My Regan
counsels
well.
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Shakespeare |
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Note:
Bellerie
was situated on his family estate La Possonniere.
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Ronsard |
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I have the best of
intentions
toward you who have now dedicated--
I recognize it with thanks--life and writings to me.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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You'd do well, while you're in flow,
To make Rhyme a
fraction
wiser.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Before himself the
Emperour
has him led.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"So intimate, this Chopin, that I think his soul
Should be
resurrected
only among friends
Some two or three, who will not touch the bloom
That is rubbed and questioned in the concert room.
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T.S. Eliot |
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But not this alone is Brixia said to have
knowledge
of, placed 'neath the
Cycnean peak, through which the golden-hued Mella flows with its gentle
current, Brixia, beloved mother of my Verona.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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From the sweet
thoughts
of home,
And from all hope I was forever hurled.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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When was it ever known that the Ammonites proved wanting to
their own
interests?
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Poe - 5 |
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org
[Picture: Book cover]
POEMS OF THE PAST
AND THE PRESENT
* * * * *
BY
THOMAS HARDY
* * * * *
* * * * *
* * * * *
MACMILLAN
AND CO.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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LVII
Others shall behold the sun
Through the long
uncounted
years,--
Not a maid in after time
Wise as thou!
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Sappho |
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for the land that is sown
With the harvest of
despair!
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Longfellow |
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Please contact us
beforehand
to
let us know your plans and to work out the details.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Indeed,
Professor
J.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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But not in the world as voices storm-shatter'd,
Not borne down by the wind's weight;
The rushing time rings with our splendid word
Like
darkness
filled with fires.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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With his host he
besieged
there what swords had left,
the weary and wounded; woes he threatened
the whole night through to that hard-pressed throng:
some with the morrow his sword should kill,
some should go to the gallows-tree
for rapture of ravens.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Thrice he assayed and thrice, in spite of scorn,
Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth; at last
Words interwove with sighs found out their way:
"O myriads of immortal
Spirits!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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with the
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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This
fragment is joined by Forman with that
immediately
preceding.
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Shelley |
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What matter--she
is there; and I
recognise
her.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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No more against my bosom press thee,
Seek no more that my hands caress thee,
Leave the sad lips thou hast known so well;
If to my heart thou lean thine ear,
There
grieving
thou shalt only hear
Vain murmuring of an empty shell.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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suggests gehȳðde, =
_plundered_
(i.
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Beowulf |
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XIV
When they would raise
themselves
in upward flight,
They have not strength the burden to sustain;
So that parforce in Lethe's water light
The worthy names, which lasting praise should gain.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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When the flesh that nourished us well
Is eaten piecemeal, ah, see it swell,
And we, the bones, are dust and gall,
Let no one make fun of our ill,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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This
plaintive
ballad ought to have been called Child Maurice, and not
Gil Maurice.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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_
Spring up--sway forward--
follow the
quickest
one,
aye, though you leave the trail
and drop exhausted at our feet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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120
Far had he roam'd,
With nothing save the hollow vast, that foam'd
Above, around, and at his feet; save things
More dead than Morpheus' imaginings:
Old rusted anchors, helmets, breast-plates large
Of gone sea-warriors; brazen beaks and targe;
Rudders that for a hundred years had lost
The sway of human hand; gold vase emboss'd
With long-forgotten story, and wherein
No reveller had ever dipp'd a chin 130
But those of Saturn's vintage; mouldering scrolls,
Writ in the tongue of heaven, by those souls
Who first were on the earth; and sculptures rude
In ponderous stone, developing the mood
Of ancient Nox;--then skeletons of man,
Of beast, behemoth, and leviathan,
And elephant, and eagle, and huge jaw
Of
nameless
monster.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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The wise old man
spake much in his sorrow, and sent you greetings
and bade that ye build, when he breathed no more,
on the place of his
balefire
a barrow high,
memorial mighty.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The tribes of America, it is
true, have degrees of policy greatly
superior
to anything understood by
the men of Laish.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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To gain these fruits that have been earned,
To hold these fields that have been won,
Our arms have strained, our backs have burned,
Bent bare beneath a
ruthless
sun.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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If I lay here dead
XXIV Let the world's sharpness like a
clasping
knife
XXV A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
XXVI I lived with visions for my company
XXVII My own Beloved, who hast lifted me
XXVIII My letters!
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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In answer to various
questions
we have received on this:
We are constantly working on finishing the paperwork to legally
request donations in all 50 states.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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So cowards fight when they can fly no further;
So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons;
So
desperate
thieves, all hopeless of their lives,
Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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And would we aught behold, of higher worth,
Than that
inanimate
cold world allowed
To the poor loveless, ever-anxious crowd,
Ah!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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One thing alone distinguishes the well
And evil doer; this, at every stir
Of least desire, submits, without a blow;
That arms, but yields as well to
stronger
foe.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"
Slowly, from the ashes, Kwasind
Rose, but made no angry answer;
From the lodge went forth in silence,
Took the nets, that hung together,
Dripping, freezing at the doorway;
Like a wisp of straw he wrung them,
Like a wisp of straw he broke them,
Could not wring them without breaking,
Such the
strength
was in his fingers.
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Longfellow |
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--the
artillery
massing on the right,
Hark!
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| Answer: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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There are many
versions
of the
fable in Greek mythology, and there are many sources from which it may
have come to Keats.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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In
certain positions of Saturn her
satellites
are not visible.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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It was
forgiven
but not forgotten.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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The
significance
_is_ the
poetry.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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_God's deathless
plaything
rolls an eye
Five hundred thousand cubits high.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Her neglect in not
replying
to this
request is a very good poetic reason for his wrath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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DAMON
"Rise, Lucifer, and, heralding the light,
Bring in the genial day, while I make moan
Fooled by vain passion for a
faithless
bride,
For Nysa, and with this my dying breath
Call on the gods, though little it bestead-
The gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Father, what is that in the sky
beckoning
to me with long finger?
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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"[2]
Steadfast
to the end, they could not be daunted.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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A
melancholy
bird?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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uvre_ by weavers wrought,
Where a thousand threads one treadle plies,
Backward and forward the
shuttles
keep going,
Invisibly the threads keep flowing,
One stroke a thousand fastenings ties:
Comes the philosopher and cries:
I'll show you, it could not be otherwise:
The first being so, the second so,
The third and fourth must of course be so;
And were not the first and second, you see,
The third and fourth could never be.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
| 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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But to return apace,
Easy it is from these same facts to know
In just what wise those things (which from their sort
The Greeks have named "bellows") do come down,
Discharged
from on high, upon the seas.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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I envy seas whereon he rides,
I envy spokes of wheels
Of chariots that him convey,
I envy
speechless
hills
That gaze upon his journey;
How easy all can see
What is forbidden utterly
As heaven, unto me!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
* * * * *
The background against which the figure of Rainer Maria Rilke is
silhouetted is so varied, the influences which have entered into his
life are so manifold, that a study of his work, however slight, must
needs take into
consideration
the elements through which this poet has
matured into a great master.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Never fear for your legs if they're broken to-day;
Winds only blow straws, dust, and
feathers
away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
XVI
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
Mountains of water now set in motion,
A thousand breakers of cliff-jarring ocean,
Striking the reef, driven in the wind's maw:
View now a fierce northerly, with emotion,
Stirring the storm to its loud-whistling core,
Then folding in air its vaster wing once more
Suddenly weary, as if at some new notion:
As we see a flame, spread in a hundred places,
Gather, in one flare, towards heaven's spaces,
Then powerless fade and die: so, in its day,
This Empire passed, and
overwhelming
all
Like wave, or wind, or flame, along its way,
Halted at last by Fate, sank here, in fall.
| 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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XXXIII
And all who saw them trembled,
And pale grew every cheek;
And Aulus the Dictator
Scarce
gathered
voice to speak.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Where, bosom'd deep, the shy
Winander
peeps 1793.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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IV
O Pan of the evergreen forest,
Protector of herds in the meadows,
Helper of men at their toiling,--
Tillage and harvest and herding,--
How many times to frail mortals 5
Hast thou not
hearkened!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Now god and goddess give you grame
Disgrace
of Romulus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Chimene
It would offend the King who
promised
justice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Moronto fu mio frate ed Eliseo;
mia donna venne a me di val di Pado,
e quindi il
sopranome
tuo si feo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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When
he enters he sees someone, whose name is broken away, eating bread
and drinking milk, but the beautiful barbarian
understands
not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
But if this quality appears in Chaucer
and the pre-Romantics and Wordsworth, it appears also in
Longfellow
and
Lowell, in Emerson and Lanier, and in William Vaughn Moody; for American
poetry is, after all, as English poetry,--"with a difference,"--sprung
from the same sources, and coursing along similar channels.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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O'er Heorot he lorded,
gold-bright hall, in gloomy nights;
and ne'er could the prince {2d} approach his throne,
-- 'twas
judgment
of God, -- or have joy in his hall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
When the officials come to receive his grain-tribute, he
remembers
that
he is only giving back what he had taken during his years of office.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
"He'll hae
misfortunes
great an' sma',
But aye a heart aboon them a',
He'll be a credit till us a'--
We'll a' be proud o' Robin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
You will tell
the
governor
and all the generals from me that they may expect me in a
week.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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'Tis said at Hammon's fane a fountain is,
In
daylight
cold and hot in time of night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Only Hannah the housemaid was busy in clearing the table,
Coming and going, and
hustling
about in closet and chamber.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
considunt apices gemini
dicionis
Eoae,
hic cocus, hic leno, defossi uerbere terga,
seruitio, non arte pares, hic saepius emptus,
alter ad Hispanos nutritus uerna penatis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
You surely were
mistaken
in what you said
Of the Earl, mirthful, indeed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
IV
Tu en es encore a la
tentation
d'Antoine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
The neighbors do not yet
suspect!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
In spite of the feelings which then agitated me, this
company wherein I was thus
unexpectedly
thrown greatly impressed me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And strange it was to see him pass
With a step so light and gay,
And strange it was to see him look
So
wistfully
at the day,
And strange it was to think that he
Had such a debt to pay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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With keen survey I mark'd the ghostly show,
To find a shade among the sons of woe
To memory known: but every trace was lost
In the dim features of the moving host:
Oblivion's hand had drawn a dark disguise
O'er their wan lineaments and
beamless
eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
The last in the
collection
of the letters to Lady Bedford, 'You that
are she and you' (p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
He is writing
apparently
from
the New World, from the Azores.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
This Collection will be edited in a
separate
volume some day for the E.
| 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 |
|
Difficulties
arising from our
own Passions, Fancies, Faculties, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
I wish
Victorian
would come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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_fundanti_
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Latin - Catullus |
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The dragon
discovers
the loss and exacts
fearful penalty from the people round about.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I love all noble qualities which merit
Love, and I loved my father, who first taught me
To single out what we should love in others,
And to subdue all
tendency
to lend
The best and purest feelings of our nature
To baser passions.
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Byron |
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Lutatius
Catulus, who had
led the senatorial party in the first half of the last
century.
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Tacitus |
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LXXIX
Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,
My verse alone had all thy gentle grace;
But now my
gracious
numbers are decay'd,
And my sick Muse doth give an other place.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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charcole
brenned,
876 Wat3 gray?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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That is the dog that so bayed one time at my girl that he almost
Gave our secret away (when she was
visiting
me).
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"His
horsemen
hard behind us ride--
Should they our steps discover,
Then who will cheer my bonny bride
When they have slain her lover?
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Golden Treasury |
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It was the
windfall
for which the youth had been waiting to enable him to
gratify his first love.
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Hugo - Poems |
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IDONEA You know me, Sire;
farewell!
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William Wordsworth |
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O poplar, you are great
among the hill-stones,
while I perish on the path
among the
crevices
of the rocks.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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So, with an equal splendor,
The morning sun-rays fall,
With a touch impartially tender,
On the blossoms blooming for all;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Broidered
with gold, the Blue;
Mellowed with gold, the Gray.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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