Still let the maiden's beauty swell the father's breast with
pride;
Still let the bridegroom's arms infold an
unpolluted
bride.
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But when his evening wheels o'erhung the main,
Glad
conquest
rested on the Grecian train.
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Iliad - Pope |
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is
Convinced
The clock struck six.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Everything
has its price in Rome.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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All round the yard it is cluck, my brown hen,
Cluck, and the rain-wet wings,
Cluck, my
marigold
bird, and again
Cluck for your yellow darlings.
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Imagists |
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810
These reasons in Loves law have past for good,
Though fond and
reasonless
to some perhaps:
And Love hath oft, well meaning, wrought much wo,
Yet always pity or pardon hath obtain'd.
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Milton |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Iamque piam lux alta domum praecelsaque toto
intrauit Fortuna gradu; iam creditur uni
sanctarum digestus opum partaeque per omnis
diuitiae populos magnique
impendia
mundi.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Have you got a brook in your little heart,
Where bashful flowers blow,
And
blushing
birds go down to drink,
And shadows tremble so?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Our pace took sudden awe,
Our feet
reluctant
led.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Here it is only once in a month or a
year that a man _needs_ remember that institution; and those who go to
Congress can play the game of the
Kilkenny
cats there without fatal
consequences to those who stay at home, their term is so short; but in
Canada you are reminded of the government every day.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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If Voltaire and his
disciples
will talk of Chinese
astronomy, and the 4000 years antiquity of its perfection, let them
enjoy every consequence which may possibly result from it.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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THE POET'S LOVE-SONG
In noon-tide hours, O Love, secure and strong,
I need thee not; mad dreams are mine to bind
The world to my desire, and hold the wind
A voiceless captive to my
conquering
song.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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XLI
To consanguineous dinners they
Conduct
Tattiana
constantly,
That grandmothers and grandsires may
Contemplate her sad reverie.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Highbury
bore me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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He was not
christened
"The Langur"--which means gray ape--for
nothing.
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Kipling - Poems |
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My lord, this is a fond and desp'rate creature
Whom
sometime
I have laugh'd with.
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Shakespeare |
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The ways to murder, treason,
conquest
show.
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Marvell - Poems |
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That ought to be sufficient for those
American
Intellectuals who are bemoaning the deca dence of poetry.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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NOTE:
_466 Repulse is "Shelley, Errata", edition 1822;
Repulsed
edition 1822.
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Shelley |
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Bro: How charming is divine
Philosophy!
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Milton |
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'Blow
trumpet!
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Tennyson |
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The mighty gulf had not contained the crew,
But that,
devouring
those who sought to cross,
Them into dust the flame reduced, that room
Might be for all within the crowded tomb.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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1 He is
imagining
that his wife may have been killed.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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If you received it
on a
physical
medium, you must return it with your note, and
such person may choose to alternatively give you a replacement
copy.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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in this sad distemper,
The doctor's self would hardly spare,
Unworthy
things she talked and wild,
Even he, of cattle the most mild,
The pony had his share.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The
Boeotians
were the allies of Sparta.
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Aristophanes |
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The hours slid fast, as hours will,
Clutched tight by greedy hands;
So faces on two decks look back,
Bound to
opposing
lands.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Will all great
Neptunes
Ocean wash this blood
Cleane from my Hand?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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450
LI
Thrise happy man, said then the father grave,
Whose
staggering
steps thy steady hand doth lead,
And shewes the way, his sinfull soule to save.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Learn, my son; 'tis science
Which gives to us an
abstract
of the events
Of our swift-flowing life.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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15
Quare
refectus
maximas tibi grates
Ago, meum quod non es ulta peccatum.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Electric
signs flash on and out,
And gold-eyed motors dart about,
And trolleys jangle,
And crowds untangle,
And still they stand on their icy beat,
And still the tambourines repeat,
"God looks down from His judgment seat,
'Good will on earth' is His message sweet.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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as I might have won you from my foe,
Why did I not for you in arms
contend?
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I have no hope, and
everything
to fear;
No prayer escapes to which I can consent;
Of every wish I form I soon repent.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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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.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The subject of it was a young
girl who really deserved all the praises I have
bestowed
on her.
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Robert Forst |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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Villon |
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Whoso with riches deals,
And thinks peace bought and sold,
Will find them
slipping
eels,
That slide the firmest hold:
Though sweet as sleep with health
Thy lulling luck may be,
Pride may oerstride thy wealth,
And check prosperity.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Two of the minor
persons had a certain amount of superficial characterization, as if
out of the
halfpenny
comic papers; but the central persons, the man
and woman that created the dramatic excitement, such as it was, had
not characters of any kind, being vague ideals, perfection as it is
imagined by a common-place mind.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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_
Shatter her
beauteous
breast ye may;
The spirit of England none can slay!
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Astounded mickle there I sylente laie, 55
Still scauncing wondrous at the walkynge syghte;
Mie senses forgarde ne coulde reyn awaie;
But was ne
forstraughte
whan shee dyd alyghte
Anie to mee, dreste up yn naked viewe,
Whych mote yn some ewbrycious thoughtes abrewe.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Fasse mich nicht so
morderisch
an!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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-- There woke from him
such fate-sent ghosts as Grendel, who,
war-wolf horrid, at Heorot found
a warrior watching and waiting the fray,
with whom the grisly one
grappled
amain.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Note:
Bellerie
was situated on his family estate La Possonniere.
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Ronsard |
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and with that I drave
Among the
thickest
and bore down a Prince,
And Cyril, one.
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Tennyson |
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the Suliotes stretched the welcome hand,
Led them o'er rocks and past the dangerous swamp,
Kinder than polished slaves, though not so bland,
And piled the hearth, and wrung their garments damp,
And filled the bowl, and trimmed the
cheerful
lamp,
And spread their fare: though homely, all they had:
Such conduct bears Philanthropy's rare stamp--
To rest the weary and to soothe the sad,
Doth lesson happier men, and shames at least the bad.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And not only should we bridle our own tongues, but the pens of others,
which are swift to convey useful
intelligence
to the enemy.
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James Russell Lowell |
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He thanks you not, his pride is in piquet,
Newmarket-fame, and
judgment
at a bet.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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255
Alexius of hem took leue,
And
worschiplich
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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For all
The far removed objects of our gaze
Seem through much air confused in their look
Ere
minished
in their bigness.
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Lucretius |
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He had
forgotten
the
other word, I suppose.
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Kipling - Poems |
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'383'
Moore's own mother was
suspected
of loose conduct.
| Guess: |
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Alexander Pope |
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Archer, arrest him, fasten him to the
post, then take up your
position
there and keep guard over him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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To Marc Chagall
Donkey or cow, cockerel or horse
On to the skin of a violin
A singing man a single bird
An agile dancer with his wife
A couple drenched in their youth
The gold of the grass lead of the sky
Separated by azure flames
Of the health-giving dew
The blood
glitters
the heart rings
A couple the first reflection
And in a cellar of snow
The opulent vine draws
A face with lunar lips
That never slept at night.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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His poor fingers
aimlessly
and awkward Fumbled with the covers, and a look
On his features, fatuous and fervent, Foolish seemed and laughable enough.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He sits down with his holy fears,
And waters the ground with tears;
Then Humility takes its root
Underneath
his foot.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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She returned to Hyderabad in
September
1898, and in
the December of that year, to the scandal of all India, broke
through the bonds of caste, and married Dr.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Last on the road the cowboy
careless
swings,
Leading tamed cattle in their tending strings,
With shining tin to keep his dinner warm
Swung at his back, or tucked beneath his arm;
Whose sun-burnt skin, and cheeks chuffed out with fat,
Are dyed as rusty as his napless hat.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
MEPHISTOPHELES (zu Faust):
Mein Freund, das lerne wohl
verstehn!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Lull'd and late is the smoke of the First-day morning,
It hangs low over the rows of trees by the fences,
It hangs thin by the
sassafras
and wild-cherry and cat-brier under them.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
His
children
asked him.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Knowledge the clue to life can give;
Then wherefore
hesitate
to live?
| 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 |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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LET us
surround
the silent pool
Wherein the water ways commingle,
You seek my chary soul to kindle:
A breeze o'erwafts us chaste and cool.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
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following
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Tennyson |
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607), the third number of the
_Liberal_
is dismissed with
the remark, "The last Number contains not one _line_ of Byron's!
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Byron |
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What shall we do
tomorrow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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At length a coast was signalled, and on
approaching
we saw a magnificent
and dazzling land.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Le Testament: Ballade: 'Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere'
Item
This I give to my poor mother
As a prayer now, to our Mistress
- She who bore bitter pain for me,
God knows, and also much sadness -
I've no other castle or fortress,
That my body and soul can summon,
When I'm faced with life's distress,
Nor has my mother, poor woman:
Ballade
'Lady of Heaven, earthly queen,
Empress of the
infernal
regions,
Receive me, a humble Christian,
To live among the chosen ones,
Though I'm worth less than anyone.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Poor Matthew, all his frolics o'er,
Is silent as a
standing
pool;
Far from the chimney's merry roar,
And murmur of the village school.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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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 |
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And if that at my owne lust I brenne,
From whence cometh my wailing and my
pleinte?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When
hurricanes
its surface fan,
O object of my fond devotion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Ich bin von je der Ordnung Freund gewesen,
Mocht, ihn auch tot im
Wochenblattchen
lesen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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You
received
your orders at the foot of Taibai, you will gallop your horse to beside Chou Pool.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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MOSALSKY
appears on
the staircase.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I shall not turn again and look,
But tenderly, like an old book,
That
childhood
loved with hot young heart, Now kindly closed and put away,
I shall set the old days apart,
1 may not rest where they must stay.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And I will take celandine, nettle and parsley, white
In its own green light,
Or
milkwort
and sorrel, thyme, harebell and meadow-sweet
Lifting at your feet,
And ivy-blossom beloved of soft bees; I will take
The loveliest--
The seeding grasses that bend with the winds, and shake
Though the winds are at rest.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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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 |
|
It is from a
catalogue
of Maggs Bros.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
What has
happened
to you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
The cups are pushed aside and we face each other at chess:
The rival pawns are
marshalled
rank against rank.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Past cure I am, now Reason is past care,
And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;
My
thoughts
and my discourse as madmen's are,
At random from the truth vainly express'd;
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Not a whit, we defy augury; there's a special
providence
in
the fall of a sparrow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
All, all; their cause
Is fallen flat; but go you on and see
How
wonderly
their proud heads are elate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And now they approached the camp and drew
near the wall, when they descry the two turning away by the pathway to
the left; and in the glimmering darkness of night the forgotten helmet
betrayed Euryalus,
glittering
as it met the light.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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So Hermes thought, and a
celestial
heat
Burnt from his winged heels to either ear,
That from a whiteness, as the lily clear,
Blush'd into roses 'mid his golden hair,
Fallen in jealous curls about his shoulders bare.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Oh, I will find some artist
wondrous
wise
Shall mould for me thy shape, thine hair, thine eyes,
And lay it in thy bed; and I will lie
Close, and reach out mine arms to thee, and cry
Thy name into the night, and wait and hear
My own heart breathe: "Thy love, thy love is near.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"What need, what need,
To hide with flowers the curse upon the hills,
Or sanctify the banks of
sluggish
rills
Where vapors breed?
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Sidney Lanier |
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[A] Ho ra3t hym a riche rynk[1] of red golde werke3,
Wyth a starande ston,
stondande
alofte,
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The
significance
_is_ the
poetry.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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But what ails the
creature?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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She hath drawn me from mine old ways,
Till men say that I am mad;
But I have seen the sorrow of men, and am glad, For I know that the wailing and
bitterness
are a folly.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The grass so little has to do, --
A sphere of simple green,
With only butterflies to brood,
And bees to entertain,
And stir all day to pretty tunes
The breezes fetch along,
And hold the
sunshine
in its lap
And bow to everything;
And thread the dews all night, like pearls,
And make itself so fine, --
A duchess were too common
For such a noticing.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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" It is
unmitigated
East where they live.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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