But what you in
compassion
ought.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Hence--be gone--
Leave this our isle, thou most
obnoxious
wretch
Of all mankind.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The flight of Cranes is most famously
mentioned
in Homer's Iliad.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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There through the dews beside me
Behold a youth that trod,
With
feathered
cap on forehead,
And poised a golden rod.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Chor: As signal now in low
dejected
state,
As earst in highest; behold him where he lies.
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Milton |
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There is the same difference
of manner in the
expression
between Donne and these poets, and the
deepest thought is the same.
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John Donne |
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And so many
children
poor?
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| Question: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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My wife and child
clutched
at my coat and wept:
"Some people want to be rich and grand:
I only want to share my porridge with you.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Confus'd they lay,
One o'er the belly, o'er the
shoulders
one
Roll'd of another; sideling crawl'd a third
Along the dismal pathway.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The eyes are drowned in opium
In universal licence
The
clownish
mouth bewitched
A singular geranium.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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He ate and drank the
precious
words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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skich,
Biblioteka
Narodowa, 1975, Wikimedia Commons
Annie
On the coast of Texas
Twixt Mobile and Galveston there was a
Great garden full of roses
That also contained a villa
Like a giant rose.
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| Answer: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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tly
ap{er}ceyue{n}
by ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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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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M'Gill, one
of the clergymen of Ayr, and his
heretical
book, God help him, poor
man!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Charles
Alexander
Richmond:--"A Song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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ich kenn's- das ist mein Famulus-
Es wird mein
schonstes
Gluck zunichte!
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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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If wee doe finde,
By our
proportions
it is like to proue
A ?
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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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What coral, what lilies, and what roses,
In seeming, my open hand discloses,
Now, with twin
caresses
stroking her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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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: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Mother of all,
indulgent
as she's great!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Ne l'altra piccioletta luce ride
quello
avvocato
de' tempi cristiani
del cui latino Augustin si provide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach,
With the twirl of my tongue I
encompass
worlds and volumes of worlds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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XIX
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
All
imperfection
born beneath the skies,
All that regales our spirits and our eyes,
And all those things that devour our pleasures:
All those ills that strip our age of treasures,
All the good the centuries might devise,
Rome in ancestral times secured as prize,
Like Pandora's box, enclosed the measure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
THE RISE AND
PROGRESS
OF CHINESE POETRY
_The Odes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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They are the glorying of Nebuchadnezzar's
Heart of fury against our God, sent here
Like
insolent
shouting into his holy quiet.
| 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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It's not time but we
ourselves
who pass,
And soon beneath the silent tomb we lie:
And after death there'll be no news, alas,
Of these desires of which we are so full:
So love me now, while you are beautiful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Thou
troubled
with such whimsy!
| 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 angel manners then will clearly shine,
The meet and pure discourse, the chasten'd thought,
Which nature planted in her
youthful
breast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Even as a fire leaps into flame and burns
Leaping and
laughing
in its lovely flight,
And then under the flame a glowing dome
Deepens slowly into blood-like light:--
So did you flame and in flame take delight,
So are you hollow'd now with aching fire.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Please check the Project
Gutenberg
Web pages for current donation
methods and addresses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
There heifers graze, and
labouring
oxen toil;
Bold are the men, and generous is the soil.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
IV
Lastly I ask--now old and chill--
If aught of him remain
unperished
still;
And find, in me alone, a feeble spark,
Dying amid the dark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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In 1812 he was appointed by
Napoleon
editor
of the _Gazette de France_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Un matin, cependant que dans la triste rue
Les maisons, dont la brume allongeait la hauteur,
Simulaient les deux quais d'une riviere accrue,
Et que, decor semblable a l'ame de l'acteur,
Un brouillard sale et jaune inondait tout l'espace,
Je suivais, roidissant mes nerfs comme un heros
Et discutant avec mon ame deja lasse,
Le
faubourg
secoue par les lourds tombereaux.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
The
notation which regulates the general form of the sound leaves it free
to add a complexity of
dramatic
expression from its own incommunicable
genius which compensates the lover of speech for the lack of complex
musical expression.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Calhoun letting
slip his pack-thread cable with a crooked pin at the end of it to anchor
South
Carolina
upon the bank and shoal of the Past.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
XXXVII
So
frequently
his mind would stray
He well-nigh lost the use of sense,
Almost became a poet say--
Oh!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
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 |
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the mother's heart with woe for ever wild,
This heart whose sovran bliss brought forth so bitter birth--
This world as vast as thou, even _thou_, O
sorrowless
Earth,
Is desolate and void because of this one child!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
In
contrast
to this, let the Gold Coast and other immense regions of
Africa be contemplated--
"Afric behold; alas, what altered view!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
4 This refers to the disastrous defeat of the hastily assembled
imperial
army outside of Tong Pass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
NOTES:
22
Was]Were
cj.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
19-22); and
multiplying
a poor woman's oil, 226-233 (2 Kings iv.
| 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 |
|
]
[Footnote P: Pike is a word very commonly used in the north of England,
to signify a high mountain of the conic form, as
Langdale
pike, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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--Ah, thy
shoulders
urging shape
Of loveliness into thy hair's pouring gleam!
| 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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Je regrette les temps de la grande Cybele
Qu'on disait parcourir, gigantesquement belle,
Sur un grand char d'airain, les splendides cites;
Son double sein versait dans les immensites
Le pur
ruissellement
de la vie infinie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
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: |
Stephen Crane |
|
In Pope's day the question was not
theological, but went to the root of all faith in
existence
of a God, by
declaring that the state of Man and of the world about him met such faith
with an absolute denial.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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An hour will come, haply e'en now is pass'd,
Their sight to turn on my diviner part
And so this
infinite
anguish end at last.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Amid no bells nor bravos
The
bystanders
will tell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
whose protection
Ever guards the virtuous fair,
While in distant climes I wander,
Let my Mary be your care:
Let her form sae fair and faultless,
Fair and faultless as your own,
Let my Mary's kindred spirit
Draw your choicest
influence
down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
His name will come into our
thoughts
in a minute.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
"--Letter to Moore,
February
28, 1817.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Vierges au coeur sublime, honneur de l'archipel,
Votre
religion
comme une autre est auguste,
Et l'amour se rira de l'enfer et du ciel!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
5
et hoc negat minacis Adriatici
negare litus insulasue Cycladas
Rhodumque nobilem horridamque Thraciam,
Propontida trucemue
Ponticum
sinum,
ubi iste post phasellus antea fuit 10
comata silua: nam Cytorio in iugo
loquente saepe sibilum edidit coma.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield
One glimpse--if dimly, yet indeed, reveal'd,
To which the fainting Traveler might spring,
As springs the
trampled
herbage of the field!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Thou
speakest
to me of love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
The
back of the helmet was flapping on his neck and the sides stuck to
his ears, but the leather band and green lining kept things roughly
together, so that the hat did not
actually
melt away where it flapped.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
The flight of Cranes is most famously
mentioned
in Homer's Iliad.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
--If
men may by no means write freely, or speak truth, but when it offends
not, why do
physicians
cure with sharp medicines, or corrosives?
| 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 |
|
All these are fading now;
Our brig hastes on her way,
Her
unremembering
prow
Is leaping o'er the sea,
Far away, far away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
"Jack, as he piped, laughed among,
The Friar with briars was vilely stung,
He hopped
wondrous
high.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
25
Houghton, Mifflin & Company 4 Park Street Boston
NOTICE
So scarce are back num bers of CONTEMPORARY
Here is what
literary
critics say about Contemporary Verse:
"Slender in bulk — but it contains good poems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
there is an
intensity
here, a note of passion beyond the deepest of
Herrick's.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
III
Yet portion of that unknown plain
Will Hodge for ever be;
His homely Northern breast and brain
Grow up a
Southern
tree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
In the name of these States shall I scorn the
antique?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
My friend was willing to
increase
my woe,
And smiling whisper'd,--"You alone may go
Confer with whom you please, for now we are
All stained with one crime.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
org),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of
exporting
a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
e
celestial
moeuyng of sterres.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
As I had
promised
I would, long I awaited you there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
I stood in a swampy field of battle;
With bones and skulls I made a rattle,
To
frighten
the wolf and carrion-crow
And the homeless dog--but they would not go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
The
shutters
were drawn and the undertaker wiped his feet--
He was aware that this sort of thing had occurred before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
_Pedestrians of all
descriptions
stroll forth_.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Let them
offer a prize of sixty or a hundred thousand florins to
whosoever
can
solve their ambitious problems!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Is there a man, whose
judgment
clear,
Can others teach the course to steer,
Yet runs, himself, life's mad career,
Wild as the wave;
Here pause--and, through the starting tear,
Survey this grave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
e guode man
grantede
his bone,
ffor al his blod gan menge sone
Ope his owene fode.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
We watched the ghostly dancers spin
To sound of horn and violin,
Like black leaves
wheeling
in the wind.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
A gentle rain comes
stealing
up from the east
And a sweet wind bears it company.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
The music of thy tongue I heard,
Nor wist while it enslav'd me;
I saw thine eyes, yet nothing fear'd,
Till fear no more had sav'd me:
The unwary sailor thus, aghast,
The wheeling torrent viewing,
'Mid
circling
horrors yields at last
To overwhelming ruin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
[59] Athene, the
tutelary
divinity of Athens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Enchanting
vision, too, displayed,
That of a sweet and radiant maid,
Who knows not why she is afraid,--
Love's yet unseen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
And don't go choosing your words
Without some
confusion
of vision:
Nothing's dearer than shadowy verse
Where precision weds indecision.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
A lustreless
protrusive
eye
Stares from the protozoic slime
At a perspective of Canaletto.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
XXIX
All that the
Egyptians
once devised,
All that Greece, with its Corinthian,
Ionic, Attic, and its Dorian
Ornament, in its temples apprised,
All that the art of Lysippus comprised,
The hand of Apelles, or the Phidian,
That used to adorn this city, and this land,
Grandeur that even Heaven once surprised,
All that Athens in its wisdom showed,
All that from richest Asia ever flowed,
All that from Africa strange and new was sent,
Was here on view.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Even though there are no recent
additions
or repairs, they still assign an officer to guard it.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
Have you seen fruit under cover
that wanted light--
pears wadded in cloth,
protected
from the frost,
melons, almost ripe,
smothered in straw?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
There were three sons and four
daughters
in this
family, and Herrick wrote a poem to one of the daughters, Bridget (562),
and an elegy on another, Elizabeth (376).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
--For weeks the balmy air
breathed
soft and mild,
And on the gliding vessel Heaven and Ocean smiled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Like music heard in dreams,
Like strains of harps unknown,
Of birds forever flown
Audible as the voice of streams
That murmur in some leafy dell,
I hear thy gentlest tone,
And Silence cometh with her spell
Like that which on my tongue doth dwell,
When
tremulous
in dreams I tell
My love to thee alone!
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But many of its most
startling
principles had
long ago been ventilated in the Schools.
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Aristophanes |
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no need of flowers, albeit "bring
flowers!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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There is as yet no shadow in his glance,
Too cool his temples for the laurel's glow;
But later o'er those marble brows, perchance,
A rose-garden with bushes tall will grow,
And single petals one by one will fall
O'er the still mouth and break its silent thrall,
--The mouth that
trembles
with a dawning smile
As though a song were rising there the while.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The immutable calm of this white burning,
O my fearful kisses, makes you say, sadly,
'Will we ever be one
mummified
winding,
Under the ancient sands and palms so happy?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Were you not
yourself
in those days quite red in the
gills with farting?
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Aristophanes |
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it is
certeyne
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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A century of blue and stilly light
Bowed down before me, the dew came again,
The moon my sibyl worshipped through the night,
The sun returned and long abode; but then
Hoarse drooping darkness hung me with a shroud
And switched at me with
shrivelled
leaves in scorn.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The
Prefatory
Note
is by W.
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Byron |
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