Who are you, lying in his place on the bed
And rigid and
indifferent
to me?
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The third in order,
underneath
her, lo!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I'm
enchanted
to hear it,'
Cried Apollo aside.
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Time had to be bought;
so
Pleasanton
ordered Major Peter Keenan, commanding the Eighth
Pennsylvania Cavalry (four hundred strong), to charge the advancing
ten thousand of the enemy.
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I know not who these mute folk are
Who share the unlit place with me--
Those stones out under the low-limbed tree
Doubtless
bear names that the mosses mar.
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A moment we saw her turret,
A little heel she gave,
And a thin white spray went o'er her,
Like the crest of a
breaking
wave--
In that great iron coffin,
The channel for their grave,
The fort their monument,
(Seen afar in the offing,)
Ten fathom deep lie Craven,
And the bravest of our brave.
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Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here
Soon shall the winter's foil be here;
Soon shall these icy
ligatures
unbind and melt--A little while,
And air, soil, wave, suffused shall be in softness, bloom and
growth--a thousand forms shall rise
From these dead clods and chills as from low burial graves.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The
reminiscence
comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The
Portuguese
prince even visited the Kingdoms of Prester John and returned to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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Quintia
formosast
multis, mihi candida, longa,
Rectast.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"
VIII
"Farewell to barn and stack and tree,
Farewell
to Severn shore.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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received
Petrarch
with the highest respect, offered him his
choice among several vacant bishoprics, and pressed him to receive the
office of pontifical secretary.
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Petrarch |
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Prom
leaflets
that bedeck the ground
Renewed and goodly scents arise,
The coloured volume I expound,
While you repeat the words I prize.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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_Would_ the fleet get
through?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Giving to those that cannot crave, the voiceless, the o'er tired
The breath doth nourish the
innocent
lamb, he smells the milky garments
He crops thy flowers while thou sittest smiling in his face,
Wiping his mild and meekin mouth from all contagious taints.
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blake-poems |
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or is this the play
Of fond
illusion?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And we, who are Americans, we pray
The
splendor
of strength that Gettysburg knew
May light the long generations with glorious ray,
And keep us undyingly true!
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Gone is that King, and the old spear laid low
That
Tantalus
wielded when the world was young.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Meantime
I bless thee.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Be still, be still, my soul; it is but for a season:
Let us endure an hour and see
injustice
done.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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A TRAGEDY IN TWO ACTS
TRANSLATED FROM THE
ORIGINAL
DORIC.
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Shelley |
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Thy self thou gav'st, thy own worth then not knowing,
Or me to whom thou gav'st it, else mistaking;
So thy great gift, upon
misprision
growing,
Comes home again, on better judgement making.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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A LITTLE GIRL LOST
Children
of the future age,
Reading this indignant page,
Know that in a former time
Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.
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blake-poems |
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" I asked with
weakening
breath.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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L'HOMME ET LA MER
Homme libre, toujours tu
cheriras
la mer!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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le larron de gauche dans la bourrasque
Rira de toi comme
hennissent
les chevaux
FEMME
Larron des fruits tourne vers moi tes yeux lyriques
Emplissez de noix la besace du heros
Il est plus noble que le paon pythagorique
Le dauphin la vipere male ou le taureau
CHOEUR
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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LXV
Softly the wind moves through the radiant morning,
And the warm
sunlight
sinks into the valley,
Filling the green earth with a quiet joyance,
Strength, and fulfilment.
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Sappho |
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Those gods you
endlessly
weep will return!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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It rears itself among
convulsive
throes
That shake its ruins when the tempest blows.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But him the paynim well awakes again,
Whom by the neck he with strong arm has caught,
And gripes and
grapples
with such mighty force,
He falls on earth, pulled headlong from his horse.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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4), says, "We cannot commend Phoenix,
the tutor of Achilles, as if he spoke correctly, when counselling
him to accept of
presents
and assist the Greeks, but, without
presents, not to desist from his wrath, nor again, should we commend
Achilles himself, or approve of his being so covetous as to receive
presents from Agamemnon," &c.
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Iliad - Pope |
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What concerne they,
The
generall
cause, or is it a Fee-griefe
Due to some single brest?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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To whom our general
Ancestor
repli'd.
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Milton |
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Since my young days of passion--joy, or pain,
Perchance
my heart and harp have lost a string,
And both may jar: it may be, that in vain
I would essay as I have sung to sing.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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For in my distant plot of English loam
'Twas but to delve, and
straightway
there to find
Coins of like impress.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Time's
sublimest
target
Is a soul 'forgot'!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Tout droit dans son armure, un grand homme de pierre
Se tenait a la barre et coupait le flot noir;
Mais le calme heros, courbe sur sa rapiere,
Regardait le sillage et ne
daignait
rien voir.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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XCV
How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
Which, like a canker in the
fragrant
rose,
Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Day by day for her
darlings
to her much she added more;
In her hundred-gated Thebes every chamber was a door,
A door to something grander,--loftier walls, and vaster floor.
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Emerson - Poems |
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o digno nectenda uiro tantique per orbem
consors
imperii!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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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!
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Euripides - Electra |
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And peasant girls, with deep blue eyes,
And hands which offer early flowers,
Walk smiling o'er this paradise;
Above, the
frequent
feudal towers
Through green leaves lift their walls of grey,
And many a rock which steeply lours,
And noble arch in proud decay,
Look o'er this vale of vintage bowers:
But one thing want these banks of Rhine,--
Thy gentle hand to clasp in mine!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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It is the instrument of society; therefore Mercury, who is
the president of language, is called _deorum
hominumque
interpres_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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my fond regard
For ane that shares my bosom,
Inspires
my Muse to gie 'm his dues
For deil a hair I roose him.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Thus Aeacus has 'scaped the Stygian wave,
By grace of poets and their silver tongue,
Henceforth
to live the happy isles among.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the
cleverest
there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of delicate little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Now the Land, with drying tears,
Counts him up his flocks of years,
"See," he says, "my substance grows;
Hundred-flocked my
Herdsman
goes,
Hundred-flocked my Herdsman stands
On the Past's broad meadow-lands,
Come from where ye mildly graze,
Black herds, white herds, nights and days.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The
thunderous
downshoot deafened him;
Half he choked in the lashing spray:
Life is sweet, and the grave is grim,--
Which way?
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Christina Rossetti |
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but he is
enclosed
in so grete angre for nede of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The styles are taken from
Classical
art.
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Ronsard |
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"Cursed," he cried, "be
cowardice
and
covetousness both; in you are villany and vice, that virtue destroy.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The culture, too, which licks the world to shape,
The devil himself cannot escape;
The phantom of the North men's
thoughts
have left behind them,
Horns, tail, and claws, where now d'ye find them?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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er hou shal I my-seluen saue
To lyue in
maidenhede?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Had my lips been smitten into music by the
kisses that but made them bleed,
You had walked with Bice and the angels on
that verdant and
enamelled
mead.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Oh may he glean my lips delights unbidden,
--I gleaned them all since as a dream he rose--
The oleanders "mid the
fragrance
hidden
And others smiling as the jasmin blows.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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crinibus
insignem
quis acuta cuspide Phoebum
instruat, Aoniam Marte mouente lyram?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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But into France demands he my departure;
He'll follow me to Aix, where is my Castle;
There he'll receive the law of our Salvation:
Christian
he'll be, and hold from me his marches.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Still, sir, thou wert wanting in good faith; but as it
proceeded
from
no immorality, thou being only desirous of saving thy life, the less I
blame thee.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Yet lovely in captivity she lies,
Filled with soft colours, where the
wavering
weed
Moves gently and discloses to our eyes
Blurred shining veins of rock and lucent shells
Under the light-shot water; and here repose
Small quiet fish and dimly glowing bells
Of sleeping sea-anemones that close
Their tender fronds and will not now awake
Till on these rocks the waves returning break.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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for all the gold upon ground I would not go with thee nor bear thee
fellowship
through this wood 'on foot farther.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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_The Firetail's Nest_
"Tweet" pipes the robin as the cat creeps by
Her nestling young that in the elderns lie,
And then the bluecap tootles in its glee,
Picking the flies from orchard apple tree,
And "pink" the chaffinch cries its well-known strain,
Urging its kind to utter "pink" again,
While in a quiet mood hedgesparrows try
An inward stir of
shadowed
melody.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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this is bitter and profitable: this
instructs and would inform us: what need we know any thing, that are
nobly born, more than a horse-race, or a hunting-match, our day to break
with citizens, and such innate
mysteries?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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O, this world's
transience!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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SIMON LEE, THE OLD HUNTSMAN, WITH AN
INCIDENT
IN WHICH HE WAS CONCERNED.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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When it
puckered
up with shame,
And I sought him, he never came.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The color on the cruising cloud,
The
interdicted
ground
Behind the hill, the house behind, --
There Paradise is found!
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The hoot of the
steamers
on the Thames is plain.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Not thou, but customary thought is here
Molested and annoyed; the only nerve
Can carry anguish from this to thy soul,
Is that credulity which ties the mind
Firmly to
notional
creature as to real.
| Guess: |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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|| _cibe_(_i_ La1)_les_ GORLa1:
_cybel{l}es_
B: _Cybebes_
Bentley || _tua_ Calp.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"From th'
empyrean
seat of holy love
Alone thy sorrows to console I move.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Ambrosia
was the food of the gods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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In cave if I
presumed
to hide,
The walls began to tell;
Creation seemed a mighty crack
To make me visible.
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Then
Criticism
the Muse's handmaid prov'd,
To dress her charms, and make her more belov'd:
But following wits from that intention stray'd,
Who could not win the mistress, woo'd the maid; 105
Against the Poets their own arms they turn'd,
Sure to hate most the men from whom they learn'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Armoire a doux secrets, pleine de bonnes choses,
De vins, de parfums, de liqueurs
Qui feraient delirer les
cerveaux
et les coeurs!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Out from a deep-delved way my vision lit
On
housebacks
pink, green, ochreous--where a slit
Shoreward 'twixt row and row revealed the classic blue through it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Qui des Dieux osera, Lesbos, etre ton juge,
Et condamner ton front pali dans les travaux,
Si ses balances d'or n'ont pese le deluge
De larmes qu'a la mer ont verse tes
ruisseaux?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The axles of our
chariots
touch: our short swords meet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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the spirit flown
forever!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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mine gefrǣge
(_as I learned through the
narrative
of others_), 777, 838, 1956, etc.
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Beowulf |
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A
thousand
gallons of red wine
We carry in the ship's hold;
With girls on board at the waves' will
We are glad to drift or stay.
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Li Po |
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>>,
mi pinse con la forza del suo peso:
per ch'io di
coruscar
vidi gran feste.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Behold This Swarthy Face
Behold this swarthy face, these gray eyes,
This beard, the white wool unclipt upon my neck,
My brown hands and the silent manner of me without charm;
Yet comes one a Manhattanese and ever at parting kisses me lightly
on the lips with robust love,
And I on the crossing of the street or on the ship's deck give a
kiss in return,
We observe that salute of American
comrades
land and sea,
We are those two natural and nonchalant persons.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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King
Sad news, and an
obsessive
sense of duty!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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He corrupted Nero and introduced
him to every kind of depravity; then ventured on some villainies
behind his back, and finally
deserted
and betrayed him.
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Tacitus |
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"Why warbles he that skies are fair
And coombs alight," she cried, "and fallows gay,
When I have placed no
sunshine
in the air
Or glow on earth to-day?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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This only would I have thee clearly note:
That so my
conscience
have no plea against me;
Do fortune as she list, I stand prepar'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Pale
fireflies
pulsed within the meadow-mist
Their halos, wavering thistledowns of light;
The loon, that seemed to mock some goblin tryst,
Laughed; and the echoes, huddling in affright,
Like Odin's hounds, fled baying down the night.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Then, Daphnis, to the cooling streams were none
That drove the
pastured
oxen, then no beast
Drank of the river, or would the grass-blade touch.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I will take them away with me,
I
insistently
rob them of their essence,
I must have it all before night,
To sing amid my green.
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Imagists |
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83-86, is that the gnomes fill the girls' minds with hopes of a
splendid
marriage
and so induce them to "deny love.
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Alexander Pope |
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Sometimes
a
nightingale sings to the moon, weary of empty hills.
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Li Po |
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