We will sing
likewise
the exploits of our steeds!
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Aristophanes |
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LXIV
Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground,
Why do you stand,
expectant?
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Stephen Crane |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their
unwilling
colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
I said, "When I am gone away,
'He dared not tarry,' men will say,
Doing
dishonour
to my clay.
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Tennyson |
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And with a little outburst of
impatience, such as we may well imagine him to have
indulged
in during
his later years, he cries:
Why did I write?
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Alexander Pope |
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Who thinks that
pleasure
lies
In every fairy bower,
Shall oft, to his surprise,
Find poison in the flower.
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John Clare |
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The barges wash
Drifting
logs
Down Greenwich reach
Past the Isle of Dogs.
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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In it is cherishing fyer which dryes in mee 5
Griefe which did drowne me: and halfe quench'd by it
Are
satirique
fyres which urg'd me to have writt
In skorne of all: for now I admyre thee.
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John Donne |
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Nous
dorerons
ton Louvre en donnant nos gros sous!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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;
Hygelāc
mīn (_my lord_, or
_king, H.
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Beowulf |
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THERE were no ruins, neither fragments,
There was no chasm, nor grave nor pall,
There was no longing, was no wooing,
Where but one hour
rendered
all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You
sacrifice
time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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| Question: |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Long as the wild boar
Shall love the mountain-heights, and fish the streams,
While bees on thyme and
crickets
feed on dew,
Thy name, thy praise, thine honour, shall endure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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With this will I anoint myself, from head
Downwards
below the naked neck and breast.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Well hast thou
counselled
me.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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As if it could be uttered unfitly, if
devoutly!
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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"
So far the wing of genius ne'er could fly--
Poor style like mine and
faltering
tongue much less--
As Nature rose, in that rare fabric, high.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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None but I, thy child, could so
Watch thee in Hellas: none but I could know
Thy face of
gladness
when our enemies
Were strong, and the swift cloud upon thine eyes
If Troy seemed falling, all thy soul keen-set
Praying that he might come no more!
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Euripides - Electra |
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[Burns took the hint of this Poem from the Planestanes and
Causeway
of
Fergusson, but all that lends it life and feeling belongs to his own
heart and his native Ayr: he wrote it for the second edition of his
poems, and in compliment to the patrons of his genius in the west.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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And she sits and gazes at me
With those deep and tender eyes,
Like the stars, so still and saint-like,
Looking
downward
from the skies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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" It is but a
few years since Bouchette
declared
that the country ten leagues north
of the British capital of North America was as little known as the
middle of Africa.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Why fall the Sparrow & the Robin in the
foodless
winter?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Werd ich zum
Augenblicke
sagen:
Verweile doch!
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And, see, the farm-roof chimneys smoke afar,
And from the hills the shadows
lengthening
fall!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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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 |
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Heavy art thou, crown of
Monomakh!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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She hailed him there in his pride,
Home from the
perilous
years,
In the heart of his walled lands,
In the Giants' cloud-capt ring;
Herself, none other, laid
The hone to the axe's blade;
She lifted it in her hands,
The woman, and slew her king.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Pursue what chance or fate
proclaimeth
best;
Peace waits us on the shores of Acheron:
There no forced banquet claims the sated guest,
But Silence spreads the couch of ever welcome rest.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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_--Though a
modern narrative of gallant adventures by no means requires the
supposition of a
particular
Providence, that supposition, however, is
absolutely necessary to the grandeur of an epic poem.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Plants have been
found in the fossil state in the interior of Germany, which demand the
present climate of
Hindostan
for their production.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
We are now trying to release all our books one month in advance
of the
official
release dates, leaving time for better editing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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where
The dancers will break footing, from the care
Of watching up thy
pregnant
lips for more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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_
BLANCHE:
Terrible
work to do!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
If you are
redistributing
or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Then, when the
splendour
of the sun had set,
And night drew on, each master of the oar
And each armed warrior straightway went aboard.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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And for the Heav'ns wide Circuit, let it speak 100
The Makers high magnificence, who built
So spacious, and his Line
stretcht
out so farr;
That Man may know he dwells not in his own;
An Edifice too large for him to fill,
Lodg'd in a small partition, and the rest
Ordain'd for uses to his Lord best known.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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130
That when the
carefull
knight gan well avise,
He lightly left the foe, with whom he fought,
And to the beast gan turne his enterprise;
For wondrous anguish in his hart it wrought,
To see his loved Squire into such thraldome brought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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He
returned
home and threw himself down on his bed without
undressing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And after a
thousand
years I climbed the sacred mountain and again
spoke unto God, saying, "My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am
thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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my dears,
methinks
I see fire and smoke; can it
be a conflagration?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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And have my feet at length
Attained
the summit of the rock i' the sand?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Mentre noi
corravam
la morta gora,
dinanzi mi si fece un pien di fango,
e disse: <
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Have you forgot your
Midrash!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Shalt thou be vanquished, whose imperial feet
Have
shattered
armies and stamped empires dead?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation are tax
deductible
to the full extent
permitted by U.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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ye old
mesmerizer
!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Au chant des violons, aux flammes des bougies,
Esperes-tu chasser ton cauchemar moqueur,
Et viens-tu
demander
au torrent des orgies
De refraichir l'enfer allume dans ton coeur?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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]
XXII
He was in error; for Eugene
Was sleeping then a sleep like death;
The pall of night was growing thin,
To Lucifer the cock must breathe
His song, when still he
slumbered
deep,
The sun had mounted high his steep,
A passing snowstorm wreathed away
With pallid light, but Eugene lay
Upon his couch insensibly;
Slumber still o'er him lingering flies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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satur fu, fere Mars: limen sali: sta berber,
satur fu, fere Mars: limen sali: sta berber,
satur fu, fere Mars: limen sali: sta berber,
semunis alternei
aduocapit
conctos,
semunis alternei aduocapit conctos,
semunis alternei aduocapit conctos.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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BLITHE Damon for her having felt the dart,
The belle received the offer of his heart;
So well he managed and
expressed
his flame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Possibly
it means that all things high and low are filled
alike with the divine spirit and in this sense all things are equal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Not tears for the dead nor sighs,
But worship and joy divine
Shall win thee peace in thy skies,
O
daughter
mine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
20
And you feathered flute-players,
Who
instructed
you to fill
All the blossomy orchards now
With melodious desire?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Everyone says that in
expeditions
against the Min tribes
Of a million men who are sent out, not one returns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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O first created beam, and thou great Word,
"Let there be light, and light was over all,"
Why am I thus
bereaved
thy prime decree?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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My frivolous muse has now opened
--Cupid, the scamp--opens lips
hitherto
sealed so well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Did nightly thieves, or pirates' cruel bands,
Drench with your blood your
pillaged
country's sands?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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If faith most true, a heart that cannot feign,
If Love's sweet languishment and chasten'd thought,
And wishes pure by nobler feelings taught,
If in a
labyrinth
wanderings long and vain,
If on the brow each pang pourtray'd to bear,
Or from the heart low broken sounds to draw,
Withheld by shame, or check'd by pious awe,
If on the faded cheek Love's hue to wear,
If than myself to hold one far more dear,
If sighs that cease not, tears that ever flow,
Wrung from the heart by all Love's various woe,
In absence if consumed, and chill'd when near,--
If these be ills in which I waste my prime,
Though I the sufferer be, yours, lady, is the crime.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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'
'And I for worm-foul,' seyde the fool cukkow, 505
For I wol, of myn owne auctorite,
For comune spede, take the charge now,
For to
delivere
us is gret charite.
| 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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His barber, or,
Chaucer says, his queen, discovered the change which Midas had tried to
conceal, and unable to keep the secret
whispered
it to the reeds in the
river, who straightway spread the news abroad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Next, having failed to
curry favour with the Court, he is exiled to some provincial post,
perhaps a
thousand
miles from anyone he cares to talk to.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Distress
I don't come to conquer your flesh tonight, O beast
In whom are the sins of the race, nor to stir
In your foul tresses a mournful tempest
Beneath the fatal boredom my kisses pour:
A heavy sleep without those dreams that creep
Under
curtains
alien to remorse, I ask of your bed,
Sleep you can savour after your dark deceits,
You who know more of Nothingness than the dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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75
The
_Diuell_
was wont to carry away the euill; [166]
But, now, the Euill out-carries the _Diuell_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
6
The female of the Halcyon,
Love, the
seductive
Sirens,
All know the fatal songs
Dangerous and inhuman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
It's you I'm mainly
thinking
of.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
When the flesh that nourished us well
Is eaten piecemeal, ah, see it swell,
And we, the bones, are dust and gall,
Let no one make fun of our ill,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Long as the wild boar
Shall love the mountain-heights, and fish the streams,
While bees on thyme and
crickets
feed on dew,
Thy name, thy praise, thine honour, shall endure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
--
First he gan hir his righte lady calle, 1065
His hertes lyf, his lust, his sorwes leche,
His blisse, and eek these othere termes alle,
That in swich cas these loveres alle seche;
And in ful humble wyse, as in his speche,
He gan him
recomaunde
un-to hir grace; 1070
To telle al how, it axeth muchel space.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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At all events he has not taught it to Pantacles,[487] the most
awkward of all men; t'other day, when he was
directing
a procession,
'twas only after he had put on his helmet that he thought of fixing in
the crest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Hat die Natur und hat ein edler Geist
Nicht irgendeinen Balsam
ausgefunden?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Every
sensible
man must give his
help to the State.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
In every clime and under every sun,
Death laughs at ye, mad mortals, as ye run;
And oft
perfumes
herself with myrrh, like ye
And mingles with your madness, irony!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
I had trod the road which Dante
treading
saw
the suns of seven circles shine,
Ay!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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But for the manner of
_Spaine_!
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"Wæs his eald-fæder
Ecgþēo
hāten,
"þǣm tō hām forgeaf Hrēðel Gēata
375 "āngan dōhtor; is his eafora nū
"heard hēr cumen, sōhte holdne wine.
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Beowulf |
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And so she ever fed it with thin tears,
Whence thick, and green, and beautiful it grew,
So that it smelt more balmy than its peers
Of Basil-tufts in Florence; for it drew
Nurture besides, and life, from human fears,
From the fast mouldering head there shut from view: 430
So that the jewel, safely casketed,
Came forth, and in
perfumed
leafits spread.
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Keats |
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We are but fools
When our heart
vibrates
to the people's groans
And passionate wailing.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Not till
the fourth day was land at last seen to rise,
discovering
distant hills
and sending up wreaths of smoke.
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A while it was held by
Heorogar
king,
for long time lord of the land of Scyldings;
yet not to his son the sovran left it,
to daring Heoroweard, -- dear as he was to him,
his harness of battle.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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How long in vain
Penelope
we sought!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Here glows the Spring, here earth
Beside the streams pours forth a
thousand
flowers;
Here the white poplar bends above the cave,
And the lithe vine weaves shadowy covert: come,
Leave the mad waves to beat upon the shore.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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CHORUS
To my
blessing
now give ear.
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Aeschylus |
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I am flattered at your
adopting
"Ca' the yowes to the knowes,"
as it was owing to me that ever it saw the light.
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Robert Burns |
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(For his Coronation, his
Judgment
on the Child claimd by 2 Mothers, and his Wisdom, &c.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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So thought Ivan,
sagacious
autocrat
And storm-subduer; so his fierce grandson thought.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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That god--
who was the wanderer, the slim
Despoiler of fair women; he--the wise,--
But sweet and glowing as your
thoughts
of him
Who cast a shadow over your young limb
While bending like your arched brows o'er your eyes.
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Rilke - Poems |
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needs must live
A profitable life: some glance along,
Rapid and gay, as if the earth were air,
And they were butterflies to wheel about
Long as the [1] summer lasted: some, as wise, 5
Perched on the forehead of a jutting crag,
Pencil in hand and book upon the knee,
Will look and scribble,
scribble
on and look, [2]
Until a man might travel twelve stout miles,
Or reap an acre of his neighbour's corn.
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I have seen thy heart to-day,
Never open to the crowd,
While to love me aye and aye
Was the vow as it was vowed
By thine eyes of
steadfast
grey.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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līc-homa lǣne
gedrēoseð, _the body,
belonging
to death, sinks down_, 1755; inf.
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Beowulf |
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Like a wounded
bird
Easily caught, ensnare him, O ye Nymphs,
Ye Oreads chaste, ye dusky
Dryades!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Think'st thou
They will believe a Polish maiden more
Than Russia's own
tsarevich?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The work of many days so
transitory!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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