They, believing they'd
achieved
surprise,
Fearless, closed, anchored, disembarked,
And then they ran against us in the dark.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The
readiness
of doing doth express
No other but the doer's willingness.
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Robert Herrick |
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& wet thy veil with dewy tears, *
In slumbers of my night-repose,
infusing
a false morning?
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Blake - Zoas |
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commoda, dum ipse egeat_
Postgate
|| _fort.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The iron, smit by Balisarda shows
Like paper, not like
stubborn
plate and shell.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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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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XV
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Too calm and sad a face in front of thine;
For we two look two ways, and cannot shine
With the same
sunlight
on our brow and hair.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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All else grows tame, the sky's one blue,
The one long
languish
of the rose,
But these, beyond prevision new,
Shall charm and startle to the close.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
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Ronsard |
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"Well met," I thought the look would say,
"We both were
fashioned
far away;
We neither knew, when we were young,
These Londoners we live among.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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[A] There wat3 blawyng of prys in mony breme home,
He3e
halowing
on hi3e, with ha?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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With Charlemagne I soon will have thee friends;
To
Guenelun
such justice shall be dealt
Day shall not dawn but men of it will tell.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Why, then, crucify self now with a
furthering
pain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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This should be a privacy,
Not even your lover near, this hour of first
Strange knowledge that you have
accepted
love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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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.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"The
Mistakes
of a Night, or She Stoops to Conquer," appeared at Covent
Garden, in March, 1773.
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Quirites, permit me the joy, and may this, of all
pleasures
on earth the
First and the last, be vouchsafed all of mankind by the god.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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What's the
Businesse?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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suggests
the son is continuing his father?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Chambers
places a full stop
at l.
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John Donne |
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Peaks and ridges
tottered
and broke.
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Li Po |
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Him wander-weary, warrior-guest
from far, a hall-thane
heralded
forth,
who by custom courtly cared for all
needs of a thane as in those old days
warrior-wanderers wont to have.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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But in these Cases,
We still haue iudgement heere, that we but teach
Bloody Instructions, which being taught, returne
To plague th' Inuenter, this euen-handed Iustice
Commends th'
Ingredience
of our poyson'd Challice
To our owne lips.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And while the Pony moves his legs,
In Johnny's left hand you may see
The green bough [7]
motionless
and dead:
The Moon that shines above his head 80
Is not more still and mute than he.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I am
listening
here in Rome.
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| Question: |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
"Not unless he's been entered for the
Liverpool
Handicap.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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com,
for a more
complete
list of our various sites.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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THE demon was before our farmer placed;
The sight was by the prince in person graced;
The wond'rous contest numbers ran to see,
And all the world
spectators
fain would be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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"Why do you sigh, fair
creature?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Here in close recess
With Flowers, Garlands, and sweet-smelling Herbs
Espoused
Eve deckt first her Nuptial Bed, 710
And heav'nly Quires the Hymenaean sung,
What day the genial Angel to our Sire
Brought her in naked beauty more adorn'd,
More lovely then Pandora, whom the Gods
Endowd with all thir gifts, and O too like
In sad event, when to the unwiser Son
Of Japhet brought by Hermes, she ensnar'd
Mankind with her faire looks, to be aveng'd
On him who had stole Joves authentic fire.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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--
Since I first
listened
to these Souls offended,
I bowed my visage, and so kept it till--
'What think'st thou?
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| Source: |
Byron |
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'
She looks into me
The
unknowing
heart
To see if I love
She has confidence she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
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| Answer: |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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In all your wide warm earth I have no part--
A light song
overcomes
me like a dirge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Mercifull
Heauen:
What man, ne're pull your hat vpon your browes:
Giue sorrow words; the griefe that do's not speake,
Whispers the o're-fraught heart, and bids it breake
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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May Saint
Ignatius
aid thee
When other times shall come.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Meanwhile the
brothers
Lucagus and Liger drive up with their
pair of white horses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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'
A friend has sent me from Ulster an account of one who was on terms
of true
friendship
with the people of faery.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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And their friends, the
loitering
heirs of city directors; 180
Departed, have left no addresses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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For, right within, the sword of Sin
Pierced to its
poisoned
hilt,
And as molten lead were the tears we shed
For the blood we had not spilt.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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His is
stronger
every way.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The order'd system fair before her stood,
Nature, well pleas'd, pronounc'd it very good;
But ere she gave
creating
labour o'er,
Half-jest, she tried one curious labour more.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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That great poet, the ornament of Italy, has also
testified his
approbation
by several imitations of the Lusiad.
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| Question: |
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The pad of his strong feet, that
ceaseless
sound
Of supple tread behind the iron bands,
Is like a dance of strength circling around,
While in the circle, stunned, a great will stands.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Then 'tis said Peleus burned with desire for Thetis, then
Thetis
contemned
not mortal hymenaeals, then Thetis' sire himself
sanctioned her joining to Peleus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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VI
Giovane piano, e
semplicetto
amante
Poi che fuggir me stesso in dubbio sono,
Madonna a voi del mio cuor l'humil dono
Faro divoto; io certo a prove tante
L'hebbi fedele, intrepido, costante,
De pensieri leggiadro, accorto, e buono;
Quando rugge il gran mondo, e scocca il tuono,
S 'arma di se, e d' intero diamante,
Tanto del forse, e d' invidia sicuro,
Di timori, e speranze al popol use 10
Quanto d'ingegno, e d' alto valor vago,
E di cetra sonora, e delle muse:
Sol troverete in tal parte men duro
Ove amor mise l 'insanabil ago.
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Threatened
with excommunication several times for his dissolute life and challenges to Church authority, he was later reconciled.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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deathless flame Gave thee thine aureole, what Lord thy
strength?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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[150]
As the grand end of human life is to cultivate an intercourse with
that BEING to whom we owe life, with every
enjoyment
that
renders life delightful; and to maintain an integritive conduct
towards our fellow-creatures; that so, by forming piety and virtue
into habit, we may be fit members for that society of the pious and
the good, which reason and revelation teach us to expect beyond the
grave, I do not see that the turn of mind, and pursuits of such a one
as the above verses describe--one who spends the hours and thoughts
which the vocations of the day can spare with Ossian, Shakspeare,
Thomson, Shenstone, Sterne, &c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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"
Now Johnny all night long had heard
The owls in tuneful concert strive;
No doubt too he the moon had seen;
For in the
moonlight
he had been
From eight o'clock till five.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The Serpent
The Fall
'The Fall'
Anonymous,
Hieronymus
Cock, c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Oh, thou didst walk in agony,
Hearing thy mother's cry, the cry
Of
wordless
wailing, well know I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Give me, instead of Beauty's bust,
A tender heart, a loyal mind
Which with
temptation
I would trust,
Yet never link'd with error find,--
One in whose gentle bosom I
Could pour my secret heart of woes,
Like the care-burthen'd honey-fly
That hides his murmurs in the rose,--
My earthly Comforter!
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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He was
brought up by his stepfather, a master bricklayer, and
educated
at
Westminster School, where he got his learning under Camden.
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| Source: |
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Li Po |
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How dear to me, Sire, such
banishment!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Passivity,
Gravity,
Are changed into hesitating,
clanking
pistons and wheels.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Taught him their use, what dangers would ensue
To them who strive to
separate
these two ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Your
handsome
clothes will be spoiled I fear!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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I am
scattered
in its whirl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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By Tacitus
With An
Introduction
By Edward Brooks, Jr.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Thy weary cheek that channell'd sorrow shows,
My much loved lord, upon the one repose;
More careful of thyself against Love be,
Tyrant who smiles his votaries wan to see;
And with the other close the left-hand path
Too easy
entrance
where his message hath;
In sun and storm thyself the same display,
Because time faileth for the lengthen'd way.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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The listener
remained
perfectly mute.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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170
If Kingdom move thee not, let move thee Zeal,
And Duty; Zeal and Duty are not slow;
But on Occasions
forelock
watchful wait.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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" It is
precisely
the
reverse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Riese
LV
Oramus, si forte non
molestum
est,
demonstres ubi sint tuae tenebrae.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Th'
infernal
Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
The Mother of Mankinde, what time his Pride
Had cast him out from Heav'n, with all his Host
Of Rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring
To set himself in Glory above his Peers,
He trusted to have equal'd the most High, 40
If he oppos'd; and with ambitious aim
Against the Throne and Monarchy of God
Rais'd impious War in Heav'n and Battel proud
With vain attempt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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For some it may radiate from the Shropshire life he so finely
etches; for others, in the vivid
artistic
simplicity and unity of
values, through which Shropshire lads and landscapes are presented.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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His
ordinary
appearance
is masculine and cheerful: he never shows depression of
spirits, and is sufficiently undemonstrative, and even somewhat silent in
company.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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X
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Through magic arts won the Golden Fleece,
Sowing the plain with the old serpent's teeth,
To engender soldiers from the furrow's store,
This city, that in youthful season bore
A Hydra's nest of warriors, raised a yeast
Of brave nurslings, who their proud glory saw
Fill the Sun's mansions, to the west and east:
But in the end, lacking a Hercules
To vanquish so fecund a progeny,
Arming themselves in civil enmity,
Mowed each other down, a cruel harvest,
Reliving thus the
fraternal
harsh unrest
Which had blinded that proud seeded army.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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128 Xuan and Guang were truly
discerning
and wise.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Some lowly cot in the rough fields our home,
Shoot down the stags, or with green osier-wand
Round up the
straggling
flock!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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And now, melodious Circe, nymph divine,
Sent after us a canvas-stretching breeze,
Pleasant
companion
of our course, and we
(The decks and benches clear'd) untoiling sat,
While managed gales sped swift the bark along.
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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XXXV _AD
CECILIVM
IVBET LIBELLVM_ (_-LO_ GRVenD) _LOQVI_ ?
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| Transcriber's Notes |
| |
| Page 10: torse _sic_ |
| Page 11: lower case amended to title case ("your
shoulders
|
| are level" amended to "Your shoulders are level").
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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version is
followed
in the first published text in _Witts
Recreations_, 1645.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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What kind of ichör also or
blood dropped from his
crucified
body?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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But, fair bride and
groom, live ye well, and diligently fulfil the office of
vigorous
youth.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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The sea that
overflows
the shore
With billows frothed and curled,
Must ebb once more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
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.
| 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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In fact the rustick liked the business well,
And seemed
unwilling
to resign the belle,
I pity him, and much lament his lot;
But--he must die and soon will be forgot:
A fig for those who used to crack their jest;
In nine months' time a child will be the test.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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If you knew as much _125
Of oracles as I do--
PURGANAX:
You arch-priests
Believe in nothing; if you were to dream
Of a
particular
number in the Lottery,
You would not buy the ticket?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Disgusting
as I ever chanced to see!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Farewell; but ere you go look forth and see
How night hath hushed the clamor and the stir
Of the
tumultuous
streets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Longfellow |
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answered
The Dancing Master.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Here's an acre sown indeed
With the richest
royallest
seed
That the earth did e'er suck in
Since the first man died for sin:
Here the bones of birth have cried
"Though gods they were, as men they died!
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Golden Treasury |
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What rich man would risk his life to devote himself to
this
traffic?
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Aristophanes |
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I crawl, I creep; my Christ, I come
To Thee for curing balsamum:
Thou hast, nay more, Thou art the tree
Affording
salve of sovereignty.
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Robert Herrick |
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Says Bramimunde "Great foolishness I hear:
Those gods of ours in cowardice are steeped;
In
Rencesvals
they wrought an evil deed,
Our chevaliers they let be slain in heaps;
My lord they failed in battle, in his need,
Never again will he his right hand see;
For that rich count, Rollanz, hath made him bleed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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rriinrosii
814
In Eunucham Foctam 815
In Legationem Domini Ollveri St.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The hum of
multitudes
was there, but multitudes of lambs,
Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Gathering up with defiance
My pale-mandarin's sleeves
I puff out my mouth - and breathe
Gentle
Christian
advice.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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He said, among others,
I will bring
(and the phrase was just and good,
but not as good as mine)
"the
narcissus
that loves the rain.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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_Zuleika et Selim, on la vierge d'Abydos_: par lord Byron: trad, de
l'anglais par Leon Thiesse; et suivi de notes augmentees du _Fare Thee
Well_, et autres
morceaux
du meme auteur.
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Byron |
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168, 170
Verrucchio,
Gianciotto
da, _iv.
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Byron |
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