Jove's tunefu'
dochters
three times three
Made Homer deep their debtor;
But, gien the body half an e'e,
Nine Ferriers wad done better!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Though steep'd in all
Socratic
lore
He will not slight you; do not fear.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smooths her hair with
automatic
hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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TO THE RIVER PO, ON
QUITTING
LAURA.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Ed ecco, quasi al cominciar de l'erta,
una lonza leggera e presta molto,
che di pel macolato era coverta;
e non mi si partia dinanzi al volto,
anzi 'mpediva tanto il mio cammino,
ch'i' fui per
ritornar
piu volte volto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Farewell, ye woodlands I from the tall peak
Of yon aerial rock will headlong plunge
Into the billows: this my latest gift,
From dying lips
bequeathed
thee, see thou keep.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I trow not, if my sorrow were thereby
No whit less, only the more
friendless
I.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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occur only in the
collected
edition of 1842,
vol.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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You were my
playmate
by the sea.
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Imagists |
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'
Full heavy hung the
draggled
gown he wore;
His hair flew all awry.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Among the fields she breathed again:
The master-current of her brain
Ran
permanent
and free;
And, coming to the banks of Tone,
There did she rest; and dwell alone
Under the greenwood tree.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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--Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate
and frail; it is the first of our
faculties
that age invades.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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now
destitute
of aid,
Falls undistinguish'd by the victor spade!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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The bitter little that of life remains:
No more the
thickening
brakes and verdant plains
To thee a home, or food, or pastime yield.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I
merveyle
me wonder faste, 2725
How any man may live or laste
In such peyne, and such brenning,
In sorwe and thought, and such sighing,
Ay unrelesed wo to make,
Whether so it be they slepe or wake.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Now to-day
The aged ploughman, shaking of his head,
Sighs o'er and o'er that labours of his hands
Have fallen out in vain, and, as he thinks
How present times are not as times of old,
Often he praises the fortunes of his sire,
And crackles, prating, how the ancient race,
Fulfilled with piety,
supported
life
With simple comfort in a narrow plot,
Since, man for man, the measure of each field
Was smaller far i' the old days.
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Lucretius |
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As good have grown there still a
liveless
Rib.
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Milton |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Can we think a few old cells
were left--we are left--
grains of honey,
old dust of stray pollen
dull on our torn wings,
we are left to recall the old
streets?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Why how now Hecat, you looke
angerly?
| Guess: |
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Simile qui con simile e sepolto,
e i
monimenti
son piu e men caldi>>.
| Guess: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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| is no hope" amended to "They say there is no hope").
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I do not
remember
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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O
gloriose
stelle, o lume pregno
di gran virtu, dal quale io riconosco
tutto, qual che si sia, il mio ingegno,
con voi nasceva e s'ascondeva vosco
quelli ch'e padre d'ogne mortal vita,
quand' io senti' di prima l'aere tosco;
e poi, quando mi fu grazia largita
d'entrar ne l'alta rota che vi gira,
la vostra region mi fu sortita.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty ordained for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was
abandoned
readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Would you weave your dim moan with the
chantings
of love at my feast?
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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heard you not those hoofs of
dreadful
note?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Cast away regret and rue,
Think what you are
marching
to.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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As
children
bid the guest good-night,
And then reluctant turn,
My flowers raise their pretty lips,
Then put their nightgowns on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Meg was meek, and Meg was mild,
Sweet and
harmless
as a child--
Wiser men than me's beguil'd;
Whistle o'er the lave o't!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_
Over the turret, shut in his iron-clad tower,
Craven was conning his ship through smoke and
flame;
Gun to gun he had
battered
the fort for an hour,
Now was the time for a charge to end the game.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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It levelled strong Euphrates in its course;
Supreme yet weightless as an idle mote
It seemed to tame the waters without force
Till not a murmur swelled or billow beat:
Lo, as the purple shadow swept the sands,
The prudent crocodile rose on his feet
And shed
appropriate
tears and wrung his hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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So that,
directly
they come back from the theatre, they
look at us doubtfully and go searching every nook, fearing there may be
some hidden lover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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It awaits the gigantic and
generous
treatment worthy of it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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And as, when head or eye in us is smit
By
assailing
pain, we are not tortured then
Through all the body, so the mind alone
Is sometimes smitten, or livens with a joy,
Whilst yet the soul's remainder through the limbs
And through the frame is stirred by nothing new.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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And the voice of my
mourning
is o'er,
And the mountains behold me no more:
If the hand that I love lay me low,
There cannot be pain in the blow!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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The
Cathedral
is a torch, and the houses next to it begin to scorch.
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Imagists |
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Among other things, this
requires
that you do not remove, alter or modify the
etext or this "small print!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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--
Say, if blind destiny had not assigned me
A kingly birth; if I were not indeed
Son of Ivan, were not this boy, so long
Forgotten
by the world--say, then wouldst thou
Have loved me?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Gentle Lady may thy grave
Peace and quiet ever have;
After this thy travail sore
Sweet rest sease thee evermore, 50
That to give the world encrease,
Shortned hast thy own lives lease;
Here besides the sorrowing
That thy noble House doth bring,
Here be tears of perfect moan
Weept for thee in Helicon,
And som Flowers, and som Bays,
For thy Hears to strew the ways,
Sent thee from the banks of Came,
Devoted to thy vertuous name; 60
Whilst thou bright Saint high sit'st in glory,
Next her much like to thee in story,
That fair Syrian Shepherdess,
Who after yeers of barrennes,
The highly favour'd Joseph bore
To him that serv'd for her before,
And at her next birth much like thee,
Through pangs fled to felicity,
Far within the boosom bright
of blazing Majesty and Light, 70
There with thee, new welcom Saint,
Like
fortunes
may her soul acquaint,
With thee there clad in radiant sheen,
No Marchioness, but now a Queen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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He minded the prizes his prince had given him,
wealthy seat of the
Waegmunding
line,
and folk-rights that his father owned
Not long he lingered.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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O
blaspheme
de l'art!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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It fanned their temples, filled their lungs,
Scattered
their forelocks free;
My friends made words of it with tongues
That talk no more to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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During all Pope's lifetime they were a sect at once
feared, hated, and
oppressed
by the severest laws.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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On a fiend-like wind it curled along
Over the brave French ranks,
Like a monster tree its vapours spread,
In hideous, burning banks
Of
poisonous
fumes that scorched the night
With their sulphurous demon danks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And there Cleanthes drew the mighty line
That led his pupils on, with heart divine,
Through time's fallacious joys, by Virtue's road,
To the bright palace of the
sovereign
good.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Go thou, with music sweet and loud,
And take two steeds with trappings proud,
And take the youth whom thou lov'st best
To bear thy harp, and learn thy song,
And clothe you both in solemn vest,
And over the mountains haste along,
Lest
wandering
folk, that are abroad,
Detain you on the valley road.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
What though I killed him
afterward?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And, as our happy circle sat,
The fire well capp'd the company:
In grave debate or
careless
chat,
A right good fellow, mingled he:
He seemed as one of us to sit,
And talked of things above, below,
With flames more winsome than our wit,
And coals that burned like love aglow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
-twharte,
_misprint
for_ -thwart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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PLANH FOR THE YOUNG ENGLISH KING THAT IS, PRINCE HENRY PLANTAGENET, ELDER
all the grief and woe and bitterness, IFAll dolour, ill and every evil chance
That ever came upon this
grieving
world Were set together, they would seem but light
Against the death of the young English King.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But I would
comprehend
Thee
As the wide Earth unfolds Thee.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
That great writer, the deified Julius, asserts that the Gauls were formerly the superior people; 149 whence it is probable that some Gallic colonies passed over into Germany: for how small an obstacle would a river be to prevent any nation, as it increased in strength, from occupying or changing
settlements
as yet lying in common, and unappropriated by the power of monarchies!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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I thanke you Gentlemen:
This
supernaturall
solliciting
Cannot be ill; cannot be good.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
_, and quotes from Harrington, _On Playe_:
'Where lords and great men have been
disposed
to play deep play, and
not having money about them, have cut cards instead of counters, with
asseverance (on their honours) to pay for every piece of card so
lost a portegue.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
)
And other Still on from shop to shop she goes
Allurements With sharp bird's-eye, enquiring nose,
Prying and peering, entering some,
Oblivious
of the thought of home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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What as a gurgling softly
simmered
through
The soil, within the dead deserted brake,
--And no more than a drop of fragrant dew
That fell from flowerlet unto deepest lake:
Becomes the clinging mist that cleaves the heights,
And which in darkest midnights as a beam
The heart of the chasm suddenly be-smites
To spring and ramble like a ruddy stream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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In
mounting
higher,
The angels would press on us and aspire
To drop some golden orb of perfect song
Into our deep, dear silence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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" and all other
references
to Project Gutenberg,
or:
[1] Only give exact copies of it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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How
excellent
the heaven,
When earth cannot be had;
How hospitable, then, the face
Of our old neighbor, God!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Thou'lt never say that Charles
forsakes
me now;
Nor to thy wife, nor any dame thou'st found,
Thou'lt never boast, in lands where thou wast crowned,
One pennyworth from me thou'st taken out,
Nor damage wrought on me nor any around.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Apollinax
Hysteria
Conversation Galante
La Figlia Che Pianga
POEMS
Gerontion
Thou hast nor youth nor age
But as it were an after dinner sleep
Dreaming
of both.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
The
religious
and political allegory is here vague and somewhat
discontinuous.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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HIS BRIGHT DEAW-BURNING BLADE, his bright blade flashing with the
"holy water dew" in which it had been
hardened
(l.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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'When borne
hitherward
we enter the haven, lo!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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er it lay on bere,
As sonne
schinede
bry?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And the lady, whose voice was faint and sweet,
Did thus pursue her answer meet:--
My sire is of a noble line,
And my name is Geraldine:
Five
warriors
seized me yestermorn,
Me, even me, a maid forlorn:
They choked my cries with force and fright,
And tied me on a palfrey white.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Lay this laurel on the one
Too
intrinsic
for renown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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My
cowardly
sighs are the more contemptible,
Since glory renders Theseus excusable:
Because as yet myself I've tamed no monsters,
I've acquired no right to imitate his failures.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Was it thus
The dear
paternal
Duke did?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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), for that gift of thine
Certes I'd hate thee with
Vatinian
hate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Not all thy
flushing
suns are set,
Herrick, as yet;
Nor doth this far-drawn hemisphere
Frown and look sullen ev'rywhere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
CLXXXIII
That
Emperour
is lying in a mead;
By's head, so brave, he's placed his mighty spear;
On such a night unarmed he will not be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Silently
shining with a fire sublime,
They said, "O friendly lights, which long have been
Mirrors to us where gladly we were seen,
Heaven waits for you, as ye shall know in time;
Who bound us to the earth dissolves our bond,
But wills in your despite that you shall live beyond.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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16 _cum esset uerbum
deprecor
doctiuscule positum in
Catulli carmine ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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"
"When shall this slough of sense be cast,
This dust of
thoughts
be laid at last,
The man of flesh and soul be slain
And the man of bone remain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Developing the mountains, leaves, and flowers
And shining in the
brawling
brook, where-by,
Clear as its current, glide the sauntering hours
With a calm languor, which, though to the eye
Idlesse it seem, hath its morality,
If from society we learn to live,
'Tis solitude should teach us how to die;
It hath no flatterers; vanity can give
No hollow aid; alone--man with his God must strive:
XXXIV.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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'
To The Sole Concern
All
Summarised
The Soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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quel nom sur ses levres muettes
Tressaille?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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He entered the service of Charles of Anjou, and
probably
accompanied him (1265) on his Naples expedition; in 1266 he was a prisoner in Naples.
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Troubador Verse |
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Know, sire, six years
Since then have fled; 'twas in that very year
When to the seat of sovereignty the Lord
Anointed
thee--there came to me one evening
A simple shepherd, a venerable old man,
Who told me a strange secret.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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if I
For once could have thee close to me,
With happy heart I then would die,
And my last
thoughts
would happy be,
I feel my body die away,
I shall not see another day.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier
liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Most were sent into
administrative
exile.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Since Cid in their language is lord in ours,
I'll not
begrudge
you all such honours.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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' came in later days to be
recognized
as the conventional cry of the
fiend upon making his entrance.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Fair opening to some Court's
propitious
shine,
Or deep with diamonds in the flaming mine?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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A wretched life and worse death they'll win,
A
grievous
time, whether far or near;
And Saracen, Turk, Persian, Paynim,
Who, more than all, found you to dread,
Will grow in pride and power instead.
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Troubador Verse |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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The earth by the sky staid with, the daily close of their junction,
The heav'd
challenge
from the east that moment over my head,
The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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BY THE WEIR
A scent of Esparto grass--and again I recall
That hour we spent by the weir of the paper-mill
Watching together the curving
thunderous
fall
Of frothing amber, bemused by the roar until
My mind was as blank as the speckless sheets that wound
On the hot steel ironing-rollers perpetually turning
In the humming dark rooms of the mill: all sense and discerning
By the stunning and dazzling oblivion of hill-waters drowned.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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If
weakened
with shame and bad conscience
One of those criminals comes, squinting out over my garden,
Bridling at nature's pure fruit, punish the knave in his hindparts,
Using the stake which so red rises there at your loins.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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For heaven is a
different
thing
Conjectured, and waked sudden in,
And might o'erwhelm me so!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Nay, 'tis older news that foreign sailor
With the cheek of sea-tan stops to prattle
To the young fig-seller with her basket 15
And the breasts that bud beneath her tunic,
And I hear it in the
rustling
tree-tops.
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Sappho |
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On gold and silver from th' Atlantic main,
The sumptuous tribute of the sea's wide reign,
Of various savour, was the banquet pil'd;
Amid the fruitage
mingling
roses smil'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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