SEVEN days had scarcely run, when to his arms,
The other took a wife with seraph charms;
And William was allowed to have a kiss,
That filled his soul with soft
ecstatick
bliss.
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La Fontaine |
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You scorn me, Alexis, who or what I am
Care not to ask- how rich in flocks, or how
In snow-white milk abounding: yet for me
Roam on
Sicilian
hills a thousand lambs;
Summer or winter, still my milk-pails brim.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the
mellowing
year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
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blake-poems |
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Since she
disdains
me, I must suffer,
Whom I long for more than another.
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Troubador Verse |
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And if my voice break forth, 'tis not that now
I shrink from what is suffered: let him speak
Who hath beheld decline upon my brow,
Or seen my mind's
convulsion
leave it weak;
But in this page a record will I seek.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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At
fourteen
I became your wife;
I was shame-faced and never dared smile.
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Li Po |
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is still the cause
unfound?
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John Clare |
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Deem then I love thee but as
brothers
do,
So shalt thou love me still as sisters do;
Or if thou dream'st aught farther, dream but how
I could have loved thee, had there been none else
To love as lovers, loved again by thee.
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Tennyson |
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Though this knave came
something saucily into the world before he was sent for, yet was
his mother fair, there was good sport at his making, and the
whoreson
must be acknowledged.
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Shakespeare |
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--Un chant
mysterieux
tombe des astres d'or.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Each roof and home some
monstrous
mystery bore!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Their gaze draws me into
infinite
space.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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XIII
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
Nor the cutting edge of conquering blade,
Nor the havoc
ruthless
soldiers made,
In sacking you, Rome, ever and again,
Nor the tricks that fickle fortune played,
Nor envious centuries corrosive rain,
Nor the spite of men, nor gods' disdain,
Nor your own power in civil strife displayed,
Nor the impetuous storms that you withstood,
Nor the river-god's winding course in flood,
That has so often drowned you in its thunder,
Not all combined have so abased your pride,
As that this nothing left you, by Time's tide,
Still makes the world halt here, and gaze in wonder.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Have I not sacked the Temple, and on the altar
Set up the statue of
Olympian
Zeus
To Hellenize it?
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Longfellow |
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It is the conformity of life,
of the
conditions
and the fate of the land.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Fate slew him, but he did not drop;
She felled -- he did not fall --
Impaled him on her fiercest stakes --
He
neutralized
them all.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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_ A happy
suggestion
of a warmer clime.
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Keats |
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This, Madam, is a task for which I am
altogether
unfit.
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Robert Burns |
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Hail to thee, Christ of
Christendom!
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Longfellow |
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For this earth teems, and
freshening
water flows,
And breeze and dewy dawn their sweets unlock:
With such the wistful youth his bosom dresses.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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All joys are humbled, all must dance
To her law, and all lords obey
My lady, with her lovely way
Of greeting, her sweet
pleasant
glance,
A hundred years of life I'd grant
To him who has her love in play.
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Troubador Verse |
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Down by Shadwell's golden meads
Tall ships' masts would stand as thick
As the pretty tufted reeds
That the Wapping
children
pick.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Sweet smiles, in the night
Hover over my
delight!
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blake-poems |
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enne gedere3 he to
Gryngolet
with ?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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For wher-so men had pleyd or waked,
Me thoghte the felawship as naked
Withouten
hir, that saw I ones,
As a coroune withoute stones.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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For there, in banquet and in tournament,
His wealth had
lavished
been, his substance spent,
To woo and lose, since ill his wooing sped,
Monna Giovanna, who his rival wed,
Yet ever in his fancy reigned supreme,
The ideal woman of a young man's dream.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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For I beheld and heard
The beak discourse; and, what
intention
form'd
Of many, singly as of one express,
Beginning: "For that I was just and piteous,
l am exalted to this height of glory,
The which no wish exceeds: and there on earth
Have I my memory left, e'en by the bad
Commended, while they leave its course untrod.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Ance mair I hail thee, thou gloomy
December!
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns |
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wherefore
now
Obey my first and last commandment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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[677] The
countryfolk
affected to despise the townspeople, whom they
dubbed idle and lazy.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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(17)
The bright moon, oh, how white it shines,
Shines down on the gauze
curtains
of my bed.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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God
In the ancient days, when the first quiver of speech came to my lips,
I ascended the holy
mountain
and spoke unto God, saying, "Master,
I am thy slave.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And we would often at the fall of dusk
Wander
together
by the silver stream, 5
When the soft grass-heads were all wet with dew,
And purple-misted in the fading light.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Then though pale death froze cold in every vein,
My sword I strive to wield, but strive in vain;
Nor did my traitress wife these eyelids close,
Or
decently
in death my limbs compose.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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And when the King our lord
spendeth
on us
This festival out of his rich heart, to shoot
Thy looks upon us as thou wouldst rebuke us?
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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For me,
You stand poised
In the blue and buoyant air,
Cinctured
by bright winds,
Treading the sunlight.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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(See the present writer's
introduction
to the _Rhesus_.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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10
For that my damsel, fro' my breast took flight,
By me so loved, as shall loved be none,
Wherefor
so mighty wars were waged and won,
Does sit in public here.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Wine which Music is,--
Music and wine are one,--
That I,
drinking
this,
Shall hear far Chaos talk with me;
Kings unborn shall walk with me;
And the poor grass shall plot and plan
What it will do when it is man.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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The Emperor at once
appointed
him
prefect of the place, "pour lui permettre d'herboriser plus a son aise"
(Wieger, Textes III, 1723).
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
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preserved
for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Where
chimneys
do for ever weep
For want of warmth, and stomachs keep,
With noise, the servants' eyes from sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Not so sicke my Lord,
As she is
troubled
with thicke-comming Fancies
That keepe her from her rest
Macb.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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With regard
to the first, I say boldly that the nature of what is understood as a
tale decided that it should be so, it being an indispensable law
according to Horace, or rather
according
to reason and common sense, that
one must conform one's self to the nature of the things about which one
writes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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The colour has painted itself in my heart;
The form is
patterned
in my head.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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--
With a silver trumpeting,
For the glory of the King,
To the
barriers
of the thunder and the fury of the flame!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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is this the land
Which bare a triple empire in her hand
When
Cromwell
spake the word Democracy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
Then a silence suffuses the story,
And a softness the teller's eye;
And the
children
no further question,
And only the waves reply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Come, gone,--gone forever,--
Gone as an unreturning river,--
Gone as to death the
merriest
liver,--
Gone as the year at the dying fall,--
To-morrow, to-day, yesterday, never,--
Gone once for all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Wild
sorceress!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Laid out for dead, let thy last
kindness
be, I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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"
She then: "How you
digress!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Look to it now, Hephaestus--thine it is,
Thy Sire obeying, this arch-thief to clench
Against the steep-down
precipice
of rock,
With stubborn links of adamantine chain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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We are made to turn the wheel for water
To carry the heavy basket on our
scorched
shoulders, to sift
The sand & ashes, & to mix the clay with tears & repentance
I see not Luvah as of old
I only see his feet Like pillars
of fire travelling thro darkness
& non entity {These four lines are placed to the right of the main body of text.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Yet but awhile the slumbering weather flings
Its murky prison round--then winds wake loud;
With sudden stir the startled forest sings
Winter's
returning
song-cloud races cloud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Let these return: our voyage, or our stay,
Rest
undetermined
till the dawning day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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references
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm
We had crossed each other's way:
But we made no sign, we said no word,
We had no word to say;
For we did not meet in the holy night,
But in the
shameful
day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Habt ihr mit Herren Hans noch erst zu Nacht
gespeist?
| 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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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but oh my soul is white!
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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CXIV
Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,
Drink up the monarch's plague, this
flattery?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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With their standard the
Lyceum would have been a sort of second-rate booth, as some of the
popular
theatres
in London are at present.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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If I could see the sun, I should look up
And drink the light until my eyes were blind;
I should kneel down and kiss the blades of grass,
And I should call the birds with such a voice,
With such a longing, tremulous and keen,
That they would fly to me and on the breast
Bear
evermore
to tree-tops and to fields
The kiss I gave them.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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' quod he, 850
`Nay, nay, it may not stonden in this wyse;
For, nece myn, thus wryten clerkes wyse,
That peril is with
drecching
in y-drawe;
Nay, swich abodes been nought worth an hawe.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
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the
defective
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Green rushes, then, and
sweetest
bents,
With cooler oaken boughs,
Come in for comely ornaments
To re-adorn the house.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
What valley echoed the
response
of Jove?
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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WE, must not doubt, he often offered prayers,
To ease the culprit's
sufferings
and cares.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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But O, Fortune, executrice of wierdes,
O
influences
of thise hevenes hye!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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No, for the
gods are immortal, and one might still find them loitering in
some
solitary
dell on the grey hillsides of Fiesole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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What cunning hast thou found to fill
Thy
purpose?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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--Il n'est donc point de mere a ces petits enfants,
De mere au frais sourire, aux regards
triomphants?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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--
Yes, madam, said the nun, and think it grace;
Still more I'd do, if
necessary
thought;
Your health, by me, would ev'ry way be sought,
And, if required by you to suffer this,
Not one around would less appear remiss;
Sincere affection for you I have shown,
And my regard I'll ever proudly own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger
resembling
you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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to live content with only one husband,
Praise is and truest of praise ever
bestowed
upon wife.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Tom is the wreath, the
scattered
flowers lie low.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Often in anger it accepts our sacrifice:
Its gifts are often the
punishment
for our crimes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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It is scarcely two months
since I came back from the grave: is it worth while to be anything
but
radiantly
glad?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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When thy sleep like the
moonlight
above
Lulling the sea,
Doth enwind thee in visions of love,
Perchance, of me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Owy, cuppele gorge,
permafoy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
the wind gets high,
But never mind; this ivy, for an hour,
Rain as it may, will keep us dryly here:
That little wren knows well his
sheltering
bower,
Nor leaves his dry house though we come so near.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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And this one looked at him
With soft eyes
Lit with
infinite
comprehension,
And said, "My poor child!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Round about them to right and left the armies stand
locked and the iron field shivers with naked points; thou
wheelest
thy
chariot on the sward alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Shakespeare |
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But eyes met eyes, and Joss, well pleased, was fain
By nod of head to make
approval
plain.
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Hugo - Poems |
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And gleams, through the pallor,
A mouth with a
conquering
smile;
Red chilli, a scarlet flower,
Hearts'-blood gives it fire.
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THE young Aminta was Gerontes' wife,
With whom she lived, it seems, a
wretched
life.
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La Fontaine |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But how shul ye don in this sorwful cas,
How shal youre tendre herte this
sustene?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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'Twas thou, didst bend my mother to her shame:
Thy weak hand
murdered
him who led to fame
The hosts of Hellas--thou, that never crossed
O'erseas to Troy!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The Devil he looked at the mangled Soul that prayed to feel the flame,
And he thought of Holy Charity, but he thought of his own good name:--
"Now ye could haste my coal to waste, and sit ye down to fry:
Did ye think of that theft for
yourself?
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Kipling - Poems |
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THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more
If we did not make
somebody
poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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From--" Days"
As on the
languorous
settle
Slumber evaded me long,
Then bring me no wondrous saga,
Nor sooth me with slumbrous song
From maidens of mythical regions
That favoured my fancy erewhile,
But snare me into your bondage
Flute-players from the Nile.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her
enduring
pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who commanded them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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