Rome is no more: if downed architecture
May still revive some shade of Rome anew,
It's like a corpse, by some magic brew,
Drawn at deep
midnight
from a sepulchre.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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If I said so, then through my brief life may
All that is hateful block my
worthless
weary way:
If I said so, may the proud frost in thee
Grow prouder as more fierce the fire in me:
If I said so, no more then may the warm
Sun or bright moon be view'd,
Nor maid, nor matron's form,
But one dread storm
Such as proud Pharaoh saw when Israel he pursued.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Fate rends the
chaplets
from our feeble brows;
The spires of Heaven fade in fogs of hell.
| Guess: |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Accursed nights, and stagnant Stygian marsh,
And every sluggish wave that clogs my feet,
Early yet
guiltless
came I to this bourne;
So let the sire deal gently with my shade
If Aeacus sit judge with ordered urn,
By kin upon my bones be judgement made:
There let his brothers sit, the Furies fill
By Minos' seat the Court, an audience grave.
| Guess: |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
| Guess: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Force and
prudence
are invoked in vain;
The illness that seems cured appears again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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LXXVII
The valorous count,
redoubling
still his blows,
Thought from the trunk the monarch's head to smite.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Ouseley has written a note to something of the same
effect on the fly-leaf of the
Bodleian
MS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The scholar had quickly spied
out these old friends among the gipsies, and their
amazement to see him among such society had well-nigh
discovered him; but by a sign he prevented them owning
him before that crew, and taking one of them aside
privately
desired him with his friend to go to an inn,
not far distant, promising there to come to them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Yeats |
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If they'd take
elsewhere
the honours they send me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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245; and Walton says that Donne 'left the
resultance
of 1400
Authors, most of them abridged and analysed with his own hand.
| Guess: |
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John Donne |
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Go--the Saints
Pilot and prosper all thy
wandering
out
And homeward.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Tennyson |
|
The present volume contains a reproduction[2] in black and white of
the
original
MS.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Ah Mother,
prolific
and full in all besides, yet how long barren, barren?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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whitherward
Dost thou direct thy
warning?
| Guess: |
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Aeschylus |
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1400 Þā wæs
Hrōðgāre
hors gebǣted,
wicg wunden-feax.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Why not try to win her good-will and appeal to her
sympathy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The dignity of the accursed;
The glory of slavery, despair, death,
Is in the dance of the
whispering
snakes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Stephen Crane |
|
Dykes Campbell quotes a letter of
Coleridge
to Cottle, which he attributes
to the year 1797, in which Coleridge says: "I sent to the _Monthly
Magazine_ three mock sonnets in ridicule of my own Poems, and Charles
Lloyd's, and Charles Lamb's, etc.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Hast thou found any fire
Will draw from our hearts a smoke of burn'd
idolatrous
desire?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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--
Shame he reckoned it, sharer-of-rings,
to follow the flyer-afar with a host,
a broad-flung band; nor the battle feared he,
nor deemed he dreadful the dragon's warring,
its vigor and valor:
ventures
desperate
he had passed a-plenty, and perils of war,
contest-crash, since, conqueror proud,
Hrothgar's hall he had wholly purged,
and in grapple had killed the kin of Grendel,
loathsome breed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
We are young and eager and yet we are mateless and unvisited, and
though we lie in
unbroken
half embrace, we are uncomforted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A PARABLE
Worn and
footsore
was the Prophet,
When he gained the holy hill;
'God has left the earth,' he murmured,
'Here his presence lingers still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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His own Epitaph_
ASPICITE, o ciues, senis Enni
imaginis
formam.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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quid referam comitumque nefas
famulosque
nocentis?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"Stout be the heart, nor slow
The foot to follow the
impetuous
will,
Nor the hand slack upon the loom of deeds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Soon shall we know whereof the bale-fires tell,
The beacons, kindled with
transmitted
flame;
Whether, as well I deem, their tale is true.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I persuade me from her
Will fall some
blessing
to this land, which shall
In it be memoriz'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Doubt not that over-proud and haughty souls
Zeus lours in wrath,
exacting
the account.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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' The same form
occurs in _Sad
Shepherd_
(Fol.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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No
lifetime
set on them,
Apparelled as the new
Unborn, except they had beheld,
Born everlasting now.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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I am sure you
will all join with me in
expressing
a hearty vote of thanks to Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"
Now I could not answer him, most
strangely
Touched me those old words I knew so well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But though you yielded him unto the knife
And altar with a royal sacrifice
Of your most precious self and dearer life--
Your master gem and pearl above all price--
Content you; for the dawn this night restores
Shall be the
dayspring
of his soul and yours.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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LXVII
"Besides that it is walled about with steel,
And
inexpugnable
his tower, and high;
Besides that his swift horse is taught to wheel,
And caracol and gallop in mid sky,
He bears a mortal shield of power to seal,
As soon as 'tis exposed, the dazzled eye;
And so invades each sense, the splendour shed,
That he who sees the blaze remains as dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"Literary" epic is as close to its subject as "authentic"; but, as a
general rule, "authentic" epic, in response to its surrounding needs,
has a simple and
concrete
subject, and the closeness of the poet to this
is therefore more obvious than in "literary" epic, which (again in
response to surrounding needs) has been driven to take for subject some
great abstract idea and display this in a concrete but only ostensible
subject.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
LXXXV
My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still,
While
comments
of your praise richly compil'd,
Reserve their character with golden quill,
And precious phrase by all the Muses fil'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But, wretched nothings, think ye not to flee
Out of this rock; I,
standing
at the outlet,
Will bar the way and catch you as you pass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Where'er he moves, the growing slaughters spread
In heaps on heaps a
monument
of dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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The vengeance exacted by the spouse of Attila for the
murder of Siegfried was
celebrated
in rhymes, of which Germany is
still justly proud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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'Tis thus the Furies now
For kindred-murder dog his
restless
steps.
| 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 AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are
confirmed
as Public Domain in the U.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Count
All I merited, you have
snatched
away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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THE NIGHT PIECE: TO JULIA
Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee,
The
shooting
stars attend thee;
And the elves also,
Whose little eyes glow
Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
What will you find out there that is not torn and
anguished?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
The bull of Phalaris renews his roar[eh];
Mount,
chivalrous
Hidalgo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Well hast thou
counselled
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
What rumour without is there
breeding?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
XIX
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
All imperfection born beneath the skies,
All that regales our spirits and our eyes,
And all those things that devour our pleasures:
All those ills that strip our age of treasures,
All the good the centuries might devise,
Rome in
ancestral
times secured as prize,
Like Pandora's box, enclosed the measure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Yea, man's
stubborn
lust
To feed his heart upon your beauty, is all
The strength your lives have, all that holdeth you
Safe in the world,--propt like a rotten house.
| 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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'Ye peers (she cried) who press to gain my heart,
Where dead Ulysses claims no more a part,
Yet a short space your rival suit suspend,
Till this funereal web my labours end:
Cease, till to good Laertes I bequeath
A task of grief, his ornaments of death:
Lest when the Fates his royal ashes claim,
The Grecian matrons taint my
spotless
fame;
Should he, long honour'd with supreme command,
Want the last duties of a daughter's hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
There is a
legend[15] that he was drowned while making a drunken effort to embrace
the
reflection
of the moon in the water.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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With thilk a force he hyt hym to the grounde; 275
And was demasing howe to take his life,
When he behynde received a ghastlie wounde
Gyven by de Torcie, with a stabbyng knyfe;
Base
trecherous
Normannes, if such actes you doe,
The conquer'd maie clame victorie of you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
But what is gained, if you a whole
present?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
"Gods
sovereign
over
sea and land and weather!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
There was a strangeness in the room,
And Something white and wavy
Was
standing
near me in the gloom--
_I_ took it for the carpet-broom
Left by that careless slavey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Had God
foredoomed
despair
He had not spoken hope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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The eyes are drowned in opium
In universal licence
The
clownish
mouth bewitched
A singular geranium.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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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?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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(This fragment refers to an event told in Sismondi's
"Histoire des Republiques Italiennes", which occurred during the war
when
Florence
finally subdued Pisa, and reduced it to a
province.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you,
terrible
year!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Through five [24] long
generations
had the heart
Of Walter's forefathers o'erflowed the bounds
Of their inheritance, that single cottage--
You see it yonder!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
His majesty having commanded a general
muster of the militia
throughout
the kingdom, the city of _London_
not only mustered 6000 citizens completely armed, who performed their
several evolutions with surprizing dexterity; but a martial spirit
appeared amongst the rising generation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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O when may I cast off this weariness,
And make the pageant of my old distress
For these hands labour,
pleasure
for these eyes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
the
Athenians
have lost their pestle--the tanner, who
ground Greece to powder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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then, from earth and all its sorrows free,
Methinks
I meet thee in each former scene:
Once the sweet shelter of a heart serene;
Now vocal only while I weep for thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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If the discrepancy should be painful to the reader,
let him
understand
that to the writer it has been more so.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Wuz, _was_,
sometimes
_were_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state
applicable
to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The rush of their charge is
resounding
still
That saved the army at Chancellorsville.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Therefore
they shall do my will
To-day while I am master still,
And flesh and soul, now both are strong,
Shall hale the sullen slaves along,
Before this fire of sense decay,
This smoke of thought blow clean away,
And leave with ancient night alone
The stedfast and enduring bone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
The
admiring
chiefs, and all the Grecian name,
With general shouts return'd him loud acclaim.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of Columbia,
Who was thirsty, and called out for some beer;
But they brought it quite hot, in a small copper pot,
Which
disgusted
that man of Columbia.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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I might as well
tell a tale of two
thousand
years hence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Satire is, indeed, the
only sort of composition in which the Latin poets, whose works
have come down to us, were not mere
imitators
of foreign models;
and it is therefore the only sort of composition in which they
have never been rivalled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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APPENDIX
A DIVINE IMAGE
Cruelty has a human heart,
And
Jealousy
a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secresy the human dress.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Stephen Crane |
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'4
THE GOOSE GIRL'S SONG By Laura Benet
Last morn as I was bleaching the queen's linen On the moor-grass sere and dry,
A breath of summer breeze it blew my apron To the four parts of the sky;
And as I started up tiptoe with wonder And gazed towards the town,
A little round well opened to my
footsteps
With water clear and brown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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'Tis sweet to love, and good to be undone;
Though life be hard, more days may Heaven allow
Misfortune
to outlive: else Death may bow
The bright head low my loving praise that won.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
--
"I fain would foot with you, young man,
Before all others here;
I fain would foot it for a span
With such a
cavalier!
| 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 ladies of the corridor
Find themselves involved, disgraced,
Call witness to their principles
And deprecate the lack of taste
Observing
that hysteria
Might easily be misunderstood;
Mrs.
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T.S. Eliot |
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You have a mouth for loving--listen then:
Keep tryst with Love before Death comes to tryst;
For I, who die, could wish that I had lived
A little closer to the world of men,
Not watching always thro' the
blazoned
panes
That show the world in chilly greens and blues
And grudge the sunshine that would enter in.
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Sara Teasdale |
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I see you're on the right track here;
But you'll have to give
undivided
attention.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Ah God,
beautiful
God, my soul is wild
With love of thee.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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WHERE'ER
suspicion
dwells you may be sure,
To cuckoldom 'twill prove a place secure.
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La Fontaine |
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The volume
purported
to have no editor, yet
a collection without an editor was pronounced preposterous.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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A cradle of young
thoughts
of wingless pleasure?
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Shelley |
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'
_Virginia
fence, to make a_: to walk
like a drunken man.
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James Russell Lowell |
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No cotton-bales before us--
Some fool that
falsehood
told;
Before us was an earthwork,
Built from the swampy mould.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"As good a boy as I want," said Revere, the
admiring
skipper.
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Kipling - Poems |
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No dirges for my fancied death;
No weak lament, no mournful stave;
All
clamorous
grief were waste of breath,
And vain the tribute of o grave.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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LXXV
Above all other fortune, to the knight
Was welcome to have found the gentle maid,
Who the whole story of Geneura bright,
And her unblemished innocence displayed;
And, if he hoped, although accused with right,
To furnish the
afflicted
damsel aid,
Persuaded of the calumny's disproof,
He with more courage warred in her behoof.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The spirit was silent; but he took
Mortar and stone to build a wall;
He left no loophole great or small
Through which my straining eyes might look:
So now I sit here quite alone
Blinded with tears; nor grieve for that,
For naught is left worth looking at
Since my
delightful
land is gone.
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Christina Rossetti |
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What better tale could any lover tell
When age or death his
reckoning
shall write
Than thus, 'Love taught me only to rebel
Against these things,--the thieving of delight
Without return; the gospellers of fear
Who, loving, yet deny the truth they bear,
Sad-suited lusts with lecherous hands to smear
The cloth of gold they would but dare not wear.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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