And you, of my victories,
glorious
instrument,
But a wintry body's useless ornament,
Blade, once feared, yet, facing this offence
Serving for decoration, not defence,
Go: leave now the very least of men,
Pass into better hands, take my revenge.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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But, frequent as you bend your beams on me,
What
influence
you possess you in another see.
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Petrarch |
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What dens, what forests these,
Thus in
wildering
race I see?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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How many a holy and
obsequious
tear
Hath dear religious love stol'n from mine eye,
As interest of the dead, which now appear
But things remov'd that hidden in thee lie!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Projecting
my body
Across a street, in the face of all its traffic.
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Imagists |
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Muffle the sound of bells,
Mournfully
human, that cries from the darkening valley;
Close, with your leaves, about the sound of water:
Take me among your hearts as you take the mist
Among your boughs!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The compressed and
punctuated
translation is offered as an aid to grasping the poem as a whole, in a swift reading.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The
argument
of Leibnitz's Theodicee was widely used; and although Pope
said that he had never read the Theodicee, his "Essay on Man" has a like
argument.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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God love thee for the
sweetness
of thy word!
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Euripides - Electra |
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" The
following
verses, I hope, will please you, as
an English song to the air.
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Robert Forst |
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The Emperor was so pleased with Po's talent that whenever he was
feasting or
drinking
he always had this poet to wait upon him.
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Li Po |
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Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like harmonious
thunderings
the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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his
children
wel; sore sawe?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Thrice struck Pelides with
indignant
heart,
Thrice in impassive air he plunged the dart;
The spear a fourth time buried in the cloud.
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Iliad - Pope |
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"
Bridemaids and
bridegroom
shrank in fear,
But I stood high who stood at bay:
"And if I answer yea, fair Sir,
What man art thou to bar with nay?
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Christina Rossetti |
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In sooth,
Also the door of the mouth is scraped against
[By air blown
outward]
from distended [cheeks].
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Lucretius |
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Of this remark
The bearings are
profoundly
dark.
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Lewis Carroll |
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A vast similitude interlocks all,
All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets,
All distances of place however wide,
All distances of time, all
inanimate
forms,
All souls, all living bodies though they be ever so different, or in
different worlds,
All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, the brutes,
All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages,
All identities that have existed or may exist on this globe, or any globe,
All lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future,
This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann'd,
And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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with what proud parade,
Pricking
their spurs, the better speed to gain;
They go to strike,--what other thing could they?
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Chanson de Roland |
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At length upon the lone
Chorasmian
shore
He paused, a wide and melancholy waste
Of putrid marshes.
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Shelley |
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So swift a tempest
stirring
a calm sea
Threatens to bring on sure catastrophe:
I doubt it not, I perish in the harbour.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell,
There God is
dwelling
too.
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blake-poems |
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les colliers tinteront
cherront
les masques
Va-t'en va-t'en contre le feu l'ombre prevaut
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Why how now Hecat, you looke
angerly?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Michele answered that the Sub-Judge might say what he pleased, but,
until the Assistant Collector came, the
Telegraph
Signaller was the
Government of India in Tibasu, and the elders of the town would be held
accountable for further rioting.
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Kipling - Poems |
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MENALCAS
"In dazzling sheen with
unaccustomed
eyes
Daphnis stands rapt before Olympus' gate,
And sees beneath his feet the clouds and stars.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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" Allusions may in this connection be made to Yu Liang, who rode to
heaven on the
crescent
moon; to the hermit T'ang, who controlled the
genius of the New Moon, and kept him in his house as a candle--or to any
other of some thirty stories which are given.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Wilde - Poems |
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man's life is short, 410
Whoso is cruel, and to cruel arts
Addict, on him all men, while yet he lives,
Call plagues and curses down, and after death
Scorn and
proverbial
mock'ries hunt his name.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
Scarcely
was the first course served when another noise than that of
music was heard.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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--so the
countess
passed on until she came through the
little park, where Niobe presented her with a
cabinet, and so departed.
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T.S. Eliot |
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--
The
loveliest
vision of a woman!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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[Sidenote: Nero, though
invested
with the purple and adorned with
pearls, was hated by all men.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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But hasten,
Sisters!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"When, then," they
said, "shall we cease to sleep a sleep broken by the surge,
troubled
by
a wind that snores louder than we?
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"You are a
monster!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Again the agony--
Dread pain that sees the future all too well
With ghastly
preludes
whirls and racks my soul.
| Guess: |
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Aeschylus |
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Of these I've known as good as any black,
When husbands some
assistance
seemed to lack,
And had so much to do, they monks might need;
Or other friends, their work at home to speed.
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La Fontaine |
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But Ajax,
glorying
in his hardy deed,
The well-arm'd Greeks to Agamemnon lead.
| Guess: |
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Iliad - Pope |
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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So calm he sat his charger
Amid the deadly strife,
That in my
fiercest
moment
A prayer arose from me,--
God save that gallant leader,
Our foeman though he be.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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VI
_Hearkening still, I hear this strain
From the ninth opal's varied vein:_
NINTH OPAL
In the
mountains
of Mexico,
Where the barren volcanoes throw
Their fierce peaks high to the sky,
With the strength of a tawny brute
That sees heaven but to defy,
And the soft, white hand of the snow
Touches and makes them mute,--
Firm in the clasp of the ground
The opal is found.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The outlines of the distant streets grow shorter,
A
murmuring
bids the wanderer to respite;
Is it the music of some hidden water?
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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No fors of wikked tonges Ianglerye, 755
For ever on love han
wrecches
had envye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Mournful
gibbons give a single cry, 12 and the traveler?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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I stood within
The
presence
of the Lord Most High,
Sent thither by the sons of earth, to win
Some answer to their cry.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
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Sara Teasdale |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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144) is mentioned by both
narrators
(_Detection_,
p.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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On sloping mounds, or in the vale beneath,
Are domes where whilom kings did make repair;
But now the wild flowers round them only breathe:
Yet ruined splendour still is
lingering
there.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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90) makes
gehwylcne
object of wīd-scofen (hæfde).
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Beowulf |
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In these savage, liquid plains,
Only known to wand'ring swains,
Where the mossy riv'let strays,
Far from human haunts and ways;
All on Nature you depend,
And life's poor season
peaceful
spend.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Or else,
neglecting
a' that's guid,
They riot in excess!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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First, in front of all,
Palinurus
steered the close column; the rest
under orders ply their course by his.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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His ruddy face
shone with genial humor; his eyes sparkled and a
constant
smile hovered
around his lips.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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920
This
bachelere
stood biholding SWETE-LOKING.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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They fought,
Wrangled
over the world,
A morsel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
As the swift sound left those rosy lips, borne by new
messenger
to gods'
twinned ears, Cybebe, unloosing her lions from their joined yoke, and
goading the left-hand foe of the herd, thus doth speak: "Come," she says,
"to work, thou fierce one, cause a madness urge him on, let a fury prick
him onwards till he return through our woods, he who over-rashly seeks to
fly from my empire.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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--But 'twill not be so;
And youths and maidens most poetical
Who lose the deep'ning
twilights
of the spring
In ball-rooms and hot theatres, they still
Full of meek sympathy must heave their sighs
O'er Philomela's pity-pleading strains.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
and let Jove encrust
Swords, pikes, and guns, with
everlasting
rust!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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That, in my friend's defence, has Ajax spread,
While his strong lance around him heaps the dead:
The gallant chief defends Menoetius' son,
And does what his
Achilles
should have done.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
e last with
trawayle
borne hyt was 401
To ?
| 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 |
|
If ever you have any of these
disagreeable
sensations, let me
prescribe for you patience; and a bit of my cheese.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Your hands have no
innocent
blood on them, no stain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest
poet, but always his
encouragement
and support.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
but from the Universal
Brotherhood
of Eden John I c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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But knew I never what
The seeds primordial were, yet would I dare
This to affirm, even from deep judgments based
Upon the ways and conduct of the skies--
This to maintain by many a fact besides--
That in no wise the nature of all things
For us was
fashioned
by a power divine--
So great the faults it stands encumbered with.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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He dressed
expensively
but soberly, in the
English fashion; his linen dazzling, the prevailing hue of his
habiliments black.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
But now its sighs proclaim that
dwelling
cold:
Sweet source!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
But I'se believe ye kindly meant it:
I sud be laith to think ye hinted
Ironic satire,
sidelins
sklented
On my poor Musie;
Tho' in sic phraisin terms ye've penn'd it,
I scarce excuse ye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
And after hours of
contention
they
parted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Death of thy Soule, those Linnen cheekes of thine
Are
Counsailers
to feare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
" It also
contains
a masterly commentary on the
machinery of the Lusiad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
All through the night we knelt and prayed,
Mad
mourners
of a corse!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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St Gudula was a Brabant saint (late 7th-early 8th century),
patroness
of Brussels.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Hear then my solemn oath, to yield to fate
Unaided Ilion, and her destined state,
Till Greece shall gird her with
destructive
flame,
And in one ruin sink the Trojan name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
XXV
A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
From year to year until I saw thy face,
And sorrow after sorrow took the place
Of all those natural joys as lightly worn
As the
stringed
pearls, each lifted in its turn
By a beating heart at dance-time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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This heap of earth o'ergrown with moss
Which close beside the thorn you see,
So fresh in all its
beauteous
dyes,
Is like an infant's grave in size
As like as like can be:
But never, never any where,
An infant's grave was half so fair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Down to a beechen hollow winds the track
And tunnels past my twilit bivouac:
Two spiring wisps of smoke go singly up
And
scarcely
tremble in the leafy air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
said Enion
accursed
wretch!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
"Should we meet with a Jubjub, that
desperate
bird,
We shall need all our strength for the job!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Must thou heap thy bed
With gold of
murdered
men, to buy to thee
Thy strange man's arms?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Danes of the North
with fear and frenzy were filled, each one,
who from the wall that wailing heard,
God's foe
sounding
his grisly song,
cry of the conquered, clamorous pain
from captive of hell.
| 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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WITH THE TIDE
EDITH WHARTON
[Sidenote: January 6, 1919]
_This was written on the day after
Theodore
Roosevelt's death.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"Thirdly: After the Romans became its masters, taking it from the
bad
government
of the Ptolemies, Augustus visited your city, and thus
addressed the citizens: 'Men of Alexandria, I acquit your city of all
blame, out of regard to the great god Serapis,
and also for the sake of the people, and the grandeur of the city.
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Tacitus |
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If this one from _ennui_ seeks flight,
That other comes full from the
groaning
table,
Or, the worst case of all to cite,
From reading journals is for thought unable.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Sometimes
he thinks they change into wild
cats, and then a nail grows on the end of their tails; but these wild
cats are not the same as the marten cats, who have been always in the
woods.
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Yeats |
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I knelt there, and it seemed, — One moment, that my torture had been dreamed
I drank most
thankfully
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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(Nor for you, for one alone,
Blossoms
and branches green to coffins all I bring,
For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane
and sacred death.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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As by the dead we love to sit,
Become so wondrous dear,
As for the lost we grapple,
Though all the rest are here, --
In broken mathematics
We estimate our prize,
Vast, in its fading ratio,
To our
penurious
eyes!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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when the
graybeard
loves, he should be spared;
The heart is young--_that_ bleeds unto the last.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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O my son, my best
beloved!
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Longfellow |
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