We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Forthwith
the culprit was in prison placed.
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Instead of an arbitrary selection by an editor,
each poet has been permitted to
represent
himself by the work he considers
his best, the only stipulation being that it should not yet have appeared
in book form.
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GD}
Astonishd sat her Sisters of Beulah to see her soft affections
To Enion & her children & they ponderd these things wondring
And they Alternate kept watch over the Youthful terrors
They saw not yet the Hand Divine for it was not yet reveald
But they went on in Silent Hope & Feminine repose
But Los &
Enitharmon
delighted in the Moony spaces of Eno *
Nine Times they livd among the forests, feeding on sweet fruits
And nine bright Spaces wanderd weaving mazes of delight
Snaring the wild Goats for their milk they eat the flesh of Lambs
A male & female naked & ruddy as the pride of summer
Alternate Love & Hate his breast; hers Scorn & Jealousy
In embryon passions.
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Blake - Zoas |
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But many other customs there abound:--
The FAIR with perfect liberty are found:
Can go and come, whene'er the humour fits;
No eunuch (shadow like) that never quits;
But watches ev'ry movement:--always feared;
No men, but who've upon the chin a beard:
Your
daughter
from the first, their manners took:
So easy is her ev'ry act and look,
And truly to her honour I may say,
She's all-accommodating ev'ry way.
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La Fontaine |
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That seems impossible, and, to my mind, poets have the right to hope after their death for the everlasting happiness that obtains complete
knowledge
of God, that is to say of the sublime beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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Tu se' omai al
purgatorio
giunto:
vedi la il balzo che 'l chiude dintorno;
vedi l'entrata la 've par digiunto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Had
Polycletus
in proud rivalry
On her his model gazed a thousand years,
Not half the beauty to my soul appears,
In fatal conquest, e'er could he descry.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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]
134 (return)
[ Of this liquor, beer or ale, Pliny speaks in the
following
passage: "The western nations have their intoxicating liquor, made of steeped grain.
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Tacitus |
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Look, all orderly
citizens!
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Whitman |
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= Crowland, or
Croyland
is an ancient town
and parish of Lincolnshire, situated in a low flat district, about
eight miles north-east from Peterborough.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Isn't it my own swate silf now that'll missure the six fut, and
the three inches more nor that, in me stockins, and that am excadingly
will
proportioned
all over to match?
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Poe - 5 |
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It will not be always
meddling
with others, or asking them to be like
itself.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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Keats |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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n[62]
Bow to the throne like
courtiers
of earthly kings?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The fine slender shoulder-blades:
The long arms, with
tapering
hands:
My small breasts: the hips well made
Full and firm, and sweetly planned,
All Love's tournaments to withstand:
The broad flanks: the nest of hair,
With plump thighs firmly spanned,
Inside its little garden there?
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Villon |
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- What have you done, O you there
Who
endlessly
cry,
Say: what have you done, there
With youth gone by?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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As a wind that has run all day
Among the
fragrant
clover,
At evening to a valley comes;
So comes to me my lover.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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LIX
Walking in the sky,
A man in strange black garb
Encountered
a radiant form.
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Stephen Crane |
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illis et silices et possint cedere quercus,
nedum tu par sis,
spiritus
iste leuis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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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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And captains that we thought were dead,
And
dreamers
that we thought were dumb,
And voices that we thought were fled,
Arise, and call us, and we come;
And "Search in thine own soul," they cry;
"For there, too, lurks thine enemy.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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you
insulted
the gods!
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Aristophanes |
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_ hic distinguendum, ut cui petat non dicat, sed
relinquat
intellegi .
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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LXV
Once, I knew a fine song,
--It is true, believe me,--
It was all of birds,
And I held them in a basket;
When I opened the wicket,
Heavens!
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Stephen Crane |
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The Dutch are then in
proclamation
shent.
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Marvell - Poems |
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I think I shall
convince
you so thoroughly that, when you
have heard me, you will not have a word to say.
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Aristophanes |
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Mine avenue is all a growth of oaks,
Some rent by thunder strokes,
Some
rustling
leaves and acorns in the breeze; 30
Fair fall my fertile trees,
That rear their goodly heads, and live at ease.
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Christina Rossetti |
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'
At these words of
Ilioneus
Latinus holds his countenance in a steady
gaze, and stays motionless on the floor, casting his intent eyes around.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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piger his labante
languore
oculos sopor operit:
abit in quiete molli rabidus furor animi.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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My Lord, I have seen your unfortunate son
Dragged by the horses
nourished
by his hand.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Who walks in wind-blown dust of streets,
That hath a garden where the roses
breathe?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Where is your
Husband?
| Guess: |
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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PLANH
It is of the white
thoughts
that he saw in the Forest.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Hath fate
apportioned
unto thee
This lot in life with stern decree?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Chimene
But is he
wounded?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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This is the
consequence
of giving matter
The power of thought.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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_ No; but he guesses shrewdly at my person,
As he betrayed last night; and I, perhaps,
But owe my
temporary
liberty
To his uncertainty.
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Byron |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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A
dangerous
stepmother, who scarcely saw you
Before she signalled her wish to banish you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Keats brings the very
atmosphere
of a dream about us
in these lines, and makes us hear the murmur of the city as something
remote from the chief actors.
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Keats |
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If I might see another Spring--
O
stinging
comment on my past
That all my past results in "if"--
If I might see another Spring
I'd laugh to-day, to-day is brief;
I would not wait for anything:
I'd use to-day that cannot last,
Be glad to-day and sing.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Crimson it was,
With smokey
lightnings
braided, in its first
Swift surge into the gloom before her face;
But it began to golden, and became
Astonishingly white.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I thinke withall,
There would be hands vplifted in my right:
And heere from
gracious
England haue I offer
Of goodly thousands.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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--Puis, tu peux y compter, tu te feras des frais
Avec tes hommes noirs, qui prennent nos requetes
Pour se les
renvoyer
comme sur des raquettes
Et, tout bas, les malins se disent; <
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And still in boyish rivalry
Young Daphnis challenges his mate;
Dost thou
remember
Sicily?
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Pause not the soldiers, nor dream they of rest,
Till they fall with their enemy's guns at the breast
And the shriek in their ears of the wounded
artillery
stallions.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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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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Sappho |
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_ 1641
[725] 53 Thorow 1692
Thorough
1716, f.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Per che non pioggia, non grando, non neve,
non rugiada, non brina piu su cade
che la
scaletta
di tre gradi breve;
nuvole spesse non paion ne rade,
ne coruscar, ne figlia di Taumante,
che di la cangia sovente contrade;
secco vapor non surge piu avante
ch'al sommo d'i tre gradi ch'io parlai,
dov' ha 'l vicario di Pietro le piante.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Time was, two maidens from their home
At
eventide
would hither come,
And, by the light the moonbeams gave,
Lament, embrace upon that grave.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
Now rides our knight through the realms of England with no companion
but his foal, and no one to hold
converse
with save God alone.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
|
III
Soon from out of the Southward seemed nearing
A whirr, as of wings
Waved by mighty-vanned flies,
Or by night-moths of measureless size,
And in
softness
and smoothness well-nigh beyond hearing
Of corporal things.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Must we barely arrive at this
beginning
of me?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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, I do myself
honestly
avow, that I think it a superior
song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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On the other hand, if the writing
of the Fragments shall be judged to be counterfeit and forged by
Chatterton, it will not of
necessity
follow, that the matter of
them was also forged by him, and still less, that all the other
compositions, which he professed to have copied from antient MSS.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Each seated on his
favourite
post,
We chumped and chawed the buttered toast
They gave us for our tea.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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This refers to the
relation
between the Consort Zheng Qianyao and Zheng Qian.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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The
following
sonnet (cxxvi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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--Listen, O
embodied
Ray
Of the great Brightness; I must pass away
While you remain, and these light words must be _40
Tokens by which you may remember me.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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We need your
donations
more than ever!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The
Morphean
fount
Of that fine element that visions, dreams,
And fitful whims of sleep are made of, streams 750
Into its airy channels with so subtle,
So thin a breathing, not the spider's shuttle,
Circled a million times within the space
Of a swallow's nest-door, could delay a trace,
A tinting of its quality: how light
Must dreams themselves be; seeing they're more slight
Than the mere nothing that engenders them!
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Keats |
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was
associated
with the Secretariat, thus with the grand councilor.
| Guess: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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E poi ch'a riguardar oltre mi diedi,
vidi genti a la riva d'un gran fiume;
per ch'io dissi: <
ch'i' sappia quali sono, e qual costume
le fa di trapassar parer si pronte,
com' i'
discerno
per lo fioco lume>>.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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`Love, a-yeins the which who-so defendeth
Him-selven most, him alder-lest avayleth,
With
disespeir
so sorwfully me offendeth, 605
That streyght un-to the deeth myn herte sayleth.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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<
dimandar
gente s'aspetta>>,
ragionava il poeta, <
che troppo avra d'indugio nostra eletta>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Dante, On a
Portrait
of, by Giotto.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
20
An tu non orbum luxti deserta cubile,
Sed fratris cari flebile
discidium?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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An ut
pervenias
in ora vulgi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Sweet friend, so good so gracious
When shall I have you in my power,
And lie with you at midnight hour,
And grant you kisses
amorous?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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And what
shoulder
and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Though only too
convinced
of her enmity,
You owe her tears some semblance of pity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
They would not
pretend that they were the only painters worthy of a public showing;
they would maintain that their work was,
generally
speaking, most
interesting to one another.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
360_
Grafton,
Augustus
Henry, 3rd Duke of, _iv.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
I lo'e her mysel, but darena weel tell,
My poverty keeps me in awe, man;
For making o' rhymes, and working at times,
Does little or
naething
at a', man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
From time to time I feel through all my soul
A
sweetness
so unusual and new,
That every marring care
And gloomy vision thence begins to roll,
So that, from all, one only thought is there.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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[Linenotes:
1458 _greet[e]_--grete
1460 _letee_--let
1461
_somtyme
slou?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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A sharp snatch,
swirling
to-fro of the line,
He's lost, he's won, with splash and scuffling shine
Past the low-lapping brandy-flowers drawn in,
The ogling hunchback perch with needled fin.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
And staggering up to the brink of the gulf man will look down
And
painfully
strive with weak sight to explore
The silent gulfs below which the long shadows drown;
Through every one of these he passed before.
| 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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Could we live it over again,
Were it worth the pain,
Could the
passionate
past that is fled
Call back its dead!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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XXV
A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
From year to year until I saw thy face,
And sorrow after sorrow took the place
Of all those natural joys as lightly worn
As the
stringed
pearls, each lifted in its turn
By a beating heart at dance-time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Women have a
wonderful
instinct about things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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My wanton
thoughts
enticed mine eye
To see what was forbidden:
But better memory said, fie!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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What is wisdom that fills the
thinness
of a year
or seventy or eighty years, to wisdom spaced out by ages, and coming back
at a certain time with strong reinforcements and rich presents and the
clear faces of wedding-guests as far as you can look in every direction
running gaily toward you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
The decrees were also
placarded
on them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Aristophanes |
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"The ace wins," remarked Herman, turning up his card without
glancing
at
it.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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O brother, taken
from my unhappy self; thou by thy dying hast broken my ease, O brother; all
our house is buried with thee; with thee have
perished
the whole of our
joys, which thy sweet love nourished in thy lifetime.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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,
_sitting
in the hall_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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A pipe have I, of hemlock-stalks compact
In
lessening
lengths, Damoetas' dying-gift:
'Mine once,' quoth he, 'now yours, as heir to own.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The mighty Mahmud, the victorious Lord,
That all the misbelieving and black Horde
Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul
Scatters and slays with his
enchanted
Sword.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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e
emperour
with his erles bolde,
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Her eye shall not be dimmed, but as a flame
Shall light the distant ages with its fire,
That men may know the glory of her name,
That
purified
our souls of fear's desire.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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loudly shouting, and with threatening sound,
A mighty
squadron
through the gateway flows.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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