'465 Zoilus':
a Greek critic who
attacked
Homer.
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Alexander Pope |
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Dance, dance, to
celebrate
our bliss, and
let us be heedful to avoid like mistakes for the future.
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Aristophanes |
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I shall
furthermore
say that he is a raving madman.
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Aristophanes |
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That all the tributes
of her contemporaries show reverence not less for her personality than for
her genius is
sufficient
answer to the calumnies with which the ribald
jesters of that later period, the corrupt and shameless writers of Athenian
comedy, strove to defile her fame.
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Sappho |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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For we always desire Nuance,
Not Colour, nuance
evermore!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Since I have touched my lips to your brimming cup,
Since I have bowed my pale brow in your hands,
Since I have
sometime
breathed the sweet breath
Of your soul, a perfume buried in shadow lands;
Since it was granted to me to hear you utter
Words in which the mysterious heart sighs,
Since I have seen smiles, since I have seen tears
Your mouth on my mouth, your eyes on my eyes;
Since I have seen over my enraptured head
A light from your star shine, ah, ever veiled!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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So how should I
presume?
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T.S. Eliot |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine Elizabethan
translation
which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Then, when so
completely
dressed,
Back they flew, and reached their nest.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Note: The last two lines remain perplexing, but suggest that
Guillaume
was inviting a similarly ironic song, a counter or duplicate, in reply.
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Troubador Verse |
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Narcissus
fell in love with his own reflection.
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Ronsard |
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In the
comprehending
way of
Caligula, I wish they all had but one neck.
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Robert Burns |
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To that illustrious port we came, by rocks
Uninterrupted flank'd on either side
Of tow'ring height, while
prominent
the shores
And bold, converging at the haven's mouth 110
Leave narrow pass.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And the Lord _did_ aid these men, and they labored day and
even,
Saving Kansas from its peril; and their very lives seemed
charmed,
Till the ruffians killed one son, in the blessed light of
Heaven,--
In cold blood the fellows slew him, as he journeyed all unarmed;
Then Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
Shed not a tear, but shut his teeth, and frowned a terrible
frown!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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& not
As
Garments
woven subservient to her hands but having a will
Of its own perverse & wayward Enion lovd & wept*
{written vertically up the right margin LFS}
Nine days she labourd at her work.
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Blake - Zoas |
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within our annals past, those hours
That burned as wounds, now fade in silent breath,
For all the things we ever
christened
flowers
Regather round the well of Death.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Conqueror
and Captive of the Earth art thou!
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Byron |
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Meredith - Poems |
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DEATH BY WATER
Phlebas the Phoenician, a
fortnight
dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The old empty dreams
Where my
thoughts
would throng
Are far too full of happiness
To even hold a song.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Fit
retribution!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Phaedra
Noble, glittering creator of a sad family,
You, whose daughter my mother dared claim to be, 170
Who blush perhaps on viewing my
troubled
mind,
Oh Sun, I come to look on you for one last time.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Drive my dead
thoughts
over the universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!
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Shelley |
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The
shutters
were drawn and the undertaker wiped his feet--
He was aware that this sort of thing had occurred before.
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T.S. Eliot |
|
183
Yet these he
promises
as soon as clean :
But how I loathed to see my neighbour glean
Those papers, which he peeled from within
Like white flakes rising from a leper's skin !
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Marvell - Poems |
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Then Aegle, fairest of the Naiad-band,
Aegle came up to the half-frightened boys,
Came, and, as now with open eyes he lay,
With juice of blood-red
mulberries
smeared him o'er,
Both brow and temples.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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'Illud enim quo
primo aliquid operatur, est forma eius cui operatio
attribuitur
.
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John Donne |
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A king, whose
prudence
has finer objects,
Takes care to save the blood of his subjects.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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My mother taught me underneath a tree,
And, sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And,
pointing
to the East, began to say:
'Look on the rising sun: there God does live,
And gives His light, and gives His heat away,
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I have not
followed
original spacing exactly, except where it genuinely appears to add impact to the verse.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Who neither heard nor saw--no more
Than if he had been deaf and blind,
Till,
startled
by the Sailor's roar, 1819.
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| Question: |
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William Wordsworth |
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XXXI
His heart with love of that rare beauty glowed,
And to his frozen marrow pierced the heat;
Who, after, when he saw that she bestowed
Small care on him, and thought but of retreat,
His
sluggish
courser stung with many a goad;
But with no better speed he plied his feet.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Diegue
The king, if so,
measures
it by my courage.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Hippolytus
You always speak of incest and
adultery!
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| Question: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Nothing, sweet boy; but yet, like prayers divine,
I must each day say o'er the very same;
Counting
no old thing old, thou mine, I thine,
Even as when first I hallow'd thy fair name.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Who
alterest
all things with thy peering eyes.
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Poe - 5 |
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These things he admires on the shield of Vulcan, his mother's gift, and
rejoicing in the
portraiture
of unknown history, lifts on his shoulder
the destined glories of his children.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Now, every careful student of
the versification of Faust must feel and see that Goethe did not
intersperse the one kind of rhyme with the other, at random, as those
translators do; who, also, give the female rhyme (on which the
vivacity
of
dialogue and description often so much depends,) in so small a proportion.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Keats |
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Yea, hung like the front of pestilent winds, thunderous dark before
The way into the heathen heavens, terrible curtains pour,
Webs of black
imagination
and woven frenzy of sin;
And yet we know power on earth belongs to those within.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
|
--
Look at the air above thee; is there sign
Of mercy in that naked
splendour
of fire?
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The Beaver's best course was, no doubt, to procure
A second-hand dagger-proof coat--
So the Baker advised it--and next, to insure
Its life in some Office of note:
This the Banker suggested, and offered for hire
(On
moderate
terms), or for sale,
Two excellent Policies, one Against Fire,
And one Against Damage From Hail.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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And if I were to die, it seemed sweeter
To give my life
fighting
in your honour.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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At the first interview,
Monzaida
gave Gama the fullest information of
the climate, extent, customs, religion, and riches of India, the
commerce of the Arabs, and the character of the sovereign.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Lalage
continues
to read.
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Not tears for the dead nor sighs,
But worship and joy divine
Shall win thee peace in thy skies,
O
daughter
mine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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And when Sumter sinks at last
From the heavens, that shrink aghast,
Hell shall rise in grim
derision
and make room!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Bathed are knees, paunch, and croup, till of that horse
Scarcely
the head above the wave is seen:
Let him not hope to measure back his course,
While smitten with the whip his ears between.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Dawn now breaks;
sunlight
rakes the swollen seas;
Now, alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
An Alfred awoke them in England, a
Chaucer, a Caxton would not let them die; an
Elizabeth
revived them
among the glorious music of her reign.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
XLII
O heart of
insatiable
longing,
What spell, what enchantment allures thee
Over the rim of the world
With the sails of the sea-going ships?
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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I blush my
rudeness
to confess,
And answer all he says with yes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
This is clear--
you fell on the
downward
slope,
you dragged a bruised thigh--you limped--
you clutched this larch.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
e folk of Rome were,
godus seruise forte here,
&
biddynge
of holy bede,
Page 57
348
And seide ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks,
Safest and
seemliest
by her husband stays
Who guards her, or the worst with her endures.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Chimene
To
preserve
my honour and end my woe,
Pursue him, see him slain, and die also.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
HOUSE OF VISHNEVETSKY
The
PRETENDER
and a CATHOLIC PRIEST
PRETENDER.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word
processing
or hypertext form.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Infanta
My
sweetest
hope's to lose all hope, I fear.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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PROMETHEUS
O
enviable
thou, and unaccused--
Thou who wast art and part in all I dared!
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Aeschylus |
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The floor of his
chamber was covered with written papers, which he had torn into small
pieces; but there was no
appearance
(as the Editor has been credibly
informed) of any writings on parchment or vellum.
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| Question: |
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
The mair they squeel aye chap the thicker;
And still 'mang hands a hearty bicker
O'
something
stout;
It gars an owthor's pulse beat quicker,
And helps his wit.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Better far to bear the future, my Leuconoe, like the past,
Whether Jove has many winters yet to give, or this our last;
THIS, that makes the Tyrrhene billows spend their
strength
against
the shore.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my
comrades
four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my companions was a bent bow;
My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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since thou washest me
Clear of that guilt wherein I now must fall,
Large promise with
performance
scant, be sure,
Shall make thee triumph in thy lofty seat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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e walle wyn we3ed to hem oft,
1404 & efte in her
bourdyng
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Over the city bridge Night comes majestical,
Borne like a queen to a
sumptuous
festival.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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But when thy glance rests on me then my whole
Being
quickens
and blooms like trees in May.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Yeats' free
adaptation
is the well-known poem 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep' (In 'The Rose').
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Biron was a friend of Henri IV,
Lusignan
a famous family, both associated with the Valois.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
'
The goddess fled away on her golden shell,
Her adored image
returning
to us on the swell,
And the sky shone beneath the scarf of Iris.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
He would soon catch
abundance
of
oysters, nor would the storms frighten him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
_ Will you not haste, then, to put the bonds about him,
That the Father may not observe you
loitering?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
For
somewhere
in that sacred island dwelt
A nymph, to whom all hoofed Satyrs knelt;
At whose white feet the languid Tritons poured
Pearls, while on land they wither'd and adored.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
LXII
Ran all the people in
tumultuous
tide,
To see him drag the unmeasured wight along.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
[292] No doubt another Athenian diviner, and
possibly
the same person
whom Aristophanes names in 'The Knights' and 'The Wasps' as being a
thief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
During more than a century after the institution of the
Tribuneship, the Commons struggled manfully for the removal of
the grievances under which they labored; and, in spite of many
checks and reverses,
succeeded
in wringing concession after
concession from the stubborn aristocracy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
'And now beside thee,
bleating
lamb,
I can lie down and sleep,
Or think on Him who bore thy name,
Graze after thee, and weep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Scorn & Indignation rose upon Enitharmon
Then Enitharmon reddning fierce
stretchd
her immortal hands *
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
But there were those amongst us all
Who walked with
downcast
head,
And knew that, had each got his due,
They should have died instead:
He had but killed a thing that lived,
Whilst they had killed the dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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* * * * *
And thou, sea-born Aphrodite, 25
In whose beneficent keeping
Earth, with her
infinite
beauty,
Colour and fashion and fragrance,
Glows like a flower with fervour
Where woods are vernal!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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All his ideas merged into a single
one: how to turn to
advantage
the secret paid for so dearly.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The birds' sweet wail, their
renovated
song,
At break of morn, make all the vales resound;
With lapse of crystal waters pouring round,
In clear, swift runnels, the fresh shores among.
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Petrarch |
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The third bark held aloof
From the Monster with the hoof,
Despite his urgent beck,
And fraught with guile
Abominable
his smile;
Till I saw him take a flying leap on to that deck.
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Christina Rossetti |
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And the living sigh:
Forgotten ones, so soon your
memories
die.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Though the fields around us wither,
There are ampler realms and spaces,
Where no foot has left its traces:
Let us turn and wander
thither!
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Longfellow |
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Note: The last line is quoted by Eliot, in French, in The Wasteland (with
reference
to the Fisher King) as is the second line of De Nerval's El Desdichado.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Her body was a thing grown thin,
Hungry for love that never came;
Her soul was frozen in the dark
Unwarmed
forever by love's flame.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Pope uses it here
for some conceited dramatist who thinks none the less of himself because
his tragedy is
rejected
with shouts of laughter.
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Alexander Pope |
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How I heard you flap and rustle, cloth
defiant!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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On dirait qu'ils
penetrent
le verre.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Full swells the deep pure fountain of young life,
Where ON the heart and FROM the heart we took
Our first and
sweetest
nurture, when the wife,
Blest into mother, in the innocent look,
Or even the piping cry of lips that brook
No pain and small suspense, a joy perceives
Man knows not, when from out its cradled nook
She sees her little bud put forth its leaves--
What may the fruit be yet?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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