_As darkly as I spurn this damned food,
So perish all the race of
Pleisthenes!
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Aeschylus |
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Where shall I hide my
forehead
and my eyes?
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Tennyson |
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To the trumpet's blare,
And paweth the earth's
Aceldama?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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CLXXVI
The count Rollanz, beneath a pine he sits;
Turning his eyes towards Spain, he begins
Remembering so many divers things:
So many lands where he went conquering,
And France the Douce, the heroes of his kin,
And Charlemagne, his lord who
nourished
him.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Lo, here the
wretched
Agamemnon stands,
The unhappy general of the Grecian bands,
Whom Jove decrees with daily cares to bend,
And woes, that only with his life shall end!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Yet there is
something
round thy lips
That prophesies the coming doom,
The soft, gray herald-shadow ere the eclipse
Notches the perfect disk with gloom;
A something that would banish thee,
And thine untamed pursuer be,
From men and their unworthy fates,
Though Florence had not shut her gates,
And Grief had loosed her clutch and let thee free.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The stones are crooned to sleep
By the soft sound of rain that slowly dies;
And cradled in the branches, hidden deep
In each bright bud, a
slumbering
silence lies.
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Rilke - Poems |
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He at whose command the dead
Of the renewed creation shall arise,
The tempest of the resurrection shaking
The earth around, that she with bearing throes
Will yield the dust at His
almighty
call.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"But
wherefore
to the mountain-top
"Can this unhappy woman go,
"Whatever star is in the skies,
"Whatever wind may blow?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CXCII
It was hot, and sleep, gently flowing,
Was trickling through my dreaming soul,
When the vague form of a vibrant ghost
Arrived to disturb my dreaming, softly
Leaning down to me, pure ivory teeth,
And offering me her
flickering
tongue,
Her lips were kissing me, sweet and long,
Mouth on mouth, thigh on thigh beneath.
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Ronsard |
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quis furor est atram bellis
accersere
Mortem?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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e toumbe
richeliche
I-grey|?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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quamlibet immenso diues uigil incubet auro,
aestuat
augendae
dira cupido rei.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face,
They, round the ingle, form a circle wide;
The Sire turns o'er, with patriarchal grace,
The big ha'-Bible, ance his father's pride;
His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside,
His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare;
Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide,
He wales a portion with
judicious
care;
And 'Let us worship GOD!
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Robert Burns |
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--
There
Lancelot
and Tristram (famed in fight)
Are seen, with many a dame and errant knight;--
Genevra, Belle Isonde, and hundreds more;
With those who mingled their incestuous gore
Shed by paternal rage; and chant beneath,
In baneful symphony, the Song of Death.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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With her chapelles fair Smyrna--
A gay
princess
is she!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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One moment
conquered
boldness so imprudent:
My soul, so proud, is finally dependant.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Night after night I creep
Into the royal park, and leave some flowers
Upon her
favourite
seat.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Another and another Cup to drown
The Memory of this
Impertinence!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful Athenian courtesan and mistress of
Alexander
the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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1 That is, the Emperor has set up his
temporary
capital there.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And there is no place
In all the coast for
wreckage
like this bay;
There often will my grannam be, a sack
Over her shoulders, turning up the crust
Of sun-dried weed to find her winter's warmth.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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May my verse, which I so reverse
That it's
unhindered
by woods or hills,
Go, where one feels not frost or ice,
Nor does the cold have power to sting.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With
sorceries
sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's mysterious season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Series
For the
splendour
of the day of happinesses in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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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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He would not
elude the horror of this story by simply not mentioning it, like Homer, or
by
pretending
that an evil act was a good one, like Sophocles.
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Euripides - Electra |
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That use is not forbidden usury,
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thy self to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;
Ten times thy self were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee:
Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart,
Leaving thee living in
posterity?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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He stood before the tumbling main
With joy too tense for sober brain;
He shared the life of the element,
The tie of blood and home was rent:
As if in him the welkin walked,
The winds took flesh, the
mountains
talked,
And he the bard, a crystal soul
Sphered and concentric with the whole.
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Emerson - Poems |
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nearer now we drew,
Arriv'd' whence in that part, where first a breach
As of a wall appear'd, I could descry
A portal, and three steps beneath, that led
For inlet there, of
different
colour each,
And one who watch'd, but spake not yet a word.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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When awed strangers come
Who've seen Fox-Mazarin wince at the stings
In my epistles--and bring admiring votes
Of learned colleges, they strain to see
My figure in the glare--the usher utters,
"Behold and
hearken!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Abandoned he sinks in a trance of despair, _5
The monster transfixes his prey,
On the sand flows his life-blood away;
Whilst India's rocks to his death-yells reply,
Protracting the
horrible
harmony.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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597
ffor to
worschipe
?
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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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THE FLY
Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My
thoughtless
hand
Has brushed away.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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If I never knew how to gain its flower,
Without every day enduring pain,
I'd be of good heart still, that's plain,
And my joy is
therefore
more alive,
Since I'm of good heart, and for it I strive.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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And ever the type-keys chatter; and ever our keen
wires bring
Word from the
watchers
a-crouch below, word from
the watchers a-wing:
And ever we hear the distant growl of our hid 'guns
thundering.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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A best disgrace a brave man feels,
Acknowledged of the brave, --
One more "Ye Blessed" to be told;
But this
involves
the grave.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Kline (C)
Copyright
2004 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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Villon |
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neas, brandishing his blade,
In dust Orsilochus and Crethon laid,
Whose sire Diocleus, wealthy, brave and great,
In well-built Pherae held his lofty seat:(152)
Sprung from Alpheus' plenteous stream, that yields
Increase of
harvests
to the Pylian fields.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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I am
inclined
to keep to
the reading of the MS.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Caesar, says Mommsen, was the
complete
and perfect man.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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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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Till ye have battled with great grief and fears,
And borne the
conflict
of dream-shattering years,
Wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife,
Children, ye have not lived: for this is life.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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'
This anecdote--if not in fact true--illustrates very well the gloomy
depression of spirit which alternated with those
outbursts
of feverish
energy in which his poems were composed.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Wise is the ancient sacrament that blends
This weakling cry of
children
in our churches
With strength of prayer or anthem that ascends
To Him who hearts of men and children searches;
Since we are like the babe, who, soothed again,
Within her mother's cradling arm lay nested,
Bright as a new bud, now, refreshed by rain:
And on her hair, it seemed, heaven's radiance rested.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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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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Not a
firelock
flashed against them!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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`That Grekes wolde hir
wraththe
on Troye wreke, 960
If that they mighte, I knowe it wel, y-wis.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet--and here's no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my
greatness
flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Am I now
dreaming?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
She kept with care her
beauties
rare
From lovers warm and true--
For heart was cold to all but gold,
And the rich came not to won,
But honor'd well her charms to sell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Firstly, he
speaks on
occasion
of gross things in gross, crude, and plain terms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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The peasant flies the Tower, although it leads
A noble knight to seek
adventure
there,
And, from his point of honor, dangers dare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The fine slender shoulder-blades:
The long arms, with tapering hands:
My small breasts: the hips well made
Full and firm, and sweetly planned,
All Love's
tournaments
to withstand:
The broad flanks: the nest of hair,
With plump thighs firmly spanned,
Inside its little garden there?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your
thoughts
for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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How gently each has been
deposited
on the water!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
With specimens of song,
As if for you to choose,
Discretion in the interval,
With gay delays he goes
To some
superior
tree
Without a single leaf,
And shouts for joy to nobody
But his seraphic self!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
I gather that you've behaved
like a
blackguard
all through.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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en chemise,
Les baisers repetes, et la gaite
permise?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
--
Say the Saints: There Angels ease us
Glorified
and white.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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conjectures
under hrōf genam; but Ha.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
CXXIV
But not for this doth
Rodomont
refrain:
He swoops upon the Child, unheeding aught:
So sore astounded is Rogero's brain;
So wholly overclouded is his thought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Each thought he was thinking of nothing but "Snark"
And the
glorious
work of the day;
And each tried to pretend that he did not remark
That the other was going that way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The compilers of the early chronicles would have recourse
to these speeches; and the great
historians
of a later period
would have recourse to the chronicles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
O good
Fabricius!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
For we always desire Nuance,
Not Colour, nuance
evermore!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
"In other words," he adds, "to read a
criticism of Baudelaire's without the title affixed is by no means a
sure method of
recognizing
the picture afterward.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this
pestilential
tribe
Its thousand feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And microbes more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of Rosamunde!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Vassilissa
Igorofna
never ceased talking for a
moment, and overwhelmed me with questions.
| 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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{and} is
couenable
to ben 3416
godde[s].
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
scionon, 303; the
imaginary
scānan having
been abandoned.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
It's not time but we
ourselves
who pass,
And soon beneath the silent tomb we lie:
And after death there'll be no news, alas,
Of these desires of which we are so full:
So love me now, while you are beautiful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Rejects not your long yoke, O Love, my heart,
But its own ill by study,
sufferings
vast:
Virtue is not of chance, but painful art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
See you now-
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth;
And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
With windlasses and with assays of bias,
By
indirections
find directions out.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
John Hervey, called by
courtesy
Lord Hervey, the
second son of the Earl of Bristol, was one of the most prominent figures
at the court of George II.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Will ever the dear days come back again,
Those days of June, when lilacs were in bloom,
And
bluebirds
sang their sonnets in the gloom
Of leaves that roofed them in from sun or rain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Vouch it, ye
Immortal
waves that saw Lepanto's fight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
Who erewhile
Had from her countenance turned, or looked by stealth
(For fear is true-love's cruel nurse), he now
With steadfast gaze and unoffending eye,
Worships
the watery idol, dreaming hopes
Delicious to the soul, but fleeting, vain,
E'en as that phantom-world on which he gazed,
But not unheeded gazed: for see, ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
"
May her eyes and her cheek be fair
To all men except the King of Aragon,
And may I come
speedily
to Beziers
Whither my desire and my dream have preceded
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Some part of the
language
is bold, and may shock one
class of readers, whose line will be adopted by others out of
affectation or envy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
: in O spatium non est, sed primo
uersui adscriptum est _
2
_penetrabit_
ed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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--The Air of this and the
following
Song by Edward Lear; the
Arrangement for the Piano by Professor Pome, of San Remo, Italy.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Now from your head please God the crown remove
Unless you strike, and
vengeance
on them do!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Wilde - Poems |
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And
spotless
robes become the young and gay;
So when with praise amid the dance they shine,
By these my cares adorn'd that praise is mine.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Thank God,
everything
goes satisfactorily here!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Is't
possible
that on so little acquaintance you should
like her?
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Shakespeare |
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The Ball no
Question
makes of Ayes and Noes,
But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes;
And He that toss'd Thee down into the Field,
He knows about it all--HE knows--HE knows!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The Portuguese prince even visited the Kingdoms of Prester John and
returned
to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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æt
rihte wæs gūð ge-twǣfed (_almost had the
struggle
been ended_), 1659.
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Beowulf |
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The rain, it rains not every day
On the soak'd meads; the Caspian main
Not always feels the unequal sway
Of storms, nor on Armenia's plain,
Dear Valgius, lies the cold dull snow
Through all the year; nor
northwinds
keen
Upon Garganian oakwoods blow,
And strip the ashes of their green.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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He
presents
it for a friend's criticism -- at the age of twenty-one --
in these words: "I send you a little poem which sang itself through me
the other day.
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Sidney Lanier |
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