Talking with our host is next best and
instructive
to talking with
one's self.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Lest these
enclasped
hands should never hold,
This mutual kiss drop down between us both
As an unowned thing, once the lips being cold.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Har: I come not Samson, to condole thy chance,
As these perhaps, yet wish it had not been,
Though for no
friendly
intent.
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Milton |
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]
For the
puruyance
of god
hat yeuen to thinges ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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When they draw nigh the citadel above,
From the palace they hear a mighty sound;
About that place are seen pagans enough,
Who weep and cry, with grief are waxen wood,
And curse their gods,
Tervagan
and Mahum
And Apolin, from whom no help is come.
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Chanson de Roland |
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90
The place, all hushed and silent as it was,
Appeared
unfit for the repose of night,
Defenceless as a wood where tigers roam.
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William Wordsworth |
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The guards, placed for the
cliain*s
and fleet's
defence.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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And, as our happy circle sat,
The fire well capp'd the company:
In grave debate or
careless
chat,
A right good fellow, mingled he:
He seemed as one of us to sit,
And talked of things above, below,
With flames more winsome than our wit,
And coals that burned like love aglow.
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| Question: |
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Sidney Lanier |
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The Count of
Provence
is Raymond Berenger.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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I shall not want Capital in Heaven
For I shall meet Sir Alfred Mond:
We two shall lie together, lapt
In a five per cent
Exchequer
Bond.
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T.S. Eliot |
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_ And I had not
outlived
thee; but pray take
Comfort!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Tibereia
primum
aula tibi uixdum ora noua mutante iuuenta
panditur.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The whole passage reads not so much like the heated
plea of an
advocate
as the measured summing-up of a judge, and the last
couplet falls on our ears with the inevitability of a final sentence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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_Cesare, poi che 'l
traditor
d' Egitto.
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Petrarch |
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Footsteps
shuffled on the stair.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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To enjoy
a thing exclusively is
commonly
to exclude yourself from the true
enjoyment of it.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Dolphins, playing in the sea
Hurling his ink at skies above,
Medusas, miserable heads
In your pools, and in your ponds,
The female of the Halcyon,
Do I know where your ennui's from, Sirens,
Dove, both love and spirit
In spreading out his fan, this bird,
My poor heart's an owl
Yes, I'll pass fearful shadows
This
cherubim
sings the praises
PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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"
XXV
His right hand glove that
Emperour
holds out;
But the count Guenes elsewhere would fain be found;
When he should take, it falls upon the ground.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and
charitable
donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And here, O finer Pallas, long remain, --
Sit on these Maryland hills, and fix thy reign,
And frame a fairer Athens than of yore
In these blest bounds of Baltimore, --
Here, where the climates meet
That each may make the other's lack complete, --
Where Florida's soft Favonian airs beguile
The nipping North, -- where nature's powers smile, --
Where Chesapeake holds frankly forth her hands
Spread wide with invitation to all lands, --
Where now the eager people yearn to find
The
organizing
hand that fast may bind
Loose straws of aimless aspiration fain
In sheaves of serviceable grain, --
Here, old and new in one,
Through nobler cycles round a richer sun
O'er-rule our modern ways,
O blest Minerva of these larger days!
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Something
starts the old feud anew; and
the visitors are attacked in their quarters.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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These in a line wide-broke set he, the Mansion surrounding,
So by the soft leaves screened, the porch might
flourish
in verdure.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Winthrop performed
the ceremony on the frozen surface of the streamlet, the farthest limit
of his magistracy; and
thereupon
bestowed the name "Bride Brook," which
it still bears.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
org
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Methinks
the wind hath spoke aloud at land;
A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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for when you laid
Foul lips upon the mouth of
sleeping
maid,
You seemed but ghouls that had come furtively
From out the tombs; only a horrid lie
Your human shape; of some strange frightful beast
You have the soul.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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And the Banker, inspired with a courage so new
It was matter for general remark,
Rushed madly ahead and was lost to their view
In his zeal to
discover
the Snark.
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Lewis Carroll |
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STIGAND, _created Archbishop of Canterbury by the
Antipope
Benedict_.
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Tennyson |
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how ytte
wracketh
mee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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As the
procession
passes the
Capitol, prayers and vows are poured forth, but in vain.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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That seems impossible, and, to my mind, poets have the right to hope after their death for the everlasting happiness that obtains complete
knowledge
of God, that is to say of the sublime beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men
On the hills o' Galilee,
They whined as he walked out calm between, Wi' his eyes like the grey o' the sea.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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at hand a thicket she surveys
Gay with the flowering thorn and vermeil rose:
The tuft
reflected
in the stream which strays
Beside it, overshadowing oaks enclose.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Dreadful
he shouts: from earth a stone he took,
And rush'd on Teucer with the lifted rock.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Now, that our friendly alliance may be ratified for all
eternity, we demand of you that you pull down those
bulwarks
of
slavery, the walls of your town, for even wild beasts lose their
spirit if you keep them caged: that you put to the sword every Roman
on your soil, since tyrants are incompatible with freedom; that all
the property of those killed form a common stock and no one be
allowed to conceal anything or to secure any private advantage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Tacitus |
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He was
acceptable
to king and people, and in this very
year was made steward of the household.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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What shall we do
tomorrow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
'
While thus they babbled of the King, the King
Came girt with knights: then turned the
tongueless
man
From the half-face to the full eye, and rose
And pointed to the damsel, and the doors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Cheeks as pale
As these you see, and trembling knees that fail
To bear the burden of a heavy heart,--
This weary minstrel-life that once was girt
To climb Aornus, and can scarce avail
To pipe now 'gainst the valley nightingale
A
melancholy
music,--why advert
To these things?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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XXX
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
From that greenness the green shoot is born,
From the shoot there flowers an ear of corn,
From the ear, yellow grain, sun-ripened glows:
And as, in due season, the farmer mows
The waving locks, from the gold furrow shorn
Lays them in lines, and to the light of dawn
On the bare field, a thousand sheaves he shows:
So the Roman Empire grew by degrees,
Till barbarous power brought it to its knees,
Leaving only these ancient ruins behind,
That all and sundry pillage: as those who glean,
Following step by step, the
leavings
find,
That after the farmer's passage may be seen.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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A
statesman
passed--alone to him,
The Devil dare his whole shape uncover, _115
To show each feature, every limb,
Secure of an unchanging lover.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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But
wickedly
we say this.
| Guess: |
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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 azure vault in silver
shimmers
soft,
A dewy breeze with fragrance soars aloft.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And I made great
provision
for my journey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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_ 'Janus, whom Annius of Viterbo and
the
chorographers
of Italy do make to be the same with Noah.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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:
_implorati_
Heyse:
fort.
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Two
swimmers
wrestled on the spar
Until the morning sun,
When one turned smiling to the land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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For forms of
government
let fools contest;
Whate'er is best administered is best:
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right:
In faith and hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity:
All must be false that thwart this one great end;
And all of God, that bless mankind or mend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Thus she lamented day & night, compelld to labour & sorrow
Luvah in vain her
lamentations
heard; in vain his love
Brought him in various forms before her still she knew him not
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Still she despisd him, calling on his name & knowing him not
Still hating still professing love, still labouring in the smoke
And Los & Enitharmon joyd, they drank in tenfold joy To come in
From all the sorrow of Luvah & the labour of Urizen {These two lines struck through, but then marked (to the right of the main body of text) with the following: "To come in.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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I of
Book II in the new text, the
situation
in the legend is as follows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
[10,000 x 100,000,000 = 1 Trillion]
This is ten thousand titles each to one hundred million readers,
which is only ~5% of the present number of
computer
users.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
In golden dreams the sage duennas slept;
A female
sentinel
to watch was kept.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Hitherto, such
readers--except the small
percentage
of them to whom it has happened to
come across the poems in some one of their American editions--have picked
acquaintance with them only through the medium of newspaper extracts and
criticisms, mostly short-sighted, sneering, and depreciatory, and rather
intercepting than forwarding the candid construction which people might be
willing to put upon the poems, alike in their beauties and their
aberrations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Am meisten argert ihn, sobald wir
vorwarts
gehn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
There are a lot of things you can do with Project
Gutenberg-tm
electronic
works if you follow the terms of this agreement
and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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The moment was
important in my poetical history; for I date from it my consciousness
of the infinite variety of natural appearances which had been
unnoticed by the poets of any age or country, so far as I was
acquainted
with them; and I made a resolution to supply in some degree
the deficiency.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Would you, my lord, aught with the
general?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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My heir may sigh, and think it want of grace
A man so poor would live without a place;
But sure no statute in his favour says
How free, or frugal, I shall pass my days:
I, who at some times spend, at others spare,
Divided between
carelessness
and care.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Of
resurrection?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
They gallop apart in
equal numbers, and open their files three and three in
deploying
bands,
and again at the call wheel about and bear down with levelled arms.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work
electronically
in lieu of a refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
^1
Dearest of
distillation!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
" he repeated to the crowd;
But from all the people round him came no word of a reply,
Save the black-eyed rebel,
answering
from the corner of her eye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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<>, diss' io, <
malvagio
traditor; ch'a la tua onta
io portero di te vere novelle>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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One might be
vengeance
and the other hate,
Yet lived they side by side, in powerful state
And close alliance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
XLVII
Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
And each doth good turns now unto the other:
When that mine eye is famish'd for a look,
Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother,
With my love's picture then my eye doth feast,
And to the painted banquet bids my heart;
Another time mine eye is my heart's guest,
And in his
thoughts
of love doth share a part:
So, either by thy picture or my love,
Thy self away, art present still with me;
For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move,
And I am still with them, and they with thee;
Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight
Awakes my heart, to heart's and eye's delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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My thoughts had been long
wandering
from the volume before me to
the gloom and desolation of the neighboring city.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Many a glad good-morrow and jocund laugh from the young folk
Made the bright air brighter, as up from the
numerous
meadows,
Where no path could be seen but the track of wheels in the greensward,
Group after group appeared, and joined, or passed on the highway.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
_
CONDITVS
hic ego sum, cuius modo rustica Musa
per siluas, per rus uenit ad arma uirum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
About 770 Wei Hao
produced
an
edition of twenty _chuan_, many additional poems having come to light
in the interval.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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[OZIAS
_disperses
the citizens_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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This city of David
Compared with Antioch is but a village,
And its inhabitants compared with Greeks
Are
mannerless
boors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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We tore the tarry rope to shreds
With blunt and bleeding nails;
We rubbed the doors, and scrubbed the floors,
And cleaned the shining rails:
And, rank by rank, we soaped the plank,
And
clattered
with the pails.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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If weak the
pleasure
that from these can spring,
The fear to want them is as weak a thing:
Whether we dread, or whether we desire,
In either case, believe me, we admire;
Whether we joy or grieve, the same the curse,
Surprised at better, or surprised at worse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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CHORUS _of Citizens
praising_
JUDITH _and
leading her to her house_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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But all such fanciful thoughts as these
Were strange to a
practical
man like Burns,
Who minded only his own concerns,
Troubled no more by fancies fine
Than one of his calm-eyed, long-tailed kine,--
Quite old-fashioned and matter-of-fact,
Slow to argue, but quick to act.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Poi cominciai cosi: <
come la prima equalita v'apparse,
d'un peso per ciascun di voi si fenno,
pero che 'l sol che v'allumo e arse,
col caldo e con la luce e si iguali,
che tutte
simiglianze
sono scarse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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such I ween
But they have
vanished
long, alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Then, methought, the air grew denser,
perfumed
from an unseen censer
Swung by Angels whose faint foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The
foolhardy
ploughman I well could endure,
His praise was worth nothing, his censure was poor,
Fame bade me go on and I toiled the day long
Till the fields where he lived should be known in my song.
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John Clare |
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_--Under this interpretation the
Redcross Knight is a personification of Protestant England, or the church
militant, while Una
represents
the true religion of the Reformed Church.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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The shutters were drawn and the
undertaker
wiped his feet--
He was aware that this sort of thing had occurred before.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The Count of
Provence
is Raymond Berenger.
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Troubador Verse |
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He did not wring his hands nor weep,
Nor did he peek or pine,
But he drank the air as though it held
Some
healthful
anodyne;
With open mouth he drank the sun
As though it had been wine!
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Wilde - Poems |
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The staff I yet remember which upbore
The bending body of my active sire;
His seat beneath the honeyed sycamore
When the bees hummed, and chair by winter fire;
When market-morning came, the neat attire
With which, though bent on haste, myself I deck'd;
My
watchful
dog, whose starts of furious ire,
When stranger passed, so often I have check'd;
The red-breast known for years, which at my casement peck'd.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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_ Compare _To the
Countesse
of
Bedford_, p.
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John Donne |
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What rivers and what heights,
What shores and seas between
Me rise and those twin lights,
Which made the storm and blackness of my days
One
beautiful
serene,
To which tormented Memory still strays:
Free as my life then pass'd from every care,
So hard and heavy seems my present lot to bear.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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A Negress
Possessed by some demon now a negress
Would taste a girl-child saddened by strange fruits
Forbidden ones too under the ragged dress,
This glutton's ready to try a trick or two:
To her belly she twins two
fortunate
tits
And, so high that no hand knows how to seize her,
Thrusts the dark shock of her booted legs
Just like a tongue unskilled in pleasure.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Now he
importunes
him
To tell it o'er.
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Shakespeare |
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I carried my cup and was dully
drinking
alone:
Suddenly I heard a knocking sound at the door.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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XXXVII
The cruell wound enraged him so sore, 325
That loud he yelded for exceeding paine;
As hundred ramping Lyons seem'd to rore,
Whom ravenous hunger did thereto constraine:
Then gan he tosse aloft his
stretched
traine,
And therewith scourge the buxome aire so sore, 330
That to his force to yeelden it was faine;
Ne ought his sturdy strokes might stand afore,
That high trees overthrew, and rocks in peeces tore.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But, like most of the numerous epigrams that have been made
about epic poetry, the remark does not describe the nature of epic, but
rather one of the
conspicuous
signs that that nature is fulfilling
itself.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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