There are as many perfections as there are
imperfect
men.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Allor si volse a noi e puose mente,
movendo 'l viso pur su per la coscia,
e disse: <
valente!
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| Question: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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There within,
The desert that remains where she hath been
Will drive me forth, the bed, the empty seat
She sat in; nay, the floor beneath my feet
Unswept, the
children
crying at my knee
For mother; and the very thralls will be
In sobs for the dear mistress that is lost.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Still hangs the hedge without a gust,
Still, still the shadows stay:
My feet upon the moonlit dust
Pursue the
ceaseless
way.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Nous avons dit souvent d'imperissables choses
Les soirs
illumines
par l'ardeur du charbon.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Your person somewhat takes the eye,
Boldness you'll find an easy science,
And if you on
yourself
rely,
Others on you will place reliance.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I feel, this moment, a mighty yearning
To expound for once the ground text of all,
The venerable original
Into my own loved German
honestly
turning.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Nought is there for man too high;
Our impious folly e'en would climb the sky,
Braves the dweller on the steep,
Nor lets the bolts of
heavenly
vengeance sleep.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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through all my limbs 'tis
crawling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I had no cause to be awake,
My best was gone to sleep,
And morn a new
politeness
took,
And failed to wake them up,
But called the others clear,
And passed their curtains by.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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She waited not for his reply,
But with a downward leaden eye
Went on as if he were not by
Sound argument and grave defence,
Strange
questions
raised on "Why?
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Richardson indeed might perhaps be excepted; but unhappily, _dramatis
personae_ are beings of another world; and however they may captivate
the unexperienced, romantic fancy of a boy or a girl, they will ever,
in proportion as we have made human nature our study,
dissatisfy
our
riper years.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Take none of these for perfect: they are moods
Purifying my women to become
My unexpressive,
uttermost
intent.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
In this edition the
topographical
Notes usually follow the Poems to
which they refer.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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He
gathered
all that springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling, seasoned sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Prom
leaflets
that bedeck the ground
Renewed and goodly scents arise,
The coloured volume I expound,
While you repeat the words I prize.
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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 besides
Thou markst that
likewise
with this body of ours
Suffers the mind and with our body feels.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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They fledde; he followed close upon their heels, 495
Vowynge
vengeance
for his deare countrymanne;
And Siere de Sancelotte his vengeance feels;
He peerc'd hys backe, and out the bloude ytt ranne.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Tu
fermeras
l'oeil, pour ne point voir, par la glace,
Grimacer les ombres des soirs,
Ces monstruosites hargneuses, populace
De demons noirs et de loups noirs.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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THE AUDIT
Mere living wears the most of life away:
Even the lilies take thought for many things,
For frost in April and for drought in May,
And from no
careless
heart the skylark sings.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Yet have they many baits, and guilefull spells
To
inveigle
and invite th' unwary sense
Of them that pass unweeting by the way.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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http://www.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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quodsi dolentem nec
Phrygius
lapis
nec purpurarum sidere clarior
delenit usus nec Falerna
uitis Achaemeniumque costum,
cur inuidendis postibus et nouo
sublime ritu moliar atrium?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Death I would have them till thou comest; yea,
The earthly stone whereof man's fortune here
Is made,
strongly
into deliberate death
I have built about my soul, to fend its life
From gazes of the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The sorrows and pains took up so much space
There was no room left to talk about the
weather!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Disloyalty
is a better bond for war than it ever proves
in peace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Let me clasp my dear boy,
embracing
what is left,
To expiate the madness of a prayer I now detest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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And my lord he loves me well;
But, when first he
breathed
his vow,
I felt my bosom swell--
For the words rang as a knell,
And the voice seemed _his_ who fell
In the battle down the dell,
And who is happy now.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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With the great gale we journey
That breathes from gardens thinned,
Borne in the drift of blossoms
Whose petals throng the wind;
Buoyed on the heaven-heard whisper
Of dancing leaflets whirled
From all the woods that autumn
Bereaves
in all the world.
| 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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you,
abandoned
quite
Within the rosy sheen.
| Guess: |
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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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When one has
weighed the sun in the balance, and
measured
the steps of the moon, and
mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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It will be long ere the marshes resume,
It will be long ere the
earliest
bird:
So close the windows and not hear the wind,
But see all wind-stirred.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
What is this sudden cradle song
That
gradually
lulls my poor being?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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This made you dumb; ignorant
knowledge
of this,
Blind vision of virginity's mightiness,
Did chide the exclamation in your hearts.
| 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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Jove, pouring darkness o'er the mingled fight,
Conceals the warriors' shining helms in night:
To him, the chief for whom the hosts contend
Had lived not hateful, for he lived a friend:
Dead he
protects
him with superior care.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
| 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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though such felicity
In our vext world here may not be,
Yet, as
sometimes
the peasant's hut
Shows stones which old religion cut
With text inspired, or mystic sign
Of the Eternal and Divine,
Torn from the consecration deep
Of some fallen nunnery's mossy sleep,
So, from the ruins of this day
Crumbling in golden dust away, 100
The soul one gracious block may draw,
Carved with, some fragment of the law,
Which, set in life's prosaic wall,
Old benedictions may recall,
And lure some nunlike thoughts to take
Their dwelling here for memory's sake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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But whoever should read the debates in
Congress
might
fancy himself present at a meeting of the city council of some city of
Southern Gaul in the decline of the Empire, where barbarians with a
Latin varnish emulated each other in being more than Ciceronian.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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This Venus bore down, her shape girt in a dim halo; this she steeps with
secret healing in the river-water poured out and sparkling abrim, and
sprinkles life-giving juice of
ambrosia
and scented balm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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I prayed hir cessen of hir speche,
Outher to
chastyse
me or teche,
To bidde me my thought refreyne,
Which Love hath caught in his demeyne:-- 3310
What?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Your beauty is your life and my content,
And I will liken you to an apple-tree,
Mary and Margaret playing under the branches,
And everywhere soft shadows like your eyes,
And
scattered
blossom like your little smiles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Comes that river
From forth the sultry places down the south,
Rising far up in midmost realm of day,
Among black
generations
of strong men
With sun-baked skins.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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FAUST:
Mein Herr Magister Lobesan,
Lass Er mich mit dem Gesetz in
Frieden!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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What fate shall dare uncrown thee from this breast,
O god-born lover, whom my love doth gird
And armour with
impregnable
delight
Of Hope's triumphant keen flame-carven sword?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
He was not content with falling in love quietly,
but brought all the strength of his
miserable
little nature into the
business.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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And while, to thee, I tune the duteous lay,
Assume, O potent king, thine empire's sway;
With thy brave host through Afric march along,
And give new triumphs to immortal song:
On thee with earnest eyes the nations wait,
And, cold with dread, the Moor expects his fate;
The barb'rous mountaineer on Taurus' brows
To thy expected yoke his shoulder bows;
Fair Thetis woos thee with her blue domain,
Her nuptial son, and fondly yields her reign,
And from the bow'rs of heav'n thy grandsires[77] see
Their various virtues bloom afresh in thee;
One for the joyful days of peace renown'd,
And one with war's triumphant laurels crown'd:
With joyful hands, to deck thy manly brow,
They twine the laurel and the olive-bough;
With joyful eyes a
glorious
throne they see,
In Fame's eternal dome, reserv'd for thee.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
And it may be, some
Christmas
night,
When angels walk, they'll say:
"'O strange interment!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
"You are a
monster!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
36_, _Challenge_, 1613, and
probably
_Devil is
an Ass_, 1616.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Phaedra, in the palace,
trembles
for her son's life, 395
From all her anxious friends she demands advice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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how oft through summer hours,
Long listless summer hours when the noon
Being enamoured of a damask rose
Forgets to journey westward, till the moon
The pale usurper of its tribute grows
From a thin sickle to a silver shield
And chides its loitering car--how oft, in some cool grassy field
Far from the cricket-ground and noisy eight,
At Bagley, where the rustling bluebells come
Almost before the
blackbird
finds a mate
And overstay the swallow, and the hum
Of many murmuring bees flits through the leaves,
Have I lain poring on the dreamy tales his fancy weaves,
And through their unreal woes and mimic pain
Wept for myself, and so was purified,
And in their simple mirth grew glad again;
For as I sailed upon that pictured tide
The strength and splendour of the storm was mine
Without the storm's red ruin, for the singer is divine;
The little laugh of water falling down
Is not so musical, the clammy gold
Close hoarded in the tiny waxen town
Has less of sweetness in it, and the old
Half-withered reeds that waved in Arcady
Touched by his lips break forth again to fresher harmony.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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And through the world the fawning, fawning lusts
Hound me with worship of a ravenous yearning:
And I am weary of
maddening
men with beauty.
| 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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At fifteen I stopped
wrinkling
my brow
And desired my ashes to be mingled with your dust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
8
Ah, what can ever be more stately and admirable to me than
mast-hemm'd
Manhattan?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
On a white string you carry a long fish, 20
sapphire
ale is accompanied by jade grains of rice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
Again he says, "Nihil esse Rempublicam;
appellationem modo, sine corpore et specie;" "The
Republic
is nothing
but an empty name, a phantom and a shadow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
He drew not nigh unheard, the Angel bright,
Ere he drew nigh, his radiant visage turnd,
Admonisht by his eare, and strait was known
Th' Arch-Angel Uriel, one of the seav'n
Who in Gods presence, neerest to his Throne
Stand ready at command, and are his Eyes 650
That run through all the Heav'ns, or down to th' Earth
Bear his swift errands over moist and dry,
O're Sea and Land: him Satan thus accostes;
Uriel, for thou of those seav'n Spirits that stand
In sight of God's high Throne, gloriously bright,
The first art wont his great authentic will
Interpreter through highest Heav'n to bring,
Where all his Sons thy Embassie attend;
And here art
likeliest
by supream decree
Like honour to obtain, and as his Eye 660
To visit oft this new Creation round;
Unspeakable desire to see, and know
All these his wondrous works, but chiefly Man,
His chief delight and favour, him for whom
All these his works so wondrous he ordaind,
Hath brought me from the Quires of Cherubim
Alone thus wandring.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Rien n'est plus doux au coeur plein de choses funebres,
Et sur qui des longtemps descendent les frimas,
O
blafardes
saisons, reines de nos climats!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
There's rather more
sickness
in the out-villages than I care
for, but then I'm so blistered with prickly-heat that I'm ready to hang
myself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
That is not on
account of its "kennings"--the strange device by which early popular
poetry (Hesiod is another instance) tries to
liberate
and master the
magic of words.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
In such confusion is Troyano's heir,
He sees no way through these perplexities;
And, that Marphisa thence
Brunello
bore
In such a guise, yet grieved the monarch more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
How now, is he dead
already?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
This day, averse, the
sovereign
of the skies
Assists great Hector, and our palm denies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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e clamberande clyffes hade
clatered
on hepes;
[B] Here he wat3 halawed, when ha?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Peace to the
perished!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
He lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do,
And looked at me vaguely, as drinking cattle do,
And flickered his two-forked tongue from his lips, and mused a moment,
And stooped and drank a little more,
Being earth-brown, earth-golden from the burning bowels of the earth
On the day of
Sicilian
July, with Etna smoking.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
What words have past thy Lips, Adam severe,
Imput'st thou that to my default, or will
Of wandering, as thou call'st it, which who knows
But might as ill have happ'nd thou being by,
Or to thy self perhaps: hadst thou bin there,
Or here th' attempt, thou couldst not have discernd
Fraud in the Serpent,
speaking
as he spake; 1150
No ground of enmitie between us known,
Why hee should mean me ill, or seek to harme.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
On our return,
sheltered
under the hollies during
a hail shower.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
But his
intellectual
outlook was low and sordid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
So passed another day, and so the third:
Then did I try, in vain, the crowd's resort,
In deep despair by frightful wishes stirr'd,
Near the sea-side I reached a ruined fort:
There, pains which nature could no more support,
With
blindness
linked, did on my vitals fall;
Dizzy my brain, with interruption short
Of hideous sense; I sunk, nor step could crawl,
And thence was borne away to neighbouring hospital.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Has not the god of the green world, 5
In his large tolerant wisdom,
Filled with the ardours of earth
Her twenty
summers?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
"Be not
disturbed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Nicetti Lucensis aequalis
Politiani, quod mihi demonstrauit Bywater: _assit_ uidetur
legisse
scriptor
Achillis tragoediae in sapphicis p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
The world would run from me, and yet am I
No
different
from the queen they used to love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
4 -- Quondam
porticus
attulit 166
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Vielleicht
bracht's jemand als ein Pfand,
Und meine Mutter lieh darauf.
| Guess: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Thy father and mother both--'tis strange to tell--
Had failed thee, though for them the deed was well,
The years were ripe, to die and save their son,
The one child of the house: for hope was none,
If thou
shouldst
pass away, of other heirs.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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If thou,
composed
of gentle mould,
Art so unkind to me;
What dismal stories will be told
Of those that cruel be!
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Robert Herrick |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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It much would please him
That of his
fortunes
you should make a staff
To lean upon.
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Shakespeare |
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I don't know; but I'm
horribly
afraid of him.
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Aristophanes |
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Once again,
If thou suppose
whatever
thou beholdest,
Among all visible objects, cannot be,
Unless thou feign bodies of matter endowed
With a like nature,--by thy vain device
For thee will perish all the germs of things:
'Twill come to pass they'll laugh aloud, like men,
Shaken asunder by a spasm of mirth,
Or moisten with salty tear-drops cheeks and chins.
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Lucretius |
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If care of our descent perplex us most,
Which must be born to certain woe, devourd 980
By Death at last, and miserable it is
To be to others cause of misery,
Our own begotten, and of our Loines to bring
Into this cursed World a woful Race,
That after
wretched
Life must be at last
Food for so foule a Monster, in thy power
It lies, yet ere Conception to prevent
The Race unblest, to being yet unbegot.
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Milton |
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FRAGMENT: 'IS IT THAT IN SOME
BRIGHTER
SPHERE'.
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Shelley |
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NEUTRAL!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Nor me the foot-bath pleases more; my foot
Shall none of all thy
ministring
maidens touch, 430
Unless there be some ancient matron grave
Among them, who hath pangs of heart endured
Num'rous, and keen as I have felt myself;
Her I refuse not.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Hiawatha, when she asked him,
Took no notice of the question,
Looked as if he hadn't heard it;
But, when
pointedly
appealed to,
Smiled in his peculiar manner,
Coughed and said it 'didn't matter,'
Bit his lip and changed the subject.
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Lewis Carroll |
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How charming Olga's
shoulders
grow!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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For the
slightest
force
Would loose the weft of things wherein no part
Were of imperishable stock.
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Lucretius |
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Shall I not find your turrets toward the north,
Where you defied white winter armed for war;
Your
southern
casements where the sun blows in
Between the leaf-bent boughs the wind has lifted?
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Sara Teasdale |
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Quand' io da la mia riva ebbi tal posta,
che solo il fiume mi facea distante,
per veder meglio ai passi diedi sosta,
e vidi le
fiammelle
andar davante,
lasciando dietro a se l'aere dipinto,
e di tratti pennelli avean sembiante;
si che li sopra rimanea distinto
di sette liste, tutte in quei colori
onde fa l'arco il Sole e Delia il cinto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Who wishes to receive
visitations
often,
Mustn't load with too many flowers the stone
My finger raises with a dead power's boredom.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Precious
hairpins
make the head to shine
And bright mirrors can reflect beauty.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Is it such great
misfortune
to cease to be?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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It is sike hele and hool siknesse,
A thrust drowned [in] dronkenesse,
An helthe ful of maladye,
And charitee ful of envye,
An [hunger] ful of habundaunce, 4725
And a gredy suffisaunce;
Delyt right ful of hevinesse,
And drerihed ful of gladnesse;
Bitter swetnesse and swete errour,
Right evel savoured good savour; 4730
Sinne that pardoun hath withinne,
And pardoun spotted without [with] sinne;
A peyne also it is, Ioyous,
And felonye right pitous;
Also pley that selde is stable, 4735
And
stedefast
[stat], right mevable;
A strengthe, weyked to stonde upright,
And feblenesse, ful of might;
Wit unavysed, sage folye,
And Ioye ful of turmentrye; 4740
A laughter it is, weping ay,
Rest, that traveyleth night and day;
Also a swete helle it is,
And a sorowful Paradys;
A plesaunt gayl and esy prisoun, 4745
And, ful of froste, somer sesoun;
Pryme temps, ful of frostes whyte,
And May, devoide of al delyte,
With seer braunches, blossoms ungrene;
And newe fruyt, fillid with winter tene.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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_with a little rod_
_I did but touch the honey of romance_--
_And must I lose a soul's
inheritance_?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The liberation of Gama's factors is effected by a great victory over the
Moorish fleet, and by the
bombardment
of Calicut.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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