And well thou knowest a mother never
Could doom her
children
to this ill,
And well he knew the same.
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Shelley |
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Nevertheless, the book is
far more
readable
than that of St.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread 70
Ends
suddenly
in the one sure centre, death,
The visionary hand of Might-have-been
Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!
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James Russell Lowell |
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_237 arbitrating
messengers
1870; messengers of wrath 1824.
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Shelley |
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Till the evening, nearing,
One the
shutters
drew --
Quick!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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" —Chicago Record-Herald
"Its poetry is admirably selected
to find any other
American
magazine verse more notable for originality and imagination.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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That was the chrism of love, which love's own crown,
With
sanctifying
sweetness, did precede
The third upon my lips was folded down
In perfect, purple state; since when, indeed,
I have been proud and said, "My love, my own.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"
After much
hesitation
the editor has gathered in their order of time,
and printed at the end of the book, some twenty early pieces, a few of
them taken from the Appendix of the last edition and others never
printed before.
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Emerson - Poems |
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this overweening
Of
underhand
diplomatical tricks,
Dared for the country while scorned for the counter!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I merely
indicate
an example of how
a powerful commercial interest might hamper a Government intent in the
first place on the larger interests of humanity.
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Kipling - Poems |
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:
_quicquam_
Da
3 Post _benigne_ additum fuerat _est_ ante Lachm.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Their shields clatter, and
earth is amazed under the
trampling
of their feet.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Then the cup-bearer's post is vacant at
the Hessian Court, and the high
stewardship
of the Palatinate.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The spear flies on; where haply stood
opposite in ninefold brotherhood all the beautiful sons of one faithful
Tyrrhene wife, borne of her to
Gylippus
the Arcadian, one of them,
midway where the sewn belt rubs on the flank and the clasp bites the
fastenings of the side, one of them, excellent in beauty and glittering
in arms, it pierces clean through the ribs and stretches on the yellow
sand.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the plowman in
darkness
plough?
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blake-poems |
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Joined to your fate, and in what ecstasy
I'd live forgotten by all of
humanity!
| Guess: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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They sun themselves gladly and all are gay,
They celebrate Christ's
resurrection
to-day.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Can much
pondering
so hoodwink you?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The arrangement is
chronological
so far as it
might be, that the history of America as told by her poets should
be set forth.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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What I do to the grass, does to my
thoughts
and me.
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Marvell - Poems |
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For the son is brought with the father,
(In the
foremost
ranks of the fierce assault they fell,
Two veterans son and father dropt together,
And the double grave awaits them.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Other
copies were
disposed
of, in the same way, to Mr.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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e
nou{m}bre
of ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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I knowed a man, which he lived in Jones,
Which Jones is a county of red hills and stones,
And he lived pretty much by gittin' of loans,
And his mules was nuthin' but skin and bones,
And his hogs was flat as his corn-bread pones,
And he had 'bout a
thousand
acres o' land.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Wird vieles vor den Augen abgesponnen,
So dass die Menge
staunend
gaffen kann,
Da habt Ihr in der Breite gleich gewonnen,
Ihr seid ein vielgeliebter Mann.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Our storme is past, and that storms
tyrannous
rage,
A stupid calme, but nothing it, doth swage.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Down to a beechen hollow winds the track
And tunnels past my twilit bivouac:
Two spiring wisps of smoke go singly up
And
scarcely
tremble in the leafy air.
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| Question: |
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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(A
translation
of L.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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But when the lingering twilight hour was past,
Revel and feast assumed the rule again:
Now all was bustle, and the menial train
Prepared and spread the
plenteous
board within;
The vacant gallery now seemed made in vain,
But from the chambers came the mingling din,
As page and slave anon were passing out and in.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Great is Language--it is the mightiest of the sciences,
It is the fulness, colour, form,
diversity
of the earth, and of men and
women, and of all qualities and processes;
It is greater than wealth, it is greater than buildings, ships, religions,
paintings, music.
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Whitman |
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And corposants* along the
tacklings
slide, —
The passengers all wearied out before,
Giddy, and wishing for the fatal shore, —
Some lusty mate, who with more careful eye,
Counted the hours, and every star did spy,
The helm does from the artless steersman strain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Well, I could wish, that still in lordly domes
Some beasts were killed, though not whole hecatombs;
That both
extremes
were banished from their walls,
Carthusian fasts, and fulsome bacchanals;
And all mankind might that just mean observe,
In which none e'er could surfeit, none could starve.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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I am a bird, and though no name I tell,
My
warbling
note will say I'm Philomel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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To Riddell, much lamented man,
This ivied cot was dear;
Wandr'er, dost value
matchless
worth?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
The first requisite is fuel for your crate;
and for this purpose the roots of the pitch pine are
commonly
used,
found under decayed stumps, where the trees have been felled eight or
ten years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
]
MY
HAPPIEST
DREAM.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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For common instinct of our race declares
That body of itself exists: unless
This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not,
Naught will there be
whereunto
to appeal
On things occult when seeking aught to prove
By reasonings of mind.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
E 'l mio maestro: <
e
ritrarre
a color che vi mandaro
che 'l corpo di costui e vera carne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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_ Plainly
homeward
thy words remand me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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LOVE, HOPE, AND
PATIENCE
IN EDUCATION
O'er wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule,
And sun thee in the light of happy faces;
Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces,
And in thine own heart let them first keep school.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Je sentis a l'aspect de tes membres flottants,
Comme un vomissement, remonter vers mes dents
Le long fleuve de fiel des
douleurs
anciennes;
Devant toi, pauvre diable au souvenir si cher,
J'ai senti tous les becs et toutes les machoires
Des corbeaux lancinants et des pantheres noires
Qui jadis aimaient tant a triturer ma chair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Ethuiusmodistantiaeususestfereinomnibuscantionibussuis
"
A rnaldus
Danielis
et nos eum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
"I was reading it to
Maisie the other day from The City of
Dreadful
Night.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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As
brighter
ladies do not count it strange,
For love, to give up acres and degree,
I yield the grave for thy sake, and exchange
My near sweet view of heaven, for earth with thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
1069-1160,
containing
the Finn episode, cf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
This, with his having
been put in the Commission of the Peace by our excellent
Governor
(_O,
si sic omnes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
" cried the
Commandant
for all answer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Wharton, in whose
altogether
admirable little
volume we find all that is known and the most apposite of all that has been
said up to the present day about
"Love's priestess, mad with pain and joy of song,
Song's priestess, mad with joy and pain of love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
THE LITTLE BOY FOUND
The little boy lost in the lonely fen,
Led by the wandering light,
Began to cry, but God, ever nigh,
Appeared
like his father, in white.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
InTem- Hesaith:"Redspearsborethewarriordawn Of old
**:
Strange!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Looks at sleeper, and shakes his head
murmuring
"Poor Gaddy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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I wept tears of pity when I saw an Archer[227]
maltreat this old man, who, by Ceres, when he was young and the true
Thucydides, would not have permitted an insult from Ceres
herself!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Any
alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
And
unreluctant
Hermes 15
Shall give me words to say.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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'
Psyche is supposed to symbolize the human soul made
immortal
through
love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
'--
'Or did you spy a ruddy hound,
Sister fair and tall,
Went snuffing round my garden bound,
Or
crouched
by my bower wall?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Born to no pride, inheriting no strife,
Nor marrying discord in a noble wife,
Stranger to civil and religious rage,
The good man walked
innoxious
through his age.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state
applicable
to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
No, but the soul
Void of words, and this heavy body,
Succumb to noon's proud silence slowly:
With no more ado, forgetting blasphemy, I
Must sleep, lying on the thirsty sand, and as I
Love, open my mouth to wine's true
constellation!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
She heard a voice like voice of doves
Cooing all together:
They sounded kind and full of loves
In the
pleasant
weather.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
O Queen o'er Argos throned high,
O Woman, sister of the twain,
God's Horsemen, stars without a stain,
Whose home is in the deathless sky,
Whose glory in the sea's wild pain,
Toiling to succour men that die:
Long years above us hast thou been,
God-like for gold and
marvelled
power:
Ah, well may mortal eyes this hour
Observe thy state: All hail, O Queen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Lashing their tails
They trod and hustled her,
Elbowed and jostled her, 400
Clawed with their nails,
Barking, mewing, hissing, mocking,
Tore her gown and soiled her stocking,
Twitched her hair out by the roots,
Stamped upon her tender feet,
Held her hands and
squeezed
their fruits
Against her mouth to make her eat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
He had lately found Jonson
describing his lady, and Jonson's words, he says, are
descriptive
of
Cupid's own mother, Venus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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And dost thou think
my untamed thoughts and speak my vast
language?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Will ever the lit mountains of To-morrow
Begin to gleam athwart the
mournful
plain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
L'eure soit ore la maudite,
Que povres homs fu
conceus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
When her son appeared she
received
him with a
smile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
The Nightingale that in the
Branches
sang,
Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
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: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
The strong light only
increases
its effect.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
O glistening,
perfumed
South!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
O think of Phaethon half burn'd,
And moderate your passion's greed:
Think how
Bellerophon
was spurn'd
By his wing'd steed.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
10 _quis_ GRCA
Laurentiani
|| _fama loquetur anus_ Calp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
the experienced sisters and the
inexperienced
sisters!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
That thou shouldst live 620
I neither ask nor wish--forgive me, but
forgive!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Did I dream, or did I hear
Politian was a
melancholy
man?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
<
Et nous piquions les boeufs vers les sillons des autres:
Le
Chanoine
au soleil filait des patenotres
Sur des chapelets clairs grenes de pieces d'or.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Notes: The Lord of
Excideuil
is Richard Coeur-de-Lion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
"
"You, madam, are the eternal humorist,
The eternal enemy of the absolute,
Giving our vagrant moods the
slightest
twist!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
The strong sea-lion of England's wars
Hath left his
sapphire
cave of sea,
To battle with the storm that mars
The stars of England's chivalry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Lord Byron's/ Cain, A Mystery:/ with/ Notes:/ Wherein the/
Religion
of
the Bible/ Is considered, in reference to acknowledged/ Philosophy and
Reason.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Next he sings
Of Gallus wandering by Permessus' stream,
And by a sister of the Muses led
To the Aonian mountains, and how all
The choir of Phoebus rose to greet him; how
The shepherd Linus, singer of songs divine,
Brow-bound with flowers and bitter parsley, spake:
"These reeds the Muses give thee, take them thou,
Erst to the aged bard of Ascra given,
Wherewith in singing he was wont to draw
Time-rooted ash-trees from the
mountain
heights.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Then show me, if you can, upon the earth,
A queen, a princess, of the highest birth,
Who would not virtue
presently
concede,
If such excuses for it she could plead;
Particularly if the giver proved
A handsome lad that elegantly moved.
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After
lurking awhile under the clothes considering what it all meant, Gawayne
unlocked
his eyelids, and put on a look of surprise, at the same time
making the sign of the cross, as if afraid of some hidden danger (ll.
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But I have,
And I'm off now to
practise
with my notions.
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The Fountain
All through the deep blue night
The
fountain
sang alone;
It sang to the drowsy heart
Of the satyr carved in stone.
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THE HARLOT'S HOUSE
WE caught the tread of dancing feet,
We
loitered
down the moonlit street,
And stopped beneath the harlot's house.
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_ Verily,
It would be hard for thee to bear my woe
For whom it is
appointed
not to die.
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Eliot
To Jean Verdenal 1889-1915
Certain of these poems
appeared
first in "Poetry" and "Others"
Contents
The Love Song of J.
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Calvin's sons, seize your
spiritual
guns,
Ammunition you never can need;
[Footnote 12: David Grant, Ochiltree.
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