And, for the town even now fearfully aches
In
scalding
thirst, not five days had I granted,
Had it not been for somewhat I must say
Secretly to thee.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The son referred to is,
according
to Ettmüller, the one that
reigns after Hrōðgār.
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Beowulf |
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In the
afternoon
I read Chaucer aloud.
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William Wordsworth |
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Of the interminable sisters,
Of the ceaseless cotillons of sisters,
Of the centripetal and centrifugal sisters, the elder and younger sisters,
The
beautiful
sister we know dances on with the rest.
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Whitman |
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That flower, whose sweets outlive the fragile rest
Which
quickens
man when he in earth is laid,
Would have been plucked or severed in the blade.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Posthumius turned
round to the multitude, and held up the gown, as if
appealing
to
the universal law of nations.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
It is, indeed, one of the loveliest
seclusions
in the world.
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Petrarch |
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"Not you," sighed I, "but my own
inconstancy!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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" Saadi was born in
1189 at Shiraz and was a reputed
descendant
from Ali, Mahomet's
son-in-law.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Equal signs before and after a word or phrase
indicate
=bold=
in the original text.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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'
`Uncle,' quod she, `your
maistresse
is not here!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Generals
and statesmen
played whist; young men lounged on sofas, eating ices or smoking.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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No long discourse
together
may we have;
Full well I know, Charles waits not our attack,
I take the glove from you, in spite of that.
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Chanson de Roland |
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" Beyond the bridge's head
Therewith he pass'd, and
reaching
the sixth pier,
Behov'd him then a forehead terror-proof.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
Contented
wi' little, &c.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Was God so
economical?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Now all is done, save what shall have no end:
Mine
appetite
I never more will grind
On newer proof, to try an older friend,
A god in love, to whom I am confin'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Thy voice is as the hill-wind over me,
And all my
changing
heart gives heed, my lover.
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Sappho |
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Alas when sighs are traders' lies,
And heart's-ease eyes and violet eyes
Are
merchandise!
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Sidney Lanier |
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With my
business
accomplished, ah, then shall only one temple,
AMOR's temple alone, take the initiate in.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Arise out of our dust, O unnamed avenger, to pursue the
Dardanian settlement with
firebrand
and steel.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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During the summer of 1867 I had the opportunity (which I had often wished
for) of expressing in print my
estimate
and admiration of the works of the
American poet Walt Whitman.
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Whitman |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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[406] A quarter of Athens where the Lampadephoria was held in honour of
Athene, Hephaestus, and Prometheus, because the first had given the
mortals oil, the second had
invented
the lamp, and the third had stolen
fire from heaven.
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Aristophanes |
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To some extent this is no doubt explained by a fact to which
he often refers in his letters, and which, in his own opinion,
hindered
him
not only from writing about himself in verse, but from writing verse at
all.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Further, when all the earth
Is by the cold compressed, and thus contracts
And, so to say, concretes, it happens, lo,
That by
contracting
it expresses then
Into the wells what heat it bears itself.
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Lucretius |
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That knowing no cause of quarrel or of feud
Between the Earl
Politian
and himself.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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in scattering compliments,
tendering
visits,
gathering and venting news, following feasts and plays, making a little
winter-love in a dark corner.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The bard whom pilfered pastorals renown,
Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown,
Just writes to make his barrenness appear,
And strains, from hard-bound brains, eight lines a year;
He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft,
Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left:
And he, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning,
Means not, but
blunders
round about a meaning:
And he, whose fustian's so sublimely bad,
It is not poetry, but prose run mad:
All these, my modest satire bade translate,
And owned that nine such poets made a Tate.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Thou wert not to share the search for Italian borders
and destined fields, nor the dim
Ausonian
Tiber.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
The
stranger
vanished .
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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XXVIII
His life was nigh unto deaths doore yplast,
And thred-bare cote, and cobled shoes he ware, 245
Ne scarse good morsell all his life did tast,
But both from backe and belly still did spare,
To fill his bags, and richesse to compare;
Yet chylde ne kinsman living had he none
To leave them to; but
thorough
daily care 250
To get, and nightly feare to lose his owne,
He led a wretched life unto him selfe unknowne.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I say it again, and, even though I sigh
Yet to my last sigh, I'll repeat that I
Have offended you, and yet I had to,
To wipe out my shame, and merit you;
But,
satisfying
honour and my father,
It is for your satisfaction I am here:
I am here to offer my life to you.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The
unfortunate
thing is that there have been none
since.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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she is so
constant
and so kind.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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" [4]
Or this or
something
like to this he spoke.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
_Laurence Binyon_
BELGIUM
_La Belgique ne regrette rien_
Not with her ruined silver spires,
Not with her cities shamed and rent,
Perish the imperishable fires
That shape the
homestead
from the tent.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The
regent and his attendants are struck with the warlike
grandeur
and power
of the strangers, and to accept of their friendship, or to prevent the
forerunners of so martial a nation from carrying home the tidings of the
discovery of India, becomes the great object of their consideration.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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This, and the two
following
Stanzas would have been withdrawn, as
somewhat de trop, from the Text, but for advice which I least like to
disregard.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of
chestnuts
in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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(Of many debts incalculable,
Haply our New World's
chieftest
debt is to old poems.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Shuddering
the body stood
One instant in an agony of blood,
And gasped and fell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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_ Notice that Keats only
says 'perhaps', but it gives a
trembling
unreality at once to the magic
palace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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What say you, all here
present?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Criseyde aroos, no lenger she ne stente,
But
straught
in-to hir closet wente anoon,
And sette here doun as stille as any stoon, 600
And every word gan up and doun to winde,
That he hadde seyd, as it com hir to minde;
And wex somdel astonied in hir thought,
Right for the newe cas; but whan that she
Was ful avysed, tho fond she right nought 605
Of peril, why she oughte afered be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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209, ii
Ite, uerecundo coniungite foedera lecto 360
Iucundum, mea uita, mihi proponis amorem 87, a
Iuli iugera pauca Martialis 273
Iuppiter hic risit tempestatesque serenae 21, ix
Iusserat haec rapidis aboleri carmina flammis 299
Iusta precor: quae me nuper praedata puellast 211
Iustum et tenacem propositi uirum 139
Iuuenis Sereni triste cernitis marmor 289
Laetus sum laudari me abs te, pater, a laudato uiro 9, i
Lais anus Veneri speculum dico: dignum habeat se 338
Lalla, lalla, lalla 4
Libertus Melioris ille notus 271, ii
Lilium uaga candido 64, i
Lucani proprium diem frequentet 256
Lucentes, mea uita, nec smaragdos 108, i
Ludi magister, parce simplici turbae 276
Lugete, o Veneres Cupidinesque 85, b
Luna decus mundi, magni pars maxima caeli 309
Lux mea
puniceum
misit mihi Lesbia malum 323
Maeonio uati qui par aut proximus esset 322, ii
Magna sapientia multasque uirtutes 5, iv
Magnum iter ad doctas proficisci cogor Athenas 175
Malest, Cornifici, tuo Catullo 103
Marmoreo Licinus tumulo iacet, at Cato nullo 105
Martia progenies, Hector, tellure sub ima 224
Martiis caelebs quid agam kalendis 131
Mater Lacaena clipeo obarmans filium 331
Mater optuma, tu multo mulier melior mulierum 24
Maximus Iliacae gentis certamina uates 198
Mea mater grauida parere se ardentem facem 25
Mea puer quid uerbi ex tuo ore audio?
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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As turns, as flies, the woodman
In the
Calabrian
brake,
When through the reeds gleams the round eye
Of that fell speckled snake;
So turned, so fled, false Sextus,
And hid him in the rear,
Behind the dark Lavinian ranks,
Bristling with crest and spear.
| 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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But land and sea waxed hoary
In whiteness of a glory
Never told in story
Nor seen by mortal eye,
When the third ship crossed the bar
Where whirls and breakers are,
And steered into the splendors of the sky;
That third bark and that least
Which had never seemed to feast,
Yet kept high
festival
above sun and moon and star.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Throughout the entire work of Rilke, in his poetry as well as in his
interpretations of painting and sculpture, there are two
elements
that
constitute the cornerstones in the structure of his art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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LIII
I
Blustering
god,
Stamping across the sky
With loud swagger,
I fear you not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
They are
being restrained and reclaimed little by little, and in time will become
useful citizens, but they still cherish
hereditary
traditions of
crime, and are a difficult lot to deal with.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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But at the last, as I bithought
Whether I sholde passe or nought, 2980
I saw come with a gladde chere
To me, a lusty bachelere,
Of good stature, and of good hight,
And
Bialacoil
forsothe he hight.
| 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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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see
Diogenes
Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
7 or obtain
permission
for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
That wikked wivere, 1010
Thus causelees is cropen in-to yow;
The harm of which I wolde fayn
delivere!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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So owned and enjoyed it
after
downfall
of devils, the Danish lord,
wonder-smiths' work, since the world was rid
of that grim-souled fiend, the foe of God,
murder-marked, and his mother as well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Said, Dear I love thee; and I sank and quailed
As if God's future
thundered
on my past.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Forbear, ye sons of
insolence!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
This time she came back at full dusk, stepping
down the breakneck descent into Kotgarh with
something
heavy in her
arms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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CLIV
The little Love-god lying once asleep,
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vow'd chaste life to keep
Came
tripping
by; but in her maiden hand
The fairest votary took up that fire
Which many legions of true hearts had warm'd;
And so the general of hot desire
Was, sleeping, by a virgin hand disarm'd.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I bless the hour, the season and the place,
So high and
heavenward
when my eyes could dare;
And say: "My heart!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
_Nature's Hymn to the Deity_
All nature owns with one accord
The great and
universal
Lord:
The sun proclaims him through the day,
The moon when daylight drops away,
The very darkness smiles to wear
The stars that show us God is there,
On moonlight seas soft gleams the sky
And "God is with us" waves reply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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MARIANA IN THE NORTH
All her youth is gone, her
beautiful
youth outworn,
Daughter of tarn and tor, the moors that were once her home
No longer know her step on the upland tracks forlorn
Where she was wont to roam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
THE MOODS
TIME drops in decay,
Like a candle burnt out,
And the
mountains
and woods
Have their day, have their day;
What one in the rout
Of the fire-born moods
Has fallen away?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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But him the paynim well awakes again,
Whom by the neck he with strong arm has caught,
And gripes and
grapples
with such mighty force,
He falls on earth, pulled headlong from his horse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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--
we saw you hover close,
caress her,
open her pore-cups,
make a cross of her,
quickly penetrate her--
she opening to you,
engulfing
you,
every limb of her,
bud of her, pore of her?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
To think just how the fire will burn,
Just how long-cheated eyes will turn
To wonder what myself will say,
And what itself will say to me,
Beguiles the
centuries
of way!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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From my own fate,
From out the
darkness
wherein long I fared
Worshipping stars and morsels of the light,
Through doors of golden morning now I pass
Into the great whole light and perfect day
Of shining Beauty, open to me at last.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
XXII
Once I saw
Mountains
angry,
And ranged in battle-front.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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or by the shafts
Of gentle Dian
suddenly
subdued?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
X
That
Emperour
inclined his head full low;
Hasty in speech he never was, but slow:
His custom was, at his leisure he spoke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
"
"Listen," I resumed, seeing how well
disposed
he was towards me, "I do
not know what to call you, nor do I seek to know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
"
And no old crone in feebler voice could plead
Than
Ladislaus
did.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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he acted as
Protector
of the kingdom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Open
Homer anywhere, and the casual grandeur of his untranslatable language
appears; such lines as:
amphi de naees
smerdaleon konabaesan
ausanton
hup' Achaion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
And will this divine grace, this supreme perfection depart those for whom life exists only to
discover
and glorify them?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Oh happy offspring of
Laertes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Erdman does not note this
placement
in his edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
How glad I am to be
suffered
to stay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
For in the world,
familiar
now, appears
No snare to tempt; so rare a light and true
Shines e'en from heaven my secret conscience through,
Of lost time and loved sin the glass it rears.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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All the happy songs he wrought
From remembrance soon must fade,
As the wash of silver
moonlight
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From a purple-dark ravine.
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Sappho |
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XII
As once we saw the children of the Earth
Pile peak on peak to scale the starry sky,
And fight against the very gods on high,
While Jove to his lightning-bolts gave birth:
Then all in thunder, suddenly reversed,
The furious squadrons earthbound lie,
Heaven glorying, while Earth must sigh,
Jove gaining all the honour and the worth:
So were once seen, in this mortal space,
Rome's Seven Hills raising a haughty face,
Against the very
countenance
of Heaven:
While now we see the fields, shorn of honour,
Lament their ruin, and the gods secure,
Dreading no more, on high, that fearful leaven.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Of night, or
lonelines
it recks me not,
I fear the dred events that dog them both,
Lest som ill greeting touch attempt the person
Of our unowned sister.
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Milton |
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When all the Jews go home to Syria,
When Chinese cooks go back to Canton, China,
When Japanese
photographers
return
With their black cameras to Tokio,
And Irish patriots to Donegal,
And Scotch accountants back to Edinburgh,
You will go back to India, whence you came.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The
bohemian
glass on the _étagère_ is no longer there.
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Imagists |
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She screamed an answer; but its sense was drowned
(Such rage
confused
that damsel) in the sound.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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You will see me any morning in the park
Reading the comics and the
sporting
page.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The gross, the coarse, the brazen,
God knows I cannot pity them, perhaps, as I should
do,
But, oh, ye delicate, wistful faces,
Who hath
forgotten
you?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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what
conqueror
hath committed this cruelty upon you?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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How dear to me, Sire, such
banishment!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The
visit to Liswyn took place after the
Wordsworths
had left Alfoxden
never to return.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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XXVIII
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
Bearing some trophy as an ornament,
Whose roots from earth are almost rent,
Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;
More than half-bowed towards its final bed,
Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,
While,
leafless
now, its heavy crown is leant
Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;
And though at the first strong wind it must fall,
And many young oaks are rooted within call,
Alone among the devout populace is revered:
Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,
That, among cities which have flourished here,
This old honoured dust was the most honoured.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,
And how, how rare and strange it is, to find
In a life
composed
so much, so much of odds and ends,
(For indeed I do not love it .
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T.S. Eliot |
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5
ten
prouincia
narrat esse bellam?
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Latin - Catullus |
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The light
Coquettes
in Sylphs aloft repair, 65
And sport and flutter in the fields of Air.
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Alexander Pope |
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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.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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a
shuddring
ran from East to West *
A Groan was heard on high.
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Blake - Zoas |
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