Does he teach his
subjects
to roast and bake?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so
peacefully!
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T.S. Eliot |
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And she of hirs may him, certeyn,
Withoute
sclaundre, yeven ageyn,
And ioyne her hertes togidre so 5075
In love, and take and yeve also.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The listener
remained
perfectly mute.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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what a small part of his whole work it
represents!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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We minded my lord's word, that he be shewn
All the seized women which are
strangely
fair.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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strike with
vengeful
stroke!
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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How life support,
unknowing
and unknown?
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La Fontaine |
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Who thus disturbs the tide near the
seraglio?
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Hugo - Poems |
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And
whatever
man praises her,
Speaks well of her, he tells no lie!
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Troubador Verse |
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3 I am ashamed I am not that Qi persuader,4 44 I only
resemble
those men of Lu.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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He in the midst, that on his breast looks down,
Is the great Chiron who
Achilles
nurs'd;
That other Pholus, prone to wrath.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The first
twelve lines of the Poem were
engraved
neatly on one of the
window-panes, by the diamond pencil of the Bard.
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Robert Burns |
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[222] All
Persians
wore the tiara, but always on one side; the Great King
alone wore it straight on his head.
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Aristophanes |
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What delight it is, a wonder rather,
When her hair, caught above her ear,
Imitates the style that Venus
employed!
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Ronsard |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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but with an angel's air,
Astonished, eager, unaware,
Or elfin's, wandering with a grace
Foreign to any
fireside
race,
And with a gaiety unknown
In the light feet and hair backblown,
And with a sadness yet more strange,
In meagre cheeks which knew to change
Or faint or fired more swift than sight,
And forlorn hands and lips pressed white,
And fragile voice, and head downcast,
Hiding tears, lifted at the last
To speed with one pale smile the wise
Glance of the grey immortal eyes.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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It must be good speech, and one must
not listen to the musician if he promise to add meaning to the words
with his notes, for one does not add meaning to the word 'love' by
putting four o's in the middle, or by subordinating it even
slightly
to
a musical note.
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Yeats |
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But it is not
necessary to construe these
epithets
so literally, nor to draw any
such inference from his description of Atlas, who holds the lofty
pillars which keep earth and heaven asunder.
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Iliad - Pope |
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190
But when Egelred tumbled to the grounde,
He from Kynge Harolde
quicklie
dyd advaunce,
And strooke de Tracie thilk a crewel wounde,
Hys harte and lever came out on the launce.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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In
fact, it is a sort of _monism_ of
consciousness
that inspires all
pre-Miltonic epic.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this
electronic
work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Then over all spread out the
blackened
cloud,
"'Tis here!
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Hugo - Poems |
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THE TROLL'S NOSEGAY
A simple
nosegay!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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WOMAN'S SONG
No more upon my bosom rest thee,
Too often have my hands
caressed
thee,
My lips thou knowest well, too well;
Lean to my heart no more thine ear
My spirit's living truth to hear
--It has no more to tell.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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With thy Bellona, Pallas, ful of grace, 5
Be present, and my song
continue
and gye;
At my beginning thus to thee I crye.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Castles and cities by the sounding main
Resound with all the busy din of life;
The
fisherman
unfurls his sails again;
And the recruited warrior bides the strife.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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and distributed Project
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"B-o-o-m" and "B-o-o-m" from afar she hears us, She will pass on our starboard bow,
Out of the
drifting
fog she nears us, With rush of waters she's passing now.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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This layered palace lies against
whirling
gusts, 4 looming at the mouth of a hole in the earth.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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"I've given you the story," he said, shortly
replunging
into "Lara.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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at te nascentem gremio mea prima recepit
Parthenope,
dulcisque
solo tu gloria nostro
reptasti.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Happy art thou, Vashti, to have wedded
One who so dearly rates
possession
of thee.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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But you'll be present, said the
courteous
knight.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Put golden
padlocks
on Truth's lips, be callous as ye will,
From soul to soul, o'er all the world, leaps one electric thrill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Methinks
I hear of leaders proud
With no uncomely dust distain'd,
And all the world by conquest bow'd,
And only Cato's soul unchain'd.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I do my part, for I meet him halfway and
proclaim
his adventures
Praising his name in advance, even before he's begun.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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closing on the gates,
He peals his vaunting and
appalling
cry!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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"
As
Wordsworth
alludes to Coleridge's education, along with his own, "in
the season of unperilous choice," the reference is probably to
Coleridge's early time at the vicarage of Ottery St.
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William Wordsworth |
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,
generally
with
some idea of volition involved; cf.
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Beowulf |
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--Ah, but I took his wit
Further than he e'er did; in women I found
The same
amazement
for my wakened eyes
As in the hills and waters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Heav'n
descended
Chief!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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XI
"So was for many days and months maintained
By us, in secrecy, the amorous game;
Still grew by love, and such new vigour gained,
I in my inmost bosom felt the flame;
And that he little loved, and deeply feigned
Weened not, so was I blinded to my shame:
Though, in a
thousand
certain signs betrayed,
The faithless knight his base deceit bewrayed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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when tongues
unbridled
drop disguise,
What direful ills, what discords oft arise!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Aspiring
to be Gods, if Angels fell,
Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel:
And who but wishes to invert the laws
Of ORDER, sins against th' Eternal Cause.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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" she said to me,
continuing
her
employment.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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One of the ones that Midas touched,
Who failed to touch us all,
Was that
confiding
prodigal,
The blissful oriole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I'll sing no more,
resigned
I'll be,
And banish joy and love of her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Now Earl of
Leicester!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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O thou could'st foster me beyond the brink
Of
recollection!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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LYCIDAS
Your pleas but linger out my heart's desire:
Now all the deep is into silence hushed,
And all the
murmuring
breezes sunk to sleep.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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As the toss'd vessel on the ocean rolls,
When dark the night, and loud the tempest howls,
When the 'lorn mariner in every wave
That breaks and gleams, forebodes his wat'ry grave;
But when the dawn, all silent and serene,
With soft-pac'd ray dispels the shades obscene,
With grateful transport sparkling in each eye,
The joyful crew the port of safety spy;
Such darkling tempests, and portended fate,
While weak
Fernando
liv'd, appall'd the state;
Such when he died, the peaceful morning rose,
The dawn of joy, and sooth'd the public woes.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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So surely will a fact of truth make head
'Gainst errors'
theories
all, and so shut off
All refuge from the adversary, and rout
Error by two-edged confutation.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Have you forgotten what is
promised
us,
Because of stinking days and rotting nights?
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And only inwardly inclines,
As we are wont if there draws nigh
A
stranger
on his final round.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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" "The poet
might perhaps, had he pleased, have
exhibited
Admetus in a more amiable
point of view.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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He was now reading it,
frequently
shrugging
his shoulders, and muttering, half aloud--
"General!
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The demon's rage you saw, and mark'd his flight
To the dark
mansions
of eternal night:
You saw how, howling through the shades beneath,
He wak'd new horrors in the realms of death.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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--2)
associated with general
infinitives
of motion and aim: imper.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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XIX
TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG
The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood
cheering
by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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she did die;
for sweet
consolation
to church I did fly;
I found that old Solomon proved it fair,
That a big-belly'd bottle's a cure for all care.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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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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"Now meet thy fate," th'
incensed
virago cried, 140
And drew a deadly bodkin from her side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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cruel was the mandate that arose
Against most guiltless of the
stranger
tribes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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"I've given you the story," he said, shortly
replunging
into "Lara.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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XXXIV
With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee
As those, when thou shalt call me by my name--
Lo, the vain
promise!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The
Boeotians
were the allies of Sparta.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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If my poor intellect had but the force
To help my need, and if no other lure
Had led it from the plain and proper course,
Upon my lady's brow 'twere easy sure
To have read this truth, "Here all thy
pleasure
dies,
And hence thy lifelong trial dates its rise.
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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); as man he
attains in the gripe of his hand the
strength
of thirty men, 379.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Still from his chair of
porphyry
gaunt Memnon strains his lidless eyes
Across the empty land, and cries each yellow morning unto thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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For in an evening of young moon, that went
Filling the moist air with a rosy fire,
I and my beloved knew our love;
And knew that thou, O morning, wouldst arise
To give us knowledge of
achieved
desire.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Note: The last line is quoted by Eliot, in French, in The Wasteland (with
reference
to the Fisher King) as is the second line of De Nerval's El Desdichado.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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On them I
recognise
the dress
Of my own country.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Since I have touched my lips to your brimming cup,
Since I have bowed my pale brow in your hands,
Since I have sometime breathed the sweet breath
Of your soul, a perfume buried in shadow lands;
Since it was granted to me to hear you utter
Words in which the mysterious heart sighs,
Since I have seen smiles, since I have seen tears
Your mouth on my mouth, your eyes on my eyes;
Since I have seen over my
enraptured
head
A light from your star shine, ah, ever veiled!
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Yet though the hideous prison-wall
Still hems him round and round,
And a spirit may not walk by night
That is with fetters bound,
And a spirit may but weep that lies
In such unholy ground,
He is at peace--this wretched man--
At peace, or will be soon:
There is no thing to make him mad,
Nor does Terror walk at noon,
For the
lampless
Earth in which he lies
Has neither Sun nor Moon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Essays on the Study and Use of Poetry by Plutarch and
Basil the Great,
translated
from the Greek, with an
Introduction.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Tout cela ne vaut pas le terrible prodige
De ta salive qui mord,
Qui plonge dans l'oubli mon ame sans remord,
Et,
charriant
le vertige,
La roule defaillante aux rives de la mort!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The dead have
phantoms
that they send.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
CEREMONIES
FOR CANDLEMAS EVE
Down with the rosemary and bays,
Down with the misletoe;
Instead of holly, now up-raise
The greener box, for show.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
'And whan the night is comen, anon
A
thousand
angres shal come upon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
The work of many days so
transitory!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
EVENING
When little lights in little ports come out,
Quivering down through water with the stars,
And all the fishing fleet of slender spars
Range at their moorings, veer with tide about;
When race of wind is stilled and sails are furled,
And underneath our single riding-light
The curve of black-ribbed deck gleams palely white,
And
slumbrous
waters pool a slumbrous world;
--Then, and then only, have I thought how sweet
Old age might sink upon a windy youth,
Quiet beneath the riding-light of truth,
Weathered through storms, and gracious in retreat.
| Guess: |
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the
Redcrosse
knight was slaine with Paynim knife.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Amongst which troop although I am the least,
Yet equall in perfection with the best,
I glory in
subjection
of his hand, 70
Nor ever did decline his least command:
For in whatever forme the message came
My heart did open and receive the same.
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LORD how many are my foes
How many those
That in arms against me rise
Many are they
That of my life
distrustfully
thus say,
No help for him in God there lies.
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Milton |
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And when he raised it
dripping
once and tried
The creepy edge of it with wary touch,
And viewed it over his glasses funny-eyed,
Only disinterestedly to decide
It needed a turn more, I could have cried
Wasn't there danger of a turn too much?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I never heard a death so out of reach
Of common hearts, a high and comely end:
What need have I, that gave up all for love,
To die like an old king out of a fable,
Fighting and
passionate?
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Yeats |
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Leonor
But Madame, how far your
thoughts
leap apace
From a duel which perhaps may not take place.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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`For I shal shape it so, that sikerly
Thou shalt this night som tyme, in som manere,
Com speke with thy lady prevely,
And by hir wordes eek, and by hir chere, 655
Thou shalt ful sone
aperceyve
and wel here
Al hir entente, and in this cas the beste;
And fare now wel, for in this point I reste.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"--"If I should stay,"
Said Lamia, "here, upon this floor of clay,
And pain my steps upon these flowers too rough,
What canst thou say or do of charm enough
To dull the nice
remembrance
of my home?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Now that we twain might meet, women and men
In every land where I have felt for thee
Have taken
desolation
for their home,
Crying against me,--and against thee unknowing.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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POOR Isabella, with her sight on ground,
Confused, till then had
scarcely
looked around,
Now raised her eyes, and luckily perceived
The breeches, which her fears in part relieved,
And that the sisters, by surprise unnerved,
As oft's the case, had never once observed.
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La Fontaine |
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