_The Scene is laid in the
mountains
of Argos.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Infanta
My sorrow has
increased
by being hidden.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Petrus Borel
The piano kissed by a delicate hand
Gleams distantly in rose-grey evening
While with a wingtips'
weightless
sound
A fine old tune, so fragile, charming
Roams discreetly, almost trembling,
Through the chamber She's long perfumed.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Pallidly
the moon was shining
On the dewy meadows nigh;
On the silvery, silent rivers,
On the mountains far and high
On the ocean's star-lit waters,
Where the winds a-weary die.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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She
requires
meat only, and hunger is not ambitious.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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_
TO A FRIEND,
COUNSELLING
HIM TO ABANDON EARTHLY PLEASURES.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And God, like a father, rejoicing to see
His
children
as pleasant and happy as He,
Would have no more quarrel with the Devil or the barrel,
But kiss him, and give him both drink and apparel.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Onward, O
labouring
tread,
As on move the years;
Onward amid thy tears,
O happier dead!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Paradiso
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
Wulfgār
maðelode
(þæt wæs Wendla lēod,
wæs his mōd-sefa manegum gecȳðed,
350 wīg and wīs-dōm): "ic þæs wine Deniga,
"frēan Scildinga frīnan wille,
"bēaga bryttan, swā þū bēna eart,
"þēoden mǣrne ymb þīnne sīð ;
"and þē þā andsware ǣdre gecȳðan,
355 "þē mē se gōda āgifan þenceð.
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Beowulf |
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What a wretched and peevish fellow is this King of
England, to mope with his fat-brain'd
followers
so far out of his
knowledge!
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Shakespeare |
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Then a damp gust
Bringing rain
Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves
Waited for rain, while the black clouds
Gathered
far distant, over Himavant.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The wings, the
eyebrows
and ah, the eyes!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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II
SIX weeks our guardsman walked the yard,
In the suit of shabby grey:
His cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay,
But I never saw a man who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
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Wilde - Poems |
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My misfortune grows with the wish to cure it;
All things
increase
my pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Semblance, with straw and
pauniered
ass, they made
Of potters wandering on from door to door:
But life of happier sort to me pourtrayed,
And other joys my fancy to allure;
The bag-pipe dinning on the midnight moor
In barn uplighted, and companions boon
Well met from far with revelry secure,
In depth of forest glade, when jocund June
Rolled fast along the sky his warm and genial moon.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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There was casting up
of eyes, holding up of hands, with
countenance
of such
distraction that they were to be known by garment, not by favour.
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Shakespeare |
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Nicolas carefully
annotates
"Dieu," "La Divinite,"
&c.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Aught that recalls the daily drug which turned
My sickening memory; and, though Time hath taught
My mind to meditate what then it learned,
Yet such the fixed inveteracy wrought
By the impatience of my early thought,
That, with the
freshness
wearing out before
My mind could relish what it might have sought,
If free to choose, I cannot now restore
Its health; but what it then detested, still abhor.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The chambre, ther as lay this fresshe quene, 85
Depeynted was with whyte boles grete,
And by the light she knew, that shoon so shene,
That Phebus cam to brenne hem with his hete;
This sely Venus, dreynt in teres wete,
Enbraceth
Mars, and seyde, "alas!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The same as of yore
All that has
happened
once again must be.
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Rilke - Poems |
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If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies;
Such
heavenly
touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Our sons shall see it
leisurely
decay,
First turn plain rash, then vanish quite away.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
|
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Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Peaks and ridges
tottered
and broke.
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| Question: |
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Li Po |
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It
ends in rejoicing and
gladness
against the tragic convention.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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The Nereids, bearing
Gold armour from the Lords of Flame,
Wrought for his wearing:
Long sought those
daughters
of the deep,
Up Pelion's glen, up Ossa's steep
Forest enchanted,
Where Peleus reared alone, afar,
His lost sea-maiden's child, the star
Of Hellas, and swift help of war
When weary armies panted.
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Euripides - Electra |
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how blithe the
throstle
sings!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The broken
fingernails
of dirty hands.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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He sees that
Euripides
may have had his own
reasons for not making Admetus an ideal husband.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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ergo
Quintilium
perpetuos sopor
urget?
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| Question: |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Ni quod inomati Triviae sint forte capilli,
Huic sed sollicit^
distribuantur
acu.
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Marvell - Poems |
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I burned
Hot and cold, in a lasting fever, well-earned
By the mortal wound of your glance's
piercing
flight.
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Ronsard |
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In sleep I heard the
northern
gleams;
The stars they were among my dreams;
In sleep did I behold the skies,
I saw the crackling flashes drive;
And yet they are upon my eyes,
And yet I am alive.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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* * * * *
THE POEM
At the corner of Wood Street, when
daylight
appears,
Hangs a Thrush [1] that sings loud, it has sung for three years:
Poor Susan has passed by the spot, and has heard
In the silence of morning the song of the Bird.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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(To Don Diegue)
You may speak next, I
sanction
her complaint.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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The succeeding winter was
employed
in the most salutary measures.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and
own no
superior?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Man's
physiology
complete, from top to toe, I
sing.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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They're inebriation, confusion, they rob me
All too soon of the joy quiet
reflection
affords.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Plunged in his throat, the weapon drank his blood,
And deep transpiercing through the shoulder stood;
In
clanging
arms the hero fell and all
The fields resounded with his weighty fall.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Veramente oramai saranno nude
le mie parole, quanto converrassi
quelle
scovrire
a la tua vista rude>>.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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even though in this case there was
probably
no diminishment in his grade in the civil service.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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My mother taught me
underneath
a tree,
And, sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And, pointed to the east, began to say:
"Look on the rising sun: there God does live,
And gives His light, and gives His heat away,
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
I freed Nature from a
treacherous
opponent:
He served as food for that monstrous regiment.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Is it such great
misfortune
to cease to be?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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(_She wanders over to the
table and looks over_ RAGNAR'S
_portfolio
of drawings_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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That some spot in
darkness
could be found
That does not vibrate whene'er your depths sound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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IV
Often an early King or Queen,
And storied hero onward, knew his sheen;
'Twas
glimpsed
by Wolfe, by Ney anon,
And Nelson on his blue demesne.
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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somtyme pris
{and}
shinynge
{and} somtyme lesi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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To do so would, however, be an undue
anticipation, for it will be
necessary
to trace Rilke's development
through several transitions before the value of his contact with the
work of Rodin can be fully measured.
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| Question: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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--how
solemnly
it falls
Into my heart of hearts!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Little
children
came to that
eye-doctor, and they needed large-type amusement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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It has been
difficult to compare these renderings with the original, for proper
names are throughout
distorted
or interchanged.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
_]
This was charming, no doubt: but they shortly found out
That the Captain they trusted so well
Had only one notion for
crossing
the ocean,
And that was to tingle his bell.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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I liked their silence, and these mutes pleased me no less than
those
characters
that have such a heap to say nowadays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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I no longer love
Rodrigue
the gentleman;
No my love names him to another plan;
If I love, I love he who wrought fine things,
The valorous Cid who has mastered kings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Covering
all my lands--all my seashores lining!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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His satisfaction to declare,
Thus spoke their father to the pair:
"Take courage, children, have no care;
"The
nightingale
in cage is pent,
"May sing now to his heart's content.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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(since thou remind'st me of that theme)
Fame here reports that num'rous suitors haunt 270
Thy palace for thy mother's sake, and there
Much evil
perpetrate
in thy despight.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Where's he that
craftily
hath said,
The day of chivalry is dead?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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And we, that now make merry in the Room
They left, and Summer dresses in new Bloom,
Ourselves
must we beneath the Couch of Earth
Descend, ourselves to make a Couch--for whom?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Picture is the
invention
of heaven, the most
ancient and most akin to Nature.
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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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Chimene
Nonetheless, it seems, my soul is troubled,
Rejects this joy, all its
confusion
doubled:
Fate may show different faces, all diverse,
And in my bliss I fear some cruel reverse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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I doubt if there could be
another international event
comparable
in large value and in long
consequences to this closer association.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I am too proud
To endure the world's desire of my beauty;
I know myself too
marvellous
in love
To be the joy of aught that thou hast made:
I am to be bride of thee, of the world's maker.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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We climbed the
ploughed
land,
dragged the seed from the clefts,
broke the clods with our heels,
whirled with a parched cry
into the woods:
_Can you come,
can you come,
can you follow the hound trail,
can you trample the hot froth?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
The Preface
Introductory Account of the Several Pieces
Advertisement
Eclogue the First
Eclogue the Second
Eclogue the Third
Elinoure
and Juga
Verses to Lydgate
Songe to AElla
Lydgate's Answer
The Tournament
The Dethe of Syr Charles Bawdin
Epistle to Mastre Canynge on AElla
Letter to the dygne M.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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O cities memories of cities
cities draped with our desires
cities early and late
cities strong cities intimate
stripped of all their makers
their thinkers their phantoms
Landscape ruled by emerald
live living ever-living
the wheat of the sky on our earth
nourishes my voice I dream and cry
I laugh and dream between the flames
between the
clusters
of sunlight
And over my body your body extends
the layer of its clear mirror.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
"
The dozen peers are, at this word, away,
Five score thousand of
Sarrazins
they take;
Who keenly press, and on to battle haste;
In a fir-wood their gear they ready make.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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If thou invite me forth,
I rise above
abasement
at the word.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Jupiter himself holds up the two scales in even balance, and
lays in them the
different
fates of both, trying which shall pay forfeit
of the strife, whose weight shall sink in death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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P
Paine, xii, 34, labor,
treacherous
skill; ii, 39, effort;
iv, 15, take pains.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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hi Tityon poena strauere in iugera foedum;
sollicitant illi te circum, Tantale, cena
sollicitantque
siti; Minos, tuaque, Aeace, in umbris
iura canunt idemque rotant Ixionis orbem,--
quicquid et interius falsi sibi conscia terra est.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
There,
Everything
that's done is fair and square.
| 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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"
I
listened
to the branchless pole
That held aloft the singing wire;
I heard its muffled music roll,
And stirred with sweet desire:
"O wire more soft than seasoned lute,
Hast thou no sunlit word for me?
| 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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Seated in companies they sit, with
radiance
all their own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Appresso il fine ch'a quell' inno fassi,
gridavano alto: 'Virum non cognosco';
indi
ricominciavan
l'inno bassi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Lo sommo er' alto che vincea la vista,
e la costa superba piu assai
che da mezzo
quadrante
a centro lista.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Come, let us gather our nets from the shore,
and set our
catamarans
free,
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for
we are the sons of the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A most
miserable
man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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London: documents at sight,
Asked me in demotic French
To
luncheon
at the Cannon Street Hotel
Followed by a weekend at the Metropole.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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O
222
_theleamaco_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Even the elephants, when the
surprise produced by their first appearance was over, could cause
no
disorder
in the steady yet flexible battalions of Rome.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I am concerned only with its
literary
effects.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Solyman,
regardless
chief, awake!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"
So foaming with the foam of hate and shame,
Blind unto God's design inexorable,
With her own hands she fed the purging flame
To crimes
maternal
consecrate in hell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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certe ego te in medio
uersantem
turbine leti
eripui, et potius germanum amittere creui, 150
quam tibi fallaci supremo in tempore dessem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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I gather, this band is
graciously
bent
to the Scyldings' master.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Of those I often have contact with 4 I
remember
one, but don?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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These are the
thoughts
I often think
As I stand gazing down
In act upon the cressy brink
To strip and dive and drown;
But in the golden-sanded brooks
And azure meres I spy
A silly lad that longs and looks
And wishes he were I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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My
inducement
hither
Was not at present here to find my son.
| 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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