From your formules, O bat-eyed and
materialistic
priests.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The standard
Assyrian
texts regard Enkidu as the subject.
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| Question: |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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But the
girl's father, a brave soldier, saved her from
servitude
and
dishonor by stabbing her to the heart in the sight of the whole
Forum.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Lay by the good a while; a resting field
Will, after ease, a richer harvest yield;
Trees this year bear: next, they their wealth withhold:
_Continual
reaping makes a land wax old_.
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| Question: |
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Robert Herrick |
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Or when the minstrel, tale half told, Shall burst to lilting at the phrase
"Audiart, Audiart"
Bertrans, master of his lays, Bertrans of
Aultaforte
thy praise
Sets forth, and though thou hate me well, Yea, though thou wish me ill,
Audiart, Audiart Thy loveliness is here writ till,
Audiart,
2
Oh, till thou come again.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
1481
|| _Si quoi iure Bonae
sacratorum
o.
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Latin - Catullus |
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But fire to thaw that ruddy snow,
To break
enchanted
ice,
And give love's scarlet tides to flow,--
When shall that sun arise?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Not to the skies in useless columns tost,
Or in proud falls
magnificently
lost,
But clear and artless, pouring through the plain
Health to the sick, and solace to the swain.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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That thou mayst know
Who seconds thee against the Siennese
Thus gladly, bend this way thy sharpen'd sight,
That well my face may answer to thy ken;
So shalt thou see I am Capocchio's ghost,
Who forg'd transmuted metals by the power
Of alchemy; and if I scan thee right,
Thus needs must well
remember
how I aped
Creative nature by my subtle art.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
XCIII
When in the spring the
swallows
all return,
And the bleak bitter sea grows mild once more,
With all its thunders softened to a sigh;
When to the meadows the young green comes back,
And swelling buds put forth on every bough, 5
With wild-wood odours on the delicate air;
Ah, then, in that so lovely earth wilt thou
With all thy beauty love me all one way,
And make me all thy lover as before?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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And who
commanded
(and the silence came),
Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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you
ascending
Mount Ararat!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Geatland's king may ken by the gold,
Hrethel's son see, when he stares at the treasure,
that I got me a friend for
goodness
famed,
and joyed while I could in my jewel-bestower.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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pudeat tantos puerilia fingere coepta,
Nugas nescio quas, et male quaerere opes ;
Acer equo cunctos dum
praeterit
ille Britanno,
£t pecoris spolium nescit inerme sequi ;
Ast aquilam poscit Germane pellere nido,
Deque Palatine monte fugare lupam ;
Vos etiam latos in pnedam jungitc campos,
Impiaque arctatis cingite lustra plagis :
Victor Oliverus nudum caput exerit armis,
Ducere sive sequi nobile laetus iter;
* Issel, vulgo dicta.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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8
_saculus_
GORBVen
9 _meos_ OAa
10 _seu quid_ Santenianus Lachmanni: _seu qui_ OBCLa1: _seu qui
al.
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Latin - Catullus |
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I once already made a
pilgrimage _up_ the whole course of the Tweed, and fondly would I take
the same
delightful
journey _down_ the windings of that delightful
stream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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from the
embattled
plain;
Ships thou hast store, and nearest to the main;
A noble care the Grecians shall employ,
To combat, conquer, and extirpate Troy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
LVI
Passes the day, the
darkness
is grown deep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Her
final volume, "Strange Victory", is
considered
by many to be predictive
of her suicide in 1933.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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His poetry often wearies us as
the unbroken green of July wearies us, for there is
something
in us,
some bitterness because of the Fall it may be, that takes a little from
the sweetness of Eve's apple after the first mouthful; but he who did
all things gladly and easily, who never knew the curse of labour, found
it always as sweet as it was in Eve's mouth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
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 |
|
The King of Castile is
Ferdinand
III of Castile and Leon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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No education, indeed, can entitle to this
appellation
a dull and
unobservant mind, or one, though neither dull nor unobservant, in
which the channels of communication between thought and expression
have been obstructed or closed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Lune de Miel
Ils ont vu les Pays-Bas, ils rentrent a Terre Haute;
Mais une nuit d'ete, les voici a Ravenne,
A l'sur le dos
ecartant
les genoux
De quatre jambes molles tout gonflees de morsures.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Turnus too his own fate
summons, and his
allotted
period hath reached the goal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
) Ha, there's
drinking
going on
here; we shall get something here.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Softer than rainfall at twilight, 5
Bringing the fields benediction
And the hills quiet and greyness,
Are my long
thoughts
of thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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But, since he is become thy guest, afford
My friend a chariot, and a son of thine
Who shall direct his way, nor let him want
Of all thy steeds the
swiftest
and the best.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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With clank of scabbards and thunder of steeds,
And blades that shine like sunlit reeds,
And strong brown faces bravely pale
For fear their proud attempt shall fail,
Three hundred Pennsylvanians close
On twice ten
thousand
gallant foes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Doth that curse
Reverberate spare us, seraph or
universe?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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They hanged him as a beast is hanged:
They did not even toll
A requiem that might have brought
Rest to his startled soul,
But
hurriedly
they took him out,
And hid him in a hole.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
With
associate
step the bards
Drew near the plant; and from amidst the leaves
A voice was heard: "Ye shall be chary of me;"
And after added: "Mary took more thought
For joy and honour of the nuptial feast,
Than for herself who answers now for you.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
30: "The laurel, the principal
messenger
of joy and victory among the Romans, is affixed to letters, and to the spears and javelins of the soldiers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Turmoil grown visible beneath our peace,
And we that are grown
formless
rise above, Fluids intangible that have been men,
We seem as statues round whose high risen base Some overflowing river is run mad;
In us alone the element of calm !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
There are
also various other reasons why repetition and apparent
tautology
are
frequently beauties of the highest kind.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Webster, some sentiments of,
commended
by Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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If you want to see
generations
in charge of lovely silken lines,2 8 to this day on the pool there is phoenix down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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mingling
their voices with human sighs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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er man; mychel
enpaired
I-wis.
| 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 |
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The king that
trampled
Troy
Knoweth his son Orestes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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But my mind was weary Almost as the
twilight
of the day,
And my soul was sullen, and a little Tired of his everlasting talk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Thomas Aquinas, using the edition in Migne's
_Patrologiae Cursus
Completus_
(1845).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Creating the works from print editions not
protected
by U.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
As for will and
testament
I leave none,
Save this: "Vers and canzone to the Countess of
Beziers
In return for the first kiss she gave me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
But Enkidu
understood
not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Everybody
has his own place.
| 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 |
|
Which to abrupter
greatness
thrust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
For me,
You stand poised
In the blue and buoyant air,
Cinctured by bright winds,
Treading
the sunlight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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they linger lang,
I'm
scorching
up so shallow,
They're left the whitening stanes amang,
In gasping death to wallow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
The President rolled in
splendor
new
-- He bought my silver at the sale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
For in the strait between Athens and the island
of Salamis the Persian ships were shattered and sunk or put to
flight by those of Athens and
Lacedaemon
and Aegina and Corinth, and
Xerxes went homewards on the way by which he had come, leaving his
general Mardonius with three hundred thousand men to strive with the
Greeks by land: but in the next year they were destroyed near
Plataea in Boeotia, by the Lacedaemonians and Athenians and Tegeans.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
_ Who, then, is
helmsman
of necessity?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
The kingly lion stood,
And the virgin viewed:
Then he gambolled round
O'er the
hallowed
ground.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
It skilled not: the unsleeping bolt of Zeus,
The
downward
levin with its rush of flame,
Smote on him, and made dumb for evermore
The clamour of his vaunting: to the heart
Stricken he lay, and all that mould of strength
Sank thunder-shattered to a smouldering ash;
And helpless now and laid in ruin huge
He lieth by the narrow strait of sea,
Crushed at the root of Etna's mountain-pile.
| 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: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Cold he lies, as cold as stone,
With his clotted curls about his face:
The
comeliest
corpse in all the world
And worthy of a queen's embrace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Hath fate
apportioned
unto thee
This lot in life with stern decree?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
I read
in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground,
of the magnolia, and the Florida keys, and their warm sea-breezes; of
the fence-rail, and the cotton-tree, and the
migrations
of the
rice-bird; of the breaking up of winter in Labrador, and the melting
of the snow on the forks of the Missouri; and owe an accession of
health to these reminiscences of luxuriant nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Earth's glories flee of human eyes unseen,
Earth's kingdoms fade to a remembered dream,
But thine henceforth shall be a power supreme,
Dazzling
command and rich dominion,
The winds thy heralds and thy vassals all
The silver-belted planets and the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Pourquoi ne point se manifester a toute la terre dune facon non
equivoque, bien plus capable de nous convaincre que ces revelations
particulieres qui semblent accuser la Divinite d'une
partialite
facheuse
pour quelques-unes de ses creatures?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
To me the artist's meed, the ivy wreath
Is very heaven: me the sweet cool of woods,
Where Satyrs frolic with the Nymphs, secludes
From rabble rout, so but Euterpe's breath
Fail not the flute, nor Polyhymnia fly
Averse from
stringing
new the Lesbian lyre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Great Albuquerque awakes the dread alarms:
O'er Ormuz' walls his thund'ring flames he pours,
While Heav'n, the hero's guide,
indignant
show'rs
Their arrows backwards[603] on the Persian foe,
Tearing the breasts and arms that twang'd the bow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
"
She,
trembling
in the darkness, answered, "I!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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ntheis_ R:
_laberinthis_
O
116 _a primo_ a: _cum primo_ ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
To trace the ways
fantastic
of a priest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
First, from all things
We see soever,
evermore
must flow,
Must be discharged and strewn about, about,
Bodies that strike the eyes, awaking sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
explains
wē as a "plur.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Ionian ships, in fenced array,
Have reaped their harvest in the bay,
A
darkling
harvest-field of Fate,
A sea, a shore, of doom and hate!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
It was from this memorable spot
that Napoleon and the Grand Army first
obtained
a glimpse at the
city of the Tsars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Rising from unrest,
The
trembling
woman presse
With feet of weary woe;
She could no further go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
)
9
I listened to the Phantom by Ontario's shore,
I heard the voice arising demanding bards,
By them all native and grand, by them alone can these States be
fused into the compact
organism
of a Nation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Did the harebell loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as
formerly?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's sensitive conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is
standing
on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Requesting me then to
exchange seats with him, that he might the better distinguish the fine
print of the volume, he took my
armchair
at the window, and, opening the
book, resumed his discourse very much in the same tone as before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
The star grew pale and hid her face
In a bit of
floating
cloud like lace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
She brought the "_samovar_,"
and over a cup of tea she was about to resume her endless discussion of
the Court, when a
carriage
with a coat-of-arms stopped before the door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
My
brothers
who live after us,
Don't harden you hearts against us too,
If you have mercy now on us,
God may have mercy upon you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
And look--a thousand
Blossoms
with the Day
Woke--and a thousand scatter'd into Clay:
And this first Summer Month that brings the Rose
Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
'197 touch':
a noun, subject of "were given,"
understood
from l.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
And then, your
Scottish
namesake marrying
The Dauphin, he would weld France, England, Scotland,
Into one sword to hack at Spain and me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
For great and popular
men feign
themselves
to be servants to others to make those slaves to
them.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Merecraft
and Everill endeavor to
have the deed drawn in their own favor, but through the interference
of Wittipol the whole estate is made over to Manly, who restores it to
Mrs.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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And gleams, through the pallor,
A mouth with a
conquering
smile;
Red chilli, a scarlet flower,
Hearts'-blood gives it fire.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Walpurgis is the female saint
who
converted
the Saxons to Christianity.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The big rocks are like a flat sword:
The little rocks
resemble
ivory tusks.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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KAPELLMEISTER:
Fliegenschnauz und Muckennas
Umschwarmt
mir nicht die Nackte!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Happily they also tell us
what that
learning
was.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The
Nutcrackers
sate by a plate on the table;
The Sugar-tongs sate by a plate at his side;
And the Nutcrackers said, "Don't you wish we were able
Along the blue hills and green meadows to ride?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Who's the old trader that has lent this girl
The glittering cash of
pleasure
to pay me with?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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THE SCHOOLBOY
I love to rise in a summer morn,
When the birds sing on every tree;
The distant huntsman winds his horn,
And the skylark sings with me:
O what sweet
company!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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e
loueloker
he lappe3 a lyttel in arme3,
[C] He kysses hir comlyly, & kny3tly he mele3;
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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[f] Oft beside the hearth 410
Seated, with open door, often and long
Upon this
restless
lustre have I gazed,
That made my fancy restless as itself.
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William Wordsworth |
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit
With the same spirit that its author writ:
Survey the WHOLE, nor seek slight faults to find 235
Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind;
Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight,
The gen'rous
pleasure
to be charm'd with Wit.
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Alexander Pope |
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The warring nations meet, the battle roars,
Thick beats the combat on the
sounding
prores.
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Iliad - Pope |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I protest-
Maugre thy strength, youth, place, and eminence,
Despite thy victor sword and fire-new fortune,
Thy valour and thy heart- thou art a traitor;
False to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father;
Conspirant 'gainst this high
illustrious
prince;
And from th' extremest upward of thy head
To the descent and dust beneath thy foot,
A most toad-spotted traitor.
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Shakespeare |
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On for your time, ye furious
debouche!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Old Rome from such a race deriv'd her birth
(The seat of empire, and the conquer'd earth),
Which now on sev'n high hills
triumphant
reigns,
And in that compass all the world contains.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Your orange hair in the void of the world
The sentiments apparent
Would you see
You rise the water unfolds
I only wish to love you
The world is blue as an orange
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
Donkey or cow,
cockerel
or horse
I looked in front of me
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
We two take each other by the hand
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
She looks into me
A single smile disputes
Translated by A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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