When Dunbar and you meet, tell him that I left
Edinburgh
with the idea
of him hanging somewhere about my heart.
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Robert Burns |
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once at least
Let me drink deep of passion's wine, and slake
My parched being with the
nectarous
feast
Which even gods affect!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
And I must borrow every
changing
shape
To find expression.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Though cold it grows,
I will not freeze forever,
In whom love rose
That will my heart deliver
I'll not shiver,
Love hides me from head to toe,
Brings
strength
rather
And tells me which way to go.
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Troubador Verse |
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How elegant your
Frenchmen?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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2 Li Chu, Prince of
Guangping
and Suzong?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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He had not yet
learned
patience
with the maiden to whom her work was all in all.
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Kipling - Poems |
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So things remain, my dear; an odd affair:--
On this Square-toes 'gan to curse and swear;
But his fond rib most earnestly besought,
His rage to stifle, as she clearly thought,
He might in person, if he'd take the pain,
Secure the rascal and redress obtain
You know, said she, the tree is near the door,
Upon the left and bears of fruit great store;
But if I may my
sentiments
express,
In cap and petticoats you'd best to dress;
His insolence is great, and you'll be right,
To give your strokes with double force to night;
Well work his back; flat lay him on the ground:--
A rascal!
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La Fontaine |
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You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
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Appoloinaire |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Go, succour him, each with his
trenchant
lance!
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Chanson de Roland |
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It has caused too much stir to be allowed,
And already the King its end has vowed;
You know my soul,
sensitive
to your pain,
Will work to quench it at its source again.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It's true, though your enemy,
I cannot blame you for fleeing infamy;
And, however strong my
outburst
of pain
I do not accuse you, I only weep again.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight
Bill.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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| Question: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Audibly the elm-leaves whispered
Peaceful, pleasant melodies,
Like the distant murmured music
Of unquiet, lovely seas:
While the winds were hushed in slumber
In the
fragrant
flowers and trees.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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That ground will take no
footprint!
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Euripides - Electra |
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So he and Miss Vezzis were married with great state and ancientry; and
now there are several little D'Cruzes
sprawling
about the verandahs of
the Central Telegraph Office.
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Kipling - Poems |
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But what
If I expose
beforehand
thy bold fraud
To all men?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But take heed that in thy work
Naught
unbeautiful
may lurk.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Lanier's growth in
artistic
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sidney Lanier |
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Elvire
All my thoughts are still
enchanted
by them:
He esteems Rodrigue, as you love him,
Reading his soul, if I am free from error,
He'll wish you to take him as your lover.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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We shall not spend a large expence of time,
Before we reckon with your
seuerall
loues,
And make vs euen with you.
| Guess: |
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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All the family in order
Sat before him for their pictures:
Each in turn, as he was taken,
Volunteered his own suggestions,
His
ingenious
suggestions.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Your Beauty's a flower in the morning that blows,
And withers the faster, the faster it grows:
But the
rapturous
charm o' the bonie green knowes,
Ilk spring they're new deckit wi' bonie white yowes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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Stranger then strangers; One, who for a Dane,
In the Danes Massacre had sure beene slaine,
If he had liv'd then; And without helpe dies, 25
When next the Prentises'gainst
Strangers
rise.
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John Donne |
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And what I feel, across the inferior features
Of what I am, doth flash itself, and show
How that great work of Love
enhances
Nature's.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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There shall be read the woe, that he doth work
With his adulterate money on the Seine,
Who by the tusk will perish: there be read
The
thirsting
pride, that maketh fool alike
The English and Scot, impatient of their bound.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The maiden at her casement sits
As
daylight
glimmers, darkness flits,
But ah!
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The position was a safe
one, and he hoped to inspirit his native troops with the memory of
their former
victories
there.
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Tacitus |
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The timid hare seems half its fears to lose,
Crouching
and sleeping neath its grassy lair,
And scarcely startles, though the shepherd goes
Close by its home, and dogs are barking there;
The wild colt only turns around to stare
At passer by, then knaps his hide again;
And moody crows beside the road forbear
To fly, though pelted by the passing swain;
Thus day seems turned to night, and tries to wake in vain.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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And
suddenly
the sultan kneels!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And thus, I cannot speak
Of love even, as a good thing of my own:
Thy soul hath
snatched
up mine all faint and weak,
And placed it by thee on a golden throne,--
And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred
circling
camps;
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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So both ascend
In the Visions of God: It was a Hill
Of Paradise the highest, from whose top
The Hemisphere of Earth in
cleerest
Ken
Stretcht out to amplest reach of prospect lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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FN a garden where the
whitethorn
spreads her r leaves
My lady hath her love lain close beside her,
Till the warder cries the dawn Ah dawn that
grieves !
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Two figures, one Conon, in the midst he set,
And one- how call you him, who with his wand
Marked out for all men the whole round of heaven,
That they who reap, or stoop behind the plough,
Might know their several
seasons?
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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It is
true, many bodies are the worse for the meddling with; and the multitude
of physicians hath
destroyed
many sound patients with their wrong
practice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But his
intellectual
outlook was low and sordid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Meet me in the green glen,
By sweet briar bushes there;
Meet me by your own sen,
Where the wild thyme
blossoms
fair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Ever new
My after fame shall grow, while
pontiffs
climb
With silent maids the Capitolian height.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Marie
Francois
Xavier Bichat, b.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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at mote maden much joye,
To apere in his
presense
prestly ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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FAUST:
Soll ich dir, Flammenbildung,
weichen?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
THE MOTHER MOURNS
WHEN mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time,
And sedges were horny,
And summer's green
wonderwork
faltered
On leaze and in lane,
I fared Yell'ham-Firs way, where dimly
Came wheeling around me
Those phantoms obscure and insistent
That shadows unchain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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In the midst of
pleasure
my soul suffers:
I drown in joy, and tremble with my fears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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And here let those
Who boast in mortal things, and wondring tell
Of Babel, and the works of Memphian Kings,
Learn how thir
greatest
Monuments of Fame,
And Strength and Art are easily outdone
By Spirits reprobate, and in an hour
What in an age they with incessant toyle
And hands innumerable scarce perform.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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HUMAYUN TO ZOBEIDA
(From the Urdu)
You flaunt your beauty in the rose, your glory in the dawn,
Your
sweetness
in the nightingale, your whiteness in the swan.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I speak to you over cities
I speak to you over plains
My mouth is against your ear
The two sides of the walls face
my voice which acknowledges you.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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XII
Hurtle the clouds in deeper darkness piled, 100
Gone is the raven timely rest to seek;
He seemed the only creature in the wild
On whom the elements their rage might wreak;
Save that the bustard, of those regions bleak
Shy tenant, seeing by the
uncertain
light 105
A man there wandering, gave a mournful shriek,
And half upon the ground, with strange affright,
Forced hard against the wind a thick unwieldy flight.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Now filled with confidence, now doubtfulness,
I promise
deliverance
to my captive heart,
Trying in vain to fool myself by art,
Between hope, and doubt, and fearfulness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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The old
Countess no longer made the
slightest
pretensions to beauty, but she
still clung to all the habits of her youth, and spent as much time at
her toilet as she had done sixty years before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I am going to my own hearth-stone,
Bosomed in yon green hills alone,--
secret nook in a
pleasant
land,
Whose groves the frolic fairies planned;
Where arches green, the livelong day,
Echo the blackbird's roundelay,
And vulgar feet have never trod
A spot that is sacred to thought and God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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' they cried, 'The world is wide,
But
fettered
limbs go lame!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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WHEN thus engaged, the lover near her drew;
At whose approach away the damsel flew,
And tried to hide within the rocky cell;
Cried Cymon, I beneath these waters dwell,
And o'er their course a sov'reign right maintain;
Be goddess of the flood, and with me reign;
Few rivers could with you like pow'rs divide;
My crystal's clear: in me you may confide;
My heart is pure; with flow'rs I'll deck the stream,
If worthy of
yourself
the flood you deem;
Too happy should this honour you bestow,
And with me, 'neath the current, freely go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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tior_ BRVen:
_expolitor_
OLa1
21 _lotus_ ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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After a few
moments there enter
stealthily
two armed men,_ ORESTES _and_ PYLADES.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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For whanne hir housbonde was in
Iupartye
1530
To dye him-self, but-if she wolde dye,
She chees for him to dye and go to helle,
And starf anoon, as us the bokes telle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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ILLUSIONS
Flow, flow the waves hated,
Accursed, adored,
The waves of mutation;
No
anchorage
is.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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|
| Page 46: larve _sic_ |
| |
| "The City is peopled" did not appear with a title in the |
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original
edition.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
CXXIII
Marvellous is the battle in its speed,
The Franks there strike with vigour and with heat,
Cutting through wrists and ribs and chines in-deed,
Through
garments
to the lively flesh beneath;
On the green grass the clear blood runs in streams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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When I arose and saw the dawn,
I sigh'd for thee;
When light rode high, and the dew was gone,
And noon lay heavy on flower and tree,
And the weary Day turn'd to his rest,
Lingering
like an unloved guest,
I sigh'd for thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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LE BUFFET
C'est un large buffet sculpte; le chene sombre,
Tres vieux, a pris cet air si bon des
vieilles
gens;
Le buffet est ouvert, et verse dans son ombre
Comme un flot de vin vieux, des parfums engageants;
Tout plein, c'est un fouillis de vieilles vieilleries,
De linges odorants et jaunes, de chiffons
De femmes ou d'enfants, de dentelles fletries,
De fichus de grand'mere ou sont peints des griffons;
--C'est la qu'on trouverait les medaillons, les meches
De cheveux blancs ou blonds, les portraits, les fleurs seches
Dont le parfum se mele a des parfums de fruits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The minister goes stiffly in
As if the house were his,
And he owned all the mourners now,
And little boys besides;
And then the milliner, and the man
Of the
appalling
trade,
To take the measure of the house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Death reached out three crooked claws
To still my
clamoring
pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
"
--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Of course I speak subject to correction,
but I believe I am right in saying that China has never produced a
poet
comparable
with Homer, Dante, Virgil, or Milton.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
O what is my
destination?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its thousand feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And
microbes
more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of Rosamunde!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
The Dove
Angels and Holy Spirit (Annunciation)
'Angels and Holy Spirit (Annunciation)'
Nicolas Pitau (I),
Philippe
de Champaigne, 1642 - 1671, The Rijksmuseun
Dove, both love and spirit
Who engendered Jesus Christ,
Like you I love a Mary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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They perish'd all
Amid the billowy flood; but Him, the keel
Bestriding
of his bark, the waves at length
Cast forth on the Phaeacian's land, a race
Allied to heav'n, who rev'renced like a God 350
Thy husband, honour'd him with num'rous gifts,
And willing were to have convey'd him home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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therefore leave my works,
And go lull
yourself
with what you can understand, and with piano-tunes,
For I lull nobody, and you will never understand me.
| 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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Am I
deceived
once more,
Or is this my last hope I stand before?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Ah, never with a throat that aches with song,
Beneath the white
uncaring
sky of spring,
Shall I go forth to hide awhile from Love
The quiver and the crying of my heart.
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Could she not wait to catch their
answering
breath?
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Was ever couch
magnificent
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Emerson - Poems |
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do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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His
countenance
a billow,
His fingers, if he pass,
Let go a music, as of tunes
Blown tremulous in glass.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Ah treach'rous
servants!
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The wavering corn is like gold, still,
Perhaps not so rich nor so hale,
Roses with greetings unfold still,
Be though their bloom
something
pale.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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It is, this
encounter, what you feel in the Greeks, and as in the Greeks, it is a
spiritual waging of
miraculous
forces.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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What page from court with
essenced
hair
Will tender you the bowl you drain,
Well skill'd to bend the Serian bow
His father carried?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Whan they were in hir bedde, in armes folde,
Nought was it lyk tho nightes here-biforn;
For pitously ech other gan biholde,
As they that hadden al hir blisse y-lorn, 1250
Biwaylinge
ay the day that they were born.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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THE
SALVATION
ARMY'S SONG By Phoebe Hoffman
"It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time," Echo the feet in the dusty street.
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You'd only hear my voice and see my eyes And the
remembrance
of old ecstasies Awakening within you solemn-grand
Would flood my words; you would forget my hand Lay tremulous on yours, you would arise
And go from me as night when silence dies
And dawn and shouting harrow all the land.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Why be angered if the door
Repulses
fifty suing maids
Who vainly there implore?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Quanti si tegnon or la su gran regi
che qui staranno come porci in brago,
di se
lasciando
orribili dispregi!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And don't go
choosing
your words
Without some confusion of vision:
Nothing's dearer than shadowy verse
Where precision weds indecision.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Besides, if those fine
particles
of things
Which from so deep within are sent abroad,
As light and heat of sun, are seen to glide
And spread themselves through all the space of heaven
Upon one instant of the day, and fly
O'er sea and lands and flood the heaven, what then
Of those which on the outside stand prepared,
When they're hurled off with not a thing to check
Their going out?
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Lucretius |
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I have heard that in hitching up the
imperial
drum carriage, it is not right to use a fine steed.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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They, attained
their aim, he says, "by the avoidance of every word which a gentleman would
not use in dignified conversation, and of every word and phrase which none
but a learned man would use; by the studied position of words and phrases,
so that not only each part should be melodious in itself, but contribute to
the harmony of the whole, each note referring and
conducing
to the melody
of all the foregoing and following words of the same period or stanza; and,
lastly, with equal labour, the greater because unbetrayed, by the variation
and various harmonies of their metrical movement.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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MID-FLIGHT
We rush, a black throng,
Straight
upon darkness:
Motes scattered
By the arc's rays.
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Imagists |
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" My day of youth went yesterday;
My hair no longer bounds to my foot's glee,
Nor plant I it from rose- or myrtle-tree,
As girls do, any more: it only may
Now shade on two pale cheeks the mark of tears,
Taught
drooping
from the head that hangs aside
Through sorrow's trick.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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