'
He also sent with the above note a copy of his famous work on
'Cosmetics,' to be
presented
to Mr.
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Qui natam possis conplexu avellere matris,
Conplexu
matris retinentem avellere natam
Et iuveni ardenti castam donare puellam.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Behold, we are life's pitiful least,
And we perish at the first smell
Of death, whither heaves earth
To spurn us
cringing
into hell.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Minerva's anger, and the
dreadful
woes
Which voyaging from Troy the victors bore,
While storms vindictive intercept the store.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The boatman smiles,
Princess
Volupine
extends
A meagre, blue-nailed, phthisic hand
To climb the waterstair.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Who makest Life become,--
As though by labouring all-unknowingly,
Like one whom
reveries
numb.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The noble warrior, who has claimed her,
Said when he
disarmed
me: 'Have no fear.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Nor thou
Marvel, if before me no shadow fall,
More than that in the sky element
One ray
obstructs
not other.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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After this she often came
To bring me fruit or wine,
Or sometimes
hothouse
flowers.
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Christina Rossetti |
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CXL
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
My tongue-tied
patience
with too much disdain;
Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express
The manner of my pity-wanting pain.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The flesh surrendered, cancelled,
The
bodiless
begun;
Two worlds, like audiences, disperse
And leave the soul alone.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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But thou,
Clitumnus!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I burned
Hot and cold, in a lasting fever, well-earned
By the mortal wound of your glance's
piercing
flight.
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Ronsard |
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Moore is
one of the most
spirited
and natural narratives in the language, and
composed in a style remote from the strained and groped-for witticisms
and put-on sensibilities of many of his letters:--"Simple," as John
Wilson says, "we may well call it; rich in fancy, overflowing in
feeling, and dashed off in every other paragraph with the easy
boldness of a great master.
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Robert Forst |
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An exquisite sense
of the ridiculous
belonged
to the Greek character; and closely
connected with this faculty was a strong propensity to flippancy
and impertinence.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Thou
shouldst
see
A workman in't.
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Shakespeare |
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So
freehanded
and so gay!
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Kipling - Poems |
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For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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Villon |
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originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Stephen Crane |
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I said, 'What
influence
me preferred,
Elect, to dreams thus beautiful?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Wolves rove among the
fearless
sheep;
The woods for thee their foliage strow;
The delver loves on earth to leap,
His ancient foe.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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What premonition,
O purple swallow, 10
Told thee the happy
Hour of
migration?
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Sappho |
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[Variant 3: The two
preceding
lines were added in 1845.
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William Wordsworth |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Childe Harold had a mother--not forgot,
Though parting from that mother he did shun;
A sister whom he loved, but saw her not
Before his weary
pilgrimage
begun:
If friends he had, he bade adieu to none.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Although
I know that it is a poor return,
All I can give you is this description of my feelings.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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As Lucagus spurred on his horses, bending forward over the
whip, with left foot advanced ready for battle, the spear passes through
the lower rim of his shining shield and pierces his left groin, knocks
him out of the chariot, and
stretches
him in death on the fields.
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| Question: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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With slow reluctant feet and weary eyes Kore And eyelids heavy with the coming sleep,
With small breasts lifted up in stress of sighs,
She passed as shadows pass amid the sheep
While the earth dreamed and only I was ware Of that faint
fragrance
blown from her soft hair.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Make her a corpse," said Zeno; "marked you how
The jade
insulted
me just now!
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Hugo - Poems |
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, a so-called
_dvanda_
compound.
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Beowulf |
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earthbound bride &
bridegroom
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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I
remember
how you stooped
to gather it--
and it flamed, the leaf and shoot
and the threads, yellow, yellow--
sheer till they burnt
to red-purple in the cup.
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| Question: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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That in
distress
Iiad sent me such a friend.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Ev'n godly
meetings
o' the saunts,
By thee inspired,
When gaping they besiege the tents,
Are doubly fir'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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--
You knew Henderson--I have not
flattered
his memory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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The evening, =erev=, of Genesis
signifies
a
"mingling," and approaches the meaning of our "twilight" analytically.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Nor stayed to welcome here thy
wanderer
home,
Who mourns o'er hours which we no more shall see--
Would they had never been, or were to come!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I make my
fierceness
of a mind to set
My spirit high up in the winds of joy,
Before I tumble down into the darkness.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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First let me note that the maid to us committed (assert they)
Was but a fraud: her mate never a touch of her had, 20
* * * *
* * * *
But that a father durst
dishonour
the bed of his firstborn,
Folk all swear, and the house hapless with incest bewray;
Or that his impious mind was blunt with fiery passion 25
Or that his impotent son sprang from incapable seed.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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As for the subject, Euripides received
it from Phrynichus, and
doubtless
from other sources.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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`And loketh now if this be resonable, 1135
And letteth nought, for favour ne for slouthe,
To seyn a sooth; now were it covenable
To myn estat, by god, and by your trouthe,
To taken it, or to han of him routhe,
In harming of my-self or in
repreve?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one
fainting
robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Kuhn ist das Muhen,
Herrlich
der Lohn!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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His turban has fallen from his forehead,
To assist him the bystanders started--
His mouth foams, his face
blackens
horrid--
See the Renegade's soul has departed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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'Twixt worth and baseness, lapp'd in death,
What
difference?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Parfois, martyr lasse des poles et des zones,
La mer dont le sanglot faisait mon roulis doux
Montait vers moi ses fleurs d'ombre aux ventouses jaunes
Et je restais ainsi qu'une femme a genoux,
Presqu'ile ballottant sur mes bords les querelles
Et les fientes d'oiseaux
clabaudeurs
aux yeux blonds,
Et je voguais lorsqu'a travers mes liens freles
Des noyes descendaient dormir a reculons.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Wie traurig steigt die
unvollkommne
Scheibe
Des roten Monds mit spater Glut heran
Und leuchtet schlecht, dass man bei jedem Schritte
Vor einen Baum, vor einen Felsen rennt!
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Ay;
Be she abused by him or not, I know
God means to give her
marvellous
hands to-night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Like infamous desire
A wise heart puts aside, which yet remains
A secret hated memory, man was
In God, and is vainly
discarded
here.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Ravish'd, she lifted her Circean head,
Blush'd a live damask, and swift-lisping said,
"I was a woman, let me have once more
A woman's shape, and
charming
as before.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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She turned away, but with the autumn weather
Compelled
my imagination many days,
Many days and many hours:
Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
I saw one year in a neighboring town some trees fuller of fruit
than I
remember
to have ever seen before, small yellow apples hanging
over the road.
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| Question: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Once when the Emperor was sitting in the Pavilion of Aloes Wood, he had
a sudden
stirring
of heart, and wanted Po to write a song expressive of
his mood.
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Li Po |
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the other stands bold-faced,
Defiant; for the knight, when he unlaced
His cuirass, had his trusty sword laid down,
And
Sigismond
now grasps it as his own.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Fendent le lac aux eaux
rougies!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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[23]
Restored
from Tab.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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CANTO XXVI
With dazzled eyes, whilst wond'ring I remain'd,
Forth of the beamy flame which dazzled me,
Issued a breath, that in attention mute
Detain'd me; and these words it spake: "'T were well,
That, long as till thy vision, on my form
O'erspent, regain its virtue, with discourse
Thou
compensate
the brief delay.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
I have heard the tolling
cathedral
bell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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This tablet has been erroneously
assigned
to Book
IV, but it appears to be Book III.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I, too, sang
over the grave when the king of Morven came to green Erin to fight with
the car-borne
Cairbar!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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[278]
How do you like the
foregoing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Purgatorio
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
From Maximin
IN sorrow, day and night the disciple watched
Upon the mount where from the Lord ascended:
"Thus leaveth thou thy
faithful
to despair?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Her health, life's
sweetness
and its bloom,
Her smile and maidenly repose,
All vanished as an echo goes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I look'd upon the rotting Sea,
And drew my eyes away;
I look'd upon the
eldritch
deck,
And there the dead men lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It is no mere
appreciation
of the
Beauty before us, but a wild effort to reach the Beauty above.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Hence
shall spring a race of tempered
Ausonian
blood, whom thou shalt see
outdo men and gods in duty; nor shall any nation so observe thy
worship.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
What say you then to Falconbridge, the young baron of
England?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Niebuhr's supposition that each of the three
defenders
of the
bridge was the representative of one of the three patrician
tribes is both ingenious and probable, and has been adopted in
the following poem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Life has loveliness to sell,
Music like a curve of gold,
Scent of pine trees in the rain,
Eyes that love you, arms that hold,
And for your spirit's still delight,
Holy
thoughts
that star the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
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or
software or other items, please contact Michael Hart at:
hart@pobox.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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she,
You plainly in her face may read it,
Could lend out of that moment's store
Five years of
happiness
or more 135
To any that might need it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
And Troy mourned for him,
Andromache
lamenting
and Hecuba, his mother.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
org (From images
generously
made
available by the Internet Archive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In the final scene she is
silent;
necessarily
and rightly silent, for all tradition knows that those
new-risen from the dead must not speak.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
I beheld] my
likeness
in the street.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
From a very early period it was the usage that an oration
should be
pronounced
over the remains of a noble Roman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
If poysonous mineralls, and if that tree,
Whose fruit threw death on else
immortall
us,
If lecherous goats, if serpents envious
Cannot be damn'd; Alas; why should I bee?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
All these did conquer; but the ones
Who overcame most times
Wear nothing
commoner
than snow,
No ornament but palms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
"
Glad of a quarrel,
straight
I clap the door,
Sir, let me see your works and you no more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
I have no more to give, all that was mine
Is laid, a wrested tribute, at thy shrine;
Let me depart, for my whole soul is wrung,
And all my
cheerless
orisons are sung;
Let me depart, with faint limbs let me creep
To some dim shade and sink me down to sleep.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Den ich bereit, den ich wahle,
"Der letzte Trunk sei nun, mit ganzer Seele,
Als
festlich
hoher Gruss, dem Morgen zugebracht!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
"And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my
brothers
more?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
)
Scraps of a song keep
rumbling
in my head .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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FRAGMENT
C.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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associated
with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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And preyede hir, she wolde hir sorwe apese,
And seyde, `Y-wis, we Grekes con have Ioye
To
honouren
yow, as wel as folk of Troye.
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If you look to vale or [8] hill, 80
If you listen, all is still,
Save a little
neighbouring
rill,
That from out the rocky ground
Strikes a solitary sound.
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William Wordsworth |
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THE LITTLE VAGABOND
Dear mother, dear mother, the Church is cold;
But the
Alehouse
is healthy, and pleasant, and warm.
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blake-poems |
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Good in all,
In the satisfaction and _aplomb_ of animals,
In the annual return of the seasons,
In the hilarity of youth,
In the strength and flush of manhood,
In the
grandeur
and exquisiteness of old age,
In the superb vistas of Death.
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Whitman |
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'197 touch':
a noun, subject of "were given,"
understood
from l.
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Alexander Pope |
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In the shadow, year out, year in,
The silent
headsman
waits forever.
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James Russell Lowell |
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' quod I;
Ne say noght so, for trewely,
Thogh ye had lost the ferses twelve,
And ye for sorwe mordred your-selve,
Ye sholde be dampned in this cas 725
By as good right as Medea was,
That slow hir children for Iason;
And Phyllis als for Demophon
Heng hir-self, so
weylaway!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Here he had embossed
the dancing Salii and the naked Luperci, the crests
wreathed
in wool,
and the sacred shields that fell from heaven; in cushioned cars the
virtuous matrons led on their rites through the city.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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