Queen of the vales the Lily answered, ask the tender cloud,
And it shall tell thee why it
glitters
in the morning sky.
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From some old fortress on the sun
Baronial bees march, one by one,
In murmuring
platoon!
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So becomes it a youth to quit him well
with his father's friends, by fee and gift,
that to aid him, aged, in after days,
come
warriors
willing, should war draw nigh,
liegemen loyal: by lauded deeds
shall an earl have honor in every clan.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
inquired
a chorus of voices.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"--"Yes," said the supreme shape,
"Thou hast dream'd of me; and awaking up
Didst find a lyre all golden by thy side,
Whose strings touch'd by thy fingers, all the vast
Unwearied
ear of the whole universe
Listen'd in pain and pleasure at the birth
Of such new tuneful wonder.
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Keats |
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David to thy distillage went,
Keats, and Gotama excellent,
Omar Khayyam, and Chaucer bright,
And
Shakespeare
for a king-delight.
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Sidney Lanier |
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With
Bradamant
Rogero wends his way.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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--
So may the undoomed easily flee
evils and exile, if only he gain
the grace of The
Wielder!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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135
XVI
Then Una thus; But she your sister deare,
The deare
Charissa
where is she become?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Lest these
enclasped
hands should never hold,
This mutual kiss drop down between us both
As an unowned thing, once the lips being cold.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The count Rabel and the count Guinemans
Let fall the reins on their swift horses' backs,
Spurring in haste; then on rush all the Franks,
And go to strike, each with his
trenchant
lance.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Goes with fourteen Gēatas
to the
assistance
of the Danish king, Hrōðgār, against Grendel, 198 ff.
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Beowulf |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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{and} it is
wickednesse
{and} wrong ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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They grudge to forfeit precious life, and lie
Crushed by the
fragment
of a broken spear;
And think foul scorn beneath the pounding stake
Strangely to die the death of frog or snake.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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When charged therewith he gazed, and
answered
bold:
"Be needy I or no,
I will not help lay low a house so fair!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Rather smile there, blessed one,
Thinking
of me in the sun,
Or forget me--smiling on!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I do not
recollect that
Bjornson
ever wrote of any land but Norway, and Ibsen,
though he lived in exile for many years, driven out by his countrymen,
as he believed, carried the little seaboard towns of Norway everywhere
in his imagination.
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Yeats |
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<
tu mi
contenti
si quando tu solvi,
che, non men che saver, dubbiar m'aggrata.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The golden Hours on angel wings,
Flew o'er me and my Dearie;
For dear to me, as light and life,
Was my sweet
Highland
Mary.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But Venus, stirred in spirit by no vain mother's alarms, and moved by
the threats and stern uprisal of the Laurentines, addresses herself to
Vulcan, and in her golden bridal chamber begins thus, breathing divine
passion in her speech:
'While Argolic kings wasted in war the doomed towers of Troy, the
fortress fated to fall in hostile fires, no succour did I require for
her
wretched
people, no weapons of thine art and aid: nor would I task,
dear my lord, thee or thy toils for naught, though I owed many and many
a debt to the children of Priam, and had often wept the sore labour of
Aeneas.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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_A new edition with
additional poems_,
_including
Ravenna_, _The Sphinx_, _and The Ballad of
Reading Gaol_, _was first published_ (_limited issues on hand-made paper
and Japanese vellum_) _by Methuen & Co.
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Wilde - Poems |
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but all the maiden Saints,
The
deathless
mother-maidenhood of Heaven,
Cry out upon her.
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Tennyson |
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North Bend,
geese
inhumanly
treated at,
mentioned.
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James Russell Lowell |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Gabst mir die
herrliche
Natur zum Konigreich,
Kraft, sie zu fuhlen, zu geniessen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The one in black disgraceful weeds is Toil;
She sows with never-ending gesture all
The path before his feet, cursing the way
She drags him on with growth of
flouting
crops,
Urchin thistles, and rank flourishing nettles.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"
It being remembered that there were six of us with Master Villon, when that expecting
presently
to be hanged he writ a ballad whereof ye know :
"
Frtres humftins qui aprls nous vivez" NK ye a skoal for the gallows tree !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Her fabulous head
reposed upon the brow of the man like one of those horrible casques by
which ancient
warriors
hoped to add to the terrors of the enemy.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast, quenching my fire,
A deity at the gods'
ambrosial
feast.
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Ronsard |
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(The Pole looks at him
haughtily
and departs in
silence.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The boldest
ventures
first and dashes in,
And others go and follow to the chin,
And duck about, and try to lose their fears,
And laugh to hear the thunder in their ears.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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[50] The verb _la'atu_, to pierce, devour, forms its
preterite
_ilut_;
see VAB.
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| Question: |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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O cities memories of cities
cities draped with our desires
cities early and late
cities strong cities intimate
stripped of all their makers
their
thinkers
their phantoms
Landscape ruled by emerald
live living ever-living
the wheat of the sky on our earth
nourishes my voice I dream and cry
I laugh and dream between the flames
between the clusters of sunlight
And over my body your body extends
the layer of its clear mirror.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Learn to conquer, learn to fight
In the
foremost
flanks of right,
Like Valmiki's heroes bold,
Rubies girt in epic gold.
| Guess: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Abel was
accepted
as a page,
too, but there was no money awarded the ex-Bonapartist--money being what
the Eaglet at Reichstadt most required for an attempt at his father's
throne--and the poor officer was left in seclusion to write consolingly
about his campaigns and "Defences of Fortified Towns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And the marsh dragged one back,
and another
perished
under the cliff,
and the tide swept you out.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the secretaries of
Cardinal
Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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So is he mine: and in such bloody distance,
That euery minute of his being, thrusts
Against my neer'st of Life: and though I could
With bare-fac'd power sweepe him from my sight,
And bid my will auouch it; yet I must not,
For certaine friends that are both his, and mine,
Whose loues I may not drop, but wayle his fall,
Who I my selfe struck downe: and thence it is,
That I to your
assistance
doe make loue,
Masking the Businesse from the common Eye,
For sundry weightie Reasons
2.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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[Enter MARMADUKE, from behind]
OSWALD (turning to meet him)
But listen, for my peace--
MARMADUKE
Why, I
_believe_
you.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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When
youthful
lovers mingle sighs,
Believe me, friend, I am not wrong,
For one thing only do they long.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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To
delay Gama till this force arrived was the purpose of the Court and of
the Moors, who were now
confident
of success.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Quivering grass
Daintily
poised
For her foot's tripping.
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Imagists |
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_ ELECTRA _enters,
returning
from the
well.
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Euripides - Electra |
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THUS
metamorphosed
to a pretty boy,
The judge proceeded in the black's employ.
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La Fontaine |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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According
to Erdman, this change was made while 'sorrow & care' was in its earlier form, 'eternal fear.
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| Question: |
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Blake - Zoas |
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the
approaching
steeds your contest end.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Iliad - Pope |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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If Hope
prostrate
lie,
Love too will sink and die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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"
Thus the youthful Hiawatha
Said within himself and pondered,
Much perplexed by various feelings,
Listless, longing, hoping, fearing,
Dreaming still of Minnehaha,
Of the lovely
Laughing
Water,
In the land of the Dacotahs.
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| Question: |
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Longfellow |
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Where old titles of songs convey any idea at all, it
will
generally
be found to be quite in the spirit of the air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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_
NEUTRAL!
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| Question: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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e
brennynge
sandes by his drie hete.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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11 Seeing Off My Cousin Ya on His Way to His Post as Administrative
Assistant
in Anxi The south wind makes sounds of autumn,1 the atmosphere of destruction presses the blazing heat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| 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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I muste, I wylle; tys
honnoure
cals awaie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Toot, used derisively for
_playing
on any wind instrument_.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
_(After advancing as far as the gates of Moscow, which he might perhaps
have taken had not his bold heart failed him at the last moment,
Pugatchef, beaten, had been delivered up by his
comrades
for the sum of
a hundred thousand roubles, shut up in an iron cage, and conveyed to
Moscow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Quicksand Years
Quicksand years that whirl me I know not whither,
Your schemes, politics, fail, lines give way, substances mock and elude me,
Only the theme I sing, the great and strong-possess'd soul, eludes not,
One's-self must never give way--that is the final substance--that
out of all is sure,
Out of politics, triumphs, battles, life, what at last finally
remains?
| 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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I have composed verses in honour of your Nephelococcygia, a host of
splendid dithyrambs and parthenians,[284] worthy of
Simonides
himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Like thine own breast
His
beautiful
wings in crimson are drest,
As if he were bone of thy bone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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but I am hunting for fine, tasty words to
break down the
hardness
of their hearts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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The
interior
of the Meeting-house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Thy Future calls thee with a manifold sound
To
crescent
honours, splendours, victories vast;
Waken, O slumbering Mother and be crowned,
Who once wert empress of the sovereign Past.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Hence I sign this salute over the sea,
And I do not deny that terrible red birth and baptism,
But remember the little voice that I heard wailing--and wait with perfect
trust, no matter how long;
And from to-day, sad and cogent, I maintain the bequeathed cause, as for
all lands,
And I send these words to Paris with my love,
And I guess some
_chansonniers_
there will understand them,
For I guess there is latent music yet in France--floods of it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
[78]
What has become of my
strength?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
What spouse, or infant train
E'er kindled such a
righteous
enmity?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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L
_ Clunton and Clunbury,
Clungunford and Clun,
Are the
quietest
places
Under the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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They were sold in the market as dwarf slaves and yearly sent to
Court;
Described as "an
offering
of natural products from the land of
Tao-chou.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"
"This tongue that talks, these lungs that shout,
These thews that hustle us about,
This brain that fills the skull with schemes,
And its humming hive of dreams,-"
"These to-day are proud in power
And lord it in their little hour:
The
immortal
bones obey control
Of dying flesh and dying soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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To think thus, to feel thus much, and then to cease
thinking
and
feeling when a certain star rises above yonder horizon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Lastly, he is very young, and is swept away by his
sister's
intenser
nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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It is I, you women, I make my way,
I am stern, acrid, large, undissuadable, but I love you,
I do not hurt you any more than is necessary for you,
I pour the stuff to start sons and
daughters
fit for these States, I
press with slow rude muscle,
I brace myself effectually, I listen to no entreaties,
I dare not withdraw till I deposit what has so long accumulated within me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
My lord, if
you'll give me leave, I will tread this
unbolted
villain into
mortar and daub the walls of a jakes with him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Why good wits ne'r weare scarlet gownes, I thought
This cause, These men, mens wits for speeches buy,
And women buy all reds which
scarlets
die.
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John Donne |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then,
Bowed with her fourscore years and ten;
Bravest of all in
Frederick
town,
She took up the flag the men hauled down;
In her attic window the staff she set,
To show that one heart was loyal yet.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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This pine that shades my cot be thine;
Here will I slay, as years come round,
A
youngling
boar, whose tusks design
The side-long wound.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Each seated on his favourite post,
We chumped and chawed the
buttered
toast
They gave us for our tea.
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Lewis Carroll |
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They were much
more
agreeable
objects, with their great broad-brimmed hats and
flowing dresses, than the men and boys.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Season of mists and mellow
fruitfulness!
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Golden Treasury |
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Cercate 'ntorno le
boglienti
pane;
costor sian salvi infino a l'altro scheggio
che tutto intero va sovra le tane>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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O
faithful
unto death,
Thou goest?
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Euripides - Electra |
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It becomes to all
A second native land by predilection,
And not by
accident
of birth alone.
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Longfellow |
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(Alcools: Le Pont Mirabeau)
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
And our amours
Shall I remember it again
Joy always followed after Pain
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Hand in hand rest face to face
While underneath
The bridge of our arms there races
So weary a wave of eternal gazes
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Love vanishes like the water's flow
Love vanishes
How life is slow
And how Hope lives blow by blow
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Let the hour pass the day the same
Time past returns
Nor love again
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Twilight
(Alcools: Crepuscule)
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
On the grass where day expires
Columbine strips bare admires
her body in the pond instead
A charlatan of
twilight
formed
Boasts of the tricks to be performed
The sky without a stain unmarred
Is studded with the milk-white stars
From the boards pale Harlequin
First salutes the spectators
Sorcerers from Bohemia
Fairies sundry enchanters
Having unhooked a star
He proffers it with outstretched hand
While with his feet a hanging man
Sounds the cymbals bar by bar
The blind man rocks a pretty child
The doe with all her fauns slips by
The dwarf observes with saddened pose
How Harlequin magically grows
Clotilde
(Alcools: Clotilde)
The anemone and flower that weeps
have grown in the garden plain
where Melancholy sleeps
between Amor and Disdain
There our shadows linger too
that the midnight will disperse
the sun that makes them dark to view
will with them in dark immerse
The deities of living dew
Let their hair flow down entire
It must be that you pursue
That lovely shadow you desire
The White Snow
(Alcools: La blanche neige)
The angels the angels in the sky
One's dressed as an officer
One's dressed as a chef today
And the others sing
Fine sky-coloured officer
Sweet Spring when Christmas is long gone
Will deck you with a lovely sun
A lovely sun
The chef plucks geese
Ah!
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Appoloinaire |
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'Round me the old sorrow was awaking, And the
breaking
of some mighty heart.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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XXIV
Let the world's sharpness like a
clasping
knife
Shut in upon itself and do no harm
In this close hand of Love, now soft and warm,
And let us hear no sound of human strife
After the click of the shutting.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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ai
honoureden
a fals god; a morewe & ek an eue.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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