My friends, I confess it:
Great
displeasure
I take lying alone in my bed.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you should hold it in your hands";
(Slowly twisting the lilac stalks)
"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,
And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
And smiles at
situations
which it cannot see.
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T.S. Eliot |
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May be that I by heaven's decrees
Shall
abdicate
the bard's profession,
And shall adopt some new caprice.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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[551] A poet and musician of Mitylene, who gained the prize of the lyre
at the
Panathenaea
in 457 B.
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Aristophanes |
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She that in bed such love does win,
Is
cleansed
forever of her sin.
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Troubador Verse |
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At last they slowed their
impetuous
flight.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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" I decided that
if the shaking of her breasts could be stopped, some of the fragments
of the afternoon might be collected, and I concentrated my attention
with careful
subtlety
to this end.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Herman
received
it and at once left
the table.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Alone for
Holofernes
am I come.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And
thenceforth
shall so firm an amity
'Twixt thee and me be, that neither Fortune,
The monstrous phantom which pursues success, _180
That careful miser, that free prodigal,
Who ever alternates, with changeful hand,
Evil and good, reproach and fame; nor Time,
That lodestar of the ages, to whose beam
The winged years speed o'er the intervals _185
Of their unequal revolutions; nor
Heaven itself, whose beautiful bright stars
Rule and adorn the world, can ever make
The least division between thee and me,
Since now I find a refuge in thy favour.
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Shelley |
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_The Plot:_ Una
wandering
in quest of her Knight is guarded by a Lion.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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_Moray Dalton_
THE PLAYERS
We
challenged
Death.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
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Ronsard |
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It should be added that this is not a haphazard
anthology
of picked-over
poetry.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The inspiring god Oileus' active son
Perceived
the first, and thus to Telamon:
"Some god, my friend, some god in human form
Favouring descends, and wills to stand the storm.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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One hand she press'd upon that aching spot
Where beats the human heart, as if just there,
Though an immortal, she felt cruel pain:
The other upon Saturn's bended neck
She laid, and to the level of his ear
Leaning with parted lips, some words she spake
In solemn tenour and deep organ tone:
Some mourning words, which in our feeble tongue
Would come in these like accents; O how frail 50
To that large
utterance
of the early Gods!
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Keats |
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We have kings, I say,
To keep cash going, and the game at play;
There's why a king wants money--he'd be missed
Without a
fertilizing
civil list.
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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--The Brocken or
Blocksberg
is
the highest peak of the Harz mountains, which comprise about 1350 square
miles.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Father Damien was Christ-like when he went out to live with the lepers,
because in such service he
realised
fully what was best in him.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Scorn &
Indignation
rose upon Enitharmon
Then Enitharmon reddning fierce stretchd her immortal hands *
?
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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auro
repensus
scilicet acrior
miles redibit.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Facing this last, two samplers you might see,
Each, with its urn and stiffly weeping tree,
Devoted to some memory long ago
More faded than their lines of worsted woe;
Cut paper decked their frames against the flies,
Though none e'er dared an entrance who were wise, 320
And bushed
asparagus
in fading green
Added its shiver to the franklin clean.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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asked
Baudelaire
after he had read Griswold on Poe.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Not falsely to
constrain!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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And you, ye twinkling
starnies
bright,
My Matthew mourn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Euryclea awakens
Penelope
with the news of Ulysses' return, and
the death of the suitors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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MARIE (_kneeling):_
Merciful
God, have pity on him!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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'
hactenus, et mouit pictis innixa cothurnis
densum
caesarie
terque quaterque caput.
| 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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whanne hir 2060
blysfulnesse
dure?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Place me where on the ice-bound plain
No tree is cheer'd by summer breezes,
Where Jove
descends
in sleety rain
Or sullen freezes;
Place me where none can live for heat,
'Neath Phoebus' very chariot plant me,
That smile so sweet, that voice so sweet,
Shall still enchant me.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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If you are redistributing or
providing
access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I can't support myself: my
strength
has left me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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"--I am so apt to a _lapsus linguae_, that I sometimes think
the character of a certain great man I have read of
somewhere
is very
much _apropos_ to myself--that he was a compound of great talents and
great folly.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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That ought to be
sufficient
for those American Intellectuals who are bemoaning the deca dence of poetry.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Relations
between the two peoples
have been strained before.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
)
Soe wylle wee beere the
Dacyanne
armie downe,
And throughe a storme of blodde wyll reache the champyon crowne.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Scottish
scenes
and Scottish story are the themes I could wish to sing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Aye free, aff-han', your story tell,
When wi' a bosom crony;
But still keep something to yoursel',
Ye scarcely tell to ony:
Conceal yoursel' as weel's ye can
Frae
critical
dissection;
But keek thro' ev'ry other man,
Wi' sharpen'd, sly inspection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Again doth flash our old ancestral sword,
This
glorious
sword--the dread of dark Kazan!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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For my crime I now
conceive
a perfect terror:
I view my life with hatred, my love with horror.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Thy master and thy
mistress
live.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
XI
And
therefore
if to love can be desert,
I am not all unworthy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Ah me,
My brother, should it strike not him, but thee,
This
wrestling
with dark death, behold, I too
Am dead that hour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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e
p{ur}ueau{n}ce
woot byforn
to comen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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For the
position
of _tantum_ cf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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By brooks too broad for leaping
The
lightfoot
boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Which to
abrupter
greatness thrust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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at non multa uirum sub signis milia ducta
una dies dabat exitio nec turbida ponti
aequora
lidebant
nauis ad saxa uirosque.
| 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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And while in grief dissolved all weep and sigh,
She, in meek silence, joyous sits secure,
Gathering
already virtue's guerdon high.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
"
Thus Castera, who, with the same spirit of sagacity, starts and answers
the following objections: "But here is a difficulty: Camoens wrote
during the life of Don Sebastian, but the circumstance he relates (the
return of GAMA)
happened
several years before, under the reign of
Emmanuel.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Si n'estoit pas bien atornee,
Ains sembloit estre forcenee,
Rechignie
avoit et froncie
Le vis, et le nes secorcie.
| 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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They arrive here,
carrying lanterns in their hands and singing the
charming
old verses of
Phrynichus' "Sidonian Women";[42] 'tis their way of calling him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
We play at paste,
Till
qualified
for pearl,
Then drop the paste,
And deem ourself a fool.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Constrain'd, the choicest beeves I thence import,
To cram these
cormorants
that crowd his court:
Who in partition seek his realm to share;
Nor human right nor wrath divine revere,
Since here resolved oppressive these reside,
Contending doubts my anxious heart divide:
Now to some foreign clime inclined to fly,
And with the royal herd protection buy;
Then, happier thoughts return the nodding scale,
Light mounts despair, alternate hopes prevail:
In opening prospects of ideal joy,
My king returns; the proud usurpers die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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To waft o'er yonder main
Thy bark, that bids the world adieu for aye
To seek a better strand,
The western winds their ready wings expand;
Which, through the dangers of that dusky way,
Where all deplore the first infringed command,
Will guide her safe, from primal bondage free,
Reckless
to stop or stay,
To that true East, where she desires to be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
The bold proposal how shall I fulfil,
Dark as I am,
unconscious
of thy will?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
In a solitary place the
bridegrooms seized their brides,
stripped
them, scourged them,
and departed, leaving them for dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
General Terms of Use and
Redistributing
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Nor had I time to love; but since
Some
industry
must be,
The little toil of love, I thought,
Was large enough for me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Da la sua sponda, ove confina il vano,
al pie de l'alta ripa che pur sale,
misurrebbe in tre volte un corpo umano;
e quanto l'occhio mio potea trar d'ale,
or dal
sinistro
e or dal destro fianco,
questa cornice mi parea cotale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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' The
Cytherean
gave
ready assent to her request, and laughed at the wily invention.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
e metail
anamayld
was ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Thou know'st her grace in moving, Thou dost her skill in loving,
Thou know'st what truth she proveth, Thou knowest the heart she moveth, O song where grief
assoneth
!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone
Roots and leaves
themselves
alone are these,
Scents brought to men and women from the wild woods and pond-side,
Breast-sorrel and pinks of love, fingers that wind around tighter
than vines,
Gushes from the throats of birds hid in the foliage of trees as the
sun is risen,
Breezes of land and love set from living shores to you on the living
sea, to you O sailors!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The father was a villain, but the
children
are
innocent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Thro' everie troope
disorder
reer'd her hedde; 15
Dancynge and heideignes was the onlie theme;
Sad dome was theires, who lefte this easie bedde,
And wak'd in torments from so sweet a dream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
The beauteous queen, advancing next, display'd
The shining veil, and thus endearing said:
"Accept, dear youth, this
monument
of love,
Long since, in better days, by Helen wove:
Safe in thy mother's care the vesture lay,
To deck thy bride and grace thy nuptial day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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There in captivitie he lets them dwell
The space of
seventie
years, then brings them back,
Remembring mercie, and his Cov'nant sworn
To David, stablisht as the dayes of Heav'n.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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This lady, however, whose
name is unknown, strove to
convince
Laura that she ought to treat her
lover with less severity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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At half-past four, experiment
Had
subjugated
test,
And lo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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But doubly fortunate my lot; not here
Alone, that something of a better life
Perhaps was round me than it is the privilege
Of most to move in, but that first I looked 315
At Man through objects that were great or fair;
First
communed
with him by their help.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Lord of the rainbow, lord of the harvest,
Great and
beneficent
lord of the main!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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nunc et campus et areae
lenesque sub noctem susurri
conposita repetantur hora,
nunc et latentis
proditor
intumo
gratus puellae risus ab angulo
pignusque dereptum lacertis
aut digito male pertinaci.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Infanta
The sacred bond twixt
Rodrigue
and Chimene
Will quench the hatred between warring flames;
And we shall swiftly see your love the stronger:
Through a happy marriage, stifling all anger.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
A woman, next, a labourer at the mill
Hard by, where all the palace-mills were wrought,
Gave him the omen of
propitious
sound.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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THE
STATIONER
TO THE READER.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
The armed men more weighty were for that,
Many of them down to the bottom sank,
Downstream the rest floated as they might hap;
So much water the luckiest of them drank,
That all were drowned, with
marvellous
keen pangs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
By
sunlight
or by starlight ever thou
Art excellent in beauty manifold;
The still star victory ever gems thy brow;
Age cannot age thee, ages make thee old.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
The world were blest did bliss on them depend,
Ah, that "the
friendly
e'er should want a friend!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
The feerie[6] heaulmets, wythe the wreathes amielde[7], 5
Supportes the rampynge lyoncell[8] orr beare,
Wythe
straunge
depyctures[9], Nature maie nott yeelde,
Unseemelie to all orderr doe appere,
Yett yatte[10] to menne, who thyncke and have a spryte[11],
Makes knowen thatt the phantasies unryghte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Yes; and in yon field below,
A thousand years of silenced
factions
sleep--
The Forum, where the immortal accents glow,
And still the eloquent air breathes--burns with Cicero!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
My heart unable to defend itself,
I gave away what I dared not take myself;
In my stead, let Chimene drink the wine,
And fire their passion to
extinguish
mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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INDEX OF NAMES
[The
references
are to the chapters of the Latin text as given in the
margin.
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Tacitus |
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Individual
was
precipitated.
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James Russell Lowell |
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IX
Villa Serbelloni, Bellaggio
The
fountain
shivers lightly in the rain,
The laurels drip, the fading roses fall,
The marble satyr plays a mournful strain
That leaves the rainy fragrance musical.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The
principal
prisoners for whom Petrarch was commissioned to plead,
were the Counts Minervino, di Lucera, and Pontenza.
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Petrarch |
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31
I know you step within mine house 32
'Tis not wise until the latest hour 32
The hill where o'er we wander lies in shadow 33
Needs must thou be upon the wastelands
yearning
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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This Diamond he greetes your Wife withall,
By the name of most kind Hostesse,
And shut vp in
measurelesse
content
Mac.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast brilliant light
Beneath hideous
centuries
that darken it the less.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Not from those that will jest
at their own outward imperfections, but hide their ulcers within, their
pride, lust, envy, ill-nature, with all the art and
authority
they can.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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O
countless
the brave acts, courageousness
Concealed itself from knowledge in the darkness,
Where each, the sole true witness of his blows,
Could not discern whose side fortune chose!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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qu'on ne sache plus si c'est
bataille
ou danse!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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What noble work is ours,
To have our bodies proper for your love,
The means of your
delight!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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tis a syghte of myckle woe, 15
To kenne these
Normannes
everich rennome gayne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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je veux qu'on me couche
Parmi les Morts des eaux
nocturnes
abreuves!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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