Nought is there for man too high;
Our impious folly e'en would climb the sky,
Braves the dweller on the steep,
Nor lets the bolts of heavenly
vengeance
sleep.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And the
handkerchief
of French lace
Which you held to your face--
Had a small tear left a stain?
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Wilde - Poems |
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And not for all our
questioning
10
Shall we discover more than joy,
Nor find a better thing than love!
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Sappho |
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He could condense
cerulean
ether
Into the very best sole-leather.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes,
cigarette
ends
Or other testimony of summer nights.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Ah me,
My brother, should it strike not him, but thee,
This
wrestling
with dark death, behold, I too
Am dead that hour.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Sleep is
supposed
to be,
By souls of sanity,
The shutting of the eye.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of
the Project Gutenberg License
included
with this eBook or online at
www.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Thought Burbank,
meditating
on
Time's ruins, and the seven laws.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Here
Frederic
Novello, with his hand
Stretch'd forth, entreated; and of Pisa he,
Who put the good Marzuco to such proof
Of constancy.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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'My eye, piercing the reeds, speared each immortal
Neck that drowns its burning in the water
With a cry of rage towards the forest sky;
And the splendid bath of hair slipped by
In
brightness
and shuddering, O jewels!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Have you not at times seen widows sitting on the deserted
benches?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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o di, si uestrum est misereri, aut si quibus umquam
extremam iam ipsa in morte tulistis opem,
me miserum
aspicite
et, si uitam puriter egi,
eripite hanc pestem perniciemque mihi:
sic mihi surrepens imos ut torpor in artus
expulit ex omni pectore laetitias.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"--"If I should stay,"
Said Lamia, "here, upon this floor of clay,
And pain my steps upon these flowers too rough,
What canst thou say or do of charm enough
To dull the nice
remembrance
of my home?
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Keats |
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And chiefly thou, my priest, because I doubt thee
More than the soldier; and would doubt thee all
Wert thou not half a warrior: let us part
In peace--I'll not say pardon--which must be
Earned by the guilty; this I'll not pronounce ye, 280
Although
upon this breath of mine depends
Your own; and, deadlier for ye, on my fears.
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Byron |
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Marya was more
miserable
than anyone.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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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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testor maiorum cineres tibi, Roma, uerendos,
sub quorum titulis, Africa, tunsa iaces,
testor qui Persen stimulantem pectus Achille,
quique ortas proauo fregit Achille domos,
me neque
censurae
legem mollisse neque ulla
labe mea nostros erubuisse focos.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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'Twas there within the chimney-seat
He watched me to the clock's slow beat--
Loved me, and learnt to call me sweet,
And
whispered
words to me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Watts-Dunton in his remarkable essay on poetry is so
convincing
and
illuminating that it seems to demand quotation here: "Never before these
songs were sung, and never since did the human soul, in the grip of a fiery
passion, utter a cry like hers; and, from the executive point of view, in
directness, in lucidity, in that high, imperious verbal economy which only
nature can teach the artist, she has no equal, and none worthy to take the
place of second.
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Sappho |
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He may be termed
formless
by those who, not without much
reason to show for themselves, are wedded to the established forms and
ratified refinements of poetic art; but it seems reasonable to enlarge the
canon till it includes so great and startling a genius, rather than to draw
it close and exclude him.
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Whitman |
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--think of my trusting love
And confidence--his vows--my ruin--think--think
Of my
unspeakable
misery!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Stay yet awhile,
And see the
daughter
of Herodias dance.
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Longfellow |
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gæst =
_stranger_
(Ha.
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Beowulf |
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at
gostlych
speked,
With his hede in his honde, bifore ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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You'd only hear my voice and see my eyes And the
remembrance
of old ecstasies Awakening within you solemn-grand
Would flood my words; you would forget my hand Lay tremulous on yours, you would arise
And go from me as night when silence dies
And dawn and shouting harrow all the land.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers,
pleasant
in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit - somewhat deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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though heavier yet
by land await thee, the
Dardanians
shall come to the realm of Lavinium;
relieve thy heart of this care; but not so shall they have joy of their
coming.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And thus she
brenneth
bothe in love and drede,
So that she niste what was best to rede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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er as
claterande
fro ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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TO-DAY we will not cross the garden railing,
For
sometimes
swiftly, yet in ways unclear,
This soft caressing or this sweet exhaling,
With long-forgotten joy again draws near:
And thus it brings us ghosts which goad and harass,
And anguish rendering weary and afraid.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Hither to work us weal;
Without a breeze, without a tide,
She
steadies
with upright keel!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Revers'd that spear,
redoubtable
in war,
Reclined that banner, erst in fields unfurl'd,
That like a deathful meteor gleam'd afar,
And brav'd the mighty monarchs of the world.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
Forthwith
this frame of mine was wrench'd
With a woeful agony,
Which forc'd me to begin my tale
And then it left me free.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Up to a generation or two ago, and to our own
generation, here and there,
lingered
a method of acting and of
stage-management, which had come down, losing much of its beauty
and meaning on the way, from the days of Shakespeare.
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Yeats |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,
And all the air a solemn stillness holds,
Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,
And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds:
Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower
The moping owl does to the moon complain
Of such as, wandering near her secret bower,
Molest her ancient
solitary
reign.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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--for never sorrow
Shall dawn upon him
desolate!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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And we would often at the fall of dusk
Wander
together
by the silver stream, 5
When the soft grass-heads were all wet with dew,
And purple-misted in the fading light.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Bromley,
Whose ways were not
cheerful
or comely;
He sate in the dust, eating spiders and crust,
That unpleasing old person of Bromley.
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| Question: |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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THE LAMB
Little Lamb, who make thee
Dost thou know who made thee,
Gave thee life, and bid thee feed
By the stream and o'er the mead;
Gave thee
clothing
of delight,
Softest clothing, wolly, bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales rejoice?
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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"
A
CHRISTMAS
CAROL.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Children
parting from fathers and mothers; husbands parting from
wives.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
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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| Question: |
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Villon |
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) is both the weather and the
spiritual
force of the season.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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_The Book of Poverty and Death_
Her mouth is like the mouth of a fine bust
That cannot utter sound, nor breathe, nor kiss,
But that had once from Life received all this
Which shaped its subtle curves, and ever must
From
fullness
of past knowledge dwell alone,
A thing apart, a parable in stone.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Mosse le penne poi e ventilonne,
'Qui lugent'
affermando
esser beati,
ch'avran di consolar l'anime donne.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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e emperour 289
went in to
euffamyans
hous;
They axyd hym of syche a man;
he sayde he knwe there of noone.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Not once have I thus
Broken accord,
Order ignored,
Unless I'm floored,
Too low to grace
Her lovely body's
dwelling
place;
So I fear slanderers have their say,
Who cause ladies and lovers dismay,
Lower us, and drive all joy away,
And each and every way harm me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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What fear
restrains
you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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'
With that they gonnen laughe, and tho she seyde,
`This
romaunce
is of Thebes, that we rede; 100
And we han herd how that king Laius deyde
Thurgh Edippus his sone, and al that dede;
And here we stenten at these lettres rede,
How the bisshop, as the book can telle,
Amphiorax, fil thurgh the ground to helle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Ges quar estius
Though spring's glorious
Lovely and sweet,
I'm not complete,
Painful defeat
Is mine today,
Through her who holds my heart in play;
So I prize not April or May,
For she
blithely
turns away
One I honour and love always.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Yet I know not any charm
That can make the fleeting time
Of thy sylvan, faint alarm
Suit itself to human rhyme:
And my
yearning
rhythmic word
Does thee grievous wrong, blithe bird.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Jehovah, still we refrain from crying to the infamous gates
That open easily into the heavens thy mind of
jealousy
hates.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Fix the
foundation
fast, and let the roof
Grow old with time but yet keep weather-proof.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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>>
--La premiere audace permise,
Le rire
feignait
de punir!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The phrase
modifies
"body," or is equivalent
to "while I was drowned in sleep.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Cosi 'l maestro; e quella gente degna
<>, disse, <>,
coi dossi de le man
faccendo
insegna.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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oblivion, dark and long,
Has lock'd them in a
tearless
grave,
For lack of consecrating song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
| Guess: |
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Villon |
|
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The grass does not refuse
To
flourish
in the spring wind;
The leaves are not angry
At falling through the autumn sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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the camps of the tents of green,
Which the days of peace keep filling, and the days of war keep filling,
With a mystic army, (is it too ordered
forward?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Copyright
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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At this audacious blasphemy, I thought
The spirit of
vengeance
seemed to ride the air.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Dusky and huge, enlarging on the sight,
Nature's
volcanic
amphitheatre,
Chimera's alps extend from left to right:
Beneath, a living valley seems to stir;
Flocks play, trees wave, streams flow, the mountain fir
Nodding above; behold black Acheron!
| Guess: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Shall I not see that hour before I die,
When I shall cull the flower of her springtime
Who makes my being
languish
in the dark?
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Ronsard |
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_1669_]
[90
elements
_1661 and MSS.
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John Donne |
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), dry
Kernels, and
withered
haws; the rest
Are trinkets fal'n from the kite's nest,
As butter'd bread, the which the wild
Bird snatched away from the crying child,
Blue pins, tags, fesenes, beads and things
Of higher price, as half-jet rings,
Ribbons and then some silken shreaks
The virgins lost at barley-breaks.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Sara Teasdale |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Condemn'd to drag a
hopeless
chain
And yet in secret languish;
To feel a fire in every vein,
Nor dare disclose my anguish.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
)
I
wondered
who it was the man thought ground--
The one who held the wheel back or the one
Who gave his life to keep it going round?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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In friendly contention the old men
Laughed at each lucky hit, or
unsuccessful
manoeuvre.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Fear most to tax an Honourable fool,
Whose right it is, uncensur'd, to be dull;
Such, without wit, are Poets when they please, 590
As without
learning
they can take Degrees.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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_("Oh,
regardez
le ciel!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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That we
perceived
ourselves erst only .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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15
I would freshen it with flowers,
And the piney hill-wind through it
Should be
sweetened
with soft fervours
Of small prayers in gentle language
Thou wouldst smile to hear.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Lo now, your garlanded altars, 5
Are they not goodly with
flowers?
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We have been very anxious lest matters had not gone well
With you and the
precious
cargo of your country's drugs and dyes.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The cave we found, but vacant all within
(His flock the giant tended on the green):
But round the grot we gaze; and all we view,
In order ranged our
admiration
drew:
The bending shelves with loads of cheeses press'd,
The folded flocks each separate from the rest
(The larger here, and there the lesser lambs,
The new-fallen young here bleating for their dams:
The kid distinguish'd from the lambkin lies);
The cavern echoes with responsive cries.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I
marvelled
at your height.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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'Twas a Spaniard left from the force in flight,
Who had crawled to the
roadside
after fight;
Shattered and livid, less live than dead,
Rattled his throat as hoarsely he said:
"Water, water to drink, for pity's sake!
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Hugo - Poems |
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INDEED, the anxious, tender youth replied,
To save such costly clothes we should decide;
I'll run at once, and
presently
be here;
Two minutes will suffice I'm very clear.
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La Fontaine |
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I was gone the
livelong
day.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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E'en copious Dryden wanted, or forgot
The last and
greatest
art, the art to blot.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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For the work it self I had view'd som good while
before, with
singular
delight, having receiv'd it from our
common Friend Mr.
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Milton |
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I come with
gracious
offers from the King,
If you vouchsafe me hearing and respect.
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Shakespeare |
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Chimene
But is he
wounded?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Their leader was false Sextus,
That wrought the deed of shame:
With
restless
pace and haggard face
To his last field he came.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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If all, that
hitherto
is told of her,
Were in one praise concluded, 't were too weak
To furnish out this turn.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
And a third seed spoke also, "I see in us nothing that
promises
so
great a future.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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was he,
And most unlike your Majesty;
He made no wars, and did not gain
New realms to lose them back again;
And (save debates in Warsaw's diet)
He reigned in most
unseemly
quiet;
Not that he had no cares to vex;
He loved the Muses and the Sex;[256]
And sometimes these so froward are,
They made him wish himself at war; 140
But soon his wrath being o'er, he took
Another mistress--or new book:
And then he gave prodigious fetes--
All Warsaw gathered round his gates
To gaze upon his splendid court,
And dames, and chiefs, of princely port.
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Byron |
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