--La graisse sous la peau parait en feuilles plates;
Et les
rondeurs
des reins semblent prendre l'essor.
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They had
journeyed
to Rome from afar, and here plaited for Ceres
Wreaths which the Romans today scorn to make for themselves.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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As I see my soul
reflected
in Nature,
As I see through a mist, One with inexpressible completeness,
sanity, beauty,
See the bent head and arms folded over the breast, the Female I see.
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SAS Note further that in Night One, page 9, Blake had inserted "Night the Second", even though the end of the First Night One is
indicated
on page 22.
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Blake - Zoas |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Rilke - Poems |
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He
trembles
for Orestes' wrath?
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Euripides - Electra |
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The King of
Melinda asks from GAMA an
historical
account of his nation.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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_
Caerulum
est viride cum nigro.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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If
only peace is concluded, the
borrower
will not have to pay back.
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Aristophanes |
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2 Li Chu, Prince of
Guangping
and Suzong?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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A
THANKSGIVING
TO GOD FOR HIS HOUSE.
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Robert Herrick |
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These
fencers in
religion
I like not.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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A Moment's Halt--a
momentary
taste
Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste--
And Lo!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Subordinate
to Urizen
And to his sons in their degrees & to his beauteous daughters {'In sevens & tens.
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Blake - Zoas |
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[Aside to
Horatio]
Dost know this
waterfly?
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Shakespeare |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Against the greedy birds, as wrath excites,
Astolpho with his brandished
faulchion
smites.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Dear, notable
goodwife!
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James Russell Lowell |
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The wine only served to
stimulate
his
imagination.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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1862]
_This poetic
effusion
of Mr.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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THE YEARS
TO-NIGHT I close my eyes and see
A strange
procession
passing me--
The years before I saw your face
Go by me with a wistful grace;
They pass, the sensitive shy years,
As one who strives to dance, half blind with tears.
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Sara Teasdale |
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I alone of all things
Fret with
unsluiced
fire.
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Sappho |
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It
bringeth
little profit, speech like this.
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Euripides - Electra |
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We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The wild musician,
The one that in doubt expires
As to whether from his breast or mine
Has spurted the sob more dire
Torn apart may it complete
Find rest on some path
beneath!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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She
prefaced
half a hint of this
With, "God forbid it should be true!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I rush there: when, at my feet, entwine (bruised
By the languor tasted in their being-two's evil)
Girls
sleeping
in each other's arms' sole peril:
I seize them without untangling them and run
To this bank of roses wasting in the sun
All perfume, hated by the frivolous shade
Where our frolic should be like a vanished day.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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'
And when I hear him at this daring task,
'Peace, little bird,' I say, 'and take some rest;
Stop that wild,
screaming
fire of angry song,
Before it makes a coffin of your nest.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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's banner
uplifted
began to pursue
the Swede-men.
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Beowulf |
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Which Venus hearing, thither came,
And for their
boldness
stript them;
And taking thence from each his flame,
With rods of myrtle whipt them.
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Robert Herrick |
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e
strondes
of
libye.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Then 'tis said Peleus burned with desire for Thetis, then
Thetis
contemned
not mortal hymenaeals, then Thetis' sire himself
sanctioned her joining to Peleus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The tender thrill, the pitying tear,
The gen'rous purpose, nobly dear,
The gentle look, that rage disarms--
These are all
immortal
charms.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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566-589), and thus completely equipped for his
adventure
he first
hears mass, and afterwards takes leave of Arthur, the knights of the
Round Table, and the lords and ladies of the court, who kiss him and
commend him to Christ.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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'Tis thy
message?
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Euripides - Electra |
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But when Earl Doorm had eaten all he would,
He rolled his eyes about the hall, and found
A damsel
drooping
in a corner of it.
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Tennyson |
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at giserne glyfte hym bysyde,
[C] As hit com
glydande
adoun, on glode hym to schende,
[D] & schranke a lytel with ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The
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Robert Herrick |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
XVI
If he had only known the wound
Which rankled in Tattiana's breast,
And if
Tattiana
mine had found--
If the poor maiden could have guessed
That the two friends with morning's light
Above the yawning grave would fight,--
Ah!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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There seemed a purple stile
Which little yellow boys and girls
Were
climbing
all the while
Till when they reached the other side,
A dominie in gray
Put gently up the evening bars,
And led the flock away.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Those ends in war the best
contentment
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Robert Herrick |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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2, 3) the Bard
prophesies
the fate of Edward II.
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Golden Treasury |
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Such and so
shameful
is the chain
Which Heaven's new tyrant doth ordain
To bind me helpless here.
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Aeschylus |
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You define me God with these
trinkets?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and
cultivated
fields, not
in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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We produce about two million dollars for each hour we work.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Oh, mourn not, Lalage--
Be
comforted!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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"
"Forty
thousand
rubles," said Herman coolly.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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--On n'est pas serieux, quand on a dix-sept ans
Et qu'on a des
tilleuls
verts sur la promenade.
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| Question: |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
XXXIV
With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee
As those, when thou shalt call me by my name--
Lo, the vain
promise!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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des
coureurs
sans repit,
Comme le Juif errant et comme les apotres,
A qui rien ne suffit, ni wagon ni vaisseau,
Pour fuir ce retiaire infame; il en est d'autres
Qui savent le tuer sans quitter leur berceau.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Victory to him was pain,
Till he had won his enemies by love;
Had leashed the eagle and
unloosed
the dove;
Setting on war's red roll the argent seal of peace.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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As fleets away the rapid hour
While weeping--may
My
sorrowing
lay
Touch thee, sweet flower.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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A hedge is about it, very tall,
Hazy and cool, and
breathing
sweet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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en
stabeled
his stede stif men in-no3e.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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| Question: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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a terrible space
recovring
in winter dire
Its wasted strength.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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They did so:
To th'
amazement
of mine eyes that look'd vpon't.
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| Question: |
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony
rubbish?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Portend the deeds to come:--but he whose nod
Has tumbled feebler despots from their sway,
A moment pauseth ere he lifts the rod;
A little moment deigneth to delay:
Soon will his legions sweep through these the way;
The West must own the
Scourger
of the world.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,
And almost thence my nature is subdu'd
To what it works in, like the dyer's hand:
Pity me, then, and wish I were renew'd;
Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink,
Potions of eisel 'gainst my strong infection;
No
bitterness
that I will bitter think,
Nor double penance, to correct correction.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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--
That starry night, with its clear silence, sent _1275
Tameless resolve which laughed at misery
Into my soul--linked
remembrance
lent
To that such power, to me such a severe content.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Is wealth thy
restless
game?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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For thy
humiliated
feet divine,
Of my Respect I'll make thee Slippers fine
Which, prisoning them within a gentle fold,
Shall keep their imprint like a faithful mould.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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For where can scaly
creatures
forward dart,
Save where the waters give them room?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Ulysses also, after
innumerable
troubles by sea and land, at last returned
in safety to Ithaca, which is the subject of Homer's Odyssey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Now therefore, while the
youtliful
hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew.
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Marvell - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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von (Robert), p39 1887, Internet Book Archive Images
Medusas,
miserable
heads
With hairs of violet
You enjoy the hurricane
And I enjoy the very same.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Constantyne, that is turned into dust,
Shall not retourne for to
mayntaine
thie lust;
But now his heires, that might not sett thee higher,
For thie greate pryde shall teare thye seate asonder,
And scourdge thee so that all the world shall wonder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Here let me rest; and let me have
This for my heaven that was Thy grave:
And, coveting no higher sphere,
I'll my
eternity
spend here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Is your sole virtue committing
outrage?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In Macedonian fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that achieving the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur, prospering everywhere,
Might tumble down in more
disastrous
fall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace
Our parting was fu' tender;
And
pledging
aft to meet again,
We tore oursels asunder;
But O!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Defeat means nothing but defeat,
No
drearier
can prevail!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
I--I--I am a government
official
at St.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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| Question: |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Elles me
trouvent
drole et se parlent tout bas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
By their exquisite farings
Is this granite specked;
Is trodden to
infinite
dust;
By gnawing lichens decked.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
frēcne
genēðdon
eafoð uncūðes (_we have boldly
risked, dared, the monster's power_), 961.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Sung at The fFeast of Los & Enitharmon
The Mountain Ephraim calld out to the
mountain
Zion: Awake O Brother Mountain
Let us refuse the Plow & Space, the heavy Roller & spiked
Harrow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
O Fosterer of the Helicon Hill, sprung from Urania, who beareth the gentle
virgin to her mate, O Hymenaeus Hymen, O Hymen
Hymenaeus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
120
To whom our Saviour
fervently
reply'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Most of the
subsidiary
matter is foisted in with monstrous
clumsiness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
7993), and
_irattutu_
in Zimmern, _Shurpu_, Index.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Have I said
anything
yet that you disapprove
of?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
To read the sense the woods impart
You must bring the
throbbing
heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
The
Macmillan
Co.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Often a hidden god
inhabits
obscure being;
And like an eye, born, covered by its eyelids,
Pure spirit grows beneath the surface of stones!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
As soon as seen, the maid who rode at speed
The warrior knew, and, while yet distant, scanned
The angelic
features
and the gentle air
Which long had held him fast in Cupid's snare.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Wish not to fill the isles with eyes
To fetch thee birds of paradise:
On thine orchard's edge belong
All the brags of plume and song;
Wise Ali's sunbright sayings pass
For proverbs in the market-place:
Through
mountains
bored by regal art,
Toil whistles as he drives his cart.
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Emerson - Poems |
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His
thoughts
are the hymns of the praise of things.
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Whitman |
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I've notic'd, on our laird's court-day,--
An' mony a time my heart's been wae,--
Poor tenant bodies, scant o'cash,
How they maun thole a factor's snash;
He'll stamp an' threaten, curse an' swear
He'll
apprehend
them, poind their gear;
While they maun stan', wi' aspect humble,
An' hear it a', an' fear an' tremble!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The intercession of Karamzine and Joukovski
procured
a commutation
of his sentence.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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