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Who speketh for me right now in myn
absence?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Gone is that King, and the old spear laid low
That
Tantalus
wielded when the world was young.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Where are you going to
carouse?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Milly has no mother; and sad beyond another
Is she whose blessed mother is
vanished
out of call:
Truly comfort beyond comfort is stored up in a mother
Who bears with all, and hopes through all, and loves us all.
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Christina Rossetti |
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--When a
virtuous
man is raised, it brings gladness to his
friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Is it strange
That, placed on a conspicuous throne of thorns,
Grasping an iron sceptre, and immured _90
Within a splendid prison, whose stern bounds
Shut him from all that's good or dear on earth,
His soul asserts not its
humanity?
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Shelley |
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as men were wont
to demen or speken of complexiou{n}s {and}
attemp{er}aunces
of bodies
(q' non).
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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O
faithful
unto death,
Thou goest?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Can innocents the rage of parties know,
And they who ne'er
offended
find a foe?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Because you have
committed
the most dreadful crime.
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Aristophanes |
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"
At the sight of the weapon the
Countess
gave a second sign of life.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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For not the
whispering
south-wind on its way
So much delights me, nor wave-smitten beach,
Nor streams that race adown their bouldered beds.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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provided
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WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Phantom assigned to this place by his brilliance,
The Swan in his exile is rendered motionless,
Swathed
uselessly
by his cold dream of defiance.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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^'
But 'twas beyond a mortal's share
To wander solitary there :
fTwo paradises are in one,
(To live in
paradise
alone.
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Marvell - Poems |
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I have not
followed
original spacing exactly, except where it genuinely appears to add impact to the verse.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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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
MERCHANTABILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Li Po |
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That the King
himself, who is no less the spring of that, than he is the
fountain of honour, yet has never used the dubbing or
creating of wits as a flower of his prerogative ; much
less can the ecclesiastical power
confcrrc
it with the
same ease as they do the holy orders.
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Marvell - Poems |
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you are growing old, and still
You
struggle
to look fair;
You drink, and dance, and trill
Your songs to youthful Love, in accents weak
With wine, and age, and passion.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Are so
superfluous
cold,
I would as soon attempt to warm
The bosoms where the frost has lain
Ages beneath the mould.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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How warm they were on such a day:
You almost feel the date,
So short way off it seems; and now,
They 're
centuries
from that.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The
following
extracts are taken from a copy in the
Bodleian Library at Oxford (vol.
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Byron |
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But
examples of this sort of high churchmanship
were not
infrequent
in the age of Charles II.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Scorn not the sad reverse,
injurious
maid!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Were it not so, Love could not be at all:
Nought could be, but a yearning to fulfil
Desire of beauty, by vain reaching forth
Of sense to hold and
understand
the vision
Made by impassion'd body,--vision of thee!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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960
The tyrant
surprised
me unarmed, defenceless.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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So drunk, he
disavows
it
With badinage divine;
So dazzling, we mistake him
For an alighting mine.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Sir Henry Savile,
grave, and truly lettered; Sir Edwin Sandys, excellent in both; Lord
Egerton, the Chancellor, a grave and great orator, and best when he was
provoked; but his learned and able (though unfortunate) successor is he
who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue which
may be compared or
preferred
either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Love's kingdom hast thou rent,
And made it poor; in narrow grave hast pent
The
blooming
flower of beauty and its light!
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Petrarch |
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--
we saw you hover close,
caress her,
open her pore-cups,
make a cross of her,
quickly
penetrate
her--
she opening to you,
engulfing you,
every limb of her,
bud of her, pore of her?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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'Give me,' I
demanded
of
a scholar some time ago, 'give me a definition of poetry.
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Poe - 5 |
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)
And lest office of host I should be holden to hate,
Learn how in Fortune's deeps I chance myself to be drowned,
Nor fro' the poor rich boons
furthermore
prithee require.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Sees he some
likeness
here?
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Euripides - Electra |
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And sometimes again we catch
glimpses
of a lyric strain,
sustained perhaps but for a line or two at a time, and making the
reader regret its sudden cessation.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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(_That I should be
So
avaricious
of his gleaming price!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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For pain and
pleasure
flow
Like tides upon us of the self-same sea.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Away with slavish weeds and servile
thoughts!
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Simaetha
calls on Hecate
And hears the wild dogs at the gate;
Dost thou remember Sicily?
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Wilde - Poems |
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I will arise, repenting and in pain;
I will arise, and smite upon my breast
And turn to Thee again;
Thou
choosest
best,
Lead me along the road Thou makest plain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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We have here restored two lines, marked in the manuscript as 6 and 7 (omitted from Erdman's transcription) on the grounds that the two cancelled lines following are
rewritten
as lines 2 and 3.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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But
darkness
now, to save the cowards, falls,
And guards them trembling in their wooden walls.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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So they among
themselves
in pleasant veine
Stood scoffing, highthn'd in thir thoughts beyond
All doubt of Victorie, eternal might 630
To match with thir inventions they presum'd
So easie, and of his Thunder made a scorn,
And all his Host derided, while they stood
A while in trouble; but they stood not long,
Rage prompted them at length, & found them arms
Against such hellish mischief fit to oppose.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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What serener palaces,
Where I may all my many senses please,
And by
mysterious
sleights a hundred thirsts appease?
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Shall worms,
inheritors
of this excess,
Eat up thy charge?
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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" Sung said: "The common people's wind rises from narrow
lanes and streets,
carrying
clouds of dust.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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' With mighty clamour the
Teucrians
pour
in through all the gates and fill the works.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The baron leads the ace of hearts and Belinda
takes it with the king, thus
escaping
"codille" and winning the stake.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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What envy of the saints, in realms so fair,
Who eager seem'd, from that bright form of grace
The spirit pure to summon to its place,
Amidst those joys, which few can hope to share;
What envy of the blest in heaven above,
With whom she dwells in
sympathies
divine
Denied to me on earth, though sought in sighs;
And oh!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The passion
of prying into
futurity
makes a striking part of the history of human
nature in its rude state, in all ages and nations; and it may be some
entertainment to a philosophic mind, if any such honour the author with
a perusal, to see the remains of it among the more unenlightened in our
own.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But god ne
preiseth
him no-thing,
That seith he hath the world forsake,
And hath to worldly glorie him take, 7280
And wol of siche delyces use;
Who may that Begger wel excuse?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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How beautiful to see
Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,
Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;
One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,
Not lured by any cheat of birth,
But by his clear-grained human worth,
And brave old wisdom of
sincerity!
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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But if so changed hath been the power of mind,
That every
recollection
of things done
Is fallen away, at no o'erlong remove
Is that, I trow, from what we mean by death.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Therefore
much Drinke may be said to be an
Equiuocator
with Lecherie:
it makes him, and it marres him; it sets him on,
and it takes him off; it perswades him, and dis-heartens
him; makes him stand too, and not stand too: in conclusion,
equiuocates him in a sleepe, and giuing him the Lye,
leaues him
Macd.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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He passed the
following
winter at Athens, where
divine honours were paid to him under the title of "the Preserver" (?
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| Source: |
Byron |
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But natheles yit, gladly she wolde, 4465
That he, that wol him with hir holde,
Hadde alle tymes [his] purpos clere,
Withoute
deceyte, or any were.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Tane, one in
contrast
to other.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Superfetation
of [Greek text inserted here],
And at the mensual turn of time
Produced enervate Origen.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Captain Harris has had a careful
transcript
of
the poems made, and he allowed me after collating the original with
the transcript to keep the latter by me for a long time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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XV
"Why should I now in contest with the foe
Less
strength
in you behold than them?
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Here's a
knocking
indeede: if a man were
Porter of Hell Gate, hee should haue old turning the
Key.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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" _Luia
substantivo
et adjectivum
concordat in generi, numerum, et casus_.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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when her lovely young
Were dead and gone, and her caressing tongue 340
Lay a lost thing upon her paly lip,
And very, very deadliness did nip
Her
motherly
cheeks.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Another point he handled very well,
Though oft'ner he'd thereon have liked to dwell,
And this the children of the present day,
So fully know, there's naught for me to say:
John to the senses things so clearly brought,
That much by wives and
husbands
he was sought,
Who held his knowledge of superior price,
And paid attention to his sage advice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Since the lecturer has raised the question whether Li T'ai-po or Tu
Fu is the greater poet, I would say that the Chinese of the present
day
consider
Tu Fu to be the greater.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Say, on the noon when the half-sunny hours told that April was nigh,
And I upgathered and cast forth the snow from the crocus-border,
Fashioned and
furbished
the soil into a summer-seeming order,
Glowing in gladsome faith that I quickened the year thereby.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Then he that
patiently
want's burden bears,
No burden bears, but is a king, a king!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Such, or nearly such, appears to have been the process by which
the lost ballad-poetry of Rome was
transformed
into history.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Oh, with what
patience
I have tried to win
The favour of the hostess of the Inn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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= Fleay's
identification
with Sir Giles Mompesson has very
little to commend it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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--Me voila libre et
solitaire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I thought, from the look he had last night, I'd found
That great, brave,
irresistible
love!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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O, all of you, forget your
darkened
faith.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Thy registers and thee I both defy,
Not
wondering
at the present nor the past,
For thy records and what we see doth lie,
Made more or less by thy continual haste.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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O lullaby, with your daughter, and the innocence
Of your cold feet, greet a terrible new being:
A voice where harpsichords and viols linger,
Will you press that breast, with your withered finger,
From which Woman flows in
Sibylline
whiteness to
Those lips starved by the air's virgin blue?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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,
may simply retain the Surname of an
hereditary
calling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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) deemed I 'twas
preference
matter
Or AEmilius' mouth choose I to smell or his ----
Nothing is this more clean, uncleaner nothing that other,
Yet I ajudge ---- cleaner and nicer to be;
For while this one lacks teeth, that one has cubit-long tushes, 5
Set in their battered gums favouring a muddy old box,
Not to say aught of gape like wide-cleft gap of a she-mule
Whenas in summer-heat wont peradventure to stale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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But let me quit man's works, again to read
His Maker's spread around me, and suspend
This page, which from my
reveries
I feed,
Until it seems prolonging without end.
| 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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So
constant
to its stolid trust,
The shaft that never knew,
It shames the constancy that fled
Before its emblem flew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Let us next obtain some idea of what this most
remarkable
poet--the founder
of _American_ poetry rightly to be so called, and the most sonorous poetic
voice of the tangibilities of actual and prospective democracy--is in his
proper life and person.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield
One glimpse--if dimly, yet indeed, reveal'd,
To which the fainting
Traveler
might spring,
As springs the trampled herbage of the field!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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ofer borda
gebræc, _over the
crashing
of the shields_, 2260.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky
And the
affrighted
steed ran on alone,
Do not weep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Come, wee'l to sleepe: My strange & self-abuse
Is the
initiate
feare, that wants hard vse:
We are yet but yong indeed.
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Who are we,
Friends?
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Licinius, trust a seaman's lore:
Steer not too boldly to the deep,
Nor, fearing storms, by
treacherous
shore
Too closely creep.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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A Transcript of the Registers of the
Company of
Stationers
of London; 1554-1640.
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Calmly she waits, and
breathes
her gathered flower
Till one shall cull for her imperial power.
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in their youth,--
New England youth, that seems a sort of pill,
Half wish-I-dared, half Edwards on the Will,
Bitter to swallow, and which leaves a trace
Of
Calvinistic
colic on the face.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Gold, gold can pass the tyrant's sentinel,
Can shiver rocks with more
resistless
blow
Than is the thunder's.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Sometimes with One I Love
Sometimes
with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse
unreturn'd love,
But now I think there is no unreturn'd love, the pay is certain one
way or another,
(I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not return'd,
Yet out of that I have written these songs.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Ghostly mother, keep aloof
One hour longer from my soul,
For I still am
thinking
of
Earth's warm-beating joy and dole!
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And so they must be
furnished
with no sense.
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Lucretius |
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