Among the gifted spirits of our time
His name
conspicuous
shines; in every clime
Admired, approved, his strains an echo find.
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Petrarch |
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The leader then, by thy life,
besought
me
(sad was his soul) in the sea-waves' coil
to play the hero and hazard my being
for glory of prowess: my guerdon he pledged.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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XXXIII
But how much more Rinaldo's strange demand
Sounded importunately in his ear,
So by sure index
Malagigi
scanned,
That so much was Angelica more dear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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But why, lest that this lettre founden were,
No
mencioun
ne make I now, for fere.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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With ships he parted, and a
numerous
train,
Those, and their ships, he buried in the main.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The Warders strutted up and down,
And kept their herd of brutes,
Their uniforms were spick and span,
And they wore their Sunday suits,
But we knew the work they had been at,
By the
quicklime
on their boots.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I dar wel 856
affermen
hardyly.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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he is sunk down into a deadly sleep
But we
immortal
in our strength survive by stern debate
Till we have drawn the Lamb of god into a mortal form
And that he must be born is certain for One must be All
And comprehend within himself all things both small & great
We therefore for whose sake all things aspire to be be & live
Will so recieve the Divine Image that amongst the Reprobate
He may be devoted to Destruction from his mothers womb {This group of 9 lines, "Refusing.
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Blake - Zoas |
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He knew that thought clings round dead limbs
Tightening
its lusts and luxuries.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Acknowledging the hand of Providence, as I do, in all events, I am
sometimes inclined to think that they are wiser than we, and am willing
to wait till we have made this
continent
once more a place where freemen
can live in security and honour, before assuming any further
responsibility.
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James Russell Lowell |
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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.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And they, in the empty level field that cleared
for them, darted swiftly forward, and hurling their spears from far,
close in battle shock with
clangour
of brazen shields.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I came back with what I had, and
distributed
'em among
the men that the Chiefs sent in to me to drill.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Whose yet
unfeathered
quills her fail ;
The edge all bloody from its breast
He draws, and does In's stroke detest.
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Marvell - Poems |
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This amongst them is the _manly robe_, this first
degree of honour
conferred
upon their youth.
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Tacitus |
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Thy mouth will make the sourest numbers please:
How will it drop pure honey
speaking
these!
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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You stood by pasture-bars to give the cows good milking,
You persuaded the
housewife
that her dish-pan was of silver
And her husband an image of pure gold.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The body burns, the head aches and throbs:
If a bird light here, its soul
forthwith
departs.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The artist
trembles
o'er his plan
Where men his Self must see.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Coleridge
to write us a tragedy[A].
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| Question: |
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Byron |
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Next he sings
Of Gallus wandering by Permessus' stream,
And by a sister of the Muses led
To the Aonian mountains, and how all
The choir of Phoebus rose to greet him; how
The
shepherd
Linus, singer of songs divine,
Brow-bound with flowers and bitter parsley, spake:
"These reeds the Muses give thee, take them thou,
Erst to the aged bard of Ascra given,
Wherewith in singing he was wont to draw
Time-rooted ash-trees from the mountain heights.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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But if ever its offence distressed your mind, 775
Can you forget the
scornfulness
of his pride?
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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On prince or bride no diamond stone
Half so
gracious
ever shone,
As the light of enterprise
Beaming from a young man's eyes.
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Emerson - Poems |
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is worlde ben maked
coet{er}ne
wi?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Father, this zeal is
anything
but well!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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but War & Princedom
& Victory & Blood *
PAGE 12 {This page contains partially visible erased text running
horizontally
and, in the right and left margins, vertically.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Since my "Seraphim" was received by the public with more kindness than
its writer had counted on, I dare not rely on having put away the faults
with which that volume
abounded
and was mildly reproached.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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THE BIG RUG
That so many of the poor should suffer from cold what can we do to
prevent?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Thus while she breathed of heaven, with decent pride
Her artful hands the radiant tresses tied;
Part on her head in shining ringlets roll'd,
Part o'er her
shoulders
waved like melted gold.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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They will return to us with gipsy grins,
And chatter Romany, and shake their curls
And hug the
dirtiest
babies in the camp.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Then I became respectable, and
returned
to an office where there were no
Kings and no incidents outside the daily manufacture of a newspaper.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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I see the throne of Jove
And the clear
congregation
of the Gods.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived
from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
posted with
permission
of the copyright holder), the work can be copied
and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees
or charges.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Those in the tents the squires industrious spread:
The foaming
coursers
to the stalls they led;
To their new seats the female captives move
Briseis, radiant as the queen of love,
Slow as she pass'd, beheld with sad survey
Where, gash'd with cruel wounds, Patroclus lay.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Two notes are
especially
struck by them: the passions and
the absurdity of half-drunken revellers, and the joy and mystery of the
wild things in the forest.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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--Nos
marteaux
en main; passons au crible
Tout ce que nous savons: puis, Freres, en avant!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Far as Creation's ample range extends,
The scale of sensual, mental pow'rs ascends:
Mark how it mounts, to Man's imperial race,
From the green myriads in the peopled grass: 210
What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme,
The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam:
Of smell, the
headlong
lioness between,
And hound sagacious on the tainted green:
Of hearing, from the life that fills the Flood, 215
To that which warbles thro' the vernal wood:
The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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), 1513; of
Bēowulf
and the
drake: nom.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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There shalt thou stand
arraigned
of this blood;
And of those judges half shall lay on thee
Death, and half pardon; so shalt thou go free.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful Athenian courtesan and mistress of
Alexander
the Great (356-323BC).
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
[475] There was a prize
specially
reserved for war-chariots in the games
of the Athenian hippodrome; being heavier than the chariots generally
used, they doubtless had to cover a lesser number of laps, which explains
Phidippides' question.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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High above comfort, on the
shrugging
backs
Of downland, where the winds parch our skins, and frost
Kneads through our flesh until his fingers clamp
The aching bones, our scanty families
Hold out against the ravin of the wolves,
Fended by earthwork, fighting them with flint.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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That ev'n my buried Ashes such a Snare
Of Perfume shall fling up into the Air,
As not a True Believer passing by
But shall be
overtaken
unaware.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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A vast void carried through the fog's drifting,
By the angry wind of words he did not say,
Nothing, to this Man abolished yesterday:
'What is Earth, O you,
memories
of horizons?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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The little cup
that is made to hold so much can hold so much and no more, though all the
purple vats of Burgundy be filled with wine to the brim, and the treaders
stand knee-deep in the
gathered
grapes of the stony vineyards of Spain.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Telemachus
arriving
there,
gives orders for the return of his bark to the city, and repairs himself
to Eumaeus.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Marry, the
immortal
part needs a physician; but that moves
not him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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at
neuermore
schal blinne.
| 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 |
|
Hush, call no echo up in further proof
Of
desolation!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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The
messengers
further cited their own example.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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" he called to that Weder clan
as the sheen-mailed
spoilers
to ship marched on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
APING ONE'S BETTERS
Torquatus
owns a mansion sumptuous
Exactly four miles out of Rome:
Four miles out also Otacilius
Purchased a little country home.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them imprisoned in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves,
sounding
out magic words, so they themselves are immortal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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520
_The end of the
Progresse
of the Soule.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Her every turn with
violence
pursued,
Nor more a storm her hate than gratitude:
To that each passion turns, or soon or late;
Love, if it makes her yield, must make her hate:
Superiors?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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"It shall be as thou wishest," said the Dame:
"All cates and dainties shall be stored there
Quickly on this feast-night: by the tambour frame
Her own lute thou wilt see: no time to spare,
For I am slow and feeble, and scarce dare
On such a
catering
trust my dizzy head.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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When she dashed by me I seized her,
mistaking
her not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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480
Aricia
Moderate your
kindness
whose excess shames me.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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So oft he changes home and company,
To light on him would be a fortune rare:
Yet have I hope to point him out to thee;
If to Sleep's house thou wilt at
midnight
fare,
Him wilt thou surely find; for to repose
At night he ever to that harbour goes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Then, livid as Lazarus lately from death,
He snatches the child from the mother, and
clambers
the crag toward the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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_
_Questions
his man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Cold
moonlight
falls on silent towers;
The young ghosts walk with the old;
But Oxford dreams of the dawn of May
And her heart is free and bold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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As it has been suggested that much of the misunderstanding of the former
volume was due to the fact that we did not explain
ourselves
in a preface,
we have thought it wise to tell the public what our aims are, and why we
are banded together between one set of covers.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
60
Even as Hope upon her anchor leans,
So leant she, not so fair, upon a tusk
Shed from the
broadest
of her elephants.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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They always want a sixth act, and as soon
as the interest of the play is
entirely
over they propose to continue
it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_hu_ reduced to the
breathing
_'u_; read _i-ni-'u_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Just so man's boasted strength and power
Shall fade before death's lightest stroke,
Laid lower than the meanest flower,
Whose pride oer-topt the oak;
And he who, like a blighting blast,
Dispeopled worlds with war's alarms
Shall be himself destroyed at last
By poor
despised
worms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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But here in our dear poet both are blended--
Ripe age begun, yet golden youth not ended;--
Even as his song the willowy scent of spring
Doth blend with autumn's tender mellowing,
And mixes praise with satire, tears with fun,
In strains that ever
delicately
run;
So musical and wise, page after page,
The sage a minstrel grows, the bard a sage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I knew his perils from of old,
I know them now, when I behold
The bitter faring of my King,
Whose love is taken, and his life
Left
evermore
an empty thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Elle giacean per terra tutte quante,
fuor d'una ch'a seder si levo, ratto
ch'ella ci vide
passarsi
davante.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I hope the
children
there
Won't be new-fashioned when I come,
And laugh at me, and stare!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
But do you believe there is more water in the sea
now than there was
formerly?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Suche
meruayles
fortuned than; F.
| 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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What's the merit in love-play,
In the tumult of the limbs
That dies out before 'tis day,
Heart on heart, or mouth on mouth,
All that
mingling
of our breath,
When love-longing is but drouth
For the things come after death?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Nay, had I powre, I should
Poure the sweet Milke of Concord, into Hell,
Vprore the
vniuersall
peace, confound
All vnity on earth
Macd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
But as they come,
Leviathan
sneezes twice .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
To Manlius: written in affliction_
QVOD mihi fortuna casuque oppressus acerbo
conscriptum hoc lacrimis mittis epistolium,
naufragum ut eiectum spumantibus aequoris undis
subleuem et a mortis limine restituam,
quem neque sancta Venus molli requiescere somno
desertum
in lecto caelibe perpetitur,
nec ueterum dulci scriptorum carmine Musae
oblectant, cum mens anxia peruigilat:
id gratum est mihi, me quoniam tibi dicis amicum,
muneraque et Musarum hinc petis et Veneris:
sed tibi ne mea sint ignota incommoda, Manli,
neu me odisse putes hospitis officium,
accipe, quis merser fortunae fluctibus ipse,
ne amplius a misero dona beata petas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Oberon, the beauteous God
Here, to-night
perceive
I!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Do not call it sin in me
That I am
forsworn
for thee:
Thou for whom e'en Jove would swear
Juno but an Ethiope were,
And deny himself for Jove,
Turning mortal for thy love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
I can provide you with the means for flight:
The only guards
surrounding
you are mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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But we have no need
To lean on foreign aid; we have enough
Of our own warlike people to repel
Traitors
and Poles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
"
The King
commands
Gebuin and Otun,
Tedbalt of Reims, also the count Milun:
"Guard me this field, these hills and valleys too,
Let the dead lie, all as they are, unmoved,
Let not approach lion, nor any brute,
Let not approach esquire, nor any groom;
For I forbid that any come thereto,
Until God will that we return anew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
When they left the moon was high, and they walked along the road
singing and
shouting
together.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The insensate fire of love still glowed
Nor
discontinued
to distress
A spirit which for sorrow yearned.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I had
realised
this for myself at the very dawn of my manhood, and
had forced my age to realise it afterwards.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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He said; they went, and to Nausicaa told
His answer; then the Hero in the stream
His
shoulders
laved, and loins incrusted rough
With the salt spray, and with his hands the scum 280
Of the wild ocean from his locks express'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Here Douglas smiling said, he did intend,
Afler such
frankness
shown, to be his friend.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Naturally
Jonson's attitude toward witchcraft would here
be respectful.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Back alive, I face these
children
and almost forget my hunger and thirst.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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11 -- Quisquis profunda mente
vestigat
verum 100
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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And rays from God shot down that meteor chain
And hallow'd all the beauty twice again,
Save when, between th'
Empyrean
and that ring,
Some eager spirit flapp'd his dusky wing.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Taken from men this morning,
Carried by men to-day,
Met by the gods with banners
Who
marshalled
her away.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear:
How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every
blackening
church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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