I see the
spreading
leaves and flowers,
I hear the wild birds singing;
But pleasure they hae nane for me,
While care my heart is wringing.
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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'--
'But Zion said:
My Lord
forgetteth
me.
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| Question: |
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
VII
Time was, the breath of early dawn
Would agitate a mystic wreath
Hung on a pine branch
earthward
drawn
Above the humble urn of death.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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*****
Cerberus
and Furies, and that Lack of Light
*****
Tartarus, out-belching from his mouth the surge
Of horrible heat--the which are nowhere, nor
Indeed can be: but in this life is fear
Of retributions just and expiations
For evil acts: the dungeon and the leap
From that dread rock of infamy, the stripes,
The executioners, the oaken rack,
The iron plates, bitumen, and the torch.
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| Question: |
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Lucretius |
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One must love something in this world of ours, mistress,
They who love nothing live, in their wretchedness,
Like the Scythians did, and they would spend their life
Without tasting the
sweetness
of the sweetest joy.
| Guess: |
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Ronsard |
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But I struck through their senses burning news
Of
impossible
endless things, and mixt
Wild lightning into their room of darkness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And if he spoke, what name was best,
What first,
What one broke off with
At the
drowsiest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The important
fortress
of Ceuta was in a manner won by his
own sword.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Thou hast thy
dangerous
demand, because
It is thou who askest, it is I who may
Grant it to thee,--this only!
| 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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The stratagems of my
ravishment
you are,
Rejoicing that the will you serve has dealt
Its power on me.
| 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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Oh 1 why did he sing me that song,
I threw him the ring from my hand
Bitter and
treacherous
wrong
That sought me with fetters to brand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Hither to work us weal;
Without a breeze, without a tide,
She
steadies
with upright keel!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Two blows I aimed at thee, for twice thou kissedst my
fair wife; but I struck thee not, because thou restoredst them to me
according
to agreement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of
Replacement
or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And thus may'st know it matters with what others
And in what
structure
the primordial germs
Are held together, and what motions they
Among themselves do give and get; nor think
That aught we see hither and thither afloat
Upon the crest of things, and now a birth
And straightway now a ruin, inheres at rest
Deep in the eternal atoms of the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Of Eve's first fire he has a cinder;
Auld Tubal-Cain's fire-shool and fender;
That which
distinguished
the gender
O' Balaam's ass;
A broom-stick o' the witch o' Endor,
Weel shod wi' brass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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"No cold approach, no alter'd mien,
Just what would make suspicion start;
No pause the dire
extremes
between,
He made me blest--and broke my heart!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
6200
'But what herberwe that ever I take,
Or what semblant that ever I make,
I mene but gyle, and folowe that;
For right no mo than Gibbe our cat
[Fro myce and rattes went his wyle], 6205
Ne entende I [not] but to begyle;
Ne no wight may, by my clothing,
Wite with what folk is my dwelling;
Ne by my wordis yet, pardee,
So softe and so
plesaunt
they be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But when he saw the evening star above
Leucadia's far-projecting rock of woe,
And hailed the last resort of
fruitless
love,
He felt, or deemed he felt, no common glow:
And as the stately vessel glided slow
Beneath the shadow of that ancient mount,
He watched the billows' melancholy flow,
And, sunk albeit in thought as he was wont,
More placid seemed his eye, and smooth his pallid front.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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" It would be unjust as well as
ungenerous
not to
mention the name of Mrs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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" She cast down her countenance, and spoke with lowered voice:
'"O single in happy eminence that maiden
daughter
of Priam, sentenced to
die under high Troy town at an enemy's grave, who never bore the shame
of the lot, nor came a captive to her victorious master's bed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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we must fasten
alongside
there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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One of
them, a little old man, meagre and bent, with a scanty grey beard, had
nothing
remarkable
about him, except a broad blue ribbon worn cross-ways
over his caftan of thick grey cloth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
]
Ah, here's my
youngest
brother come at last:
Come in, December.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Darkness again the wood investeth,
The moon midst clouds is seen to sail,
And once more on the margin resteth
The maiden
beautiful
and pale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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{and}
couenaunt
3060
in ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Du furchtest, sie
wiederzusehen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Unauthenticated
Download
Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Happy at the News that the Imperial Army is Already at the Edge ofRebel Territory 355 Today I look on the will of Heaven, how can those wandering souls forgive you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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She had expected to find the young officer there, but
she felt
relieved
to see that he was not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"- Wer war's, der sie ins
Verderben
sturzte?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Here again we have a punning allusion to the
uncovered
head of
the gentleman-usher.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
From far the eyes, its trail
Along the burning shale
Bending its
wavering
tail,
Like a mottled serpent scan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge,
Gold that I never see;
Lie long, high
snowdrifts
in the hedge
That will not shower on me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The apron's vertical long flow
Warped grandly outwards to display
His hale, round belly hung midway,
Whose apex was
securely
bound
With apron-strings wrapped round and round.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
CHORUS _of Citizens
praising_
JUDITH _and
leading her to her house_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
"
But I cried out,--"That is a false prophet; for I shall be a
musician, and naught but a
musician
shall I be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
The mother said
gently, "Is that you,
darling?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
So even now, too,
Come and release me
From mordant love pain,
And all my heart's will 35
Help me
accomplish!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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You gods have given man
Desire that too much knows itself; and thence
He is all
confounded
by the pleasure of us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I wish there to be in my house:
O lion, miserable image
Don't be fearful and lascivious
There's another cony I remember
With his four dromedaries
Sweet days, the mice of time,
I carry treasure in my mouth,
Look at this
pestilential
tribe
Work leads us to riches.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
There was, at
least, this
advantage
in duelling, that it set a certain limit on the
tongue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Count
Living
examples
offer greater powers;
A prince learns badly from bookish hours.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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To plead with the
tsaritsa
in her cell
Now are they gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
'
To this Turnus, with eyes fixed on the terrible maiden: 'O maiden flower
of Italy, how may I essay to express, how to prove my
gratitude?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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The rail along the curving pathway
Was low in a happy place to let us cross,
And down the hill a tree that dripped with bloom
Sheltered
us,
While your kisses and the flowers,
Falling, falling,
Tangled my hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
e cite,
godus
seruaunt
forte be,
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
HE
THINKS OF HIS PAST GREATNESS WHEN A PART OF THE
CONSTELLATIONS
OF
HEAVEN (p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Et Saint Apollinaire, raide et ascetique,
Vieille usine desaffectee de Dieu, tient encore
Dans ses pierres
ecroulantes
la forme precise de Byzance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
"Nor less I deem that there are powers,
"Which of
themselves
our minds impress,
"That we can feed this mind of ours,
"In a wise passiveness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
MEPHISTOPHELES
(zu Faust):
Mein Freund, das lerne wohl verstehn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
I do not
understand
love!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was
carefully
scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Miss
Dickinson
was born in Amherst, Mass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Or a teeming
manufacturing
state?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
In thee, too, are the floods, the wild rivers,
Overrunning thy thought, the
nameless
mind?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Dal: Since thou
determinst
weakness for no plea
In man or woman, though to thy own condemning,
Hear what assaults I had, what snares besides,
What sieges girt me round, e're I consented;
Which might have aw'd the best resolv'd of men,
The constantest to have yielded without blame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Are not here two who would have me know of their
marriage?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
E prima,
appresso
al fin d'este parole,
'Sperent in te' di sopr' a noi s'udi;
a che rispuoser tutte le carole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
O, it may have been
mermaids
that lured her from home,
But nobody knew where _Kilmeny_ had been.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Think we, like some weak prince, the Eternal Cause
Prone for His
favourites
to reverse His laws?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
But though no hand
unsanctioned
dares
Unveil the mysteries of her grace,
Time lifts the curtain unawares,
And Sorrow looks into her face .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
504_
Cork and Orrery, Mary,
Countess
of ("Countess Crabby"), vi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
O wonder now
unfurled!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
& wet thy veil with dewy tears, *
In slumbers of my night-repose, infusing a false
morning?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
AN ARMED KNIGHT, Sir Trevisan, who
symbolizes
Fear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Ils prennent en songeant les nobles attitudes
Des grands sphinx allonges au fond des solitudes,
Qui
semblent
s'endormir dans un reve sans fin;
Leurs reins feconds sont pleins d'etincelles magiques,
Et des parcelles d'or, ainsi qu'un sable fin,
Etoilent vaguement leurs prunelles mystiques.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
"
The suitors suffered
Telemachus
to depart, though they repented after;
and he came with Athene, in disguise of Mentor, to Nestor at Pylos,
and thence to Menelaus at Sparta, who told him how he had laid hold on
Proteus, the seer, and learnt from him first of the slaying of his own
brother Agamemnon; and, secondly, concerning Ulysses,
Laertes' son; whom I beheld
In nymph Calypso's palace, who compell'd
His stay with her, and since he could not see
His country earth, he mourned incessantly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
Straggling
shapes:
Afterwards none are seen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Imagists |
|
_895
Woe to the dupe, and woe to the
deceiver!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
The chief severe,
compelling
each to move,
Urged the dire task imperious from above;
With thirsty sponge they rub the tables o'er
(The swains unite their toil); the walls, the floor,
Wash'd with the effusive wave, are purged of gore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Lawrence
and Amy Lowell
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOME IMAGIST POETS ***
***** This file should be named 30276-8.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
And later, when at last
The lusty powers of horses and stout limbs,
Now weak through lapsing life, do fail with age,
Lo, only then doth youth with
flowering
years
Begin for boys, and clothe their ruddy cheeks
With the soft down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Thus in less than eighteen weeks they all arrived safely at home, where
they were
received
by their admiring relatives with joy tempered with
contempt, and where they finally resolved to carry out the rest of their
travelling-plans at some more favorable opportunity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
at hym myght knowe;
Page 52
his owne men for
rebaundrye
255
dyd hym manye a welonye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
I'll teach the
villains!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Sweet face, do not misunderstand my
thought!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
You to your beauteous
blessings
add a curse,
Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state
applicable
to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
2 Frost and dew gather in the vast heavens, 116 there is stern deadliness in the
atmosphere
of justice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
His laughter was
submarine
and profound
Like the old man of the seats
Hidden under coral islands
Where worried bodies of drowned men drift down in the green silence,
Dropping from fingers of surf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
The Dying Words of
Stonewall
Jackson.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
_
And we, who deemed him wise,
We who
believed
that Thou wast dead,
How should we seek Thine eyes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
The broad-backed hippopotamus
Rests on his belly in the mud;
Although
he seems so firm to us
He is merely flesh and blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Note: Russian proper names to be pronounced as in French (the nasal
sound of m and n
excepted)
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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--think of my trusting love
And confidence--his vows--my ruin--think--think
Of my
unspeakable
misery!
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Poe - 5 |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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since his return, in thy account,
Is an event impossible, and thy mind
Always
incredulous
that hope rejects,
I shall not slightly speak, but with an oath--
Ulysses comes again; and I demand
No more, than that the boon such news deserves,
Be giv'n me soon as he shall reach his home.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Do not dream that I speak
as one
defrauded
of delight,
sick, shaken by each heart-beat
or paralyzed, stretched at length,
who gasps:
these ripe pears
are bitter to the taste,
this spiced wine, poison, corrupt.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Vessels of silver are indeed to be seen among them, which have been presented to their
ambassadors
and chiefs; but they are held in no higher estimation than earthenware.
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Tacitus |
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Stephen Crane |
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'Tis I, that sweep that lute's love-echoing strings,
And gaze upon the maid who gazing sings;
Or pause and listen to the
tinkling
bells
From the high tower, and think that there she dwells.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Then the Moors, by this aware,
That bloody Mars recalled them there,
One by one, and two by two,
To a mighty
squadron
grew.
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Byron |
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Liberty
On my notebooks from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On physical truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this
feminine
land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves,
Dewy with Nature's tear-drops, as they pass,
Grieving, if aught
inanimate
e'er grieves,
Over the unreturniug brave,--alas!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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