How quickly our intentions
fluctuate!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The Don, although
professing
great respect for Aristotle,
insisted that the combat was the best part of the story and must be
acted, even if a special theater had to be built for the purpose, or the
play given in the open fields.
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Alexander Pope |
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84) finds an
appropriate
landing-place.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"
Mest he wil
vnderstonde
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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No lofty crest I raise:
Wisdom that thought forbids, Maecenas mine,
The
knightly
order's praise.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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O
ruthless
Death!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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[54] The tablet is reckoned at forty lines in each column,
[55] Literally "he
attained
my front.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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þegn-sorge drēah, _bore
sorrow for his heroes_, 131;
nearoþearfe
drēah, 422; pret.
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Beowulf |
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Or else he sat with those who watched
His anguish night and day;
Who watched him when he rose to weep,
And when he
crouched
to pray;
Who watched him lest himself should rob
Their scaffold of its prey.
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Wilde - Poems |
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14, 1813]
_After the British had burned the Capitol at Washington, in
August, 1813, they retired to their ships, and on
September
12th
and 13th, they made an attack on Baltimore.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Methinks my
suffering
country's voice I hear,
But most her worthless sons insult my ear,
On my rash courage charge the chance of war,
And blame those virtues which they cannot share.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Even those farthest regions feel anger,2 by a
marriage
pact we wish to form good ties.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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I say more--you have forgotten yourself in
neglecting
Italy.
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Petrarch |
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Is that not my neighbour
Blepyrus?
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Aristophanes |
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I love the verse that mild and bland
Breathes
of green fields and open sky,
I love the muse that in her hand
Bears flowers of native poesy;
Who walks nor skips the pasture brook
In scorn, but by the drinking horse
Leans oer its little brig to look
How far the sallows lean across,
And feels a rapture in her breast
Upon their root-fringed grains to mark
A hermit morehen's sedgy nest
Just like a naiad's summer bark.
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John Clare |
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What the soldier's mail,
Unless he conquer and
prevail?
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Emerson - Poems |
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So, in the like name of that love of ours,
Take back these
thoughts
which here unfolded too,
And which on warm and cold days I withdrew
From my heart's ground.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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" But
(speak-ing to Jesus) he says, "What beautiful or
admirable
thing have
you said or done, though you was (sp) called upon in the temple to give
some manifest sign that you were the son of God?
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Tacitus |
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What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and
innocent
heal-all?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
"As you see, Alexey
Ivanytch
is a man of wit, and of good family, to be
sure, well off, too; but only to think of being obliged to kiss him
before everybody under the marriage crown!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"
Awed by the prince, so haughty, brave, and young,
Rage gnaw'd the lip,
amazement
chain'd the tongue.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's sensitive conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is
standing
on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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A thousand masses I hear and offer,
Burn oil, wax candles in my hand,
So that success God might ensure,
For
striving
alone won't climb her stair.
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Troubador Verse |
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Which letter filtered through the
Proper Channels, and ended in the
transfer
of Michele up-country once
more, on the Imperial salary of sixty-six rupees a month.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The
creatures
pass to the sounds
Of my tortoise, and the songs I sing.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's
information
and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Meredith - Poems |
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"
A slant of sun on dull brown walls,
A
forgotten
sky of bashful blue.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust
restaurants
with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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After his
departure
it
was discovered that he had been playing tricks with the cash-box of
the firm, of which his widowed mother had become the head.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The
sprinkled
salt, the votive meal,
As soon their favour will regain,
Let but the hand be pure and leal,
As all the pomp of heifers slain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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go forth in my might
For I am weary, & must sleep in the dark sleep of Death {According to Erdman's notes this line was crossed out in pencil for deletion and a replacement was written in the right margin, then the deleting lines and the replacement were
thoroughly
erased.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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"It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time," The
quavering
tambourines repeat.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Note: This poem is a consequence of the two
previous
poems.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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"Why
loosened
I olden control here
To mechanize skywards,
Undeeming great scope could outshape in
A globe of such grain?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Swift, through some trap mine eyes have never found,
Dim-panelled in the painted scene of Sleep,
Thou, giant
Harlequin
of Dreams, dost leap
Upon my spirit's stage.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Bleed, bleed poore Country,
Great Tyrrany, lay thou thy basis sure,
For
goodnesse
dare not check thee: wear y thy wrongs,
The Title, is affear'd.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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The Biographical Sketch by Emerson which
prefaced
the latter
appears in the first volume of the present edition.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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10
Have the laden galleons been sighted
Stoutly
labouring
up the sea from Tyre?
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Great Buckingham's
sacrifice
must be the
first.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Fortune had
favoured
neither side when, as the night wore on, the moon
rose and threw a deceptive glamour over the field of battle.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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[_He throws himself into a
leathern
chair by the bed_.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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_ O:
_allidebant_
Landor
68 _si neque_ ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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LXXXV
At open barriers, one by one, the place
They kept against all comers for a day;
At first with lance, and next with sword or mace,
While them the king
delighted
to survey.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Still following, watching, whether burn
The
Christmas
log in winter stern,
While merry plays go round;
Or streamlets laugh to breeze of May
That shakes the leaf to break away--
A shadow falling to the ground.
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Paradiso
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a
flattering
word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Show me some bastard mushrooms
Sprung from a
pollution
of blood.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Atheists
are as dull,
Who cannot guess God's presence out of sight.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Yea, what is all
The world, but an awning
scaffolded
amid
The waste perilous Eternity, to lodge
This Heaven-wander'd princess, woman's beauty?
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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We learn
from Fitzgerald that it was written as early as the spring of 1835, for
in that year
Tennyson
read it to Fitzgerald and Spedding, "out of a MS.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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This Stuart's trick
legitimates
thy name.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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"
XIX
Snakes, satyrs, loves with many a shout
Across the stage still madly sweep,
Whilst the tired serving-men without
Wrapped in their
sheepskins
soundly sleep.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Indeed, indeed,
Repentance
oft before
I swore--but was I sober when I swore?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Things
deteriorate
in kind;
Lemons run to leaves and rind;
Meagre crop of figs and limes;
Shorter days and harder times.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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I have a pleasant hill
Which I sit upon for hours,
Where she cropt some sprigs of thyme
And other little flowers;
And she
muttered
as she did it
As does beauty in a dream,
And I loved her when she hid it
On her breast, so like to cream,
Near the brown mole on her neck that to me a diamond shone
Then my eye was like to fire, and my heart was like to stone.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
'
I had a star in heaven;
One Pleiad was its name,
And when I was not heeding
It
wandered
from the same.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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ut foret exemplum ueri Phoceus amoris,
fecerunt
furiae, tristis Oresta, tuae.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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How often doth that which was called a
calamity
prove the
beginning and cause of a man's happiness?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And if my foot returns no more
To Teme nor Corve nor Severn shore,
Luck, my lads, be with you still
By falling stream and
standing
hill,
By chiming tower and whispering tree,
Men that made a man of me.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Such was that face, on which I dwelt with joy
Ere Greece assembled stemm'd the tides to Troy;
But, parting then for that
detested
shore,
Our eyes, unhappy?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
* You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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But rescue came
with dawn of day for those
desperate
men
when they heard the horn of Hygelac sound,
tones of his trumpet; the trusty king
had followed their trail with faithful band.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
AUTUMN
The leaves fall, fall as from far,
Like distant gardens
withered
in the heavens;
They fall with slow and lingering descent.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Phaedra
The son of that Amazon mother:
You must know that prince I myself
oppressed
so long?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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And look, I found
This
portrait
'midst the heap of plate and jewels.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Or up, where all the
vultures
of the air
May glut them, pierce and nail him for a sign
Far off?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Here no man
treadeth
oft nor loud,
Through casement comes the Autumn balm,
Here to the hopeless, hope is vowed,
To pleadings, tendered words of calm.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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But Dante's poem
attempts no story at all, and Spenser's, though it attempts several,
does not tell them well--it scarcely attempts to make the reader believe
in them, being much more
concerned
with the decoration and the
implication of its fables than with the fables themselves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
THE BRIDE
Call me,
Beloved!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Now, Christ be
thanked!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
I have tried my hand on "Robin Adair," and, you will
probably
think,
with little success; but it is such a cursed, cramp, out-of-the-way
measure, that I despair of doing anything better to it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow,
Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen;
Him in thy course
untainted
do allow
For beauty's pattern to succeeding men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
The outward shows of sky and earth, 45
Of hill and valley, he has viewed;
And
impulses
of deeper birth
Have come to him in solitude.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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And how should I
presume?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
His lordship's chambers-show his
lordship
to them!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
I fitted to the latch
My hand, with trembling care,
Lest back the awful door should spring,
And leave me
standing
there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
may they still of
transport
dream,
And ne'er, at least like me, awake!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Round they roll till dark is light,
Sex to sex, and even to odd;--
The over-god
Who marries Right to Might,
Who peoples, unpeoples,--
He who exterminates
Races by stronger races,
Black by white faces,--
Knows to bring honey
Out of the lion;
Grafts
gentlest
scion
On pirate and Turk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Have tidings reach'd him of our host's return,
Which here he would
divulge?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
"
"If ye
approach
secure from this our doom,
Prostration--and would urge your course with speed,
See that ye still to rightward keep the brink.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Come give me thy
loveliest
lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
"
Queen Gulnaar's daughter two spring times old,
In blue robes
bordered
with tassels of gold,
Ran to her knee like a wildwood fay,
And plucked from her hand the mirror away.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Strangely enough, that very night at the ball, Tomsky had rallied her
about her preference for the young officer, assuring her that he knew
more than she
supposed
he did.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger
resembling
you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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This is not heaven, even in a dream, nor earth,
As earth was once, first
breathed
among the stars,
Articulate glory from the mouth divine,
To which the myriad spheres thrilled audibly,
Touched like a lute-string, and the sons of God
Said AMEN, singing it.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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But see how I shall batter down the
sort of
education
of which he is so proud.
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Aristophanes |
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To whom the King
Leodogran
replied,
'O friend, had I been holpen half as well
By this King Arthur as by thee today,
Then beast and man had had their share of me:
But summon here before us yet once more
Ulfius, and Brastias, and Bedivere.
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Tennyson |
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For some wood-daemon
has
lightened
your steps.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Attending
nigh,
A menial train the flowing bowl supply.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Though man's soul pass through
troubled
waters, Strange ways tp him are opened.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Content with what the
bounteous
gods have given,
Seek not alone to engross the gifts of Heaven.
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Iliad - Pope |
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"--Forgive me, Jupiter, is not
Rome's
Capitoline
Hill second Olympus to you?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Fasse mich nicht so
gewaltsam
an!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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But you, Sir, you are hard to please;
You never look but half content:
Nor like a
gentleman
at ease
With moral breadth of temperament.
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Tennyson |
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