we
The
thinking
men of England, loathe a tyranny.
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| Question: |
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Tennyson |
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It was preserved somehow, however; and after other kinds of
literature had arisen as inevitably and naturally as epic, and had
become, in their turn, things of less instant necessity than they were,
it was found that, in the manner and purpose of epic poetry, something
was given which was not given elsewhere;
something
of extraordinary
value.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The conversation was revived
By the coarse wit of worldly hate;
But round the hostess scintillate
Light sallies without coxcombry,
Awhile sound conversation seems
To banish far
unworthy
themes
And platitudes and pedantry,
And never was the ear affright
By liberties or loose or light.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Gia montavam su per li
scaglion
santi,
ed esser mi parea troppo piu lieve
che per lo pian non mi parea davanti.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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n-ti (sixth century)
A
beautiful
place is the town of Lo-yang:
The big streets are full of spring light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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how hard your fate,
Why could I ne'er this
matchless
beauty view?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Just the laws which bid
The fatal bullet penetrate,
Or
innocently
past me fly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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One evening of December he was singing a little song that he said he
had heard from the green plover of the mountain, about the fair-haired
boys that had left Limerick, and that were
wandering
and going astray
in all parts of the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
There,
Everything
that's done is fair and square.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The dank seaweed will root
On her oozed decks, and the cross-surges sweep
Through the set sails; but never, never more
Her crew will stand away to brace and trim,
Nor sea-blown petrels meet her
thrashing
up
To windward on the Gulf Stream's stormy rim;
Never again she'll head a no'theast gale
Or like a spirit loom up, sliding dumb,
And ride in safe beyond the Boston Light,
To make the harbor glad because she's come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Suche been the stinking [fals] prophetis;
Nis non of hem, that good prophete is;
For they, thurgh wikked entencioun, 7095
The yeer of the incarnacioun
A thousand and two hundred yeer,
Fyve and fifty, ferther ne ner,
Broughten a book, with sory grace,
To yeven
ensample
in comune place, 7100
That seide thus, though it were fable:--
"This is the Gospel Perdurable,
That fro the Holy Goost is sent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
LX
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all
forwards
do contend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Then the
procurers
under Progers filed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Gold and
gleaming
the empty streets,
Gold and gleaming the misty lake,
The mirrored lights like sunken swords,
Glimmer and shake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Or a man is called selfish if he lives in
the manner that seems to him most suitable for the full
realisation
of
his own personality; if, in fact, the primary aim of his life is
self-development.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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For now I know her purpose: and I know
She will be
murdered
there.
| 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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I glide on the surface of seas
I have grown sentimental
I no longer know the guide
I no longer move silk over ice
I am
diseased
flowers and stones
I love the most chinese of nudes
I love the most naked lapses of wings
I am old but here I am beautiful
And the shadow that flows from the deep windows
Each evening spares the dark heart of my stare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Therein lay a certain
renunciation
of life but
in just this renunciation lay his triumph--for Life entered into his
work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
3135 Þǣr wæs wunden gold on wǣn hladen,
ǣghwæs
unrīm, æðeling boren,
hār hilde-rinc tō Hrones næsse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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And ever the shot and shell
Came with the howl of hell,
The splinter-clouds rose and fell,
And the long line of corpses grew--
_Would_ the fleet win
through?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
TO this harangue the wary youth replied
In truth, fair lady, I could ne'er decide,
To
criticise
what others round may do.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Thou hast fed
My lofty speculations; and in thee,
For this uneasy heart of ours, I find
A never-failing
principle
of joy 450
And purest passion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
* * * * *
PETER QUENNELL
PROCNE (A FRAGMENT)
So she became a bird, and bird-like danced
On a long sloe-bough, treading the silver blossom
With a bird's lovely feet;
And shaken
blossoms
fell into the hands
Of Sunlight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Such
machinery
was quite wanting in the first draft of the Rape; it must
be supplied if the poem was to be a true epic, even of the comic kind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
The sire begets
Not half his
likeness
in the son.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
My sad heart failed to gather the fruit
Of my
dreadful
crime, and shame is in pursuit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
What a seat he has on
horseback!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
This far
outstript
the other;
Yet ever runs she with reverted face,
And looks and listens for the boy behind:
For he, alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Some one had brought out a banjo--which is a
most
sentimental
instrument--and three or four of us sang.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Then I'd like to be a bull, white as snow,
Transforming myself, for carrying her,
In April, when, through meadows so tender,
A flower, through a
thousand
flowers, she goes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Your
shoulders
are level--
they have melted rare silver
for their breadth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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He who for empire at Pharsalia threw,
Reddening its beauteous plain with civil gore,
As Pompey's corse his
conquering
soldiers bore,
Wept when the well-known features met his view:
The shepherd youth, who fierce Goliath slew,
Had long rebellious children to deplore,
And bent, in generous grief, the brave Saul o'er
His shame and fall when proud Gilboa knew:
But you, whose cheek with pity never paled,
Who still have shields at hand to guard you well
Against Love's bow, which shoots its darts in vain,
Behold me by a thousand deaths assail'd,
And yet no tears of thine compassion tell,
But in those bright eyes anger and disdain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
This habit it was that brought about perhaps the gravest charge
that has ever been made against Pope, that of
accepting
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
II
Morning and evening opened and closed above me:
Houses were built above me; trees let fall
Yellowing leaves upon me, hands of ghosts,
Rain has showered its arrows of silver upon me
Seeking my heart; winds have roared and tossed me;
Music in long blue waves of sound has borne me
A
helpless
weed to shores of unthought silence;
Time, above me, within me, crashed its gongs
Of terrible warning, sifting the dust of death;
And here I lie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
They tolled the one bell only,
Groom there was none to see,
The mourners
followed
after,
And so to church went she,
And would not wait for me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
"He," it began,
"Who turn'd his compass on the world's extreme,
And in that space so
variously
hath wrought,
Both openly, and in secret, in such wise
Could not through all the universe display
Impression of his glory, that the Word
Of his omniscience should not still remain
In infinite excess.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
The body grows outside, --
The more
convenient
way, --
That if the spirit like to hide,
Its temple stands alway
Ajar, secure, inviting;
It never did betray
The soul that asked its shelter
In timid honesty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Chimene
Sire, one faints from joy as well as sadness:
Excess of
happiness
may bring on weakness,
Surprise the soul, and overcome the senses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
I beheld] my
likeness
in the street.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
in speeding hence,
Too well didst thou reveal unto my heart
Its
careless
joy, ere Love ensheathed his dart,
Of whose dread wound I ne'er can lose the sense
My eyes, enamour'd of their grief intense,
Did in that hour from Reason's bridle start,
Thus used to woe, they have no wish to part;
Each other mortal work is an offence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The
imitation
of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
I wrote a novel, I wrote fat volumes of journals; I
took myself very
seriously
in those days.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Unceasingly
to sigh is no relief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
If spicy-fringed pinks that blush and pale
With passions of perfume, -- if violets blue
That hint of heaven with odor more than hue, --
If perfect roses, each a holy Grail
Wherefrom the blood of beauty doth exhale
Grave raptures round, -- if leaves of green as new
As those fresh chaplets wove in dawn and dew
By Emily when down the Athenian vale
She paced, to do observance to the May,
Nor dreamed of Arcite nor of Palamon, --
If fruits that riped in some more riotous play
Of wind and beam that stirs our
temperate
sun, --
If these the products be of love and pain,
Oft may I suffer, and you love, again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
His look is grave,
--Yea from thejsecret that I never knew--
And
slightly
glazed,
Since to our winter from the spring he came.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
This is one of the most important of the lyrics as a statement
of Donne's
metaphysic
of love, of the interconnexion and mutual
dependence of body and soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
And I said, "I will seek that city and the
blessedness
thereof.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the
sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
They do not know who puffs and
declines
with pendant and bending arch,
They do not think whom they souse with spray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
When thy sleep like the
moonlight
above
Lulling the sea,
Doth enwind thee in visions of love,
Perchance, of me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Beasts cannot witt nor beauty see,
They mans
affections
onely move;
Beasts other sports of love doe prove, 15
With better feeling farre than we.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
"A prize," cried Peter,
stepping
back
To spy .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
"
— The Rochester Htrald, Rochester, New York
• :— The
Literary
Digest, New York Rates, $1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
My friend,
I've not
forgotten
the old pranks!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
The verses of Emily
Dickinson
belong emphatically to what Emerson
long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio,"--something produced
absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way of
expression of the writer's own mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Let Scribes spit Blood and Sulphur as they please,
Or
Statesmen
call me foolish--Heed not you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
A little space he let his greedy eyes
Rest on the
burnished
image, till mere sight
Half swooned for surfeit of such luxuries,
And then his lips in hungering delight
Fed on her lips, and round the towered neck
He flung his arms, nor cared at all his passion's will to check.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Give back--and let a little love
O'erwatch his weary
daughter!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Yet will you take a
faithful
friend's advice?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Three weeks passed since I had seen her, --
Some disease had vexed;
'T was with text and village singing
I beheld her next,
And a company -- our pleasure
To discourse alone;
Gracious now to me as any,
Gracious
unto none.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
"Your queen is killed,"
remarked
Tchekalinsky quietly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
The earliest
reported
example of the musical form is this song Kalenda Maya, supposedly written to the melody of an estampida played by French jongleurs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Fixing her eyes upon the beach,
As though
unconscious
of his speech,
She said "Each gives to more than each.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
What inn is this
Where for the night
Peculiar
traveller
comes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Thy God in vain shall call thee if by my strong power
I can infuse my dear revenge into his glowing breast
Then
jealousy
shall shadow all his mountains & Ahania
Curse thee thou plague of woful Los & seek revenge on thee
So saying in deep sobs he languishd till dead he also fell
Night passd & Enitharmon eer the dawn returnd in bliss
She sang Oer Los reviving him to Life his groans were terrible
But thus she sang.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
IO
Then
wherefore
tarry ere thou tell me all?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
The well-deck spread
A
comfortable
gulf of segregation
Between ourselves and death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Time after time his people use at some moment of deep
emotion an elaborate or
deliberate
metaphor, or do some improbable
thing which breaks an emotion of reality we have imposed upon him by an
art that is not his, nor in the spirit of his.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Infanta
My
sweetest
hope's to lose all hope, I fear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Messapus rules the
foremost
ranks,
the sons of Tyrrheus the rear.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
El
Desdichado
(The Disinherited)
I am the darkness - the widower - the un-consoled,
The prince of Aquitaine in the ruined tower;
My sole star is dead - and my constellated lute
Bears the black sun of Melancholy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Je suis la plaie et le
couteau!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
A foe renown'd in arms the brave require;
That high-plum'd foe, renown'd for martial fire,
Before thy gates his shining spear displays,
Whilst thou wouldst fondly dare the wat'ry maze,
Enfeebled
leave thy native land behind,
On shores unknown a foe unknown to find.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
When one all but despairs, as one does at times, of Ireland welcoming
a
National
Literature in this generation, it is because we do not
leave ourselves enough of time, or of quiet, to be interested in men
and women.
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Among those who will forthcoming numbers a
volumes for contribute to
Scudder Middleton Marguerite Wilkinson John Russell McCarthy Phoebe Hoffman Ellwood Lindsay Haines Esther Morton Smith Howard Buck
Mary Humphreys Samuel Roth
John Hall
Wheelock
Laura Benet
Fullerton L.
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Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows 50
There were no ruins, neither fragments 51
In sorrow day and night the disciple watched 52
Sunlight slantingly flows 53
The wild resplendence of the year
resolves
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Doth live for thee again, Beloved that October?
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The ox
worshiped
in Egypt for the god Apis is slain as a victim
by the Jews.
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quid in uacuo
secubuisse
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations
received
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outside the United States.
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) by slight extravagances and forms of words which are
sometimes epic and sometimes over-colloquial; it has a regular saga plot,
which had already been treated by the old poet
Phrynichus
in his
_Alcestis_, a play which is now lost but seems to have been Satyric;
and it has one character straight from the Satyr world, the heroic
reveller, Heracles.
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Ye sons of old Killie,
assembled
by Willie,
To follow the noble vocation;
Your thrifty old mother has scarce such another
To sit in that honoured station.
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Even in your misfortune
you would rejoice in the
happiness
of others.
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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"The
bustling
fates
"Heap his hands with corpses
"Until he stands like a child,
"With surplus of toys.
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tu modo
nascenti
puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget gens aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina: tuus iam regnat Apollo.
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"With these, and words like these, I moved the peer,
When I such puissance in myself espied;
And him so
contrite
made, in desert drear,
Was never seen a saint more mortified.
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
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I hae a wife and twa wee laddies;
They maun hae brose and brats o' duddies;
Ye ken
yoursels
my heart right proud is--
I need na vaunt
But I'll sned besoms, thraw saugh woodies,
Before they want.
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Labrador
and East Main, health in the words, 104.
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Up to the time of the publication of these volumes, Rilke's poems
possessed a quietude, a stillness suggested in the straight
unbroken
yet
delicate lines of the picture which he portrays and in the soft, almost
unpulsating rhythm of his words.
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Why possession of
his faculties, mental and
corporeal?
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Poe - 5 |
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1921
Fir-Flower Tablets
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
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Wilt thou destroy, in one wild shock of shame,
Thy whole high heaving firmamental frame,
Or
patiently
adjust, amend, and heal?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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ecce iam subter
genestas
explicant tauri latus,
quisque tutus quo tenetur coniugali foedere:
subter umbras cum maritis ecce balantum greges.
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