A thirsty
Traveller
dips his hand into a Spring of Water
to drink from.
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But I see Blepsidemus; by his bearing and his haste I can
readily see he knows or
suspects
something.
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Aristophanes |
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And, what's more, when sorrow's beating
Down on me, through Fate's
incessant
rage,
Your sweet glance its malice is assuaging,
Nor more or less than wind blows smoke away.
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Villon |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Yet in the end it ever comes
that the frame of the body fragile yields,
fated falls; and there follows another
who
joyously
the jewels divides,
the royal riches, nor recks of his forebear.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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In the budding chestnuts
Whose sticky buds glimmer and are half-burst open
The
starlings
make their clitter-clatter;
And the blackbirds in the grass
Are getting as fat as the pigeons.
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Imagists |
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And, if spared, and growing older,
Shoulder
still in line with shoulder,
And with hearts no thrill the colder,
Brothers ever we shall be.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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O the
darkness
of the corners,
the warm air, and the stars
framed in the casement of the ships' lights!
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Imagists |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine Elizabethan
translation
which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Of every lady I
despair!
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Troubador Verse |
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_ The reading of _1633_ is
'termers', and as in 'Tables' 'Fables' of the preceding poem it is not
easy to
determine
which is original.
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John Donne |
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But their wild
exultation
was suddenly checked
When the jailer informed them, with tears,
Such a sentence would have not the slightest effect,
As the pig had been dead for some years.
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Lewis Carroll |
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increasing
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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God's kindly earth
Is
kindlier
than men know,
And the red rose would but blow more red,
The white rose whiter blow.
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Wilde - Poems |
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But Pallas went and brought back
Telemachus
from Sparata,
evading the Wooers' ambush.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The Phoenix was the
mythical
bird that rose again from the ashes of its own immolation.
| Guess: |
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Ronsard |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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LXXVIII
Once in the shining street,
In the heart of a
seaboard
town,
As I waited, behold, there came
The woman I loved.
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Sappho |
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1911
Challenge The Century Company 1914
"--and Other Poets" Henry Holt and Company 1916
The Poems of
Heinrich
Heine Henry Holt and Company 1917
These Times Henry Holt and Company 1917
Including Horace Harcourt, Brace and Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And every day for seven moons I
proclaimed
my Joy from the
house-top--and yet no one heeded me.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Seeke wee then our selves in our selves; for as
Men force the Sunne with much more force to passe, 20
By gathering his beames with a
christall
glasse;
So wee, If wee into our selves will turne,
Blowing our sparkes of vertue, may outburne
The straw, which doth about our hearts sojourne.
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| Question: |
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John Donne |
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you got it from.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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have pass'd away,
Since a weak infant in the lap I lay;
For what is human life but one
uncertain
day!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And on the topmost summit seated, Hephaistus
Hammers the ignited mass, whence will burst out at length
Rivers of fire,
devouring
with wild jaws
Fair-fruited Sicily's smooth fields;
Such rage will Typhon make boil over
With hot discharges of insatiable fire-breathing tempest,
Though by the bolt of Zeus burnt to a coal.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Time's
sublimest
target
Is a soul 'forgot'!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Sweet lords, sweet lovers, O, let us
embrace!
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Drei Tropfen nur In ihren Trank umhullen
Mit tiefem Schlaf
gefallig
die Natur.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Ah quietly the shingle waits the tides
Whose waves are stinging kisses, but to me
Love brought no peace, nor
darkness
any rest.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Their burrows are usually in the high
banks of the river, with the
entrance
under water, and rising within
to above the level of high water.
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| Question: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Paul, Mahomet, Handel, Napoleon, Flaubert, Dostoievsky
were epileptoids; yet we do not
encounter
men of this rare kind among
the inmates of asylums.
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Your fair-haired brother George and you beside
Me play--in
watching
you is all my pride;
And all I ask--by countless sorrows tried--
The grave; o'er which in shadowy form may show
Your cradles gilded by the morning's glow.
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Hugo - Poems |
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On the earth mine eyes were cast;
Swift and keen there came unto me
Ritter
memories
of the past
On me, like the rain in Autumn
On the dead leaves, cold and fast.
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| Question: |
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Poe - 5 |
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, surnamed the Brave, ascended the
throne of
Portugal
in the vigour of his age.
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| Question: |
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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7 or obtain
permission
for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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| Question: |
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William Wordsworth |
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He fears nor kris nor assegai,
He gazes at man, with no cares at all,
And smiles at the sepoy's musket-ball,
That merely
rebounds
from his hide.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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For Horse and Foot, and
Captains
of those bands,
On either side, could deftly ply their hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
THE LOST PYX
A
MEDIAEVAL
LEGEND {457}
SOME say the spot is banned; that the pillar Cross-and-Hand
Attests to a deed of hell;
But of else than of bale is the mystic tale
That ancient Vale-folk tell.
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Ce fut
un succes--succes d'ailleurs prepare par la _Revue des Deux-
Mondes_ qui, en
accueillant
un an auparavant quelques poesies de
Baudelaire, avait mis sa responsabilite a couvert par une note
singulierement prudente.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Go, now, leave me a
faithful
servant, though,
Who can direct my timid steps towards you.
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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15
Quod si non aliud potest, ruborem
Ferreo canis
exprimamus
ore.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And this place our
forefathers
made for man!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The eyes
(it seemed) had been removed, and glass ones substituted, which were
very beautiful and wonderfully life-like, with the exception of somewhat
too
determined
a stare.
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Poe - 5 |
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Who
calleth?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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You must have heard of him, as many
wonderful
stories
have been told about him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Journey North 339 Seeing his dad, he turns his face away weeping, filthy and greasy, no socks on his feet.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But the things I feel when wine
possesses
my soul
I will never tell to those who are not drunk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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became king, Ben Jonson was
weakened in health by a
paralytic
stroke.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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As Harrington fell, ye
likewise
fell --
At the door of the House wherein ye dwell;
As Harrington came, ye likewise came
And died at the door of your House of Fame.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Thy
shrinking
slowly hastens the blow!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And
sweetest
in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which
kindness
rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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His three sons had also written
tragedies
and were
dancers into the bargain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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She is dead who never lived,
She who made
pretence
of being:
From her hands the book has slipped
In which her eyes read nothing.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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C'est de
rectifier
des faits d'abord--et
ensuite d'elucider un peu la disposition, a mon sens, mal litteraire,
mais concue dans un but tellement respectable!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And on one, that's Earth, a yellow dot, Paris,
Where hangs, a light, a poor ageing fool:
In the frail
universal
order, unique miracle.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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There is a
legend[15] that he was drowned while making a drunken effort to embrace
the
reflection
of the moon in the water.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
VII
=The Mystic=
Angels have talked with him, and showed him thrones:
Ye knew him not: he was not one of ye,
Ye scorned him with an undiscerning scorn:
Ye could not read the marvel in his eye,
The still serene abstraction; he hath felt
The
vanities
of after and before;
Albeit, his spirit and his secret heart
The stern experiences of converse lives,
The linked woes of many a fiery change
Had purified, and chastened, and made free.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Borne on a corded raft, and suff'ring woe
Extreme, he on the
twentieth
day shall reach, 40
Not sooner, Scherie the deep-soil'd, possess'd
By the Phaeacians, kinsmen of the Gods.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Barth: _udus_
Heinsius
169 _hac_ GO
170
_uritur_
OD et corr.
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Latin - Catullus |
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[25] _namastu_ a late form which has followed the analogy of _restu_
in
assuming
the feminine _t_ as part of the root.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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quae miser ignotis error perpessus in oris
Herculis indomito
fleuerat
Ascanio,
his, o Galle, tuos monitus seruabis amores;
formosum Nymphis credere cautus Hylan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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A
perjured
prince a leaden saint revere,
A godless regent tremble at a star?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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he
had failed in an
enterprise
against Heraclea, a storm having destroyed
his fleet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Why are you
questioning
me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
XERXES
Bitter indeed the pang for
comrades
slain,
The brave and bold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Or from the famished poor, pale, weak and cold, _3355
Bear ye the
earnings
of their toil?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Angels'
breathless
ballot
Lingers to record thee;
Imps in eager caucus
Raffle for my soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
To this high
mountain
top the Tempter brought
Our Saviour, and new train of words began.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
When the golden days arrive,
With the swallow at the eaves,
And the first sob of the south-wind
Sighing at the latch with spring, 40
Long
hereafter
shall thy name
Be recalled through foreign lands,
And thou be a part of sorrow
When the Linus songs are sung.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Much wondering what sad stroke of crazing Care,
Or desperate Love could lead a
wanderer
there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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The clouds their backs
together
laid,
The north begun to push,
The forests galloped till they fell,
The lightning skipped like mice;
The thunder crumbled like a stuff --
How good to be safe in tombs,
Where nature's temper cannot reach,
Nor vengeance ever comes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Then turned he round his weary eyes and saw,
And ever nigher still their faces came,
And nigher ever did their young mouths draw
Until they seemed one perfect rose of flame,
And longing arms around her neck he cast,
And felt her throbbing bosom, and his breath came hot and fast,
And all his hoarded sweets were hers to kiss,
And all her
maidenhood
was his to slay,
And limb to limb in long and rapturous bliss
Their passion waxed and waned,--O why essay
To pipe again of love, too venturous reed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Of hir have I,
withouten
fayle, 1275
Told yow the shap and apparayle
For (as I seide) lo, that was she
That dide me so greet bountee,
>>
La soe merci m'apela
Ains que nule, quant je vins la.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
There's not a blessing individuals find,
But some way leans and hearkens to the kind:
No bandit fierce, no tyrant mad with pride,
No caverned hermit, rests self-satisfied:
Who most to shun or hate mankind pretend,
Seek an admirer, or would fix a friend:
Abstract what others feel, what others think,
All
pleasures
sicken, and all glories sink:
Each has his share; and who would more obtain,
Shall find, the pleasure pays not half the pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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At the same
instant I saw the old gentleman limping off at the top of his speed,
having caught and wrapt up in his apron
something
that fell heavily into
it from the darkness of the arch just over the turnstile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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It is sweet to dance to violins
When Love and Life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is
delicate
and rare:
But it is not sweet with nimble feet
To dance upon the air!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
See, see our
lamplight
fade!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
For all that, it is a great poem, full of irresistible
vision and
memorable
diction.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
And now the Irish are ashamed
To see
themselves
in one year tamed:
So much one man can do
That does both act and know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
The reader may well believe I was anxious not to miss this council of
war, which was to have so great an
influence
on my life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
I too survey that endless line
Of men whose
thoughts
are not as mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Note: Fulk is
Foulques
V of Anjou (its capital Angers) also known as Foulques the Younger, Count of Anjou 1109-1129, and King of Jerusalem from 1131 to his death in 1143.
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Troubador Verse |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Before I got my eye put out,
I liked as well to see
As other
creatures
that have eyes,
And know no other way.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Conscious of worth reviled, thy
generous
mind
The friendly rite of purity declined;
My will concurring with my queen's command,
Accept the bath from this obsequious hand.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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What are these,
So wither'd, and so wilde in their attyre,
That looke not like th'
Inhabitants
o'th' Earth,
And yet are on't?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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D'Cruze was at
that very time doing menial work,
connected
with cooking, for a Club in
Southern India!
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Kipling - Poems |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation
permitted
by
the applicable state law.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Then,
contracting
"both lips and brow,"
he made ready to strike, and let fall his axe on the bare neck of Sir
Gawayne.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be
savagely
still.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
Brave GAMA spake; the pagan king replies,
"From lands which now behold the morning rise,
While eve's dim clouds the Indian sky enfold,
Glorious
to us an offer'd league we hold.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water
ploughed
from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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THE KING: Your dark, sweet eyes
Inspired
me!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Modes of self-love the
passions
we may call;
'Tis real good, or seeming, moves them all:
But since not every good we can divide,
And reason bids us for our own provide;
Passions, though selfish, if their means be fair,
List under Reason, and deserve her care;
Those, that imparted, court a nobler aim,
Exalt their kind, and take some virtue's name.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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