Ill was I then for toil or service fit:
With tears whose course no effort could confine,
By high-way side
forgetful
would I sit
Whole hours, my idle arms in moping sorrow knit.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But whoso
entereth
within this town,
That, sheening far, celestial seems to be,
Disconsolate will wander up and down,
Mid many things unsightly to strange e'e;
For hut and palace show like filthily;
The dingy denizens are reared in dirt;
No personage of high or mean degree
Doth care for cleanness of surtout or shirt,
Though shent with Egypt's plague, unkempt, unwashed, unhurt.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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What windy joy this day had I conceiv'd
Hopeful of his Delivery, which now proves
Abortive
as the first-born bloom of spring
Nipt with the lagging rear of winters frost.
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_Grand Chorus_:
As from the power of sacred lays
The spheres began to move,
And sung the great Creator's praise
To all the blest above;
So when the last and
dreadful
hour
This crumbling pageant shall devour,
The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And Music shall untune the sky.
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Golden Treasury |
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I am settled, and bend vp
Each corporall Agent to this
terrible
Feat.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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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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Chanson de Roland |
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The
gentleman
you for a lady takes.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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But give one thought to Stuart, two for
yourself!
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Hugo - Poems |
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But the authorities had too lightly lent faith
to the pretended repentance of the rebels, who were silently brooding
over their hatred, and only
awaiting
a favourable opportunity to reopen
the struggle.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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General
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About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I was
sufficiently
poor, sad to say.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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A fals
traitour
than shulde I be.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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--"O faultless is her dainty form,
And luminous her mind;
She is the God-created norm
Of perfect
womankind!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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My heart replied: It's never enough
We'll never have had enough of sadness:
And don't you see that changeableness
Makes past pain dearer to us, and
sweeter?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Waldo Abigail Fithian Halsey Louis Ginsberg
Marjorie
Allen Seiffert J.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Isis was the
Egyptian
mother goddess (Cybele was her equivalent in Asia Minor): consort of Osiris she bore the child Horus-Harpocrates, the new sun (De Nerval's image here for the Christ-Child).
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19th Century French Poetry |
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New feet within my garden go,
New fingers stir the sod;
A
troubadour
upon the elm
Betrays the solitude.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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So in mine own heart's despite
I crossed his threshold and sat drinking--he
And I old
friends!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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blake-poems |
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When Vulcan gies his bellows breath,
An'
ploughmen
gather wi' their graith,
O rare!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But savage
Cacus, infatuate to leave nothing undared or
unhandled
in craft or
crime, drives four bulls of choice shape away from their pasturage, and
as many heifers of excellent beauty.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Who was sorry for Li, the Swift of Wing,[16]
When his white head
vanished
from the Three Fronts?
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Li Po |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Gama,
perceiving
it to be the effect of an earthquake,
with his wonted heroism and prudence, exclaimed, "_Of what are you
afraid?
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
Came, as through
bubbling
honey, for Love's sake,
And thus; while Hermes on his pinions lay,
Like a stoop'd falcon ere he takes his prey.
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Keats - Lamia |
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They embraced the theory
that "by
bringing
himself into harmony with Nature" man can escape every
evil.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Does it answer
universal
needs?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging
its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the gashouse 190
Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
And on the king my father's death before him.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
Whilst yet the monarch paused, with doubts oppress'd
The
beauteous
queen relieved his labouring breast:
"Hear me (she cried), to whom the gods have given
To read this sign, and mystic sense of heaven,
As thus the plumy sovereign of the air
Left on the mountain's brow his callow care,
And wander'd through the wide ethereal way
To pour his wrath on yon luxurious prey;
So shall thy godlike father, toss'd in vain
Through all the dangers of the boundless main,
Arrive (or if perchance already come)
From slaughter'd gluttons to release the dome.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"For,
although
common Snarks do no manner of harm,
Yet, I feel it my duty to say,
Some are Boojums--" The Bellman broke off in alarm,
For the Baker had fainted away.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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in the far sky shone a radiance
Ineffable, divine,--
A vision painted upon a pall;
And
sometimes
it was,
And sometimes it was not.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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This long and sure-set liking,
This
boundless
will to please,
-Oh, you should live for ever
If there were help in these.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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refers to giving up a
scholar?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Beowulf |
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"The land of Cyclops first, a savage kind,
Nor tamed by manners, nor by laws confined:
Untaught to plant, to turn the glebe, and sow,
They all their products to free nature owe:
The soil, untill'd, a ready harvest yields,
With wheat and barley wave the golden fields;
Spontaneous wines from weighty clusters pour,
And Jove descends in each
prolific
shower,
By these no statues and no rights are known,
No council held, no monarch fills the throne;
But high on hills, or airy cliffs, they dwell,
Or deep in caves whose entrance leads to hell.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Through all that year-scarred agony of height,
Unblest of bough or bloom, to where expands
His wandy circlet with his bladed bands
Dividing every wind, or loud or light,
To termless hymns of love and old despite,
Yon tall palmetto in the twilight stands,
Bare Dante of these
purgatorial
sands
That glimmer marginal to the monstrous night.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Vt flos in saeptis secretus nascitur hortis,
Ignotus pecori, nullo convolsus aratro, 40
Quem mulcent aurae, firmat sol, educat imber
* * * *
Multi illum pueri, multae
optavere
puellae:
Idem cum tenui carptus defloruit ungui,
Nulli illum pueri, nullae optavere puellae:
Sic virgo, dum intacta manet, dum cara suis est; 45
Cum castum amisit polluto corpore florem,
Nec pueris iocunda manet, nec cara puellis.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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O the
darkness
of the corners,
the warm air, and the stars
framed in the casement of the ships' lights!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
)
The queen began to think her husband's rage
Had proved a stimulus such wars to wage,
And made him wond'rous stout in pleasure's sport,
Though all the while his
thoughts
were-'bout the court.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
XXVIII
HASTENED the hardy one,
henchmen
with him,
sandy strand of the sea to tread
and widespread ways.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And I would turn and answer
Among the
springing
thyme,
"Oh, peal upon our wedding,
And we will hear the chime,
And come to church in time.
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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_
Smile on, thou new-come Spring--if on thy breeze
The breath of a great man go
wavering
up
And out of this world's knowledge, it is well.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Ronsard |
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More I know not; he had there
A
wreathed
ox, as for some weighty prayer.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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It was not, like their tragedy, their
comedy, their epic and lyric poetry, a
hothouse
plant which, in
return for assiduous and skilful culture, gave only scanty and
sickly fruits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on
friendly
pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From mournful climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
But if grief, self-consumed, in oblivion would doze,
And
conscience
her tortures appease,
'Mid tumult and uproar this man must repose;
In the comfortless vault of disease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon
Doubting
the filching age will steal his treasure;
Now counting best to be with you alone,
Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure:
Sometime all full with feasting on your sight,
And by and by clean starved for a look;
Possessing or pursuing no delight,
Save what is had, or must from you be took.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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FIDENÆ, a small town in the
territory
of the Sabines, about six miles
to the north of Rome.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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London: documents at sight,
Asked me in demotic French
To
luncheon
at the Cannon Street Hotel
Followed by a weekend at the Metropole.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
In succession I occupied four
official
posts;
For doing nothing,--ten years' salary!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
This
riot was occasioned by the severe measures taken by General Traubenberg,
in order to quell the
insubordination
of the army.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
When, turning round, I saw the Power advance
That breaks the gloomy grave's eternal trance,
And bids the disembodied spirit claim
The glorious guerdon of
immortal
Fame.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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A wet sheet and a flowing sea,
A wind that follows fast
And fills the white and
rustling
sail
And bends the gallant mast;
And bends the gallant mast, my boys,
While like the eagle free
Away the good ship flies, and leaves
Old England on the lee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
_Supply_
This, it, with, It.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Save darkened Jura, whose capt heights appear
Precipitously steep; and drawing near,
There breathes a living
fragrance
from the shore,
Of flowers yet fresh with childhood; on the ear
Drops the light drip of the suspended oar,
Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more;
LXXXVII.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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torn from your hero's arms;
Beneath the hand of Pyrrhus in his pride;
Bent o'er an empty tomb in ecstasy;
Widow of Hector--wife of
Helenus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Why not
use human
language?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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The
consequence of all, the
absolute
submission due to Providence, both as to
our present and future state, v.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Lost causes triumph like the sun; Dreams that deluded are brought true; A
resurrection
morning breaks —
The soul in him is born anew,
Then, to the old and easy path Of dull, sad inanition wanes:
And still this is the man God made, And still the love of God remains!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"Þā hīe getruwedon on twā healfa
"fæste frioðu-wǣre; Fin Hengeste
"elne
unflitme
āðum benemde,
"þæt hē þā wēa-lāfe weotena dōme
1100 "ārum heolde, þæt þǣr ǣnig mon
"wordum nē worcum wǣre ne brǣce,
"nē þurh inwit-searo ǣfre gemǣnden,
"þēah hīe hira bēag-gyfan banan folgedon
"þēoden-lēase, þā him swā geþearfod wæs:
1105 "gyf þonne Frȳsna hwylc frēcnan sprǣce
"þæs morðor-hetes myndgiend wǣre,
"þonne hit sweordes ecg syððan scolde.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Not until after many a testing and trial did they discover
What, within sacred ring,
secretive
image concealed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
They will not catch the old devil; as if
there were no other road into Lithuania than the
highway!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Johns, who known to reader* Contemporary Verse as the
author "The Dance," "The Mad woman" and "The Interpreter", a poet who sees life clearly and
whose lyric gift has grown
stronger
from year to year, with his philos ophy life.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Don't that make you suspicious
That there's
something
the dead are keeping back?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
_ Of a
Hounsditch
man, sir, one of the devil's
near kinsmen, a broker.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
oo dedes: 117
A son
conceyued
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
What doe you meane to
counterfait
thus?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
e A-byde,
Page 73
Fore thowe hast soughte
pylgermages
wyde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Then, further, also winds,
Sweeping the level waters, can bear off
A mighty part of wet, since we behold
Oft in a single night the
highways
dried
By winds, and soft mud crusted o'er at dawn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
F alse beauty that costs me so dear,
R ough indeed, a
hypocrite
sweetness,
A mor, like iron on the teeth and harder,
N amed only to achieve my sure distress,
C harm that's murderous, poor heart's death,
O covert pride that sends men to ruin,
I mplacable eyes, won't true redress
S uccour a poor man, without crushing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
One science only will one genius fit; 60
So vast is art, so narrow human wit:
Not only bounded to
peculiar
arts,
But oft in those confin'd to single parts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
thy dirges
Are
pleasant
songs to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
" From the hour
When I before had cast my view beneath,
All the first region overpast I saw,
Which from the midmost to the bound'ry winds;
That onward thence from Gades I beheld
The unwise passage of Laertes' son,
And
hitherward
the shore, where thou, Europa!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
466)
Now late
I follow Time's Necessity:[35]
Mounting a
barricade
I pacify remote tribes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Thence, from three paly
loopholes
mild and small,
Slow lights upon the lake's still bosom fall, 1793.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad
thoughts
to the mind.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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To take our extant specimens of Satyr-plays,
for instance: in the _Cyclops_ we have Odysseus, the heroic
trickster; in the fragmentary _Ichneutae_ of Sophocles we have the
Nymph Cyllene, hiding the baby Hermes from the chorus by the most
barefaced and pleasant lying; later no doubt there was an
entrance
of the
infant thief himself.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And she, whom once the
semblance
of a scar
Appalled, an owlet's larum chilled with dread,
Now views the column-scattering bayonet jar,
The falchion flash, and o'er the yet warm dead
Stalks with Minerva's step where Mars might quake to tread.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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THIS ETEXT IS
OTHERWISE
PROVIDED TO YOU "AS-IS".
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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MARMADUKE And he found no
deliverance!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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He began his career at the court of Raymond VI of Toulouse and subsequently
travelled
widely, visiting the court of James I of Aragon.
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Troubador Verse |
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The sweet spring-flowers not always keep
Their bloom, nor
moonlight
shines the same
Each evening.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Thus Aeacus has 'scaped the Stygian wave,
By grace of poets and their silver tongue,
Henceforth
to live the happy isles among.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The Chaplain would not kneel to pray
By his
dishonoured
grave:
Nor mark it with that blessed Cross
That Christ for sinners gave,
Because the man was one of those
Whom Christ came down to save.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Love's sun went down without a frown,
For very joy it used to grieve us;
I often think the West is gone,
Ah, cruel Time, to
undeceive
us.
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John Clare |
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All Russia hath submitted
Unto Dimitry; with heartfelt repentance
Basmanov hath himself led forth his troops
To swear
allegiance
to him.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In this wretched state, the
recollection
of which makes me yet
shudder, I hung my harp on the willow-trees, except in some lucid
intervals, in one of which I composed the following.
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Robert Forst |
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The
description
of the swans, that follows, was taken
from the daily opportunities I had of observing their habits, not as
confined to the gentleman's park, but in a state of nature.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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His gilded shrine lies open to the air;
And cunning sculptor's hands have carven there
The calm white brow, as calm as
earliest
morn,
The eyes that flashed with passionate love and scorn,
The lips that sang of Heaven and of Hell,
The almond-face which Giotto drew so well,
The weary face of Dante;--to this day,
Here in his place of resting, far away
From Arno's yellow waters, rushing down
Through the wide bridges of that fairy town,
Where the tall tower of Giotto seems to rise
A marble lily under sapphire skies!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I show as a blot
Blood hath
cleansed
not,
As a barren spot
In Thy fruitful lot.
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Christina Rossetti |
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To whom thus Eve,
recovering
heart, repli'd.
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Milton |
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What change grew in our hearts, seeing one night
That moth-winged ship
drifting
across the bay,
Her broad sail dimly white
On cloudy waters and hills as vague as they?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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He
sent a rather formal answer,
promising
to call soon.
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And how and why we know not, nor can trace
Home to its cloud this lightning of the mind,
But feel the shock renewed, nor can efface
The blight and
blackening
which it leaves behind,
Which out of things familiar, undesigned,
When least we deem of such, calls up to view
The spectres whom no exorcism can bind,--
The cold--the changed--perchance the dead--anew,
The mourned, the loved, the lost--too many!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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