By their exquisite farings
Is this granite specked;
Is trodden to
infinite
dust;
By gnawing lichens decked.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Blindness
fills up the helm 'neath iron brows;
Like sapless tree no soul the hero knows.
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[380] [The _Consiglio Minore_, which originally consisted of the Doge
and his six councillors, was
afterwards
increased, by the addition of
the three _Capi_ of the _Quarantia Criminale_, and was known as the
_Serenissima Signoria_ (G.
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Byron |
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In hys owne hous euery daye, 13
A
custyume
was that I schall saye:
there boredes that were fayre spred,
There pormen schulde be fede; 16
Of all pormen of ylk a gate,
there was none ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Then, when the mellowing years have made thee man,
No more shall mariner sail, nor pine-tree bark
Ply traffic on the sea, but every land
Shall all things bear alike: the glebe no more
Shall feel the harrow's grip, nor vine the hook;
The sturdy
ploughman
shall loose yoke from steer,
Nor wool with varying colours learn to lie;
But in the meadows shall the ram himself,
Now with soft flush of purple, now with tint
Of yellow saffron, teach his fleece to shine.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Or wilt thou, ere this very day be done,
Blaze Saladin still, with
unforgiving
fire?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Parsifal
Parsifal has conquered the girls, their sweet
Chatter, amusing lust - and his inclination,
A virgin boy's, towards the Flesh, tempted
To love the little tits and gentle babble;
He's conquered lovely Woman, of subtle
Heart, showing her cool arms, provoking breast;
He's conquered Hell,
returned
to his tent,
With a weighty trophy on his boyish arm.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The smallest housewife in the grass,
Yet take her from the lawn,
And
somebody
has lost the face
That made existence home!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Tempests
may scath;
But love can not make smart
Again this year his heart
Who no heart hath.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Will Gaul or
Muscovite
redress ye?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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'And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love;
And these black bodies and this
sunburnt
face
Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Rilke sees in Rodin the dominant
personification
in our age of the
"power of servitude in all nature.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Or hang on tiptoe at the lifted latch;
The gloomy lantern, and the dim blue match,
The black disguise, the warning whistle shrill,
And ear still busy on its nightly watch,
Were not for me, brought up in nothing ill;
Besides, on griefs so fresh my
thoughts
were brooding still.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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whose vista seems so
brightly
fill'd,
A sunny breath, and that exhaling, dies
The hope, oft, many watchful years have swell'd.
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Petrarch |
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How else dispose of an
immortal
force
No longer needed?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
And immediately all the young Owls threw
themselves
off the tree, meaning
to alight on the ground; but they did not perceive that there was a large
well below them, into which they all fell superficially, and were every one
of them drowned in less than half a minute.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Give me the freedom of that hour,
The tear of joy, the
pleasing
pain,
Of hate and love the thrilling power,
Oh, give me back my youth again!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I have lately been
rambling
over by Dumbarton and Inverary, and
running a drunken race on the side of Loch Lomond with a wild
Highlandman; his horse, which had never known the ornaments of iron or
leather, zigzagged across before my old spavin'd hunter, whose name is
Jenny Geddes, and down came the Highlandman, horse and all, and down
came Jenny and my bardship; so I have got such a skinful of bruises
and wounds, that I shall be at least four weeks before I dare venture
on my journey to Edinburgh.
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Robert Forst |
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Benjamin
Henriquez, merchant, Orange-street, Kingston.
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Robert Burns |
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To the eye of a careful observer,
the fate of Camoens throws great light on that of his country, and will
appear
strictly
connected with it.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon
Turns Ashes--or it prospers; and anon,
Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face,
Lighting
a little hour or two--is gone.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Suddenly I feel an immense will
Stored up
hitherto
and unconscious till this instant.
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Imagists |
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ACT I
IPHIGENIA
_and_ THOAS.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Nearer To Us
Run and run towards deliverance
And find and gather everything
Deliverance and riches
Run so quickly the thread breaks
With the sound a great bird makes
A flag always soared beyond
Open Door
Life is truly kind
Come to me, if I go to you it's a game,
The angels of
bouquets
grant the flowers a change of hue.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The words and looks of
charmers
sweet
Are oft deceptive--like their feet.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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NURSE'S SONG
When voices of children are heard on the green,
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And
everything
else is still.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Ye sons of Slavs,
speedily
will I lead
Your dread battalions to the longed-for conflict.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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How was it nurtur'd to such bursting forth,
While Fate seem'd
strangled
in my nervous grasp?
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Keats |
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Show me that eye which shot
immortal
hate,
Blasting the despot's proudest bearing;
Show me that arm which, nerv'd with thundering fate,
Crush'd Usurpation's boldest daring!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Some good change
Is working in the elements, which suffer
Thy
presence
thus unveiled.
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Shelley |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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| Question: |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And Phaedra has delayed his
punishment!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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240
De
Aubignee
rod fercely thro' the fyghte,
To where the boddie of Salnarville laie;
Quod he; And art thou ded, thou manne of myghte?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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| Question: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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In the meantime, by way of staying execution--by way
of
mitigating
the accusations against me--I offer the sad history
appended,--a history about whose obvious moral there can be no question
whatever, since he who runs may read it in the large capitals which form
the title of the tale.
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Poe - 5 |
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Lost ye for such a name, O
puissant
pair
(Father and Son-in-law), our all-in-all?
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| Question: |
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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hoist
instantly
the anchor!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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THE FUTURE
After ten
thousand
centuries have gone,
Man will ascend the last long pass to know
That all the summits which he saw at dawn
Are buried deep in everlasting snow.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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3 Lamp sparks were
believed
to be auspicious signs.
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And while the old dames gossip at their ease,
And pinch the snuff-box empty by degrees,
The young ones join in love's delightful themes,
Truths told by gipsies, and expounded dreams;
And mutter things kept secrets from the rest,
As sweethearts' names, and whom they love the best;
And dazzling ribbons they delight to show,
And last new favours of some veigling beau,
Who with such
treachery
tries their hearts to move,
And, like the highest, bribes the maidens' love.
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John Clare |
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15 || _mostra_ Ven, D nondum
correctus || _sed tua, Coponi, crimina nostra facis_ Wilkes
secutus Vossium
CV
Mentula conatur
Pipleium
scandere montem:
Musae furcillis praecipitem eiciunt.
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Latin - Catullus |
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While yet he spake they had arrived before
A pillar'd porch, with lofty portal door,
Where hung a silver lamp, whose phosphor glow
Reflected
in the slabbed steps below,
Mild as a star in water; for so new,
And so unsullied was the marble hue,
So through the crystal polish, liquid fine,
Ran the dark veins, that none but feet divine
Could e'er have touch'd there.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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He won't get free of her again; she'll lead
His
wildness
home and keep him tame for ever.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Just as absurd for any part to claim
To be another, in this gen'ral frame:
Just as absurd, to mourn the tasks or pains, 265
The great
directing
MIND of ALL ordains.
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Alexander Pope |
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77
_saeuumque_
Schulze || _pectoris_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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We have few moments in the longest life
Of such delight and wonder as there grew,--
Nor yet unsuited to that solitude:
A burst of joy, as if we told the fact
To ears intelligent; as if gray rock
And cedar grove and cliff and lake should know
This feat of wit, this triumph of mankind;
As if we men were talking in a vein
Of
sympathy
so large, that ours was theirs,
And a prime end of the most subtle element
Were fairly reached at last.
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| Question: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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Is it not
strange?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Love 'mid the grass beneath a laurel green--
The plant divine which long my flame has fed,
Whose shade for me less bright than sad is seen--
A cunning net of gold and pearls had spread:
Its bait the seed he sows and reaps, I ween
Bitter and sweet, which I desire, yet dread:
Gentle and soft his call, as ne'er has been
Since first on Adam's eyes the day was shed:
And the bright light which disenthrones the sun
Was
flashing
round, and in her hand, more fair
Than snow or ivory, was the master rope.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The ladies of the corridor
Find
themselves
involved, disgraced,
Call witness to their principles
And deprecate the lack of taste
Observing that hysteria
Might easily be misunderstood;
Mrs.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Then panic-stricken the
warrior maiden flings Turnus'
charioteer
out over his reins, and leaving
him far where he slips from the [471-504]chariot-pole, herself succeeds
and turns the wavy reins, tones and limbs and armour all of Metiscus'
wearing.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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As children bid the guest good-night,
And then reluctant turn,
My flowers raise their pretty lips,
Then put their
nightgowns
on.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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572
The
Assyrian
came down like the wolf on the fold (_Hebrew Melodies_),
iii.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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It is characterized by
much of the
coarseness
which was so prevalent
in that age, and from which Marvell was by no
means free ; though, as we shall endeavour here-
after to show, his spirit was far from partaking
of the malevolence of ordinary satirists.
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| Question: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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* * * * *
ROBERT GRAVES
LOST LOVE
His eyes are quickened so with grief,
He can watch a grass or leaf
Every instant grow; he can
Clearly through a flint wall see,
Or watch the
startled
spirit flee
From the throat of a dead man.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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see what
strength
they display, and wear the civic oak
shading their brows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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He warmed waters to bathe our feet, 32 and cut paper
streamers
to call back our souls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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The sun ne'er look'd upon a
lovelier
pair,
With a sweet smile and gentle sigh he said,
Pressing the hands of both and turn'd away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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The law of debt, framed by creditors, and for
the
protection
of creditors, was the host horrible that has ever
been known among men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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This
bird, the Great Northern Diver, well deserves its name; for when
pursued with a boat, it will dive, and swim like a fish under water,
for sixty rods or more, as fast as a boat can be paddled, and its
pursuer, if he would
discover
his game again, must put his ear to the
surface to hear where it comes up.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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What
business
have I in the woods, if I am thinking of
something out of the woods?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
]
And thou, King, for the rest
Of time, be true; be
righteous
to thy guest,
As he would have thee be.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Please note neither this listing nor its
contents
are final til
midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Six in the morning
saw Bobby at the Tonga Office in the drenching rain, the whirl of the
last waltz still in his ears, and an intoxication due neither to wine
nor
waltzing
in his brain.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Music-hall posters squall out:
The
passengers
shrink together,
I enter indelicately into all their souls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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How much better is it to be silent, or at least to speak
sparingly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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A
household
power, adored with prayers and wine,
Thou reign'st auspicious o'er his hour of ease:
Thus grateful Greece her Castor made divine,
And her great Hercules.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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50
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is
something
he carries on his back,
Which I am forbidden to see.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came
Missiues
from
the King, who all-hail'd me Thane of Cawdor, by which Title
before, these weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to
the comming on of time, with haile King that shalt be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Turn to my arms, to my
embraces
turn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Heated with wine, to rinse our mouths and hands
In those cold waters was a joy beyond
compare!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"
Few, I think, will care to make
Journeys
with me any more
As they used to do of yore.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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on
previendra
les reflux d'incendie,
Voila les quais!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Again a riddle which the
published
letters hardly solve.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
[4] A white robin and a white quail have
occasionally
been seen.
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| Question: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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]
245 (return)
[ The Romans, who had but an imperfect knowledge of this part of the world, imagined here those "vast insular tracts"
mentioned
in the beginning of this treatise.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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for while I sang,
And with poor skill let pass into the breeze
The dull shell's echo, from a bowery strand
Just opposite, an island of the sea,
There came
enchantment
with the shifting wind,
That did both drown and keep alive my ears.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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And wake mad passions in the
senseless
stone!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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er, myn
honoured
ladye3.
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And he hath kissed the lips of Proserpine,
And sung the Galilaean's requiem,
That wounded
forehead
dashed with blood and wine
He hath discrowned, the Ancient Gods in him
Have found their last, most ardent worshipper,
And the new Sign grows grey and dim before its conqueror.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"Upon hearing of your duel and wound your mother fell ill with sorrow,
and she is still
confined
to her bed.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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To test his
perception
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And at last when she rose to go,
The light was a little dim,
And I
ventured
to peep, and so
I saw her, graceful and slim,
And she kissed him and kissed him, and oh
How I envied and envied him!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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nē his līf-dagas lēoda
ǣnigum nytte tealde (_nor did he count his life useful to any man_), 795;
þæt ic mē ǣnigne under swegles begong ge-sacan ne tealde (_I
believed
not
that I had any foe under heaven_), 1774; cwæð hē þone gūð-wine gōdne tealde
(_said he counted the war-friend good_), 1811; hē ūsic gār-wīgend gōde
tealde (_deemed us good spear-warriors_), 2642; pl.
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Beowulf |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Her port is all divine; her radiant smile,
And e'en her scorn, the captive heart beguile;
Her accents breathe of heaven; her auburn hair
(Whether it wanton with the sportive air,
Or bound in shining wreaths adorns her face,)
Secures her conquests with resistless grace;
Her eyes, that sparkle with
celestial
fire,
Have render'd me the slave of fond desire.
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Petrarch |
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"
Lycius, perplex'd at words so blind and blank,
Made close inquiry; from whose touch she shrank,
Feigning
a sleep; and he to the dull shade
Of deep sleep in a moment was betray'd
It was the custom then to bring away
The bride from home at blushing shut of day,
Veil'd, in a chariot, heralded along
By strewn flowers, torches, and a marriage song,
With other pageants: but this fair unknown
Had not a friend.
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Keats - Lamia |
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But when loud-thund'ring Jove that voyage dire
Ordain'd, which loos'd the knees of many a Greek,
Then, to
Idomeneus
and me they gave
The charge of all their fleet, which how to avoid
We found not, so importunate the cry 290
Of the whole host impell'd us to the task.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
CII
And Berenger, he strikes Estramariz,
The shield he breaks, the hauberk tears and splits,
Thrusts his stout spear through's middle, and him flings
Down dead among a
thousand
Sarrazins.
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Chanson de Roland |
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LEAVES
ONE by one, like leaves from a tree,
All my faiths have forsaken me;
But the stars above my head
Burn in white and
delicate
red,
And beneath my feet the earth
Brings the sturdy grass to birth.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Aricia
And you think Hippolytus, kinder than his father,
Being more humane, will make my chains
lighter?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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We pray, an' haply irk it not when prayed,
Show us where
shadowed
hidest thou in shade!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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As ouphant faieries, whan the moone sheenes bryghte, 475
In littel circles daunce upon the greene,
All living creatures flie far from their syghte,
Ne by the race of destinie be seen;
For what he be that ouphant
faieries
stryke,
Their soules will wander to Kyng Offa's dyke.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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