At last he comes to the notice of Gilgamish himself, who is
shocked by the newly
acquired
manner of Enkidu.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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at so
certeyne
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Could
Laureate
Dryden pimp and friar engage,
Yet neither Charles nor James be in a rage?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I am
scattered
in its whirl.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
IV
Yes, I have a
thousand
tongues,
And nine and ninety-nine lie.
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Stephen Crane |
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Heedless
they enter'd, all,
But I remain'd, suspicious of a snare.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Can the spice-rose
drip such acrid fragrance
hardened
in a leaf?
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Imagists |
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Nay, you are great, fierce, evil--
you are the land-blight--
you have tempted men
but they
perished
on your cliffs.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Yet are Spain's maids no race of Amazons,
But formed for all the witching arts of love:
Though thus in arms they emulate her sons,
And in the horrid phalanx dare to move,
'Tis but the tender fierceness of the dove,
Pecking the hand that hovers o'er her mate:
In softness as in firmness far above
Remoter females, famed for
sickening
prate;
Her mind is nobler sure, her charms perchance as great.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Bugles are blown facing the Cave of the Moon,5 32 in the gray
mountains
the banners are mournful.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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We have met and parted at the Western Gate
And neither of us
bothered
to put on Cap or Belt.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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THIS conversation was by Damon felt,
A wife, brisk, young, and formed 'mid joys to melt;
A man well versed in Cupid's wily way;
No
courtier
bolder of the present day;
Well made and handsome, with attractive mind;
Wo what might happen was the husband blind?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Behind her burned
The sky, held by the open kiln of the town
In a great breath of fire, yellow and red,
From out the
festival
streets, and myriad links.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Perhaps that other life
is
contrast
always to this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The
people were largely
shepherds
and goatherds, and Pan was a local
Arcadian god till the Persian wars (c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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The great Idomeneus
bestrides
the dead;
"And thus (he cries) behold thy promise sped!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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similar
language
about the dragon at l.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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II
Withdrawn within the cavern of his wings,
Grave with the joy of thoughts beneficent,
And finely wrought and durable and clear
If so his eyes showed forth the mind's content, So sate the first to whom remembrance clings, Tissued like bat's wings did his wings appear, Not of that shadowy colouring and drear,
But as thin shells, pale saffron, luminous;
Alone, unlonely, whose calm glances shed Friend's love to
strangers
though no word were
said,
Pensive his godly state he keepeth thus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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' Seeing that I had
offended
her, I thanked her
for what she had shown and told, and let her depart again into her
cave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Mine arms enfold
That, which unswayed by me grew up and bloomed
To other worlds:
Mine own, and yet so
infinitely
far.
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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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And the warbler's voice
resounds
clear :?
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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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)
MEPHISTOPHELES (in Fausts langem Kleide):
Verachte nur Vernunft und Wissenschaft,
Des Menschen
allerhochste
Kraft,
Lass nur in Blend- und Zauberwerken
Dich von dem Lugengeist bestarken,
So hab ich dich schon unbedingt-
Ihm hat das Schicksal einen Geist gegeben,
Der ungebandigt immer vorwarts dringt,
Und dessen ubereiltes Streben
Der Erde Freuden uberspringt.
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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 O my soul is white!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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But, Warren, please
remember
how it is:
He's come to help you ditch the meadow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Again I knocked; and tardily
An inner step was heard,
And I was shown her presence then
With scarce an
answering
word.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The
Germans have always had the same motives for
trespassing
into
Gaul--their greed for gain and their desire to change homes with you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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" This draft, now the
editor's property, consists of only
seventeen
lines, and read thus:
I.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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But that she goes to this old thorn,
The thorn which I've
described
to you,
And there sits in a scarlet cloak,
I will be sworn is true.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But Doris, towelled from the bath,
Enters padding on broad feet,
Bringing
sal volatile
And a glass of brandy neat.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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sayd,
Bot
graunted
hastyly; 690
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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15
Now as those Active Kings
Whose foraine
conquest
treasure brings,
Receive more, and spend more, and soonest breake:
This (which I am amaz'd that I can speake)
This death, hath with my store 20
My use encreas'd.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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And justly so; for all that time creates,
He does well who
annihilates!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the secretaries of
Cardinal
Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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So man, who here seems
principal
alone,
Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown,
Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal;
'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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DEAD shalt thou lie; and nought
Be told of thee or thought,
For thou hast plucked not of the Muses' tree:
And even in Hades' halls
Amidst thy fellow-thralls
No
friendly
shade thy shade shall company!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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SYMBOLS
From infinite longings finite deeds rise
As
fountains
spring toward far-off glowing skies,
But rushing swiftly upward weakly bend
And trembling from their lack of power descend--
So through the falling torrent of our fears
Our joyous force leaps like these dancing tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Fain would he flee, his
fastness
seek,
the den of devils: no doings now
such as oft he had done in days of old!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
I have not come here to demand my prize:
I have come, once more, to offer you my life,
Madame; my love employs in its own cause
Neither King's will, nor
customary
laws.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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The two officers found the
apartments
full.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
]
[Sidenote G: "Full well can God devise his
servants
for to save.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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em mi_ R: _omnem mi_
GVenLa1Da
10 _trahe_ BGRVen nondum mutati ||
_tentus_
Voss
11 _pari_ Oah: _parum al.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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So spake the Cherube, and his grave rebuke
Severe in
youthful
beautie, added grace
Invincible: abasht the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is, and saw
Vertue in her shape how lovly, saw, and pin'd
His loss; but chiefly to find here observd
His lustre visibly impar'd; yet seemd 850
Undaunted.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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THE FLAMING CIRCLE
Though for fifteen years you have chaffed me across the table,
Slept in my arms and
fingered
my plunging heart,
I scarcely know you; we have not known each other.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Some, like
_The Baite_, are purely literary in origin; others present the obverse
side of the passion
portrayed
in the first group, its happier moments.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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It is a pity to doubt
this green hair legend;
presently
a man of genius will not be able to
enjoy an epileptic fit in peace--as does a banker or a beggar.
| 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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So he turned to the queen and remarked:
[Illustration: THREE
VISITORS
TO THE CASTLE.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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ou In my sones man,
ffor
seuentene
?
| 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 |
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Stripped of his proud and martial dress,
Uncurbed, unreined, and riderless,
With darting eye, and nostril spread,
And heavy and
impatient
tread,
He came; and oft that eye so proud
Asked for his rider in the crowd.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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In those days also the
telluric
world
Strove to beget the monsters that upsprung
With their astounding visages and limbs--
The Man-woman--a thing betwixt the twain,
Yet neither, and from either sex remote--
Some gruesome Boggles orphaned of the feet,
Some widowed of the hands, dumb Horrors too
Without a mouth, or blind Ones of no eye,
Or Bulks all shackled by their legs and arms
Cleaving unto the body fore and aft,
Thuswise, that never could they do or go,
Nor shun disaster, nor take the good they would.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Then spake the king: "Your sentence is not mine;
Life is the gift of God, and is divine;
Nor from these palace walls shall one depart
Who carries such a secret in his heart;
My better
judgment
points another way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Myself, this lighted room,
What are we but a
murmurous
pool of rain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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sed
_citeono_ Oh2
13
_citheri_
GO et R m.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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I haue almost forgot the taste of Feares:
The time ha's beene, my sences would haue cool'd
To heare a Night-shrieke, and my Fell of haire
Would at a dismall
Treatise
rowze, and stirre
As life were in't.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Pain
Waves are the sea's white daughters,
And raindrops the
children
of rain,
But why for my shimmering body
Have I a mother like Pain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Whitman, wisely suppressed:
Said we then--we two, then--"Ah, can it
Have been that the woodlandish ghouls--
The pitiful, the merciful ghouls--
To bar up our path and to ban it
From the secret that lies in these wolds--
Had drawn up the spectre of a planet
From the limbo of lunary souls--
This sinfully
scintillant
planet
From the Hell of the planetary souls?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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I would that I were there and over me
The cold
insistence
of the tide would roll,
Quenching this burning thing men call the soul,--
Then with the ebbing I should drift and be
Less than the smallest shell along the shoal,
Less than the sea-gulls calling to the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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"Either
entirely
punish or entirely
pardon; that is my motto.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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A PAGE the
magistrate
was quickly seen,
In dress, in look, in age, in air, in mien;
His hat became a cap; his beard alone
Remained unchanged; the rest had wholly flown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
She speaks without
observing
the_
PEASANT'S _presence_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Twas nought to wonder, though begun by guess;
For Jane was lovely in her Sunday dress,
And all
expected
such a rosy face
Would be her ruin--as was just the case.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The very flower of us were they,
The very flower, but
yesterday!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
The
housekeeper
will look after you, and Keneu has my rooms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Yet more--three daughters in my court are bred,
And each well worthy of a royal bed;
Laodice and
Iphigenia
fair,(203)
And bright Chrysothemis with golden hair;
Her let him choose whom most his eyes approve,
I ask no presents, no reward for love:
Myself will give the dower; so vast a store
As never father gave a child before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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And then her mouth, more
delicate
5
Than the frail wood-anemone,
Brushes my cheek, and deeper grow
The purple shadows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Whose
breeches
were the instruments of peace ;
14
Digitized by VjOOQIC
^0 THE POEMS
Who, if the French dispute his power, from
thence
Can straight produce them a plenipotence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
He
questioned
softly why I failed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Earth's glories flee of human eyes unseen,
Earth's kingdoms fade to a remembered dream,
But thine
henceforth
shall be a power supreme,
Dazzling command and rich dominion,
The winds thy heralds and thy vassals all
The silver-belted planets and the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
la la
To
Carthage
then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou pluckest me out
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 310
IV.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
of gān] = ēode (-īode) [and in
compounds]
fæger = fǣ [in cpd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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With not even one blow
landing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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As by the kindling of the self-same fire
Harder this clay, this wax the softer grows,
So by my love may Daphnis;
sprinkle
meal,
And with bitumen burn the brittle bays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Canzon: Spear
Or might my
troubled
heart be fed UpOn the frail clear light there shed>
Then were my pain at last allay'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
L'un fu tutto
serafico
in ardore;
l'altro per sapienza in terra fue
di cherubica luce uno splendore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
1635-54_, _Chambers_]
[18
Scorpion
_Ed:_ Scorpion, _1633-69_
and Torpedo _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _N_, _TC_, _W:_ or Torpedo
_1633-69_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _JC_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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`Lo, Troilus, men seyn that hard it is
The wolf ful, and the wether hool to have;
This is to seyn, that men ful ofte, y-wis, 1375
Mot spenden part, the
remenant
for to save.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
The third of the same moon whose former course
Had all but crowned him, on the self-same day
Deposed him gently from his throne of force,
And laid him with the earth's
preceding
clay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
this is my room;
there are my books, there the piano,
there the last bar I wrote,
there the last line,
and oh the
sunlight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
I saw him at the river-side,
Down by the ferry lit by torches, hastening the embarcation;
My General waited till the
soldiers
and wounded were all pass'd over,
And then, (it was just ere sunrise,) these eyes rested on him for
the last time.
| 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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So I; whom all with
readiness
obey'd,
All save Eurylochus; he sought alone
To stay the rest, and, eager, interposed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
"
"I tire of my beauty, I tire of this
Empty
splendour
and shadowless bliss;
"With none to envy and none gainsay,
No savour or salt hath my dream or day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
I see men marching and countermarching by swift
millions!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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7 Return us, and thy grace divine,
O God of Hosts
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Cause thou thy face on us to shine,
And then we shall be safe.
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Milton |
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Miser Catulle_
MISER Catulle, desinas ineptire,
et quod uides perisse
perditum
ducas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I'm ceded, I've stopped being theirs;
The name they dropped upon my face
With water, in the country church,
Is
finished
using now,
And they can put it with my dolls,
My childhood, and the string of spools
I've finished threading too.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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So, when thou
Beneath
Sicanian
billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Since then, all things have changed; to me you are
Some brightest, unknown
creature
from the skies.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Thy hallow'd soul exults in endless day;
'Tis I who linger on the toilsome way:
No balm relieves the anguish I endure;
Save the fond feeble hope that thou art near
To soothe my
sufferings
with an angel's tear.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Thus deeply musing on the rapid round
Of planetary speed, in thought profound
I stood, and long bewail'd my wasted hours,
My vain afflictions, and my squander'd powers:
When, in deliberate march, a train was seen
In silent order moving o'er the green;
A band that seem'd to hold in high disdain
The desolating power of Time's
resistless
reign:
Their names were hallow'd in the Muse's song,
Wafted by fame from age to age along,
High o'er oblivion's deep, devouring wave,
Where millions find an unrefunding grave.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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One morning, by the break of day,
The youthful, charming Chloe--
From
peaceful
slumber she arose,
Girt on her mantle and her hose,
And o'er the flow'ry mead she goes--
The youthful, charming Chloe.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Control the present: all beside
Flows like a river seaward borne,
Now rolling on its placid tide,
Now whirling massy trunks uptorn,
And waveworn crags, and farms, and stock,
In chaos blent, while hill and wood
Reverberate to the
enormous
shock,
When savage rains the tranquil flood
Have stirr'd to madness.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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In this difficult passage it is
probably
best to take _cursus_ as the
subject to teneant (_cursus teneant_, id est agantur.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Grand go the years in the crescent above them;
Worlds scoop their arcs, and
firmaments
row,
Diadems drop and Doges surrender,
Soundless as dots on a disk of snow.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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he who just now was seen a professed droll, or e'en
shrewder than such in gay speech, this same becomes more boorish than a
country boor
immediately
he touches poesy, nor is the dolt e'er as
self-content as when he writes in verse,--so greatly is he pleased with
himself, so much does he himself admire.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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We love to see any redness in the
vegetation
of the temperate zone.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But it is now Christmas time, and this is the New Year,
and I see around me many brave ones;--if any be so bold in his blood
that dare strike a stroke for another, I shall give him this rich axe
to do with it
whatever
he pleases.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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