And the mighty nations would have crowned
me, who am crownless now and without name,
And some orient dawn had found me kneeling
on the
threshold
of the House of Fame.
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Wilde - Poems |
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illic
planities
tractus diffundit apertos,
nec tumulus crescit nec caua uallis hiat,
sed nostros montis, quorum iuga celsa putantur,
per bis sex ulnas imminet ille locus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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'
Colchis et orba Procne 'numerosa caede
necemus!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The tribute to each
fragment
is the same
Service to all of Beauty--and her due.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Even Gautier's revolutionary red waistcoat worn at
the
premiere
of Hernani was, according to Gautier, a pink doublet.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax
treatment
of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Wilde - Poems |
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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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LOOK Nymphs, and
Shepherds
look,
What sudden blaze of majesty
Is that which we from hence descry
Too divine to be mistook:
This this is she
To whom our vows and wishes bend,
Heer our solemn search hath end.
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Milton |
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How else dispose of an
immortal
force
No longer needed?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Northerner or Southerner, the belligerents
received
the same tending from
him.
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Whitman |
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Dyce in 1830, "You know
what importance I attach to following
strictly
the last copy of the text
of an author.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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= In the
Shakespeare
folio of 1632 Allot's sign reads
'the Black Beare.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Eufeniens
ansuered
sone,
As he au?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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;
Jonson's
treatment
of, xxiii f.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Night is too silent,
darkness
too profound
Oh, for a star to shine, a voice to sound--
To raise some sudden note of music now
Suited to night.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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If _Q_ probably
represents
the kind of manuscript which circulated
pretty widely, _W_ is a good representative of the kind which
circulated only among Donne's friends.
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John Donne |
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The Sunne that
measures
heaven all day long,
At night doth baite his steedes the Ocean waves emong.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Nor had I time to love; but since
Some
industry
must be,
The little toil of love, I thought,
Was large enough for me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The miracle of
generative
force,
Far-reaching concords of astronomy
Felt in the plants and in the punctual birds;
Better, the linked purpose of the whole,
And, chiefest prize, found I true liberty
In the glad home plain-dealing Nature gave.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Well paid for that
the
wrathful
prince!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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We will never walk again
Slowly, we two,
In spring when the park is sweet
With
midnight
and with dew,
And the passers-by are few.
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Sara Teasdale |
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[These words, thrown into the form of a note, are copied from a blank
leaf of the poet's works,
published
in two volumes, small octavo, in
1793.
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Robert Burns |
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But his most monotonous feature
is the mechanical recurrence of certain
reflections
about the
impermanence of human things, as opposed to the immutability of Nature.
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Li Po |
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These were
mostly young, but the plantation was more in English taste than I ever
elsewhere saw in Italy; some fine walnut and ilex trees intermingled
their dark massy foliage, and formed groups which still haunt my
memory, as then they
satiated
the eye with a sense of loveliness.
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Shelley |
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the bright hides,
See, the two with stars on their foreheads--see, the round bodies
and broad backs,
How
straight
and square they stand on their legs--what fine sagacious eyes!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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27 Journey North1 Our Imperial
Majesty?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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WAKING FROM
DRUNKENNESS
ON A SPRING DAY
"Life in the World is but a big dream:
I will not spoil it by any labour or care.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Death is an angel whose
magnetic
palms
Bring dreams of ecstasy and slumberous calms
To smooth the beds of naked men and poor.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Diegue
How enviable, yes,
On losing strength to swiftly meet with death,
See how old age
prepares
for noble spirits
After long careers, miserable exits!
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Why so
obstinate
in this matter?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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A clarion thy name shall ring
Adown the ages and the Nations see
Thy
monuments
of glory.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The Doctor has been well
catechized
then?
| 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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It is descriptive of the first manifestation of
doubt and
cynicism
in his youthful mind, allegorically as the
visits of a "demon.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But Simon sure, in
Paradise
the blest,
Whence came this noble lady of my heart,
Saw her, and took this wond'rous counterpart
Which should on earth her lovely face attest.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And when the summer's breezes beat,
Methought
I saw the sunny street
Where stood my Kate.
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And this shall free thee from this present shame,
If no
inconstant
toy nor womanish fear
Abate thy valour in the acting it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Of the
Knowledge
and Characters of Men.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Pure and neat
language
I love, yet plain and customary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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He had an intuitive and a perfectly trained eye for the
character and beauty of distant mountain lines, the solemnity of rocky
gorges, the majesty of a single mountain rising from a base of plain or
sea; and he was equally exact in rendering the true forms of the middle
distances and the specialties of foreground detail
belonging
to the various
lands through which he had wandered as a sketcher.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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How
gallantly
he charged
Today in the last battle, and when wounded,
How swiftly bore me.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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When the last stroke fell, then he moved him a pace down the height,
And he held forth the child in the
heartaching
sight
Of the mother, and looked all pitiful grave, as repenting a wrong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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A LITTLE BOY LOST
"Nought loves another as itself,
Nor venerates another so,
Nor is it
possible
to thought
A greater than itself to know.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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His great valour how can it be
counted?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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The
Monopoly
System lviii
3.
| 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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While fain to ransom him, he thinks upon
The means, and stands
afflicted
and dismayed,
He recollects him how the paladin,
Dudon, has many a month his prisoner been.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Men
thronged
the inns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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He suffered from rheumatic fever complicated by an
enlarged
heart, and died in October 1879, aged eight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Am I now
dreaming?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The way is suspicious--the result uncertain, perhaps destructive;
You would have to give up all else--I alone would expect to be your God,
sole and exclusive;
Your novitiate would even then be long and exhausting,
The whole past theory of your life, and all conformity to the lives around
you, would have to be abandoned;
Therefore release me now, before troubling
yourself
any further--Let go
your hand from my shoulders,
Put me down, and depart on your way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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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 |
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MARRALL: With the lady of the lake or queen of
fairies?
| 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 |
|
International
donations
are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Gēn is eall æt þē
"lissa gelong: ic lȳt hafo
"hēafod-māga, nefne
Hygelāc
þec!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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"
[315] A corps of
Athenian
cavalry was so named.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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He never obtained
instruction
sufficient to make him a
good Grecian, but he imbibed much of the spirit of Plato from the labour
which he bestowed on his works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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adds "= _impetrare_" to the other
meanings
of findan given in
the Gloss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Thou art the mystic
homeless
One;
Into the world Thou never came,
Too mighty Thou, too great to name;
Voice of the storm, Song that the wild wind sings,
Thou Harp that shatters those who play Thy strings!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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--The great thieves of a state are lightly the
officers
of
the crown; they hang the less still, play the pikes in the pond, eat whom
they list.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
| Guess: |
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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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Can there be creatures of more wretched
condition
than these, that
continually labour under their own misery and others' envy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
LFS}
All Love is lost Terror
succeeds
& Hatred instead of Love
And stern demands of Right & Duty instead of Liberty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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If only
centuries
delayed,
I'd count them on my hand,
Subtracting till my fingers dropped
Into Van Diemen's land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
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Gutenberg
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Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project
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fees.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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O'er him who vaunteth an
exceeding
fame,
Impends a woe condign;
The vengeful bolt upon his eyes doth flame,
Sped from the hand divine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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But nathelees, thus
thoughte
he at the laste,
`What, parde, rather than my felawe deye,
Yet shal I som-what more un-to him seye:' 525
And seyde, `Freend, sin thou hast swich distresse,
And sin thee list myn arguments to blame,
Why nilt thy-selven helpen doon redresse,
And with thy manhod letten al this grame?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"Þā wǣron monige, þē his mǣg wriðon,
"ricone ārǣrdon, þā him
gerȳmed
wearð,
2985 "þæt hīe wæl-stōwe wealdan mōston.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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outen strijf,
Rome forto gouerne; 954
we
defenden
holy chirche
A?
| 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 |
|
Go now and know,
Since yet thou livest, that my
neighbour
here
Vitaliano on my left shall sit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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But if ever its offence
distressed
your mind, 775
Can you forget the scornfulness of his pride?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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It is our garden,
All black and
blossomless
this winter night,
But we bring April with us, you and I;
We set the whole world on the trail of spring.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
On a Dead Lady
She was beautiful, if Night
Who sleeps in the
darkened
chapel
Where Michelangelo made light,
Unmoving, can be beautiful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
) I am a
scholar!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Yea, like some witch
She drugs the cup of wrath, that slays her lord
With double death--his
recompense
for me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Come, join the
melancholious
croon
O' Robin's reed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
And when the sun
withdrew
his slanting ray,
And winter cool'd the fervours of the day,
Then came the genial hours, the frequent feast
And circling times of joy and balmy rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
" she cries, and, eager as a lover,
Leaps up and holds her husband to her breast;
Her
greeting
kisses all his vesture cover;
"'Tis I, good wife!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
What estranger,
What ill supreme in evil, can be thrust
Between the
faithful
Father and the Son?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
But we do not appreciate
what Homer did for his time, and is still doing for all the world, we do
not appreciate the spirit of his music, unless we see the warfare and
the
adventure
as symbols of the primary courage of life; and there is
more in those words than seems when they are baldly written.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
I
condemned
him because you were his accuser.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
With thy dear name as text, though bidden by thee,
I can not write-I can not speak or think--
Alas, I can not feel; for 'tis not feeling,
This standing motionless upon the golden
Threshold of the wide-open gate of dreams,
Gazing, entranced, adown the
gorgeous
vista,
And thrilling as I see, upon the right,
Upon the left, and all the way along,
Amid empurpled vapors, far away
To where the prospect terminates-_thee only!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
I won't speak common boasts or praise,
But truth, with a thousand witnesses,
Let all desire what I wish always,
The lance of love for the joyous
That wounds the
unprotected
heart
With friendship's pleasant pleasing;
Yet I have felt such blow's assailing,
That from the deepest sleep I start.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
quarters
of whete,
And an hundre?
| 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 |
|
While I am lying on the grass,
I hear thy
restless
shout:
From hill to hill it seems to pass,
About, and all about!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
I joy no child he was of thine:
Thy free-born men should spare what once was free;
Yet they could violate each saddening shrine,
And bear these altars o'er the long
reluctant
brine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
My poor
forsaken
child!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Ariosto's fresh
naturalness
and magic
machinery influenced him most strongly, but he was indebted to the
semi-classical Tasso for whole scenes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
ei clepen porismes or
declarac{i}ou{n}s
of
forseide ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
He may have accompanied Richard I and Aimar V
ofLimoges
on the Third Crusade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Raising my head, I see the sun's light
Once again
slanting
to the south-west.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Criseyde
also, right in the same wyse,
Of Troilus gan in hir herte shette
His worthinesse, his lust, his dedes wyse, 1550
His gentilesse, and how she with him mette,
Thonkinge love he so wel hir bisette;
Desyring eft to have hir herte dere
In swich a plyt, she dorste make him chere.
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VI chp 12 v (King James version)]*
VALA
Night the First
The Song of the Aged Mother which shook the heavens with wrath* {This page is a very thicket of revisions, erasures, and inconsistent
directions
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Blake - Zoas |
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[636] _In
Abyssinia
Heav'n's own altars blaze.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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That Youth's sweet-scented
Manuscript
should close!
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er
stephene
mylde & meke,
& bad hem vp arise, & seke
A godes man of rome, 363
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The blackbird sings us home, on a sudden peers
The round tower hung with ivy's blackened chains,
Then past the little green the byeway veers,
The mill-sweeps torn, the forge with
cobwebbed
panes
That have so many years looked out across the plains.
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And who hath said
There should be
likeness
in a brother's tread
And sister's?
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The legend cheers
Yon centinel stars; and he who listens to it
Must surely be self-doomed or he will rue it:
For
quenchless
burnings come upon the heart,
Made fiercer by a fear lest any part
Should be engulphed in the eddying wind.
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Now a soft kiss--
Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss,
An
immortality
of passion's thine: 810
Ere long I will exalt thee to the shine
Of heaven ambrosial; and we will shade
Ourselves whole summers by a river glade;
And I will tell thee stories of the sky,
And breathe thee whispers of its minstrelsy.
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