And she hadde on a cote of grene
Of cloth of Gaunt; withouten wene,
Wel semed by hir
apparayle
575
She was not wont to greet travayle.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Looking
straight
at the King, with her level brows,
She said, "I keep true to my faith and my vows.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Here, as of old, your neighbour's
bordering
hedge,
That feasts with willow-flower the Hybla bees,
Shall oft with gentle murmur lull to sleep,
While the leaf-dresser beneath some tall rock
Uplifts his song, nor cease their cooings hoarse
The wood-pigeons that are your heart's delight,
Nor doves their moaning in the elm-tree top.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The gifts, though all her own, which others share,
Which were but stars her bright sky scatter'd o'er,
Haply of these to sing e'en I might dare;
But when to the diviner part I soar,
To the dull world a brief and
brilliant
light,
Courage and wit and art are baffled quite.
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Petrarch |
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My will fulfilled shall be,
For, in daylight or in dark,
My
thunderbolt
has eyes to see
His way home to the mark.
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Emerson - Poems |
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We'll gently walk, and sweetly talk,
Till the silent moon shine clearly;
I'll grasp thy waist, and, fondly prest,
Swear how I love thee dearly:
Not vernal show'rs to budding flow'rs,
Not Autumn to the farmer,
So dear can be as thou to me,
My fair, my lovely
charmer!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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VIII
Like swelling river waves that strain,
Onward the people crowd
In serried,
billowing
train.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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org), you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense
to the user, provide a copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means
of obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its
original
"Plain
Vanilla ASCII" or other form.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Even the rishi[28] had to wait
For a yellow crane to ride;
But the sailor[29] whose heart had no guile
Was
followed
by the white gulls.
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Li Po |
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And
oftentimes
I talked to him,
In very idleness.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Then silence brake,
Amid th' accordant sons of Deity,
That luminary, in which the
wondrous
life
Of the meek man of God was told to me;
And thus it spake: "One ear o' th' harvest thresh'd,
And its grain safely stor'd, sweet charity
Invites me with the other to like toil.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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DRINKING
ALONE BY MOONLIGHT
A cup of wine, under the flowering-trees: (1)
I drink alone, for no friend is near.
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Li Po |
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As he proceeded, the company grew more scattered, and his old uneasiness
and
vacillation
were resumed.
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Poe - 5 |
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Kann das naturlich
geschehen?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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His faith shall clothe the world that will be his,
Like
universal
air and sunshine!
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Tennyson |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Upon a sheaf of thunderbolts I rest my arm,
And gods might wish my
exploits
with them were their own.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
The enemy, thus
inflamed
and calling for battle, were led into a
plain called Idistavisus: [Footnote: Near Minden.
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Tacitus |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Wasn't it worth the
whiskey?
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Kipling - Poems |
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Diamond and topaz there, with mingled ray,
Return'd in varied hues the beam of day;
A treasure of
inestimable
cost,
Too long, alas!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Joy like this
Could not suffice, more
sterling
bliss
Our lovers wished, nor would stop short
Till they'd obtained the thing they sought.
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La Fontaine |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the
secretaries
of Cardinal Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Many a mutual blow they deliver in vain, many an one they redouble on
chest and side, sounding hollow and loud: hands play fast about ear and
temple, and
jawbones
clash under the hard strokes.
| Guess: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Farthest away, I
oftenest
dreamed
That I was with her.
| Guess: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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che pur dietro guardi 240
Chiare, fresche e dolci acque 116
Chi e fermato di menar sua vita 82
Chi vuol veder
quantunque
puo Natura 216
Come 'l candido pie per l' erba fresca 157
Come talora al caldo tempo suole 139
Come va 'l mondo!
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Petrarch - Poems |
|
Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
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Ronsard |
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Beware O' Bonie Ann
Ye
gallants
bright, I rede you right,
Beware o' bonie Ann;
Her comely face sae fu' o' grace,
Your heart she will trepan:
Her een sae bright, like stars by night,
Her skin sae like the swan;
Sae jimply lac'd her genty waist,
That sweetly ye might span.
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
org/dirs/2/0/0/2002
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions will
be renamed.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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)
O amazement of things--even the least
particle!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
To grant the master's wish the girl was led,
And they
together
hurried off to bed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Think what it is to
strangle
infant pity,
Cradled in the belief of guileless looks,
Till it become a crime to suffer.
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Shelley |
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'My love no more,' I
muttered
stunned with pain:
I shed no tear, I wrung no passionate hand, 90
Till something whispered: 'You shall meet again,
Meet in a distant land.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Bosen Geistern ubergeben und der richtenden gefuhllosen
Menschheit!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Christ said not to his first conventicle,
'Go forth and preach
impostures
to the world,'
But gave them truth to build on; and the sound
Was mighty on their lips; nor needed they,
Beside the gospel, other spear or shield,
To aid them in their warfare for the faith.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Such as thou seest, after ten thousand woes
Which I have borne, I visit once again
My native country in the
twentieth
year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
THE
LITHUANIAN
FRONTIER
(OCTOBER 16TH, 1604)
PRINCE KURBSKY and PRETENDER, both on horseback.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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It is to be
remembered
that Phil was
living very comfortably, denying himself no small luxury, never putting
by an anna, very satisfied with himself and his good intentions, was
dropping all his English correspondents one by one, and beginning more
and more to look upon this land as his home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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"If I can attain Heaven for a pice, why should you be
envious?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Clerimont and True-wit are speaking of the Collegiate ladies, and the
former asks,
Who is the
president?
| Guess: |
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John Donne |
|
555
What a strange
prisoner
for such lovely bonds!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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--
I never heard of such as dare
Approach
the spot when she is there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Driftwood
My
forefathers
gave me
My spirit's shaken flame,
The shape of hands, the beat of heart,
The letters of my name.
| Guess: |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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King
You lack respect; I'll allow for your age,
Excuse the ardour of your
youthful
courage.
| Guess: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Literature, also, from which my spirit asks voluptuousness, that will be the agonised poetry of Rome's last moments, so long as it does not breathe a breath of the reinvigorated stance of the
Barbarians
or stammer in childish Latin like Christian prose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
What you get married for if you don't want
children?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Aonia was the ancient name of Boeotia, in which
country was a fountain sacred to the Muses, whence Juvenal sings of a
poet--
"Enamoured of the woods, and fitted for drinking
At the
fountains
of the Aonides.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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KAU}
The times are now returnd upon us, we have given
ourselves
To scorn and now are scorned by the slaves of our enemies
Our beauty is coverd over with clay & ashes, & our backs
Furrowd with whips, & our flesh bruised with the heavy basket
Forgive us O thou piteous one whom we have offended, forgive
The weak remaining shadow of Vala that returns in sorrow to thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Well, I didn't quiver an eye,
And he
chattered
and there she sat;
And I fancied I heard her sigh--
But I wouldn't just swear to that.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I
honestly
believe he'd try to kill you; and the
blindness has made him rather muscular.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| 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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The loves of the Vestal and
the God of War, the cradle laid among the reeds of Tiber, the
fig-tree, the she-wolf, the shepherd's cabin, the recognition,
the fratricide, the rape of the Sabines, the death of Tarpeia,
the fall of Hostus Hostilius, the struggle of Mettus Curtius
through the marsh, the women rushing with torn raiment and
dishevelled hair between their fathers and their husbands, the
nightly meetings of Numa and the Nymph by the well in the sacred
grove, the fight of the three Romans and the three Albans, the
purchase of the
Sibylline
books, the crime of Tullia, the
simulated madness of Brutus, the ambiguous reply of the Delphian
oracle to the Tarquins, the wrongs of Lucretia, the heroic
actions of Horatius Cocles, of Scaevola, and of Cloelia, the
battle of Regillus won by the aid of Castor and Pollux, the
defense of Cremera, the touching story of Coriolanus, the still
more touching story of Virginia, the wild legend about the
draining of the Alban lake, the combat between Valerius Corvus
and the gigantic Gaul, are among the many instances which will at
once suggest themselves to every reader.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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trusting
to the distant dart,
Unskill'd in arms to act a manly part!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
XV
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
Who joyful in the bright light of day
Created all that
arrogant
display,
Whose dusty ruin now greets our visit:
Speak, spirits (since that shadowy limit
Of Stygian shore that ensures your stay,
Enclosing you in thrice threefold array,
Sight of your dark images, may permit),
Tell me, now (since it may be one of you,
Here above, may yet be hid from view)
Do you not feel a greater depth of pain,
When from hour to hour in Roman lands
You contemplate the work of your hands,
Reduced to nothing but a dusty plain?
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| Question: |
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Williams_
LES
FEUILLES
D'AUTOMNE.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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[This
delightful
creature and her demeanour are particularly described
in my Sister's Journal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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But why were you born
crooked?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
By the same Author
THE SHADOWS OF SILENCE AND
THE SONGS OF YESTERDAY
THE GRAVE OF EROS AND THE
BOOK OF
MOURNFUL
MELODIES
WITH DREAMS FROM THE EAST
BAUDELAIRE--THE FLOWERS OF EVIL
In preparation
THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT
?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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This
monument
of my despair
Build I to the All-Good, All-Fair.
| Guess: |
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Emerson - Poems |
|
As an example of
pleasing
and calm reflection, I would cite the first of
his sonnets, according to the order in which they are usually printed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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As children bid the guest good-night,
And then reluctant turn,
My flowers raise their pretty lips,
Then put their
nightgowns
on.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently
displaying
the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Imagists |
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Thou wert not to share the search for Italian borders
and destined fields, nor the dim
Ausonian
Tiber.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Mirthful gold of a cymbal beaten with fists,
The sun all at once strikes the pure nakedness
That breathed itself out of my coolness of nacre,
Rancid night of the skin, when you swept over me,
Not knowing,
ungrateful
one, that it was, this make-up,
My whole anointing, drowned in ice-water perfidy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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proud courts,
withdraw
your blaze!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
LIV
An elder, in the shining entrance-hall
Of that glad house, towards Astolpho prest;
Crimson his waistcoat was, and white his pall;
Vermillion seemed the mantle, milk the vest:
White was that ancient's hair, and white withal
The bushy beard descending to his breast;
And from his reverend face such glory beamed,
Of the elect of
Paradise
he seemed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Many a mutual blow they deliver in vain, many an one they
redouble
on
chest and side, sounding hollow and loud: hands play fast about ear and
temple, and jawbones clash under the hard strokes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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| Question: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
VIII
What can I give thee back, O liberal
And princely giver, who hast brought the gold
And purple of thine heart, unstained, untold,
And laid them on the outside of the wall
For such as I to take or leave withal,
In unexpected
largesse?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
net),
you must, at no
additional
cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I enclose you a musical curiosity, an East Indian air, which you would
swear was a
Scottish
one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Vitellius they called
enemy and traitor, the more prudent
confining
themselves to such vague
generalities.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
I'm
wondering
about Love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
It may be
rendered
thus:--
"O Thou who burn'st in Heart for those who burn
In Hell, whose fires thyself shall feed in turn,
How long be crying, 'Mercy on them, God!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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A thought went up my mind to-day
That I have had before,
But did not finish, -- some way back,
I could not fix the year,
Nor where it went, nor why it came
The second time to me,
Nor
definitely
what it was,
Have I the art to say.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
quare
monendum
test mihi, bone Egnati.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Thoughts
that are
the spontaneous result of accidental situations, either respecting
health, place, or company, have often a strength, and always an
originality, that would in vain be looked for in fancied circumstances
and studied paragraphs.
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Robert Forst |
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Alas, the embers old
Fell, and the
moonlight
fell, above--
Dim, shattered, vapor-cold.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Lamplight, console me till then,
harbinger
warm of the night.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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To whom, because from you all vertues flow, 45
And 'tis not none, to dare
contemplate
you,
I, which doe so, as your true subject owe
Some tribute for that, so these lines are due.
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John Donne |
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Love, Fame, Ambition, Avarice--'tis the same,
Each idle--and all ill--and none the worst--
For all are meteors with a different name,[oo]
And Death the sable smoke where
vanishes
the flame.
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Byron |
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3 Lamp sparks were believed to be
auspicious
signs.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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hū se mānsceaða under
fǣrgripum
gefaran
wolde, _how he would act in his sudden attacks_, 739.
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Beowulf |
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Arrows entered Zhaoyang Palace, reed pipes moaned at
Thinwillow
Camp.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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My opinion was received by the civil
officials
with visible
discontent.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Or else he sat with those who watched
His anguish night and day;
Who watched him when he rose to weep,
And when he crouched to pray;
Who watched him lest himself should rob
Their
scaffold
of its prey.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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HERE lies, to each her parents' ruth,
Mary, the
daughter
of their youth;
Yet, all heaven's gifts, being heaven's due,
It makes the father less to rue.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Know'st thou aught, this tale
belying?
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Aeschylus |
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Theories
about epic origins
were therefore indifferent to my purpose.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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of Women--
We praise His Will which made us what He would,
His Will which
fashioned
us and called us good,
His Will our plenary beatitude.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Fly, fly, ye Danes; Magnus, the chiefe, ys sleene;
The Saxonnes comme wythe AElla atte theyre heade; 695
Lette's strev to gette awaie to yinder greene;
Flie, flie; thys ys the
kyngdomme
of the deadde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Fifty handmaids are
within, whose task is in their course to keep
unfailing
store and kindle
the household fire.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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