After all the
engagements
you have won, after routing the
enemy at Gelduba, at Vetera, it would be shameful enough to shirk
battle, but you have your trenches and your walls, and there are ways
of gaining time until armies come flocking from the neighbouring
provinces to your rescue.
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Tacitus |
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Public domain books are our
gateways
to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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At least it is
remarkable how often when _1635_ and the subsequent
editions
depart
from _1633_ and the general tradition of the manuscripts they have
the support of this manuscript and this manuscript alone.
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John Donne |
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At all events they treated me
with the most
chilling
indifference, and Gunga Dass was nearly as bad.
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Kipling - Poems |
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And who hath said
There should be
likeness
in a brother's tread
And sister's?
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Euripides - Electra |
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The steamer
_Lavinia_
was a cattle-boat.
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Yeats |
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The Latin
philosophy was borrowed, without alteration, from the Portico and
the Academy; and the great Latin orators constantly proposed to
themselves as patterns the speeches of
Demosthenes
and Lysias.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with discordant mutiny,
Working on you its eternal
vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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There is besides
another general law, hard perhaps, but wonderfully ordained, and it is
this: nature, whose
operations
are always simple and uniform, never
suffers in any age or country, more than one great example of
perfection in the kind [a].
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Tacitus |
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net
Title: The Golden Threshold
Author: Sarojini Naidu
Posting Date: August 30, 2008 [EBook #680]
Release Date: October, 1996
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT
GUTENBERG
EBOOK THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD ***
Produced by Judith Boss.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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In the
presence
of justice,
Lo, the walls of the temple
Are visible
Through thy form of sudden shadows.
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Stephen Crane |
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"
The
pilgrims
listened; but onward still they moved.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Noradin, and
Lancaster
fierce in arms,
Who vex'd the Gallic coast with long alarms.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I doubt na, lass, that weel ken'd name
May cost a pair o' blushes;
I am nae
stranger
to your fame,
Nor his warm urged wishes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I did heare
The
gallopping
of Horse.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Nay, too, the sun from peak of heaven
Sheds round to every quarter its large heat,
And sows the new-ploughed
intervales
with light:
Thus also sun's heat downward tends to earth.
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Lucretius |
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What Greeks new
wandering
in the Stygian gloom,
Wish your Ulysses shared an equal doom!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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It was here
that he took into his
household
two girls, Fan-su and Man-tz?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"--I shall certainly, among my legacies,
leave my latest curse to that unlucky
predicament
which hurried--tore
me away from Castle Gordon.
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Robert Burns |
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I went bed agen and did nothing but dream
Of Robin and
moonlight
and flowers.
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John Clare |
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I look'd upon her; and as
sunshine
cheers
Limbs numb'd by nightly cold, e'en thus my look
Unloos'd her tongue, next in brief space her form
Decrepit rais'd erect, and faded face
With love's own hue illum'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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So
soon as his winged feet reached the settlement, he espies Aeneas
founding towers and ordering new dwellings; his sword
twinkled
with
yellow jasper, and a cloak hung from his shoulders ablaze with Tyrian
sea-purple, a gift that Dido had made costly and shot the warp with thin
gold.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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When they sometimes
Come down the stairs at night and stand perplexed
Behind the door and headboard of the bed,
Brushing
their chalky skull with chalky fingers,
With sounds like the dry rattling of a shutter,
That's what I sit up in the dark to say--
To no one any more since Toffile died.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Regret--though nothing dear
That I wot of, was toward in the wide world at his prime,
Or bloomed
elsewhere
than here,
To die with his decease, and leave a memory sweet, sublime,
Or mark him out in Time .
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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How their mouths water while they are looking
At miles of slaughter and
sniffing
the cooking!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the
stranger
you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Full five and twenty years he lived
A running
huntsman
merry;
And, though he has but one eye left,
His cheek is like a cherry.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Professor
Saintsbury has not
included this poem in his collection of Godolphin's poems, _Caroline
Poets_, ii.
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John Donne |
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See that very interesting work, _Hearne's Journey from Hudson's
Bay to the
Northern
Ocean_.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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King of this happy land, Troezen's his destiny:
And he knows that the law will grant to your son
Those proud
ramparts
of Minerva's creation.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Meredith - Poems |
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^1
Dearest of
distillation!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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At half-past
eleven enter the
vestibule
boldly, and if you see any one, inquire for
the Countess; if not, ascend the stairs, turn to the left and go on
until you come to a door, which opens into her bedchamber.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Long, long ago they passed threescore-and-ten,
And in this doll's house lived
together
then;
All things they have in common, being so poor,
And their one fear, Death's shadow at the door.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Now know I what Love is: 'mid savage rocks
Tmaros or Rhodope brought forth the boy,
Or
Garamantes
in earth's utmost bounds-
No kin of ours, nor of our blood begot.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Or the
glistening
Eye to the poison of a smile!
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blake-poems |
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ADMETUS (_in an awed whisper, looking
towards_
ALCESTIS).
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Something
I said about "those high
Abodes of all the blest" provoked his temper.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The hero sought his guest Aeneas in the privacy of his
dwelling, mindful of their talk and his
promised
bounty.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Upon his fragile form the troopers' bloody grip
Was deeply dug, while sharply
challenged
they:
"Were you one of this currish crew?
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Hugo - Poems |
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so his fame
Should share in Nature's immortality,
A
venerable
thing!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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As, lo, this man, not great in Argos, not
With pride of house uplifted, in a lot
Of
unmarked
life hath shown a prince's grace.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Bright as a cloudless summer sun,
With stately port he moves;
His
guardian
Seraph eyes with awe
The noble Ward he loves.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Delyt thus hangith, drede thee nought,
Bothe mannis body and his thought,
Only thurgh Youthe, his chamberere, 4935
That to don yvel is customere,
And of nought elles taketh hede
But only folkes for to lede
Into
disporte
and wildenesse,
So is [she] froward from sadnesse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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_ Are dim
exponents
of the creature-life
As earth contains it.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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NOTE:
_7
For]With
1829.
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Shelley |
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"
Faces
I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that
was but a single
countenance
as if held in a mould.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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WILKE,
FRIEDRICH
WILHELM.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I hear a haggard student turn and sigh:
I hear men begging Heaven to let them die:
And,
drowning
all, a wild-eyed woman's cry.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Over sea, over shore, where the cannons loudly roar,
He still was a
stranger
to fear;
And nocht could him quail, or his bosom assail,
But the bonie lass he lo'ed sae dear.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Like the tolling bell
Of a convent curst;
Like the billowy roar
On a storm-lashed shore,--
Now hushed, but once more
Maddening
to its worst.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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O dulci iocunda viro, iocunda parenti,
Salve, teque bona Iuppiter auctet ope,
Ianua, quam Balbo dicunt
servisse
benigne
Olim, cum sedes ipse senex tenuit,
Quamque ferunt rursus voto servisse maligno, 5
Postquam es porrecto facta marita sene.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Doth not the yearning spirit scorn
In such scant borders to be
spanned?
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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The light
Coquettes
in Sylphs aloft repair, 65
And sport and flutter in the fields of Air.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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60
Early leaves drop loitering down
Weightless
on the breeze,
First fruits of the year's decay
From the withering trees.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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It perseveres if grief be all its view,
And
squanders
gems for which no mortal thanks,
And blesses when self as sacrifice it burns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Ces vers etaient d'un monsieur qui faisait
beaucoup
de sonnets
a l'epoque et de qui le nom m'echappe.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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Villon |
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"
The
courtier
smooth, who forty years had shined
An humble servant to all human kind,
Just brought out this, when scarce his tongue could stir,
"If--where I'm going--I could serve you, sir?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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ciuilis etiam motus
cognataque
bella
significant.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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[13] _Fragments and
Specimens
of Early Latin_ pp.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Every one who reads
acknowledges
her fame, concedes her supremacy; but to
all except poets and Hellenists her name is a vague and uncomprehended
splendour, rising secure above a persistent mist of misconception.
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| Question: |
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Sappho |
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Your
misfortune
even lent you fresh dimension.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Soul's Birth
When you were born, beloved, was your soul
New made by God to match your body's flower,
And were they both at one same
precious
hour
Sent forth from heaven as a perfect whole?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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The only live thing in the room
Was the old clock, that in its pace
Kept time with the revolving spheres
And constellations in their flight,
And struck with its
uplifted
mace
The dark, unconscious hours of night,
To senseless and unlistening ears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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But
evidently
success in these cases was
due to the exceptional and fortunate fact that the fixed notorieties of
history were combined with a strange and mysterious geography.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering
fuel in vacant lots.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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As
daylight
broke,
along with his earls the atheling lord,
with his clansmen, came where the king abode
waiting to see if the Wielder-of-All
would turn this tale of trouble and woe.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I do confess thee sweet, but find
Thou art so
thriftless
o' thy sweets,
Thy favours are the silly wind
That kisses ilka thing it meets.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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1 This is the
emanation
of Suzong?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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[11]
The action is thus easily
divisible
into two main lines; the
devil-plot, involving the fortunes of Satan, Pug and Iniquity, and
the satirical or main plot.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"At thy name though
compassion
her nature resign,
"Though in virtue's proud mouth thy report be a stain,
"My care, if the arm of the mighty were mine,
"Would plant thee where yet thou might'st blossom again.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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De ces grands yeux si fervents et si tendres,
De cette bouche ou mon coeur se noya,
De ces baisers puissants comme un dictame,
De ces
transports
plus vifs que des rayons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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If true, if faithful thou, her
grateful
mind
Of decent robes a present has design'd:
So finding favour in the royal eye,
Thy other wants her subjects shall supply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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"
He spurs his horse, that on with speed doth strain;
Which should forfeit, they both
together
came.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Since a Norman duke broke your gods of clay,
Eternally, beneath Virgil's laurel spray,
The pale
hydrangea
is wed to the green myrtle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
_
TO BE NEAR HER
RECOMPENSES
HIM FOR ALL THE PERILS OF THE WAY.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Truly divinity hangs about the imperial tombs, rites of
sweeping
and sprinkling will not be omitted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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--All honest hearts
Must sorrow for a
brightness
that departs,
A good life worn away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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The
octogenarian
chief, Byzantium's conquering foe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The Vizier was
generous
and
kept his word.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And those who
husbanded
the Golden Grain,
And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain,
Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd
As, buried once, Men want dug up again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Peter sent to King Pepin in the year of grace
755, that of the Virgin to the
magistrates
of Messina, that of the
Sanhedrim of Toledo to Annas and Caiaphas, A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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THROUGH the casement a noble-child saw
In the spring-time golden and green,
As he harked to the swallow's lore,
And looked so
rejoiced
and keen.
| 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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Never, never,
gracious
Bacchus, may I move thee 'gainst thy will,
Or uncover what is hidden in the verdure of thy shade!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I know my need, I know thy giving hand,
I crave thy
friendship
at thy kind command;
But there are such who court the tuneful Nine--
Heavens!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Meanwhile the chiefs, arriving at the shade
Where late the spoils of Hector's spy were laid,
Ulysses stopp'd; to him Tydides bore
The trophy,
dropping
yet with Dolon's gore:
Then mounts again; again their nimbler feet
The coursers ply, and thunder towards the fleet.
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Iliad - Pope |
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[407] After that you
will see snakes and all sorts of fearful
monsters
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Aristophanes |
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By the turning, once again,
The moon
thniwfeh
up your visage wan,
And yet too late to call you back.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The
scansion
is thus indicated by Wilke
(_Metrische Untersuchungen_, p.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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that «toy, my dear I
His
disordered
locks he tare,
And with rolling eyes did glare.
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Marvell - Poems |
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TO MAKE AN
AMBLONGUS
PIE.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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ter_ G,
quod et in R fuerat
93-6 tamquam iniuria repetitos ablegarunt Froehlich,
Hoerschelmann, Birt
93 _ei_ D, non O ||
_adeptum_
GORVen
98 _cineris_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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But the shapes of men that pass
Are as ghosts within a glass,
Woven with
whiteness
of the swan,
Pale, sad memories, gleaming wan
From the garment's purple fold
Where Troy's tale is twined and told.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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That evening the
unbeliever
went to the temple and prostrated himself
before the altar and prayed the gods to forgive his wayward past.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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My heart more love than your
forgetfulness!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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SINCE these, replied the YOUTH, your thoughts appear,
What think you of our landlord's
daughter
here?
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La Fontaine |
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