Or if, though like you we've
trembled
for his safety,
The hero, hiding some new love affair, may be 20
Merely waiting till his betrayed lover, as yet.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"Where is thy master,
scornful
page,
That we may slay or bind him?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
At the third round, the ark of old renown
Swept forward, still the trumpets
sounding
loud,
And then the troops with ensigns waving proud.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Now, in the heart of that city was a well, whose water was cool and
crystalline, from which all the
inhabitants
drank, even the king
and his courtiers; for there was no other well.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"And there's the humour, as I said;
Thy dreary dawn he saw as gleaming gold,
And in thy
glistening
green and radiant red
Funereal gloom and cold.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Meredith - Poems |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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A stranger looking in, these masks to see,
Might deem from Death some mandate there might be
At times to burst the tombs--the dead to wear
A human shape, and mustering ranks appear
Of phantoms, each
confronting
other shade.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
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of receipt of the work.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Men of my folk for that feud had vengeance,
for woful war ('tis widely known),
though one of them bought it with blood of his heart,
a bargain hard: for
Haethcyn
proved
fatal that fray, for the first-of-Geats.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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15:
_aullistis_ Doederlein: _auens te_ Schwabe: _puellae_ Birt:
_auelli_ tamquam
infinitiuum
exclamationis Owen: _ain?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Full five and twenty years he lived
A running
huntsman
merry;
And, though he has but one eye left,
His cheek is like a cherry.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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4 Yuhua Palace had been
constructed
in 647 for Taizong as a summer palace to escape the heat of Chang?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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How soberly above the rest
Of those that prank it with their plumes,
And jet it with their choice
perfumes!
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| Question: |
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Robert Herrick |
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"
Perhaps the most perilous and the most
alluring
venture in the whole field
of poetry is that which Mr.
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Sappho |
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) are chosen and contrasted--the
wonderful way in which the
Iphigenia
of Euripides and Lucretius and the
Cleopatra of Shakespeare are realised are alike admirable.
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Tennyson |
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_
Les bivrantes Douleurs dans ton coeur plein d'effroi
Se
planteront
bientot comme dans une cible;
Le Plaisir vaporeux fuira vers l'horizon
Ainsi qu'une sylphide au fond de la coulisse;
Chaque instant te devore un morceau du delice
A chaque homme accorde pour toute sa saison.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Selected from my stores, of matchless price,
An urn shall
recompense
your prudent choice;
By Vulcan's art, the verge with gold enchased.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
Now we are of late years beginning to
understand
much better what a
Satyr-play was.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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I'll stoop for it; but when I wear it here,
Set on my
forehead
like the morning star,
The world may wonder, but it will not laugh.
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Longfellow |
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--the requiem how be sung
"By you--by yours, the evil eye,--by yours, the slanderous tongue
"That did to death the
innocent
that died, and died so young?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"If I myself upon a looser Creed
Have loosely strung the Jewel of Good deed,
Let this one thing for my
Atonement
plead:
That One for Two I never did misread.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Young
men want to be
faithful
and are not; old men want to be faithless and
cannot--that is all one can say.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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In a new months his
administration
had
become universally odious.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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So when the shadows laid asleep, ms
From
underneath
these banks do creep,
And on the river, as it flows.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The effect of
a page of her more recent
manuscript
is exceedingly quaint and
strong.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The stage how loosely does Astraea tread,
Who fairly puts all
characters
to bed!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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perchance
had seen the heavens opening,
as they opened to the Florentine.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Wherefore
I tell thee
truly, 'come ye there, ye be killed, though ye had twenty lives to
spend.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Over my head there the heavens weighed down so dismal and gloomy;
Colorless, formless, that world round this
exhausted
man lay.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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No
personal
offence should have drawn from me this public
comment upon such stuff.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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A century of blue and stilly light
Bowed down before me, the dew came again,
The moon my sibyl worshipped through the night,
The sun returned and long abode; but then
Hoarse drooping
darkness
hung me with a shroud
And switched at me with shrivelled leaves in scorn.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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linking to such acts,
So grateful in themselves, the certainty
Of
honourable
gains; these fields, these hills
Which were his living Being, even more
Than his own Blood--what could they less?
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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We
differed
in opinion touching him.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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to
follow them, 2946; gerund wǣron
æðelingas
eft tō lēodum fūse tō farenne,
_the nobles were ready to go again to their people_, 1806; pret.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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15, spurium rati
sunt Statius
Scaliger
L.
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Latin - Catullus |
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To his work without flinching the accoucheur comes,
I see the elder-hand pressing receiving supporting,
I recline by the sills of the
exquisite
flexible doors,
And mark the outlet, and mark the relief and escape.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But these plain
characters
we rarely find;
Though strong the bent, yet quick the turns of mind:
Or puzzling contraries confound the whole;
Or affectations quite reverse the soul.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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ultima quis tacuit iuuenum certamina
Colchos?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For
familiar
hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your thoughts for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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navelled in the woody hills
So far, that the
uprooting
wind which tears
The oak from his foundation, and which spills
The ocean o'er its boundary, and bears
Its foam against the skies, reluctant spares
The oval mirror of thy glassy lake;
And, calm as cherished hate, its surface wears
A deep cold settled aspect nought can shake,
All coiled into itself and round, as sleeps the snake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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an was one of the
happiest
periods of his life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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NIGHT of grief and gloom 1
Black velvet
covering
veils
Footsteps in the room
Wherein thy love travails.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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e bytydynge
certeyne
of ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Bisechinge
every lady bright of hewe,
And every gentil womman, what she be,
That al be that Criseyde was untrewe,
That for that gilt she be not wrooth with me.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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To looks
succeeded
blows; hard blows
Battered his ears and poor old nose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
The Project
Gutenberg
eBook, Excursions and Poems, by Henry David Thoreau
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Kline (C) Copyright 2004 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted,
electronically
or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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That
Riches, either to the Avaricious or the Prodigal, cannot afford
Happiness,
scarcely
Necessaries, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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HIGGINSON
PREFACE
The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's
poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern
artificiality does not prevent a prompt appreciation of the
qualities of directness and
simplicity
in approaching the greatest
themes,--life and love and death.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
by Zeus the
Deliverer!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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"
"Then I should think you'd try to find
Somewhere to walk----"
"The highway as it happens--
We're stopping for the
fortnight
down at Dean's.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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For here
availeth
no Swete-Thought, 4505
And Swete-Speche helpith right nought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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It's the voice that the light made us
understand
here
That Hermes Trismegistus writes of in Pimander.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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who, like thyself, excel
In arts of counsel and
dissembling
well;
To me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Porter
And on her
daughter
200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm
electronic
works.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
They are of sick and diseased
imaginations
who
would toll the world's knell so soon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Man is naturally a
kind, benevolent animal, but he is dropped into such a needy situation
here in this
vexatious
world, and has such a whoreson hungry,
growling, multiplying pack of necessities, appetites, passions, and
desires about him, ready to devour him for want of other food; that in
fact he must lay aside his cares for others that he may look properly
to himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
"
There (thank my stars) my whole
Commission
ends,
The Play'rs and I are, luckily, no friends, 60
Fir'd that the house reject him, "'Sdeath I'll print it,
And shame the fools--Your Int'rest, Sir, with Lintot!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
The
original
connexion is probably found in Macrobius'
statement (_Saturn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
'T is whiter than an Indian pipe,
'T is dimmer than a lace;
No stature has it, like a fog,
When you
approach
the place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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But seemed a coffin set on the stair's head ;
Not higher than seven, nor larger than three feet,
There neither was or ceiling, or a sheet,
Save that the
ingenious
door did, as you come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Mortally
wounded, he'd torn off his knapsack;
and then at the end he prayed--
Easy to see, by his hands that were clasped;
and the dull, dead fingers yet held
This little letter--his wife's--from the knapsack.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Dardanus, who sailed to the Teucrian
land, the first father and founder of the Ilian city, was born, as
Greeks relate, of Electra the Atlantid; Electra's sire is ancient Atlas,
whose shoulder sustains the
heavenly
spheres.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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[Note 31: The heroes of two
romances
much in vogue in Pushkin's
time: the former by Madame Cottin, the latter by the famous
Madame Krudener.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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that dignity with sweetness
fraught!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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To stern
Achilles
now direct my ways,
And teach him mercy when a father prays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
You
know my
favourite
quotation from Young--
---------------"On reason build RESOLVE!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Why, conquering
May prove as lordly and
complete
a thing
In lifting upward, as in crushing low!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I love the verse that mild and bland
Breathes
of green fields and open sky,
I love the muse that in her hand
Bears flowers of native poesy;
Who walks nor skips the pasture brook
In scorn, but by the drinking horse
Leans oer its little brig to look
How far the sallows lean across,
And feels a rapture in her breast
Upon their root-fringed grains to mark
A hermit morehen's sedgy nest
Just like a naiad's summer bark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
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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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Katharine
Tynan Hinkson, whose war
writings include _The Flower of Peace_, _The Holy War_, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
As becomes a drama, it
has more vigorously
sustained
movement than any of Milton's works.
| 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 |
|
I read the _Faerie Queene_ when I was about
twelve, with
infinite
delight; and I think it gave me as much, when I read
it over about a year or two ago.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
There stood Sabinus, planter of the vines, }
On a short pruning-hook his head reclines; }
And
studiously
surveys his gen'rous wines.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
"I know it has gone out to the
Marazion
Bell-buoy," said Dick, with a
chuckle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Can he for me so pitously
compleyne?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
According
to them also the Healing
Power of Jesus resided in his Breath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
But see, amid the mimic rout
A crawling shape
intrude!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
If, as has been
said with a degree of verity, Nietzsche was primarily a musician whose
philosophy had for its basis and took its
ultimate
aspects from the
musical quality of his artistic endowment, it may be maintained with an
equal amount of truth that Rilke is primarily a painter and sculptor
whose poetry rests upon the fundaments of the pictorial and plastic
arts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Slay him, not for me, but for your crown,
For your grandeur, for your own renown;
Slay him, I say, Sire, for the royal good,
A man so proud of
spilling
noble blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
" One half of
Scotland
already give your
songs to other authors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Jealously
she seeks me out, sweet secret love to expose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Well,
altogether
gript by the being of love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
When will the vulgar learn
humility?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
"
G said, "Green
Gooseberry
fool, the best of cures I hold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
They say you are twisted by the sea,
you are cut apart
by wave-break upon wave-break,
that you are
misshapen
by the sharp rocks,
broken by the rasp and after-rasp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
What rumour without is there
breeding?
| Guess: |
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I even hate the kindness the gods have shown me:
And now I must weep at their
murderous
favours,
Wearying them no longer with useless prayers.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Walke her out,
And ayre her euery
morning!
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Yet but awhile the slumbering weather flings
Its murky prison round--then winds wake loud;
With sudden stir the startled forest sings
Winter's
returning
song-cloud races cloud.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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LXIII
"To know I wear away life's
glorious
spring
In such effeminate and slothful leisure
Is to my troubled heart a constant sting,
And takes away the taste of every pleasure.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Gooseberry
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Lear - Nonsense |
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" Thus down our road we took
Through those
dilapidated
crags, that oft
Mov'd underneath my feet, to weight like theirs
Unus'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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