One time we strike the
shackles
from the slaves,
And then, quiescent, we are ruled by knaves.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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But thou, our Hero, baffled, foiled,
The
Glorious
Chief who vainly bled and toiled.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
cherubim
are winged oxen, but in no way monstrous.
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Appoloinaire |
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Sweet York, begin; and if thy claim be good,
The Nevils are thy
subjects
to command.
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Shakespeare |
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[Aside to
SEBASTIAN]
I am right glad that he's
so out of hope.
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Shakespeare |
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Or, beyond Lethe lulled to rest,
Hath the bard, by
indifference
blest,
Callous to all on earth become--
Is the world to him sealed and dumb?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Is there any peace
In ever
climbing
up the climbing wave?
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Tennyson |
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Thus it is
That rolling ages change the times of things:
What erst was of a price, becomes at last
A discard of no honour; whilst another
Succeeds
to glory, issuing from contempt,
And day by day is sought for more and more,
And, when 'tis found, doth flower in men's praise,
Objects of wondrous honour.
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Lucretius |
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2 For a while the
carriage
turned aside to Fenyang,3 at Liao a letter to the Yan general was sent flying.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Ben Jonson calls the
former a "thrifty and right
worshipful
game".
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Robert Herrick |
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XXX
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
From that greenness the green shoot is born,
From the shoot there flowers an ear of corn,
From the ear, yellow grain, sun-ripened glows:
And as, in due season, the farmer mows
The waving locks, from the gold furrow shorn
Lays them in lines, and to the light of dawn
On the bare field, a thousand sheaves he shows:
So the Roman Empire grew by degrees,
Till barbarous power brought it to its knees,
Leaving only these ancient ruins behind,
That all and sundry pillage: as those who glean,
Following step by step, the
leavings
find,
That after the farmer's passage may be seen.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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All our
miscarriages
on Pett must fall.
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Marvell - Poems |
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But what
Is this which now
constricts
my breath?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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If it could be so I'd make no fuss,
All fate's
suffering
would seem sweet today,
Not even if I'd to be a vulture's prey,
Nor he who must roll the boulder, Sisyphus.
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Ronsard |
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That were not fruitless: but the Soul resents
Such short-lived service, as if blind events
Ruled without her, or earth could so endure; 300
She claims a more divine investiture
Of longer tenure than Fame's airy rents;
Whate'er she touches doth her nature share;
Her inspiration haunts the ennobled air,
Gives eyes to mountains blind,
Ears to the deaf earth, voices to the wind,
And her clear trump slugs succor everywhere
By lonely bivouacs to the wakeful mind;
For soul
inherits
all that soul could dare:
Yea, Manhood hath a wider span 310
And larger privilege of life than man.
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James Russell Lowell |
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10
Passion and love and longing and hot tears
Consume this mortal Sappho, and too soon
A great wind from the dark will blow upon me,
And I be no more found in the fair world,
For all the search of the
revolving
moon 15
And patient shine of everlasting stars.
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Sappho |
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TO TIRZAH
Whate'er is born of mortal birth
Must be consumed with the earth,
To rise from
generation
free:
Then what have I to do with thee?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The variant has
_ultaprid
ki-is-su-su_,
"he shook his murderous weapon.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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In the lair (the form) of the female hare
superfetation
(second conception during gestation) is possible.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Then could we show to the skies
great hosts and a
glorious
name,
And laws that were stable in might;
as towers they guarded our fame!
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Aeschylus |
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--the voice, if I mistake not greatly,
Proceeds
from yonder lattice--which you may see
Very plainly through the window--it belongs,
Does it not?
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Poe - 5 |
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E' poi ridisse: "Tuo cuor non sospetti;
finor t'assolvo, e tu m'insegna fare
si come
Penestrino
in terra getti.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Open wide the house,
Concede the
entrance
with Christ's liberal mind,
And set the tables with His wine and bread.
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| Question: |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Close the inlet of your bower,
Close it close with thorn and flower,
Maiden May;
Lengthen
out the shortening hour,--
Morrows are not as to-day.
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Christina Rossetti |
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how else from bonds be freed,
Or
otherwhere
find gods so nigh to aid?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Can ye defend the
dangerless?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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60
Early leaves drop loitering down
Weightless
on the breeze,
First fruits of the year's decay
From the withering trees.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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"
One more
illustration
for the oddity's sake from the "Autobiography of
a Cornish Rector," by the late James Hamley Tregenna.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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When all the children sleep
She turns as long away
As will suffice to light her lamps;
Then, bending from the sky
With
infinite
affection
And infiniter care,
Her golden finger on her lip,
Wills silence everywhere.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The King hath note of all that they intend,
By
interception
which they dream not of.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Wrath and revenge from men and gods remove:
Far, far too dear to every mortal breast,
Sweet to the soul, as honey to the taste:
Gathering
like vapours of a noxious kind
From fiery blood, and darkening all the mind.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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You would deny the joy and sense
Of keeping an
honourable
silence?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Fro that demaunde he so descendeth doun
To asken hir, if that hir straunge
thoughte
860
The Grekes gyse, and werkes that they wroughte?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The
breaking
of the day
Addeth to my degree;
If any ask me how,
Artist, who drew me so,
Must tell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The tablet of the
Assyrian
version which
carries the portion related on the new tablet has not been found.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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They tolled the one bell only,
Groom there was none to see,
The
mourners
followed after,
And so to church went she,
And would not wait for me.
| 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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How to entangle, trammel up and snare
Your soul in mine, and
labyrinth
you there
Like the hid scent in an unbudded rose?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Our fancies shall their plumage catch
From fairest island-birds,
Whose eggs let young ones out at hatch,
Born
singing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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O, when the heat
Of
shameful
passion is o'erspent, how then
Shall I detest thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Now speed the gay
celerities
of art,
What in the desert was impossible
Within four walls is possible again,--
Culture and libraries, mysteries of skill,
Traditioned fame of masters, eager strife
Of keen competing youths, joined or alone
To outdo each other and extort applause.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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EJC}
Then I am dead till thou revivest me with thy sweet song
Now taking on Ahanias form & now the form of Enion
I know thee not as once I knew thee in those blessed fields
Where memory wishes to repose among the flocks of Tharmas
Enitharmon answerd Wherefore didst thou throw thine arms around
Ahanias Image I decievd thee & will still decieve
Urizen saw thy sin & hid his beams in darkning Clouds
I still keep watch altho I tremble & wither across the heavens
In strong
vibrations
of fierce jealousy for thou art mine
Created for my will my slave tho strong tho I am weak {This line appears to have been inserted between 2 existing lines.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Note the feeling of fate in the first
appearance
of
Apollonius.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
70
A misera, adsiduis quam
luctibus
externavit
Spinosas Erycina serens in pectore curas
Illa tempestate, ferox quom robore Theseus
Egressus curvis e litoribus Piraei
Attigit iniusti regis Gortynia tecta.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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NOTES
I am
indebted
to Mr.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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There's
something
here for just suspicion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
All have not
appeared
in the form of snowflakes but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp sorcerers and obey them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
--_Of Patroclus, and the Rousing of Achilles_
Bearing the armour of Achilles, save the spear which none other could
wield,
Patroclus
sped forth, leading the Myrmidons.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
Speak to me also of my ancient Sire,
And of Telemachus, whom I left at home;
Possess I still unalienate and safe
My property, or hath some happier Chief
Admittance
free into my fortunes gain'd, 210
No hope subsisting more of my return?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ronsard |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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where man
May gaze on ghastly trophies of the slain,
Nor blush for those who conquered on that plain;
Here Burgundy bequeathed his tombless host,
A bony heap, through ages to remain,
Themselves their monument;--the Stygian coast
Unsepulchred they roamed, and
shrieked
each wandering ghost.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
"The poem of 'The Thorn', as the reader will soon discover, is not
supposed to be spoken in the author's own person: the character of the
loquacious narrator will
sufficiently
shew itself in the course of the
story.
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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For we are right, but these
gluttons
are wrong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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]
In spite o' a' the
thievish
kaes,
That haunt St.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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That perhaps
He is a deacon run away from Moscow,
In his own district a
notorious
rogue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The queen is now
attended
on by shades,
Which have replaced, in horrid guise, her maids.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Thy faithful bedesman, one in worldly matters
No prudent judge,
ventures
today to offer
His voice to thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I alone of all things
Fret with
unsluiced
fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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For some it may radiate from the Shropshire life he so finely
etches; for others, in the vivid artistic
simplicity
and unity of
values, through which Shropshire lads and landscapes are presented.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Debtors have been
let out of the workhouses on condition of voting against the men
of the people; clients have been posted to hiss and
interrupt
the
favorite candidates; Appius Claudius Crassus has spoken with more
than his usual eloquence and asperity: all has been in vain,
Licinius and Sextius have a fifth time carried all the tribes:
work is suspended; the booths are closed; the Plebeians bear on
their shoulders the two champions of liberty through the Forum.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The
ἄγγελος
begins his ἀγγελία here.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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If one as herald came with rueful face
To say, _The curse has fallen, and the host
Gone down to death; and one wide wound has reached
The city's heart, and out of many homes
Many are cast and
consecrate
to death,
Beneath the double scourge, that Ares loves,
The bloody pair, the fire and sword of doom_--
If such sore burden weighed upon my tongue,
'Twere fit to speak such words as gladden fiends.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was transparent as a needle
Was it cooing about
something
else?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
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Lucretius |
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Ye rural drones, whose
purblind
eyes see not
Beyond the present hour, egregious fools!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Prom thousand
blossoms
came a bubbling
'Mid purple sheen of sorcery,
The song of countless warblers singing
Broke through the Spring's first cry of glee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"God looks down from His
judgment
seat, 'Good will on earth' is His message sweet,
Turn your hearts to the Lord.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Another edition, of about four to five thousand copies, duodecimo, came out
at Boston in 1860-61,
including
a number of new pieces.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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MAUDE CLARE
Out of the church she
followed
them
With a lofty step and mien:
His bride was like a village maid,
Maude Clare was like a queen.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Wolves rove among the
fearless
sheep;
The woods for thee their foliage strow;
The delver loves on earth to leap,
His ancient foe.
| Guess: |
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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That
guardian
of gold he should grapple not, urged we,
but let him lie where he long had been
in his earth-hall waiting the end of the world,
the hest of heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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From moral
philosophy
it took
the soul, the expression of senses, perturbations, manners, when they
would paint an angry person, a proud, an inconstant, an ambitious, a
brave, a magnanimous, a just, a merciful, a compassionate, an humble, a
dejected, a base, and the like; they made all heightnings bright, all
shadows dark, all swellings from a plane, all solids from breaking.
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Having heard us to an end, the Count proceeded to relate a few
anecdotes, which rendered it evident that prototypes of Gall and
Spurzheim had flourished and faded in Egypt so long ago as to have been
nearly forgotten, and that the manoeuvres of Mesmer were really very
contemptible tricks when put in collation with the
positive
miracles
of the Theban savans, who created lice and a great many other similar
things.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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The cowslip blossom, with its ruddy streak,
Would tempt her furlongs from the path to seek;
And gay long purple, with its tufty spike,
She'd wade oer shoes to reach it in the dyke;
And oft, while scratching through the briary woods
For
tempting
cuckoo-flowers and violet buds,
Poor Jane, I've known her crying sneak to town,
Fearing her mother, when she'd torn her gown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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I look upon a monstrous giant,
as Tityus, whose body covered nine acres of land, and mine eye sticks
upon every part; the whole that
consists
of those parts will never be
taken in at one entire view.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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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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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Those times: the times when I was quite alone
By
memories
wrapt that whispered to me low,
My silence was the quiet of a stone
Over which rippling murmuring waters flow.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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e peyne of
shrewes ne
dep{ar}ti?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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See how the starry banner floats,
And sparkles in the morning ray:
While sweetly swell the fife's gay notes
In echoes o'er the
gleaming
bay:
Flash follows flash, as through yon fleet
Columbia's cannons loudly roar,
And valiant tars the battle greet,
That storms on Erie's echoing shore.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Ye true "Loyal Natives," attend to my song,
In uproar and riot rejoice the night long;
From envy or hatred your corps is exempt,
But where is your shield from the darts of
contempt?
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XXX
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
From that greenness the green shoot is born,
From the shoot there flowers an ear of corn,
From the ear, yellow grain, sun-ripened glows:
And as, in due season, the farmer mows
The waving locks, from the gold furrow shorn
Lays them in lines, and to the light of dawn
On the bare field, a
thousand
sheaves he shows:
So the Roman Empire grew by degrees,
Till barbarous power brought it to its knees,
Leaving only these ancient ruins behind,
That all and sundry pillage: as those who glean,
Following step by step, the leavings find,
That after the farmer's passage may be seen.
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Beowulf spake, -- his
breastplate
gleamed,
war-net woven by wit of the smith: --
"Thou Hrothgar, hail!
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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Les soirs
illumines
par l'ardeur du charbon,
Et les soirs au balcon, voiles de vapeurs roses;
Que ton sein m'etait doux!
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To conclude the notes on this book, it may not be unnecessary to observe
that Camoens, in this episode, has happily adhered to a
principal
rule
of the Epopea.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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I called not thee to burial of my dead,
Nor count thy
presence
here a welcome thing.
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TOOKS COURT,
CHANCERY
LANE,
LONDON.
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Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
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XXI
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
Found no way to tame, this proud city,
That with a courage forged in adversity,
Sustained the shock of endless wars,
Though her ship, plagued at the source
By great waves, felt the world's enmity,
None ever saw the reefs of adversity
Wreak havoc on her fortunate course:
But, the object of her virtue failing,
Her power opposed its own flailing,
Like the voyager whom a cruel gale
Has long since
separated
from the shore,
Driven now by the storm's wild roar,
And shipwrecked there, when all efforts fail.
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A burlesque imitation would
answer the purpose; and it may be
inferred
from another passage in the
same poem, that Persius was content to ridicule the mode of
versification then in vogue at court.
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e hym see; 846
A gode
fridayes
morowenyng
he shal wende to heuene kyng,
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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