The birds are silent in their dim retreat,
Nor any note is heard in wood or grass,
Save the bough perched Cicala's
wearying
cry,
Which deafens hill and dale, and sea and sky.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
"It is enough,"
answered
Otis, very solemnly.
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Kipling - Poems |
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sēo þe bān-cofan beorgan cūðe (_the
corselet
that could protect the body_),
1446, etc.
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Beowulf |
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A grave, on which to rest from
singing?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Why not, just thrown at careless ease
'Neath plane or pine, our locks of grey
Perfumed
with Syrian essences
And wreathed with roses, while we may,
Lie drinking?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Poems of American Patriotism
by Brander Matthews (Editor)
Copyright laws are
changing
all over the world.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Let us stay
Rather on earth, Beloved,--where the unfit
Contrarious moods of men recoil away
And isolate pure spirits, and permit
A place to stand and love in for a day,
With
darkness
and the death-hour rounding it.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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VERCELLÆ, now
_Vercelli_
in Piedmont.
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Tacitus |
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Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 288 ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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' she cried, and
stretched
her sword _2515
As 'twere a scourge over the courser's head,
And lightly shook the reins.
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Shelley |
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The wind of that eternal ditty sings,
Humming of future things, that burn the mind
To leave some
fragment
of itself behind.
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John Clare |
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They
listened
at his heart.
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Robert Forst |
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wher is become your
gentilesse!
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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II
What shall we do,
Cytherea?
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Sappho |
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ergo ego nunc rudis
Hadriaci
uehar aequoris hospes,
cogar et undisonos nunc prece adire deos.
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| Question: |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Theophile Gautier (1811-1872)
Theophile
Gautier
'Theophile Gautier'
Felix Henri Bracquemond, 1833 - 1914, The New York Public Library: Digital Collections
Sonnet
To vein her brow's pallor, delicate,
Japan has granted its clearest blue;
The white porcelain is of white less true
Than her lucent neck, her temples of agate;
In her moist eye gleams a gentle light;
The nightingale's voice is harsher yet,
And, when she rises in our dark night,
We praise the moon in a cloudy dress;
Her silver eyes, burnished, move fluidly;
Caprice has pointed her pert little nose;
Her mouth has the red of raspberry, peach;
Her movements flow with a Chinese flow,
And beside her one breathes from her beauty
Something sweet, like the fragrance of tea.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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it may hap
Imperious
Fate will make yourself repent.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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e moment some 1564
porciou{n}
of hit al ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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I too
transported
by the Mode offend,
And while I meant to Praise thee must Commend.
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Milton |
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Their result is
absolutely
nil.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Themselves had seen me from
slaughter
come
blood-flecked from foes, where five I bound,
and that wild brood worsted.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The man, who,
stretched
in Isis' calm retreat,
To books and study gives seven years complete,
See!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Loud,
exulting
cries
From boat to boat, and to the echoes round,
Greet the glad miracle.
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| Question: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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Nusch
The sentiments apparent
The
lightness
of approach
The tresses of caresses.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And look, where the narrow white streets of the town
Leap up from the blue water's edge to the wood, 15
Scant room for man's range between
mountain
and sea,
And the market where woodsmen from over the hill
May traffic, and sailors from far foreign ports
With treasure brought in from the ends of the earth.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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The
plants here
mentioned
are henbane and aconite.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Vedi le triste che
lasciaron
l'ago,
la spuola e 'l fuso, e fecersi 'ndivine;
fecer malie con erbe e con imago.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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)
When I was young I played with a soft brush
And was
passionately
devoted to reading all sorts of books.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Hengest still
through the death-dyed winter dwelt with Finn,
holding pact, yet of home he minded,
though
powerless
his ring-decked prow to drive
over the waters, now waves rolled fierce
lashed by the winds, or winter locked them
in icy fetters.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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| Question: |
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Villon |
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XV
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Too calm and sad a face in front of thine;
For we two look two ways, and cannot shine
With the same
sunlight
on our brow and hair.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Full Spring it was--and by rich
flowering
vines,
Dark olive-groves and noble forest-pines,
I rode at will; the moist glad air was sweet,
The white road rang beneath my horse's feet,
And musing on Ravenna's ancient name,
I watched the day till, marked with wounds of flame,
The turquoise sky to burnished gold was turned.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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So few there bee
That chose the narrow path, or seeke the right: 85
All keepe the broad high way, and take delight
With many rather for to go astray,
And be
partakers
of their evill plight,
Then with a few to walke the rightest way;
O foolish men, why haste ye to your owne decay?
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Still though his destiny on earth may be
Grief and injustice; who would not endure
With joyful calm, each
proffered
agony;
Could he the prize of Genius thus ensure?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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--Nor will be, comrade, till it rain,
Or genial
thawings
loose the lorn land
Throughout the field.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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It was on the way between
Hawkshead
and Ambleside, and gave me extreme pleasure.
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The Larinas were since sunrise
O'erwhelmed with guests; by families
The
neighbours
come, in sledge approach,
Britzka, kibitka, or in coach.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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34
Seek not to know which song or saying yields 37
As long as tinted haze the mountain covered 38
Ye speak of raptures that are void and
friendless
39
?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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]
The three preceding poems 'To the Daisy'
evidently
belong to the same
time, and are, as Wordsworth expressly says, "overflowings of the mind
in composing the one which stands first.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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bards of the
peaceful
inventions!
| 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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Sin is the cause of death; and sin's alone
The cause of God's predestination:
And from God's prescience of man's sin doth flow
Our
destination
to eternal woe.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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And I was
astonished
and said to myself,
"Shall they of this so holy city have but one eye and one hand?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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burns:'
the seraphim according to old
commentators
are on fire with the love of
God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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"
It is
therefore
evident that it belongs to the year 1802; although it
may have been altered and readjusted in 1804.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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SUTTEE
Lamp of my life, the lips of Death
Hath blown thee out with their sudden breath;
Naught shall revive thy
vanished
spark .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Shall his fevered eye
Through
towering
nothingness descry
The grisly phantom hurry by?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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So canopied, lay an
untasted
feast
Teeming with odours.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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It came in his mind
to bid his henchmen a hall uprear,
a master mead-house,
mightier
far
than ever was seen by the sons of earth,
and within it, then, to old and young
he would all allot that the Lord had sent him,
save only the land and the lives of his men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
As a
descriptive title, "Poems of
Sentiment
and Reflection" is quite as good
as "Poems akin to the Antique," and "Poems of the Fancy" quite as
appropriate as "Poems of Ballad Form.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Adown the pale-green, glacier-river floats
A dark boat through the gloom--and
whither?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Yet hence the poor are clothed, the hungry fed;
Health to himself, and to his infants bread
The
labourer
bears; what his hard heart denies
His charitable vanity supplies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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The wind begun to rock the grass
With
threatening
tunes and low, --
He flung a menace at the earth,
A menace at the sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Immortality
was close about her; and while never morbid or
melancholy, she lived in its presence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And she made him a feast, at his earnest wish,
Of eggs and
buttercups
fried with fish;
And she said, "It's a fact the whole world knows,
That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Coward of France, how much he wrongs his fame,
Despairing
of his own arm's fortitude,
To join with witches and the help of hell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
This being comfort, then
That other kind was pain;
But why
compare?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
It often
happened
that the demagogues extracted considerable
sums from the tributaries by threats or promises.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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But there is One who holds this falling
Infinitely
softly in His hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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(For with delight thy vig'rous growth I view,
And just
proportion)
be thou also bold, 380
And merit praise from ages yet to come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
--Not a
thousand
prayers can gain
A man's bare bread, save an he work amain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Do you know it, the Temple with vast peristyle,
And the lemons, bitter, marked by your teeth,
And the grotto fatal to
imprudent
guests,
Where the vanquished dragon's ancient seed sleeps?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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That they have
followers
proves nothing-
"'No Indian prince has to his palace
More followers than a thief to the gallows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
'T was sooner when the cricket went
Than when the winter came,
Yet that pathetic pendulum
Keeps
esoteric
time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Vous me
demandez
mon portrait,
Mais peint d'apres nature:
Mon cher, il sera bientot fait,
Quoique en miniature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
[313] A Ubian
cohort was cut to pieces at the village of Marcodurum,[314] where they
were off their guard,
trusting
to their distance from the Rhine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Not that in this cold fear I all did shrink,
For still my heart was to such
boldness
strung
That to her feet I clung,
As if more rapture from her eyes to drink:
And she--for now the veil was ta'en away
Which barr'd my sight--thus spoke me, "Friend, you see
How fair I am, and may
Ask, for your years, whatever fittest be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
) Our
lecturer
tells us,
however, that he knows certain Chinese poets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Seeming is but a garment I wear--a
care-woven garment that protects me from thy
questionings
and thee
from my negligence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
All Nations now to Rome obedience pay, 80
To Rome's great Emperour, whose wide domain
In ample Territory, wealth and power,
Civility
of Manners, Arts, and Arms,
And long Renown thou justly may'st prefer
Before the Parthian; these two Thrones except,
The rest are barbarous, and scarce worth the sight,
Shar'd among petty Kings too far remov'd;
These having shewn thee, I have shewn thee all
The Kingdoms of the world, and all thir glory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
If you are
redistributing
or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
copies of individual Poems have come under my notice; and
that every
important
variation of text in them is incorporated in this
edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
: _reduce_ Da:
_sinum
reducens_
Auantius: _s.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
CIII
Margariz
is a very gallant knight,
Both fair and strong, and swift he is and light;
He spurs his horse, goes Oliver to strike,
And breaks his shield, by th'golden buckle bright;
Along his ribs the pagan's spear doth glide;
God's his warrant, his body has respite,
The shaft breaks off, Oliver stays upright;
That other goes, naught stays him in his flight,
His trumpet sounds, rallies his tribe to fight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
My soul
possesses
more fire than you have ashes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
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: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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For he has a pall, this
wretched
man,
Such as few men can claim:
Deep down below a prison-yard,
Naked for greater shame,
He lies, with fetters on each foot,
Wrapt in a sheet of flame!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Of cloudy waves and misty billows down in the
uttermost
depths
Men have fabled, in the midst there stand three sacred hills.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
The novel
exists and has merits, but never became the
instrument
of great writers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form,
including
any
word processing or hypertext form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
_Sophocles was first,
Euripides second with the Cretan Women, Alcmaeon in Psophis,
Telephus
and
Alcestis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
The
Countess
(in her own right) of Burlatz, and of Beziers, be-
ing the wife of
The Vicomte of Beziers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
We have here restored two lines, marked in the manuscript as 6 and 7 (omitted from Erdman's transcription) on the grounds that the two cancelled lines following are
rewritten
as lines 2 and 3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
[End of the Second Night]
Ahania heard the
Lamentation
& a swift Vibration
Spread thro her Golden frame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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But now the evening curdles dank and grey,
Changing
her watchet hue for sombre weed;
And moping owls, to close the lids of day,
On drowsy wing proceed;
While chickering crickets, tremulous and long,
Light's farewell inly heed,
And give it parting song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
"
Good sooth--yet fire is not ingraft in wood,
But many are the seeds of heat, and when
Rubbing
together
they together flow,
They start the conflagrations in the forests.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
The
allusion, however, to the partial manner in which the public
lands were allotted could proceed only from a plebeian; and the
allusion to the
fraudulent
sale of spoils marks the date of the
poem, and shows that the poet shared in the general discontent
with which the proceedings of Camullus, after the taking of Veii,
were regarded.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
The lord of them speaks before any man:
"Listen to me, free knights and
valiant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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And set the flagon near me, that I may moisten my wit to
invent some
brilliant
notion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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In rear of all this group,
Two old men I beheld, dissimilar
In raiment, but in port and gesture like,
Solid and mainly grave; of whom the one
Did show himself some favour'd counsellor
Of the great Coan, him, whom nature made
To serve the costliest
creature
of her tribe.
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THE DRAGON OF THE BLACK POOL
A SATIRE
Deep the waters of the Black Pool,
coloured
like ink;
They say a Holy Dragon lives there, whom men have never seen.
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Every time he saw a shadow grope
Down the hillsides, from a flying cloud,
Something
touched his heart that made him proud:
Seemed to him he saw her dusky face
Watching over him, from place to place.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Oh, spare me,
Lucifer!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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But for the manner of
_Spaine_!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Behold me, who must here sustain
The marring agonies of pain,
Wrestling
with torture, doomed to bear
Eternal ages, year on year!
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Aeschylus |
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Imagists |
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I, my good Lord: safe in a ditch he bides,
With twenty
trenched
gashes on his head;
The least a Death to Nature
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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O the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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