From Bruno's forest screams the
frighted
jay,
And slow th' insulted eagle wheels away.
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William Wordsworth |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Keats - Lamia |
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And men would give them an eternal life,
Because their visages forevermore
Were there before them, and their shapes remained,
And chiefly, however, because men would not think
Beings
augmented
with such mighty powers
Could well by any force o'ermastered be.
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Lucretius |
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Je remplace, pour qui me voit nue et sans voiles,
La lune, le soleil, le ciel et les
etoiles!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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We
passed between the
portraits
of the Jesuits and priests--some of no
little fame--his family had given to the Church; and engravings and
photographs of pictures that had especially moved him; and the few
paintings his small fortune, eked out by an almost penurious abstinence
from the things most men desire, had enabled him to buy in his travels.
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Yeats |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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O lullaby, with your daughter, and the innocence
Of your cold feet, greet a
terrible
new being:
A voice where harpsichords and viols linger,
Will you press that breast, with your withered finger,
From which Woman flows in Sibylline whiteness to
Those lips starved by the air's virgin blue?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The windel-straw nor grass so shook and trembled;
As the good and gallant stripling shook and trembled;
A linen shirt so fine his frame invested,
O'er the shirt was drawn a bright pelisse of scarlet
The sleeves of that pelisse depended backward,
The lappets of its front were button'd backward,
And were spotted with the blood of unbelievers;
See the good and gallant stripling reeling goeth,
From his
eyeballs
hot and briny tears distilling;
On his bended bow his figure he supporteth,
Till his bended bow has lost its goodly gilding;
Not a single soul the stripling good encounter'd,
Till encounter'd he the mother dear who bore him:
O my boy, O my treasure, and my darling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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]
[Footnote 8: A note to Quatrain 234 admits that, however clear the mystical
meaning of such Images must be to Europeans, they are not quoted without
"rougissant" even by laymen in Persia--"Quant aux termes de tendresse
qui commencent ce quatrain, comme tant d'autres dans ce recueil, nos
lecteurs, habitues maintenant a 1'etrangete des expressions si souvent
employees par Kheyam pour rendre ses pensees sur l'amour divin, et a la
singularite des images trop orientales, d'une sensualite quelquefois
revoltante, n'auront pas de peine a se
persuader
qu'il s'agit de la
Divinite, bien que cette conviction soit vivement discutee par les
moullahs musulmans, et meme par beaucoup de laiques, qui rougissent
veritablement d'une pareille licence de leur compatriote a 1'egard des
choses spirituelles.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Consort revered of
Laertiades!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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It is thy new-found Lord, and he shall kiss
The yet
unravished
roses of thy mouth,
And I shall weep and worship, as before.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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or more likely = born,
barn, =
_burned?
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Beowulf |
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Baptized before without the choice,
But this time consciously, of grace
Unto supremest name,
Called to my full, the
crescent
dropped,
Existence's whole arc filled up
With one small diadem.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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or more likely = born,
barn, =
_burned?
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Beowulf |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Charles commnds that I do his decree,
To
Sarraguce
going to Marsilie;
There I will work a little trickery,
This mighty wrath of mine I'll thus let free.
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Chanson de Roland |
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_
Poor Little Children
Apostrophe to Nature
Napoleon
"The Little"
Fact or Fable--_H.
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Hugo - Poems |
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" 40
Thenne
CANTERLOUE
hee dydd goe out,
To telle the maior straite
To gett all thynges ynne reddyness
For goode Syr CHARLESES fate.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Yet has each soul an inborn feeling
Impelling it to mount and soar away,
When, lost in heaven's blue depths, the lark is pealing
High overhead her airy lay;
When o'er the mountain pine's black shadow,
With
outspread
wing the eagle sweeps,
And, steering on o'er lake and meadow,
The crane his homeward journey keeps.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Le Testament: Ballade: 'Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere'
Item
This I give to my poor mother
As a prayer now, to our Mistress
- She who bore bitter pain for me,
God knows, and also much sadness -
I've no other castle or fortress,
That my body and soul can summon,
When I'm faced with life's distress,
Nor has my mother, poor woman:
Ballade
'Lady of Heaven, earthly queen,
Empress of the
infernal
regions,
Receive me, a humble Christian,
To live among the chosen ones,
Though I'm worth less than anyone.
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Villon |
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The massy earth doth heave and sway,
And thro' their dark and secret way
The cavern'd
thunders
boom!
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Aeschylus |
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LI
Yet one man for one moment
Strode out before the crowd;
Well known was he to all the Three,
And they gave him
greeting
loud.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The nations know
How with descending thunder He
The impious Titans hurl'd below,
Who rules dull earth and stormy seas,
And towns of men, and realms of pain,
And gods, and mortal companies,
Alone,
impartial
in his reign.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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{41a} Nothing is said of Beowulf's wife in the poem, but Bugge
surmises that Beowulf finally
accepted
Hygd's offer of kingdom and
hoard, and, as was usual, took her into the bargain.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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So sang the bard illustrious; then his robe 100
Of purple dye with both hands o'er his head
Ulysses drew, behind its ample folds
Veiling his face, through fear to be observed
By the
Phaeacians
weeping at the song;
And ever as the bard harmonious ceased,
He wiped his tears, and, drawing from his brows
The mantle, pour'd libation to the Gods.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The barque to a south-easter every wing
Extends, and circles Cyprus to the right,
Makes Paphos' island next, and, anchoring,
The crew and
warriors
on the beach alight;
Those to ship merchandize, and these, at leisure,
To view the laughing land of Love and Pleasure.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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We are
fighting
for our fair father
Christ, while you have been growing so feeble and so weak and so old
that you cannot even drive away the heathen from your Roman walls any
more.
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Tennyson |
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for
herdsman
and for herd!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The truth, I fancy, this: bodies there are
Whose clashings, motions, order, posture, shapes
Produce the fire and which, by order changed,
Do change the nature of the thing produced,
And are thereafter nothing like to fire
Nor whatso else has power to send its bodies
With impact
touching
on the senses' touch.
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Lucretius |
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After hys acte, the armie all yspedde;
Fromm everich on unmyssynge javlynnes flewe;
Theie
straughte
yer doughtie swerdes; the foemenn bledde; 790
Fulle three of foure of myghtie Danes dheie slewe;
The Danes, wythe terroure rulynge att their head,
Threwe downe theyr bannere talle, & lyche a ravenne fledde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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_v_
Confluges
ubi conuentu campum totum inumigant.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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LIV
So up he rose, and thence
amounted
streight.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Email contact links and up to
date contact
information
can be found at the Foundation's web site and
official page at www.
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| Question: |
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Wilde - Poems |
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STRONG:
Australia
to England
IX.
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| Question: |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Isis was the
Egyptian
mother goddess (Cybele was her equivalent in Asia Minor): consort of Osiris she bore the child Horus-Harpocrates, the new sun (De Nerval's image here for the Christ-Child).
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19th Century French Poetry |
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But this can grow
To uncontrollably crowding lust, beyond
All power of delight to utter, thence
Inwardly turned to anger and
detesting!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Neither Scipio, nor Afranius, nor even this same Cassius,
nor this same Brutus, are anywhere mentioned by him as _traitors_ and
_parricides_, the common nicknames now bestowed on them; but often, as
great and
memorable
men.
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| Question: |
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Tacitus |
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In the 1140s he was a
propagandist
for the Reconquista, of Spain from the Moors.
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Troubador Verse |
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"
A mighty wave rush'd o'er him as he spoke,
The raft is cover'd, and the mast is broke;
Swept from the deck and from the rudder torn,
Far on the swelling surge the chief was borne;
While by the howling tempest rent in twain
Flew sail and sail-yards
rattling
o'er the main.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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She went as quiet as the dew
From a
familiar
flower.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Il me semble, berce par ce choc monotone,
Qu'on cloue en grande hate un
cercueil
quelque part.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Miss
Thompson
lets her say her say:
'So chilly for the time of year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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st_) sicut apud Lucretium; uide
Cartault
La
Flexion dans Lucrece p.
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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[15] The
versions
of his death vary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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From some old fortress on the sun
Baronial bees march, one by one,
In
murmuring
platoon!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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No soul of greatness
springing
up within?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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SELF-ABANDONMENT
I sat
drinking
and did not notice the dusk,
Till falling petals filled the folds of my dress.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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I see a sad procession,
And I hear the sound of coming full-keyed bugles;
All the
channels
of the city streets they're flooding,
As with voices and with tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
| 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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That life of
vision, of contemplation, is a
terrible
life, for it has far more of
temptation in it than the common life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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TO HIS BOOK
Take mine advice, and go not near
Those faces, sour as vinegar;
For these, and nobler numbers, can
Ne'er please the
supercilious
man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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This concession answers all the inferences from his
doctrine unfavourable to human improvement, and reduces the "Essay on
Population" to a commentary
illustrative
of the unanswerableness of
"Political Justice".
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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A proof, old traitor, of thy
cowardliness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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[Sidenote: Honours do not render
undeserving
persons worthy of
esteem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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I see my empty house,
I see my trees repair their boughs;
And he, the
wondrous
child,
Whose silver warble wild
Outvalued every pulsing sound
Within the air's cerulean round,--
The hyacinthine boy, for whom
Morn well might break and April bloom,
The gracious boy, who did adorn
The world whereinto he was born,
And by his countenance repay
The favor of the loving Day,--
Has disappeared from the Day's eye;
Far and wide she cannot find him;
My hopes pursue, they cannot bind him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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"
XI
And now hath every city
Sent up her tale of men;
The foot are fourscore thousand,
The horse are
thousands
ten.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
XERXES
Alas the day, that I should fall
Into this
grimmest
fate of all,
This ruin doubly unforeseen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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If I should fail, what
poverty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
960
Cinq
floiches
i ot d'autre guise,
Qui furent ledes a devise:
Li fust estoient et li fer
Plus noirs que deables d'enfer.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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When I reflect and turn me to that part
Whence my sweet lady beam'd in purest light,
And in my inmost thought remains that light
Which burns me and consumes in every part,
I, who yet dread lest from my heart it part
And see at hand the end of this my light,
Go lonely, like a man deprived of light,
Ignorant
where to go; whence to depart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
MENALCAS
"In
dazzling
sheen with unaccustomed eyes
Daphnis stands rapt before Olympus' gate,
And sees beneath his feet the clouds and stars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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It was erected from
materials
brought
by Richard Burbage and Peter Street from the theatre in Shoreditch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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490
But now, paraunter, som man wayten wolde
That every word, or sonde, or look, or chere
Of Troilus that I
rehersen
sholde,
In al this whyle un-to his lady dere;
I trowe it were a long thing for to here; 495
Or of what wight that stant in swich disioynte,
His wordes alle, or every look, to poynte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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with the
following
title in the first page.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Or dubbi tu e
dubitando
sili;
ma io disciogliero 'l forte legame
in che ti stringon li pensier sottili.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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What if we were to take half
as much pains in
protecting
them as we do in setting them out,--not
stupidly tie our horses to our dahlia stems?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I have seen him stained with blood and powder,
To a whole army
bringing
pain and terror.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Yet in his veins there flows a tide Of life's
illimitable
sea;
Yet in his heart there is a voice That calls, and will not let him be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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In Italy in Arms he is the true acolyte of Beauty, worshipping and tending at her
immemorial
shrine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The oak-leaves me
embroider
all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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This I forgot last night:
you must not be blamed,
it is not your fault;
as a child, a flower--any flower
tore my breast--
meadow-chicory, a common grass-tip,
a leaf shadow, a flower tint
unexpected
on a winter-branch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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ys
tydynges
harde sche spokyn;
She com forthe in A sempyll pace,
Sory, I wott, welle ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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He wore his
embroidered
Court cloak and sat as proudly in the
boat as though he were king of the universe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
It is true, some
men may receive a
courtesy
and not know it; but never any man received it
from him that knew it not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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As much as here is penn'd doth always find 850
A resting place, thus much comes clear and plain;
Anon the strange voice is upon the wane--
And 'tis but echo'd from
departing
sound,
That the fair visitant at last unwound
Her gentle limbs, and left the youth asleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
165
Sometimes
the ambitious Power of choice, mistaking
Proud spring-tide swellings for a regular sea,
Will settle on some British theme, some old
Romantic tale by Milton left unsung;
More often turning to some gentle place 170
Within the groves of Chivalry, I pipe
To shepherd swains, or seated harp in hand,
Amid reposing knights by a river side
Or fountain, listen to the grave reports
Of dire enchantments faced and overcome 175
By the strong mind, and tales of warlike feats,
Where spear encountered spear, and sword with sword
Fought, as if conscious of the blazonry
That the shield bore, so glorious was the strife;
Whence inspiration for a song that winds 180
Through ever changing scenes of votive quest
Wrongs to redress, harmonious tribute paid
To patient courage and unblemished truth,
To firm devotion, zeal unquenchable,
And Christian meekness hallowing faithful loves.
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Then the others passed out in silence one by one; and all the
while the child had not opened his pink eyelids or the fire ceased to
dance, for the one was too
ignorant
and the other too full of gaiety to
know what great beings had bent over the cradle.
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Fling the golden portals wide,
The Bridegroom comes to his promised Bride;
Draw the gold-stiff
curtains
aside,
Let them look on each other's face, 460
She in her meekness, he in his pride--
Day wears apace.
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LXXVIII
"That next the royal gonfalon, which stirred
By
fluttering
wind, is borne towards the mount,
Which on green field, three pinions of a bird
Bears agent, speaks Sir Richard, Warwick's count.
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[58]
_pataku_
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although the one forms its preterite _iptik_, and the other
_ibtuk_.
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No upstart hero may usurp
That honoured
swinging
seat;
His seasons pass with pipe and glass
Until the tale's complete.
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O crowned
hierarchies
that wear your crown
When His is put away!
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The
outlines
of the distant streets grow shorter,
A murmuring bids the wanderer to respite;
Is it the music of some hidden water?
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I am startled--
a split leaf
crackles
on the paved floor--
I am anguished--defeated.
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It's on your slopes, visited by Venus
Setting in your lava her heels so artless,
When a sad slumber
thunders
where the flame burns low.
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lond gecynde, eard ēðel-riht, _the land was bequeathed to them both,
the land and the privileges
attached
to it.
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In April 1770, he left Bristol and came to London, in hopes of
advancing his fortune by his talents for writing, of which, by this
time, he had
conceived
a very high opinion.
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"
I watched him to the door,
catching his robe
as the wine-bowl crashed to the floor,
spilling
a few wet lees
(ah, his purple hyacinth!
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[The
Annuntiation
and Passion.
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unless
a
copyright
notice is included.
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But he himself is coming
To his ancestral throne with
dreadful
escort.
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hear these tuneless numbers, wrung
By sweet enforcement and
remembrance
dear,
And pardon that thy secrets should be sung
Even into thine own soft-conched ear:
Surely I dreamt to-day, or did I see
The winged Psyche with awaken'd eyes?
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That poor retention could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
Therefore
to give them from me was I bold,
To trust those tables that receive thee more:
To keep an adjunct to remember thee
Were to import forgetfulness in me.
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