Handsome
you are, and proper you will be, II.
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I am no fool
To poll
stupidly
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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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The very players, by
sarcastic
allusions
to men in power, gratified the public ear, and, by
consequence, sharpened the wit and acrimony of the bold declaimer.
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Sitting where the
pumpkins
blow,
Will you come and be my wife?
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CHORUS
Ah, let me die, or ever I behold
The gods go forth, in
conflagration
dire!
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Aeschylus |
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NOTES:
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sara]sia
1834.
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Shelley |
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of Replacement or Refund" described in
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1.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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'
Sire, I went: the blade itself
deceived
her;
She thought me the victor seeing me there,
And betrayed her love in her swift anger
With so much agitation and impatience,
I could not gain a moment's audience.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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While I had power to bless you,
Nor any round that neck his arms did fling
More
privileged
to caress you,
Happier was Horace than the Persian king.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Lawrence is
eighteen
hundred miles long, and its
basin covers more than a million square miles (Darby says five hundred
thousand); and speaking of the lakes, he adds, "These vast fresh-water
seas, together with the St.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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There, weary of ocean, the wall along
they set their bucklers, their broad shields, down,
and bowed them to bench: the breastplates clanged,
war-gear of men; their weapons stacked,
spears of the seafarers stood together,
gray-tipped ash: that iron band
was worthily
weaponed!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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[488] He calls off their attention by
pretending
to show them a
geometrical problem and seizes the opportunity to steal something for
supper.
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Aristophanes |
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But the words have scarce been spoken, when the ominous
calm is broken,
And a
bellowing
crash has emptied all the vengeance of the storm!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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LXXXVIII
And if he erst a name, renowned and clear,
Had laboured to procure by actions fair,
And having gained it thus, he held it dear,
-- If this had sought to keep -- with greater care
He kept it now, -- and with a miser's fear
Guarded the treasure she with him would share;
Who, though
distinct
in body and in limb,
When wedded, ought to be one soul with him;
LXXXIX
And, as he erst by word, he now explained
Anew by writing, that the period o'er,
For which he was to serve his king constrained,
Unless it were his lot to die before,
He would in deed a Christian be ordained,
As in resolve he had been evermore;
And of her kin, Rinaldo and her sire,
Her afterwards in wedlock would require.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And I
wondered
as you clasped
your shoulder-strap
at the strength of your wrist
and the turn of your young fingers,
and the lift of your shorn locks,
and the bronze
of your sun-burnt neck.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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These poems had an enormous
influence
on all subsequent poetry, and many
of the habitual _cliches_ of Chinese verse are taken from them.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Destruction hangs o'er yon devoted wall,
And nodding Ilion waits the
impending
fall.
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Iliad - Pope |
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On each majestic form they cast a view,
And
timorous
pass'd, and awfully withdrew.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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With thee I do forget the toil and stress,
The loveless road that knows no resting place,
Time's straitened pulse, the soul's dread weariness,
My freedom, and my life
republican!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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[360] The critics have
vehemently
declaimed against the least mixture of
the comic, with the dignity of the epic poem.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Then one
Maim'd of each hand,
uplifted
in the gloom
The bleeding stumps, that they with gory spots
Sullied his face, and cried: "'Remember thee
Of Mosca, too, I who, alas!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Keats |
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It was
abolished
in
1641, at the same time as the Star Chamber.
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Robert Herrick |
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But, if so fate decrees, what can I more,
Than with unceasing tears these eyes bedew,
Abase my visage, and my lot
deplore?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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abscondat
tristem deleta iniuria casum:
contemptus solidet uulnera clausa dolor.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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1600
His death gives me reason enough for tears,
Without my
searching
into other matters:
It won't restore him to me, in my grief, again:
Perhaps it would only serve to increase my pain.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
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Appoloinaire |
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Tired with kisses sweet,
They agree to meet
When the silent sleep
Waves o'er heaven's deep,
And the weary tired
wanderers
weep.
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blake-poems |
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And I give you
everything
that you want me to.
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Imagists |
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The
total loss was
believed
to be near 1000 souls.
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Golden Treasury |
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An angel had not
startled
him,
Alighted from heaven's burning rim
To breathe from glory in the Dim;
Much less a lady riding slow
Upon a palfrey white as snow,
And smooth as a snow-cloud could go.
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In its barrow it trusted,
its
battling
and bulwarks: that boast was vain!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Yet life is more than death;
How could I leave the sound of singing winds,
The strong sweet scent that
breathes
from off the sea,
Or shut my eyes forever to the spring?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Oh what more blessed be than cares resolved,
When mind casts burthen and by peregrine
Work over wearied, lief we hie us home
To lie
reposing
in the longed-for bed!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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[292] No doubt another Athenian diviner, and possibly the same person
whom
Aristophanes
names in 'The Knights' and 'The Wasps' as being a
thief.
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Aristophanes |
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He
gathered
all that springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling, seasoned sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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A moment in the British camp--
A moment--and away
Back to the
pathless
forest,
Before the peep of day.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And gently,
Unbroken when the sky fills with storm,
Jealous to add who knows what spaces
To simple day the day so true in feeling,
Does it not seem, Mery, that each year,
Where spontaneous grace
relights
your brow,
Suffices, in so many aspects and for me,
Like a lone fan with which a room's surprised,
To refresh with as little pain as is needed here
All our inborn and unvarying friendship.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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For whom I robbed the dingle,
For whom betrayed the dell,
Many will
doubtless
ask me,
But I shall never tell!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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We
learn from Lucan and from Ammianus Marcellinus that the brave
actions of the ancient Gauls were
commemorated
in the verses of
Bards.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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damna tamen celeres
reparant
caelestia lunae:
nos ubi decidimus
quo pius Aeneas, quo Tullus diues et Ancus,
puluis et umbra sumus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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der Herr ist gar zu gut:
Schmuck und
Geschmeide
sind nicht mein.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I fear me
'Tis as you say--his
lordship
is unwell.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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That day is not far off; let me but first
Subdue the
insurrection
of the people.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
His spear in hand he
brandishes
and wields,
Towards Carlun has turned the point of steel.
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Chanson de Roland |
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--of a
fricasseed
shadow!
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Poe - 5 |
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Quem colent homines magis
Caelitum?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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enne
worschupeden
heo Alle with o steuene,
Iesu, godus sone of heuene,
and his Modur Marie.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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1050
`For al-though that, for thing shal come, y-wis,
Therfore is it purveyed, certaynly,
Nat that it comth for it purveyed is:
Yet nathelees,
bihoveth
it nedfully,
That thing to come be purveyed, trewely; 1055
Or elles, thinges that purveyed be,
That they bityden by necessitee.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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To
Newfangel
ne be ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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e,
A schelde, & a scharp spere,
schinande
bry3t,
Ande o?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Doubt, restlessness,
and insecurity are
undermining
society.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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It had a hole in the one end
and on each side, and everywhere
overgrown
with grass, but whether it
was only an old cave or a crevice of an old crag he could not tell (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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What is't,
Catullus?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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wenn ich wahlen soll, so will ich
Rheinwein
haben.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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That piece of
legislative
pageantry !
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Marvell - Poems |
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"
The peers assent: the goblet Mulius crown'd
With purple juice, and bore in order round:
Each peer
successive
his libation pours
To the blest gods who fill'd the ethereal bowers:
Then swill'd with wine, with noise the crowds obey,
And rushing forth, tumultuous reel away.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Oceans rough
With tempest, pastoral swards
Displaced
by fiery deserts, mountains ruing
The bolt fallen yesterday,
That shake their piny heads, as who would say
"We are too beautiful for our decay"--
Shall seraphs speak of these things?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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4 How the Central Plain has been cast in
darkness!
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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The Caterpillar
Plants, Caterpillars and Insects
'Plants, Caterpillars and Insects'
Jacob l' Admiral (II),
Johannes
Sluyter, 1710 - 1770, The Rijksmuseun
Work leads us to riches.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Master, let me take you a
buttonhole
lower.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Thereover strode
A Wether, fleeced in burning brown,
And largely
loitered
down the Road.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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True to
yourself
and sheets, you'll have me swear, I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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I knew this maid,
But she's in
Paradise!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
"
O that
languishing
yawn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
V
Arrived there, the dore they find fast lockt;
For it was warely watched night and day,
For feare of many foes: but when they knockt,
The Porter opened unto them
streight
way: 40
He was an aged syre, all hory gray,
With lookes full lowly cast, and gate full slow,
Wont on a staffe his feeble steps to stay,
Hight Humilta.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
It furnishes much comic material, and the
characters
of
Lady Tailbush and Lady Eitherside offer the poet the opportunity for
some of his cleverest touches in characterization and contrast.
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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It was no dream; or say a dream it was,
Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass
Their pleasures in a long
immortal
dream.
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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" return'd she tenderly:
"You have
deserted
me--where am I now?
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
Far from the deep
recesses
of the main,
Where aged Ocean holds his watery reign,
The goddess-mother heard.
| Guess: |
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Iliad - Pope |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Thou callest
someone?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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From the cool shade I hear the silver plash
Of the blown
fountain
at the garden's end.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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, can be guessed to belong to, or be
the
production
of these countries.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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now, my brother, hide thyself no more,
Thou seest how not I alone but all
Gaze, where thou veil'st the
intercepted
sun.
| Guess: |
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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are
evidently
transcribed from the
same source, but one is not a copy of the other.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Then, like to thee, would I in my old age
Have gladly from the noisy world withdrawn,
To vow myself a dedicated monk,
And in the quiet
cloister
end my days.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Vast were the task, I feeble; inborn shame,
And she, who makes the
peaceful
lyre submit,
Forbid me to impair great Caesar's fame
And yours by my weak wit.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
She watches the
creeping
stalk and counts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
"Erect as a sunbeam,
Upspringeth the palm;
The elephant browses,
Undaunted
and calm;
In beautiful motion
The thrush plies his wings;
Kind leaves of his covert,
Your silence he sings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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But the woe beneath
Urges my soul with more
exceeding
dread.
| Guess: |
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LE REBELLE
Un Ange furieux fond du ciel comme un aigle,
Du mecreant saisit a plein poing les cheveux,
Et dit, le secouant: << Ta
connaitras
la regle!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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What a thin
membrane
of honour
that is!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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They have broacht
The wine that had pleas'd God to
flocking
thirst
Of flies and wasps, to fears and worldly sorrows.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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" you reply,
"When, throughout civilization,
Every nation's empery
Is
asserted
by starvation?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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te wynne,
What
syknesse
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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No savage mountain climbing to the skies
Should stay the godlike course with wild abysses;
And now the sea, with sheltering, warm recesses
Spreads out before the
astonished
eyes.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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With shaded eyes your vision follows
The gentle swans'
receding
train.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Friendship's full of dregs:
Methinks
false hearts should never have sound legs.
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