Is wealth thy
restless
game?
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CCLXXXIV
Then said Tierri "Bold art thou, Pinabel,
Thou'rt great and strong, with body finely bred;
For
vassalage
thy peers esteem thee well:
Of this battle let us now make an end!
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Chanson de Roland |
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O how
charmingly
Nature hath array'd thee
With the soft green grass and juicy clover,
And with corn-flowers blooming and luxuriant.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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But can
Achilles
be so soon forgot?
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Iliad - Pope |
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I like not the
seditious
race of Pushkins,
Nor must I trust in Shuisky, obsequious,
But bold and wily--
(Enter SHUISKY.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The Woman remains
in the
background
while_ HERACLES _comes forward.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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Appoloinaire |
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representing
a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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My young
remembrance
cannot paralell
A fellow to it.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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[The lines are
numbered
as in the Second, Third, and Fourth Editions.
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Byron |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Dorcas (Pilcox),
an
invariable
rule of,
her profile,
tribute to.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Then fret not lest the state should ail;
A private man such
thoughts
may spare;
Enjoy the present hour's regale,
And banish care.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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A fragment of the text is amongst
the
Boscombe
manuscripts.
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Shelley |
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Some news is
brought?
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Euripides - Electra |
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After much country seen, a forest gray
She reached, where, sorely wounded in mid breast,
Between two dead companions on the ground,
The royal maid a
bleeding
stripling found.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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You bewitched the rivers, flowers and woods,
With your lyre, in vain but beguilingly,
Yet not what your soul felt, the beauty
That dealt what was
festering
in your blood.
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Ronsard |
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I've
wandered
twenty years, in distant lands,
With sore heart forced to stay:
Why fell the blow Fate only understands!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Now, in the
desolate
dawn,
Crying of blue jays.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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O, it may have been mermaids that lured her from home,
But nobody knew where
_Kilmeny_
had been.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Or on still
evenings
when the rain falls close There comes a tremor in the drops, and fast
My pulses run, knowing thy thought hath passed That beareth thee as doth the wind a rose.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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yon patch of heath has been her couch--
The
pressure
still remains!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Hane
Englonde
thenne a tongue, butte notte a stynge?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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So soon
as the spasm ceased and the raving lips sank to silence, Aeneas the hero
begins: 'No shape of toil, O maiden, rises strange or sudden on my
sight; all this ere now have I guessed and inly
rehearsed
in spirit.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The German is "thou and thou,"
alluding to the fact that
intimate
friends among the Germans, like the
sect of Friends, call each other _thou_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Meredith - Poems |
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The
replaced
older file is renamed.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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'tis the first, 'tis
flattery
in my seeing,
And my great mind most kingly drinks it up:
Mine eye well knows what with his gust is 'greeing,
And to his palate doth prepare the cup:
If it be poison'd, 'tis the lesser sin
That mine eye loves it and doth first begin.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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You stood where, 'mid the white and gold,
The rose-fire through the gloom
Touched hair and cheek and garment's fold
With soft,
ethereal
bloom.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Let honour, as the Gods have honour,
Be hers, till men shall bow the head,
And strangers, climbing from the city
Her
slanting
path, shall muse and say:
"This woman died to save her lover,
And liveth blest, the stars above her:
Hail, Holy One, and grant thy pity!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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]
[Sidenote C: There the fox was
threatened
and called a thief.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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HE INVITES HIS EYES TO FEAST
THEMSELVES
ON LAURA.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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All of you now,
farewell!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Shall his fevered eye
Through towering
nothingness
descry
The grisly phantom hurry by?
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Lewis Carroll |
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we have learnt
A
different
lore: we may not thus profane
Nature's sweet voices always full of love
And joyance!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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1270
My
murderous
hands, eager for vengeance,
Burn to plunge in the blood of innocence.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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tho' that long dream were of
hopeless
sorrow,
'Twere better than the dull reality
Of waking life to him whose heart shall be,
And hath been ever, on the chilly earth,
A chaos of deep passion from his birth!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Half-past two,
The street lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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secret
whispring
in my Ear
In secret of soft wings.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The orchard sparkled like a Jew, --
How mighty 't was, to stay
A guest in this
stupendous
place,
The parlor of the day!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What
immortal
hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Who knows but I am
enjoying
this?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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dreadful
price of being to resign
All that is dear _in_ being!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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In the year 1630, his
monument
was violated by some sacrilegious
thieves, who carried off some of his bones for the sake of selling them.
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Petrarch |
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'
And checks his song to execrate Godoy,
The royal wittol Charles, and curse the day
When first Spain's queen beheld the black-eyed boy,
And gore-faced Treason sprung from her
adulterate
joy.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Just when _I_ am getting
wrinkled
and old.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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]
The grave
receives
us all:
Ye butterflies and roses gay and sweet
Why do ye linger, say?
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Hugo - Poems |
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'Dans les convulsions terribles qui agitent
quelquefois
les societes
politiques, et qui produisent souvent le renversement d'un empire, il
n'y a pas une seule action, une seule parole, une seule pensee, une
seule volonte, une seule passion dans las agens qui concourent a la
revolution comme destructeurs ou comme victimes, qui ne soit necessaire,
qui n'agissa comme ella doit agir, qui n'opere infailliblemont les
effets qu'eile doit operer, suivant la place qu'occupent ces agens dana
ce tourbillon moral.
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Shelley |
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End of the Project
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Keats - Lamia |
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toil, effort), and hard
knowledge
is attained by the mind's efforts.
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John Donne |
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IX
He came at last to Malaga, and here
Did mightier scathe than he had done elsewhere;
For now -- besides that the
infuriate
peer
Of all its people left the country bare,
Nor (such the ravage) could another year
The desperate havoc of the fool repair --
So many houses burnt he, or cast down,
Sacked was a third of that unhappy town.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Vere, xii, 1, veer, change the
direction
of.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Proud
Marsilies
bade me this word declare
That alcaliph, his uncle, you must spare.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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And within the grave there is no pleasure,
for the blindworm battens on the root,
And Desire
shudders
into ashes, and the tree
of Passion bears no fruit.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Or an Eye of gifts & graces
showring
fruits & coined gold!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Thy voice is as the hill-wind over me,
And all my
changing
heart gives heed, my lover.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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SONNET IN TENZONE LA MENTE
THOU mocked heart that
cowerest
by the door
And durst not honour hope with welcoming, How shall one bid thee for her honour sing,
When song would but show forth thy sorrow's
store?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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133); or when as object it
precedes
its verb (v.
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Milton |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Chaucer,
_Troilus
and Cressida_,
iii.
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Keats |
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The only good
of these
inspectors
is to worry passers-by and rob us poor
folk.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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'Tis said at Hammon's fane a fountain is,
In
daylight
cold and hot in time of night.
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Lucretius |
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2 That is, the extravagance of Sui Yangdi can been seen in the ornament of the ruins, which serve as
evidence
of why the Sui fell.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Each sundown makes them mournful, each sunrise
Brings back the
brightness
in their failing eyes.
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| Question: |
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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There Nestor and
Idomeneus
oppose
The warrior's fury; there the battle glows;
There fierce on foot, or from the chariot's height,
His sword deforms the beauteous ranks of fight.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Grieving and sad and full of bitterness
Are left in teen the
liegemen
courteous,
The joglars supple and the troubadours.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Nusch
The sentiments apparent
The
lightness
of approach
The tresses of caresses.
| Guess: |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE
A
SHROPSHIRE
LAD
I
1887
From Clee to heaven the beacon burns,
The shires have seen it plain,
From north and south the sign returns
And beacons burn again.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The old men studied magic in the flowers,
And human fortunes in astronomy,
And an omnipotence in chemistry,
Preferring things to names, for these were men,
Were unitarians of the united world,
And,
wheresoever
their clear eye-beams fell,
They caught the footsteps of the SAME.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The Bird nam'd from that
Paradise
you sing
So never flaggs, but always keeps on Wing.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Ein Reisender ist so gewohnt,
Aus Gutigkeit furliebzunehmen;
Ich weiss zu gut, dass solch
erfahrnen
Mann
Mein arm Gesprach nicht unterhalten kann.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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quid moror et digitis designor
adultera
uulgi?
| Guess: |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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org
Title: The Complete Works of Robert Burns:
Containing
his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
A whole wagon of charcoal,
More than a
thousand
pieces!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Hope lit the windows of the Inn,
But now that shining flame is dead;
And how shall martyred pilgrims win
Along the
moonless
road they tread?
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
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Sara Teasdale |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Copyright
(C) 2001, 2002 by
Michael S.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Noble Hesperian dragon, I call you
courageous
and forthright.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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For a sick Jew,
It is a very good
religion
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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They're inebriation, confusion, they rob me
All too soon of the joy quiet
reflection
affords.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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A deed so rash had
finished
all our fate,
No mortal forces from the lofty gate
Could roll the rock.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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WATERS OF BABYLON
What presses about us here in the evening
As you open a window and stare at a stone-gray sky,
And the streets give back the jangle of
meaningless
movement
That is tired of life and almost too tired to die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Heauen
preserue
you,
I dare abide no longer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
]
_Brow,
Wednesday
Morning, 16th July, 1796.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears,
And I sunned it with smiles
And with soft
deceitful
wiles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Can we think a few old cells
were left--we are left--
grains of honey,
old dust of stray pollen
dull on our torn wings,
we are left to recall the old
streets?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
"
LIII
Not with such
wonderment
a mother eyes,
With such excessive bliss the son she mourned
As dead, lamented still with tears and sighs,
Since the thinned files without her boy returned.
| Guess: |
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Ye
avengers
of Liberty's wrongs!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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[Exit
SERVANT]
Fie, fie!
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Shakespeare |
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LXXIII
The sun on the tide, the peach on the bough,
The blue smoke over the hill,
And the shadows
trailing
the valley-side,
Make up the autumn day.
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Sappho |
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Can't they do
anything
to help me?
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Kipling - Poems |
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I savoured it slowly and did not throw a coin through the window for fear of
troubling
my spirit and discovering that not only the instrument was playing.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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