"They charged, they struck; both fell, both bled;
Brain rose again, ungloved;
Heart
fainting
smiled, and softly said,
`My love to my Beloved.
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Sidney Lanier |
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"
"Tears may be ours, but proud, for those who win
Death's royal purple in the foeman's lines;
Peace, too, brings tears; and 'mid the battle-din,
The wiser ear some text of God divines,
For the
sheathed
blade may rust with darker sin.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Thy folly's past advice,
Thy heart's already won,
Thy fall's above all price,
So go, and be undone;
For all who thus prefer
The seeming great for small
Shall make wine vinegar,
And
sweetest
honey gall.
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John Clare |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the secretaries of
Cardinal
Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Look where a three-point star shall weave his beam
Into the slumb'rous tissue of some stream,
Till his bright self o'er his bright copy seem
Fulfillment
dropping
on a come-true dream;
So in this night of art thy soul doth show
Her excellent double in the steadfast flow
Of wishing love that through men's hearts doth go:
At once thou shin'st above and shin'st below.
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Sidney Lanier |
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A puddle far across
the mud caught the last rays of the sun and turned into a
wrathful
red
disc.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Public and private life are
different
things.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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" KAU}
And she drave all the Females from him away
{Alternate
reading of "drove" for "drave.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Or else he sat with those who watched
His anguish night and day;
Who watched him when he rose to weep,
And when he
crouched
to pray;
Who watched him lest himself should rob
Their scaffold of its prey.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Vers la chandelle, aux trous du toit, coulait l'air blanc
Et quelque vigne folle aux
noirceurs
purpurines
En deca d'une cour voisine s'ecroulant.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Kynge Haroldes knyghts desir'de for hendie stroke, 95
And marched furious o'er the bloudie pleyne,
In bodie close, and made the pleyne to smoke;
Theire sheelds
rebounded
arrowes back agayne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Paul's Church the 30th day of May, 1630, to give praise for
the birth of his son,
attended
with all his Peers and a most royal
Train, where a bright star appeared at High Noon in the sight of all.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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XERXES
Smite, smite thy bosom, groan aloud for my
calamity!
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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"[360]
He now the treason of the foe relates,
How, soon as past the mountain's upland straits,
They chang'd the colour of their
friendly
show,
And force forbade his steps to tread below:
How, down the coverts of the steepy brake
Their lurking stand a treach'rous ambush take;
On us, when speeding to defend his flight,
To rush, and plunge us in the shades of night;
Nor, while in friendship, would their lips unfold
Where India's ocean laved the orient shores of gold.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Waldo
Slantwise, with head on
outstretched
arm, He huddles, silent, unaware —
A lonely man, a homeless man,
Uncared for, and he does not care.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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'Twas sunset: when the sun will part
There comes a
sullenness
of heart
To him who still would look upon
The glory of the summer sun.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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When thou
reviewest
this, thou dost review
The very part was consecrate to thee:
The earth can have but earth, which is his due;
My spirit is thine, the better part of me:
So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life,
The prey of worms, my body being dead;
The coward conquest of a wretch's knife,
Too base of thee to be remembered.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Any
alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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On her return from the drive, she
hastened
to her chamber to
read the missive, in a state of excitement mingled with fear.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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' And I have found it in the
prophetic
books of William Blake, who
calls its images 'the bright sculptures of Los's Halls'; and says that
all events, 'all love stories,' renew themselves from those images.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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"I have burdened you with orphan children,
With orphan
children
two or three.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And
he showed me above the altar an
inscription
graven, and I read:
"If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee;
for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish,
and not that the whole body should be cast into hell.
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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_Hech_, oh
strange!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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The
mountain
sat upon the plain
In his eternal chair,
His observation omnifold,
His inquest everywhere.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Die without
satisfaction!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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When the living leave us, moved, I gaze,
For to enter death, is
entering
the temple;
And when a man dies, and goes his way,
I see my own ascent, clear, like crystal.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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]
[88] {208}[For the
contention
that "the snake was the snake"--no more
(_vide post_, p.
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Byron |
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Will you kill the
courageous
giant?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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While he, the man of the steerage, goes down, down,
Feet foremost, sliding swiftly down the dim water,
Swift to escape
Those
plunging
shapes with pale, empurpled bellies
That swirl and veer about him.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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" Thus she said: "But take,"
She added, "if thou wish thy cure, my words,
And
entertain
them subtly.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Or with gladness are they full,
For the night so beautiful,
And longing for those far-off
spheres?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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On the threshold
(Hush,
flurried
heart in me!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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the very prison walls
Suddenly
seemed to reel,
And the sky above my head became
Like a casque of scorching steel;
And, though I was a soul in pain,
My pain I could not feel.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Yet there are who prove
themselves masters of her, and
absolute
lords; but I believe they may
mistake their evidence: for it is one thing to be eloquent in the
schools, or in the hall; another at the bar, or in the pulpit.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The wet clouds to
Northward
beat;
And Lord Ammon's desert seat
Crieth from the South, unslaken,
For the dews that once were sweet,
For the rain that God hath taken.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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All on this side the palace ran the field
Flat to the garden-wall: and likewise here,
Above the garden's glowing blossom-belts,
A
columned
entry shone and marble stairs,
And great bronze valves, embossed with Tomyris
And what she did to Cyrus after fight,
But now fast barred: so here upon the flat
All that long morn the lists were hammered up,
And all that morn the heralds to and fro,
With message and defiance, went and came;
Last, Ida's answer, in a royal hand,
But shaken here and there, and rolling words
Oration-like.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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She had
wandered
long,
Hearing wild birds' song.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Hence, when Audoin, after overcoming the Gepidae, was requested by the
Lombards
to dine with his son Alboin, his partner in the victory, he refused; for, says he, "you know it is not customary with us for a king's son to dine with his father, until he has received arms from the king of another country.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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To whom the
venerable
matron thus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Thine was the sword that Drusus drew,
When on the Breunian hordes he fell,
And storm'd the fierce
Genaunian
crew
E'en in their Alpine citadel,
And paid them back their debt twice told;
'Twas then the elder Nero came
To conflict, and in ruin roll'd
Stout Raetian kernes of giant frame.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"So intimate, this Chopin, that I think his soul
Should be resurrected only among friends
Some two or three, who will not touch the bloom
That is rubbed and
questioned
in the concert room.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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A distinguished Scandinavian
writer has
pronounced
_Das Stunden-Buch_ one of the supreme literary
achievements of our time and its deepest and most beautiful book of
prayer.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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_Longum iter per praecepta, breve et
efficace
per
exempla_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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If thought is life
And
strength
and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and
reported
to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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- What have you done, O you there
Who
endlessly
cry,
Say: what have you done, there
With youth gone by?
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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XIX
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
All imperfection born beneath the skies,
All that regales our spirits and our eyes,
And all those things that devour our pleasures:
All those ills that strip our age of treasures,
All the good the centuries might devise,
Rome in
ancestral
times secured as prize,
Like Pandora's box, enclosed the measure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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V
_Listen now to what is said
By the eighth opal,
flashing
red
And pale, by turns, with every breath--
The voice of the lover after death.
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I think it did: you had much leisure there,
And, with the things we knew, came quietly flying
Memories
of things you had seen we knew not where.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The
disharmony
of brain and body, the spiritual bilocation, are only too
easy to diagnose; but the remedy?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I never saw sad men who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
We
prisoners
called the sky,
And at every careless cloud that passed
In happy freedom by.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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]
ATALANTA IN CAMDEN-TOWN
Ay, 'twas here, on this spot,
In that summer of yore,
Atalanta did not
Vote my
presence
a bore,
Nor reply to my tenderest talk "She had
heard all that nonsense before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Hier ist ein
Flaschchen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime;
So thou through windows of thine age shalt see,
Despite of
wrinkles
this thy golden time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Oft-times upon the sudden she laugh'd out,
And from a basket emptied to the rout
Clusters
of grapes, the which they raven'd quick
And roar'd for more; with many a hungry lick
About their shaggy jaws.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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"
Meanwhile at many cradles
Her busy foot she plied,
Humming the
quaintest
lullaby
That ever rocked a child.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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That use is not forbidden usury,
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thy self to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;
Ten times thy self were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee:
Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart,
Leaving thee living in
posterity?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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By the power in me of the sovran soul
Whose
thoughts
keep pace yet with the angel's march,
I charge you into silence--trample you
Down to obedience.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
His head was shaven, and his beard
consisted
of a few
grey hairs.
| 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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With spoils enrich'd, with
glorious
trophies[216] crown'd,
The Heaven-made sov'reign on the battle ground
Three days encamp'd, to rest his weary train,
Whose dauntless valour drove the Moors from Spain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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But the mother needs to be better,
She with thin form presently drest in black,
By day her meals untouch'd, then at night fitfully sleeping, often waking,
In the midnight waking, weeping, longing with one deep longing,
O that she might
withdraw
unnoticed, silent from life escape and withdraw,
To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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E poi che i due
rabbiosi
fuor passati
sovra cu' io avea l'occhio tenuto,
rivolsilo a guardar li altri mal nati.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Raised high above the hayseed world
He smokes his painted pipe,
And now surveys the orchard ways,
The damsons
clustering
ripe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"I know the one thing noble is a grief
Withstanding earth's and hell's destructive tooth,
And I, through all my
dolorous
life and brief,
To gain the mystic crown, must cry the truth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Adrasta, for her use, set forth a throne,
Alcippe with soft arras cover'd it,
And Philo brought her silver basket, gift
Of fair Alcandra, wife of Polybus,
Whose mansion in AEgyptian Thebes is rich
In untold treasure, and who gave, himself,
Ten golden talents, and two silver baths 160
To Menelaus, with two
splendid
tripods
Beside the noble gifts which, at the hand
Of his illustrious spouse, Helen receiv'd;
A golden spindle, and a basket wheel'd,
Itself of silver, and its lip of gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Already
He is
completely
tangled in her toils.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And when her mother came towards her out it fell; fell
and rolled in
headlong
course.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Atheists
are as dull,
Who cannot guess God's presence out of sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Girls the
_kashourka_
much prefer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
The Hermit stepp'd forth from the boat,
And
scarcely
he could stand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
He could
scarcely
believe his eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Alas, proud Earl,
Thou dost forget thyself,
remembering
me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
But most, through midnight streets I hear
How the
youthful
harlot's curse
Blasts the new-born infant's tear,
And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And Elde
merveilith
right gretly,
Whan they remembre hem inwardly
Of many a perelous empryse,
Whiche that they wrought in sondry wyse, 4970
How ever they might, withoute blame,
Escape awey withoute shame,
In youthe, withoute[n] damage
Or repreef of her linage,
Losse of membre, sheding of blode, 4975
Perel of deth, or losse of good.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I remember so well the room,
And the lilac bloom
That beat at the dripping pane
In the warm June rain;
And the colour of your gown,
It was amber-brown,
And two yellow satin bows
From your
shoulders
rose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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thenne to saie
How AElla loked, and lokyng dyd encheere, 755
Moovynge alyche a mountayne yn affraie,
Whanne a lowde whyrlevynde doe yttes boesomme tare,
To telle howe everie loke wulde banyshe feere,
Woulde aske an angelles
poyntelle
or hys tyngue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
"Him the
Almighty
made,
And brought him forth of the light,
At the verge and end of the night,
When men on the mountain prayed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
| Guess: |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Once a youthful pair,
Filled with softest care,
Met in garden bright
Where the holy light
Had just removed the
curtains
of the night.
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blake-poems |
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Triumphal arches, domes at heaven's doors,
That an
astonished
heaven sees full plain,
Alas, by degrees, turned to dust again.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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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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Such treasures were for gods, or rather kings
The privilege of both are
beauteous
things.
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La Fontaine |
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"Dear, I had almost arrived when I saw, by good fortune, your uncle
Standing
right there by the vines, looking now this way, now that.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I tremble lest words that speak their truth 865
Some day
reproach
them for a mother's guilt.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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ou art welcome vs vntille,
Her-Inne
schaltou
wone;
Page 44
216
I was out after ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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, _a lazy,
cowardly
one_; in comp.
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Beowulf |
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And why from
dripping
stone, damp moss, and rotten wood
Here, like a toad, suck in thy food?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I thought just how red apples wedged
The stubble's joints between;
And carts went
stooping
round the fields
To take the pumpkins in.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Strange armed men beside the
dwelling
there
Lie ambushed!
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Euripides - Electra |
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The author of the
Decameron
himself did not long survive his master:
he died the 21st of December, 1375.
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Petrarch |
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He did; not with cold wonder fearingly,
But Orpheus-like at an Eurydice;
For so delicious were the words she sung,
It seem'd he had lov'd them a whole summer long:
And soon his eyes had drunk her beauty up,
Leaving no drop in the
bewildering
cup,
And still the cup was full,--while he afraid
Lest she should vanish ere his lip had paid
Due adoration, thus began to adore;
Her soft look growing coy, she saw his chain so sure:
"Leave thee alone!
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Keats - Lamia |
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_Ampsiu_
and _Auraan_, they tell
us, _i.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The high
successor
of our Charles,[P] whose hair
The crown of his great ancestor adorns,
Already has ta'en arms, to bruise the horns
Of Babylon, and all her name who bear;
Christ's holy vicar with the honour'd load
Of keys and cloak, returning to his home,
Shall see Bologna and our noble Rome,
If no ill fortune bar his further road.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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SAS}
Whence is this Voice of Enion that
soundeth
in my ears Porches
Take thou possession!
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Blake - Zoas |
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It remains to say
something
a little more
precise of the particular qualities of his works.
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Whitman |
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120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The Cat in a fright scrambled out of the doorway;
The Mice tumbled out of a bundle of hay;
The brown and white Rats, and the black ones from Norway,
Screamed
out, "They are taking the horses away!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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