" and anger fraught
Amazed at
minstrel
having such a thought--
While flush of indignation warmed her cheek.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Dick looked down the long lightless
streets and at the
appalling
rush of traffic.
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Kipling - Poems |
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He
remitted
through a Bombay
Bank, by the way, and the Station knew nothing of his private affairs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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[85] On which the citizens sat in the Public
Assembly
in the Pnyx to hear
the orators.
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Aristophanes |
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Then the Liars and
Swearers
are Fools: for there
are Lyars and Swearers enow, to beate the honest men,
and hang vp them
Wife.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Happier that they
Slipped off their pack of duties, leagues behind,
At the first
mounting
of the giant stairs.
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Emerson - Poems |
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MOONLIGHT
NIGHT
South-German night!
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Rilke - Poems |
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--'tis but a viper
Whom thou hast
cherished
to sting thee to the soul!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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But the Pasha's
attention
is failing,
O'er his visage his fair turban stealeth;
From tchebouk {13a} he sleep is inhaling
Whilst round him sweet vapours he dealeth.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
---Thomas
Wentworth
Higginson
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
As is well documented, Emily Dickinson's poems were edited in these
early editions by her friends, better to fit the conventions of the
times.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Imagists |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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In that
event, their bodies would be the bucklers and
ramparts
of our common
country; they would live, or they would die with us.
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Petrarch |
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This cherubim
One may
distinguish
among the angelic hierarchies, vowed to the service and glory of the divine, beings with unknown forms and the most amazing beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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She dried her feet on the
riverside
grass;
She looked at me once again,
And the playful beauty then took thought.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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" remarked one of the
men, addressing a young officer of the
Engineering
Corps.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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No sweeter a
daughter
anywhere,
By as much as the weather's stormy,
Through Adam's lineage went straying.
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Troubador Verse |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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320
He ceas'd: they gnawing, sat, their lips, aghast
With wonder that Telemachus in his speech
Such
boldness
used.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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For
whatever
things
Shall hide back yonder in the house, the same,
However far removed in twisting ways,
May still be all brought forth through bending paths
And by these several mirrors seen to be
Within the house, since nature so compels
All things to be borne backward and spring off
At equal angles from all other things.
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Lucretius |
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" said the devil, in astonishment, "you
cannot surely mean to find any fault with
Epicurus!
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Poe - 5 |
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No farmer
carrying
his
corn to market doubts the sale of it at the market price.
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Shelley |
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A
visionary
thought I'll now relate;
Illustrate, if you know, the shadow'd fate:
"A team of twenty geese (a snow-white train!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Thou canst not understand my
seafaring
thoughts, nor would I have
thee understand.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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to my
comrades
true
Rich cups, rare bronzes, gladly would I send:
Choice tripods from Olympia on each friend
Would I confer, choicer on none than you,
Had but my fate such gems of art bestow'd
As cunning Scopas or Parrhasius wrought,
This with the brush, that with the chisel taught
To image now a mortal, now a god.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I love to see the shaking twig
Dance till the shut of eve,
The sparrow on the cottage rig,
Whose chirp would make believe
That Spring was just now
flirting
by
In Summer's lap with flowers to lie.
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John Clare |
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CLIII
Grief gives Rollanz intolerance and pride;
Through the great press he goes again to strike;
To slay a score of Spaniards he contrives,
Gualter has six, the
Archbishop
other five.
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Chanson de Roland |
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[_The_ SERVANT
_reluctantly
comes close.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Omnia qui magni dispexit lumina mundi,
Qui stellarum ortus comperit atque obitus,
Flammeus ut rapidi solis nitor obscuretur,
Vt cedant certis sidera temporibus,
Vt Triviam furtim sub Latmia saxa relegans 5
Dulcis amor gyro devocet aerio,
Idem me ille Conon
caelesti
in lumine vidit
E Beroniceo vertice caesariem
Fulgentem clare, quam cunctis illa deorum
Levia protendens brachia pollicitast, 10
Qua rex tempestate novo auctus hymenaeo
Vastatum finis iverat Assyrios,
Dulcia nocturnae portans vestigia rixae,
Quam de virgineis gesserat exuviis.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Quoiqu'il ne pousse ni grands gestes ni grands cris,
Il ferait volontiers de la terre un debris
Et dans un
baillement
avalerait le monde;
C'est l'Ennui!
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous mendiants morts saouls de biere
Vous les
aveugles
comme le destin
Et vous petits enfants morts en priere
Ah!
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| Question: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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A strange weird world such forest was to thee,
Where mingled truth and dreams in mystery;
There leaned old
ruminating
pines, and there
The giant elms, whose boughs deformed and bare
A hundred rough and crooked elbows made;
And in this sombre group the wind had swayed,
Nor life--nor death--but life in death seemed found.
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Elvire
You'd never believe how he's admired, or
How with one voice, they praise them so,
The
glorious
deeds of this young hero.
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| Question: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Welcome, brothers--all our party
Gathered in the
homestead
old!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I adore her, and my soul,
rebelling
at your order, 1125
Can only breathe, and be inspired by her.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a
replacement
copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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230
For Avarice to clothe hir wel
Ne hasteth hir, never a del;
For
certeynly
it were hir loth
To weren ofte that ilke cloth;
And if it were forwered, she 235
Wolde have ful greet necessitee
Of clothing, er she boughte hir newe,
Al were it bad of wolle and hewe.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And now another in my teeming brain
Prepares
itself: whence I resume the strain.
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Petrarch |
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While they pay the due rites to
the tomb with diverse games, Juno,
daughter
of Saturn, sends Iris down
the sky to the Ilian fleet, and breathes a gale to speed her on,
revolving many a thought, and not yet satiate of the ancient pain.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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--for verily the Philistines have either still
hold upon the basket, or the Lord hath
softened
their hearts to place
therein a beast of good weight!
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Poe - 5 |
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Float on the Spring-winds e'en to my home:
And when thou to a rose shalt come
That hath begun to show her bloom,
Say, I send her
greeting!
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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"
— Current Opinion, New
York
"Each
contribution
is a gem.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Three
Emperors
were saintly men,
Yet to-day--where are they?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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We had a long and merry chat with the family this
Sunday evening in their
spacious
kitchen.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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No mercy now can clear her brow
From this world's peace to pray
For as love's wild prayer
dissolved
in air,
Her woman's heart gave way!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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| Question: |
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Poe - 5 |
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Now even I, a fond woman,
Frail and of small understanding, 20
Yet with unslakable yearning
Greatly
desiring
wisdom,
Come to the threshold of reason
And the bright portals.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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XXXIX
He making speedy way through spersed ayre,
And through the world of waters wide and deepe,
To
Morpheus
house doth hastily repaire.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Sculptor, forever shun
Clay moulded there
By the thumb
When the mind's elsewhere;
Wrestle with Carrara,
With Parian marble rare
And hard,
Keep the outline clear;
From Syracuse borrow
Bronze which the proud
Furrow
Has
charmingly
endowed;
With a delicate hand,
The vein of agate, follow
Command
The profile of Apollo.
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| Question: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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She
followed
on slowly after the last
As though some object must be passed by,
And yet as if were it once but passed
She would no longer walk but fly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Thou canst not ask me with thee here to roam
Over these hills and vales, where no joy is,--
Empty of
immortality
and bliss!
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Sawin,
and that he has not made this great
sacrifice
without some definite
understanding in regard to a seat in the cabinet or a foreign mission.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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And now another in my teeming brain
Prepares
itself: whence I resume the strain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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For pity do not this sad heart belie--
Even as thou
vanishest
so I shall die.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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My reason, the
physician
to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
Desire is death, which physic did except.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Dark
shepherdess
of many a golden star,
Dost see me, Mother Night?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Has
conscience
shrunk from aught of crime?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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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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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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--called
journalism
the fourth
estate.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Ne
gefrægen
ic þā mǣgðe māran weorode
ymb hyra sinc-gyfan sēl gebǣran.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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or the righteous ban
Of all the Gods, whose dreadful images
Here
represent
their shadowy presences,
May pierce them on the sudden with the thorn
Of painful blindness; leaving thee forlorn,
In trembling dotage to the feeblest fright
Of conscience, for their long offended might,
For all thine impious proud-heart sophistries,
Unlawful magic, and enticing lies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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The Peacock
Juno and the Peacock
'Juno and the Peacock'
Magdalena van de Passe, Peter Paul Rubens, 1617 - 1634, The Rijksmuseun
In spreading out his fan, this bird,
Whose plumage drags on earth, I fear,
Appears more lovely than before,
But makes his
derriere
appear.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Mount them, and make
incision
in their hides,
That their hot blood may spin in English eyes,
And dout them with superfluous courage, ha!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this
forehead
these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The time you may so hoodwinke:
We haue willing Dames enough: there cannot be
That Vulture in you, to deuoure so many
As will to
Greatnesse
dedicate themselues,
Finding it so inclinde
Mal.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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'Now come, the glory hereafter to follow our Dardanian progeny, the
posterity to abide in our Italian people, illustrious souls and
inheritors of our name to be, these will I rehearse, and
instruct
thee
of thy destinies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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The
intervening
period
was devoted almost entirely to dramas, prose, fiction, essays, and
criticism.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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But since within this body even of ours
Stands fixed and appears arranged sure
Where soul and mind can each exist and grow,
Deny we must the more that they can have
Duration
and birth, wholly outside the frame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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"
In a
mountain
were the Caverns,
Fourteen leagues across the sand,
Fourteen leagues across the desert
In a naked golden land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
He was
arrested
near Avignon; his letters were taken from him and
torn to pieces; and, without being permitted to enter Avignon, he was
sent back to Rome with threats and ignominy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
'Twas a
mistake?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Canynge was ordained _Acolythe_ by Bishop
Carpenter
on
19 September 1467, and received the higher orders of _Sub-deacon,
Deacon_, and _Priest_, on the 12th of March, 1467, O.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if
bereaved
of light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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But he, accomplished in Jehovah-being,
Sustains the gaze adown,
Conceives
the vast despair,
And feels the billowy griefs come up to drown,
Nor fears, nor faints, nor fails, till all be finished.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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When it comes, the
landscape
listens,
Shadows hold their breath;
When it goes, 't is like the distance
On the look of death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
eue:
To
chircheward
he went.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I hae been blithe wi'
comrades
dear;
I hae been merry drinkin';
I hae been joyfu' gath'rin' gear;
I hae been happy thinkin':
But a' the pleasures e'er I saw,
Tho' three times doubled fairly,
That happy night was worth them a',
Amang the rigs o' barley.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Antipathist
of Light!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
The _Chanson d'Antioche_ contains
perhaps the most
illuminating
admission of this difficulty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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whom Hell in vain enthralled,
His shade from Hades upon that dread day
Bursting to light in
terrible
array!
| 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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]
* * * * *
ONE HUNDRED
NONSENSE
PICTURES AND RHYMES.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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The bound rage of the uncreated Spirit
Whose striving doth
impassion
us and the world?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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swythenn[34] mie shielde &
tyltynge
launce bee bounde [35].
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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CHORUS
A
gracious
word thy woman's lips have told,
Worthy a wise man's utterance, O my queen;
Now with clear trust in thy convincing tale
I set me to salute the gods with song,
Who bring us bliss to counterpoise our pain.
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Aeschylus |
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Far off
methinks
I hear the beaten drum.
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Shakespeare |
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'Respectfully, your
obedient
servant,
'HOMER WILBUR, A.
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James Russell Lowell |
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For both
perceived
that in the vaulted hall
One of the grand old knights ranged by the wall
Descended from his horse.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Instant, you sailors to this task attend;
Swift to the palace, all ye peers ascend;
Let none to strangers honours due disclaim:
Be there Demodocus the bard of fame,
Taught by the gods to please, when high he sings
The vocal lay,
responsive
to the strings.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
"I am like thee, O, Night, wild and terrible; for my ears are crowded
with cries of conquered nations and sighs for
forgotten
lands.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Then without further aid it
trickles
in and loads
the boat until you cut off the stream.
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Tacitus |
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Nay,
sometimes
it is
the reward of a man's study, the praise of quoting another man fitly; and
though a man be more prone and able for one kind of writing than another,
yet he must exercise all.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Non opus arcanos chartis
committere
sensas,
Et vari& licitos condere fraude dolos.
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Marvell - Poems |
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XXXVIII
How can my muse want subject to invent,
While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse
Thine own sweet argument, too excellent
For every vulgar paper to
rehearse?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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What has dull'd the fire
Of the
Berecyntian
fife?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The Greek has reaped
The costly harvest his own blood matured, _575
Not the sower, Ali--who has bought a truce
From
Ypsilanti
with ten camel-loads
Of Indian gold.
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Shelley |
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