The black ducks
mounting
from the lake,
The pigeon in the pines,
The bittern's boom, a desert make
Which no false art refines.
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Emerson - Poems |
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) And Li T'ai-po lived many hundred years
ago, but
Shakespeare
lived at a more recent period.
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Li Po |
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I thought to find the patriots
In whom the stock of freedom roots;
To myself I oft recount
Tales of many a famous mount,--
Wales, Scotland, Uri, Hungary's dells:
Bards, Roys, Scanderbegs and Tells;
And think how Nature in these towers
Uplifted shall condense her powers,
And lifting man to the blue deep
Where stars their perfect courses keep,
Like wise preceptor, lure his eye
To sound the science of the sky,
And carry learning to its height
Of untried power and sane delight:
The Indian cheer, the frosty skies,
Rear purer wits,
inventive
eyes,--
Eyes that frame cities where none be,
And hands that stablish what these see:
And by the moral of his place
Hint summits of heroic grace;
Man in these crags a fastness find
To fight pollution of the mind;
In the wide thaw and ooze of wrong,
Adhere like this foundation strong,
The insanity of towns to stem
With simpleness for stratagem.
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Emerson - Poems |
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our 55
The
_Cutpur?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I feel my anger
cooling!
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Aristophanes |
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There, -- sandals for the barefoot;
There, -- gathered from the gales,
Do the blue havens by the hand
Lead the
wandering
sails.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The
shutters
were drawn and the undertaker wiped his feet--
He was aware that this sort of thing had occurred before.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Leonor
You wish to remain here in
reverie?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Some
passages
are highly finished.
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Tacitus |
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So twixt each morn and night rise salient heaps:
Some cross with but a zigzag, jaded pace
From meal to meal: some with convulsive leaps
Shake the green
tussocks
of malign disgrace:
And some advance by system and deep art
O'er vantages of wealth, place, learning, tact.
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Sidney Lanier |
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_
[320] The
Nabathean
mountains; so named from Nabaoth, the son of
Ishmael.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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[37] A name formed out of two Greek words, meaning,
_running
away on a
horse_.
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Aristophanes |
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[Illustration]
The
Umbrageous
Umbrella-maker,
whose Face nobody ever saw, because it was
always covered by his Umbrella.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Already I have vowed it, to do nought
Save after counsel with my people ta'en,
King though I be; that ne'er in after time,
If ill fate chance, my people then may say--
_In aid of
strangers
thou the state hast slain_.
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Aeschylus |
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12 _concinens_ ACD:
_continens_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Rise man a
thousand
mornings
Yet down at last he lies,
And then the man is wise.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The Christian
overcomes
the devil by means of the whole armor of
God (shield of faith, helmet of salvation, sword of the Spirit, etc.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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" Belial advises that the
temptation
should be
continued by women "expert in amorous arts," but Satan rejects the
plan, and reminds Belial--
"Among the sons of men
How many have with a smile made small account
Of beauty and her lures.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Thine was the sword that Drusus drew,
When on the Breunian hordes he fell,
And storm'd the fierce
Genaunian
crew
E'en in their Alpine citadel,
And paid them back their debt twice told;
'Twas then the elder Nero came
To conflict, and in ruin roll'd
Stout Raetian kernes of giant frame.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Spots or cracks at the windows do not disturb me,
Tall and
sufficient
stand behind and make signs to me,
I read the promise and patiently wait.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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There is a great trade of smuggling carried on
along our coasts, which, however destructive to the interests of the
kingdom at large,
certainly
enriches this corner of it, but too often
at the expense of our morals.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Like thistle-down
The vapory clouds float in the
peaceful
sky;
And sweetly from yon hollow vaults of shade
The nightingales breathe out their souls in song.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In Macedonian fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that achieving the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur,
prospering
everywhere,
Might tumble down in more disastrous fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Nay, why, then, aim they at eternal wastes,
And spend
themselves
in vain?
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Lucretius |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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A universal
overflow!
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William Wordsworth |
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Quare nec tales
dignantur
visere coetus,
Nec se contingi patiuntur lumine claro.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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EPITAPH ON
SALATHIEL
PAVY,
A CHILD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CHAPEL.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He then suggests that "passions," by
which he means vices, are as
necessary
a part of the moral order as
storms of the physical world (ll.
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Alexander Pope |
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On the black promontory's windless head,
The last awake, the
fireflies
rise and fall
And tangle up their dithering skeins of light.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Kölbing
in Herrig's Archiv (Bd.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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TOOKS COURT,
CHANCERY
LANE, LONDON.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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As children bid the guest good-night,
And then reluctant turn,
My flowers raise their pretty lips,
Then put their
nightgowns
on.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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At the
beginning
of the eighteenth century, a Sung printed edition came
into the hands of a Mr.
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Li Po |
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It's
excessively
awkward to mention it now,
With the Snark, so to speak, at the door!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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"--He said, and gave the nod
That binds the Fates; the sanction of the god
And prompt to execute the eternal will,
Descended Pallas from the
Olympian
hill.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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--Dread roar'd the blast--the wave
Boils to the sky, the meeting
whirlwinds
rave
O'er the torn heav'ns; loud on their awe-struck ear
Great Nature seem'd to call, 'Approach not here!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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And having given
ourselves
all to amazement,
We are made like a prophesying song
Of life all joy, a bride in the arms of God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Chickens escaped
From farmyard congregations,
Crossed the Appalachians,
And turned to amber trumpets
On the ramparts of our Hoosiers' nest and citadel,
Millennial
heralds
Of the foggy mazy forest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Either they undertake to
appease the offended person or, better still, you say
something
witty,
you tell some comic story, perhaps one of those you have yourself heard
at table, either in Aesop's style or in that of Sybaris; all laugh and
the trouble is ended.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Yet both the ballads relate to the same event, and
that event which
probably
took place within the memory of persons
who were alive when both the ballads were made.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Not the food for which they famish: not the blankets
for want of which their babes are frozen by the cold of their miserable
hovels: not those comforts of civilization without which civilized man
is far more miserable than the meanest savage; oppressed as he is by all
its insidious evils, within the daily and taunting prospect of its
innumerable benefits assiduously exhibited before him:--no; for the
pride of power, for the miserable
isolation
of pride, for the false
pleasures of the hundredth part of society.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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I can say then that I have passed long days alone with my cat and alone with one of the last authors of the Roman decadence; for since the white creature is no more I have loved,
uniquely
and strangely, everything summed up in the word: fall.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I rush there: when, at my feet, entwine (bruised
By the languor tasted in their being-two's evil)
Girls sleeping in each other's arms' sole peril:
I seize them without
untangling
them and run
To this bank of roses wasting in the sun
All perfume, hated by the frivolous shade
Where our frolic should be like a vanished day.
| Guess: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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(Puritans like Xenophanes were
annoyed not with the gods for being as Homer described them, but with
Homer for
describing
them as he did.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The approach of evening or nightfall,
the coming of dawn, the change of the seasons, the slow changes of light
into darkness and of darkness into light, in short, the most silent yet
greatest
metamorphoses
in the external aspects of nature form the
contents of many of these first poems.
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| Question: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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TVLLIVM CICERONEM_
La1: _AD ROMVLVM_ RVen nondum mutati: _AD TVLLIVM_ C
2 _quot fuerunt_ AC: num _quot
fueruntque_?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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The fleet we feared,
entering
the estuary,
Seeks to surprise the town, scorch the country.
| Guess: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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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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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling
across the floors of silent seas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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INSCRIPTIONS
One's-Self I Sing
One's-self I sing, a simple
separate
person,
Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Collecting
anxiously
small loads of clay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Bēowulf geþah
ful on flette; nō hē þǣre feoh-gyfte
for scēotendum scamigan þorfte,
ne gefrægn ic
frēondlīcor
fēower mādmas
golde gegyrede gum-manna fela
1030 in ealo-bence ōðrum gesellan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Cries of men and
blare of
trumpets
rise up.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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]
Searching
auld wives' barrels,
Och--hon!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
May the power that sends it
Bless our beloved country, and restore
Its
banished
citizens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
His second
excursion
was made in the company of Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
How long, how long, in infinite Pursuit
Of This and That endeavour and
dispute?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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THE BOOK OF HOURS
_The Book of A Monk's Life_
I live my life in circles that grow wide
And
endlessly
unroll,
I may not reach the last, but on I glide
Strong pinioned toward my goal.
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Rilke - Poems |
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License as specified in
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
'
So when the Queen, who long had sought in vain
To break him from the intent to which he grew,
Found her son's will
unwaveringly
one,
She answered craftily, 'Will ye walk through fire?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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They in mutual guise
So answer'd, that the serpent split his train
Divided to a fork, and the pierc'd spirit
Drew close his steps together, legs and thighs
Compacted, that no sign of juncture soon
Was visible: the tail
disparted
took
The figure which the spirit lost, its skin
Soft'ning, his indurated to a rind.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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For when the sun is midway on his course
Between the blasts of
northwind
and of south,
Heaven keeps his two goals parted equally,
By virtue of the fixed position old
Of the whole starry Zodiac, through which
That sun, in winding onward, takes a year,
Illumining the sky and all the lands
With oblique light--as men declare to us
Who by their diagrams have charted well
Those regions of the sky which be adorned
With the arranged signs of Zodiac.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Thus did alone, with every wand'ring wended
As goal, the shimmer of two eyelets glow,
Thus your faint song as song of the year ascended,
And all befell, since you
ordained
it so.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
*
Why is the light of [[Vala]] Enitharmon darken'd in her dewy morn *
Why is the silence of [[Vala
lightning]]
Enitharmon a Cloud terror & her smile a whirlwind *
Uttering this darkness in my halls, in the pillars of my Holy-ones
Why dost thou weep [[O]] as Vala?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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A riche werk of
dronkelew
man; selde is yfounde,
For Tauerne & leccherie; many man bringe?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
'
Let me observe that I have spent six or seven days in composing this
sublime piece; the orb of my moonlike genius has made the fourth part
of its revolution round the dull earth which you inhabit, driving you
mad, while it has
retained
its calmness and its splendour, and I have
been fitting this its last phase 'to occupy a permanent station in the
literature of my country.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Oh the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
(63)
Our idol, Honour's motive force,
Round which
revolves
the universe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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_In Hilly-Wood_
How sweet to be thus nestling deep in boughs,
Upon an ashen stoven
pillowing
me;
Faintly are heard the ploughmen at their ploughs,
But not an eye can find its way to see.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Bolder grown,
By thy
compassion
to an outlaw shown,
The outlaw's meal beneath the forest shade,
The outlaw's couch far in the greenwood glade,
I offered.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
The heralds, then, pour'd water on their hands, 430
And the
attendant
youths, filling the cups,
Served them from left to right.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
A demon wishing to interrupt her prayers
extinguished
the light she carried, but divine power rekindled it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
The young man spake
No word [14] of indignation or reproof,
But of his father begged, a last request, 270
That a retreat might be assigned to him
Where in
forgotten
quiet he might dwell,
With such allowance as his wants required;
For wishes he had none.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
For in Ireland there is something of timid
affection
between men and
spirits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Where our desire is got without content:
'Tis safer, to be that which we destroy,
Then by
destruction
dwell in doubtfull ioy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
the very prison walls
Suddenly
seemed to reel,
And the sky above my head became
Like a casque of scorching steel;
And, though I was a soul in pain,
My pain I could not feel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
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limitation
set forth in this agreement
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
XCVII
When the early soft spring wind comes blowing
Over Rhodes and Samos and Miletus,
From the seven mouths of Nile to Lesbos,
Freighted with sea-odours and gold sunshine,
What news spreads among the island people 5
In the market-place of Mitylene,
Lending that unwonted stir of gladness
To the busy streets and thronging
doorways?
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Truly the
stars were given for a
consolation
to man.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Lucretius' blind Divinity
certainly
merited, and
probably got, as much self-sacrifice as this of the Sufi; and the
burden of Omar's Song--if not "Let us eat"--is assuredly--"Let us
drink, for To-morrow we die!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Being guiltless, as an innocent prisoner,
Who when the woful
sentence
hath been past,
And all the clearness of his fame hath gone
Beneath the shadow of the curse of men,
First falls asleep in swoon.
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Tennyson |
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Hence they
successes
seem to know.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Take my leaves America, take them South and take them North,
Make welcome for them everywhere, for they are your own off-spring,
Surround
them East and West, for they would surround you,
And you precedents, connect lovingly with them, for they connect
lovingly with you.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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in the air
I know not which thy chamber is, --
I 'm
knocking
everywhere.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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As for this worm, why he is not
guarding
at all, for his presence
Sullies both garden and fruit, till they deserve no defense.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Quem
patronum
rogaturus?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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He sees the churchyard slabs beyond,
Where country neighbours lie,
Their brief renown set lowly down;
_His_ name
assaults
the sky.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Not a waste, or needless sound
Till we com to holier ground,
I shall be your
faithfull
guide
Through this gloomy covert wide,
And not many furlongs thence
Is your Fathers residence,
Where this night are met in state
Many a friend to gratulate
His wish't presence, and beside 950
All the Swains that there abide,
With Jiggs, and rural dance resort,
We shall catch them at their sport,
And our sudden coming there
Will double all their mirth and chere;
Com let us haste, the Stars grow high,
But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.
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Milton |
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Meredith - Poems |
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The motif of _The Monk's Life_ is expressed in the poem beginning
with the lines:
"I live my life in circles that grow wide
And
endlessly
unroll.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Shame of this secret so weighs, Midas
unburdens
his heart.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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