, huc reuocauit Politianus
4
_insidias_
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Thou sweetest
minstrel
of the grove,
That ever tried the plaintive strain,
Awake thy tender tale of love,
And soothe a poor forsaken swain.
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Robert Burns |
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The miserable despot could not quell
The
insulted
mind he sought to quench, and blend
With the surrounding maniacs, in the hell
Where he had plunged it.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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If I should n't be alive
When the robins come,
Give the one in red cravat
A
memorial
crumb.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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We see the first (the only one we know)
Dispersed and, shining through,
The other six declining: Those that hold
The stars and moons, together with all those
Containing
rain and fire and sullen weather;
Cellars of dew-fall higher than the brim;
Huge arsenals with centuries of snows;
Infinite rows of storms and swarms of seraphim.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Practised
alike to turn, to stop, to chase,
To dare the fight, or urge the rapid race:
These late obey'd ?
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Iliad - Pope |
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From Casa Guidi windows I looked out,
Again looked, and beheld a
different
sight.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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What race
Are these, who seem so
overcome
with woe?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Fair shines the sun, the day is bright and clear,
Light bums again from all their
polished
gear.
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Chanson de Roland |
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_
L'hiver, nous irons dans un petit wagon rose
Avec des
coussins
bleus.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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God grant, not that, not that, but some plain grace
Of manhood to the man who brings me love:
A father of
straight
children, that shall move
Swift on the wings of War.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
Before she was fifteen the great
struggle
of her life began.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Why not, just thrown at careless ease
'Neath plane or pine, our locks of grey
Perfumed
with Syrian essences
And wreathed with roses, while we may,
Lie drinking?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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This being so, it might be
thought that Keats could hardly have done
anything
for the real progress
of epic.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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4 su-si [54]
TRANSLATION
Gilgamish
arose interpreting dreams,
addressing his mother.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"This old stone"--growls Atta Troll--
"Is the altar, where the Druids
"In the days of superstition
Human
sacrifices
butchered.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Per morder quella, in pena e in disio
cinquemilia
anni e piu l'anima prima
bramo colui che 'l morso in se punio.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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For there's nae luck about the house,
There's nae luck at a';
There's little
pleasure
in the house
When our gudeman's awa.
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Golden Treasury |
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Though true it be that none with surer seat
O'er Mars's grassy turf is seen to ride,
Nor any swims so fleet
Adown the Tuscan tide,
Yet keep each evening door and window barr'd;
Look not abroad when music strikes up shrill,
And though he call you hard,
Remain
obdurate
still.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Highbury
bore me.
| Guess: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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VIII
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
So that one might judge this single city
Had found her
grandeur
held in check solely
By earth and ocean's depth and latitude.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Or quick effluvia darting thro' the brain,
Die of a rose in
aromatic
pain?
| Guess: |
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Alexander Pope |
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And their friends, the
loitering
heirs of city directors; 180
Departed, have left no addresses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Les Odes: O
Fontaine
Bellerie
O Fount of Bellerie,
Fountain sweet to see,
Dear to our Nymphs when, lo,
Waves hide them at your source
Fleeing the Satyr so,
Who follows them, in his course,
To the borders of your flow.
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Ronsard |
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He does not rise in piteous haste
To put on convict-clothes,
While some coarse-mouthed Doctor gloats, and notes
Each new and nerve-twitched pose,
Fingering a watch whose little ticks
Are like
horrible
hammer-blows.
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| Question: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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373
Brandl,
Professor
A.
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Byron |
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88 But this concealment of his glory served to augment it; since men were led to entertain a high idea of the
grandeur
of his future views, when such important services were passed over in silence.
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Tacitus |
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[284]
How do you like the
foregoing?
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| Question: |
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Robert Forst |
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With shining eyes the stars awoke,
The dew lay heavy on his cloak,
The world was dim;
And in the
stillness
he could hear
His secret thoughts draw very near
And call to him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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You are near to me, and your naked feet in their sandals,
And through the scent of the balcony's naked timber
I distinguish the scent of your hair; so now the limber
Lightning
falls from heaven.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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MUST plant less ground,
And MUSTN'T eat what's
boughten!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Purgatorio
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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NA AUDIART
"QUE BE-M VOLS MAL"
Any one who has read anything of the troubadours knows well the tale of Bertran of Born and My Lady Maent of Mon- taignac, and knows also the song he made when she would none
her love-lit glance, of Aelis her speech free-running, of the Vicomp- tess of Chales her throat and her two hands, at Roacoart of Anhes her hair golden as Iseult's ; and even in this fashion of Lady Audiart, "
although
she would that ill come unto him" he sought
and praised the lineaments of the torse.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
org
Title: The Complete Works of Robert Burns:
Containing
his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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What are you
shouting
for?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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The Dresden clock
continued
ticking on the mantelpiece,
And the footman sat upon the dining-table
Holding the second housemaid on his knees--
Who had always been so careful while her mistress lived.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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The harmony is far too great,
That governs all her body fair,
For impotence to analyse
And say which note is
sweetest
there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Mount Venus, Jupiter, and all the rest
Are finger-tips of ranges
clasping
round
And holding up the Romany's wide sky.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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This silver bowl, whose costly margins shine
Enchased with old, this valued gift be thine;
To me this present, of Vulcanian frame,
From Sidon's
hospitable
monarch came;
To thee we now consign the precious load,
The pride of kings, and labour of a god.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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How
condescending
to descend,
And be of buttercups the friend
In a New England town!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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org),
you must, at no
additional
cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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*****
And the conditions force [the water and air]
Deeply to
penetrate
from the open sea,
And to out-blow abroad, and to up-bear
Thereby the flame, and to up-cast from deeps
The boulders, and to rear the clouds of sand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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No
messenger
from him!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Epic poetry would
therefore
be undertaken again; but now, of
course, deliberately.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLX
Now, when Jupiter, fired by his lusts,
Wants to conceive the jewels of his eyes,
And with the heat of his burning thighs
Fills Juno's moist womb with his thrusts:
Now, when the sea, or when violent gusts
Of wind grant way to great ships of war,
And when the nightingale, in forest far,
Renews her
grievance
against Tereus:
Now, when the meadows and when the flowers
With thousands upon thousands of colours
Paint the breast of the earth so bright all round,
Alone and thoughtful among the secret cliffs,
With a silent heart I tell over my regrets,
And through the woods I go, hiding my wound.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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_Numbers
ne'er tickle_, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
In these long winter nights when the idle Moon
Steers her chariot so slowly on its way,
When the
cockerel
so tardily calls the day,
When night to the troubled soul seems years through:
I would have died of misery if not for you,
In shadowy form, coming to ease my fate,
Utterly naked in my arms, to lie and wait,
Sweetly deceiving me with a specious view.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Of all things I bid you, do not fly to the land of the north-west
In Huai-hsi there are rebel bands[78] that have not been subdued;
And a thousand thousand
armoured
men have long been camped in war.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Quivi venimmo; e quindi giu nel fosso
vidi gente
attuffata
in uno sterco
che da li uman privadi parea mosso.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Though oak-beams split,
though boats and sea-men flounder,
and the strait grind sand with sand
and cut
boulders
to sand and drift--
your eyes have pardoned our faults,
your hands have touched us--
you have leaned forward a little
and the waves can never thrust us back
from the splendour of your ragged coast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Because
Helen was wanton, and her master knew
No curb for her: for that, for that, he slew
My
daughter!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Keats - Lamia |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Why does your tender palm
dissolve
in dew?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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JOHN GOULD FLETCHER
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER
THE BLUE SYMPHONY
I
The
darkness
rolls upward.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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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 |
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Note:
Bellerie
was situated on his family estate La Possonniere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
IO
O daring, proven
champion
of man's race,
What sin, Prometheus, dost thou thus atone?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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but wicked
errour
mysto{ur}ni?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Note:
Bellerie
was situated on his family estate La Possonniere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black,
Her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem
At such who, not born fair, no beauty lack,
Sland'ring
creation
with a false esteem:
Yet so they mourn becoming of their woe,
That every tongue says beauty should look so.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Quand, lave des odeurs du jour, le jardinet
Derriere
la maison, en hiver s'illunait,
Gisant au pied d'un mur, enterre dans la marne
Et pour des visions ecrasant son oeil darne,
Il ecoutait grouiller les galeux espaliers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Mir wuhlt es Mark und Leben durch, das Elend dieser einzigen- du grinsest
gelassen uber das
Schicksal
von Tausenden hin!
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Subito si com' io di lor m'accorsi,
quelle stimando
specchiati
sembianti,
per veder di cui fosser, li occhi torsi;
e nulla vidi, e ritorsili avanti
dritti nel lume de la dolce guida,
che, sorridendo, ardea ne li occhi santi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And whoever walks along there
Stops short and sees,
By the moist tree-roots
In a
clearing
of the trees,
Yellow great battalions of them,
Blowing in the breeze.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Can the spice-rose
drip such acrid fragrance
hardened
in a leaf?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast,
quenching
my fire,
A deity at the gods' ambrosial feast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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O Muck, Brothel-Spawn, or
e'en
loathsomer
if it is possible so to be!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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f
* Some call it Dunkirk house,
intimating
that it was
builded by liis share of the price of Dunkirk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Stephen Crane |
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Of course,
authority
and compulsion are out of the question.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Lucretius |
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They perished in the
seamless
grass, --
No eye could find the place;
But God on his repealless list
Can summon every face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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'
But staying longer complaint, Venus thus broke in on his half-told
sorrows:
'Whoso thou art, not hated I think of the
immortals
[388-420]dost thou
draw the breath of life, who hast reached the Tyrian city.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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The scents of red roses and
sandalwood
flutter
and die in the maze of their gem-tangled hair,
And smiles are entwining like magical serpents
the poppies of lips that are opiate-sweet;
Their glittering garments of purple are burning
like tremulous dawns in the quivering air,
And exquisite, subtle and slow are the tinkle
and tread of their rhythmical, slumber-soft feet.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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This is the alchemical fusion of male and female
principles
which produces gold, a process sacred to Hermes Trismegistos.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Meredith - Poems |
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And if more were needed to
disprove
Mons.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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formed to eat, and be despised, and die,
Even as the beasts that perish, save that thou
Hadst a more
splendid
trough, and wider sty:
HE!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Very few perhaps are
familiar
with these lines--yet no less a poet
than Shelley is their author.
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None hitherto hath shaken
His purpose, not the patriarch, not the boyars
His counselors; their tears, their prayers he heeds not;
Deaf is he to the wail of Moscow, deaf
To the Great Council's voice; vainly they urged
The
sorrowful
nun-queen to consecrate
Boris to sovereignty; firm was his sister,
Inexorable as he; methinks Boris
Inspired her with this spirit.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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He's
shrewdly
vex'd at something.
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Shakespeare |
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fēla lāfe (_the
leavings of files_ = swords, Grein), 1033; so, homera lāfe, 2830; on him
gladiað gomelra lāfe, heard and hringmǣl Heaðobeardna
gestrēon
(_on him
gleams the forefather's bequest, hard and ring-decked, the Heaðobeardas'
treasure_, i.
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Beowulf |
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A strange weird world such forest was to thee,
Where mingled truth and dreams in mystery;
There leaned old ruminating pines, and there
The giant elms, whose boughs
deformed
and bare
A hundred rough and crooked elbows made;
And in this sombre group the wind had swayed,
Nor life--nor death--but life in death seemed found.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"
The oldest title I ever heard to this air, was, "The
Highland
Watch's
Farewell to Ireland.
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Robert Forst |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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THE ASHANTEE
(Jardin d'Acclimatation, Paris)
No vision of exotic southern countries,
No dancing women, supple, brown and tall
Whirling from out their falling draperies
To melodies that beat a fierce mad call;
No sound of songs that from the hot blood rise,
No langorous, stretching, dusky, velvet maids
Flashing like gleaming weapon their bright eyes,
No swift, wild thrill the
quickening
blood pervades.
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Rilke - Poems |
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