"
The Reviewer,[6] to whom I owe the Particulars of Omar's Life,
concludes his Review by
comparing
him with Lucretius, both as to
natural Temper and Genius, and as acted upon by the Circumstances in
which he lived.
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There is no
similar
annotation
in the Murray copy.
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Byron |
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Lord, this is
violence
.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And down this terrible aisle,
While heaven's ranges roar aghast,
Pours a vast file of strange and hidden things:
Forbidden
monsters, crocodiles with wings
And perfumed flesh that sings and glows
With more fresh colors than the rainbow knows.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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What bodes it now that forth they fare,
To men revealed
visibly?
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Euripides - Electra |
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(god)
gedēð him swā
gewealdene
worolde dǣlas, _makes the parts of the world_
(i.
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Beowulf |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Defeat, my Defeat, my
deathless
courage,
You and I shall laugh together with the storm,
And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us,
And we shall stand in the sun with a will,
And we shall be dangerous.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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" Is it not more likely an ancient Superstition; a Libation to
propitiate Earth, or make her an
Accomplice
in the illicit Revel?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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We shall
probably be nearer the truth if we suppose that Livius
represents
the
reaction against an already dominant Hellenism.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Ah, who is able fully to express
Her
pleasing
ways, her merit?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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or a
prepared
constitution?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And we, that now make merry in the Room
They left, and Summer dresses in new Bloom,
Ourselves
must we beneath the Couch of Earth
Descend, ourselves to make a Couch--for whom?
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| Question: |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Oh for the
measured
dawns
That pass with folded wings--
How can I let them go
With unremembered things?
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Sara Teasdale |
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"
Then my heart it grew ashen and sober
As the leaves that were crisped and sere--
As the leaves that were
withering
and sere--
And I cried--"It was surely October
On _this_ very night of last year,
That I journeyed--I journeyed down here!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Last night the clouds scattered away;
A
thousand
leagues, the same moonlight scene.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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'neath the threshold smoking,
Fire-breathing,
Hell is
seething!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A blare
Of squalling
trumpets
clots the air.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Seventh Self: How strange that you all would rebel against this
man, because each and every one of you has a
preordained
fate to
fulfill.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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(Your highness knows our homely word,)
Millions
for self-government,
But for tribute never a cent.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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" KAU}
As[c]ending into her cloudy misty
garments
the blue smoke rolld to revive
Her cold limbs in the absence of her Lord.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The Portuguese prince even visited the
Kingdoms
of Prester John and returned to his own country after three years and four months.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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What tithe or part
Can I return to thee,
O stricken heart,
That thou
shouldst
break for me?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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thy
glorious
parts
Ill suited law's dry, musty arts!
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Not so sicke my Lord,
As she is
troubled
with thicke-comming Fancies
That keepe her from her rest
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Pull't off I say,
What Rubarb, Cyme, or what
Purgatiue
drugge
Would scowre these English hence: hear'st y of them?
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Aricia
And how could you endure that
terrible
lies
Should darken the course of so fine a life?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Is the east
Afraid to trust the morn
With her fastidious
forehead?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I tell you spirits, to the face,
I give to spirit-tyranny no place,
My spirit cannot
exercise
it.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Though still to vulgar eyes they seem to claim
A lot conspicuous in the lists of Fame,
Transient as human joys; to feeble age
They love to linger on this earthly stage,
And think it cruel to be call'd away
On the faint morn of life's
disastrous
day.
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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When I burnt in desire to question them
further, they made
themselues
Ayre, into which they vanish'd.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Indeed, those beds and bowers
Be
overgrown
with bitter weeds and rue,
And wait thy weeding; yet here's eglantine,
Here's ivy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
"
Both
messengers
on the terrace dismount.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Duru sōna onarn
fȳr-bendum fæst,
syððan
hē hire folmum hrān;
onbræd þā bealo-hȳdig, þā hē ābolgen wæs,
725 recedes mūðan.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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they espide,
Where
stretcht
he lay upon the sunny side,?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Undue
significance
a starving man attaches
To food
Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,
And therefore good.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
"
To this, Wordsworth added, in 1836,
"The above, which was written some time ago,
scarcely
applies to the
Poem, 'Descriptive Sketches', as it now stands.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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And then her mouth, more
delicate
5
Than the frail wood-anemone,
Brushes my cheek, and deeper grow
The purple shadows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
If
Rodrigue
should emerge as victor,
If that great soldier yields to his valour,
I may esteem him, love him without shame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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But thou thyself, it seems, hast
business
with me,
And I would listen first to thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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`'Tis here, 'tis here,' and spurreth in fear
To the top of the hill that hangeth above
And
plucketh
the Prince: `Come, come, 'tis here --'
`Where?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
"
And I must borrow every changing
find
expression
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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qu'ont donc crie ces entrecotes
Ces grands pates ces os a moelle et mirotons
Langues de feu ou sont-elles mes pentecotes
Pour mes pensees de tous pays de tous les temps
CHANTRE
Et l'unique cordeau des trompettes marines
CREPUSCULE
A Mademoiselle Marie Laurencin
Frolee par les ombres des morts
Sur l'herbe ou le jour s'extenue
L'arlequine s'est mise nue
Et dans l'etang mire son corps
Un charlatan crepusculaire
Vante les tours que l'on va faire
Le ciel sans teinte est constelle
D'astres pales comme du lait
Sur les treteaux l'arlequin bleme
Salue d'abord les spectateurs
Des sorciers venus de Boheme
Quelques fees et les enchanteurs
Ayant decroche une etoile
Il la manie a bras tendu
Tandis que des pieds un pendu
Sonne en mesure les cymbales
L'aveugle berce un bel enfant
La biche passe avec ses faons
Le nain regarde d'un air triste
Grandir l'arlequin trismegiste
ANNIE
Sur la cote du Texas
Entre Mobile et Galveston il y a
Un grand jardin tout plein de roses
Il contient aussi une villa
Qui est une grande rose
Une femme se promene souvent
Dans le jardin toute seule
Et quand je passe sur la route bordee de tilleuls
Nous nous regardons
Comme cette femme est mennonite
Ses rosiers et ses vetements n'ont pas de boutons
Il en manque deux a mon veston
La dame et moi suivons presque le meme rite
LA MAISON DES MORTS
A Maurice Raynal
S'etendant sur les cotes du cimetiere
La maison des morts l'encadrait comme un cloitre
A l'interieur de ses vitrines
Pareilles a celles des boutiques de modes
Au lieu de sourire debout
Les mannequins grimacaient pour l'eternite
Arrive a Munich depuis quinze ou vingt jours
J'etais entre pour la premiere fois et par hasard
Dans ce cimetiere presque desert
Et je claquais des dents
Devant toute cette bourgeoisie
Exposee et vetue le mieux possible
En attendant la sepulture
Soudain
Rapide comme ma memoire
Les yeux ses rallumerent
De cellule vitree en cellule vitree
Le ciel se peupla d'une apocalypse
Vivace
Et la terra plate a l'infini
Comme avant Galilee
Se couvrit de mille mythologies immobiles
Un ange en diamant brisa toutes les vitrines
Et les morts m'accosterent
Avec des mines de l'autre monde
Mais leur visage et leurs attitudes
Devinrent bientot moins funebres
Le ciel et la terre perdirent
Leur aspect fantasmagorique
Les morts se rejouissaient
De voir leurs corps trepasses entre eux et la lumiere
Ils riaient de voir leur ombre et l'observaient
Comme si veritablement
C'eut ete leur vie passee
Alors je les denombrai
Ils etaient quarante-neuf hommes
Femmes et enfants
Qui embellissaient a vue d'oeil
Et me regardaient maintenant
Avec tant de cordialite
Tant de tendresse meme
Que les prenant en amitie
Tout a coup
Je les invitai a une promenade Loin des arcades de leur maison
Et tous bras dessus bras dessous
Fredonnant des airs militaires
Oui tous vos peches sont absous
Nous
quittames
le cimetiere
Nous traversames la ville
Et rencontrions souvent
Des parents des amis qui se joignaient
A la petite troupe des morts recents
Tous etaient si gais
Si charmants si bien portants
Que bien malin qui aurait pu
Distinguer les morts des vivants
Puis dans la campagne
On s'eparpilla
Deux chevau-legers nous joignirent
On leur fit fete
Ils couperent du bois de viorne
Et de sureau
Dont ils firent des sifflets
Qu'ils distribuerent aux enfants
Plus tard dans un bal champetre
Les couples mains sur les epaules
Danserent au son aigre des cithares
Ils n'avaient pas oublie la danse
Ces morts et ces mortes
On buvait aussi
Et de temps a autre une cloche
Annoncait qu'un autre tonneau
Allait etre mis en perce
Une morte assise sur un banc
Pres d'un buisson d'epine-vinette
Laissait un etudiant
Agenouille a ses pieds
Lui parler de fiancailles
Je vous attendrai
Dix ans vingt ans s'il le faut
Votre volonte sera la mienne
Je vous attendrai
Toute votre vie
Repondait la morte
Des enfants
De ce monde ou bien de l'autre
Chantaient de ces rondes
Aux paroles absurdes et lyriques
Qui sans doute sont les restes
Des plus anciens monuments poetiques
De l'humanite
L'etudiant passa une bague
A l'annulaire de la jeune morte
Voici le gage de mon amour
De nos fiancailles
Ni le temps ni l'absence
Ne nous feront oublier nos promesses
Et un jour nous auront une belle noce
Des touffes de myrte
A nos vetements et dans vos cheveux
Un beau sermon a l'eglise
De longs discours apres le banquet
Et de la musique
De la musique
Nos enfants
Dit la fiancee
Seront plus beaux plus beaux encore
Helas!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Such the fate they prove,
Who strive
presumptuous
with the sons of Jove!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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That page is now before me, and on mine
HIS country's ruin added to the mass
Of perished states he mourned in their decline,
And I in desolation: all that WAS
Of then
destruction
IS; and now, alas!
| 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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but yet thou mightst my seat forbear,
And chide thy beauty and thy straying youth,
Who lead thee in their riot even there
Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth:--
Hers by thy beauty
tempting
her to thee,
Thine by thy beauty being false to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
30
Thy years are ripe, and over-ripe, the Son
Of Macedonian Philip had e're these
Won Asia and the Throne of Cyrus held
At his dispose, young Scipio had brought down
The
Carthaginian
pride, young Pompey quell'd
The Pontic King and in triumph had rode.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
' -- quod she tho;
`But ho, for we han right y-now of this,
And late us ryse and
streight
to bedde go
And there lat ys speken of oure wo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Its claims are admitted
on the
strength
of the tradition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
The little fort of
Belogorsk
lay about forty versts[28] from Orenburg.
| 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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There seemed a cry as of men
massacred!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Let's after him,
Whose care is gone before, to bid vs welcome:
It is a
peerelesse
Kinsman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Am I
deceived
once more,
Or is this my last hope I stand before?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
too long, too long, _775
Sons of the glorious dead, have ye lain bound
In
darkness
and in ruin!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Lest there grow
From thee the
avenger?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Jarring the air with rumour cool,
Small
fountains
played into a pool
With sound as soft as the barley's hiss
When its beard just sprouting is;
Whence a young stream, that trod on moss,
Prettily rimpled the court across.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
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| Question: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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[One Barclay, a dissenting clergyman in Edinburgh, wrote a rhyming
dialogue between two rustics, on the battle of Sheriff-muir: Burns was
in nowise pleased with the way in which the reverend rhymer handled
the Highland clans, and wrote this modified and
improved
version.
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Robert Forst |
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providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for
generations
on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
The proper way to read the verses is to make an immense
emphasis
on the
monosyllabic rhymes, which indeed ought to be shouted out by a chorus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
zip *******
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
]
Did he
diskiver
it?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
5
an, continenter quod sedetis insulsi
centum an ducenti, non putatis ausurum
me una ducentos
irrumare
sessores?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Among savage nations [a]
language
is never copious.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Pensa, lettor, se quel che qui s'inizia
non procedesse, come tu avresti
di piu savere
angosciosa
carizia;
e per te vederai come da questi
m'era in disio d'udir lor condizioni,
si come a li occhi mi fur manifesti.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Love
conquers
all things; yield we too to love!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
THE LETTER
Little cramped words
scrawling
all over the paper
Like draggled fly's legs,
What can you tell of the flaring moon
Through the oak leaves?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers, pleasant in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit -
somewhat
deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
in tyme it is p{re}sent {and}
p{ro}cedi?
| Guess: |
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She's gone into the West,
To dazzle when the sun is down,
And rob the world of rest;
She took our
daylight
with her,
The smiles that we love best,
With morning blushes on her cheek,
And pearls upon her breast.
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Poe - 5 |
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So do thou, fair ship, that ow'st
Virgil, thy
precious
freight, to Attic coast,
Safe restore thy loan and whole,
And save from death the partner of my soul!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But when the fog cleared off, they justify the same, and thus make
themselves
accomplices
in the crime.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Conversing with the visions of Beulah in dark slumberous bliss *
Nine years they view the turning spheres of Beulah reading the Visions of Beulah
Night the Second {inserted above the following lines LFS}
But the two
youthful
wonders wanderd in the world of Tharmas *
Thy name is Enitharmon; said the bright fierce prophetic boy *
[While they.
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Blake - Zoas |
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190
Whose honours with increase of ages grow,
As streams roll down,
enlarging
as they flow;
Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound,
And worlds applaud that must not yet be found!
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Alexander Pope |
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we for Helen's sake
Have num'rous died, and
Clytemnestra
framed,
While thou wast far remote, this snare for thee!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Bacchus I saw in
mountain
glades
Retired (believe it, after years!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Next, Leda, wife of
Tyndarus
I saw, 360
Who bore to Tyndarus a noble pair,
Castor the bold, and Pollux cestus-famed.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
"The Lord be with thee, O my
daughter!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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'Ye drew one mother's milk,
One chamber held ye all;
A very tender history
Did in your
childhood
fall.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Achilles
starting, as the chiefs he spied,
Leap'd from his seat, and laid the harp aside.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I could lend you some of mine--a neat,
clean suit, which I wore at the wedding of my gracious lord the Count
Palatine, when your bishop got so vexed with me, because I made him
shake hands with me, unknown, after having taken two of his ships a
fortnight
before on the Main.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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THE
AMERICAN
PEOPLE:
What guff are you giving us, Captain?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Creating the works from print editions not
protected
by U.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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XLIV
Without encountering aught that might appear
Worthy of note, they wended many a day;
And finally the twain a cavalier,
As prisoner led,
encountered
by the way.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Happy art thou, Vashti, to have wedded
One who so dearly rates
possession
of thee.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ARE MADE TO YOU AS
TO THE ETEXT OR ANY MEDIUM IT MAY BE ON, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY
OR FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime
too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Euery man had there plente
Of claret wyne and pymente; 72
There was many a riche wyne,
In sylluer and in golde fyne;
Many a coppe and many a pece,
with wyne wernage & eke of grece;
Page 28
And many A noder ryche vessell
with wyne of
gascoyne
and of rochell.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And
wherefore
ride ye in such guise
Before the ranks of Rome?
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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once more, my
friends!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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_Market Day_
With arms and legs at work and gentle stroke
That urges switching tail nor mends his pace,
On an old ribbed and weather beaten horse,
The farmer goes
jogtrotting
to the fair.
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John Clare |
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(Alcools: Le Pont Mirabeau)
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
And our amours
Shall I remember it again
Joy always followed after Pain
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Hand in hand rest face to face
While underneath
The bridge of our arms there races
So weary a wave of eternal gazes
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Love vanishes like the water's flow
Love vanishes
How life is slow
And how Hope lives blow by blow
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Let the hour pass the day the same
Time past returns
Nor love again
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Twilight
(Alcools: Crepuscule)
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
On the grass where day expires
Columbine strips bare admires
her body in the pond instead
A charlatan of twilight formed
Boasts of the tricks to be performed
The sky without a stain unmarred
Is studded with the milk-white stars
From the boards pale Harlequin
First salutes the spectators
Sorcerers from Bohemia
Fairies sundry enchanters
Having unhooked a star
He proffers it with outstretched hand
While with his feet a hanging man
Sounds the cymbals bar by bar
The blind man rocks a pretty child
The doe with all her fauns slips by
The dwarf observes with saddened pose
How Harlequin magically grows
Clotilde
(Alcools: Clotilde)
The anemone and flower that weeps
have grown in the garden plain
where
Melancholy
sleeps
between Amor and Disdain
There our shadows linger too
that the midnight will disperse
the sun that makes them dark to view
will with them in dark immerse
The deities of living dew
Let their hair flow down entire
It must be that you pursue
That lovely shadow you desire
The White Snow
(Alcools: La blanche neige)
The angels the angels in the sky
One's dressed as an officer
One's dressed as a chef today
And the others sing
Fine sky-coloured officer
Sweet Spring when Christmas is long gone
Will deck you with a lovely sun
A lovely sun
The chef plucks geese
Ah!
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Appoloinaire |
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Meantime
I will keep watch on thy bright sun,
And of thy seasons be a careful nurse.
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Keats |
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ra
On barren days,
At hours when I, apart, have
Bent low in thought of the great charm thou hast, Behold with music's many
stringed
charms
The silence groweth thou.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Dazed,
obsessed
by a deadly memory,
I'd banish myself from this world completely.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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