Is clusum lato
patefecit
limite campum,
Isque domum nobis isque dedit dominam,
Ad quam communes exerceremus amores.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Tydides, fiercer than his sire,
Pursues you, all aglow;
Him, as the stag forgets to graze for fright,
Seeing the wolf at
distance
in the glade,
And flies, high panting, you shall fly, despite
Boasts to your leman made.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The red-coats stretched in windrows as a mower rakes his hay;
Here a scarlet heap is lying, there a
headlong
crowd is flying
Like a billow that has broken and is shivered into spray.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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CHORUS
Justice, the
daughter
of right-dealing Zeus,
Justice, the queen of suppliants, look down,
That this our plight no ill may loose
Upon your town!
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Aeschylus |
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Balefire
devoured,
greediest spirit, those spared not by war
out of either folk: their flower was gone.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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6
The female of the Halcyon,
Love, the
seductive
Sirens,
All know the fatal songs
Dangerous and inhuman.
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Appoloinaire |
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Still though his destiny on earth may be
Grief and injustice; who would not endure
With joyful calm, each
proffered
agony;
Could he the prize of Genius thus ensure?
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Hugo - Poems |
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I have heard that on a day
Mine host's signboard flew away
Nobody knew whither, till
An astrologer's old quill
To a sheepskin gave the story--
Said he saw you in your glory
Underneath
a new-old Sign
Sipping beverage divine,
And pledging with contented smack
The Mermaid in the Zodiac!
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Golden Treasury |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the secretaries of
Cardinal
Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Such was the
proclamation
of King John.
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Longfellow |
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Is it not
strange?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Then thus again the
brilliance
feminine:
"Too frail of heart!
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Keats |
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The
Nutcrackers
sate by a plate on the table;
The Sugar-tongs sate by a plate at his side;
And the Nutcrackers said, "Don't you wish we were able
Along the blue hills and green meadows to ride?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Li Po |
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Gather the north flowers to
complete
the south,
And catch the early love up in the late.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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He was out in the garden one day, and he took
a look at the well, and what did he see but the water at the top was
blood, and what was
underneath
was honey.
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Yeats |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I awoke, and then I knew
What Love said was too-too true;
Henceforth
therefore
I will be,
As from love, from trouble free.
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Robert Herrick |
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He walked amongst the Trial Men
In a suit of shabby grey;
A cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay;
But I never saw a man who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Redistribution is subject to the
trademark license,
especially
commercial redistribution.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Amazement in his van, with Flight combined,
And Sorrow's faded form, and
Solitude
behind.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Miss
Beighton
was anxious--almost too anxious to compete.
| Guess: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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And Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin
down!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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More than a century and
a half after the death of Mariana, this
venerable
ballad, of
which one imperfect copy on parchment, four hundred years old,
had been preserved at Bivar, was for the first time printed.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Yet its voice ever a murmur resumes, as of
multitudes
praying:
Liturgies lost in a moan like the mourning of far-away seas.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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For the black land was
travelled
o'er,
He should see the grim land no more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Where once the tangled forest stood,--
Where flourished once rank weed and thorn,--
Behold the path-traced,
peaceful
wood,
The cotton white, the yellow corn.
| Guess: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
"A heavenly dame, not
skilless
of these things,"
Replied the' instructor, "told us, even now,
"Pass that way: here the gate is.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Puschkin,
tradotti
da
A.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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III
You tossed a blanket from the bed,
You lay upon your back, and waited;
You dozed, and watched the night revealing
The
thousand
sordid images
Of which your soul was constituted;
They flickered against the ceiling.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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what rejoicing and crackling and
roasting!
| 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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They might (were Harpax not too wise to spend)
Give Harpax' self the blessing of a friend;
Or find some doctor that would save the life
Of
wretched
Shylock, spite of Shylock's wife:
But thousands die, without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college, or a cat.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
The Queen is ill advised: shall I turn
traitor?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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So swift a tempest
stirring
a calm sea
Threatens to bring on sure catastrophe:
I doubt it not, I perish in the harbour.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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16
But wherefore do not you a
mightier
way
Make war upon this bloody tyrant Time?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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God's
boundless
mercy is, to sinful man, II.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You
sacrifice
time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The brain within its groove
Runs evenly and true;
But let a
splinter
swerve,
'T were easier for you
To put the water back
When floods have slit the hills,
And scooped a turnpike for themselves,
And blotted out the mills!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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A LITTLE BOY LOST
"Nought loves another as itself,
Nor venerates another so,
Nor is it
possible
to thought
A greater than itself to know.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Those who practice poetry search for and love only the
perfection
that is God Himself.
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| Question: |
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Appoloinaire |
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through death my days
Become
eternal!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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| Question: |
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Tacitus |
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With cheerful heart one could be a
sojourner
in the wilderness, if he
were sure to find there the catkins of the willow or the alder.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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What holy mystery e'er was noosed in
thought?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Ever let the Fancy roam
Fair Daffodils, we weep to see
Fair pledges of a fruitful tree
Farewell!
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Golden Treasury |
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An't be any way, it must be with valour, for policy I
hate; I had as lief be a
Brownist
as a politician.
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare |
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and this anguish stings me worst,
That round my royal son's dishonoured form
Hang rags and tatters,
degradation
deep!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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_] Why
do you look at me like a
stranger?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Manuscript reads father's
547
meditate]
meditate upon 1673
553 drowsie frighted] Manuscript reads drowsie flighted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Indeed, without the evergreens for contrast, the
autumnal
tints would
lose much of their effect.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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For his Aunt Jobiska said, "No harm
Can come to his toes if his nose is warm;
And it's
perfectly
known that a Pobble's toes
Are safe--provided he minds his nose.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Nor know I if the man who prayed,
Rose up accepted, unforbade,
From the church-floor where he was laid,--
Nor if a
listening
life did run
Through the king-poets, one by one
Rejoicing in a worthy son:
My soul, which might have seen, grew blind
By what it looked on: I can find
No certain count of things behind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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660
Alfwoulde began to dyghte
hymselfe
for fyghte,
Meanewhyle hys menne on everie syde dyd slee,
Whan on hys lyfted sheelde withe alle hys myghte
Campynon's swerde in burlie-brande dyd dree;
Bewopen Alfwoulde fellen on his knee; 665
Hys Brystowe menne came in hym for to save;
Eftsoons upgotten from the grounde was hee,
And dyd agayne the touring Norman brave;
Hee graspd hys bylle in syke a drear arraie,
Hee seem'd a lyon catchynge at hys preie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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now sets me free:
How Fortune doth her
fickleness
display!
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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)
Stars of the night sky,
did you see that phantom fadeout,
did you see those phantom riders,
skeleton riders on skeleton horses,
stems of roses in their teeth,
rose leaves red on white-jaw slants,
grinning along on
Pennsylvania
Avenue,
the top-sergeants calling roll calls--
did their horses nicker a horse laugh?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Sweat is a
stranger
to thee, absent also are saliva,
phlegm, and evil nose-snivel.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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That way
blocked!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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In the
weeks between the first few Sundays of his discipline he had flung
himself savagely into his work,
resolved
that Maisie should at least
know the full stretch of his powers.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Let the contentious spirit know
At this hour when we are silent
The stalks of
multiple
lilies grow
Far too tall for our reason
And not as the riverbank weeps
When its tedious game tells lies
Claiming abundance should reach
Into my first surprise
On hearing the whole sky and the map
Behind my steps, without end, bear witness
By the ebbing wave itself that
This country never existed.
| Guess: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the
woodlands
I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
| Guess: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And no man dared to speak of Charmides
Deeming that he some evil thing had wrought,
And when they reached the strait Symplegades
They beached their galley on the shore, and sought
The toll-gate of the city hastily,
And in the market showed their brown and
pictured
pottery.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
Pallas obeys, and from Olympus' height
Swift to the ships
precipitates
her flight.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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NOTE:
_5, _12
Listening
to]Listening B.
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Shelley |
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"
The next page is
occupied
by a woodcut, and then (pp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside,
And naked on the Air of Heaven ride,
Were't not a Shame--were't not a Shame for him
In this clay carcass
crippled
to abide?
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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They are, however,
interested
in the drama, and as a certain advance has
been made in the drama within the last ten or fifteen years, it is
important to point out that this advance is entirely due to a few
individual artists refusing to accept the popular want of taste as their
standard, and refusing to regard Art as a mere matter of demand and
supply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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CXIII
Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind;
And that which governs me to go about
Doth part his function and is partly blind,
Seems seeing, but
effectually
is out;
For it no form delivers to the heart
Of bird, of flower, or shape which it doth latch:
Of his quick objects hath the mind no part,
Nor his own vision holds what it doth catch;
For if it see the rud'st or gentlest sight,
The most sweet favour or deformed'st creature,
The mountain or the sea, the day or night:
The crow, or dove, it shapes them to your feature.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Fortunate in all
his affairs, he was most of all
fortunate
in his family.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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We bring thee our thanks and our
garlands
for tribute,
The wealth of our valleys, new-garnered and ripe;
O sender of rain and the dewfall, we hail thee,
We praise thee, Varuna, with cymbal and pipe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Slothe moe wulde jade thee than the
roughest
daie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And mused, how grand
If all of this could last beyond a doubt--
This placid moon, this plump _gemuthlichkeit_;
Pipe, breath and summer never going out--
To vegetate through all
eternity
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
I
remember
your hair--did I tie it?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Copyright
laws in most countries are
in a constant state of change.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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A lanky fellow, against whom some time ago was
brought a grave law-suit anent the
spurious
child-birth of a lying belly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Poetry, in this latter age, hath proved but a mean
mistress
to such as
have wholly addicted themselves to her, or given their names up to her
family.
| 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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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
| 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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When he was young he little knew
Of
husbandry
or tillage;
And now he's forced to work, though weak,
--The weakest in the village.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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He was a man who
blinded himself with words and
beautiful
sentiments; but he was not
thick-skinned or thick-witted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Let the
frost come to freeze them first, solid as stones, and then the rain or
a warm winter day to thaw them, and they will seem to have
borrowed
a
flavor from heaven through the medium of the air in which they hang.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Only three manuscripts have the, to
my mind, most
probably
correct reading in _Satyre I_, l.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
| 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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And the King bids me say, Rise from thy feast;
For thou must be to-night thyself a feast:
The vision of thy loveliness must now
Feed with
astonishment
my vassals' hearts.
| 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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But onward now:
For now doth Cain with fork of thorns confine
On either hemisphere,
touching
the wave
Beneath the towers of Seville.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It was excellently said
of Plutarch, poetry was a
speaking
picture, and picture a mute poesy.
| 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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Snakes on the ground were
writhing
about.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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On the morrow, when I told Marya my plans, she saw how
reasonable
they
were, and agreed to them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Or how the fish
outbuilt
her shell,
Painting with morn each annual cell?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Indeed one cannot say that all seasons are
suitable
for all classes of
books.
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La Fontaine |
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they are not there:
Have they, then, forgot to share
Our good
Thanksgiving
turkey?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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With what care I would have
cherished
your dear head!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of
Replacement
or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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In _New Poems_ (1907) and _New Poems, Second Part_ (1908) the historical
figure, frequently taken from the Old Testament, has grown beyond the
proportions of life; it is weightier with fate and invariably becomes
the means of expressing symbolically an
abstract
thought or a great
human destiny.
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Rilke - Poems |
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In three
eclogues
the poet attacks with Puritan zeal
the pomp and sloth of the worldly clergy, and one is devoted to the courtly
praise of the queen.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Find a stanza
complimentary
to
Queen Elizabeth.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again
Returns in an
unceasing
shower, which round,
With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain,
Is an eternal April to the ground,
Making it all one emerald.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
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Appoloinaire |
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you got it from.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Their sleeping-places over
The torn and
trampled
clover to braver beauty blows;
Of all their grim campaigning no sight or sound remaining,
The memory of them mutely to greater glory grows.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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