'
'Shame, Shame,' seyde Ielousy,
'To be
bitrasshed
gret drede have I.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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He, _Lady_, but hee's gone, 45
Vpon my
entreaty
of him, ?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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And this delightful Herb whose tender Green
Fledges the River's Lip on which we lean--
Ah, lean upon it
lightly!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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_Enter from the other side_ THANATOS; _a crouching black-haired and
winged figure,
carrying
a drawn sword.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Post 107 lacunam statui trium uersuum
110
_gaudiaque_
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Latin - Catullus |
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_
Ah, better at the elm-tree's
sunbrowned
feet
If he had been content to let life fleet
Its wonted way!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Suetonius in a few
casual
paragraphs
gives us some insight into his literary tastes and
methods.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of
children
are heard on the green,
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And everything else is still.
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blake-poems |
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Paley does see
that a character may be "well-drawn" without
necessarily
being "pleasing";
and even that he may be eminently pleasing as a part of the play while
very displeasing in himself.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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In the mythical poem, _Kings in Legends_, this
concrete element in the art of Rilke has found perhaps its supreme
expression:
"Kings in old legends seem
Like
mountains
rising in the evening light.
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Rilke - Poems |
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EPITAPH ON AN INFANT
Its balmy lips the infant blest
Relaxing
from its mother's breast,
How sweet it heaves the happy sigh
Of innocent satiety!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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A Hundred Collars
LANCASTER
bore him--such a little town,
Such a great man.
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Robert Forst |
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) Thrasea, who killed Nero, is
particularly
recorded in the Annals, book xvi.
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Tacitus |
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Nine days by cruel storms thence was I borne
Athwart the fishy Deep, but on the tenth
Reach'd the Lotophagi, a race sustain'd
On
sweetest
fruit alone.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Be sulky in his arms: the weather soon
Will
pleasantly
favour thee again.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For never can true reconcilement grow
Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc'd so deep:
Which would but lead me to a worse relapse 100
And heavier fall: so should I purchase deare
Short
intermission
bought with double smart.
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Milton |
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How odd the girl's life looks
Behind this soft
eclipse!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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- What have you done, O you there
Who
endlessly
cry,
Say: what have you done, there
With youth gone by?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I was
imprisoned
in your days and
nights--and I sought a door into larger days and nights.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Nuremberg
and New
York.
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Byron |
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which
sanctifies
all this.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The
troopers
thought they could hear far off, and as if below
them, rattle of hoofs; but now the ground began to slope more and more,
and the speed grew more headlong moment by moment.
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Yeats |
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You are, and doe not know't:
The Spring, the Head, the
Fountaine
of your Blood
Is stopt, the very Source of it is stopt
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And see, a
threatening
arm, an angry brow!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Thus each was borne by three, and I, at last,
The curl'd back seizing of a ram, (for one
I had reserv'd far stateliest of them all)
Slipp'd underneath his belly, and both hands 510
Enfolding
fast in his exub'rant fleece,
Clung ceaseless to him as I lay supine.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The heritage of a kingly mind,
And a proud spirit which hath striven
Triumphantly
with human kind.
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Poe - 5 |
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Thy father's combat {7a} a feud enkindled
when Heatholaf with hand he slew
among the Wylfings; his Weder kin
for horror of
fighting
feared to hold him.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I will not be a reed to hold the sound
Of
whatsoever
breath the gods may blow,
Turning my torment into music for them.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"
I
satisfied
his curiosity.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The sonnets of Les
Antiquites
provide a fascinating comment on the Classical Roman world as seen from the viewpoint of the French Renaissance.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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--Et si, devant nos cris, devant notre vengeance,
Les pattes des vieux rois mordores, sur la France
Poussaient
leurs regiments en habits de gala,
Eh bien, n'est-ce pas, vous tous?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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It is
for this reason that we oppose the cosmic poet, who seems to us to shirk
the real
difficulties
of his art.
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Imagists |
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I, proud of my murmur, intend to speak at length
Of goddesses: and with
idolatrous
paintings
Remove again from shadow their waists' bindings:
So that when I've sucked the grapes' brightness
To banish a regret done away with by my pretence,
Laughing, I raise the emptied stem to the summer's sky
And breathing into those luminous skins, then I,
Desiring drunkenness, gaze through them till evening.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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IV
Then gan
triumphant
Trompets sound on hie,
That sent to heaven the ecchoed report
Of their new joy, and happie victorie 30
Gainst him, that had them long opprest with tort,
And fast imprisoned in sieged fort.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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After having vied with returned favours
squandered
treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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_Haen_, had, (the
participle
of hae); haven.
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Robert Burns |
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[_Two
officers
of the town fix the edict to the wall, and
the_ CRIER _and the crowd depart.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The porter of my father's lodge
As much
abasheth
me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Men
succeeding
shall beware
And woemen cruell, no more fayre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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My path is not thy path, yet
together
we walk, hand
in hand.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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That
elusive something, that spirit, will be what
distinguishes
Coleridge's
finest verse from the verse of, well, perhaps of every conscious artist in
our language.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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In the dusk of the shelves, embossed
Shine the volumes in gold and browns,
And you think of countries once crossed,
Of pictures, of
shimmering
gowns
Of the women that you have lost.
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Rilke - Poems |
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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.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Up she rose with
scornful
eyes, as her father's child might rise--
_Toll slowly.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to
darkness
utterly,
It might be well perhaps.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Ah, when I die, and planets hold their flight
Above my grave, still let my spirit keep
Sometimes
its vigil of divine remorse,
'Midst pity, praise, or blame heaped o'er my corse!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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There was once a day, but old Time wasythen young,
That brave Caledonia, the chief of her line,
From some of your
northern
deities sprung,
(Who knows not that brave Caledonia's divine?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Or is the last _all_
ultramarine?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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You've not surprised my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It
trembles
in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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What a thin
membrane
of honour
that is!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Readers will be able to make for
themselves the obvious and
striking
contrasts between these first and
last phases of Oscar Wilde's literary activity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Wilde - Poems |
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The death of Prince Henry (1594-1612) evoked more elegiac poetry Latin
and English than the death of any single man has
probably
ever done.
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| Question: |
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John Donne |
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) to a mystical and
allegorical
sense.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Abortive then and
shapeless
ye remain,
Like the untimely embryon of a worm!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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" the sage replied,
"Dost thou not mark a gleaming through the tide,
Of divers
brilliances?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Footsteps
of stranger and foe--
Footsteps of friends, could we meet--
Alike to me in my sorrow;
Alike to a life left alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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crept the
question
through
her mind,
Since keen enemies were watching for what prizes they might find:
And she paused a while and pondered, with a pretty little sigh;
Then resolve crept through her features, and a shrewdness fired
her eye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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_
Houghton
Mifflin Company, Boston,
1912.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Were he not gone,
The woodchuck could say whether it's like his
Long sleep, as I
describe
its coming on,
Or just some human sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread
tribunal
of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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In the nation that is not
Nothing stands that stood before;
There
revenges
are forgot,
And the hater hates no more;
Lovers lying two and two
Ask not whom they sleep beside,
And the bridegroom all night through
Never turns him to the bride.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Below us, on the rock-edge,
where earth is caught in the fissures
of the jagged cliff,
a small tree stiffens in the gale,
it bends--but its white flowers
are
fragrant
at this height.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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O wander without
brooding
through these valleys,
Through every oft-entwining path again.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Who can
contemplate
fame through clouds unfold
The star which rises o'er her steep, nor climb?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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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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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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ON THE NEW FORCERS OF
CONSCIENCE
UNDER THE LONG PARLIAMENT.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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A very
righteous
law!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
XXIV
"The Greek shall come against thee,
The
conqueror
of the East.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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lest they say a lesser light
distraught
thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
The
struggle
between the two heroes, where Enkidu strives
to rescue his friend from the fatal charms of Ishara, is probably
depicted on seals also.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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' The worst is that we don't know when it will happen, and I
believe the
uncertainty
and the waiting have sent Dick to the whiskey
more than anything else.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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methinks
ye measure
Your movements to some heavenly tune!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore,
And the
individual
withers, and the world is more and more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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O love, in mercy, now, thy
swiftest
pinions grant me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
THE TIGER
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What
immortal
hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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ne ben not oonly despoiled of
sykernesse
but of defence 500
{and} ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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tō
gebīdanne
ōðres yrfeweardes, _to await
another heir_, 2453.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Their near camp my spirit knows
By signs
gracious
as rainbows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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for
herdsman
and for herd!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Many of them are from the
official
song-book of the dynasty and
are known as Yo Fu or Music Bureau poems, as distinct from _shih_, which
were recited.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Only the houses are
blocking
the sun there, it's not yet the mountains.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Next all the tongues
They cast into the fire, and ev'ry guest
Arising, pour'd
libation
to the Gods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
_ Have I not loved you for a
thousand
years?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
--
Every two-legged creature that goes in breeches
Can mock me with sneers and stinging
speeches!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
The
harlot
commands
him to eat and drink also:
"It is the conformity of life,
Of the conditions and fate of the Land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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A watcher of Thy spaces make me,
Make me a
listener
at Thy stone,
Give to me vision and then wake me
Upon Thy oceans all alone.
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Rilke - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Our
projected
audience
is one hundred million readers.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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When Goethe said of Hugo and the Romanticists that they came
from Chateaubriand, he should have
substituted
the name of
Rousseau--"Romanticism, it is Rousseau," exclaims Pierre Lasserre.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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