And would we aught behold, of higher worth,
Than that
inanimate
cold world allowed
To the poor loveless, ever-anxious crowd,
Ah!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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One thing alone distinguishes the well
And evil doer; this, at every stir
Of least desire, submits, without a blow;
That arms, but yields as well to
stronger
foe.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"
Slowly, from the ashes, Kwasind
Rose, but made no angry answer;
From the lodge went forth in silence,
Took the nets, that hung together,
Dripping, freezing at the doorway;
Like a wisp of straw he wrung them,
Like a wisp of straw he broke them,
Could not wring them without breaking,
Such the
strength
was in his fingers.
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Longfellow |
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--the
artillery
massing on the right,
Hark!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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There are many
versions
of the
fable in Greek mythology, and there are many sources from which it may
have come to Keats.
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Keats |
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In
certain positions of Saturn her
satellites
are not visible.
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John Donne |
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It was
forgiven
but not forgotten.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The
significance
_is_ the
poetry.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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_God's deathless
plaything
rolls an eye
Five hundred thousand cubits high.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Her neglect in not
replying
to this
request is a very good poetic reason for his wrath.
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Robert Burns |
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DAMON
"Rise, Lucifer, and, heralding the light,
Bring in the genial day, while I make moan
Fooled by vain passion for a
faithless
bride,
For Nysa, and with this my dying breath
Call on the gods, though little it bestead-
The gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Father, what is that in the sky
beckoning
to me with long finger?
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Whitman |
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"[2]
Steadfast
to the end, they could not be daunted.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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A
melancholy
bird?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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uvre_ by weavers wrought,
Where a thousand threads one treadle plies,
Backward and forward the
shuttles
keep going,
Invisibly the threads keep flowing,
One stroke a thousand fastenings ties:
Comes the philosopher and cries:
I'll show you, it could not be otherwise:
The first being so, the second so,
The third and fourth must of course be so;
And were not the first and second, you see,
The third and fourth could never be.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But to return apace,
Easy it is from these same facts to know
In just what wise those things (which from their sort
The Greeks have named "bellows") do come down,
Discharged
from on high, upon the seas.
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Lucretius |
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I envy seas whereon he rides,
I envy spokes of wheels
Of chariots that him convey,
I envy
speechless
hills
That gaze upon his journey;
How easy all can see
What is forbidden utterly
As heaven, unto me!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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* * * * *
The background against which the figure of Rainer Maria Rilke is
silhouetted is so varied, the influences which have entered into his
life are so manifold, that a study of his work, however slight, must
needs take into
consideration
the elements through which this poet has
matured into a great master.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Never fear for your legs if they're broken to-day;
Winds only blow straws, dust, and
feathers
away.
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John Clare |
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XVI
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
Mountains of water now set in motion,
A thousand breakers of cliff-jarring ocean,
Striking the reef, driven in the wind's maw:
View now a fierce northerly, with emotion,
Stirring the storm to its loud-whistling core,
Then folding in air its vaster wing once more
Suddenly weary, as if at some new notion:
As we see a flame, spread in a hundred places,
Gather, in one flare, towards heaven's spaces,
Then powerless fade and die: so, in its day,
This Empire passed, and
overwhelming
all
Like wave, or wind, or flame, along its way,
Halted at last by Fate, sank here, in fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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XXXIII
And all who saw them trembled,
And pale grew every cheek;
And Aulus the Dictator
Scarce
gathered
voice to speak.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Where, bosom'd deep, the shy
Winander
peeps 1793.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Keats - Lamia |
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IV
O Pan of the evergreen forest,
Protector of herds in the meadows,
Helper of men at their toiling,--
Tillage and harvest and herding,--
How many times to frail mortals 5
Hast thou not
hearkened!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Now god and goddess give you grame
Disgrace
of Romulus!
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Chimene
It would offend the King who
promised
justice.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Moronto fu mio frate ed Eliseo;
mia donna venne a me di val di Pado,
e quindi il
sopranome
tuo si feo.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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When
he enters he sees someone, whose name is broken away, eating bread
and drinking milk, but the beautiful barbarian
understands
not.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
But if this quality appears in Chaucer
and the pre-Romantics and Wordsworth, it appears also in
Longfellow
and
Lowell, in Emerson and Lanier, and in William Vaughn Moody; for American
poetry is, after all, as English poetry,--"with a difference,"--sprung
from the same sources, and coursing along similar channels.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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O'er Heorot he lorded,
gold-bright hall, in gloomy nights;
and ne'er could the prince {2d} approach his throne,
-- 'twas
judgment
of God, -- or have joy in his hall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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When the officials come to receive his grain-tribute, he
remembers
that
he is only giving back what he had taken during his years of office.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"He'll hae
misfortunes
great an' sma',
But aye a heart aboon them a',
He'll be a credit till us a'--
We'll a' be proud o' Robin.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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You will tell
the
governor
and all the generals from me that they may expect me in a
week.
| 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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'Tis said at Hammon's fane a fountain is,
In
daylight
cold and hot in time of night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Only Hannah the housemaid was busy in clearing the table,
Coming and going, and
hustling
about in closet and chamber.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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considunt apices gemini
dicionis
Eoae,
hic cocus, hic leno, defossi uerbere terga,
seruitio, non arte pares, hic saepius emptus,
alter ad Hispanos nutritus uerna penatis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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You surely were
mistaken
in what you said
Of the Earl, mirthful, indeed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of
chestnuts
in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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IV
Tu en es encore a la
tentation
d'Antoine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
The neighbors do not yet
suspect!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
In spite of the feelings which then agitated me, this
company wherein I was thus
unexpectedly
thrown greatly impressed me.
| 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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And strange it was to see him pass
With a step so light and gay,
And strange it was to see him look
So
wistfully
at the day,
And strange it was to think that he
Had such a debt to pay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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With keen survey I mark'd the ghostly show,
To find a shade among the sons of woe
To memory known: but every trace was lost
In the dim features of the moving host:
Oblivion's hand had drawn a dark disguise
O'er their wan lineaments and
beamless
eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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The last in the
collection
of the letters to Lady Bedford, 'You that
are she and you' (p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
He is writing
apparently
from
the New World, from the Azores.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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This Collection will be edited in a
separate
volume some day for the E.
| 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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Difficulties
arising from our
own Passions, Fancies, Faculties, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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I wish
Victorian
would come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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||
_fundanti_
Oh, G m.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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The dragon
discovers
the loss and exacts
fearful penalty from the people round about.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
I love all noble qualities which merit
Love, and I loved my father, who first taught me
To single out what we should love in others,
And to subdue all
tendency
to lend
The best and purest feelings of our nature
To baser passions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Lutatius
Catulus, who had
led the senatorial party in the first half of the last
century.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
LXXIX
Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,
My verse alone had all thy gentle grace;
But now my
gracious
numbers are decay'd,
And my sick Muse doth give an other place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
er
charcole
brenned,
876 Wat3 gray?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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That is the dog that so bayed one time at my girl that he almost
Gave our secret away (when she was
visiting
me).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"His
horsemen
hard behind us ride--
Should they our steps discover,
Then who will cheer my bonny bride
When they have slain her lover?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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It was the
windfall
for which the youth had been waiting to enable him to
gratify his first love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
IDONEA You know me, Sire;
farewell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
O poplar, you are great
among the hill-stones,
while I perish on the path
among the
crevices
of the rocks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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So, with an equal splendor,
The morning sun-rays fall,
With a touch impartially tender,
On the blossoms blooming for all;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Broidered
with gold, the Blue;
Mellowed with gold, the Gray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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oure [[pg 49]]
dignitees
by-ne?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
'
The
difficulty
lies in the interpretation of the word 'judgment' or
'opinion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Wollen's der Mutter Gottes weihen,
Wird uns mit Himmelsmanna
erfreuen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Then, chiding soft the tear,
I whisper low, haply she too has sigh'd
That thou art far away: a thought so sweet
Awhile my
labouring
soul will of its burthen cheat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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She became a wife and a mother, but died
early in life: she is still affectionately
remembered
in her native
place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
)
I struck thee dead, then stood above,
With tears that none but
dreamers
weep;'
`Dreams,' quoth Love;
"`In dreams, again, I plucked a flower
That clung with pain and stung with power,
Yea, nettled me, body and mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
We looked round: the path by which we had come
Was a dark cleft across the
shoulder
of the hill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
--There is almost no man but he
sees
clearlier
and sharper the vices in a speaker, than the virtues.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He was indeed an
outlander, but yet a
Thibetan
in language, habit and attire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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"Yet still before him as he flies
One pallid form shall ever rise,
And, bodying forth in glassy eyes
"The vision of a
vanished
good,
Low peering through the tangled wood,
Shall freeze the current of his blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Then in thy conscience, Queen,
Thou feelest the King
requiring
thanks of thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Ye troopers who shot mothers down,
And marshals whose brave cannonade
Broke infant arms and split the stone
Where
slumbered
age and guileless maid--
Though blood is in the cup you fill,
Pretend it "rosy" wine, and still
Hail Cannon "King!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
On the morrow, when I told Marya my plans, she saw how
reasonable
they
were, and agreed to them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
We thought so yesterday, and we still know what
crime is, but everything has been changed of a sudden; we are caught up
into another code, we are in the
presence
of a higher court.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
And that I was a maiden Queen
Guarded by an Angel mild:
Witless woe was ne'er
beguiled!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
" "The poet
might perhaps, had he pleased, have
exhibited
Admetus in a more amiable
point of view.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
MEPHISTOPHELES:
Wenn ich euch auf dem
Blocksberg
finde,
Das find ich gut; denn da gehort ihr hin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
NOTE
The text
followed
is that of C.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Die Botschaft hor ich wohl, allein mir fehlt der Glaube;
Das Wunder ist des
Glaubens
liebstes Kind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Aquilant, who was at his brother's side,
Tore off the rest, and made the buckler blaze:
The splendour struck the valiant
brothers
blind,
And Guido in their rear, who spurred behind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Thus, this
telluric
earth
Out-streams with all these dread effluvia
And breathes them out into the open world
And into the visible regions under heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
L'enfant se doit surtout a la maison, famille
Des soins naifs, des bons travaux abrutissants,
Ils sortent,
oubliant
que la peau leur fourmille
Ou le Pretre du Christ a mis ses doigts puissants.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I hear faint bridal-sighs of brown and green
Dying to silent hints of kisses keen
As far lights fringe into a
pleasant
sheen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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blake-poems |
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Yet higher tower'd the monarchs
ancients
boast,
Of old one sov'reign rul'd the spacious coast.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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It is the dusk before dawn_; APOLLO,
_radiant
in the
darkness, looks at the Castle.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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-- They were
clansmen
good.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Go out and see if you can find the
eyes-brain-and-stomach
business
again.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Her word is steadfast, and I know
That
plighted
firm are we:
But she has caught new love-calls since
She smiled as maid on me!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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UNDER THE ALLEGORY OF A LAUREL HE AGAIN
DEPLORES
HER DEATH.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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and through my own
relatives
too!
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Aristophanes |
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Paris could not lay the fold
Belted down with emerald;
Venice could not show a cheek
Of a tint so
lustrous
meek.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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