But though my vigil constantly I keep
My God is dark--like woven texture flowing,
A hundred
drinking
roots, all intertwined;
I only know that from His warmth I'm growing.
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Rilke - Poems |
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_
Morpheus
was the god of sleep.
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Keats |
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Thy currish spirit
Govern'd a wolf who, hang'd for human slaughter,
Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,
And, whilst thou layest in thy
unhallowed
dam,
Infus'd itself in thee; for thy desires
Are wolfish, bloody, starv'd and ravenous.
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Shakespeare |
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Always a-carding the wool, with clear-toned voices resounding 320
Told they such lots as these in song
divinely
directed,
Chaunts which none after-time shall 'stablish falsehood-convicted.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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What troubles you, Yankee
phantoms?
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Whitman |
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There are many chimaeras that exist today, and before combating one of them, the
greatest
enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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Appoloinaire |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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135
XVI
And high advauncing his blood-thirstie blade,
Stroke one of those deformed heads so sore,
That of his
puissance
proud ensample made;
His monstrous scalpe downe to his teeth it tore,
And that misformed shape mis-shaped more: 140
A sea of blood gusht from the gaping wound,
That her gay garments staynd with filthy gore,
And overflowed all the field around;
That over shoes in bloud he waded on the ground.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Our
_Cheife_
doth ?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Through his whole body
something
ran,
A most strange something did I see;
--As if he strove to be a man,
That he might pull the sledge for me.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a
reminder
of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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For there hath been
An interposed pause of life, and wide
Have all the motions
wandered
everywhere
From these our senses.
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Lucretius |
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London: documents at sight,
Asked me in demotic French
To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel
Followed
by a weekend at the Metropole.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Then, when the mellowing years have made thee man,
No more shall mariner sail, nor pine-tree bark
Ply traffic on the sea, but every land
Shall all things bear alike: the glebe no more
Shall feel the harrow's grip, nor vine the hook;
The sturdy
ploughman
shall loose yoke from steer,
Nor wool with varying colours learn to lie;
But in the meadows shall the ram himself,
Now with soft flush of purple, now with tint
Of yellow saffron, teach his fleece to shine.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Still do I wait to hear, in vain still wait,
Of that sweet enemy I love so well:
What now to think or say I cannot tell,
'Twixt hope and fear my feelings fluctuate:
The beautiful are still the marks of fate;
And sure her worth and beauty most excel:
What if her God have call'd her hence, to dwell
Where virtue finds a more
congenial
state?
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Petrarch |
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Lie close until she pass; then
question
her.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Chambers says: 'Nor can it be
said that any one edition always gives the best text; even
for a single poem, sometimes one, sometimes another is to be
preferred, though, as a rule, the edition of _1633_ is the
most reliable, and the
readings
of _1669_ are in many cases a
return to it' (vol.
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John Donne |
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Thus his leave
resolved
took.
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Marvell - Poems |
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They might (were Harpax not too wise to spend)
Give Harpax' self the blessing of a friend;
Or find some doctor that would save the life
Of wretched Shylock, spite of Shylock's wife:
But
thousands
die, without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college, or a cat.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I am quite candid when I say that rather
than go out from this prison with
bitterness
in my heart against the
world, I would gladly and readily beg my bread from door to door.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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, may safely be made by poet or prophet in any age, but to
anticipate however darkly a period of regeneration and happiness is a
more hazardous
exercise
of the faculty which bards possess or feign.
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Shelley |
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An
innocent
life, yet far astray!
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Golden Treasury |
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I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn,--
So might I,
standing
on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
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Golden Treasury |
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You yourself,
condemning
your unjust intent,
Urged our hands to prepare you for this instant:
You yourself, recalling your former strength, 165
Wished to rise again, and see the light at length.
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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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| Source: |
Li Po |
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First
Buckingham
that durst 'gainst him rebel,
Blasted with liglitning, struck with thunder fell.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Who could keep a smiling wit,
Roasted so in heart and hide,
Turning on the sun's red spit,
Scorched
by love inside?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And what the potent say so oft, can it fail to be
somewhat
true?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Valens was loyal to
Vitellius
and an experienced
soldier.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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"
NURSE'S SONG
When voices of children are heard on the green,
And
whisperings
are in the dale,
The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind,
My face turns green and pale.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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O for any and each the body correlative
attracting!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Air--"_Nancy's to the
greenwood
gane.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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But screw your courage to the
sticking
place,
And wee'le not fayle: when Duncan is asleepe,
(Whereto the rather shall his dayes hard Iourney
Soundly inuite him) his two Chamberlaines
Will I with Wine, and Wassell, so conuince,
That Memorie, the Warder of the Braine,
Shall be a Fume, and the Receit of Reason
A Lymbeck onely: when in Swinish sleepe,
Their drenched Natures lyes as in a Death,
What cannot you and I performe vpon
Th' vnguarded Duncan?
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Charlton
advances
next (whose wife does awe
The mitred troop) and with his looks gives law.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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To test his
perception
and prove her feigned
truth.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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dreadful
price of being to resign
All that is dear _in_ being!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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I can see nothing: the pain, the
weariness!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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or engaged in
business?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Under whose shady tent, men every year,
At its rich blood's exp«ii>e their sorrows cheer;
If some dear branch where it extends its life,
Chance to be pruned by an
untimely
knife.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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er
weppenes
to welde, I wene wel als,
Bot for I wolde no were, my wede3 ar softer.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The gods denying, in just indignation,
Your walls, bloodied by that ancient instance
Of
fraternal
strife, a sure foundation.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Unheeded night has overcome the vales:
On the dark earth the wearied vision fails;
The latest lingerer of the forest train, 310
The lone black fir, forsakes the faded plain;
Last evening sight, the cottage smoke, no more,
Lost in the thickened darkness,
glimmers
hoar;
And, towering from the sullen dark-brown mere,
Like a black wall, the mountain-steeps appear.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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the hammer clanks--
It beats the time to nations' thanks--
At last, a
_peaceful_
strain!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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unto the green holly:
Most
friendship
is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then heigh ho, the holly!
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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"
exclaimed
Lisa, drying her eyes.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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G ||
_Bethlem_
1716, G Bethlem W
[757] 38 a'] o' 1692, 1716, W of G
[758] 40 on] one 1641, f.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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If any disclaimer or
limitation
set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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O never Sir desire to try his
guilefull
traine.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Like white water are you who fill the cup of my mouth,
Like a brook of water
thronged
with lilies.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
THYRSIS
"Here is a hearth, and resinous logs, here fire
Unstinted, and doors black with
ceaseless
smoke.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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38: 'You have certain rich city
chuffs, that when they have no acres of their own, they will go
and plough up fools, and turn them into
excellent
meadow.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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2 Approaching old age, my
loneliness
in travel is extreme, 8 pained by these times, the chance to meet is remote.
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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He
stumbled
forward and put his arm round her, and her head
fell on his shoulder.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Arriving, I hid quite two thirds of the men
In the holds of the vessels there, and then
The rest, whose numbers now
increased
hourly,
Devoured by impatience, gathering round me,
Lay down on the ground, where in silence
The best part of a fine night was spent.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Again he comes; nor dart nor lance avail,
Nor the wild plunging of the
tortured
horse;
Though man and man's avenging arms assail,
Vain are his weapons, vainer is his force.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Behold me here
Brought down to slave's estate, and far away
Wanders Orestes, banished from the wealth
That once was thine, the profit of thy care,
Whereon these revel in a
shameful
joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Knowest thou the shore
Where no
breakers
roar,
Where the storm is o'er?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Then he was a god, to the red man's dreaming;
Then the chiefs brought treasures grotesque and fair,--
Magical trinkets and pipes and guns,
Beads and furs from their medicine-lair,--
Stuck holy
feathers
in his hair,
Hailed him with austere delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Then, sore afraid, their admiral they sought,
To whom the keys of
Sarraguce
they brought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Whose secret
Presence
through Creation's veins
Running Quicksilver-like eludes your pains;
Taking all shapes from Mah to Mahi and
They change and perish all--but He remains;
LII.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Then might you see the wild things of the wood,
With Fauns in
sportive
frolic beat the time,
And stubborn oaks their branchy summits bow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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InTem- Hesaith:"Redspearsborethewarriordawn Of old
**:
Strange!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
CLI
Love is too young to know what
conscience
is,
Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
regards this passage as dating the time and place of the
poem
relatively
to the times of heathenism.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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But never at our Vesper prayer,
Nor e'er before
Confession
chair
Kneels he, nor recks he when arise
Incense or anthem to the skies,
But broods within his cell alone,
His faith and race alike unknown.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Thrice to its pitch his lofty voice he rears;
The well-known voice thrice
Menelaus
hears:
Alarm'd, to Ajax Telamon he cried,
Who shares his labours, and defends his side:
"O friend!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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"He
remarked
to me then," said that mildest of men,
"'If your Snark be a Snark, that is right:
Fetch it home by all means--you may serve it with greens
And it's handy for striking a light.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
O Rose of the crimson beauty,
Why hast thou awakened the
sleeper?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Triumphs
for nothing and lamenting toys
Is jollity for apes and grief for boys.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
) To the
title-page was prefixed a
portrait
in an oval frame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
--
"Yes, the
Christians
smile at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
You other Jews waiting in all lands for your
Messiah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
XI
Kindling
autumnal fire in a rustic, convivial fireplace
(How the sticks crackle and spew flames and glittering sparks!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
***
A NEW
NATIONAL
ANTHEM.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Then, when we
have danced, clinked our cups and thrown
Hyperbolus
through the doorway,
we will carry back all our farming tools to the fields and shall pray the
gods to give wealth to the Greeks and to cause us all to gather in an
abundant barley harvest, enjoy a noble vintage, to grant that we may
choke with good figs, that our wives may prove fruitful, that in fact we
may recover all our lost blessings, and that the sparkling fire may be
restored to the hearth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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From out the whitest cloud of summer steals
The wildest lightning: from this face of thine
Thy soul, a fire-of-heaven, warm and fine,
In
marvellous
flashes its fair self reveals.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
III
Now on the place of slaughter
Are cots and
sheepfolds
seen,
And rows of vines, and fields of wheat,
And apple-orchards green;
The swine crush the big acorns
That fall from Corne's oaks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Fortunate
they
Who, though once only and then but far away,
Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
"
The stars of Night contain the
glittering
Day
And rain his glory down with sweeter grace
Upon the dark World's grand, enchanted face --
All loth to turn away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
You will not then on palfrey nor on steed,
Jennet nor mule, come
cantering
in your speed;
Flung you will be on a vile sumpter-beast;
Tried there and judged, your head you will not keep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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omnia ludus habet
cantusque
chorique licentes;
tum primum roseo Silenus cymbia musto
plena senex auide non aequis uiribus hausit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
[438]
_And vow, that
henceforth
her Armada's sails
Should gently swell with fair propitious gales.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Then mix him with your Onion (cut up
likewise
into Scraps),--
When your Stuffin' will be ready, and very good--perhaps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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that
dwellest
where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Wretched
man, insult not sacred things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
You would deny the joy and sense
Of keeping an
honourable
silence?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
The wind and I, we both were there,
But neither long abode;
Now through the
friendless
world we fare
And sigh upon the road.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
His feet the foremost breakers lave;
His band are
plunging
in the bay,
Their sabres glitter through the spray;
Wet--wild--unwearied to the strand
They struggle--now they touch the land!
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Byron |
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If I glance up
it is written on the walls,
it is cut on the floor,
it is
patterned
across
the slope of the roof.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The contents supply the South
Babylonian version of the second book of the epic _sa nagba imuru_,
"He who has seen all things,"
commonly
referred to as the Epic of
Gilgamish.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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frōde
feorhlege
(_the laying down of my old
life_), 2801; dat.
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Beowulf |
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The Muses and the Graces, grouped in threes,
Enringed a
billowing
fountain in the midst;
And here and there on lattice edges lay
Or book or lute; but hastily we past,
And up a flight of stairs into the hall.
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Tennyson |
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from half past seven till the night coming
on
prevented
further view.
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Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn
We lose too soon, and only find delight
In
withered
husks of some dead memory.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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From Maximin
IN sorrow, day and night the
disciple
watched
Upon the mount where from the Lord ascended:
"Thus leaveth thou thy faithful to despair?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Our law and our
religion
call thee
A punishment and a reward.
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Shelley |
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Only Rome could mighty Rome resemble,
Only Rome force sacred Rome to tremble:
So Fate's command issued its decree,
No other power, however bold or wise,
Could boast of
matching
her who matched we see,
Her power with earth's, her courage with the sky's.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Ther-with he caste on
Pandarus
his ye
With chaunged face, and pitous to biholde; 555
And whan he mighte his tyme aright aspye,
Ay as he rood, to Pandarus he tolde
His newe sorwe, and eek his Ioyes olde,
So pitously and with so dede an hewe,
That every wight mighte on his sorwe rewe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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So she stood arrayed
Before the Hearth-Fire of her home, and prayed:
"Mother, since I must vanish from the day,
This last, last time I kneel to thee and pray;
Be mother to my two
children!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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