Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But
microscopes
are prudent
In an emergency!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Besides, if eyes of ours but act as doors,
Methinks
that, were our sight removed, the mind
Ought then still better to behold a thing--
When even the door-posts have been cleared away.
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Lucretius |
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" return'd she tenderly:
"You have
deserted
me--where am I now?
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Keats - Lamia |
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With tyrant dead your fathers traced
A circle wide, with battles graced;
Victorious
garland, red and vast!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But when they turned their faces,
And on the farther shore
Saw brave
Horatius
stand alone,
They would have crossed once more.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Or did your tearing fingers fall
On some old
picture?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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]
See, where on high the moving masses, piled
By the wind, break in groups grotesque and wild,
Present strange shapes to view;
Oft flares a pallid flash from out their shrouds,
As though some air-born giant 'mid the clouds
Sudden his
falchion
drew.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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(which did not you prolong,
The world had wanted many an idle song)
What _Drop_ or
_Nostrum_
can this plague remove?
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Alexander Pope |
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Ne l'ordine ch'io dico sono accline
tutte nature, per diverse sorti,
piu al
principio
loro e men vicine;
onde si muovono a diversi porti
per lo gran mar de l'essere, e ciascuna
con istinto a lei dato che la porti.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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He gave orders
for boats and carriages to be
provided
for their departure.
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Tacitus |
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unto the green holly:
Most
friendship
is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh ho!
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Golden Treasury |
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]
[Footnote 11: Almost everything that we know of
Chatterton
in London
was ascertained by Sir H.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was
preserved
for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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2) In "The Hard Times in Elfland", the last line of the 50th stanza
read in the
original
as:
"Thus we become the sport of Fate.
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Sidney Lanier |
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NIGHTFALL IN THE CITY OF HYDERABAD
See how the speckled sky burns like a pigeon's throat,
Jewelled
with embers of opal and peridote.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Have you no comfort for me
Cold-colored
flowers?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Lever me were, that knyves kerve
My body shulde in pecis smalle, 3095
Than in any wyse it shulde falle
That ye
wratthed
shulde been with me.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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[3] Pay a trademark license fee to the Foundation of 20% of the
gross profits you derive calculated using the method you
already use to calculate your
applicable
taxes.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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who is
screaming
as in mortal agony?
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Aeschylus |
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Once again
the faithful woman instructs her heroic lover in the conventions
of society, this time teaching him the importance of the family
in Babylonian life, and
obedience
to the ruler.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Beautiful
eagle!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread tribunal of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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In the Metropolitan Museum
Within the tiny Pantheon
We stood together silently,
Leaving the
restless
crowd awhile
As ships find shelter from the sea.
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Sara Teasdale |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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but from the
Universal
Brotherhood of Eden John I c.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Do not dream that I speak
as one defrauded of delight,
sick, shaken by each heart-beat
or paralyzed,
stretched
at length,
who gasps:
these ripe pears
are bitter to the taste,
this spiced wine, poison, corrupt.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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To achieve a swift
departure
was his only aim!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The
circumstances
of the sending bear a strong resemblance to the
instructions given to Pug:
Thou shalt be subject unto human chance,
So far as common wit cannot relieve thee.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The breach lies open, but your chief in vain
Attempts alone the guarded pass to gain:
Unite, and soon that hostile fleet shall fall:
The force of
powerful
union conquers all.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The moaning wind went
wandering
round
The weeping prison-wall:
Till like a wheel of turning steel
We felt the minutes crawl:
O moaning wind!
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Wilde - Poems |
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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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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Each
snarling
lash of the stormy sea
Curled like a hungry tongue.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And only inwardly inclines,
As we are wont if there draws nigh
A
stranger
on his final round.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The
invalidity
or
unenforceability of any provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining provisions.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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some hag of hell,
Raving a
truceless
curse upon her kin?
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Here come two of Sir John
Falstaffs
men, as I think.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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By this affront my father's the offended,
And the
offender
is the father of Chimene!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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the
streets would have been impassable for the thronging
tambourines!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Thou art first Squire to that most
puissant
knight,
Lord Satan, who thy faithful squireship long
Hath watched and well shall guerdon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Not from that day, when on this earth I first
Beheld her charms, up to that view of them,
Have I with song
applausive
ever ceas'd
To follow, but not follow them no more;
My course here bounded, as each artist's is,
When it doth touch the limit of his skill.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Be not disheart'nd then, nor cloud those looks
That wont to be more
chearful
and serene
Then when fair Morning first smiles on the World,
And let us to our fresh imployments rise
Among the Groves, the Fountains, and the Flours
That open now thir choicest bosom'd smells
Reservd from night, and kept for thee in store.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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He says that the toll is one
twelfth in the United States where
competition
exists.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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E io a lui: <
che de lo
smisurato
Briareo
esperienza avesser li occhi mei>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
TITYRUS
Sooner shall light stags, therefore, feed in air,
The seas their fish leave naked on the strand,
Germans and
Parthians
shift their natural bounds,
And these the Arar, those the Tigris drink,
Than from my heart his face and memory fade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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_ The confusion of
elements
from which the
world was created.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Who will say that he saw--or the dusk
deceived
him--
A mist with hands of mist blow down from the tree
And open the door and enter and close it after?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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dost not with juster measure guide
The appetite of
mortals?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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You would have snared me,
and
scattered
the strands of my nest;
but the very fact that you saw,
sheltered me, claimed me,
set me apart from the rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Expectes
eadem a summo minimoque poetâ.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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The
devilish
pack from rules deliverance boasts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Till by her radiant smile deceived,
I say, "Young angel, lately given,
When was thy martyrdom
achieved?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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out of death, and out of ooze and slime,
The
blossoms
rapidly blooming, sympathy, help, love,
From West and East, from South and North and over sea,
Its hot-spurr'd hearts and hands humanity to human aid moves on;
And from within a thought and lesson yet.
| 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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If it is thou who punishest; but rather
It is that, when we slacken in perceiving
The world's intent towards us, and fatally,
Enticed out of suspicion by fair signs,
Go from
ignoring
its proposals, down
To parley,--thou our weakness dost permit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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If you a goddess love, advance she'll make;
Our belle the same
advantages
would take.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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[Footnote 1: In addition to my own detection of errors in the text and
notes to the
editions
1882-9, I acknowledge special obligation to the
late Vice-Chancellor of the Victoria University, Principal Greenwood,
who went over every volume with laborious care, and sent me the result.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Does my joy
sometimes
erupt?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Where has the flame
departed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Celmonde
canne ne'er from anie byker staie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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To the songs I sing the moon
flickers
her beams;
In the dance I weave my shadow tangles and breaks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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I'll not be wooed for pelf;
I'll not blot out my shame
With any man's good name;
But
nameless
as I stand,
My hand is my own hand,
And nameless as I came
I go to the dark land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Dunlop, respecting "The Dream," which she had begged the poet to
omit, lest it should harm his
fortunes
with the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine Elizabethan translation which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in
English!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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was it thy desire
That I should hide thee with my power & delight thee with my beauty
And now there
darknest
in my presence, never from my sight
Shalt thou depart to weep in secret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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I fear I shall never return from my
westward
wandering; the way is
steep and the rocks cannot be climbed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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I hope you are not
avaricious!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And I, lately moved by no weapons launched against me, nor by
the
thronging
bands of my Grecian foes, am now terrified at every
breath, startled by every noise, thrilling with fear alike for my
companion and my burden.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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A little moment past, so
smiling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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[Note 65: Lepage--a
celebrated
gunmaker of former days.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Sarojini
Chattopadhyay
was born at Hyderabad on February 13,
1879.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
Twenty
thousand
beside him Charles leads,
Who with one voice have sworn him fealty;
In straits of death they never will him leave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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URIEL
It fell in the ancient periods
Which the
brooding
soul surveys,
Or ever the wild Time coined itself
Into calendar months and days.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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This devotion to beauty and to the creation of beautiful
things is the test of all great civilisations; it is what makes the life
of each citizen a
sacrament
and not a speculation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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God gives not only corn for need,
But
likewise
sup'rabundant seed;
Bread for our service, bread for show,
Meat for our meals, and fragments too:
He gives not poorly, taking some
Between the finger and the thumb;
But for our glut and for our store,
Fine flour press'd down, and running o'er.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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ei cleuen
certeyne
al wey to hem self.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Now I've
bartered
here for booty of treasure
the last of my life, so look ye well
to the needs of my land!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
How
joyfully
didst thou
Live out thy youth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Oscura e profonda era e nebulosa
tanto che, per ficcar lo viso a fondo,
io non vi
discernea
alcuna cosa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The immutable calm of this white burning,
O my fearful kisses, makes you say, sadly,
'Will we ever be one
mummified
winding,
Under the ancient sands and palms so happy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
-ang, which
includes
"Business Men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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At a shoe-shop, whither we were
directed
for this purpose, we got some
of our American money changed into English.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
To what fell complot was I then
exposed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Ma
lievemente
al fondo che divora
Lucifero con Giuda, ci sposo;
ne, si chinato, li fece dimora,
e come albero in nave si levo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But half of our heavy task was done
When the clock struck the hour for retiring;
And we heard the distant and random gun
That the foe was
sullenly
firing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
CANZON
TO BE SUNG BENEATH A WINDOW
I
HEART mine, art mine, whose embraces Clasp but wind that past thee
bloweth?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
De la male Sapho, l'amante et le poete,
Plus belle que Venus par ses mornes
paleurs!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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at
trauailed
be
In hunger & ?
| 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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org/about/contact
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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vous qui voulez manger
Le Lotus
parfume!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Here met the foe
Fierce Vulcan, queenly Juno here,
And he who ne'er shall quit his bow,
Who laves in clear
Castalian
flood
His locks, and loves the leafy growth
Of Lycia next his native wood,
The Delian and the Pataran both.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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When, bathed in Dawn of living red,
Majestic frowned the
mountain
head,
"Tell me my fault," was all he said.
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Lewis Carroll |
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She hunted for her
little purse and gravely took out a
threepenny
bit.
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Kipling - Poems |
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<
del sommo rege, vendico le fora
ond' usci 'l sangue per Giuda venduto,
col nome che piu dura e piu onora
era io di la>>,
rispuose
quello spirto,
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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