For some we loved, the
loveliest
and the best
That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest,
Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before,
And one by one crept silently to rest.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had
elsewhere
its setting
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness
And not in utter nakedness
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
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Golden Treasury |
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Andrew's night,
My future
sweetheart
in the body.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I have the talents fathom'd and the minds
Of num'rous Heroes, and have travell'd far
Yet never saw I with these eyes in man
Such firmness as the calm Ulysses own'd;
None such as in the wooden horse he proved,
Where all our bravest sat,
designing
woe
And bloody havoc for the sons of Troy.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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LXXV
So are you to my
thoughts
as food to life,
Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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[190] The emblem of the fecundity of nature; it consisted of a
representation, generally grotesquely exaggerated, of the male genital
organs; the phallophori crowned with violets and ivy and their faces
shaded with green foliage, sang
improvised
airs, called 'Phallics,' full
of obscenity and suggestive 'double entendres.
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Aristophanes |
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PART VI
The Mariner hath been cast into a trance; for the angelic power causeth the
vessel to drive
northward
faster than human life could endure.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Land of boatmen and
sailors!
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Whitman |
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Your wings,
brushing
it, spill never a drop
From the glass I fill, from which my thirst I quench.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Retire we instant to our native reign,
Nor be the wealth of kings
consumed
in vain;
Then wed whom choice approves: the queen be given
To some blest prince, the prince decreed by Heaven.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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The only
difference
between the saint and the sinner is that every saint
has a past and every sinner has a future.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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X
This while does good duke Aymon's
daughter
mourn,
Because those twenty days so slowly trail:
-- Which term elapsed -- Rogero should return,
And be received into her church's pale.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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O versed in every, turn of human art,
Forgive the
weakness
of a woman's heart!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
Zourine
directly
settled matters.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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copyright
law means that no one owns a United States
copyright
in these works,
so the Foundation (and you!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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MARGARETE:
Wollte nicht mit
seinesgleichen
leben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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If her breath were as
terrible
as her terminations,
there were no living near her; she would infect to the North
Star.
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Shakespeare |
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Say, I intreat thee, what
achievement
high
Is, in this restless world, for me reserv'd.
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Keats |
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>>;
ond' elli: <
ch'i' solva il mio dovere anzi ch'i' mova:
giustizia
vuole e pieta mi ritene>>.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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her
quickening
voice I hear!
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Petrarch |
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He saide; the loieaul broders lefte the place,
Success and cheerfulness
depicted
on ech face.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"If a kiss had been
imprinted?
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Kipling - Poems |
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ECLOGUE VI
TO VARUS
First my Thalia stooped in sportive mood
To
Syracusan
strains, nor blushed within
The woods to house her.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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His parents were obscure and vulgar
people; and he himself a
wretched
outcast:
with the emblem of [his] crooked mind
Marked on [his] back like Cain by God's own hand.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Les Odes: O
Fontaine
Bellerie
O Fount of Bellerie,
Fountain sweet to see,
Dear to our Nymphs when, lo,
Waves hide them at your source
Fleeing the Satyr so,
Who follows them, in his course,
To the borders of your flow.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Damp smoke, rank mist fill the dark square;
and round the bend six
bullocks
come.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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TO TIRZAH
Whate'er is born of mortal birth
Must be consumed with the earth,
To rise from
generation
free:
Then what have I to do with thee?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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(Vulcan had not been one
thousandth
so vexed to discover his playmate
Under his meshes ensnared, caught with his own lusty friend,
Lying just as the wiles of the net at the most crucial moment
Deftly embraced their embrace, trapping their instant of joy.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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e Lyouns;
forswelewed
hem vchone;
And so oure lorde euer among; take?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The simple Bard, rough at the rustic plough,
Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough;
The chanting linnet, or the mellow thrush,
Hailing the setting sun, sweet, in the green thorn bush;
The soaring lark, the perching red-breast shrill,
Or deep-ton'd plovers grey, wild-whistling o'er the hill;
Shall he--nurst in the peasant's lowly shed,
To hardy
independence
bravely bred,
By early poverty to hardship steel'd.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_
Spring up--sway forward--
follow the
quickest
one,
aye, though you leave the trail
and drop exhausted at our feet.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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A crowd of Kangaroos and
gigantic
Cranes accompanied
them, from feelings of curiosity and complacency; so that they were never
at a loss for company, and went onward, as it were, in a sort of profuse
and triumphant procession.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
I
THE happiest day-the happiest hour
My seared and
blighted
heart hath known,
The highest hope of pride and power,
I feel hath flown.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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--
or fancy I'm
lonesome?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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THEN you are wrong, said she,--most truly so,
For he's a good-for-nothing wretch I know;
You'll scarcely credit it, but t'other day,
He had the
barefaced
impudence to say,
He loved me much, and then his passion pressed:
I'd nearly fallen, I was so distressed.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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t thou enuy my
delight?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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let thy tears no longer swell
The torrent of the
Egyptian
river: Lo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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We fly past the cliffs of Ithaca, Laertes' realm,
and curse the land,
fostress
of cruel Ulysses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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And now, perhaps, he's hunting sheep,
A fierce and
dreadful
hunter he!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Whilst I, from boyhood up, a
wretched
monk,
Wander from cell to cell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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O, Jenny, dinna toss your head,
An' set your
beauties
a' abread!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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at han o same
p{ur}pos
by
kynde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Not tears for the dead nor sighs,
But worship and joy divine
Shall win thee peace in thy skies,
O
daughter
mine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Rodrigue
To possess Chimene, and do you service,
What will my weapons not
accomplish?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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The women keep the generous creature bare,
A sleek and idle race is all their care:
The master gone, the servants what
restrains?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Nothing is sure for me but what's uncertain:
Obscure,
whatever
is plainly clear to see:
I've no doubt, except of everything certain:
Science is what happens accidentally:
I win it all, yet a loser I'm bound to be:
Saying: 'God give you good even!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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It fell out otherwise
Than he divined, for when, by aid of Heaven,
The Hellenes held the victory on the sea,
Their sailors then and there begirt themselves
With brazen mail and bounded from their ships,
And then
enringed
the islet, point by point,
So that our Persians in bewilderment
Knew not which way to turn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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How might a wight in torment and in drede
And helelees, yow sende as yet
gladnesse?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The Latin
philosophy was borrowed, without alteration, from the Portico and
the Academy; and the great Latin orators
constantly
proposed to
themselves as patterns the speeches of Demosthenes and Lysias.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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For whi ful
anguissous
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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" or Hogan-Yale of the White
Hussars, leading his squadron for all it was worth, with the price of
horseshoes thrown in; or "Tick" Boileau, trying to live up to his fierce
blue and gold turban while the wasps of the Bengal Cavalry stretched
to a gallop in the wake of the long,
lollopping
Walers of the White
Hussars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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[10] In
allusion
to Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
Came, as through
bubbling
honey, for Love's sake,
And thus; while Hermes on his pinions lay,
Like a stoop'd falcon ere he takes his prey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Je l'ai dit tout a
l'heure et je sais que je ne suis pas le seul a le penser: Rimbaud en
prose est peut-etre
superieur
a celui en vers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Sleep is
supposed
to be,
By souls of sanity,
The shutting of the eye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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So hold your ground, we be not
overborne!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
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: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Chimene
Is it to your
boasting
I must listen?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
[12] This scene not
improbably
illustrates the
effort of Enkidu to rescue his friend from the goddess.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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We
wandered
from pine-hills
through oak and scrub-oak tangles,
we broke hyssop and bramble,
we caught flower and new bramble-fruit
in our hair: we laughed
as each branch whipped back,
we tore our feet in half buried rocks
and knotted roots and acorn-cups.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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What tears of bitter grief till then
unknown!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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No more of
wailing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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I looked for this;
consider
what I see--
But I forbear, 'twould please nor you nor me
To check the items in the bitter list
Of all I counted on and all I mist.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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"
This interesting optical illusion--which suggests the
wonderful
island
in the Atlantic, seen from the isles of Aran near Galway, alluded to in
the 'Chorographical description of West, or H-Ier-Connaught', of R.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF
REPLACEMENT
OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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"
The dawn had chas'd the matin hour of prime,
Which deaf before it, so that from afar
I spy'd the
trembling
of the ocean stream.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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REVOLT
AGAINST THE CREPUSCULAR SPIRIT IN MODERN POETRY
WOULD shake off the
lethargy
of this our time, I and give
For shadows shapes of power, For dreams men.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Yes, thrice have I this fair
enchantment
seen;
Once more been tortured with renewed life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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He, of all heroes I heard of ever
from sea to sea, of the sons of earth,
most
excellent
seemed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Petrousha shall not go to
Petersburg!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Of Nelson and the North
Sing the
glorious
day's renown,
When to battle fierce came forth
All the might of Denmark's crown,
And her arms along the deep proudly shone;
By each gun the lighted brand
In a bold determined hand,
And the Prince of all the land
Led them on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Holy Odd's
bodykins
!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
" "Turn thyself round, and keep
Thy count'nance hid; for if the Gorgon dire
Be shown, and thou
shouldst
view it, thy return
Upwards would be for ever lost.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Far shone the fields of May through open door,
The sacred altar
blossomed
white with May,
The Sun of May descended on their King,
They gazed on all earth's beauty in their Queen,
Rolled incense, and there past along the hymns
A voice as of the waters, while the two
Sware at the shrine of Christ a deathless love:
And Arthur said, 'Behold, thy doom is mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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I had trod the road which Dante
treading
saw
the suns of seven circles shine,
Ay!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
'
I called this a 'Fable for Critics;' you think it's
More like a display of my rhythmical trinkets;
My plot, like an icicle's slender and slippery, 320
Every moment more slender, and likely to slip awry,
And the reader unwilling _in loco desipere_
Is free to jump over as much of my frippery
As he fancies, and, if he's a
provident
skipper, he
May have like Odysseus control of the gales,
And get safe to port, ere his patience quite fails;
Moreover, although 'tis a slender return
For your toil and expense, yet my paper will burn,
And, if you have manfully struggled thus far with me,
You may e'en twist me up, and just light your cigar with me: 330
If too angry for that, you can tear me in pieces,
And my _membra disjecta_ consign to the breezes,
A fate like great Ratzau's, whom one of those bores,
Who beflead with bad verses poor Louis Quatorze,
Describes (the first verse somehow ends with _victoire_),
As _dispersant partout et ses membres et sa gloire;_
Or, if I were over-desirous of earning
A repute among noodles for classical learning,
I could pick you a score of allusions, i-wis,
As new as the jests of _Didaskalos tis;_ 340
Better still, I could make out a good solid list
From authors recondite who do not exist,--
But that would be naughty: at least, I could twist
Something out of Absyrtus, or turn your inquiries
After Milton's prose metaphor, drawn from Osiris;
But, as Cicero says he won't say this or that
(A fetch, I must say, most transparent and flat),
After saying whate'er he could possibly think of,--
I simply will state that I pause on the brink of
A mire, ankle-deep, of deliberate confusion, 350
Made up of old jumbles of classic allusion:
So, when you were thinking yourselves to be pitied,
Just conceive how much harder your teeth you'd have gritted,
An 'twere not for the dulness I've kindly omitted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
MARMADUKE That such a One,
So pious in
demeanour!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
_ What squeezing and pushing, what rustling and
hustling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
" And he tapped his
monstrous
paunch, whence came a
sonorous echo as the commentary to his obscene speech.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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So, if great things to small may be compar'd,
Xerxes, the Libertie of Greece to yoke,
From Susa his Memnonian Palace high
Came to the Sea, and over Hellespont
Bridging his way, Europe with Asia joyn'd, 310
And scourg'd with many a stroak th'
indignant
waves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth, --
The
sweeping
up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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* * * * *
[Illustration]
There was an Old Man with a nose,
Who said, "If you choose to suppose
That my nose is too long, you are
certainly
wrong!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Another song did fold its wings
Upon my lips in other days,
When round the bath and round the bed
The
hymeneal
chant instead
I sang for thee, and smiled,--
And thou didst lead, with gifts and vows,
Hesione, my father's child,
To be thy wedded spouse.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Full five and twenty years he lived
A running
huntsman
merry;
And, though he has but one eye left,
His cheek is like a cherry.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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In her strange fairy mill-wheel eyes will wait
All
windings
and unwindings of the highways,
From India, across America,--
All windings and unwindings of my fancy,
All windings and unwindings of all souls,
All windings and unwindings of the heavens.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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: _mutum_ D || _ne
quicquam_
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Latin - Catullus |
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_ Gabriel, thou
Gabriel!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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XXIV
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd,
Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;
My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,
And
perspective
it is best painter's art.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Differences of taste and judgment, however, have arisen among the
contributors to that book; growing
tendencies
are forcing them along
different paths.
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Imagists |
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Wait not to feel the might
Of the
potentest
spell in all my treasure!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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he is sunk down into a deadly sleep
But we
immortal
in our strength survive by stern debate
Till we have drawn the Lamb of god into a mortal form
And that he must be born is certain for One must be All
And comprehend within himself all things both small & great
We therefore for whose sake all things aspire to be be & live
Will so recieve the Divine Image that amongst the Reprobate
He may be devoted to Destruction from his mothers womb {This group of 9 lines, "Refusing.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Let Earth, with grain and cattle rife,
Crown Ceres' brow with
wreathen
corn;
Soft winds, sweet waters, nurse to life
The newly born!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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neither base by birth thou seem'st,
Nor unintelligent, (but Jove, the King
Olympian, gives to good and bad alike
Prosperity
according to his will,
And grief to thee, which thou must patient bear,)
Now, therefore, at our land and city arrived,
Nor garment thou shalt want, nor aught beside
Due to a suppliant guest like thee forlorn.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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" So much for my last words: now for a few present
remarks, as they have
occurred
at random, on looking over your list.
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Robert Burns |
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"
Aunt Helen
Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt,
And lived in a small house near a fashionable square
Cared for by
servants
to the number of four.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The Serpent
The Fall
'The Fall'
Anonymous,
Hieronymus
Cock, c.
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Appoloinaire |
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By starlight and moonlight,
He seeks the Briton's camp;
He hears the rustling flag,
And the armed sentry's tramp;
And the starlight and moonlight
His silent
wanderings
lamp.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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