At half-past
eleven enter the
vestibule
boldly, and if you see any one, inquire for
the Countess; if not, ascend the stairs, turn to the left and go on
until you come to a door, which opens into her bedchamber.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Long, long ago they passed threescore-and-ten,
And in this doll's house lived
together
then;
All things they have in common, being so poor,
And their one fear, Death's shadow at the door.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Now know I what Love is: 'mid savage rocks
Tmaros or Rhodope brought forth the boy,
Or
Garamantes
in earth's utmost bounds-
No kin of ours, nor of our blood begot.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Or the
glistening
Eye to the poison of a smile!
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blake-poems |
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ADMETUS (_in an awed whisper, looking
towards_
ALCESTIS).
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Something
I said about "those high
Abodes of all the blest" provoked his temper.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The hero sought his guest Aeneas in the privacy of his
dwelling, mindful of their talk and his
promised
bounty.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Upon his fragile form the troopers' bloody grip
Was deeply dug, while sharply
challenged
they:
"Were you one of this currish crew?
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Hugo - Poems |
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so his fame
Should share in Nature's immortality,
A
venerable
thing!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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As, lo, this man, not great in Argos, not
With pride of house uplifted, in a lot
Of
unmarked
life hath shown a prince's grace.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Bright as a cloudless summer sun,
With stately port he moves;
His
guardian
Seraph eyes with awe
The noble Ward he loves.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Delyt thus hangith, drede thee nought,
Bothe mannis body and his thought,
Only thurgh Youthe, his chamberere, 4935
That to don yvel is customere,
And of nought elles taketh hede
But only folkes for to lede
Into
disporte
and wildenesse,
So is [she] froward from sadnesse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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_ Are dim
exponents
of the creature-life
As earth contains it.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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NOTE:
_7
For]With
1829.
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Shelley |
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"
Faces
I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that
was but a single
countenance
as if held in a mould.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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WILKE,
FRIEDRICH
WILHELM.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I hear a haggard student turn and sigh:
I hear men begging Heaven to let them die:
And,
drowning
all, a wild-eyed woman's cry.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Over sea, over shore, where the cannons loudly roar,
He still was a
stranger
to fear;
And nocht could him quail, or his bosom assail,
But the bonie lass he lo'ed sae dear.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Like the tolling bell
Of a convent curst;
Like the billowy roar
On a storm-lashed shore,--
Now hushed, but once more
Maddening
to its worst.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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O dulci iocunda viro, iocunda parenti,
Salve, teque bona Iuppiter auctet ope,
Ianua, quam Balbo dicunt
servisse
benigne
Olim, cum sedes ipse senex tenuit,
Quamque ferunt rursus voto servisse maligno, 5
Postquam es porrecto facta marita sene.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Doth not the yearning spirit scorn
In such scant borders to be
spanned?
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James Russell Lowell |
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The light
Coquettes
in Sylphs aloft repair, 65
And sport and flutter in the fields of Air.
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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60
Early leaves drop loitering down
Weightless
on the breeze,
First fruits of the year's decay
From the withering trees.
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Christina Rossetti |
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It perseveres if grief be all its view,
And
squanders
gems for which no mortal thanks,
And blesses when self as sacrifice it burns.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Ces vers etaient d'un monsieur qui faisait
beaucoup
de sonnets
a l'epoque et de qui le nom m'echappe.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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Villon |
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"
The
courtier
smooth, who forty years had shined
An humble servant to all human kind,
Just brought out this, when scarce his tongue could stir,
"If--where I'm going--I could serve you, sir?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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ciuilis etiam motus
cognataque
bella
significant.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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[13] _Fragments and
Specimens
of Early Latin_ pp.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Every one who reads
acknowledges
her fame, concedes her supremacy; but to
all except poets and Hellenists her name is a vague and uncomprehended
splendour, rising secure above a persistent mist of misconception.
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Sappho |
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Your
misfortune
even lent you fresh dimension.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Soul's Birth
When you were born, beloved, was your soul
New made by God to match your body's flower,
And were they both at one same
precious
hour
Sent forth from heaven as a perfect whole?
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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The only live thing in the room
Was the old clock, that in its pace
Kept time with the revolving spheres
And constellations in their flight,
And struck with its
uplifted
mace
The dark, unconscious hours of night,
To senseless and unlistening ears.
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Longfellow |
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But
evidently
success in these cases was
due to the exceptional and fortunate fact that the fixed notorieties of
history were combined with a strange and mysterious geography.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering
fuel in vacant lots.
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T.S. Eliot |
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As
daylight
broke,
along with his earls the atheling lord,
with his clansmen, came where the king abode
waiting to see if the Wielder-of-All
would turn this tale of trouble and woe.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I do confess thee sweet, but find
Thou art so
thriftless
o' thy sweets,
Thy favours are the silly wind
That kisses ilka thing it meets.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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1 This is the
emanation
of Suzong?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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[11]
The action is thus easily
divisible
into two main lines; the
devil-plot, involving the fortunes of Satan, Pug and Iniquity, and
the satirical or main plot.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"At thy name though
compassion
her nature resign,
"Though in virtue's proud mouth thy report be a stain,
"My care, if the arm of the mighty were mine,
"Would plant thee where yet thou might'st blossom again.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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De ces grands yeux si fervents et si tendres,
De cette bouche ou mon coeur se noya,
De ces baisers puissants comme un dictame,
De ces
transports
plus vifs que des rayons.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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If true, if faithful thou, her
grateful
mind
Of decent robes a present has design'd:
So finding favour in the royal eye,
Thy other wants her subjects shall supply.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
He spurs his horse, that on with speed doth strain;
Which should forfeit, they both
together
came.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Since a Norman duke broke your gods of clay,
Eternally, beneath Virgil's laurel spray,
The pale
hydrangea
is wed to the green myrtle.
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| Question: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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TO BE NEAR HER
RECOMPENSES
HIM FOR ALL THE PERILS OF THE WAY.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Truly divinity hangs about the imperial tombs, rites of
sweeping
and sprinkling will not be omitted.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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--All honest hearts
Must sorrow for a
brightness
that departs,
A good life worn away.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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The
octogenarian
chief, Byzantium's conquering foe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The Vizier was
generous
and
kept his word.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And those who
husbanded
the Golden Grain,
And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain,
Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd
As, buried once, Men want dug up again.
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| Question: |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Peter sent to King Pepin in the year of grace
755, that of the Virgin to the
magistrates
of Messina, that of the
Sanhedrim of Toledo to Annas and Caiaphas, A.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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THROUGH the casement a noble-child saw
In the spring-time golden and green,
As he harked to the swallow's lore,
And looked so
rejoiced
and keen.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Never, never,
gracious
Bacchus, may I move thee 'gainst thy will,
Or uncover what is hidden in the verdure of thy shade!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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| Question: |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I know my need, I know thy giving hand,
I crave thy
friendship
at thy kind command;
But there are such who court the tuneful Nine--
Heavens!
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Meanwhile the chiefs, arriving at the shade
Where late the spoils of Hector's spy were laid,
Ulysses stopp'd; to him Tydides bore
The trophy,
dropping
yet with Dolon's gore:
Then mounts again; again their nimbler feet
The coursers ply, and thunder towards the fleet.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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[407] After that you
will see snakes and all sorts of fearful
monsters
.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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By the turning, once again,
The moon
thniwfeh
up your visage wan,
And yet too late to call you back.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The
scansion
is thus indicated by Wilke
(_Metrische Untersuchungen_, p.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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that «toy, my dear I
His
disordered
locks he tare,
And with rolling eyes did glare.
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| Question: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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TO MAKE AN
AMBLONGUS
PIE.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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ter_ G,
quod et in R fuerat
93-6 tamquam iniuria repetitos ablegarunt Froehlich,
Hoerschelmann, Birt
93 _ei_ D, non O ||
_adeptum_
GORVen
98 _cineris_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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)
But the shapes of men that pass
Are as ghosts within a glass,
Woven with
whiteness
of the swan,
Pale, sad memories, gleaming wan
From the garment's purple fold
Where Troy's tale is twined and told.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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That evening the
unbeliever
went to the temple and prostrated himself
before the altar and prayed the gods to forgive his wayward past.
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| Question: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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My heart more love than your
forgetfulness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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SINCE these, replied the YOUTH, your thoughts appear,
What think you of our landlord's
daughter
here?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside,
And naked on the Air of Heaven ride,
Were't not a Shame--were't not a Shame for him
In this clay carcass
crippled
to abide?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Our
knocking
ha's awak'd him: here he comes
Lenox.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Your name from hence
immortal
life shall have,
Though I, once gone, to all the world must die:
The earth can yield me but a common grave,
When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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e cite,
godus
seruaunt
forte be,
?
| 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 see how dark the
backward
stream!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The sober lav'rock, warbling wild,
Shall to the skies aspire;
The gowdspink, Music's gayest child,
Shall sweetly join the choir;
The
blackbird
strong, the lintwhite clear,
The mavis mild and mellow;
The robin pensive Autumn cheer,
In all her locks of yellow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Pronounce
it for me Sir, to all our Friends,
For my heart speakes, they are welcome.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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LXXV
Rinaldo, who thus
ravished
from his hand,
By ancient Aymon's craft his sister spied,
And saw he could no more in wedlock's band
Dispose of her, by him in vain affied,
Of his old sire complains, and him doth brand,
Laying his filial love and fear aside:
But little him Rinaldo's words molest;
Who by the maid will do as likes him best.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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My
watchful
dog, whose starts of furious ire,
When stranger passed, so often I have check'd; 1798.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Et c'est depuis ce temps que, pareil aux prophetes,
J'aime si
tendrement
le desert et la mer;
Que je ris dans les deuils et pleure dans les fetes,
Et trouve un gout suave au vin le plus amer;
Que je prends tres souvent les faits pour des mensonges
Et que, les yeux au ciel, je tombe dans des trous.
| 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 exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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And where is the band who so
vauntingly
swore,
'Mid the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country they'd leave us no more?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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")_
Weak is the People--but will grow beyond all other--
Within thy holy arms, thou
fruitful
victor-mother!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Hodgson ("Edward Melbourne"); "Courage," by
Lieutenant Dyneley Hussey; "Optimism," by
Lieutenant
A.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Erdman does not note this
placement
in his edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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ON
EGNATIUS
OF THE WHITE TEETH.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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nurse, nurse, you don't
understand!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Forth from Sabryna ran a ryverre cleere,
Roarynge
and rolleynge on yn course bysmare[51]; 95
From female Vyncente shotte a ridge of stones,
Eche syde the ryver rysynge heavenwere;
Sabrynas floode was helde ynne Elstryds bones.
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He says, Take thou my wool
But spare my life, but he knows not that the winter cometh fast
The Spider sits in his labourd Web, eager
watching
for the Fly
Presently comes a famishd Bird & takes away the Spider
His Web is left all desolate, that his little anxious heart
So careful wove; & spread it out with sighs and weariness.
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Chorus--O why should Fate sic pleasure have,
Life's dearest bands
untwining?
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By the bold son
Amphimedon
was slain,
And Polybus renown'd, the faithful swain.
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And they had the
admiration
for Henry V.
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Yeats |
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yif[e] we to
orpheus his wijf to bere hym
co{m}paignye
he ha?
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See the
illustrations
in F.
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And the blades of your
poniards
are half unsheathed
In your belt--and ye frown on me!
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Hugo - Poems |
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The
variations
of importance (exclusive of many in the spelling)
are set down below [2].
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' -- `For that thou
sholdest
never spede.
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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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