So, when the chant of sacrifice was done,
Her father bade the youthful priestly train
Raise her, like some poor kid, above the altar-stone,
From where amid her robes she lay
Sunk all in swoon away--
Bade them, as with the bit that mutely tames the steed,
Her fair lips' speech refrain,
Lest she should speak a curse on Atreus' home and seed,
So, trailing on the earth her robe of saffron dye,
With one last piteous dart from her
beseeching
eye
Those that should smite she smote--
Fair, silent, as a pictur'd form, but fain
To plead, _Is all forgot?
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Aeschylus |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The ordre of compleynt requireth skilfully, 155
That if a wight shal pleyne pitously,
There mot be cause wherfor that men pleyne;
Or men may deme he
pleyneth
folily
And causeles; alas!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Canto XI
O insensata cura de' mortali,
quanto son
difettivi
silogismi
quei che ti fanno in basso batter l'ali!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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She
suspected
that her husband had deceived her, and she
immediately began overwhelming him with questions.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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swenge ofer-sōhte, þonne hē tō sæcce
bær wǣpen wundrum heard (_too strong was the hand, that
surpassed
every
sword in stroke, when he_ [Bēowulf] _bore the wondrous weapon to battle_,
i.
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Beowulf |
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s
usefulness
in the crisis was a delusion that Suzong could not afford to entertain.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Were troublous to me, almost as a Voice 70
Familiar once and more than musical;
As a dear Woman's Voice to one cast forth, [A]
A Wanderer with a worn-out heart forlorn,
Mid
Strangers
pining with untended wounds.
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William Wordsworth |
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Then the friar,
With voice as low as if a maiden hummed
Love-songs of
Provence
in a mild day-dream:
"And when he broke the second seal, I heard
The second beast say, Come and see.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Erewhile 'twas corn resplendent and unstained,
Or crystal, that through morning radiance shone,
Now flowing agate, deep and sombre-veined,
Then like a crimson sparkling
precious
stone.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Pain or pleasure transported her, and the whole of pain or
pleasure might be held in a flower's cup or the
imagined
frown of
a friend.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Gives even affliction a grace
And
reconciles
man to his lot.
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Golden Treasury |
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At the
beginning
of the period Sh?
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Li Po |
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The
listener
remained perfectly mute.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Often in peace and wealth you were pensive, or covertly frowned amid all
your children;
But now you smile with joy,
exulting
old Mannahatta!
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Whitman |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Imagists |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When
hurricanes
its surface fan,
O object of my fond devotion!
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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He was the inventor of the planh, the Provencal dirge, and some circumstantial evidence points to his having died on crusade as a
follower
of Louis VII of France.
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Troubador Verse |
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Tous ceux qu'il veut aimer l'observent avec crainte,
Ou bien, s'enhardissant de sa tranquillite,
Cherchent
a qui saura lui tirer une plainte,
Et font sur lui l'essai de leur ferocite.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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net (This
file was produced from images
generously
made available
by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Transcriber's Note:
Underscores before and after a word or phrase indicate _italics_
in the original text.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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XII
That Emperour, beneath a pine he sits,
Calls his barons, his council to begin:
Oger the Duke, that
Archbishop
Turpin,
Richard the old, and his nephew Henry,
From Gascony the proof Count Acolin,
Tedbald of Reims and Milun his cousin:
With him there were Gerers, also Gerin,
And among them the Count Rollant came in,
And Oliver, so proof and so gentil.
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| Question: |
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Chanson de Roland |
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It was not, like their tragedy, their
comedy, their epic and lyric poetry, a hothouse plant which, in
return for
assiduous
and skilful culture, gave only scanty and
sickly fruits.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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What have we to do
With
Kaikobad
the Great, or Kaikhosru?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Diegue
His choice disturbs you: speak not of it;
Favour may be its cause as well as merit,
We should respect a power so absolute,
By
questioning
nothing that a King may do.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
|
]
[This third and last ballad was written on the contest between Heron
and Stewart, which
followed
close on that with Gordon.
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Robert Forst |
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Shrill sounds were
hovering
o'er,
Mixed with the ocean's roar,
Of cymbals from the shore,
And whinnying courser's neigh.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
What you get married for if you don't want
children?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Close on its wave soothes the wave behind,
And again another behind,
embracing
and lapping, every one close,--
But my love soothes not me, not me.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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"
EPITAPH OF LA FONTAINE
MADE BY HIMSELF
JOHN, as he came, so went away,
Consuming capital and pay,
Holding
superfluous
riches cheap;
The trick of spending time he knew,
Dividing it in portions two,
For idling one, and one for sleep.
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La Fontaine |
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He ended, whom Penelope discrete
O'erhearing, her
attendant
sharp rebuked.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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wenn Ihr's zuweilen singt,
So werdet Ihr
besondre
Wirkung spuren.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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: post
_monumenta_
in marg.
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Latin - Catullus |
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_est_) G || _pinguis_ TO:
_pingues_
GR
et cett.
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Latin - Catullus |
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He had much
kindliness
of
disposition.
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| Question: |
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Petrarch |
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She watches the
creeping
stalk and counts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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"May all that cling to sprays of time, like me,
Be sweetly wafted over sky and sea
By rose-breaths
shrining
maidens like to thee!
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Sidney Lanier |
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His grave demeanour and
majestic
grace
Speak him descended of non vulgar race:
Did he some loan of ancient right require,
Or came forerunner of your sceptr'd sire?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The smitten rock that gushes,
The
trampled
steel that springs;
A cheek is always redder
Just where the hectic stings!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Almost every detail of the chapel, which we entered by a narrow Gothic
door, whose threshold had been worn smooth by the secret
worshippers
of
the penal times, was vivid in my memory; for it was in this chapel that
I had first, and when but a boy, been moved by the mediaevalism which
is now, I think, the governing influence in my life.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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To be
invited by the Senate of Rome to such an honour might excuse him for
forgetting that Rome was not now what she had once been, and that the
substantial glory of his appointment was small in comparison with the
classic
associations
which formed its halo.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Perhaps that other life
is
contrast
always to this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Intelligent readers will gain
hence a clear understanding of the vast imaginative, range of
Poetry;--through what wide
oscillations
the mind and the taste of a
nation may pass;--how many are the roads which Truth and Nature open to
Excellence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Jehovah, still we refrain from crying to the infamous gates
That open easily into the heavens thy mind of
jealousy
hates.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Moreover, I have
supplied
the arguments to the several
cantos, given a few more explanatory notes, and added a table of
contents.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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The fountain sang and sang
The things one cannot tell;
The dreaming peacocks stirred
And the
gleaming
dew-drops fell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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5 The Cave of the Moon was
supposed
to be in the far west.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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dark lowered the clouds on that horrible eve,
And the moon dimly gleamed through the
tempested
air;
Oh!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
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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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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My niece Plantagenet,
Led in the hand of her kind aunt of
Gloucester?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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haec
indiuidui
semper comes addita fulcri
unanimam tibi se lustra per octo dedit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The harshness died
Within me, and my heart
Was caught and fluttered like the
palpitant
heart
Of a brown quail, flying
To the call of her blind sister,
And death, in the spring night.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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" When he
first heard that the horse had come home without his master, and without
his master's saddle-bags, and all bloody from a pistol-shot, that had
gone clean through and through the poor animal's chest without quite
killing him; when he heard all this, he turned as pale as if the missing
man had been his own dear brother or father, and
shivered
and shook all
over as if he had had a fit of the ague.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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'449'
"The latest
fashionable
folly is the test, or the proof, of a quick,
up-to-date wit.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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18 Detained on Parting by the Two
Gentlemen
of the Chancellery Jia [Zhi] and Yan [Wu] and the Rectifiers of Omissions of Both Ministries (I got the rhyme yun) I must go to my fields and gardens awhile, the warhorse regrets leaving the herd.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Kidurkazal,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 145.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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_
HE AWAKES TO A CONVICTION OF THE NEAR
APPROACH
OF DEATH.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Note: Ronsard's later tributes to 'Marie' were written for the Duke of Anjou (the future Henri III) whose
mistress
Marie de Cleves died in 1574.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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A virtue, like allay, so gone
Throughout
your form, as though that move,
And draw, and conquer all men's love,
This subjects you to love of one,
Wherein you triumph yet: because
'Tis of yourself, and that you use
The noblest freedom, not to choose
Against or faith, or honour's laws.
| 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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And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,
And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the
climbing
briar,
And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire
Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
May Saint
Ignatius
aid thee
When other times shall come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
[59]
Mentioned
by Koeppel, p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
The first line of the
new tablet
corresponds
to Tablet I, Col.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Winding its dark-green wood and emerald glade,
The still vale lengthens
underneath
the shade;
While in soft gloom the scattering bowers recede,
Green dewy lights adorn the freshened mead, 1815.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
The Warders strutted up and down,
And kept their herd of brutes,
Their
uniforms
were spick and span,
And they wore their Sunday suits,
But we knew the work they had been at,
By the quicklime on their boots.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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"While to the shore the rapid vessel flies,
Our swift approach the Siren choir descries;
Celestial music warbles from their tongue,
And thus the sweet
deluders
tune the song:
"'Oh stay, O pride of Greece!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Where is your
Husband?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
7 or obtain
permission
for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Here, where arising from the sea
Stands Venus, lay the load at last,
Links, crowbars, and artillery,
Threatening
all doors that dared be fast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
enne,
1384 "For by a-corde of
couenaunt
3e craue hit as your awen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
'Many disused persons can mutter out some honest
requests
in secret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
"
When old
Headsman
Death laid hands
On a babe or twain,
She would feast, and by her brands
Sing her songs again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
* The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Or else he sat with those who watched
His anguish night and day;
Who watched him when he rose to weep,
And when he
crouched
to pray;
Who watched him lest himself should rob
Their scaffold of its prey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Gaze upon the rolling deep
(Fish is
plentiful
and cheap);
As the sea, my love is deep!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
I sit beneath thy looks, as children do
In the noon-sun, with souls that tremble through
Their happy eyelids from an unaverred
Yet
prodigal
inward joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
e, employ them
vertuou?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
' We are told also by his
sister--and there is no incongruity in the two accounts--that he
early
displayed
a taste for 'preheminence and would preside over his
playmates as their master and they his hired servants.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
The snow is fled: the trees their leaves put on,
The fields their green:
Earth owns the change, and rivers
lessening
run.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Jack brought the couple
presently
to meet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Act I Scene IV (Phaedra, Oenone, Panope)
Panope
I wished to hide the
sorrowful
news from you,
My lady: but now I must reveal it to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
He thrust from him
Prelates, boyars, and Patriarch; in vain
Prostrate they fall; the splendour of the throne
Affrights
him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
The sharp sides of the peaks are finger'd white
With flame, lit by the fires of God beyond;
The rest is night; the whole people of dark hills
A front of high
impenetrable
doom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
He can laugh and weep, he
can discuss the
composition
of all things, and even inquire into the
nature of those very atoms!
| 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 |
|
You built your cities rich
Around each towered hall,--
Without, the statued niche,
Within, the
pictured
wall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
5
It
tortures
me, to thinke on 'hem.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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VI
Of course Tattiana was annoyed
By such allusions scandalous,
Yet was her inmost soul o'erjoyed
With
satisfaction
marvellous,
As in her heart the thought sank home,
I am in love, my hour hath come!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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--Ah, thy shoulders urging shape
Of
loveliness
into thy hair's pouring gleam!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"
And another cried, "In what cause dost thou sacrifice
thyself?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Let me tell you, my friends, the whole question depends
On an ancient
manorial
right.
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Lewis Carroll |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Our
ministering
two angels look surprise
On one another, as they strike athwart
Their wings in passing.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Then Eno [Ono] a daughter of Beulah took a Moment of Time *
And drew it out to twenty years Seven thousand years with much care & affliction *
And many tears & in the twenty Every years gave visions toward heaven made windows into Eden *
She also took an atom of space & opend its center
Into
Infinitude
& ornamented it with wondrous art
{This is where Erdman puts these 2 lines, which appear diagonally on the page in the upper-left corner, near the exta-marginal block of text which is inserted after line 7.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Sprenger
catalogues
the Lucknow MS.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Robert _the Good_, as he was in some
respects
deservedly
called, was, for his age, a well-instructed man,
and, for a king, a prodigy.
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Petrarch |
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The robin is the one
That speechless from her nest
Submits that home and certainty
And
sanctity
are best.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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