"
"Such a
trouble!
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Robert Forst |
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It may still be objected that these Tales are unfounded or
that they have
everywhere
a foundation easy to destroy; in short that
they are absurdities and have not the least tinge of probability.
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La Fontaine |
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1400
`Now lat me allone, and werken as I may,'
Quod he; and to
Deiphebus
wente he tho
Which hadde his lord and grete freend ben ay;
Save Troilus, no man he lovede so.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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My house is a decayed house,
And the jew squats on the window sill, the owner,
Spawned in some estaminet of Antwerp,
Blistered
in Brussels, patched and peeled in London.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Rivers arise; whether thou be the Son,
Of utmost Tweed, or Oose, or gulphie Dun,
Or Trent, who like some earth-born Giant spreads
His thirty Armes along the
indented
Meads,
Or sullen Mole that runneth underneath,
Or Severn swift, guilty of Maidens death,
Or Rockie Avon, or of Sedgie Lee,
Or Coaly Tine, or antient hallowed Dee,
Or Humber loud that keeps the Scythians Name,
Or Medway smooth, or Royal Towred Thame.
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Milton |
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The variety is incredible, and
therefore
we must
search.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Glory and wealth and power
Are base and
worthless
when compared with it.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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An hour behind the
fleeting
breath,
Later by just an hour than death, --
Oh, lagging yesterday!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Lord, this is
violence
.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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opportunity
to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Let it be but the witless mating of beasts,
Tamed and
curiously
knowing itself
And cunning in its own delight: What then?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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us vi, dompna, primeiramen,
The day I saw you, lady that first time,
When you were pleased to let me see,
All other
thoughts
departed from my mind,
And my wishes turned to you, utterly.
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Troubador Verse |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Poe - 5 |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Brill,
Who
purchased
a shirt with a frill;
But they said, "Don't you wish, you mayn't look like a fish,
You obsequious old person of Brill?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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280
`For to every wight som goodly aventure
Som tyme is shape, if he it can receyven;
And if that he wol take of it no cure,
Whan that it commeth, but
wilfully
it weyven,
Lo, neither cas nor fortune him deceyven, 285
But right his verray slouthe and wrecchednesse;
And swich a wight is for to blame, I gesse.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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For those ashamed of him Cupid reserves the bitterest passions,
Mingling
for hypocrites their pleasure in vice and remorse.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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If the time
becomes
slothful
and heavy, he knows how to arouse it: he can make every
word he speaks draw blood.
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Whitman |
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As now she might have done,
So much to my good comfort as it is
Now
piercing
to my soul.
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Shakespeare |
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PORTIA
TO ELLEN TERRY
(_Written at the Lyceum Theatre_)
I MARVEL not
Bassanio
was so bold
To peril all he had upon the lead,
Or that proud Aragon bent low his head
Or that Morocco's fiery heart grew cold:
For in that gorgeous dress of beaten gold
Which is more golden than the golden sun
No woman Veronese looked upon
Was half so fair as thou whom I behold.
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Wilde - Poems |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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Words
beginning
with ge- will be found under their root-word.
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Beowulf |
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Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the
parallels
in beauty's brow,
Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:
And yet to times in hope, my verse shall stand.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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His from youth the leader's look
Gave the law which others took,
And never poor
beseeching
glance
Shamed that sculptured countenance.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Thus rendering thanks that he is lowly bred,
Because from such none look for
valorous
deeds.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Hill tops like hot iron glitter bright in the sun,
And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run;
Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air;
Whoever looks round sees
Eternity
there.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Three
thousand
suns went down on _Welsted's_ lie.
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Alexander Pope |
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Since I'll not find your equal,
Lovely as you, made as nobly,
Nor so joyous, sweet in body,
Lovely to every sense,
Nor so happy
Nor, by all repute, so worthy
I'll go seeking everywhere
A feature from each woman fair,
To make a
borrowed
lady
Till you look again toward me.
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Troubador Verse |
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" said she, "but even now
Thy voice was at sweet tremble in mine ear,
Made
tuneable
with every sweetest vow;
And those sad eyes were spiritual and clear: 310
How chang'd thou art!
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Keats |
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Li Po |
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Struck for the
immortal
race with timely fear,
From frantic Mars she snatch'd the shield and spear;
Then the huge helmet lifting from his head,
Thus to the impetuous homicide she said:
"By what wild passion, furious!
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Iliad - Pope |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Lucretius |
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His offence in the eyes of de Crousaz was that he had
left out of account all doctrines of
orthodox
theology.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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O cruel hands that hold me
powerless!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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[Enter Host
conducting
HERBERT.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Now on the moth-time of that evening dim
He would return that way, as well she knew,
To Corinth from the shore; for freshly blew
The eastern soft wind, and his galley now
Grated the
quaystones
with her brazen prow
In port Cenchreas, from Egina isle
Fresh anchor'd; whither he had been awhile
To sacrifice to Jove, whose temple there
Waits with high marble doors for blood and incense rare.
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Keats |
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)
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Nous
dorerons
ton Louvre en donnant nos gros sous!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Li Po |
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This the poets understood by their
Helicon, Pegasus, or Parnassus; and this made Ovid to boast,
"Est deus in nobis, agitante calescimus illo
Sedibus
aethereis
spiritus ille venit.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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For your interest or favour with him, you are to be the
shorter or longer, more
familiar
or submiss, as he will afford you time.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The applause of contemporaries, however, is not always
justified
by the
verdict of after-times, and does not always secure an immortality of
renown.
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Sappho |
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gefrætwade foldan
scēatas
leomum
and lēafum, 96;--_top, surface, part_: gen.
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Beowulf |
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The poem has always
affected
me in a remarkable manner.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Milne, "where oaks
were planted actually among the pines and
surrounded
by them [though
the soil might be inferior], the oaks were found to be much the best.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Nay, though the heath-rover, harried by dogs,
the horn-proud hart, this holt should seek,
long
distance
driven, his dear life first
on the brink he yields ere he brave the plunge
to hide his head: 'tis no happy place!
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Forgive us, if as days decline,
We nearer steal to Thee, --
Enamoured of the parting west,
The peace, the flight, the amethyst,
Night's
possibility!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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To-morrow shall be thine
A kid, whose crescent brow
Is
sprouting
all for love and victory.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Through blood, through death,
Achilles
still proceeds,
O'er slaughter'd heroes, and o'er rolling steeds.
| Guess: |
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Iliad - Pope |
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The
threadbare
trees, so poor and thin,
They are no wealthier than I;
But with as brave a core within
They rear their boughs to the October sky.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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--How
Melanthius
got out of
the hall remains a puzzle.
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether
equipped
with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Why, Madam, she was passing
Some chapel down in Essex, and with her
Lady Anne Wharton, and the Lady Anne
Bow'd to the Pyx; but Lady Jane stood up
Stiff as the very
backbone
of heresy.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
It then goes forth against the King of Spain in
obedience
to
the command of Queen Elizabeth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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A
melancholy
Bird?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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ein
politisch
Lied
Ein leidig Lied!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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A flowery
kingdom?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
So, till the judgment that
yourself
arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Thus sang the uncouth swain to the oaks and rills,
While the still morn went out with sandals gray;
He touch'd the tender stops of various quills,
With eager thought
warbling
his Doric lay:
And now the sun had stretch'd out all the hills,
And now was dropt into the western bay:
At last he rose, and twitch'd his mantle blue:
To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Nous en avons assez, la, de ces
cerveaux
plats
Et de ces ventres-dieux.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
[End of the Second Night]
Ahania heard the Lamentation & a swift
Vibration
Spread thro her Golden frame.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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1481:
_famuloque
tanus_ (_tanus al.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Lotus-maiden, may you be
Fragrant
of all ecstasy.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Project
Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive
specific
permission.
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| Question: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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This was in the last year of
the poet's life, and after the Museum had been
brightened
by so much
of his lyric verse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
'My
boldnesse
is turned to shame,
For fals Fortune hath pleyd a game
Atte ches with me, allas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
A fool treats his
mistress
cruelly,
I'll pardon her if she'll pardon me,
Liars they are, whom naught avails,
If they made me speak badly of her.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
The whirling,
whizzing
magic-choir
Darts forth ten thousand sparks of fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320
Consider Phlebas, who was once
handsome
and tall as you.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Drag me from his lurking-place
The
traitor!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
O little Cloud the virgin said, I charge thee to tell me
Why thou
complainest
now when in one hour thou fade away:
Then we shall seek thee but not find: ah Thel is like to thee.
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blake-poems |
|
) will,
_no doubt, have to struggle with
feelings
of awkwardness; (ha!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
to
affright
withal
By cursing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
causal: l) _on account of, for the sake of, owing
to_: þurh slīðne nīð (_through fierce hostility, heathenism_), 184; þurh
holdne hige (_from friendliness_), 267; so, þurh rūmne sefan, 278; þurh
sīdne sefan, 1727; ēoweð þurh egsan
uncūðne
nīð (_shows unheard-of
hostility by the terror he causes_), 276; so, 1102, 1336, 2046.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Is't such a matter to get a pottle-pot's
maidenhead?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Like poison loathes the oil,
His arms no longer black and blue with honourable toil,
He who
erewhile
was known
For quoit or javelin oft and oft beyond the limit thrown?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Shall his fevered eye
Through
towering
nothingness descry
The grisly phantom hurry by?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Then, Painter, show thy skill, and in fit place
Let 's see the nuncio Arundel's sweet face ;
Let the
beholders
bj thy art espy
His sense and soul, as squinting as his eye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Canto V
<
fiammeggio
nel caldo d'amore
di la dal modo che 'n terra si vede,
si che del viso tuo vinco il valore,
non ti maravigliar, che cio procede
da perfetto veder, che, come apprende,
cosi nel bene appreso move il piede.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
O, so unnatural Nature,
You whose
ephemeral
flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Upon the
mountain
did they feed;
They throve, and we at home did thrive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Pour un de ces regards charmants, baume divin,
Des
plaisirs
plus obscurs je leverai les voiles,
Et je t'endormirai dans un reve sans fin!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
25
The
Macmillan
Co.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Before all my tinder
Dies away into coals, coals then to ashes decline,
She will be back and new faggots as well as big logs will be blazing,
Making a
festival
where lovers will warm up the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
And Theseus is to be
implored!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
The kingly lion stood,
And the virgin viewed:
Then he
gambolled
round
O'er the hallowed ground.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Is it that death forgets to free
You fishes of
melancholy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Is it a purblind prank, O think you,
Friend with the musing eye
Who watch us
stepping
by,
With doubt and dolorous sigh?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
He is a
stronger
proof of the immortality of
the soul, than any that philosophy ever produced.
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Robert Forst |
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And in low
faltering
tones, yet sweet,
Did she the lofty lady greet
With such perplexity of mind
As dreams too lively leave behind.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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By God's truth I 've seen The arrowy
sunlight
in her golden snares.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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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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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The whole theory of modern
education
is radically unsound.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Turnus too his own fate
summons, and his
allotted
period hath reached the goal.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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We
others, the slaves, we play at odd and even with gold pieces, and carry
luxury so far that we no longer wipe
ourselves
with stones, but use
garlic stalks instead.
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Aristophanes |
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The "portfolios" were found, shortly after Emily Dickinson's death,
by her sister and only
surviving
housemate.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Hither our nymphs and heroes did resort,
To taste awhile the pleasures of a court;
In various talk the cheerful hours they passed, 75
Of who was bit, or who
capotted
last;
This speaks the glory of the British queen,
And that describes a charming Indian screen;
A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;
At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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Alexander Pope |
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