_) But you have not
finished?
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Aristophanes |
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Chor: In seeking just occasion to provoke
The Philistine, thy
Countries
Enemy,
Thou never wast remiss, I hear thee witness:
Yet Israel still serves with all his Sons.
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Milton |
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Do not forget these asters that remain,
The scarlet leafage round the tendrils twining,
And all the rests of verdant life combining,
Resolve them in the soft
autumnal
vein.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Near at hand to you a throat is now inflating itself and
joyfully
singing.
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Whitman |
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Is there a sky
overhead?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Ye shall watch while nations strive
With the bloodhounds, die or survive,
Drop faint from their jaws,
Or throttle them
backward
to death;
And only under your breath
Shall favour the cause.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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blake-poems |
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The prospect widens, cuts all bounds of blue
Where horizontal limits bend, and spreads
Into a curious-hill'd and curious-valley'd Vast,
Endless before, behind, around; which seems
Th'
incalculable
Up-and-Down of Time
Made plain before mine eyes.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The hillside vines dear memories of Thee bring:
A bird at evening flying to its nest
Tells me of One who had no place of rest:
I think it is of Thee the
sparrows
sing.
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Wilde - Poems |
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She had
wandered
long,
Hearing wild birds' song.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden
slumbers?
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Golden Treasury |
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Converse and love mankind might
strongly
draw,
When love was liberty, and Nature law.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Rowland
Thirlmere
and the _Poetry Review_:--"Jimmy Doane.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Where have you been by it most
annoyed?
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Lewis Carroll |
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Between the tree-stems, marbled plain at first,
Came jasper pannels; then, anon, there burst
Forth
creeping
imagery of slighter trees,
And with the larger wove in small intricacies.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Freaware
and the Dane.
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Beowulf |
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He went up to the summit, where were the
confines
of
heaven, and there prayed.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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But since there's void in all
begotten
things,
All solid matter must be round the same;
Nor, by true reason canst thou prove aught hides
And holds a void within its body, unless
Thou grant what holds it be a solid.
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Lucretius |
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The pent-up anguish of the loyal wife,
The sobs of those who, nearest in this life,
Still hold him closely in the life beyond;--
These first, with
threnody
of memories fond.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And home each
philotadpole
hopped,
In faith rewarded to exult,
And wait the beautiful result.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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The chants
of the Welsh harpers preserved, through ages of darkness, a faint
and
doubtful
memory of Arthur.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Just as the
Intellect
concerns
itself with Truth, so Taste informs us of the Beautiful, while the Moral
Sense is regardful of Duty.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
What you get married for if you don't want
children?
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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To give away yourself, keeps
yourself
still,
And you must live, drawn by your own sweet skill.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
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associated
with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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THE FLAMING CIRCLE
Though for fifteen years you have chaffed me across the table,
Slept in my arms and fingered my plunging heart,
I
scarcely
know you; we have not known each other.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Charme profond, magique, dont nous grise
Dans le present le passe
restaure!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Let all his
grandeur
seek my punishment,
If I meet ruin, the State's is imminent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
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Villon |
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The
mountain
at a given distance
In amber lies;
Approached, the amber flits a little, --
And that 's the skies!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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ASSENCIOR
INQ{UA}M
CUNCTA.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Mine by the right of the white
election!
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Of the editious of
MarvelFs
collected works,
that of 1726, in two volumes duodecimo, contains
only his poems and some of his private letters.
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Marvell - Poems |
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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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Nullam, attamen, ex agro illo meo parvulo segetem
demessui
praeter
gaudium vacuum bene de Republica merendi.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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even as this instant fled,
Was it not thou, O vision bright,
That
glimmered
through the radiant night
And gently hovered o'er my head?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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--
When utter beauty must come closer to thee
Than even anger or fear could be;
When thou, like metal in a kiln, must lie
Seized by beauty's mightily able flame;
Enjoyed by beauty as by the
ruthless
glee
Of an unescapable power;
Obeying beauty as air obeys a cry;
Yea, one thing made of beauty and thee,
As steel and a white heat are made the same!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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'
For who would trust the seeming sighs
Of wife or
paramour?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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His heart
reciprocated
still
When Friendship smiled or Love caressed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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145
Fro which these misbileved pryved been,
To you my soule
penitent
I bringe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Some
ostentation
ever is with grief
Those who weep most the soonest gain relief.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Planted firm on the rock,
With foreheads stern and defiant,
Loud they shout to the winds,
Loud to the tempest they call;
Naught but
Olympian
thunders,
That blasted Titan and Giant,
Them can uproot and o'erthrow,
Shaking the earth with their fall.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Subitamente
questo suono uscio
d'una de l'arche; pero m'accostai,
temendo, un poco piu al duca mio.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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300
Each piece appeared to do its chilly best
To seem an utter stranger to the rest,
As if
acquaintanceship
were deadly sin,
Like Britons meeting in a foreign inn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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The
groaning
trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin was help to mend a mill
In time o'need,
While thro' your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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IV
For wonderfully to live I now begin:
So that the darkness which accompanies
Our being here, is fasten'd up within
The power of light that holdeth me;
And from these shining chains, to see
My joy with bold
misliking
eyes,
The shrouded figure will not dare arise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Theie batten[21] onne her fleshe, her hartes bloude dryncke,
And all ys
graunted
from the roieal honde.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Riccardianus
2242
Lachm.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And
sweetest
in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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They were to meet at the Isle of Batavia, which was chosen
for its easy landing, for its convenience to receive the forces, and
thence to
transport
them to the war.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Note: The Rose
tremiere
is the hollyhock.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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190
An herald, then, to Phemius' hand consign'd
His
beauteous
lyre; he through constraint regaled
The suitors with his song, and while the chords
He struck in prelude to his pleasant strains,
Telemachus his head inclining nigh
To Pallas' ear, lest others should his words
Witness, the blue-eyed Goddess thus bespake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Henceforth I flie not Death, nor would prolong
Life much, bent rather how I may be quit
Fairest and easiest of this combrous charge,
Which I must keep till my
appointed
day
Of rendring up, Michael to him repli'd.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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IV
Yet when within my heart I gaze
Upon my fair beyond the waters, Meseems my soul within me prays
To pass
straightway
beyond the waters.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Do you take it I would
astonish?
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
My guide, then laying hold on me, by words
And
intimations
given with hand and head,
Made my bent knees and eye submissive pay
Due reverence; then thus to him replied.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Þā hē him of dyde īsern-byrnan,
helm of hafelan, sealde his hyrsted sweord,
īrena cyst ombiht-þegne,
675 and
gehealdan
hēt hilde-geatwe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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The mind is like a bow, the
stronger
by being unbent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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My home, cried she, 'tis
requisite
I leave:
To ruin me, your cousin, I perceive,
Is still resolved, for presents now he sends;
But he mistakes, and blindly wealth expends;
I'm clearly not the woman he suspects:
See here, what jewels rare to please the sex!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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>>
Et les moins sots, hardis amants de la Demence,
Fuyant le grand troupeau parque par le Destin,
Et se
refugiant
dans l'opium immense!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Ho for the women, their beauty and my
pleasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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They left the
peaceful
river,
The cricket-field, the quad,
The shaven lawns of Oxford,
To seek a bloody sod--
They gave their merry youth away
For country and for God.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to
understand
you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Constable
& Co.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Nay, and if it were,
What
likeness
could there be?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Mere trifles these; you need not heed 'em,
If he, on his part, not o'er-nice,
Winked at, in you, an
occasional
freedom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Renowned
Titus, more than half my soul-
LUCIUS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Laughing at their guile,
And crying, "Why tie the
fetters?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Than I, no lonely hermit plac'd
Where never human
footstep
trac'd,
Less fit to play the part,
The lucky moment to improve,
And just to stop, and just to move,
With self-respecting art:
But ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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teque adeo eximie taedis
felicibus
aucte, 25
Thessaliae columen Peleu, cui Iuppiter ipse,
ipse suos diuum genitor concessit amores.
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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And twice
victorious
crossed Acheron:
Plucking from Orpheus' lyre one by one
The saintly sighs and the faerie cries.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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And as you left,
suspired
confused and jaded
In sighful accents the deserted glade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit www.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Omnia qui magni
dispexit
lumina mundi,
Qui stellarum ortus comperit atque obitus,
Flammeus ut rapidi solis nitor obscuretur,
Vt cedant certis sidera temporibus,
Vt Triviam furtim sub Latmia saxa relegans 5
Dulcis amor gyro devocet aerio,
Idem me ille Conon caelesti in lumine vidit
E Beroniceo vertice caesariem
Fulgentem clare, quam cunctis illa deorum
Levia protendens brachia pollicitast, 10
Qua rex tempestate novo auctus hymenaeo
Vastatum finis iverat Assyrios,
Dulcia nocturnae portans vestigia rixae,
Quam de virgineis gesserat exuviis.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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At the time Suzong was sending out his own officials to key
positions
in the region he controlled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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--
Be welcome,
strangers
both, and pass below
My lintel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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I saw them next on a
triumphal
car,
Where, known by her chaste cherub ways, aside
My Laura sate and to them sweetly sung.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
THE PROBLEM
SHALL we conceal the Case, or tell it--
We who believe the
evidence?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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These
travellers
were mounted on four dromedaries, and having passed through Spain, they went to Norway and from there to Babylon and the Holy Land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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One seeks truth
for its beauty; the other finds beauty, an abstract,
intellectual
beauty,
in the innermost home of truth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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What as a gurgling softly simmered through
The soil, within the dead deserted brake,
--And no more than a drop of fragrant dew
That fell from flowerlet unto deepest lake:
Becomes the clinging mist that cleaves the heights,
And which in darkest
midnights
as a beam
The heart of the chasm suddenly be-smites
To spring and ramble like a ruddy stream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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This hour shall be
A glass of wine
Poured out into the
unremembering
sea Without regret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I am of the
terrible
people, I am of the strange Hebrews.
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I have not told my garden yet,
Lest that should conquer me;
I have not quite the
strength
now
To break it to the bee.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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At the
beginning
of winter a cold spirit comes,
The North Wind blows--chill, chill.
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Is that a
splitting
deck
Of some ill-fated bark?
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Hugo - Poems |
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Learn first my name, that even in this land
Remote I may be known, and that escaped
From all adversity, I may requite
Hereafter, this your
hospitable
care 20
At my own home, however distant hence.
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No longer the flowers are gay,
The
springtime
hath lost its caress,
Alone I will dream to-day,
Weep in the silent recess.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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" At a subsequent period, we find him on somewhat cooler
terms with John Colonna, and complaining that his
domestic
dependence
had, by length of time, become wearisome to him.
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Petrarch |
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So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And wondered if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His
sightless
soul may stray.
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Wilde - Poems |
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