Musa gloriam Coronat,
gloriaque
musam.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,
The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;
Wherever I wander,
wherever
I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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With
midnight
always in one's heart,
And twilight in one's cell,
We turn the crank, or tear the rope,
Each in his separate Hell,
And the silence is more awful far
Than the sound of a brazen bell.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Is it word from Ninus or Arbela,
Babylon the great, or
Northern
Imbros?
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Sappho |
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With sloping masts and dipping prow,
As who pursued with yell and blow
Still treads the shadow of his foe,
And forward bends his head,
The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
And
southward
aye we fled.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And was he confident until
Ill fluttered out in
everlasting
well?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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the
Shepherd
and his Cot,
was written in the year 1806, and appears in the edition of 1807.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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If there come truth from them,
As vpon thee Macbeth, their Speeches shine,
Why by the
verities
on thee made good,
May they not be my Oracles as well,
And set me vp in hope.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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muse
How wond'rous in my sight it seem'd to mark
A thing, albeit steadfast in itself,
Yet in its imag'd
semblance
mutable.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Heap my golden plates with fruit,
Golden fruit, fresh-plucked and ripe;
Strike the bells and breathe the pipe;
Shut out showers from summer hours;
Silence that
complaining
lute;
Shut out thinking, shut out pain,
From hours that cannot come again.
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Christina Rossetti |
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And now the news was to Duke William brought, 65
That men of
Haroldes
armie taken were;
For theyre good cheere all caties were enthoughte,
And Gyrthe and Eilwardus enjoi'd goode cheere.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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A deed is to be done--
Castiglione
lives!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Herman
received
it and at once left
the table.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The troubled plumes of
midnight
were
The plumes upon a hearse:
And bitter wine upon a sponge
Was the savour of Remorse.
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Wilde - Poems |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Ne'er, while I lived there, he loathlier found me,
bairn in the burg, than his birthright sons,
Herebeald and
Haethcyn
and Hygelac mine.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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'Tis not wise until the latest hour
To enjoy delight's ephemeral dower:
Birds to
southern
seas have taken flight,
Fading flow'rs wait till the snows alight.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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But when the service was done, and the benediction had fallen
Forth from the hands of the priest, like seed from the hands of the sower,
Slowly the
reverend
man advanced to the strangers, and bade them
Welcome; and when they replied, he smiled with benignant expression,
Hearing the homelike sounds of his mother-tongue in the forest,
And, with words of kindness, conducted them into his wigwam.
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Longfellow |
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The river, fleet, the port, the shore, the main,
Were sites of
conflict
now, where death did reign.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Du
zweifelst
nicht an meinem edlen Blut;
Sieh her, das ist das Wappen, das ich fuhre!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
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Keats - Lamia |
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450
LI
True sympathy the Sailor's looks expressed,
His looks--for
pondering
he was mute the while.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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]
[Sidenote C: Gawayne returns thanks for the honour and
kindness
shown to
him by all.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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though I love what others do abhor,
With others thou shouldst not abhor my state:
If thy
unworthiness
rais'd love in me,
More worthy I to be belov'd of thee.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Now gently winding up the fair ascent,
By many an easy step the matron went;
Then o'er the pavement glides with grace divine
(With polish'd oak the level pavements shine);
The folding gates a
dazzling
light display'd,
With pomp of various architrave o'erlaid.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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So that eternal love in love's fresh case,
Weighs not the dust and injury of age,
Nor gives to necessary wrinkles place,
But makes
antiquity
for aye his page;
Finding the first conceit of love there bred,
Where time and outward form would show it dead.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Leave the
forsaken
Fauns
In peace beneath their trees!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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It was a favorite lounging-place,
especially
in the evening.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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_ Our visible God, our
heavenly
seats!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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And know, lady, that the more my tears well,
The more love grows for you and my goodwill,
A sweet pleasant thought's born in my heart thus
Who, night and day, love's
thoughts
cannot disperse.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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I tell you, kings, yours are but stammer'd songs
To that enchantment fashion'd for him,
That
ceremony
of life's powers,
The loveliness of Vashti;
That unbelievable worship made
For King Ahasuerus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Off soundings, seamen do not suffer cold;
And, in the forest, delicate clerks, unbrowned,
Sleep on the
fragrant
brush, as on down-beds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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My business, -- just a life I left,
Was such still
dwelling
there?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
II
SIX weeks our guardsman walked the yard,
In the suit of shabby grey:
His cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay,
But I never saw a man who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
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Wilde - Poems |
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--
Next either Rambold in procession trod,
No easy
conquest
to the winged god.
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| Question: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the plowman in
darkness
plough?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
--4) _a_, in the sense of an
indefinite
article:
ān .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Although the
cheating
merchants of the mart
With iron roads profane our lovely isle,
And break on whirling wheels the limbs of Art,
Ay!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Wilde - Poems |
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In a new months his
administration
had
become universally odious.
| Guess: |
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Because--because this countenance is irresistibly
attractive
to
him?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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the harde stounde--
Un-to my foo that yaf my herte a wounde,
And yet
desyreth
that myn harm be more?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Of carps and mullets why prefer the great
(Though cut in pieces ere my lord can eat),
Yet for small turbots such esteem
profess?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Jonson is
taking advantage of Coke's
disgrace
in November, 1616.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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A carpet let me
instantly
provide?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
What moral reflections does the poet make in the
introductory
stanza?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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If haply thou, O
Desdemona
Morn,
Shouldst call along the curving sphere, "Remain,
Dear Night, sweet Moor; nay, leave me not in scorn!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Said I, "And what path of wisdom
followest
thou?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The Ark no more now flotes, but seems on ground
Fast on the top of som high
mountain
fixt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Not higher than a two-years' child,
It stands erect this aged thorn;
No leaves it has, no thorny points;
It is a mass of knotted joints,
A
wretched
thing forlorn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I have
remembered
beauty in the night,
Against black silences I waked to see
A shower of sunlight over Italy
And green Ravello dreaming on her height;
I have remembered music in the dark,
The clean swift brightness of a fugue of Bach's,
And running water singing on the rocks
When once in English woods I heard a lark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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For fangless Power grown tame and mild _5
Is at play with Freedom's fearless child--
The dove and the serpent
reconciled!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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This
weakness
grows upon me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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A list
of his works, compiled from the
catalogue
of the British Museum,
is given in the _DNB_.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
3
Distressed
that I don?
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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_--He was named Mem Moniz, and was son of Egas
Moniz, celebrated for the
surrender
of himself and family to the King of
Castile, as already mentioned.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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That azure feldspar hight the microcline, Or, on its wing, the Menelaus weareth
Such
subtlety
of shimmering as beareth This marvel onward through the crystalline, A splendid calyx that about her gloweth, Smiting the sunlight on whose ray she goeth.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Fear the gaze in the blind wall that watches:
There is a verb
attached
to matter itself.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Why not this for our night
quarters?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
_
Dirge for abbess laid in shroud
Sweepeth
o'er the shroudless dead,
Page or lady, as we said,
With the dews upon her head,
All as sad if not as loud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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For in a people pledged to idleness,
Like swollen tumour in
diseased
flesh,
Ambition is engendered readily.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Flushed and decided, he assaults at once;
Exploring hands encounter no defence; 240
His vanity
requires
no response,
And makes a welcome of indifference.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The city won for Allah from the Giaour,
The Giaour from Othman's race again may wrest;
And the Serai's
impenetrable
tower
Receive the fiery Frank, her former guest;
Or Wahab's rebel brood, who dared divest
The Prophet's tomb of all its pious spoil,
May wind their path of blood along the West;
But ne'er will Freedom seek this fated soil,
But slave succeed to slave through years of endless toil.
| 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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He was picked
up, and, at the same moment,
Lisaveta
was carried out in a faint.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Here, on the other hand,
mediaeval
legend is his
inspiration; the 'faery broods' have driven 'nymph and satyr from the
prosperous woods'.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I
expected
no less than
this from your wisdom, which is far beyond your years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Over each other crack and crash they all
In terrible and intertangled fall; _135
And through the ruins of the shaken mountain
The airs hiss and howl--
It is not the voice of the fountain,
Nor the wolf in his
midnight
prowl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
[Illustration]
The
Dolomphious
Duck,
who caught Spotted Frogs for her dinner
with a Runcible Spoon.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Once she appeared to me, too: a dark-skinned girl, tumbling
Over her
forehead
the hair down in waves heavy and dark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
Zim pierced to the very quick by these repeated stabs,
Sprang to his feet, while from him pealed a fearful shout,
And, furious, flung down upon the marble slabs
The richly carved and golden Lamp, whose light went out--
Then glided in a form strange-shaped,
In
likeness
of a woman, moulded in dense smoke,
Veiled in thick, ebon fog, in utter darkness draped,
A glimpse of which, in short, one's inmost fears awoke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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PLANH
It is of the white
thoughts
that he saw in the Forest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
The outdoor air and
exercise
which the walker gets give a different
tone to his palate, and he craves a fruit which the sedentary would
call harsh and crabbed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And I give you
everything
that you want me to.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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You, O
hospitable
god, will by no means now banish a stranger
From your Olympian heights back to the base earth again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
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use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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| Question: |
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But it
happened
that Sung Jo-ss?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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[To
NERISSA]
Thou Mayst, I warrant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
With us, Tydides fear'd, and urged his haste:
And
Menelads
came, but came the last,
He join'd our vessels in the Lesbian bay,
While yet we doubted of our watery way;
If to the right to urge the pilot's toil
(The safer road), beside the Psyrian isle;
Or the straight course to rocky Chios plough,
And anchor under Mimas' shaggy brow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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And we
probably
never shall see her more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
To the
catalogue of lost arts I would mournfully add also that of
listening
to
two-hour sermons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
My
shrivelled
wings were beaten,
Shed their colours in dusty scales
Before the box was opened
For the moth to fly.
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Imagists |
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It
exists because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations
from people in all walks of life.
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"You'll sometimes find that one or two
Are all you really need
To let the wind come
whistling
through--
But _here_ there'll be a lot to do!
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Thus, we usually do not
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Whitman |
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So
moveless
in time past,
Hath Fortune girded up her loins at last?
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Euripides - Electra |
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THE _symposium_ of the
preceding
evening had been a little too much
for my nerves.
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Poe - 5 |
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No longer
loitering
makest thou,
Now comest thou.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Once she
appeared
to me, too: a dark-skinned girl, tumbling
Over her forehead the hair down in waves heavy and dark.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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THAT WAS MY COUNTER-BLADE UNDER
LEONARDO
TERRONE, MASTER OF FENCE
i~* ONE while your tastes were keen to you, \J Gone where the grey winds call to you,
By that high fencer, even Death,
Struck of the blade that no man parrieth;
Such is your fence, one saith, One that hath known you.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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