[220] These
accounts
are lost.
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Tacitus |
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The local
expression
"under the hack" is kindly explained
by an authority in middle Georgia dialect, Richard Malcolm Johnston,
author of `The Dukesborough Tales' and other Georgia stories.
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Sidney Lanier |
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in medio mihi Caesar erit templumque tenebit:
illi uictor ego et Tyrio
conspectus
in ostro
centum quadriiugos agitabo ad flumina currus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And with one blow that pagan
downward
falls;
The soul of him Satan away hath borne.
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Chanson de Roland |
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HERACLES (_a hand on the
shoulder
of each_).
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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But that your
trespass
now becomes a fee;
Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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255
Brandisht some of the maids their thyrsi sheathed of spear-point,
Some snatcht limbs and joints of
sturlings
rended to pieces,
These girt necks and waists with writhing bodies of vipers,
Those wi' the gear enwombed in crates dark orgies ordained--
Orgies that ears prophane must vainly lust for o'er hearing-- 260
Others with palms on high smote hurried strokes on the cymbal,
Or from the polisht brass woke thin-toned tinkling music,
While from the many there boomed and blared hoarse blast of the
horn-trump,
And with its horrid skirl loud shrilled the barbarous bag-pipe,
Showing such varied forms, that richly-decorate couch-cloth 265
Folded in strait embrace the bedding drapery-veiled.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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"
FOOTNOTE:
[7] [This and the
following
are fragments of Pindar found in ancient
authors.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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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.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Now even I, a fond woman,
Frail and of small understanding, 20
Yet with
unslakable
yearning
Greatly desiring wisdom,
Come to the threshold of reason
And the bright portals.
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Sappho |
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the Spirits
Of Luvah & Vala
shudderd
in their Orb: an orb of blood!
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Blake - Zoas |
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His
parentage
is differently related.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch
Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith,
The army of
unalterable
law.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Her second husband
was a bricklayer, or small builder, and they lived for a time near
Charing Cross in
Hartshorn
Lane.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The wicked magistrate, in defiance
of the clearest proofs, gave
judgment
for the claimant.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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* * * * *
PETER QUENNELL
PROCNE (A FRAGMENT)
So she became a bird, and bird-like danced
On a long sloe-bough,
treading
the silver blossom
With a bird's lovely feet;
And shaken blossoms fell into the hands
Of Sunlight.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And when the hills are full,
And newer
fashions
blow,
Doth not retract a single spice
For pang of jealousy.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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at 4240
was
Menelaus
wif his bro?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"
And we preserved an
admirable
mimicry
Without heeding the drip of the blood
From my heart.
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Stephen Crane |
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00)
"No other contemporary poet has more independently yoked the
dominant
thought of the times.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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LAST POEM
* * * * *
They have put my bed beside the
unpainted
screen;
They have shifted my stove in front of the blue curtain.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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XXI
BREDON HILL (1)
In summertime on Bredon
The bells they sound so clear;
Round both the shires they ring them
In
steeples
far and near,
A happy noise to hear.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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,
a "peert" horse, in
antithesis
to a "sorry" -- i.
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Sidney Lanier |
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A NUMBER OF
EXCEEDINGLY
FAT PRIESTS IN BLACK GARMENTS ARRAYED ON EACH
SIDE, WITH MARROW-BONES AND CLEAVERS IN THEIR HANDS.
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Shelley |
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not
completely
and for ever, but as well as
most of us learn such lessons.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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[Sidenote A: Arthur addresses the queen:]
[Sidenote B: "Dear dame, be not dismayed; such marvels well become the
Christmas
festival;]
[Sidenote C: I may now go to meat.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Whose soul (as
smallest
boon and easiest)
With what of comfort hast thou deign'd console?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Gia era 'l mondo tutto quanto pregno
de la vera credenza, seminata
per li messaggi de l'etterno regno;
e la parola tua sopra toccata
si
consonava
a' nuovi predicanti;
ond' io a visitarli presi usata.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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' The
mountains
they danced at night, and the mountains they tried
to fall on Peachey's head, but Dan he held up his hand, and Peachey came
along bent double.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Can the spice-rose
drip such acrid fragrance
hardened
in a leaf?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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On her lofty mizzen flew
Our Leader's
dauntless
Blue,
That had waved o'er twenty fights--
So we went, with the first of the tide,
Slowly, mid the roar
Of the Rebel guns ashore
And the thunder of each full broadside.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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His spirit
suddenly
/ has taken flight
And left me behind / far away.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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It
prepares
the virgin mould for future corn-fields and forests,
on which the earth fattens.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Other accounts say, that Brahma
produced
the priests from his
head, the more ignoble tribes from his breast, thighs, and feet.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And were you saved,
And I
condemned
to be
Where you were not,
That self were hell to me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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One must be for ever drunken: that is the sole
question
of importance.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But when thy glance rests on me then my whole
Being
quickens
and blooms like trees in May.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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"Young Trade is dead,
And swart Work sullen sits in the
hillside
fern
And folds his arms that find no bread to earn,
And bows his head.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Say 'twas Ulysses: 'twas his deed declare,
Laertes' son, of Ithaca the fair;
Ulysses, far in
fighting
fields renown'd,
Before whose arm Troy tumbled to the ground.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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O, so unnatural Nature,
You whose
ephemeral
flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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And once, or twice, to throw the dice
Is a
gentlemanly
game,
But he does not win who plays with Sin
In the secret House of Shame.
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Wilde - Poems |
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As proude Bayard ginneth for to skippe
Out of the wey, so priketh him his corn,
Til he a lash have of the longe whippe, 220
Than
thenketh
he, `Though I praunce al biforn
First in the trays, ful fat and newe shorn,
Yet am I but an hors, and horses lawe
I moot endure, and with my feres drawe.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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" Thus down our road we took
Through those
dilapidated
crags, that oft
Mov'd underneath my feet, to weight like theirs
Unus'd.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Look at the owl, scarce seen, scarce heard,
O irritant, iterant,
maddening
bird!
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Da l'ora ch'io avea
guardato
prima
i' vidi mosso me per tutto l'arco
che fa dal mezzo al fine il primo clima;
si ch'io vedea di la da Gade il varco
folle d'Ulisse, e di qua presso il lito
nel qual si fece Europa dolce carco.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the
requirements
of paragraphs 1.
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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La terre avait des
versants
fertiles
en princes et en artistes, et la descendance et la
race nous poussaient aux crimes et aux deuils: ce monde votre fortune et
votre peril.
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I do not like to
remember
things any more.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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(3) The belief in the existence
of the volume of 1641 arose from the dates of
_Mortimer_
and the
_Discoveries_, 'all the copies of which are dated 1641', and of
the variant edition of _The Devil is an Ass_, which will next be
described.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
II
What shall we do,
Cytherea?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Ma quell' anime, ch'eran lasse e nude,
cangiar colore e
dibattero
i denti,
ratto che 'nteser le parole crude.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
"I saw him in gaunt gardens lone,
Where
laughter
used to be;
That he as phantom wanders there
Is known to none but me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"Why loosened I olden control here
To mechanize skywards,
Undeeming great scope could
outshape
in
A globe of such grain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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If you are
redistributing
or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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[557] Ibycus, a lyric poet of the sixth century,
originally
from Rhegium
in Magna Graecia.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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And Susan she begins to fear
Of sad
mischances
not a few,
That Johnny may perhaps be drown'd,
Or lost perhaps, and never found;
Which they must both for ever rue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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C'est le Diable qui tient les fils qui nous
remuent!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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You who consoled me in funereal night,
Bring me Posilipo, the sea of Italy,
The flower that pleased my grieving heart,
And the trellis where the vine
entwines
the rose.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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[The
Tragedie
of Macbeth by William Shakespeare 1603]
Actus Primus.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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_
The foregoing was to have been an elaborate dissertation on the
various species of men; but as I cannot please myself in the
arrangement of my ideas, I must wait till farther
experience
and nicer
observation throw more light on the subject.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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at may
gone by
nat{ur}el
office of feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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The Foundation is committed to
complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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1074 in spenne in space an the
interval
eeanwhile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But when they came where that dead Dragon lay,
Stretcht on the ground in
monstrous
large extent,
The sight with idle feare did them dismay, 80
Ne durst approch him nigh, to touch, or once assay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Forth from the forest's distant depth, from bald and barren peaks,
They
congregate
in hungry flocks and rend their gory prey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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But
Fitzdottrel
has just said 'Laught at, sweet bird?
| 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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When the tradition
is Satyric, as here, the same process
produces
almost an opposite effect.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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MARMADUKE (a letter in his hand)
It is no common thing when one like you
Performs
these delicate services, and therefore
I feel myself much bounden to you, Oswald;
'Tis a strange letter this!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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The subject of free-verse is too
complicated
to be discussed here.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Also, to avoid any
appearance
of precedence,
they have been put in alphabetical order.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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The spear receiving from the hand, he placed
Against a column, fair with sculpture graced;
Where seemly ranged in
peaceful
order stood
Ulysses' arms now long disused to blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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) I
Pierced him with
stiffest
staff and did him die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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That ought to be sufficient for those
American
Intellectuals who are bemoaning the deca dence of poetry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the plowman in
darkness
plough?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
II
Thus do I this heyday, holding
Shadows but as lights unfolding,
As no specious show this moment
With its irised embowment;
But as nothing other than
Part of a
benignant
plan;
Proof that earth was made for man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Woe to that flaunting army's pride, so vaunting
yesterday!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And their long holiday that feared not grief,
For all
belonged
to all, and each was chief.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But now he half-raises his deep-sunken eye,
And the motion
unsettles
a tear;
The silence of sorrow it seems to supply,
And asks of me why I am here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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On
mountain
soil I first drew life:
The mists of the Taglay have shed
Nightly their dews upon my head,
And, I believe, the winged strife
And tumult of the headlong air
Have nestled in my very hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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And now the
blossoms
by the night be stirred
Around you surge, and may their purple fall
To veil from sight your shame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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By four unpitying walls environed there
The homesick students pace the
pavements
bare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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It is an old notion that, if these wild trees do not bear a valuable
fruit of their own, they are the best stocks by which to
transmit
to
posterity the most highly prized qualities of others.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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De quel droit payes-tu des
experiences
comme moi?
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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But hawks will rob the tender joys
That bless the little lintwhite's nest;
And frost will blight the fairest flowers,
And love will break the
soundest
rest.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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[Sidenote I: Thou failedst at the third time, and
therefore
take thee that
tap.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And since till girls go maying
You find the
primrose
still,
And find the windflower playing
With every wind at will,
But not the daffodil,
Bring baskets now, and sally
Upon the spring's array,
And bear from hill and valley
The daffodil away
That dies on Easter day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"When shall this slough of sense be cast,
This dust of
thoughts
be laid at last,
The man of flesh and soul be slain
And the man of bone remain?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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'neath the
pressure
yield
Its groaning woods; the torrents' flow
With clear sharp ice is all congeal'd.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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