The last documentary mention of him is in 1269, and he is
supposed
to have died in Provence.
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Troubador Verse |
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Therewithal at my behest
Shall Lyctian Aegon and Damoetas sing,
And
Alphesiboeus
emulate in dance
The dancing Satyrs.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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i
familers
not vnskilfully axed ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Then, bending towards his dear, adorable, and execrable wife, his
inevitable and
pitiless
muse, he kissed her respectfully upon the hand,
and added, "Ah, dear angel, how I thank you for my skill!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Then full of awe,
With these same eyes I saw
His head incredible retract its horn
Rounding
like babe's new born,
While silvery phosphorescence played
About his dis-horned head.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Erect on a pillar of skulls
He declaims his
trampling
of babes;
Smirking, fat, dripping,
He makes speech in guiltless ignorance,
Innocence.
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Stephen Crane |
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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.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I think I shall convince you so
thoroughly
that, when you
have heard me, you will not have a word to say.
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Aristophanes |
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The recent
researches
of Sievers[16] and others into the
earliest metrical forms tend to shew that this metre is an
'Indo-European' heritage, and that it must be judged in the light of its
Eastern and Germanic cognates.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I kenne thee, Magnus, welle; a wyghte thou art
That doest aslee alonge ynn doled dystresse,
Strynge bulle yn boddie,
lyoncelle
yn harte, 505
I almost wysche thie prowes were made lesse.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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One leaf (pages 89-90) is thus unaccounted for; but it is evident
from the signatures and
pagination
that _The Diuell is an Asse_ was
printed with a view to having it follow _Bartholomew Fayre_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The Author makes
this remark, to rescue himself from the charge of having
alluded with levity to a line in Milton: a charge than which
none could be more painful to him, except perhaps that of
having
ridiculed
his Bible.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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u3t,
To lede a
lortschyp
in lee of leude3 ful gode.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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they need not seem
Brighter
or stiller in my dream.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
There are some
passages
in your last that brought tears in my eyes.
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Robert Forst |
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Somme hyltren matters doe mie
presence
fynde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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LXVIII
You ask how love can keep the mortal soul
Strong to the pitch of joy
throughout
the years.
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Sappho |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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If I were a dead leaf thou
mightest
bear;
If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;
A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share
The impulse of thy strength, only less free
Than Thou, O uncontrollable!
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Golden Treasury |
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Might he know
How conscious consciousness could grow,
Till love that was, and love too blest to be,
Meet -- and the junction be
Eternity?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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It is to you I owe the cruel gift,
Leda, my mother, and the Swan, my sire,
To you the beauty and to you the bale;
For never woman born of man and maid
Had wrought such havoc on the earth as I,
Or
troubled
heaven with a sea of flame
That climbed to touch the silent whirling stars
And blotted out their brightness ere the dawn.
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Sara Teasdale |
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--He hath a
delicate
wife, a fair fortune, a family to
go to and be welcome; yet he had rather be drunk with mine host and the
fiddlers of such a town, than go home.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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We passed
through ten
thousand
valleys, and in each we heard the voice of wind
among the pines.
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Li Po |
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In the
stillness
of the night my sister murmurs in her sleep the
fire-god's unknown name, and my brother calls afar upon the cool
and distant goddess.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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[30] _it_ is
uncertain
and _ta_ more likely than _us_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Let not thy
tombstone
e'er be lain by me, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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765
What is Criseyde worth, from
Troilus?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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* * * * *
[I find the date of this is placed in 1792, in contradiction, by
mistake, to what I have
asserted
in 'Guilt and Sorrow'.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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4390
If
Ielousye
doth thee payne,
Quyte him his whyle thus agayne,
To venge thee, atte leest in thought,
If other way thou mayest nought;
And in this wyse sotilly 4395
Worche, and winne the maistry.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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This which we have seen is
eternally
ours,
No others shall tread in the glade which now we see;
Their hands shall not touch the frail tranquil flowers,
Nor their hearts faint in wonder at the wild white tree.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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]
30 (return)
[ The Greeks, by means of their colony at Marseilles, introduced their letters into Gaul, and the old Gallic coins have many Greek
characters
in their inscriptions.
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Tacitus |
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Two figures, one Conon, in the midst he set,
And one- how call you him, who with his wand
Marked out for all men the whole round of heaven,
That they who reap, or stoop behind the plough,
Might know their several
seasons?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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For thee, O boy,
First shall the earth, untilled, pour freely forth
Her
childish
gifts, the gadding ivy-spray
With foxglove and Egyptian bean-flower mixed,
And laughing-eyed acanthus.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And thy
dwelling
men shall call
Orestes Town.
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Euripides - Electra |
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La Grand-Ville a le pave chaud
Malgre vos douches de petrole
Et
decidement
il nous faut
Nous secouer dans votre role.
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| Question: |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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_--A country of Asia Minor
bordering
on the Black
Sea.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The
fortress
of Kazan
Thou fought'st beneath, with Shuisky didst repulse
The army of Litva.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But what did you want with a cock in
tragedy?
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| Question: |
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Aristophanes |
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The well in the Forum at which
they had
alighted
was pointed out.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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[From the old song of "Daintie Davie" Burns has
borrowed
only the
title and the measure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Strangely
enough, or not strangely,
according to one's own views, this acceptance of the classics does a
great deal of harm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_1633-35:_ not _1639_]
[239
coverest
us with wrath] coverest with thy wrath _B, O'F_]
[243 47 _Ed:_ 47, _1633:_ 47.
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| Question: |
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John Donne |
|
[Illustration]
There was an old person of Cannes,
Who purchased three fowls and a fan;
Those she placed on a stool, and to make them feel cool
She
constantly
fanned them at Cannes.
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| Question: |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love
And these black bodies and this
sunburnt
face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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AT CHIANG-HSIA, PARTING FROM SUNG CHIH-T'I
Clear as the sky the waters of Hupeh
Far away will join with the Blue Sea;
We whom a
thousand
miles will soon part
Can mend our grief only with a cup of wine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
mark you not the red
Of shame
unutterable
in my sightless white?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Cries burst from all the
millions
that attend:
_"Ascend, Leviathan, it is the end!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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proin uide ne, quem tu esse hebetem deputas aeque ac pecus,
is sapientia munitum pectus egregie gerat
teque regno expellat: nam id quod de sole
ostentum
est tibi,
populo commutationem rerum portendit fore
perproquinquam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Did I think of you last
evening?
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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We
immediately
hastened
to a higher place, where the scene was equally
impressive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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What field, by Latian blood-drops fed,
Proclaims not the
unnatural
deeds
It buries, and the earthquake dread
Whose distant thunder shook the Medes?
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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_ Oxford, 1910), have
insisted
strongly on the
importance of this influence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Even those
ungrateful
lands that seal'd his doom
Recall'd the hanish'd man to rescue Rome.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Hart
through the Project Gutenberg
Association
(the "Project").
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
"Because I believe he has serious
intentions
concerning you.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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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 1.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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ELECTRA,
_daughter
of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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--Oh, if I could ride
With my head held high-serene against the sky
Do you think I'd have a
creature
like you at my side
With your gloom and your doubt that you love me?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Ab la dolchor del temps novel
Out of the
sweetness
of the spring,
The branches leaf, the small birds sing,
Each one chanting in its own speech,
Forming the verse of its new song,
Then is it good a man should reach
For that for which he most does long.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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[54] The tablet is reckoned at forty lines in each column,
[55] Literally "he
attained
my front.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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But somewhere in my soul, I know
I 've met the thing before;
It just
reminded
me -- 't was all --
And came my way no more.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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THU female quickly to her
mistress
went;
Our charming little dog to represent:
The various pow'rs displayed, and wonders done;
Yet scarcely had she on the knight begun,
And mentioned what he wished her to unfold,
But Argia could her rage no longer hold;
A fellow!
| Guess: |
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La Fontaine |
|
XVIII
But this was drawne of six
unequall
beasts,
On which her six sage Counsellours did ryde, 155
Taught to obay their bestiall beheasts,
With like conditions?
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Have you no mite to give away,
So the poor may eat on
Christmas
Day?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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To
mitigate
the smart let's try anew;
In such a place as this few joys accrue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days
following
each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the
strength
to force the moment to its crisis?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
[Sidenote: April 15, 1865]
_This is a
fragment
of the noble Commemoration Ode delivered at
Harvard College to the memory of those of its students who fell in
the war which kept the country whole.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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To
mightier
force,
To better nature subject, ye abide
Free, not constrain'd by that, which forms in you
The reasoning mind uninfluenc'd of the stars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in
paragraphs
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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, where he speaks of the plane tree under
which
Socrates
used to walk and of the tree at Delos, where Latona
gave birth to Apollo.
| Guess: |
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Iliad - Pope |
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The
Grecians
are lords of the burning [328-362]town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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In the
southern
clime,
Where the summer's prime
Never fades away,
Lovely Lyca lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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swythynne speeke, or
instante
thou shalte die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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at
dignitees
{and} powers 1424
ne ben not goode of hir owen kynde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Its purpose is the
symbolization
of
Life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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I thought that storm was brief, --
The maddest,
quickest
by;
But Nature lost the date of this,
And left it in the sky.
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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At the bridge's foot
I mark'd how he did point with
menacing
look
At thee, and heard him by the others nam'd
Geri of Bello.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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There,
Everything
that's done is fair and square.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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It would be
horribly
selfish if it wanted all
the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Remote from man, and storms of mortal care,
A
heavenly
silence did the waves invest;
I looked and looked along the silent air,
Until it seemed to bring a joy to my despair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The labour we delight in,
Physicks
paine:
This is the Doore
Macd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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ALLE:
Gesundheit
dem bewahrten Mann,
Dass er noch lange helfen kann!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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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: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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CH'ANG-KAN
Soon after I wore my hair
covering
my forehead
I was plucking flowers and playing in front of the gate,
When _you_ came by, walking on bamboo-stilts
Along the trellis,[23] playing with the green plums.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
39:
Pascitur
in vivis livor; post fata quiescit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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How it hums o'er the fields and clangs from the
steeple!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
7 or
obtain permission for the use of the work and the Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark as set forth in
paragraphs
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Be Lyon metled, proud, and take no care:
Who chafes, who frets, or where Conspirers are:
Macbeth shall neuer vanquish'd be, vntill
Great Byrnam Wood, to high
Dunsmane
Hill
Shall come against him.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Me in my vow'd
Picture the sacred wall declares t' have hung
My dank and
dropping
weeds
To the stern God of Sea.
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Milton |
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1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Note:
Cassandra
of Troy refused Phoebus Apollo's love.
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Ronsard |
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Tell me, thou
vnknowne
power
1 He knowes thy thought:
Heare his speech, but say thou nought
1 Appar.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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entenc{i}ou{n}
of hir
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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creatures
full of sense!
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Aristophanes |
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But golden sands did never grace
The
Heliconian
stream;
Then take what gold could never buy--
An honest bard's esteem.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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