amended to title case ("your
shoulders
|
| are level" amended to "Your shoulders are level").
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But let me well beware how I obey 430
Too soon that precept, for I saw the land
Of my
foretold
deliv'rance far remote.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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)
Before the paling of the stars,
Before the winter morn,
Before the
earliest
cockcrow
Jesus Christ was born:
Born in a stable,
Cradled in a manger,
In the world His hands had made
Born a stranger.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Habitavi
cum
habitantibus Cedar; multum incola fuit aninia mea.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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With these faults, Ovid had such enchanting graces, that his style and
manner
infected
every branch of literature.
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| Question: |
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Tacitus |
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XXIII
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
Who counselled, so his race might not moulder,
Nor Rome's citizens be spoiled by leisure,
That Carthage should be spared
destruction!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I could even fancy that they
despised
me.
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Kipling - Poems |
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XXXVII
"What victory, my lord," (Sobrino cries)
"Could better than thy death the Christian cheer,
Whence he might hope to joy in quiet wise
Fair Africa, from all
annoyance
clear?
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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By the turning, once again,
The moon
thniwfeh
up your visage wan,
And yet too late to call you back.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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' Daniel does the
same, and
Coleridge
uses it as we do.
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| Question: |
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James Russell Lowell |
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"
Swift as the word, advancing from the crowd,
He made obeisance, and thus spoke aloud:
"Vouchsafes the reverend
stranger
to display
His manly worth, and share the glorious day?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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As through the spirit paling,
The pathways--then across the weald
Caressing breezes sailing
Respond
themselves
o'er fence and field.
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| Question: |
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Sometimes, when we
walked along the back side of a house which stood near the road, we
observed stout stakes leaning against it, by which the shutters, now
pushed half open, were
fastened
at night; within, the houses were
neatly ceiled with wood not painted.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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'
(For your dear
departed
wife, his friend) 2 November 1877
- 'Over the lost woods when dark winter lowers
You moan, O solitary captive of the threshold,
That this double tomb which our pride should hold's
Cluttered, alas, only with absent weight of flowers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Sleep, and the Dwarf with that
unsteady
gleam
On his raised lip, that aped a critic smile,
Had passed: yet I, my sad thoughts to beguile,
Lay weaving on the tissue of my dream;
Till audibly at length I cried, as though
Thou hadst indeed been present to my eyes,
O sweet, sweet sufferer; if the case be so,
I pray thee, be _less_ good, _less_ sweet, _less_ wise!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Good Catesby, go effect this
business
soundly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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No portion where the maidens throng to praise
Castor--my Castor, whom in ancient days,
Ere he passed from us and men worshipped him,
They named my
bridegroom!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Methinks thy brother haunts thee, being forlorn;
Aye, and
perchance
thy father, whom they slew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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All white objects are more
remarkable
than by day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Beyond grim Petrograd
He'd waked the moujik from his peaceful dreams,
Bid the muezzin call to morning prayer
Where minarets rise o'er the Golden Horn,
And driven shadows from the
Prussian
march
To lie beneath the lindens of the _stadt_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
She is in
mourning
garb,
and carries a large pitcher on her head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The breath of death is upon me, and you come to throw me into
despair!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The
Conquest
of Summer
THE blue-toned campions and the blood-red poppies
Escape the murmuring and fleeting grain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Living Rome, the
ornament
of the world,
Now dead, remains the world's monument.
| 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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The
glorious
lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
The
nuthatch
noises loud in wood and wild,
Like women turning skreeking to a child.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Io Hymen
Hymenaee
io,
io Hymen Hymenaee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Then the mechanics take him for a mechanic,
And the soldiers suppose him to be a soldier, and the sailors that he has
followed the sea,
And the authors take him for an author, and the artists for an artist,
And the labourers
perceive
he could labour with them and love them;
No matter what the work is, that he is the one to follow it, or has
followed it,
No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters
there.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I do not
understand
the 'kinsmen' of the editions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Ten
thousand
fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin--his control
Stops with the shore;--upon the watery plain
The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain
A shadow of man's ravage, save his own,
When for a moment, like a drop of rain,
He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan,
Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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A
murmuring
rose, 830
Like what was never heard in all the throes
Of wind and waters: 'tis past human wit
To tell; 'tis dizziness to think of it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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ing of a Mercat-womans Mare, 10
Twixt this, and
_Totnam_?
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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_
MADAM,
There is an affectation of
gratitude
which I dislike.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
"]
XIV
Still thirst fresh draughts of wine compels
To cool the cutlets' seething grease,
When the
sonorous
Breguet tells
Of the commencement of the piece.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And what's in prayer but this twofold force,
To be
forestalled
ere we come to fall,
Or pardon'd being down?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,
I will have
thousands
of globes and all time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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crutches
made of mist!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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and will solve
Thy
questions
with much truth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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At the harbour mouth a sail 5
Glimmers in the morning sun,
And the ripples at her prow
Whiten into
crumbling
foam,
As she forges outward bound
For the teeming foreign ports.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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She
sorrowed
and was astonished
how his ways were .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The immortals guard him through the
dreadful
plain,
And suffer not his dart to fall in vain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Most of the
accounts
of Li Po's life which have hitherto appeared are
based on the biography given in vol.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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--For weeks the balmy air
breathed
soft and mild,
And on the gliding vessel Heaven and Ocean smiled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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When the bee sips in the bean, and grey willow
branches
lean,
And the moonbeam looks between,
Bonny lassie O!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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For nete uppon the erthe, botte to be
choughens
foode.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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CHORUS
Would God that on the wand'ring brine
Thou and this
braggart
tongue of thine
Had sunk beneath the main--
Thy mast and planks, made fast in vain!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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I do believe in
avenging
gods
Who plague us for sins we never sinned
But who avenge us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Thus may Cyprus'
heavenly
queen,
Thus Helen's brethren, stars of brightest sheen,
Guide thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The revelling of
Heracles
is touched in with the lightest of
hands; it is little more than symbolic.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your
laughter
at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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See to it that both act honourably,
Once over, bring the
conqueror
to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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In 1772 a riot took place in the
principal
settlement.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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hic iuuenis casta
redimitus
tempora lauro
est uisus nostra ponere sede pedem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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He did not see the
crucifixion
in a vision, but was told about
it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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_
No Lover saith, I love, nor any other
Can judge a perfect Lover;
Hee thinkes that else none can, nor will agree
That any loves but hee:
I cannot say I lov'd, for who can say 5
Hee was kill'd
yesterday?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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For that which, if myself might be his judge,
He should receive his
punishment
in thanks:
He hath got his friend with child.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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The city of Toulouse was considered as the
principal
seat of
this earliest modern poetry, which was carried to perfection in the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries, under the patronage of the Counts of
Toulouse, particularly Raimond V.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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'
Than unto
Bialacoil
saide I,
'I thank you, sir, ful hertely, 3000
And your biheest [I] take at gree,
That ye so goodly prefer me;
To you it cometh of greet fraunchyse,
That ye me prefer your servyse.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Meredith - Poems |
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)
Just in the time, and place, and in the hour
When humble tears should earthly joys devour,
It pleased him, whom th' vulgar honour so,
To triumph over me; and now I know
What miserable
servitude
they prove,
What ruin, and what death, that fall in love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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how
beautiful
it is, and how glad I am
that I am alive to-day!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Let Lyde hear those maidens' guilt,
Their famous doom, the
ceaseless
drain
Of outpour'd water, ever spilt,
And all the pain
Reserved for sinners, e'en when dead:
Those impious hands, (could crime do more?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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from the
narrow
fastness
of Pelorus the North wind comes down and reaches us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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168), for convenience of
comparison
of two later repre|sentatives of one unknown original.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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'Tis love, but, with such fatall weaknesse made,
That it
deftroyes
it selfe with its owne shade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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After, the King and all his army mount,
And
Bramimunde
a prisoner is bound,
No harm to her, but only good he's vowed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Then all was silent, till there smote my ear
A
movement
in the stream that checked my breath:
Was it the slow plash of a wading deer?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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ipse interque agnos interque armenta Cupido
natus et
indomitas
dicitur inter equas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The jew is
underneath
the lot.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The seruice, and the
loyaltie
I owe,
In doing it, payes it selfe.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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LOUIS UNTERMEYER
MONOLOG FROM A MATTRESS
_Heinrich
Heine aetat 56, loquitur:_
Can that be you, _la mouche?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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: SONNET
on the tally-board of wasted days
IF write me for They daily
proud idleness, Let high Hell summons me, and I confess,
No overt act the
preferred
charge allays.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And what
shoulder
and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Paint me a
cavernous
waste shore
Cast in the unstilted Cyclades,
Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks
Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Purgatorio
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Cum Delphi tota certatim ex urbe ruentes
Acciperent
laeti divom fumantibus aris.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Have I not hideous death within my view,
Retaining but a quantity of life,
Which bleeds away even as a form of wax
Resolveth
from his figure 'gainst the fire?
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Shakespeare |
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