O fearful
meditation!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Swinburne; four 1824; four
cancelled
for ten (possibly) B.
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Shelley |
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Its stature seem'd lang Scotch ells twa,
The
queerest
shape that e'er I saw,
For fient a wame it had ava;
And then its shanks,
They were as thin, as sharp an' sma'
As cheeks o' branks.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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--
But I am now another's bride--
For ever
faithful
will abide.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The leaves unhooked
themselves
from trees
And started all abroad;
The dust did scoop itself like hands
And throw away the road.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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[Picture: And here it took the form of thirst]
"Port-wine, he says, when rich and sound,
Warms his old bones like nectar:
And as the inns, where it is found,
Are his
especial
hunting-ground,
We call him the _Inn-Spectre_.
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Lewis Carroll |
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the idol[160]
Of early nature, and the vigorous race
Of
undiseased
mankind, the giant sons[161]
Of the embrace of Angels, with a sex
More beautiful than they, which did draw down
The erring Spirits who can ne'er return.
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Byron |
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* * * * *
APPENDIX III
The following two
variants
in 'Descriptive Sketches' are from MS.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Confusion now hath made his Master-peece:
Most sacrilegious Murther hath broke ope
The Lords
anoynted
Temple, and stole thence
The Life o'th' Building
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Antwerp the German burnt; and
Prussias
twain
Bowed to the yoke.
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| Question: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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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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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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With sable hats whose shade
Falls from the cord of gold
On every time-worn face;
With tattered flags, in black enrolled,
Beneath whose folds they warred of old;
Forward, firmly arrayed,
With a sombre, martial grace;
So the Grand Army moves
Commanded by the dead,
Following him whose name it loves,
Whose voice in life its
footsteps
led.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Yet shun
Achilles!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Iliad - Pope |
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It is no mosaic of
brilliant
epigrams, but an organic
creation.
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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[Here follow "The Mother's Lament for the Loss of her Son," and the
song
beginning
"The lazy mist hangs from the brow of the hill.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Scarce had night's chilly shade forsook the sky
What time to
nibbling
sheep the dewy grass
Tastes sweetest, when, on his smooth shepherd-staff
Of olive leaning, Damon thus began.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Earth's glories flee of human eyes unseen,
Earth's
kingdoms
fade to a remembered dream,
But thine henceforth shall be a power supreme,
Dazzling command and rich dominion,
The winds thy heralds and thy vassals all
The silver-belted planets and the sun.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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This school has been widely
discussed
by those interested in new
movements in the arts, and has already become a household word.
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Imagists |
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But thou
forgotten
and far off shalt dwell,
By great Alpheus' waters, in a dell
Of Arcady, where that gray Wolf-God's wall
Stands holy.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
| Guess: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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All with you; except the three
On duty, and our leader Israel,
Who is
expected
momently.
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Byron |
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Such testimony, even though not a single fragment remained to us from which
to judge her poetry for ourselves, might well convince us that the
supremacy
acknowledged
by those who knew all the triumphs of the genius of
old Greece was beyond the assault of any modern rival.
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Sappho |
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The first beneath their ancient
captains
wend;
The second troop without a leader, who
Are given to Corineus, the sovereign's friend.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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They
see in the serene space of sky armour gleam red through a cloud in the
clear air, and ring
clashing
out.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Curs'd be the wretch, the fire of heaven who stole,
And with
ambition
first debauch'd the soul!
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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All the
patricians
flocking to the Council, 260
(Which they dare not refuse, at the dread signal
Pealing from out their Patron Saint's proud tower,)
Will then be gathered in unto the harvest,
And we will reap them with the sword for sickle.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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I dried my tears, and armed my fears
With ten
thousand
shields and spears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance
- P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Therfore
this lessoun oughte I wel to telle
That, nere thy tender herte, we weren spilt.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Ah, fickle friend, must I, who yesterday
Dreamed forwards to long, undimmed ecstasy,
Henceforward dream, because thou wilt not stay,
Backward to
transient
pleasure and to thee?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Let us die, and rush on their
encircling
weapons.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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You came amidst the show of flow'ry splendour,
Again I saw you at the aftermath,
And, 'mid the ruddy corn-blades'
rustling
tender,
Unto your cottage always wound my path.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Va, si tu veux, chercher un fiance stupide;
Cours offrir un coeur vierge a ses cruels baisers;
Et, pleine de remords et d'horreur, et livide,
Tu me rapporteras tes seins stigmatises;
On ne peut ici-bas
contenter
qu'un seul maitre!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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(Forgive, forgive, much-wrong'd
Montrose!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
What
prevents
my dashing
Right in among thy cursed company,
Thyself and all thy monkey spirits smashing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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_ersagtugmal_,
penitential
psalm, 118.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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shall each wronged and restless spirit dare
To taint such wine with the salt poison of own
despair!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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They have already
wandered
away,
Unwilling labourers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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O'er thy rich dust the endless smile
Of Nature in thy Spanish isle
Hints never loss or cruel break
And sacrifice for love's dear sake,
Nor mourn the
unalterable
Days
That Genius goes and Folly stays.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Miss
Woodbridge
has noticed that the scene in which Lady Tailbush and
her friends entertain Wittipol disguised as a Spanish lady is similar
to Act 3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
II
O pale
Ophelia!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"Now, dear knave,
Be kind and tell me -- tell me quickly, too, --
Some proper reasonable ground or cause,
Nay, tell me but some shadow of some cause,
Nay, hint me but a thin ghost's dream of cause,
(So will I thee absolve from being whipped)
Why I, Lord Raoul, should turn my horse aside
From riding by yon pitiful villein gang,
Or ay, by God, from riding o'er their heads
If so my humor serve, or through their bodies,
Or miring
fetlocks
in their nasty brains,
Or doing aught else I will in my Clermont?
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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at I
confesse
{and} am a-knowe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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_
JOHN SHERMAN
FIRST PART
JOHN SHERMAN LEAVES BALLAH
I
IN the west of Ireland, on the 9th of December, in the town of Ballah,
in the Imperial Hotel there was a single guest,
clerical
and youthful.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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We speak of the keeping of a room as we would of
the keeping of a picture--for both the picture and the room are amenable
to those undeviating principles which regulate all varieties of art; and
very nearly the same laws by which we decide on the higher merits of a
painting, suffice for
decision
on the adjustment of a chamber.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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For Italy's the whole earth's treasury, piled
With
reveries
of gentle ladies, flung
Aside, like ravelled silk, from life's worn stuff;
With coins of scholars' fancy, which, being rung
On work-day counter, still sound silver-proof;
In short, with all the dreams of dreamers young,
Before their heads have time for slipping off
Hope's pillow to the ground.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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"
They communed thus; while
homeward
bent their way
The swains, fatigued with labours of the day:
Dolius, the first, the venerable man;
And next his sons, a long succeeding train.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Was himself _one who knew_,
How comes it that he wrote a book
Of five
thousand
words?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Still laugh,
Like the
credulous
Ethiop in his faith in stars!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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"
XXII
"Now hearken, Caius Cossus:
Spring on thy horse's back;
Ride as the wolves of Apennine
Were all upon thy track;
Haste to our
southward
battle:
And never draw thy rein
Until thou find Herminius,
And bid hime come amain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Is this the
passage?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Let him curse to his heart's content; the
tsarevich
has nothing to do with the Otrepiev.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"What are you doing, my
children?
| 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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O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In Macedonian fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that achieving the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur, prospering everywhere,
Might tumble down in more
disastrous
fall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Above the lake are deep mountain valleys,
And men
dwelling
whose hearts are without guile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
'Tis a
concealment
needful in extreme;
And if I guess'd not so, the sunny beam
Thou shouldst mount up to with me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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I crossed my native fields, where the scarlet poppies grew,
And the
groundlark
left his nest like a neighbour which I knew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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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: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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'
There was a bush beside him to the left,
flowering
like the rest, and
a little gust of wind blew the white blossoms over his coat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
"Who would lose,
Though full of pain, this
intellectual
being,
These thoughts that wander through eternity?
| 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 |
|
_Bon Dieu_ please
remember
the pattern, and make many more on his plan!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
3760
Thar no man aske if I was blythe,
Whan the savour soft and lythe
Strook to myn herte
withoute
more,
And me alegged of my sore,
So was I ful of Ioye and blisse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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--Le ciel etait charmant, la mer etait unie;
Pour moi tout etait noir et
sanglant
desormais,
Helas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Rising from unrest,
The
trembling
woman pressed
With feet of weary woe;
She could no further go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Send your
pitchers
afloat on the tide,
Gather the leaves ere the dawn be old,
Grind them in mortars of amber and gold,
The fresh green leaves of the henna-tree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The Belles Of Mauchline
In Mauchline there dwells six proper young belles,
The pride of the place and its
neighbourhood
a';
Their carriage and dress, a stranger would guess,
In Lon'on or Paris, they'd gotten it a'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Alive was he still,
still
wielding
his wits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
_Explicit
Joannes Donne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
or a fine
Sad memory, with thy songs to
interfuse?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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But at His
Excellency Hsu's house I was offered the hand of his grand-daughter,
and
lingered
there during the frosts of three autumns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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I laughed and said I could not;--set you down,
Your gray eyes wonder-filled beneath that crown
Of bright hair
gladdening
me as you raced by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
31-48 in codicibus continuantur sine omni nota distributionis:
eos uarie
dispertiunt
Froehlich, Rossbach, Schwabe, L.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
This was the work of a French abbe, de
Montfaucon
Villars (1635-1673),
who was well known in his day both as a preacher and a man of letters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
" Even the
Quarterlies
have
not instructed us to be so impressed by it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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sed potius ualida
teneamur
uterque catena,
nulla queat posthac quam soluisse dies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
LXIX
Like a tall forest were their spears,
Their banners like a silken sea,
When the great host in
splendour
passed
Across the crimson sinking sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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But the day of
these
artistic
anomalies is over.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
What are you
ruminating
over now again?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Then said another--"Surely not in vain
My
substance
from the common Earth was ta'en,
That He who subtly wrought me into Shape
Should stamp me back to common Earth again.
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Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the
slumbrous
mass.
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blake-poems |
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ADMETUS (_surprised, then
reluctantly
yielding_).
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Mathias' _Essay on the
Evidence
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Hear the iron and brass
Ringing above their voices, as they snatch
The arms that seem to fight among themselves,
Seized by their masters' anguish; dost thou hear
The clumsy terror in the camp, the men
Hasting to arm
themselves
against our God,
Ozias?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Nam sudaria Saetaba ex Hibereis
Miserunt mihi muneri
Fabullus
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Et Veranius: haec amem necessest
Vt Veraniolum meum et Fabullum.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And I and all the souls in pain,
Who tramped the other ring,
Forgot if we
ourselves
had done
A great or little thing,
And watched with gaze of dull amaze
The man who had to swing.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Make Athens
tributary
to my power.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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He was as incapable of
appreciating
the Poet as Lewis XIV.
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Golden Treasury |
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