He is presumed to have died in an ambush by
Bulgarian
forces.
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Troubador Verse |
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Most eloquent 'mid race of Romulus
That is or ever was (Marc
Tullius!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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He was born at Old
Aberdeen
on May 19, 1895.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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--
Thus the
tradition
of the gusty deep.
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Keats |
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rusticus hunc magna postquam deprendit ab aure,
correptum stimulis
uerberibusque
domat;
et simul abstracto denudans corpora tergo
increpat his miserum uocibus ille pecus;
'forsitan ignotos imitato murmure fallas;
at mihi, qui quondam, semper asellus eris.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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She stirr'd not--breath'd not--for a voice was there
How
solemnly
pervading the calm air!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The death of the
Countess
had surprised no one, as it had long been
expected.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Look up and see the casement broken in,
The bats and owlets
builders
in the roof!
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Jonson's
translation
is:
Let what thou feign'st for pleasure's sake, be near
The truth.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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' it blew,
Yet wavered oft, and flew
Most
ficklewise
about, or here, or there,
A music now from earth and now from air.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The leaf and the laborer breathe
Death in the sun, the cities seethe,
The mortal black marshes bubble with heat
And puff up pestilence; nothing is sweet
Has to do with the sun: even virtue will taint
(Philosophers say) and manhood grow faint
In the lands where the
villainous
sun has sway
Through the livelong drag of the dreadful day.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The scents of red roses and sandalwood flutter
and die in the maze of their gem-tangled hair,
And smiles are entwining like magical serpents
the poppies of lips that are opiate-sweet;
Their
glittering
garments of purple are burning
like tremulous dawns in the quivering air,
And exquisite, subtle and slow are the tinkle
and tread of their rhythmical, slumber-soft feet.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Come, Winter, with thine angry howl,
And raging bend the naked tree:
Thy gloom will sooth my
cheerless
soul,
When nature all is sad like me!
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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"
And each knight blew upon his horn
And went his
separate
way,
And each knight found a lady-love
Before the fall of day.
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Sara Teasdale |
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It then goes out an act,
Or is
entombed
so still
That only to the ear of God
Its doom is audible.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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No words can tell in what celestial hour
God made your soul and gave it mortal birth,
Nor in the
disarray
of all the stars
Is any place so sweet that such a flower
Might linger there until thro' heaven's bars,
It heard God's voice that bade it down to earth.
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Sara Teasdale |
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CVIII
But from effecting what he had intended
He was
prevented
by the warlike maid;
Who late into the crowded square had wended,
With Sansonnet and England's duke arrayed,
Seeing the arms of which I spoke suspended,
She straight agnized the harness she surveyed,
Once hers, and dear to her; as matters are
Esteemed by us as excellent and rare;
CIX
Though, as a hindrance, she upon the road
Had left the arms, when, to retrieve her sword,
She from her shoulders slipt the ponderous load,
And chased Brunello, worthy of the cord.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Half-envious of the
flattering
hand, she drew
Nearer and stood.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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at were
enbrauded
abof, wyth bryddes & fly3es,
With gay gaudi of grene, ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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could another ever share
This wayward, loveless heart, it would be thine:
But checked by every tie, I may not dare
To cast a
worthless
offering at thy shrine,
Nor ask so dear a breast to feel one pang for mine.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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He rist him up, and every dore he shette
And windowe eek, and tho this
sorweful
man
Up-on his beddes syde a-doun him sette,
Ful lyk a deed image pale and wan; 235
And in his brest the heped wo bigan
Out-breste, and he to werken in this wyse
In his woodnesse, as I shal yow devyse.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Fortunate
one,
scented and stinging,
rigid myrrh-bud,
camphor-flower,
sweet and salt--you are wind
in our nostrils.
| Guess: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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People must adopt some attitude towards me, and so pass
judgment, both on
themselves
and me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Fear seized his slacken'd limbs and beating heart,
As thus he
communed
with his soul apart;
"Ah me!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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He must not leave all
the glory to
Antonius
and Varus.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Form and face
Of womanhood
complete!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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--
Ah God, that such an irresistible fiend,
Pain, in the
beautiful
housing of man's flesh
Should sleep, light as a leopard in its hunger,
Beside the heavenly soul; and at a wound
Leap up to mangle her, the senses' guest!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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After much persuasion, Gawayne
consents
to stop at the castle another
day (ll.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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'You do not do any of these things at all well,'
he went on, with an
insolence
peculiar to him when excited.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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IT
happened
that our fair one evening said,
To her who of each infant step had led,
But of the present secret nothing knew:--
I feel unwell; pray tell me what to do.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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_Half of thy heart_: Queen Eleanor died soon after the
conquest
of
Wales.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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_ A
melancholy
one--to call the attendance
Of----
_Doge_.
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| Question: |
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Byron |
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The news of my arrest
electrified
with horror my whole family.
| 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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My queen and Eros
Have, by their brave instruction, got upon me
A
nobleness
in record.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering
lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The windel-straw nor grass so shook and trembled;
As the good and gallant
stripling
shook and trembled;
A linen shirt so fine his frame invested,
O'er the shirt was drawn a bright pelisse of scarlet
The sleeves of that pelisse depended backward,
The lappets of its front were button'd backward,
And were spotted with the blood of unbelievers;
See the good and gallant stripling reeling goeth,
From his eyeballs hot and briny tears distilling;
On his bended bow his figure he supporteth,
Till his bended bow has lost its goodly gilding;
Not a single soul the stripling good encounter'd,
Till encounter'd he the mother dear who bore him:
O my boy, O my treasure, and my darling!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Then as a licensed spy, whom nothing can
Silence or hurt, he libels the great man;
Swears every place entailed for years to come,
In sure
succession
to the day of doom;
He names the price for every office paid,
And says our wars thrive ill, because delayed;
Nay hints, 'tis by connivance of the Court,
That Spain robs on, and Dunkirk's still a port.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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There walks Judas, he who sold
Yesterday his Lord for gold,
Sold God's
presence
in his heart
For a proud step in the mart;
He hath dealt in flesh and blood:
At the bank his name is good;
At the bank, and only there,
'Tis a marketable ware.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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"
--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Or how or where I am, to such reply:
Where the tall
mountain
throws
Its shade, in the lone vale, whence Sorga flows,
He roams, where never eye
Save Love's, who leaves him not a step, is by,
And one dear image who his peace destroys,
Alone with whom to muse all else in life he flies.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Possibly
the 'a' has crept in
and one should read simply 'plow-land', or, like _P_, 'plow-lands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and
permanent
future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
El Desdichado (The Disinherited)
I am the darkness - the widower - the un-consoled,
The prince of
Aquitaine
in the ruined tower;
My sole star is dead - and my constellated lute
Bears the black sun of Melancholy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Once when the
grindstone
almost jumped its bearing
It looked as if he might be badly thrown
And wounded on his blade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
"
THREE
RECEIPTS
FOR DOMESTIC COOKERY.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Into his bowels then his launce he thruste, 385
And drew
thereout
a steemie drerie lode;
Quod he; these offals are for ever curst,
Shall serve the coughs, and rooks, and dawes, for 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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The softly stealing echo comes again
From crowds of men whom, wearily, he shuns;
And many see you there--so his thought runs--
And tenderest
memories
are pierced with pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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It is no small matter, this round and delicious globe, moving so exactly in
its orbit for ever and ever, without one jolt, or the untruth of a
single second;
I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten
billions
of years,
Nor planned and built one thing after another, as an architect plans and
builds a house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Evidently
Blake tried it as Night the Third and as Night the First at least twice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Shall lovers higgle, heart for heart,
Till wooing grows a trading mart
Where much for little, and all for part,
Make love a
cheapening
art,
Fair Lady?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
org),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its
original
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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hæfde Higelāces hilde gefrūnen, 2953; hæfdon
gefrūnen
þæt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Here by the stream, if I the night out-wear,
Thus spent already, how shall nature bear
The dews descending, and nocturnal air;
Or chilly vapours
breathing
from the flood
When morning rises?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Of
resurrection?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
seven in all," she said,
And
wondering
looked at me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon I heard again a tapping
somewhat
louder than before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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For he has a pall, this
wretched
man,
Such as few men can claim:
Deep down below a prison-yard,
Naked for greater shame,
He lies, with fetters on each foot,
Wrapt in a sheet of flame!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Two men drinking
together
where mountain flowers grow:
One cup, one cup, and again one cup.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Your wings,
brushing
it, spill never a drop
From the glass I fill, from which my thirst I quench.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Now my
judgment
hear and mark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Inscription To Miss Graham Of Fintry
Here, where the
Scottish
Muse immortal lives,
In sacred strains and tuneful numbers joined,
Accept the gift; though humble he who gives,
Rich is the tribute of the grateful mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Hence Crowder made the rare
inventress
free
Of *s Highness's Royal Society.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
--it seems a little time
Since last I saw that lordly southern clime,
Where flower and fruit to purple
radiance
blow,
And like bright lamps the fabled apples glow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Stars which to beggar me of bliss
combined!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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I've scanned you with a scrutinizing gaze,
Resolved
to fathom these your secret ways:
But, sift them as I will,
Your ways are secret still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
There were
tempests!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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have
thousandes
bie mie anlace bledde,
And muste I nowe for safetie flie awaie?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Oh, the
overwhelming
horror!
| 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 |
|
O heart by
kindliness
betrayed,
O noble spirit snared and strayed--
Unmatched, upright thou standest still
As that firm pine-tree rooted on the hill!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I burned
Hot and cold, in a lasting fever, well-earned
By the mortal wound of your glance's
piercing
flight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
I need only mention, as a sample, the use of the
phrase "silent tides" to
describe
the waters of a lake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
3745
Graunte him a kis, of
gentilnesse!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
At last he comes to the notice of
Gilgamish
himself, who is
shocked by the newly acquired manner of Enkidu.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
How many a one, with
speeches
fair,
His trusting maid will diddle!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
The
Grecians
are lords of the burning [328-362]town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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And, for the flashes of the levin-bolt,
He holds them harmless as the
noontide
rays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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E quella fronte c'ha 'l pel cosi nero,
e Azzolino; e quell' altro ch'e biondo,
e Opizzo da Esti, il qual per vero
fu spento dal
figliastro
su nel mondo>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
He spake, to whom Ulysses answer none
Return'd, but shook his brows, and, silent, framed
Terrible
purposes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
O belching and
desperate!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
And did the
Ninevite
demon treat with them?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Unauthenticated
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 284 ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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All, all; their cause
Is fallen flat; but go you on and see
How
wonderly
their proud heads are elate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
His
laughter
was submarine and profound
Like the old man of the seats
Hidden under coral islands
Where worried bodies of drowned men drift down in the green silence,
Dropping from fingers of surf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Thus arm'd, he sought his wonted couch beneath
A hollow rock where the herd slept, secure
From the sharp current of the
Northern
blast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
"Tell him night finished before we finished,
And the old clock kept
neighing
'day!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I am the pool of gold
When sunset burns and dies,--
You are my
deepening
skies,
Give me your stars to hold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Sara Teasdale |
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To mask my
departure
I'll stay here a moment.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Yet see you not how this that Spirit hath done
Is also
dangerous?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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So I turned to scornful cries,
Hot iron songs to save the rest of me;
Plunging
the brand in my own misery.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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LXVIII
At last whenas
himselfe
he gan to find,
To Una back he cast him to retire; 605
Who him awaited still with pensive mind.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Neither here, nor on the dew
Of the lawny uplands
feeding?
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Shelley |
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Now, therefore,
Being bold, let him sit trusting to lofty
Sounds, and brandishing with both hands his fire-breathing weapon,
For naught will these avail him, not
To fall disgracefully intolerable falls;
Such wrestler does he now prepare,
Himself against himself, a prodigy most hard to be withstood;
Who, indeed, will invent a better flame than lightning,
And a loud sound
surpassing
thunder;
And shiver the trident, Neptune's weapon,
The marine earth-shaking ail.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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that is for ay
Through famous Poets verse each where renownd,
On which the thrise three learned Ladies play 485
Their
heavenly
notes, and make full many a lovely lay.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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From the yawning abyss see the cloud scud away,
And the glacier appears, with its
multiform
ray,
The giant mountain's crown!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Nor did
Plancina restrain herself to a conduct seemly in her sex, but frequented
the exercises of the cavalry, and attended the decursions of the
cohorts; everywhere inveighing against Agrippina, everywhere against
Germanicus; and some even of the most
deserving
soldiers became prompt
to base obedience, from a rumour whispered abroad, "that all this was
not unacceptable to Tiberius.
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Tacitus |
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