So, indeed, is the tragedy of _The Trojan Women_;
but on very
different
lines.
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Euripides - Electra |
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O let the Hero soon,
Conducted
by some Deity, return!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But should any dream of licence, there's a lesson may be read,
How 'twas wine that drove the Centaurs with the
Lapithae
to fight.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But though my vigil constantly I keep
My God is dark--like woven texture flowing,
A hundred
drinking
roots, all intertwined;
I only know that from His warmth I'm growing.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
Its
proximity
to the place where the tree of the poem stood has given
rise to the local tradition.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Keats - Lamia |
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He'll teach my son how to
exercise
command.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I sawe the
myndbruch
of hys nobille soule 145
Whan Edwarde meniced a seconde wyfe;
I saw what Pheryons yn hys mynde dyd rolle;
Nowe fyx'd fromm seconde dames a preeste for lyfe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I'll have no
bonfires
on _my_ floor--
And, as for scratching at the door,
I'd like to see you try!
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Lewis Carroll |
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we must fasten
alongside
there.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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In March, December, and in July,
"Tis all the same with Harry Gill;
The
neighbours
tell, and tell you truly,
His teeth they chatter, chatter still.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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'Why should I be
ashamed?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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This little
volume, which is throughout in MarvelFs vein, is
now extremely scarce, is not
included
in any edi-
Digitized by VjOOQIC
XXXVlll NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Not but (my friend) 'tis still the wiser way
To waive contention with
superior
sway;
For ah!
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Iliad - Pope |
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167 "disciple of Fairies"
Other
possible
errors have been left as printed:
p.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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additional
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form.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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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?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
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Appoloinaire |
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When thou
reviewest
this, thou dost review
The very part was consecrate to thee:
The earth can have but earth, which is his due;
My spirit is thine, the better part of me:
So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life,
The prey of worms, my body being dead;
The coward conquest of a wretch's knife,
Too base of thee to be remembered.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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He sang:
Tchirek River
Lies under the Dark Mountains:
Where the sky is like the sides of a tent
Stretched
down over the Great Steppe.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Or touch, if
tremblingly
alive all o'er,
To smart and agonize at every pore?
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Alexander Pope |
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The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Erotica Romana, by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The old
Countess no longer made the slightest
pretensions
to beauty, but she
still clung to all the habits of her youth, and spent as much time at
her toilet as she had done sixty years before.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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[26]
Quotation
from the Yangtze boatman's song:
"When Yen-yu is as big as a man's hat
One should not venture to make for Ch'u-t'ang.
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Li Po |
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The sun had sunk behind vast Tomerit,
The Laos wide and fierce came roaring by;
The shades of wonted night were gathering yet,
When, down the steep banks winding wearily
Childe Harold saw, like meteors in the sky,
The
glittering
minarets of Tepalen,
Whose walls o'erlook the stream; and drawing nigh,
He heard the busy hum of warrior-men
Swelling the breeze that sighed along the lengthening glen.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"--
"O drunken not with wine,
Whose sins and sorrows have
fulfilled
the sum,--
Be not afraid, arise, be no more dumb;
Arise, shine,
For thy light is come.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Whispering in midnight silence, said the youth,
"Sure some sweet name thou hast, though, by my truth,
I have not ask'd it, ever
thinking
thee
Not mortal, but of heavenly progeny,
As still I do.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Strange that the
termagant
winds should scold
The Christmas Eve so bitterly!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Their times in his eternall booke of fate
Are written sure, and have their
certaine
date.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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EROTICA ROMANA
By Johann Wolfgang Goethe
I
Here's where I've planted my garden and here I shall care for love's blossoms--
As I am taught by my muse, carefully sort them in plots:
Fertile branches, whose product is golden fruit of my lifetime,
Set here in happier years, tended with pleasure today.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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But the matrons at first, dubious and
wavering, gazed on the ships with
malignant
eyes, between the wretched
longing for the land they trod and the fated realm that summoned them:
when the goddess rose through the sky on poised wings, and in her flight
drew a vast bow beneath the clouds.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And he made answer:
Simon, fear not;
henceforth
thou shalt catch men!
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Longfellow |
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And in a
manner
suitable
to the poverty in which he died was he buried.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And having determined how
you'll say it,
you had next best
ascertain
whom
it is that you say it to.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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But I delay too long, let me seek Chimene,
And in
welcoming
her relieve my pain.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Gēat-mecga lēod gilp
gelǣsted
(_had fulfilled what he had claimed for
himself before the battle_), 830; nallas on gylp seleð fǣtte bēagas, _gives
no chased gold rings for a boastful speech_, 1750; þæt ic wið þone
gūðflogan gylp ofersitte, _restrain myself from the speech of defiance_,
2529; dat.
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Beowulf |
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"
Ivan
Kouzmitch
approved of all his wife said, repeating--
"Look there, now, Vassilissa Igorofna is quite right--duels are
formally forbidden by martial law.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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(Die Hexe, mit seltsamen Gebarden, zieht einen Kreis und stellt wunderbare
Sachen hinein;
indessen
fangen die Glaser an zu klingen, die Kessel zu
tonen, und machen Musik.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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stealing through the canopy of firs,
How fair the sunshine spots that mossy rock,
Isle of the river, whose
disparted
waves
Dart off asunder with an angry sound,
How soon to re-unite!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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'
And Edyrn moving frankly forward spake:
'My lord Geraint, I greet you with all love;
I took you for a bandit knight of Doorm;
And fear not, Enid, I should fall upon him,
Who love you, Prince, with something of the love
Wherewith we love the Heaven that
chastens
us.
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Tennyson |
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First Moloch, horrid King besmear'd with blood
Of human sacrifice, and parents tears,
Though for the noyse of Drums and Timbrels loud
Their
childrens
cries unheard, that past through fire
To his grim Idol.
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Milton |
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Still louder the
breakwater
sounds,
And hissing it beats the surf
Up to the sand-dune heights.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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I glanced in all the eyes and marked that some
Did glitter with a flame of lunacy,
And some were soft and false as feigning love,
And some were
blinking
with hypocrisy,
And some were overfilmed by sense, and some
Blazed with ambition's wild, unsteady fire,
And some were burnt i' the sockets black, and some
Were dead as embers when the fire is out.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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The Foundation is committed to
complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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| Question: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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After all the friends had taken their last look at the dead
face, the young man
approached
the bier.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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When shame is born to this world of sorrow,
The birth is carefully hid from sight,
And the
mysterious
veil of night
To cover her head they borrow;
Yes, they would gladly stifle the wearer;
But as she grows and holds herself high,
She walks uncovered in day's broad eye,
Though she has not become a whit fairer.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"I only would have leave to loose
(In tears and blood if so He choose)
Mine inward music out to use:
"I only would be spent--in pain
And loss, perchance, but not in vain--
Upon the
sweetness
of that strain;
"Only project beyond the bound
Of mine own life, so lost and found,
My voice, and live on in its sound;
"Only embrace and be embraced
By fiery ends, whereby to waste,
And light God's future with my past.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Care never quits him, though the shifting barge
The king ascend, or nimble horse bestride:
This he
encounters
aye on prow or poop,
And bears behind him on his courser's croup;
LXXXVIII
Rather within his head or heart always
Care sits; whence every comfort is o'erthrown:
No remedy the wretched man surveys,
In that his enemies are in the town.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most
brightly
mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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In ways to greatness, think on this,
_That
slippery
all ambition is_.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Leonor
But Madame, how far your
thoughts
leap apace
From a duel which perhaps may not take place.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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The mighty chief,
atheling excellent,
unblithe
sat,
labored in woe for the loss of his thanes,
when once had been traced the trail of the fiend,
spirit accurst: too cruel that sorrow,
too long, too loathsome.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
It is not bird, it has no nest;
Nor band, in brass and scarlet dressed,
Nor tambourine, nor man;
It is not hymn from pulpit read, --
The morning stars the treble led
On time's first
afternoon!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Beneath the trees
Wilt thou lean all day, and lose
Thy spirit with the river seen
Intermittently between
The winding beechen alleys,--
Half in labour, half repose,
Like a shepherd keeping sheep,
Thou, with only
thoughts
to keep
Which never a bound will overpass,
And which are innocent as those
That feed among Arcadian valleys
Upon the dewy grass?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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For from this
eminence
ye shall discern
Better the acts and visages of all,
Than in the nether vale among them mix'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
MENALCAS
"Boys, get your sheep together; if the heat,
As late it did,
forestall
us with the milk,
Vainly the dried-up udders shall we wring.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The
delights
of love I never may
Enjoy, if not joy of my love afar,
No finer, nobler comes my way,
From any quarter: near or far.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Thus far both armies to Belinda yield; 65
Now to the Baron fate
inclines
the field.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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"
These reasons completely
convinced
me, and with great ardour I began
taking my lesson.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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above all,
For the resurrection of deep-buried faith
In Truth--in Virtue--in Humanity--
Of all who, on Despair's unhallowed bed
Lying down to die, have
suddenly
arisen
At thy soft-murmured words, "Let there be light!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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The dust
replaced
in hoisted roads,
The birds jocoser sung;
The sunshine threw his hat away,
The orchards spangles hung.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Besides,
Sun with his heat draws off a mighty part:
Yea, we behold that sun with burning beams
To dry our garments
dripping
all with wet;
And many a sea, and far out-spread beneath,
Do we behold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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"
Thus
elegantly
translated by Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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In return for your glad words
Be sure all
greeting
that mine house affords
Is yours.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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LVII
And after this another vision saw,
In France, at Aix, in his
Chapelle
once more,
That his right arm an evil bear did gnaw;
Out of Ardennes he saw a leopard stalk,
His body dear did savagely assault;
But then there dashed a harrier from the hall,
Leaping in the air he sped to Charles call,
First the right ear of that grim bear he caught,
And furiously the leopard next he fought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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elden {and}
assoilen
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Written By
Somebody
On The Window
Of an Inn at Stirling, on seeing the Royal Palace in ruin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke,
I love, as you would have me, God the most;
Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost,
Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look
Unready to forego what I forsook;
This say I, having counted up the cost,
This, though I be the feeblest of God's host,
The sorriest sheep Christ
shepherds
with His crook,
Yet while I love my God the most, I deem
That I can never love you overmuch;
I love Him more, so let me love you too;
Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such
I cannot love you if I love not Him,
I cannot love Him if I love not you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Such love in my heart I find,
Such joy and
sweetness
mine,
Ice turns to flowers fine
And snow to greenery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
'Twould wake sad
thoughts
in me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Enowe of odhers; of mieselfe to write,
Requyrynge
whatt I doe notte nowe possess,
To you I leave the taske; I kenne your myghte
Wyll make mie faultes, mie meynte[31] of faultes, be less.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
--The
metrical structure of this
glorious
poem is partly derived from Italian
models.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
His nod was pleasure, and his full bow bliss;
How did his well-thumbed hat, with ardor rapt,
Its curve
decorous
to each rank adapt!
| Guess: |
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On revait bien des fois
Aux mysteres dormant entre ses flancs de bois,
Et l'on croyait ouir, au fond de la serrure
Beante, un bruit lointain, vague et joyeux murmure
--La chambre des parents est bien vide, aujourd'hui
Aucun reflet vermeil sous la porte n'a lui;
Il n'est point de parents, de foyer, de clefs prises:
Partant point de baisers, point de douces
surprises!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Should I not, fleeing idleness that's worthless, 935
Dip my javelins in blood more
meritorious?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Each man is
dominated
by a master passion, and it
is the proper function of reason to control this passion for good and to
make it bear fruit in virtue.
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Ce
voyageur
aile, comme il est gauche et veule!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"To kindle her shapely beauty,
And
illumine
her mind withal,
I give to the little person
The glowing and craving soul.
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Sappho |
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Tennyson |
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"I see a horse and woman on it now,"
Said Gasclin, "and
companions
also show.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The same as of yore
All that has
happened
once again must be.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Biron was a friend of Henri IV,
Lusignan
a famous family, both associated with the Valois.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Tennyson |
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That meveth your foole eloquence,
That iangleth ever in audience, 7540
And on the folk areyseth blame,
And doth hem
dishonour
and shame,
For thing that may have no preving,
But lyklinesse, and contriving.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Dwell
together
ye fair,
'Tis a boon to the loveliest given;
Perchance ye then may choose your home
On the earth or in heaven.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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For since the blind-born, who have ne'er surveyed
The light of sun, yet
recognise
by touch
Things that from birth had ne'er a hue for them,
'Tis thine to know that bodies can be brought
No less unto the ken of our minds too,
Though yet those bodies with no dye be smeared.
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Lucretius |
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Do you hear the clank of the
muskets?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Wert thou awkward, stiff, affected,
Spurning
Nature, torturing art;
Loves and Graces all rejected,
Then indeed thou'd'st act a part.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And other prodigies and
monsters
earth
Was then begetting of this sort--in vain,
Since Nature banned with horror their increase,
And powerless were they to reach unto
The coveted flower of fair maturity,
Or to find aliment, or to intertwine
In works of Venus.
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Lucretius |
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XXVI
Who would demonstrate Rome's true grandeur,
In all her vast dimensions, all her might,
Her length and breadth, and all her depth and height
Needs no line or lead, compass or measure:
He only need draw a circle, at his leisure,
Round all that Ocean in his arms holds tight,
Be it where Sirius scorches with his light,
Or where the
northerlies
blow cold forever.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Fear, Favour, or Affection--what are these
To the grim Head who claims our
services?
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Kipling - Poems |
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They'll suffer for it, the godless
wretches!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Cities of hell, with foul desires demented,
And
monstrous
pleasures, hour by hour invented!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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