"
"And you did not
consent?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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quis huic deo
Conpararier
ausit?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The Huns have no trade but battle and carnage;
They have no
pastures
or ploughlands,
But only wastes where white bones lie among yellow sands.
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Li Po |
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When death my heart, now
conscience
struck, shall seize:
Commend me, Virgin!
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Petrarch |
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Victory, Maids of Argos,
Victory!
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Euripides - Electra |
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"
The
Countess
looked at him in silence, seemingly without comprehending
him.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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ADMETUS (_almost
breaking
down_).
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Tacitus |
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Shall
conquests
act, you present are unsung.
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Marvell - Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I feel my heart to thee
entirely
given!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And to think that I did not even bring my
travelling
cap!
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Aristophanes |
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) will,
_no doubt, have to
struggle
with feelings of awkwardness; (ha!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Thou canst not choose but think, as I praise God,
Unwillingly but fully, that I stand
Most
absolute
in beauty.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
IV
Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,
Most
gracious
singer of high poems!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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But,
regardless
of your previous ruling,
Can you endure to see such a wedding?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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251
Its Steady basis never could be shook,
When wiser men her ruin undertook ;
And can her
guardian
angel let her stoop
At last to madmen, fools, and to the Pope ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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What coral, what lilies, and what roses,
In seeming, my open hand discloses,
Now, with twin
caresses
stroking her.
| Guess: |
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Ronsard |
|
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Chisel, file, and ream
That you may lock
Vague dream
In the
resistant
block!
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| Question: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Stephen Crane |
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They called me once, _The
prophetess
of lies,
The wandering hag, the pest of every door--_
Attest ye now, She knows in very sooth
_The house's curse, the storied infamy.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
XXXI
A case, so strange and wondrous, marvel sore
In
friendly
Malagigi's bosom bred:
The wizard knew, a hundred times and more,
He might have had the damsel in his bed;
And he himself, to move the knight or yore,
In her behalf, enough had done and said:
Had him by prayer and menace sought to bend,
Yet ne'er was able to obtain his end;
XXXII
And so much more, that out of prison ward
He then would Malagigi so have brought.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays they ate salted cod, and
sometimes green, for dinner, with butter; and
porpoise
and beans for
supper.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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My soul, which bears but ill such
dazzling
light,
Says with a sigh: "O blessed day!
| Guess: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I wish he'd sent me
something
else,
I like his cough-drops twice as much.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Though I shall never pretend to be the
translator
of Petrarch, I recoil
not, after writing his Life, from giving a sincere account of the
impression which his poetry produces on my mind.
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Petrarch |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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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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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Hubur,
mythical
river, 197, 42.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"Well met," I thought the look would say,
"We both were
fashioned
far away;
We neither knew, when we were young,
These Londoners we live among.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Cease that proud temper: Venus loves it not:
The rope may break, the wheel may backward turn:
Begetting
you, no Tuscan sire begot
Penelope the stern.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
'
To that Cryseyde answerde right anoon,
And with a syk she seyde, `O herte dere,
The game, y-wis, so ferforth now is goon,
That first shal Phebus falle fro his spere, 1495
And every egle been the dowves fere,
And every roche out of his place sterte,
Er Troilus out of
Criseydes
herte!
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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word-hord on-lēac (_opened the
word-hoard,
treasure
of speech_), 259.
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Beowulf |
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"
He leaned into the darkness, watching the greater
darkness
of London
below him.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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He did: and with an absolute Sir, not I
The clowdy
Messenger
turnes me his backe,
And hums; as who should say, you'l rue the time
That clogges me with this Answer
Lenox.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Ritson supposes it to be Caer-went, in Monmouthshire,
and
afterwards
confounded with Caer-wynt, or Winchester.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But, when he had refused the
proffered
gold,
To cruel injuries he became a prey,
Sore traversed in whate'er he bought and sold:
His troubles grew upon him day by day,
Till all his substance fell into decay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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Ronsard |
|
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Li Bai - Chinese |
|
But I know
something
else I want to tell you.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Straight
into the snare!
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Euripides - Electra |
|
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Metaphor
and Simile in the Minor
Elizabethan Drama.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Will he return when the Winter
Huddles the sheep, and Orion
Goes to his
hunting?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
II
No wind fanned the flats of the ocean,
Or promontory sides,
Or the ooze by the strand,
Or the bent-bearded slope of the land,
Whose base took its rest amid
everlong
motion
Of criss-crossing tides.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
It is a land of
poverty!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Grudgings
turns bread to stones, when to the poor, 395.
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Robert Herrick |
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Get thee forth, Old Man, and quick
Tell
Clytemnestra
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Although the cheating
merchants
of the mart
With iron roads profane our lovely isle,
And break on whirling wheels the limbs of Art,
Ay!
| Guess: |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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]
[51] [_Illusion, or the Trances of Nourjahad_, a
melodrama
founded on
_The History of Nourjahad_, By the Editor of Sidney Bidulph (Mrs.
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Byron |
|
"What are you
thinking
of?
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The stars seem purer the shade is more delightful;
A hazy half-light colours the dome on high;
And dawn, pale and tender,
awaiting
her moment,
Seems to wander about all night in the deeps of the sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
XII
When I watch the living meet,
And the moving pageant file
Warm and
breathing
through the street
Where I lodge a little while,
If the heats of hate and lust
In the house of flesh are strong,
Let me mind the house of dust
Where my sojourn shall be long.
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The humblest of thy
pilgrims
passing by
Would gladly woo thine echoes with his string,
Though from thy heights no more one muse will wave her wing.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Now I feel it; naught can give us peace
Mid worldly cares, nothing save only
conscience!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Chimene
Still you speak, what more,
Vile
murderer
of that hero I adore!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Why laugh'st thou not
thereat?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
This was the manner in which Vaudracour 265
Departed
with his infant; and thus reached
His father's house, where to the innocent child
Admittance was denied.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Is only matter
triumphant?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Unauthenticated
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Du Fu - 5 |
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They would not
pretend that they were the only painters worthy of a public showing;
they would maintain that their work was,
generally
speaking, most
interesting to one another.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Since, indeed,
Though she thou lovest now be far away,
Yet idol-images of her are near
And the sweet name is
floating
in thy ear.
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Lucretius |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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ORESTES
O father, murdered in
unkingly
wise,
Fulfil my prayer, grant me thine halls to sway.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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If it be thy
pleasure
let us rather cast
a lot.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
`And if that at myn owene lust I brenne,
Fro whennes cometh my wailing and my
pleynte?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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And since till girls go maying
You find the
primrose
still,
And find the windflower playing
With every wind at will,
But not the daffodil,
Bring baskets now, and sally
Upon the spring's array,
And bear from hill and valley
The daffodil away
That dies on Easter day.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
_)
The Occident and the Orient,
posterior and posterior,
sitting tight, holding fast
the culture dumped by them
on to primitive America,
Atlantic
to Pacific,
were monumental colophons
a disorderly country fellow,
vulgar Long Islander.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Now,
Come tell me, son of hell, I pray thee,
If that spell-binds thee, then how
enteredst
thou?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Out of my dark hours wisdom dawns apace,
Infinite Life unrolls its
boundless
space .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be
savagely
still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
The little, old man was looking
curiously
at me with his one eye.
| 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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PROPOSED FOR A SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS'
MONUMENT
IN BOSTON
To those who died for her on land and sea,
That she might have a country great and free,
Boston builds this: build ye her monument
In lives like theirs, at duty's summons spent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
I'll be under the earth, a
boneless
phantom,
At rest in the myrtle groves of the dark kingdom:
You'll be an old woman hunched over the fire,
Regretting my love for you, your fierce disdain,
So live, believe me: don't wait for another day,
Gather them now the roses of life, and desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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-
Das
schonste
Bild von einem Weibe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
He fell in love with the
celebrated
Madame Sabatier, a reigning beauty,
at whose salon artistic Paris assembled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Nelehorpe
; but the
surplus of it exceeding much the expense I have
been at on this occasion, I desire you to make
use of it, and of me, upon any other opportu-
nity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
_Insects_
These tiny loiterers on the barley's beard,
And happy units of a numerous herd
Of playfellows, the laughing Summer brings,
Mocking the sunshine in their
glittering
wings,
How merrily they creep, and run, and fly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Here is a miracle, only
believe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
There's
somebody
weary wi' lying her lane;
There's somebody weary wi' lying her lane;
There's some that are dowie, I trow would be fain
To see the bit tailor come skippin' again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Had
Coriolanus
not been
a law-breaker neither he nor we had ever discovered, it may be, that
noble pride of his, and if we had not seen Cleopatra through the eyes
of so many lovers, would we have known that soul of hers to be all
flame, and wept at the quenching of it?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Rejoice, and be
exceeding
glad, for great
Is your reward in heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Happiness
"O, Happiness, thou fickle maid, gay
farewell
to thee—"
But Happiness, that fickle maid, Came smiling back to me
Dreamt
dreamt that thou didst come
When was dead and lay pale violets About my head; —
And on my folded hands,
Where once did live
Thy kiss, — felt thy tears
And heard, "Forgive!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
But when in his immortal mind he felt
His altering form and
soldered
limbs to melt,
Down on the deck he laid himself, and died,
With his dear sword reposing by his side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
We are many and strong
Whom thou standest among,--
And we press on the air,
And we stifle thee back,
And we
multiply
where
Thou wouldst trample us down
From rights of our own
To an utter wrong--
And, from under the feet of thy scorn,
O forlorn,
We shall spring up like corn,
And our stubble be strong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
THE same in other words, I've often said;
'Tis right, at times,
disguise
with care to spread.
| Guess: |
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La Fontaine |
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They
grumbled
aloud, and Iwan Ignatiitch, who
executed the Commandant's orders, heard them with his own ears say
pretty clearly--
"Only wait a bit, you garrison rat!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And yet, as poor as I
Have
ventured
all upon a throw;
Have gained!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Here he has
returned
to Chang?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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what docs it boot
To build below the grass's root ;
When lowness is unsafe as height^
And chance
overtakes
Avhat 'scapeth spite ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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And the
miserable
self-blinded old man
could not see it!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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A great
deal of his third book is a real
contribution
to the main process, to
epic content as well as to epic manner.
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