Men loved unkindness then, but
lightless
in the quarry
I slept and saw not; tears fell down, I did not mourn;
Sweat ran and blood sprang out and I was never sorry:
Then it was well with me, in days ere I was born.
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[Sidenote: It is evident that rewards follow good actions, and
punishments
attend evil actions; then as virtue itself is the
reward of the virtuous, so vice is the punishment of the vicious.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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FROM
THE
TAPESTRY
OF LIFE AND
THE SONGS OF DREAM AND
DEATH.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Fear holds
dominion
over mortality
Only because, seeing in land and sky
So much the cause whereof no wise they know,
Men think Divinities are working there.
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Lucretius |
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I have no
complaint
worth
while to be making this last twenty years against Andrew.
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Yeats |
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All this
extensive
and beautiful country-side was laid
waste with fire and sword.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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It is certain, from the
Register
of the Bishop of Worcester,
that Mr.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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liability
can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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" So much for my last words: now for a few present
remarks, as they have
occurred
at random, on looking over your list.
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Robert Burns |
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The next thing most
important
to mention,
Metaphysics will claim your attention!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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_Cedars_, oil of cedar was used for preserving
manuscripts
(carmina
linenda cedro.
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Robert Herrick |
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Come give me thy
loveliest
lay.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Questo
passammo
come terra dura;
per sette porte intrai con questi savi:
giugnemmo in prato di fresca verdura.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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WEISLINGEN: The
consequences
may be dangerous.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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With half-drooped lids, and smooth, round brow,
And eye remote, that inly sees
Fair Beatrice's spirit
wandering
now
In some sea-lulled Hesperides,
Thou movest through the jarring street,
Secluded from the noise of feet
By her gift-blossom in thy hand,
Thy branch of palm from Holy Land;--
No trace is here of ruin's fiery sleet.
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James Russell Lowell |
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That mingled wrack
No livening sun shall visit till the crust
Of earth be riven, or this rolling planet
Reel on its axis; till the moon-chained tides,
Unloosed, deliver up that white Atlantis
Whose naked peaks shall bleach above the slaked
Thirst of Sahara, fringed by weedy tangles
Of Atlas's drown'd cedars,
frowning
eastward
To where the sands of India lie cold,
And heap'd Himalaya's a rib of coral
Slowly uplifted, grain on grain.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And, if thou mark and listen to them well,
Their
childish
looks and voice declare as much.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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THE
blissful
meadows beckoned.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And you are mine,
My
sweetheart!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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War, a
terrible
war is breaking out between us and the gods!
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Aristophanes |
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Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread
tribunal
of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations
received
from
outside the United States.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its thousand feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And microbes more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of
Rosamunde!
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Appoloinaire |
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She looks out from her quaker cap, her face is clearer and more
beautiful
than the sky.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Warner rhymes _bounds_ with
_crowns_, _grounds_ with _towns_, _text_ with _sex_, _worst_ with
_crust_, _interrupts_ with _cups_; Drayton,
_defects_
with _sex_;
Chapman, _amends_ with _cleanse_; Webster, _defects_ with _checks_; Ben
Jonson, _minds_ with _combines_; Marston, _trust_ and _obsequious_,
_clothes_ and _shows_; Dryden gives the same sound to _clothes_, and has
also _minds_ with _designs_.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Indeed, the poet's deliberate
attitude
of
artificiality is dropped.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Unauthenticated
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Subject to such attacks three hundred years,
The donjon yields, and ruin now appears,
E'en as by leprosy the wild boars die,
In moat the crumbled battlements now lie;
Around the snake-like bramble twists its rings;
Freebooter sparrows come on daring wings
To perch upon the swivel-gun, nor heed
Its murmuring growl when pecking in their greed
The
mulberries
ripe.
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Hugo - Poems |
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How quickly the heroic mood
Responds to its own ringing;
The
scornful
heart, the angry blood
Leap upward, singing!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Recite another
prologue
to him.
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Aristophanes |
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Irish and Welsh and Scot,
Coldstream
and Grenadiers.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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[Footnote 1: Possibly
suggested
by Tasso, 'Gerus.
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Tennyson |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Wherever
the rain and dew brings moisture fruits form, the sweet and the bitter alike.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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)
Would Baudelaire recall these
prophetic
words if he were able to revisit
the glimpses of the Champs Elysees at the Autumn Salons?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I
What man is he, that boasts of fleshly might
And vaine
assurance
of mortality,
Which all so soone as it doth come to fight
Against spirituall foes, yeelds by and by,
Or from the field most cowardly doth fly?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I left the place with all my might, --
My prayer away I threw;
The quiet ages picked it up,
And
Judgment
twinkled, too,
That one so honest be extant
As take the tale for true
That "Whatsoever you shall ask,
Itself be given you.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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A bird, by chance, that goes that way
Soft
overheard
the whole.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"Hātað heaðo-mǣre hlǣw gewyrcean,
"beorhtne æfter bǣle æt brimes nosan;
2805 "se scel tō gemyndum mīnum lēodum
"hēah hlīfian on Hrones næsse,
"þæt hit sǣ-līðend
syððan
hātan
"Bīowulfes biorh, þā þe brentingas
"ofer flōda genipu feorran drīfað.
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Beowulf |
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The styles are taken from
Classical
art.
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Ronsard |
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Beneath the pleasant shade of
beauteous
leaves
I ran for shelter from a cruel light,
E'en here below that burnt me from high heaven,
When the last snow had ceased upon the hills,
And amorous airs renew'd the sweet spring time,
And on the upland flourish'd herbs and boughs.
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Petrarch |
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With panting heart lay like a fish on land,
And quickly judged the fort was not tenal'lc
Which if a house, yet were not
tenantabic
;
Ko man can sit there safe, the cannon pours
Through walls untight, and through the bullci
showers.
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Marvell - Poems |
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[580] Does she let some
vase drop while going or
returning
to the house?
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Aristophanes |
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"
With an hundred serjeants by force they come;
Thirty of them there are, that
straight
are hung.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Rising from unrest,
The
trembling
woman presse
With feet of weary woe;
She could no further go.
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blake-poems |
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Phaedra
I
predicted
it, but you'd not accept it.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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raynde]]
221
And droffe ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Lo, the ship, at this opportunity, slipped slyly,
Making cunning
noiseless
travel down the ways.
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Stephen Crane |
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The myrrh-hyacinth
spread across low slopes,
violets
streaked
black ridges
through the grass.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Whenever the Emperor thought of giving the poet some official rank,
Kuei-fei
intervened
and dissuaded him.
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Li Po |
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Never by me shall men
reproach
my clan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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A kinde of
arbitrary
_Court_ 'twill be, Sir.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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What groves or lawns
Held you, ye Dryad-maidens, when for love-
Love all
unworthy
of a loss so dear-
Gallus lay dying?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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'303 Sporus':
a
favorite
of Nero, used here for Lord Hervey.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Dark
presentiments
rise to terrify me here.
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if
bereaved
of light.
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blake-poems |
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Shepster
swayne, you tare mie gratche[37].
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have
measured
out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Thou hast no end to gain--no heart to break--
Castiglione
lied who said he loved--
Thou true--he false!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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What word will men say,--here where Giotto planted
His
campanile
like an unperplexed
Fine question Heavenward, touching the things granted
A noble people who, being greatly vexed
In act, in aspiration keep undaunted?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The
last mentioned passage finds a still closer parallel in a couplet from
the contemporary ballad, which Gifford quotes from
Hutchinson
(p.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Her work was in the
world's
possession
for not far short of a thousand years--a thousand years
of changing tastes, searching criticism, and familiar use.
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Sappho |
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_Ein
Fichtenbaum
steht einsam_--you recall?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Who shall do
judgment
on me, when she dies?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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--comes by
my betrayal, while thou suest for our
daughter
in marriage?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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It is the only
regularly
working, trustworthy love-charm in the
country, with one exception.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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And only inwardly inclines,
As we are wont if there draws nigh
A
stranger
on his final round.
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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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Alone for
Holofernes
am I come.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Though many a victim from my folds went forth,
Or rich cheese pressed for the unthankful town,
Never with laden hands
returned
I home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Thou
believest
all I say?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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There 's triumph of the finer mind
When truth,
affronted
long,
Advances calm to her supreme,
Her God her only throng.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Que ce sont bien intrigues de genies
Cette depense et ces
desordres
vains!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"As the
generation
of leaves,
so is the generation of men.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And then the
lighting
of the lamps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Is your sole virtue
committing
outrage?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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but the third morn
Astonishd he found Enion hidden in the darksom Cave
She spoke What am I
wherefore
was I put forth on these rocks
Among the Clouds to tremble in the wind in solitude
Where is the voice that lately woke the desart Where the face
That wept among the clouds & where the voice that shall reply
No other living thing is here.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Costello knew that it was Bridget Delaney,
a deaf and dumb beggar; and she, when she saw him, stood up and made
a sign to him to follow, and led him and his
companion
up a stair and
down a long corridor to a closed door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Whene'er Ulysses roams the realm of night,
Should
factious
power dispute my lineal right,
Some other Greeks a fairer claim may plead;
To your pretence their title would precede.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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But I look to the west when I gae to rest,
That happy my dreams and my
slumbers
may be;
For far in the west lives he I loe best,
The man that is dear to my babie and me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Now Anne of Austria shared their drinks,
Collinga
knew her fame,
From Tarnau in Galicia
To Juan Bazaar she came,
To eat the bread of infamy
And take the wage of shame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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from the
innocuous
flames, a lovely birth,
With its own Virtues springs another earth: 1820.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
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 |
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Allume ta
prunelle
a la flamme des lustres!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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So they kept us close till nigh on noon,
And then they rang the bell,
And the Warders with their jingling keys
Opened each listening cell,
And down the iron stair we tramped,
Each from his
separate
Hell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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I
worshipped
the god's temple, an ancient pile of
stone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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[In order to
complete
the Life of Solomon, of which his Book of Wisdom, &c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
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"From sunrise unto sunset
All earth shall hear thy fame:
A glorious city thou shalt build,
And name it by thy name:
And there,
unquenched
through ages,
Like Vesta's sacred fire,
Shall live the spirit of thy nurse,
The spirit of thy sire.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Thine this
universal
frame,
Thus wondrous fair--Thyself how wondrous then!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Does not your ladyship think that an Edinburgh theatre would be more
amused with affectation, folly, and whim of true
Scottish
growth, than
manners which by far the greatest part of the audience can only know
at second hand?
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Robert Burns |
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but now few, large, and bright,
The stars are round the
crescent
moon!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I regret that its length
renders it
unsuitable
for the purposes of this lecture.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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He
laboreth
at every tree, --
A worm his utmost goal.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I can't help wishing I could send you one,
In wishing you
herewith
a Merry Christmas.
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Robert Forst |
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I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky,
And at every
drifting
cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
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Wilde - Poems |
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