so
_to good----gouerne_--to
gou{er}ne
to goode folk
4028 _o?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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e
pentangel
apende3 to ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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at is 3744
to seyn by
batailes
or [by] contek.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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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.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Sweet moans,
dovelike
sighs,
Chase not slumber from thine eyes!
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blake-poems |
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) Why are they
wailing?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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On this long storm the rainbow rose,
On this late morn the sun;
The clouds, like listless elephants,
Horizons
straggled
down.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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version is followed in the first
published
text in _Witts
Recreations_, 1645.
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Robert Herrick |
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Ye tapers, that would light the world,
And cast a shadow on the Sun--
Who still shall pour His rays sublime,
One crystal flood, from East to West,
When ye have burned your little time
And feebly
flickered
into rest!
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Lewis Carroll |
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I might well answer that among great names,
Worth alone deserves to stir the flames;
Or, if my passion sought for some excuse,
A thousand precedents have lit the fuse:
But I'll not follow where my
thoughts
engage;
My depth of feeling will not quench my courage.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"
LXXVII
Running there came
Margariz
of Sibile,
Who holds the land by Cadiz, to the sea.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Do what you think fit; I yield myself
entirely
to you.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Horace has committed the same decided blunder; for
he give us, as a pure iambic line,--
"Minacis aut Etrusca Porsenae dextram;"
Silius Italicus has
repeatedly
offended in the same way, as when
he says,--"Clusinum vulgus, cum, Porsena magne, jubebas.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Two
brilliant
roses, fresh from Paradise,
Which there, on May-day morn, in beauty sprung
Fair gift, and by a lover old and wise
Equally offer'd to two lovers young:
At speech so tender and such winning guise,
As transports from a savage might have wrung,
A living lustre lit their mutual eyes,
And instant on their cheeks a soft blush hung.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Cupid
sagaciously
led past those palazzos so fine.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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-- Then shone the boars {4b}
over the cheek-guard; chased with gold,
keen and gleaming, guard it kept
o'er the man of war, as marched along
heroes in haste, till the hall they saw,
broad of gable and bright with gold:
that was the fairest, 'mid folk of earth,
of houses 'neath heaven, where
Hrothgar
lived,
and the gleam of it lightened o'er lands afar.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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4
Prophecies
pointed to one of dragon and phoenix nature,5 4 his might settled the capital with its tigers and jackals.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself, it only live and die,
But if that flower with base
infection
meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The voice of my
education
said to me
He must be killed,
For in Sicily the black, black snakes are innocent, the gold are
venomous.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But what's
immortal
willeth for itself
Its parts be nor increased, nor rearranged,
Nor any bit soever flow away:
For change of anything from out its bounds
Means instant death of that which was before.
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Lucretius |
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"
And I believed him--for now I too have forgotten the
language
of
that other world.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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He would sport with a
syllogism
in sipping St.
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
"
'642 love to praise:'
a love of
praising
men.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Her chaste and
beautiful
body was
buried the same day, after vespers, in the church of the Cordeliers.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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In those eyes which maiden pride
Fain would hide,
Mark how passion's
lightnings
sleep!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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" He spread out the
skirts of his
gabardine
and pirouetted between the lines of tethered
horses.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling
across the floors of silent seas.
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T.S. Eliot |
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There was an ancient City,
stricken
down
With a strange frenzy, and for many a day
They paced from morn to eve the crowded town,
And danced the night away.
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| Question: |
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Lewis Carroll |
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Once thou wast to Me the loveliest son of heaven--But now
Why art thou Terrible and yet I love thee in thy terror till
I am almost Extinct & soon shall be a Shadow in
Oblivion
Unless some way can be found that I may look upon thee & live
Hide me some Shadowy semblance.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in
shuttered
rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Phlaccus, and
Professor
and Mrs.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep
invention
in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The Phoenix was the
mythical
bird that rose again from the ashes of its own immolation.
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Ronsard |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I swear I begin to see love with sweeter spasms than that which
responds love,
It is that which
contains
itself, which never invites and never refuses.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I do not mind the stars; the only thing
Alive, the moon, perched full upon her wing, Is
drifting
languidly over the hill.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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O the vision of winning my favor makes easy
Hitherto
unexplored paths, under that powerful foot.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Each Roman's wealth was little worth,
His country's much; no colonnade
For private
pleasance
wooed the North
With cool "prolixity of shade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Thus they conferr'd; and now Areta bade
Her fair
attendants
dress a fleecy couch
Under the portico, with purple rugs
Resplendent, and with arras spread beneath,
And over all with cloaks of shaggy pile.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
1 It only
increases
bitterness in a loyal heart, it can add brightness to my white hairs.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
_"
[Illustration: "SCORCHED BOTH HIS
SLIPPERS
OFF HIS FEET"]
"Well, it _is_ curious, I agree,
And sounds perhaps like fibs:
But still it's true as true can be--
As sure as your name's Tibbs," said he.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
From
murderous
wolves not even my fold is free.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Dubious,
facing three ways,
welcoming wayfarers,
he whom the sea-orchard
shelters from the west,
from the east
weathers
sea-wind;
fronts the great dunes.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Girls, lovers, youngsters, fresh to hand,
Dancers,
tumblers
that leap like lambs,
Agile as arrows, like shots from a cannon,
Throats tinkling, clear as bells on rams,
Will you leave him here, your poor old Villon?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
' And his other examples have the
delight and wonder of devout
worshippers
among the haunts of their
divinities.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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"
18
For my heart was sick and sore within me, — The poor fellow, every word he spoke
Shamed me, there was
something
in his gesture Almost comic that I could not bear.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Here is the chamber consecrate,
Wherein this maiden delicate,
And enigmatically sedate,
Fans herself while the moments creep,
Upon her
cushions
half-asleep,
And hears the fountains plash and weep.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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_To Whom, whichever way the combat rolls,
We,
fighting
to the end, commend our souls.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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His
satisfaction
to declare,
Thus spoke their father to the pair:
"Take courage, children, have no care;
"The nightingale in cage is pent,
"May sing now to his heart's content.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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And faire above that
chapelet
565
A rose gerland had she set.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
e
heye toure of hys
p{ur}ueaunce
he knowe?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
380
Thys Herewald perceevd, and full of ire
He on the Siere de Broque with furie came;
Quod he; thou'st slaughtred my beloved squier,
But I will be
revenged
for the same.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
{457} On a lonely table-land above the Vale of Blackmore, between
High-Stoy and Bubb-Down hills, and
commanding
in clear weather views that
extend from the English to the Bristol Channel, stands a pillar,
apparently mediaeval, called Cross-and-Hand or Christ-in-Hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
That phantom now
Slides with slack canvas and
unwhispering
prow
Through the dark sea that this dark room has made.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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One stirs my wrath, the other one
restrains
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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And you, how do you form your
prologues?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Handsome
you are, and proper you will be, II.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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I am no fool
To poll
stupidly
into iron.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The very players, by
sarcastic
allusions
to men in power, gratified the public ear, and, by
consequence, sharpened the wit and acrimony of the bold declaimer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Sitting where the
pumpkins
blow,
Will you come and be my wife?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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CHORUS
Ah, let me die, or ever I behold
The gods go forth, in
conflagration
dire!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
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MERCHANTIBILITY
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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NOTES:
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sara]sia
1834.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
'
Sire, I went: the blade itself
deceived
her;
She thought me the victor seeing me there,
And betrayed her love in her swift anger
With so much agitation and impatience,
I could not gain a moment's audience.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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While I had power to bless you,
Nor any round that neck his arms did fling
More
privileged
to caress you,
Happier was Horace than the Persian king.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Lawrence is
eighteen
hundred miles long, and its
basin covers more than a million square miles (Darby says five hundred
thousand); and speaking of the lakes, he adds, "These vast fresh-water
seas, together with the St.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
There, weary of ocean, the wall along
they set their bucklers, their broad shields, down,
and bowed them to bench: the breastplates clanged,
war-gear of men; their weapons stacked,
spears of the seafarers stood together,
gray-tipped ash: that iron band
was worthily
weaponed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
[488] He calls off their attention by
pretending
to show them a
geometrical problem and seizes the opportunity to steal something for
supper.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
But the words have scarce been spoken, when the ominous
calm is broken,
And a
bellowing
crash has emptied all the vengeance of the storm!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
LXXXVIII
And if he erst a name, renowned and clear,
Had laboured to procure by actions fair,
And having gained it thus, he held it dear,
-- If this had sought to keep -- with greater care
He kept it now, -- and with a miser's fear
Guarded the treasure she with him would share;
Who, though
distinct
in body and in limb,
When wedded, ought to be one soul with him;
LXXXIX
And, as he erst by word, he now explained
Anew by writing, that the period o'er,
For which he was to serve his king constrained,
Unless it were his lot to die before,
He would in deed a Christian be ordained,
As in resolve he had been evermore;
And of her kin, Rinaldo and her sire,
Her afterwards in wedlock would require.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And I
wondered
as you clasped
your shoulder-strap
at the strength of your wrist
and the turn of your young fingers,
and the lift of your shorn locks,
and the bronze
of your sun-burnt neck.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
These poems had an enormous
influence
on all subsequent poetry, and many
of the habitual _cliches_ of Chinese verse are taken from them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Destruction hangs o'er yon devoted wall,
And nodding Ilion waits the
impending
fall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
On each majestic form they cast a view,
And
timorous
pass'd, and awfully withdrew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
With thee I do forget the toil and stress,
The loveless road that knows no resting place,
Time's straitened pulse, the soul's dread weariness,
My freedom, and my life
republican!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
[360] The critics have
vehemently
declaimed against the least mixture of
the comic, with the dignity of the epic poem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Then one
Maim'd of each hand,
uplifted
in the gloom
The bleeding stumps, that they with gory spots
Sullied his face, and cried: "'Remember thee
Of Mosca, too, I who, alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
It was
abolished
in
1641, at the same time as the Star Chamber.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
But, if so fate decrees, what can I more,
Than with unceasing tears these eyes bedew,
Abase my visage, and my lot
deplore?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
abscondat
tristem deleta iniuria casum:
contemptus solidet uulnera clausa dolor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
1600
His death gives me reason enough for tears,
Without my
searching
into other matters:
It won't restore him to me, in my grief, again:
Perhaps it would only serve to increase my pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Appoloinaire |
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Tired with kisses sweet,
They agree to meet
When the silent sleep
Waves o'er heaven's deep,
And the weary tired
wanderers
weep.
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blake-poems |
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And I give you
everything
that you want me to.
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Imagists |
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The
total loss was
believed
to be near 1000 souls.
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Golden Treasury |
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An angel had not
startled
him,
Alighted from heaven's burning rim
To breathe from glory in the Dim;
Much less a lady riding slow
Upon a palfrey white as snow,
And smooth as a snow-cloud could go.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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In its barrow it trusted,
its
battling
and bulwarks: that boast was vain!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Yet life is more than death;
How could I leave the sound of singing winds,
The strong sweet scent that
breathes
from off the sea,
Or shut my eyes forever to the spring?
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Sara Teasdale |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Oh what more blessed be than cares resolved,
When mind casts burthen and by peregrine
Work over wearied, lief we hie us home
To lie
reposing
in the longed-for bed!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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[292] No doubt another Athenian diviner, and possibly the same person
whom
Aristophanes
names in 'The Knights' and 'The Wasps' as being a
thief.
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Aristophanes |
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