Yet,
since the god cannot have
commanded
evil, it is a duty also.
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I never liked the idea that we knew of Christ's own
words only through a
translation
of a translation.
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is worlde ne had[de] neuer
bygynnynge
of tyme.
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He had his cellar
underneath
his pulpit,
And so preached o'er his liquor, just as you do.
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Longfellow |
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"
And I
believed
him--for now I too have forgotten the language of
that other world.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
IX
On moonlit heath and
lonesome
bank
The sheep beside me graze;
And yon the gallows used to clank
Fast by the four cross ways.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"Frowning,
frowning
night,
O'er this desert bright
Let thy moon arise,
While I close my eyes.
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blake-poems |
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it has not scared the buck
Who stands
astonished
at the meteor light,
Then turns to bound away,--is it too late?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Note the skill
with which Spenser arouses
interest
before telling of the interview with
Despair.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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What man, what hero, Clio sweet,
On harp or flute wilt thou
proclaim?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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[3] For what is said here of this poetry of
primitive
magic cf.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Blacksmiths
with grimed and hairy chests environ the anvil,
Each has his main-sledge, they are all out, there is a great heat in
the fire.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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An exquisite sense
of the ridiculous belonged to the Greek character; and closely
connected with this faculty was a strong
propensity
to flippancy
and impertinence.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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He is said to have
discovered
the elixir of
life, the philosopher's stone, and many other equally marvelous things.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Is this the verray mede of your
beheste?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Our more modern
Scholiasts
are
equally acute.
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Poe - 5 |
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But the
prudence
of Gama had not
been asleep.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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should the axle crack, which bears a weight
Of huge
Ligurian
stone, and pour the freight
On the pale crowd beneath, what would remain,
What joint, what bone, what atom of the slain?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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_"
[Burns
composed
this lyric in August, 1793, and tradition says it was
produced by the charms of Jean Lorimer.
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Robert Burns |
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an
vnwar stroke
ouert{ur}ne?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Aboard at a Ship's Helm
Aboard at a ship's helm,
A young
steersman
steering with care.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Will the same style, and the direction
of genius to similar points, be
satisfactory
now?
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Whitman |
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So, when thou
Beneath
Sicanian
billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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On the Central Plain they are
fighting
now, 40 what means will we have to meet again?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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They say the
Embroidered
City is a pleasant place, but I had rather be
safe at home.
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Li Po |
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An ambassador also arrived
from the Christian Emperor of Abyssinia, and Pedro de Covillam and
Alonzo de Payva were sent by land to penetrate into the East, that they
might acquire whatever
intelligence
might facilitate the desired
navigation to India.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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I
entrusted
him to you at a tender age.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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neas joins
Pandarus
to oppose him;
Pandarus is killed, and ?
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| Question: |
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Iliad - Pope |
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the
youthful
lover slain,
Poetical enthusiast,
A friendly hand thy life hath ta'en!
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"'
INITIAL, DAEMONIC AND
CELESTIAL
LOVE
I.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
-- "Here is my honour all at sake," apart,
"Meseemeth," said Marphisa, and forewent
Her claim for Gryphon's sake, with
courteous
cheer;
And, as his gift, in fine received the gear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I will teach the
children
their behaviours; and I will
be like a jack-an-apes also, to burn the knight with my
taber.
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Shakespeare |
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He hath beene in
vnusuall
Pleasure,
And sent forth great Largesse to your Offices.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Why speaks my father so
ungently?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Shakespeare |
|
7550
And, nathelesse, he rekketh lyte;
He yeveth nat now thereof a myte;
For if he
thoughte
harm, parfay,
He wolde come and gon al day;
He coude him-selfe nat abstene.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Another part of the forest
Enter the Empress' sons,
DEMETRIUS
and CHIRON, with LAVINIA,
her hands cut off, and her tongue cut out, and ravish'd
DEMETRIUS.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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But where of ye, O
tempests!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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How doth his patient
strength
the rude March wind
Persuade to seem glad breaths of summer breeze,
And win the soil that fain would be unkind,
To swell his revenues with proud increase!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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_ You mean to
_pursue_
it, as
'Tis of our safety.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Imagists |
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Through bronzed lyre in tragic order go,
And touch the strings into a mystery;
Sound
mournfully
upon the winds and low;
For simple Isabel is soon to be
Among the dead: She withers, like a palm
Cut by an Indian for its juicy balm.
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Keats |
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Meredith - Poems |
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The Latin is seldom
intelligible
without reference to the
Chinese.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Will it please you
question
him?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Franz said it shows
Power of religion, and it does, perhaps--
Religion
or morphine or poultices--God knows.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Then said another--"Surely not in vain
My
substance
from the common Earth was ta'en,
That He who subtly wrought me into Shape
Should stamp me back to common Earth again.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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This hour shall be
A glass of wine
Poured out into the
unremembering
sea Without regret.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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f
k
AsS ye go through these palm-trees,
O
Sith
sleepeth
my child here Still ye the branches.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
It was only the
other day I heard of a Scottish farmer who
believed
that the lake in
front of his house was haunted by a water-horse.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Is wealth thy
restless
game?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
It is not so marked in the
manuscript
text.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Does his murderer make this his
sanctuary?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
unbound, unrhymed,
Whence camest thou, misplaced, mistimed,
Whence, O thou orphan and
defrauded?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
400) was a famous mountain-climber
who
invented
special mountain-climbing shoes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Trembling afar the
offending
powers appear'd,
Confused and silent, for his frown they fear'd.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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I cannot better
introduce
the few poems which I shall present for
your consideration, than by the citation of the Proem to Longfellow's
"Waif":--
The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Night,
As a feather is wafted downward
From an Eagle in his flight.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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credo, sic mater, sic Liber auunculus eius, 5
sic
maternus
auus dixerat atque auia.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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1909
Songs for the New Age The Century Company 1914
War and
Laughter
The Century Company 1915
The Book of Self Alfred A.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And who hath said
There should be
likeness
in a brother's tread
And sister's?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Who seeks for
friendship
sake
A beggar's house?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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He sits down with his holy fears,
And waters the ground with tears;
Then
Humility
takes its root
Underneath his foot.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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tenelyng
of ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Here he
provides
me with ev'rything, sees that I get what I call for;
Each day that passes he spreads freshly plucked roses for me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
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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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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--thy
priestly
raiment
Fills me with dread--thy ebony crucifix
With horror and awe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
To whom does Spenser ascribe
the invention of
artillery?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Ah, that the pure and simple never know
Aught of
themselves
and all their holy worth!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Then
methinks
I hear
Almost thy voice's sound,
Afar its echo falls,
And calmer grows my care.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
We went to the ramparts, a little natural height, and
fortified
by a
palisade.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Belinda
declares
spades trumps and so becomes the "ombre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
No
habitation
can be seen; but they
Who journey thither find themselves alone [2] 10
With a few sheep, with rocks and stones, and kites
That overhead are sailing in the sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Not
otherwise
he sacks
Those many-chambered palaces of wax.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Did the
Conquerors
heap
Their spoils here?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The other keeps his
dreadful
day-book open
Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing,
The record of the action fades away,
And leaves a line of white across the page.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
1090
And without wishing you to
increase
your pain
Reflect on my life, and think who I am, again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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IN
MEMORIAM
F.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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' who labors indefatigably,
through three octavo volumes, to accomplish the destruction of one
or two souls, while any common devil would have
demolished
one or two
thousand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
XXI
"Thine, Roman, is the pilum:
Roman, the sword is thine,
The even trench, the bristling mound,
The legion's ordered line;
And thine the wheels of triumph,
Which with their
laurelled
train
Move slowly up the shouting streets
To Jove's eternal flame.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The helmsman steered, the ship moved on;
Yet never a breeze up blew;
The
mariners
all 'gan work the ropes,
Where they were wont to do;
They raised their limbs like lifeless tools--
We were a ghastly crew.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Our Life
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
We know in pairs we will know all about us
We'll love everything our children will smile
At the dark history or mourn alone
Uninterrupted Poetry
From the sea to the source
From mountain to plain
Runs the phantom of life
The foul shadow of death
But between us
A dawn of ardent flesh is born
And exact good
that sets the earth in order
We advance with calm step
And nature salutes us
The day embodies our colours
Fire our eyes the sea our union
And all living resemble us
All the living we love
Imaginary the others
Wrong and defined by their birth
But we must struggle against them
They live by dagger blows
They speak like a broken chair
Their lips tremble with joy
At the echo of leaden bells
At the muteness of dark gold
A lone heart not a heart
A lone heart all the hearts
And the bodies every star
In a sky filled with stars
In a career in movement
Of light and of glances
Our weight shines on the earth
Glaze of desire
To sing of human shores
For you the living I love
And for all those that we love
That have no desire but to love
I'll end truly by barring the road
Afloat with enforced dreams
I'll end truly by finding myself
We'll take possession of earth
Index of First Lines
I speak to you over cities
Easy and beautiful under
Between all my torments between death and self
She is standing on my eyelids
In one corner agile incest
For the splendour of the day of happinesses in the air
After years of wisdom
Run and run towards deliverance
Life is truly kind
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
A face at the end of the day
By the road of ways
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
Adieu Tristesse
Woman I've lived with
Fertile Eyes
I said it to you for the clouds
It's the sweet law of men
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
On my notebooks from school
I have passed the doors of coldness
I am in front of this feminine land
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
From the sea to the source
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The Word
Your Orange Hair in the Void of the World
Nusch
Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
I Only Wish to Love You
The World is Blue As an Orange
We Have Created the Night
Even When We Sleep
To Marc Chagall
Air Vif
Certitude
We two
'At Dawn I Love You'
'She Looks Into Me.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
The great symbols of
Solitude
and of Death enter into the poet's work.
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Rilke - Poems |
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s
earliest
poem to Yan Wu ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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He talked of Kant and Hegel
As though he'd nursed them both through
whooping
cough
And, as he left, he let his finger shake
Too playfully, as though to say, "Now off
With that long face--you've years and years to live.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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It does not matter what he is as long as
he realises the
perfection
of the soul that is within him.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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ei ne mowen nat sone dien ne dryen as longe as hire 2732
nature may
defenden
he{m}.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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On the threshold
(Hush,
flurried
heart in me!
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Sappho |
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Whan thys man chyllde was borne,
Fayne were here frendys therforne;
Theye bare the chylde to chirche A none, 41
And
crystenyd
hyt in the Font stone.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Retaining a portion of his force, Civilis sent the veteran cohorts 33
with the most
efficient
of the German troops against Vocula and his
army.
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Tacitus |
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High on a mountain's highest ridge,
Where oft the stormy winter gale
Cuts like a scythe, while through the clouds
It sweeps from vale to vale;
Not five yards from the mountain-path,
This thorn you on your left espy;
And to the left, three yards beyond,
You see a little muddy pond
Of water, never dry;
I've
measured
it from side to side:
'Tis three feet long, and two feet wide.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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NONE FORGOES
THE LEAP,
ATTAINING
THE REPOSE.
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Sappho |
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what wounds I mark'd upon their limbs,
Recent and old,
inflicted
by the flames!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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