You bewitched the rivers, flowers and woods,
With your lyre, in vain but beguilingly,
Yet not what your soul felt, the beauty
That dealt what was
festering
in your blood.
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Ronsard |
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Thy Future calls thee with a manifold sound
To crescent honours, splendours, victories vast;
Waken, O
slumbering
Mother and be crowned,
Who once wert empress of the sovereign Past.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A Story of
Christmas
Eve.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Little Air
I
Any solitude
Without a swan or quai
Mirrors its disuse
In the gaze I abdicate
Far from that pride's excess
Too high to enfold
In which many a sky paints itself
With the twilight's gold
But languorously flows beside
Like white linen laid aside
Such
fleeting
birds as dive
Exultantly at my side
Into the wave made you
Your exultation nude.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Tchekalinsky
frowned for a second only,
then his smile returned.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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If then to all men
happiness
was meant,
God in externals could not place content.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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You must not hastily
To such
conclusions
jump.
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Lewis Carroll |
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But the office of a true critic or censor is, not to throw by
a letter anywhere, or damn an
innocent
syllable, but lay the words
together, and amend them; judge sincerely of the author and his matter,
which is the sign of solid and perfect learning in a man.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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'
The virginal, living and lovely day
Will it
fracture
for us with a wild wing-blow
This solid lost lake whose frost's haunted below
By the glacier, transparent with flights not made?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I have now added a few more of my productions, those for
which I am
indebted
to the Nithsdale muses.
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Robert Burns |
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myne
astonyenge
god gouerno{ur} of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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But who'd have thought a burly lout like Morris
Would join the
brabble?
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I knew not this, and
therefore
did I weep:
That God would love a Worm I knew, and punish the evil foot
That wilful bruis'd its helpless form: but that he cherish'd it
With milk and oil I never knew, and therefore did I weep,
And I complaind in the mild air, because I fade away.
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blake-poems |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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The blond assassin passes on,
The sun proceeds unmoved
To measure off another day
For an
approving
God.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"--But, beyond the gloom
Of deep Oblivion shall that loveliest maid,
Whose like to view seems not of earthly doom,
By my
imperfect
accents be convey'd?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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These
travellers
were mounted on four dromedaries, and having passed through Spain, they went to Norway and from there to Babylon and the Holy Land.
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Appoloinaire |
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God
In the ancient days, when the first quiver of speech came to my lips,
I
ascended
the holy mountain and spoke unto God, saying, "Master,
I am thy slave.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
And, again,
from the long and sometimes tedious _Itinerarium_ of
Rutilius
I have
detached the splendid apostrophe to Rome which stands in the forefront
of that poem.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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How cordial is the
mystery!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all abroad, --
They looked like frightened beads, I thought;
He stirred his velvet head
Like one in danger; cautious,
I offered him a crumb,
And he
unrolled
his feathers
And rowed him softer home
Than oars divide the ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or butterflies, off banks of noon,
Leap, plashless, as they swim.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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a pathless wilderness remains
Yet
unsubdued
by man's reclaiming hand.
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Shelley |
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"LUGG"
corrected
to _LUGGS_.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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"
Joss seizes her and holds her head
Supporting her beneath her arms, in his;
And then he dared to plant a
monstrous
kiss
Upon her rosy lips,--while Zeno bent
Before the massive chair, and with intent
Her robe disordered as he raised her feet;
Her dainty ankles thus their gaze to meet.
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Hugo - Poems |
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I had all that in mind and I
bringing
him.
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Yeats |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Alexander Pope |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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'Twas then in valleys lone, remote,
In spring-time, heard the cygnet's note
By waters shining tranquilly,
That first the Muse
appeared
to me.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But ere on this I take a step to utter
Oracles holier and soundlier based
Than ever the Pythian pronounced for men
From out the tripod and the Delphian laurel,
I will unfold for thee with learned words
Many a consolation, lest perchance,
Still bridled by religion, thou suppose
Lands, sun, and sky, sea, constellations, moon,
Must dure forever, as of frame divine--
And so conclude that it is just that those,
(After the manner of the Giants), should all
Pay the huge penalties for monstrous crime,
Who by their reasonings do overshake
The
ramparts
of the universe and wish
There to put out the splendid sun of heaven,
Branding with mortal talk immortal things--
Though these same things are even so far removed
From any touch of deity and seem
So far unworthy of numbering with the gods,
That well they may be thought to furnish rather
A goodly instance of the sort of things
That lack the living motion, living sense.
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Lucretius |
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XXI
When he was known the
thickening
crowd among,
By the strange arms he wore and scaly hide,
There, where the aged sires and feebler throng.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Pope complains in a letter
written some months after the poem had
appeared
in print that "the
celebrated lady is offended.
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Alexander Pope |
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) "An unworthy monk of the Monastery
Of Chudov, Gregory, of the family of Otrepiev, has fallen
into heresy, taught by the devil, and has dared to vex
the holy
brotherhood
by all kinds of iniquities and acts
of lawlessness.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Danes of the North
with fear and frenzy were filled, each one,
who from the wall that wailing heard,
God's foe sounding his grisly song,
cry of the conquered,
clamorous
pain
from captive of hell.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Visits England with Raleigh, 1589
Assassination
of Henry III;
Henry IV crowned.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But owre my left
shouther
I gae him a blink,
Lest neibours might say I was saucy;
My wooer he caper'd as he'd been in drink,
And vow'd I was his dear lassie, dear lassie,
And vow'd I was his dear lassie.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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It
reconciles
me to thee.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Pale ghosts who planted you
Came in the night time
And let their thin hair blow through your
clustered
stems.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
The Prophecy of Capys
It can hardly be necessary to remind any reader that according to
the popular tradition, Romulus, after he had slain his granduncle
Amulius, and restored his grandfather Numitor, determined to quit
Alba, the
hereditary
domain of the Sylvian princes, and to found
a new city.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Lawrence, the superb scenery, the steamers,
The ships sailing, the Thousand Islands, the occasional timber-raft
and the
raftsmen
with long-reaching sweep-oars,
The little huts on the rafts, and the stream of smoke when they cook
supper at evening.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
]
[Footnote 31: The Rat-catcher was
supposed
to have the art of drawing rats
after him by his whistle, like a sort of Orpheus.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And then I go the furthest off
To
counteract
a knock;
Then draw my little letter forth
And softly pick its lock.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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When Love, fond Love, commands the strain,
The coyest muse must sure obey;
Love bids my wounded breast complain,
And
whispers
the melodious lay:
Yet when such griefs restrain the muse's wing,
How shall she dare to soar, or how attempt to sing?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Leonor
To what can you
pretend?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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In awful horror lost, the hero stands,
And rolls his eyes to heav'n, and spreads his hands,
While to the clouds his vessel rides the swell,
And now, her black keel strikes the gates of hell;
"O Thou," he cries, "whom trembling heav'n obeys,
Whose will the tempest's furious madness sways,
Who, through the wild waves, ledd'st Thy chosen race,
While the high billows stood like walls of brass:[434]
O Thou, while ocean bursting o'er the world
Roar'd o'er the hills, and from the sky down hurl'd
Rush'd other headlong oceans; oh, as then
The second father of the race of men[435]
Safe in Thy care the
dreadful
billows rode,
Oh!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
3 An imperial letter expresses
affection
for the Btsan-po,4 8 those in armor gaze toward Chang?
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Baudelaire
is the poet of
perfumes; he is also the patron saint of ennui.
| 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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They dined on mince and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a
runcible
spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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It was a den where no
insulting
light
Could glimmer on their tears; where their own groans
They felt, but heard not, for the solid roar
Of thunderous waterfalls and torrents hoarse,
Pouring a constant bulk, uncertain where.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
The original is far more musical, as you can gather from the text at the start of this
selection
of his verse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Dim
backward
as I cast my view,
What sick'ning scenes appear!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
The same
stealthy
blow .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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There, then, we dwelt
The year complete, fed with delicious fare
Day after day, and
quaffing
gen'rous wine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
|
For thirty years, he produced and
distributed
Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
|
]
Land of the desolate, Mother of tears,
Weeping your beauty marred and torn,
Your children tossed upon the spears,
Your altars rent, your hearths forlorn,
Where Spring has no renewing spell,
And Love no
language
save a long Farewell!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Ye good men of the Commons, with loving hearts and true,
Who stand by the bold
Tribunes
that still have stood by you,
Come, make a circle round me, and mark my tale with care,
A tale of what Rome once hath borne, of what Rome yet may bear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Said she, within herself;--what else
believe?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Let them fight, as you wish: but then,
Will Rodrigue be as you've
imagined
him?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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King
Yet Love, far from registering this protest,
If
Rodrigue
wins, true justice will attest.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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tum belli pacisque artis
commenta
uetustas;
semper enim ex aliis alias proseminat usus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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They stand at the door
practising
tranquil lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Strickland hung about in the
verandah
of the
Court, till he met the Mohammedan khitmatgar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Ronsard's Cassandra, was Cassandra Salviati, the
daughter
of an Italian banker.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Friday night again and all my songs
Forgotten?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
LXXXV
My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still,
While
comments
of your praise richly compil'd,
Reserve their character with golden quill,
And precious phrase by all the Muses fil'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The body of my brother's son
Stood by me knee to knee:
The body and I pull'd at one rope,
But he said nought to me--
And I quak'd to think of my own voice
How
frightful
it would be!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
XII
But stings and
sharpest
steele did far exceed 100
The sharpnesse of his cruell rending clawes;
Dead was it sure, as sure as death in deed,
What ever thing does touch his ravenous pawes,
Or what within his reach he ever drawes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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at fides et ingeni
benigna uena est pauperemque diues
me petit: nihil supra
deos lacesso nec
potentem
amicum
largiora flagito,
satis beatus unicis Sabinis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Stung to misery, Dido wanders in frenzy all down the city, even as an
arrow-stricken deer, whom, far and heedless amid the Cretan woodland, a
shepherd archer hath pierced and left the flying steel in her unaware;
she ranges in flight the
Dictaean
forest lawns; fast in her side clings
the deadly reed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
XXXIII
The heartfelt fear, the torment evermore
Of losing
Brandimart
the dame pursued.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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You
Japanese
man or woman!
| 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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My
Faenzetta
has my heart!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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She
requires
meat only, and hunger is not ambitious.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Oh, she
trembled!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
The Imperial Patent on the Temple doors is written in letters of
gold;
For nuns'
quarters
and monks' cells ample space is allowed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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(52)
[Note 52: During the "sviatki" it is a common custom for the girls
to assemble around a table on which is placed a dish or basin of
water which
contains
a ring.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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and when
We've sunk to rest within its arms entwined,
Like the
Phoenician
virgin, wake, and find
Ourselves alone again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He foresaw how the brave Roman nation,
Impatient of the
blandishments
of pleasure
Once sated with vain amusements' measure,
Would turn to civil war as a distraction.
| 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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At last the dead man walked no more
Amongst the Trial Men,
And I knew that he was
standing
up
In the black dock's dreadful pen,
And that never would I see his face
In God's sweet world again.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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to wasting woes a prey,
No more in sorrows
languish
life away:
Free as the winds I give thee now to rove:
Go, fell the timber of yon lofty grove,
And form a raft, and build the rising ship,
Sublime to bear thee o'er the gloomy deep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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) by slight
extravagances
and forms of words which are
sometimes epic and sometimes over-colloquial; it has a regular saga plot,
which had already been treated by the old poet Phrynichus in his
_Alcestis_, a play which is now lost but seems to have been Satyric;
and it has one character straight from the Satyr world, the heroic
reveller, Heracles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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So the fisher
provides
bait for the trout, roach, dace, &c.
| Guess: |
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For here will I place thine oracles and the secrets of destiny uttered
to my people, and
consecrate
chosen men, O gracious one.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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friend, you little knew
How long at that
celestial
wick
The angels labored diligent;
Extinguished, now, for you!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"
"Thou knowest how in the atmosphere collects
That vapour dank,
returning
into water,
Soon as it mounts where cold condenses it.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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With question and menace the judges
assailed
her, "Yes,
I have broken your law," she said.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Cowper assumes a second postern, but there is
no
evidence
for this, and l.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Drink, and keep your thoughts to yourself,*
Father
Varlaam!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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He is, as was shown
by his later history, a man subject to
overpowering
impulses and to fits
of will-less brooding.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Let the mad poets say whate'er they please
Of the sweets of Fairies, Peris, Goddesses,
There is not such a treat among them all,
Haunters
of cavern, lake, and waterfall,
As a real woman, lineal indeed
From Pyrrha's pebbles or old Adam's seed.
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Keats |
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I climb'd a cliff, with spear and sword in hand,
Whose ridge o'erlook'd a shady length of land;
To learn if aught of mortal works appear,
Or
cheerful
voice of mortal strike the ear?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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the boy himself
Was worthy to be sung, and many a time
Hath
Stimichon
to me your singing praised.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Arms sever'd from the trunks still grasp the steel,[215]
Heads gasping roll; the
fighting
squadrons reel;
Fainty and weak with languid arms they close,
And stagg'ring, grapple with the stagg'ring foes.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Then fell her
straining
topmasts,
Hanging tangled in the shrouds,
And her sails were loosened and lifted,
And blown away like clouds.
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Longfellow |
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Above a thousand Neapolitan horsemen were assembled near
the shore to assist, as it were, at the
obsequies
of their countrymen.
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Petrarch |
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