The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
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Why ask for
constancy
when change is the life and law of love?
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Among recent
contributors
to CONTEMPORARY have been :
Max Eastman
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Hermann Hagedorn Maxwell Struthers Burt
Salomon de la Selva
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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No, I don't like at all this new-made
burgomaster!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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ed, Gwenore bisyde
[C] &
Agrauayn
a la dure mayn on ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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say what flame more gladsome in Heavens be
shining?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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II
His crimson form, with clang and chime,
Flashed on each murk and murderous meeting-time,
And kings invoked, for rape and raid,
His
fearsome
aid in rune and rhyme.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and
foretold
the rest--
I too awaited the expected guest.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Let no forgetting sully that dim grace;
Our heart's
infirmity
is too easily won
To set a new love in the old love's place
And seek fresh vanity under the sun.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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It spouts
like yellow wheat from the gargoyles, coils round the head of Saint John,
and
aureoles
him in light.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Forth sprang Gawain, and loosed him from his bonds,
And flung them o'er the walls; and afterward,
Shaking his hands, as from a lazar's rag,
'Faith of my body,' he said, 'and art thou not--
Yea thou art he, whom late our Arthur made
Knight of his table; yea and he that won
The
circlet?
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Tennyson |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Donna Maria had formerly endeavoured to
dissuade her sister from the
adulterous
marriage with the king.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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In the second, it (1) rises, (2)
sinks, (3) is
abruptly
arrested.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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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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"I have been wondering frequently of late
(But our
beginnings
never know our ends!
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T.S. Eliot |
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Out of my dark hours wisdom dawns apace,
Infinite
Life unrolls its boundless space .
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Rilke - Poems |
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Now if ye're ane o' warl's folk,
Wha rate the wearer by the cloak,
An' sklent on poverty their joke,
Wi' bitter sneer,
Wi' you nae
friendship
I will troke,
Nor cheap nor dear.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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XI
Hamburg
The day that I come home,
What will you find to say,--
Words as light as foam
With
laughter
light as spray?
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Sara Teasdale |
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And as he com
ayeinward
prively, 750
His nece awook, and asked, `Who goth there?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Exult, ye proud
Patricians!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The next day a poor
fisherman
found him among the reeds upon the lake
shore, lying upon the white lake sand with his arms flung out as
though he lay upon a rood, and carried him to his own house.
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| Question: |
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Yeats |
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,
_hostile
roof, hiding-place of a cunning foe_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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Therewith a second Tiphys shall there be,
Her hero-freight a second Argo bear;
New wars too shall arise, and once again
Some great
Achilles
to some Troy be sent.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And, as we talked, I
questioned
him, 1827.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Quum vitiorum tempestas
Turbabat
omnes semitas,
Apparuisti, Deitas,
Velut stella salutaris
In naufragiis amaris.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Let us fare on, dead friend, O
deathless
friend,
Where under his old hat as green as moss
The hedger chops and finds new gaps to mend,
And on his bonfires burns the thorns and dross,
And hums a hymn, the best, thinks he, that ever was.
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| Question: |
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
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| Question: |
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Villon |
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1912
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed The Macmillan Company 1914
Men, Women and Ghosts The Macmillan Company 1916
Can Grande's Castle The Macmillan Company 1918
Pictures of the Floating World The Macmillan Company 1919
Legends
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Note: Ronsard's later tributes to 'Marie' were written for the Duke of Anjou (the future Henri III) whose
mistress
Marie de Cleves died in 1574.
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Ronsard |
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I'll freely say, howe'er, that I regard,
My
services
enough to claim reward.
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| Question: |
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La Fontaine |
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ALBA
INNOMINATA
From the Provencal.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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See, my
cantabile!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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For this fierce Holofernes and his power,
This torture poured on the city, is no more
Than a wild gust of wicked heat
breathed
out
Against our God-wrought souls by the world's furnace.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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What guilty spirit, in what
shrubbery
dim,
Heard not the stirring summons of that hymn?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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You would have snared me,
and scattered the strands of my nest;
but the very fact that you saw,
sheltered
me, claimed me,
set me apart from the rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Quand viendra le matin livide,
Tu
trouveras
ma place vide,
Ou jusqu'au soir il fera froid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Morning has not
occurred!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"
"This tongue that talks, these lungs that shout,
These thews that hustle us about,
This brain that fills the skull with schemes,
And its humming hive of dreams,-"
"These to-day are proud in power
And lord it in their little hour:
The
immortal
bones obey control
Of dying flesh and dying soul.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Let the
Capitolian
fane,
The favour'd goal of yon vociferous crowd,
Aye, or let the nearest main
Receive our gold, our jewels rich and proud:
Slay we thus the cause of crime,
If yet we would repent and choose the good:
Ours the task to take in time
This baleful lust, and crush it in the bud.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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All are at peace, who once so
fiercely
warred:
Brother and brother, now, we chant a common chord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Or ache with tremendous
decisions?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Eliot
To Jean Verdenal 1889-1915
Certain of these poems
appeared
first in "Poetry" and "Others"
Contents
The Love Song of J.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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--Nos
marteaux
en main; passons au crible
Tout ce que nous savons: puis, Freres, en avant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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--Courons vers l'horizon, il est tard, courons vite,
Pour
attraper
au moins un oblique rayon!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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That Rome and France may on their ruin rise,
Old Bonner single
heretics
did burn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Old parents of a
restless
race,
You miss full many a bonny face
That would have smiled a filial grace
Around your Golden Wedding wine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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"
{6d}
Personification
of Battle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Have ye seen the butterfly
In braw
claithing
drest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Blood of the Lamb shall wash him clean
And him shall heavenly arms enfold,
Among the saints he shall be seen
Performing
on a harp of gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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He feels with emotion what a
beautiful
act it
would have been for his old father.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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he'll not
countenance
him.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Amelioration is one of the earth's words;
The earth neither lags nor hastens;
It has all attributes, growths, effects, latent in itself from the jump;
It is not half beautiful only--defects and excrescences show just as much
as
perfections
show.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Yet this dull world is
grateful
for thy song;
Our nations do thee homage,--even she,
That cruel queen of vine-clad Tuscany,
Who bound with crown of thorns thy living brow,
Hath decked thine empty tomb with laurels now,
And begs in vain the ashes of her son.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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When Love and Beauty heard the news,
The gay green-woods amang, man;
Where
gathering
flowers and busking bowers,
They heard the blackbird's sang, man;
A vow, they seal'd it with a kiss,
Sir Politicks to fetter,
As theirs alone, the patent-bliss
To hold a Fete Champetre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
--
The rose was plucked when dusk was dim
Beside a
laughing
boy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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As ye have herd, swich lyf right gan he lede,
As he that stood
bitwixen
hope and drede.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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'Tis the
lightning
in its shroud,
'Tis the star-concealing cloud,
Traitor, 'tis his purpose showing,
Engine, lofty tow'rs o'erthrowing,
Wand'ring star, its region changing,
"Lady of kingdoms," ever ranging.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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It gave the name of _Tusculanum_ to Cicero's villa, where
that great orator wrote his
Tusculan
Questions.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Instead of all this angry storm,
Another might have thanked you well
For saving prey from that grim cell,
That hollowed den 'neath journals great,
Where editors who poets flout
With their
demoniac
laughter shout.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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It is this edition which has been chiefly used by European readers and
to which
references
are made in the present paper.
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Li Po |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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With no great range of imagination, these lines have been justly admired
for their
delicacy
of expression.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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I conn'd old times,
I sat studying at the feet of the great masters,
Now if
eligible
O that the great masters might return and study 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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'166 the small pillow':
a richly decorated pillow which
fashionable
ladies used to prop them up
in bed when they received morning visits from gentlemen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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And you climbed yet
further!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Wreaths
One feels obliged
to throw into this earth
that opens before
the child - the loveliest
wreaths of flowers -
the
loveliest
flowery
products, of that
earth - sacrificed
- in order to veil
or pay his toll
for him
64.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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And
straight
again they mounted,
And rode to Vesta's door;
Then, like a blast, away they passed,
And no man saw them more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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SAVERNY (_gaily_): A
headsman!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The Monks in amazement
shuddering
stand,
They burst through the chancel's gloom,
From St.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
70
Some
gennlemen
think it would cure all our cankers
In the way o' finance, ef we jes' hanged the bankers;
An' I own the proposle 'ud square with my views,
Ef their lives wuzn't all thet we'd left 'em to lose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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And
oftentimes
I talked to him,
In very idleness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And I notice that many judges who display nothing but
a fierce satisfaction in sending other plays of that author to the block
or the treadmill, show a certain human
weakness
in sentencing the gentle
daughter of Pelias.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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correct to gemǣne,
agreeing
with sib.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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_Giunto
Alessandro
alla famosa tomba.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Now, seeing she goes forth never to return,
Bid her your last farewell, as
mourners
may.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Rilke - Poems |
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ON THE BANKS OF JO-YEH
By the river-side at Jo-yeh,
girls
plucking
lotus;
Laughing across the lotus-flowers,
each whispers to a friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
The dynastic list preserved on a Nippur tablet
[1] mentions him as the fifth king of a
legendary
line of rulers at
Erech, who succeeded the dynasty of Kish, a city in North Babylonia
near the more famous but more recent city Babylon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Explosion
de chaleur
Dans ma noire Siberie!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Covillam sent the Rabbi home with an
account of what countries he had seen, and he himself
proceeded
to Ormuz
and Ethiopia, but, as Camoens expresses it--
"To _his_ native shore,
Enrich'd with knowledge, _he_ return'd no more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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But now thy vulture eye was turned on Spain;
A shout from Paris, and thy crown falls off,
Thy race has ceased to reign,
And thou become a
fugitive
and scoff:
Slippery the feet that mount by stairs of gold,
And weakest of all fences one of steel;
Go and keep school again like him of old,
The Syracusan tyrant;--thou mayst feel
Royal amid a birch-swayed commonweal!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Before you accuse my
judgement
further
Consult your heart: Rodrigue is its master.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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,
_vigorous
in fight, strong in war_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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ei ben a manere
norissinges
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Then as, with a fall
Of frost, the buds upon the hawthorn spread
Are withered in untimely burial,
So love, occasion gone, his crown puts by,
And as a beggar walks unfriended ways,
With but remembered beauty to defy
The frozen sorrows of
unsceptred
days.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Then were I free from this hard heavy yoke
Which makes me envy Atlas, old and worn,
Who with his
shoulders
brings Morocco night.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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If to love I should intend,
Let my hair then stand an end:
And that terror
likewise
prove
Fatal to me in my love.
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Erdman
indicates
that a linking line "must have been dropped in transcribing from working notes.
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Blake - Zoas |
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In the east, at last, expected long in vain,
The wished for
twilight
streaked the horizon o'er;
And she her courser took, which on the ley
Was feeding, and rode forth to meet the day.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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That's why Faustina as my
companion
in bed makes me happy:
Loving she always remains faithful, as I am to her.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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LAUDANTES
wHEN your beauty is grown old in all men's
And my poor words are lost amid that throng,
Then you will know the truth of my poor words,
And mayhap dreaming of the wistful throng
That
hopeless
sigh your praises in their songs, You will think kindly then of these mad words.
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