Soft
sauntered
through the village,
Sauntered as soft away!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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LV
He, seeing this, agnised it for the blade
So famous, which Anglantes' warrior bore,
For which he had the fairest fleet arrayed
Which ever put to sea from eastern shore;
And had Castille's rich kingdom overlaid,
And conquered fruitful France some years before;
But cannot now imagine how that sword
Is in possession of the Tartar lord;
LVI
And asks had he by force or treaty won,
And when and where and how, that
faulchion
bright;
And Mandricardo said that he had done
Fierce battle for that sword with Brava's knight;
Who feigned himself of sober sense foregone,
Hoping that so he should conceal his fright:
-- "For I on him would ceaseless war have made,"
(He added) "while he kept the goodly blade.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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When the golden days arrive,
With the swallow at the eaves,
And the first sob of the south-wind
Sighing at the latch with spring, 40
Long hereafter shall thy name
Be
recalled
through foreign lands,
And thou be a part of sorrow
When the Linus songs are sung.
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Sappho |
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"Fair Hermes, crown'd with feathers, fluttering light,
I had a splendid dream of thee last night:
I saw thee sitting, on a throne of gold,
Among the Gods, upon Olympus old,
The only sad one; for thou didst not hear
The soft, lute-finger'd Muses chaunting clear,
Nor even Apollo when he sang alone,
Deaf to his throbbing throat's long, long
melodious
moan.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Cynthia's Sickness_
DEFICIVNT magico torti sub carmine rhombi,
et iacet exstincto laurus adusta foco;
et iam Luna negat totiens descendere caelo,
nigraque
funestum concinit omen auis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And some that beat up Channel homeward-bound
I watched, and
wondered
what they might have found,
What alien ports enriched their teeming hold
With crates of fruit or bars of unwrought gold?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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,
_nobleman
at the court, distinguished courtier_: acc.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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To her children, the words of the
eloquent
dumb great Mother never fail;
The true words do not fail, for motion does not fail, and reflection does
not fail;
Also the day and night do not fail, and the voyage we pursue does not fail.
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| Question: |
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Whitman |
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But that
ungrateful
and malignant race,
Who in old times came down from Fesole,
Ay and still smack of their rough mountain-flint,
Will for thy good deeds shew thee enmity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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He was obliged to
mount his horse and ride for quarters to New Cumnock, where, over a
good fire, he penned, in his very
ungallant
indignation, the Ode to
the lady's memory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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I love thee, Mary dearly love--
There's nought so fair on earth I see,
There's nought so dear in heaven above,
As Mary
Bayfield
is to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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'Tis not
greatness
they require, I.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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But scarce had sleep's soft witchery
Subdued him, when his
neighbour
stept
Into the chamber where he slept
And wakened him with the loud cry:
"'Tis time to get up!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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--That thought's return
Was the worst pang that sorrow ever bore
Save one, one only, when I stood forlorn,
Knowing my heart's best
treasure
was no more;
That neither present time, nor years unborn
Could to my sight that heavenly face restore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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He was examining the apple-trees which the
breath of autumn had already
deprived
of their leaves, and, with the
help of an old gardener, he was enveloping them in straw.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The kingly bard
Must smite the chords rudely and hard,
As with hammer or with mace;
That they may render back
Artful thunder, which conveys
Secrets of the solar track,
Sparks of the
supersolar
blaze.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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But, in
extremes
to be, appears my lot;
Just now I felt quite chilled:--at present hot;
Pray tell me which is best?
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Io volsi 'l viso, e 'l passo non men tosto,
appresso
i savi, che parlavan sie,
che l'andar mi facean di nullo costo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Wandering
yester morn the brake,
I reached this heath beside the lake,
And oh, the wonder of the power,
The deeper secret of the hour!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Some fancied they heard in the air
A weary and
wandering
sigh
That sounded like "-jum!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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"
[Sidenote A: "Truly," says Sir Gawayne, "a desert is here,]
[Sidenote B: a fitting place for the man in green to 'deal here his
devotions
in devil fashion.
| 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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, shall no
more damp
hilarity
and divide friendship.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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The rail along the curving pathway
Was low in a happy place to let us cross,
And down the hill a tree that dripped with bloom
Sheltered
us,
While your kisses and the flowers,
Falling, falling,
Tangled my hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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The Marineres gave it biscuit-worms,
And round and round it flew:
The Ice did split with a Thunder-fit;
The
Helmsman
steer'd us thro'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Non che Roma di carro cosi bello
rallegrasse
Affricano, o vero Augusto,
ma quel del Sol saria pover con ello;
quel del Sol che, sviando, fu combusto
per l'orazion de la Terra devota,
quando fu Giove arcanamente giusto.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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About a month after he had lost his heart to Miss Venner, and had been
doing his work vilely in consequence, the first idea of his "Native Rule
in Central India" struck
Wressley
and filled him with joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days
following
each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Deep harm to disobey,
Seeing
obedience
is the bond of rule.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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O the
trembling
fear!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
The
"Anhang" contains
translations
of "In the valley," etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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aux
premieres
heures bleues
Se detruira-t-elle comme les fleurs feues.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_
This theme is enlarged by Suetonius, and evidently enjoyed: he
represents Tiberius, as addicted to every established form of vice;
and as the
inventor
of new names, new modes, and a new convenience, for
unheard-of immoralities.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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The happiest taste not
happiness
sincere;
But find the cordial draught is dash'd with care.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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[406] A quarter of Athens where the Lampadephoria was held in honour of
Athene, Hephaestus, and Prometheus, because the first had given the
mortals oil, the second had
invented
the lamp, and the third had stolen
fire from heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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t walke
With the
_French_
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Such sights ere long,
Not grievous, shall impart to thee delight,
As thy
perception
is by nature wrought
Up to their pitch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I loved a Love once, fairest among women:
Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her--
All, all are gone, the old
familiar
faces.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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"
THYRSIS
"The field is parched, the grass-blades thirst to death
In the faint air; Liber hath grudged the hills
His vine's o'er-shadowing: should my Phyllis come,
Green will be all the grove, and Jupiter
Descend in floods of
fertilizing
rain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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"Is my face enough in
profile?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Its station at this affair is
supposed
by Gordon to have been Lochore in Fifeshire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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But, regardless of your previous ruling,
Can you endure to see such a
wedding?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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No imaginative
writer, however, in the whole range of English Literature, is so
peculiarly identified with locality as Wordsworth is; and there is not
one on the roll of poets, the appreciation of whose
writings
is more
aided by an intimate knowledge of the district in which he lived.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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'
So he
vanished
from my sight;
And I plucked a hollow reed,
And I made a rural pen,
And I stained the water clear,
And I wrote my happy songs
Every child may joy to hear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Let us therefore put away the designs to _The Divine Comedy_, in which
there is 'an ordinary intelligence,' and consider only the designs
in which the magical ritual has called up extraordinary shapes, the
magical light glimmered upon a world,
different
from the Dantesque
world of our own intelligence in its ordinary and daily moods, upon
a difficult and distinguished world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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"
EARTH'S ANSWER
Earth raised up her head
From the
darkness
dread and drear,
Her light fled,
Stony, dread,
And her locks covered with grey despair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
What blow has
snatched
him?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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One regiment goes
bare-legged to
increase
the attraction.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
'
Pandare
answerde
and seyde, `Allas the whyle 1275
That I was born; have I not seyd er this,
That dremes many a maner man bigyle?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
April is the
cruellest
month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Sa mere et son ami
Charles
Asselineau
etaient a son chevet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
_--Camoens says:
_E na lingoa, na qual quando imagina,
Com pouca
corrupcao
cre que he Latina.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Leeze me on thy bonie craigie,
An' thou live, thou'll steal a naigie,
Travel the country thro' and thro',
And bring hame a
Carlisle
cow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Come, Mercury, by whose minstrel spell
Amphion raised the Theban stones,
Come, with thy seven sweet strings, my shell,
Thy "diverse tones,"
Nor vocal once nor pleasant, now
To rich man's board and temple dear:
Put forth thy power, till Lyde bow
Her
stubborn
ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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--Yet, maybe, in some soul,
In some spot undiscerned on sea or land, some impulse rose,
Or some intent upstole
Of that enkindling ardency from whose maturer glows
The world's amendment flows;
But which, benumbed at birth
By
momentary
chance or wile, has missed its hope to be
Embodied on the earth;
And undervoicings of this loss to man's futurity
May wake regret in me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
But rescue came
with dawn of day for those desperate men
when they heard the horn of Hygelac sound,
tones of his trumpet; the trusty king
had
followed
their trail with faithful band.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Alone the Ilian
ramparts
let him leave,
And bear what stern Achilles may receive:
Alone, for so we will; no Trojan near
Except, to place the dead with decent care,
Some aged herald, who with gentle hand
May the slow mules and funeral car command.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
These are the days when birds come back,
A very few, a bird or two,
To take a
backward
look.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
"
Don't you
remember
what reply he gave?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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But I, with
mournful
tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
;
MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE
PHILOLOGICAL
SOCIETY.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
220
"Sweet
FLORENCE!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
: Punitis
ingeniis
gliscit auctoritas, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Think of that lovely and
exquisitely mischievous passage in the _Iliad_ called _The
Cheating
of
Zeus_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And far away across the
lengthening
wold,
Across the willowy flats and thickets brown,
Magdalen's tall tower tipped with tremulous gold
Marks the long High Street of the little town,
And warns me to return; I must not wait,
Hark!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Each that we lose takes part of us;
A
crescent
still abides,
Which like the moon, some turbid night,
Is summoned by the tides.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told
suggesting
her beauty, and independence of mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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dulcis uita fuit tecum: comes anxia lucem
aeternam
sperans hanc cupit esse breuem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
FAUSTUS _and_ MEPHISTOPHILIS,
_impersonating
two
cardinals, are given charge of the condemned_
BRUNO, _whom they liberate and dispatch magically
to the_ EMPEROR.
| 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 |
|
81
Ode to
Napoleon
Buonaparte (N.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
" You might
play polo with him one afternoon and hear him express his
opinions
when
a man crossed; and you might call on him next morning to raise a
two-thousand rupee loan on a five hundred pound insurance-policy, eighty
pounds paid in premiums.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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With speed alighted Mount Albano's peer,
And, ere he rose, unlaced the helm he wore:
But he for mercy prayed with humble cheer,
Unfit to strive in joust or warfare more:
And, before king and court, with faltering breath,
Confessed
the fraud which brought him to his death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Behold the dames who once were fine
With roses, caps and looks malign;
Some marriageable maids behold,
Blank,
unapproachable
and cold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Land-weard onfand
eft-sīð eorla, swā hē ǣr dyde;
nō hē mid hearme of hlīðes nosan
gæstas grētte, ac him tōgēanes rād;
1895 cwæð þæt
wilcuman
Wedera lēodum
scawan scīr-hame tō scipe fōron.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
So Charles heard, and all his
comrades
round;
Then said that King: "Battle they do, our counts!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
If there be devils, would I were a devil,
To live and burn in
everlasting
fire,
So I might have your company in hell
But to torment you with my bitter tongue!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
How all superbest deeds since Time began are
traceable
to it--and
shall be to the end!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
In vain the
laughing
girl will lean
To greet her love with love-lit eyes:
Down in some treacherous black ravine,
Clutching his flag, the dead boy lies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
--a
clamorous
curse,
A dirge of ruin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
'
And Arthur, 'Have thy
pleasant
field again,
And thrice the gold for Uther's use thereof,
According to the years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Villon |
|
]
[Illustration:
Sophtsluggia
Glutinosa.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The words of Tomsky made a deep impression upon her, and
she
realized
how imprudently she had acted.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
Can you see it still," he cried, "my
brother?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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His wife has a wooly
head and misshapen ears;
projecting
teeth irregularly set; a crook in
her back and a halt in her gait.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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You bewitched the rivers, flowers and woods,
With your lyre, in vain but beguilingly,
Yet not what your soul felt, the beauty
That dealt what was
festering
in your blood.
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Ronsard |
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More than once I have
walked down the Mall deep in
conversation
with Mrs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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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.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Herman
received
it and at once left
the table.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And afresh to the race, {13c} the fallow roads
by swift steeds
measured!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Pope's argument, good or bad, had nothing to do
with
questions
of theology.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Un altro, che forata avea la gola
e tronco 'l naso infin sotto le ciglia,
e non avea mai ch'una orecchia sola,
ristato a riguardar per maraviglia
con li altri, innanzi a li altri apri la canna,
ch'era di fuor d'ogne parte vermiglia,
e disse: <
e cu' io vidi su in terra latina,
se troppa simiglianza non m'inganna,
rimembriti di Pier da Medicina,
se mai torni a veder lo dolce piano
che da
Vercelli
a Marcabo dichina.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Then shall the golden hoard its trust betray,
And they, that, mindless of that dreadful day,
Boasted their wealth, its vanity shall know
In the dread avenue of endless woe:
While they whom moderation's wholesome rule
Kept still unstain'd in Virtue's heavenly school,
Who the calm
sunshine
of the soul beneath
Enjoy'd, will share the triumph of the Faith.
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Petrarch |
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IV
"He moves me not at all;
I note no ray or jot
Of
rareness
in his lot,
Or star exceptional.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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