With mien to match the morning
And gay
delightful
guise
And friendly brows and laughter
He looked me in the eyes.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's
countless
blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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While it repeats many of the
omissions
and
inaccuracies of Heyne's fourth edition, it contains much that is valuable
to the student, particularly in the notes and commentary.
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Beowulf |
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Ful
blisseful
mowe
they ben when they wake; O.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Eternal Nymph, you're the grace
Of my
ancestral
place:
So, in this fresh, green view,
See your Poet, who brings
An un-weaned kid to you,
Whose horns, in offering,
Bud from its brow in youth.
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Ronsard |
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muneri_ GCRVen:
_numeri_
OALa1
16 _hec al.
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Latin - Catullus |
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_5
I would sail on the waves of the billowy wind
To the
mountain
peak and the rocky lake,
And the.
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Shelley |
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The thunder-lipped grey guns
Lament him, fierce and slow,
Where he found his
dreamless
bed,
Head to head with a foe.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Notre ame est un trois-mats cherchant son Icarie;
Une voix
retentit
sur le pont: << Ouvre l'oeil!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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--Good
gracious
me, how merrily they fare:
One sees a fairer cowslip than the rest,
And off they shout--the foremost bidding fair
To get the prize--and earnest half and jest
The next one pops her down--and from her hand
Her basket falls and out her cowslips all
Tumble and litter there--the merry band
In laughing friendship round about her fall
To helpen gather up the littered flowers
That she no loss may mourn.
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John Clare |
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Peaks and ridges
tottered
and broke.
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Li Po |
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You know the
councils
of the ever-living,
And all the tossing of your wings is joy,
And all that murmuring's but a marriage song;
But if it be reproach, I answer this:
There is not one among you that made love
By any other means.
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Yeats |
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Perching
on the sceptred hand
Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king
With ruffled plumes, and flagging wing:
Quench'd in dark clouds of slumber lie
The terror of his beak, and lightnings of his eye.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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_Enter_ PHERES _with
followers
bearing robes and gifts_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Take this purse,
Two
thousand
crowns in gold.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Over the manhole, up in the iron-clad tower,
Pilot and Captain met as they turned to fly:
The
hundredth
part of a moment seemed an hour,
For one could pass to be saved, and one must die.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Above all, considering imagery to be the soul of poetry, I have avoided
either adding images of my own or
suppressing
those of the original.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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'
And eek the sonne Tytan gan he chyde,
And seyde, `O fool, wel may men thee dispyse, 1465
That hast the Dawing al night by thy syde,
And
suffrest
hir so sone up fro thee ryse,
For to disesen loveres in this wyse.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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But the
queen became ill as the time for the tour jousts drew near and he asked
her whether she was too feeble to go to see
Lancelot
in the lists.
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Tennyson |
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Did the
harebell
loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as formerly?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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THE present version of _The Countess Cathleen_ is not quite the version
adopted by the Irish Literary Theatre a couple of years ago, for our
stage and scenery were capable of little; and it may differ still more
from any stage version I make in future, for it seems that my people
of the waters and my unhappy dead, in the third act, cannot keep their
supernatural essence, but must put on too much of our mortality, in
any
ordinary
theatre.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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" I said, "when I shall con,"
we find, in the latest text, the lines--first adopted in 1827:
I stood, of simple shame the blushing Thrall;
So narrow seemed the brooks, the fields so small,
while the early edition of 1807
contains
the far happier lines:
To see the Trees, which I had thought so tall,
Mere dwarfs; the Brooks so narrow, Fields so small.
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William Wordsworth |
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Like one, that on a lonely road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turn'd round, walks on
And turns no more his head:
Because he knows, a
frightful
fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Well I
descried
the whiteness on their heads;
But in their visages the dazzled eye
Was lost, as faculty that by too much
Is overpower'd.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Yet would your powers in vain our
strength
oppose.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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By grief
enfeebled
was I turned adrift,
Helpless as sailor cast on desart rock;
Nor morsel to my mouth that day did lift,
Nor dared my hand at any door to knock.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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[Till they had drawn the Spectre quite away from Enion]
And drawing in the
Spectrous
life in pride and haughty joy
Thus Enion gave them all her spectrous life in dark despair.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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She foundered on a rock, while we clambered up the shrouds,
And
staggered
like a mountain drunk, wedged in the waves almost.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Enter
Macduffes
Wife, her Son, and Rosse.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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that
dwellest
where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Es ist eben
geschehn!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Two spies at
distance
lurk, and watchful seem
If sheep or oxen seek the winding stream.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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That
Emperour
by way of hostage guards it;
Four benches then upon the place he marshals
Where sit them down champions of either party.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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org/dirs/1/1/4/1141
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions will
be renamed.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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There are of them, in truth, who fear their harm,
And to the
shepherd
cleave; but these so few,
A little stuff may furnish out their cloaks.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond,
Thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loud;
Repair thy wit, good youth, or it will fall
To
cureless
ruin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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"
The
following
passage from ** Mr.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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1202)
Fortz chausa es que tot lo maior dan
A harsh thing it is that brings such harm,
Peire
Cardenal
(c.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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I saw where in the shroud did lurk
A curious frame of Nature's work;
A flow'ret crushed in the bud,
A nameless piece of Babyhood
Was in her cradle-coffin lying;
Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying:
So soon to
exchange
the imprisoning womb
For darker closets of the tomb!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Strange unto her each
childish
game,
But when the winter season came
And dark and drear the evenings were,
Terrible tales she loved to hear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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_ Does wandering in these desolate seas
And listening to the cry of wind and wave
Bring
madness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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High in the midst the great
Achilles
stands,
Directs their order, and the war commands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Upon this night no
sentinels
keep watch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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It hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place to the
devil wrath: one
unperfectness
shows me another, to make me
frankly despise myself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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"We see an instance of Coleridge's liability to err, in his 'Biographia
Literaria'--professedly his
literary
life and opinions, but, in fact, a
treatise _de omni scibili et quibusdam aliis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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I skoal to the eyes as grey-blown mere (Who knows whose was that
paragon?
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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)--"which flows
continuously, with only an aspirate pause in the middle, like that
before the short line in the Sapphic Adonic, while the fifth has at the
middle pause no similarity of sound with any part besides, gives the
versification an
entirely
different effect.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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And let Aquinas present his
arguments to the contrary, That those spirits have no naturall power
to know thoughts; we seek no farther, but that Jesus Christ himself
thought it
argument
enough to convince the Scribes and Pharisees,
and prove himself God, by knowing their thoughts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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For twenty men that you shall now send in
To France the Douce he will repair, that King;
In the rereward will follow after him
Both his nephew, count Rollant, as I think,
And Oliver, that
courteous
paladin;
Dead are the counts, believe me if you will.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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24 The
charriot
of Triumph, which most of them are.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of
Replacement
or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Luvah breaking in the woes of Vala] {Erdman suggests that 'breaking' is a word from an unrelated layer of ms, and 'woes of Vala' as previously
misrecognised
in Ellis' transcription as 'womb of Vala' EJC}
[But soon ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Bet ne'er the Furies or of Thebes or Troy
With such fell cruelty were seen, their goads
Infixing in the limbs of man or beast,
As now two pale and naked ghost I saw
That
gnarling
wildly scamper'd, like the swine
Excluded from his stye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And weary was the long patrol,
The thousand miles of
shapeless
strand,
From Brazos to San Blas that roll
Their drifting dunes of desert sand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Your
Garibaldi
missed the mark!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The court thought your principles vigorous, 12
receiving
a summons, you were ordered to take part in planning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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In fact, the fellow, worthless we'll suppose,
Had viewed from far what accidents arose,
Then turned aside, his safety to secure,
And left his master dangers to endure;
So
steadily
be kept upon the trot,
To Castle-William, ere 'twas night, he got,
And took the inn which had the most renown;
For fare and furniture within the town,
There waited Reynold's coming at his ease,
With fire and cheer that could not fail to please.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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My heart failed me when we
entered the little room I knew so well, where could still be seen on the
wall the
commission
of the late deceased Commandant, as a sad memorial.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Gradually
it became plain to him he could not
finish it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Than wente I forth,
withouten
were,
Unto my Freend, and tolde him al,
Which was right Ioyful of my tale.
| 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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'
Pierrot's Speech
A lunar
reveller
simply
Making circles in ponds,
I've no designs beyond
Becoming legendary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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The idea of Fate 'arose from the
observation
of the
regularity of the sidereal movements'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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And art thou
sleeping
yet?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Hence perdition-doom'd I rove
A prey to
rankling
sorrow in this garb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The
Immediate
Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
On Lord Rossville's death she
accordingly
becomes Countess of
Rossville.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
It is interesting also to compare Donne's series of
petitions
with
those in a Middle English Litany preserved in the Balliol Coll.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Here by the
labouring
highway
With empty hands I stroll:
Sea-deep, till doomsday morning,
Lie lost my heart and soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Coleridge, when he was by himself,
was never sure of this; there was his _magnum opus_, the revelation of
all philosophy; and he
sometimes
has doubts of the worth of his own poetry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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When he goes out, there is nowhere for him to go:
Bunches and
brambles
block up his path.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The sober lav'rock, warbling wild,
Shall to the skies aspire;
The gowdspink, Music's gayest child,
Shall sweetly join the choir;
The
blackbird
strong, the lintwhite clear,
The mavis mild and mellow;
The robin pensive Autumn cheer,
In all her locks of yellow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
The Foundation makes no representations concerning
the
copyright
status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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O'er
Cambridge
set the yeomen's mark:
Climb, patriot, through the April dark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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xv
Perusinus uiacianus Scaligeri (_p_) anni 1467
Ashburneri codex I-LXI 127
continens
anni 1451
CATVLLI CARMINA
_Catulli_ (_-lis_ La2) _Veronensis liber incipit ad Cornelium_
BGR Ven Laur.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Under the
Cedarcroft
Chestnut.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Revivd her Soul with lives of beasts & birds
Slain on the Altar up ascending into her cloudy bosom
Of terrible
workmanship
the Altar labour of ten thousand Slaves
One thousand Men of wondrous power spent their lives in its formation
It stood on twelve steps namd after the names of her twelve sons
And was Erected at the chief entrance of Urizens hall
When Urizen descended returnd from his immense labours & travels
Descending She reposd beside him folding him around
In her bright skirts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Therewithal at my behest
Shall Lyctian Aegon and Damoetas sing,
And
Alphesiboeus
emulate in dance
The dancing Satyrs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Over sea, over shore, where the cannons loudly roar,
He still was a
stranger
to fear;
And nocht could him quail, or his bosom assail,
But the bonie lass he lo'ed sae dear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
But Love, who to entangle me still sought,
Spread in the
treacherous
grass his net once more,
So fed the fire with fuel as before,
That my escape I hardly could have wrought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
The
spearsman
who brings this
will ask for the gold clasp
you wear under your coat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
In a few cases,
where the whole poem has not fallen within the scope of this
volume, only a
fragment
is here given.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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See him his arms entwine
Around the image of the maid divine--
Thus aided, for the deed he wrought
Unto the
judgment
wills he to be brought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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That shrinking back, like one that had
mistook!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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There must be the steady
pressing
down
of the stamp upon the wax.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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And then on that
propitious
day mortal eyes gazed
on sea-nymphs with naked bodies bare to the breasts outstanding from the
foamy abyss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely
comprehend
the plot.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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His billows roll where monsters wander in the foamy paths
On clouds the Sons of Urizen beheld Heaven walled round {Irretrievable word
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Blake - Zoas |
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_ No, I will
languish
still;
And all the while my part shall be to weep,
And with my sighs, call home my bleating sheep:
And in the rind of every comely tree
I'll carve thy name, and in that name kiss thee.
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The
selfsame
day
When, port and palace open thrown,
Low at thy footstool Egypt lay,
That selfsame day, three lustres gone,
Another victory to thine hand
Was given; another field was won
By grace of Caesar's high command.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Canst hear me through the water-bass,
Cry: "To the Shore,
Sweetheart?
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But if there be in glory aught of good,
It may by means far different be attain'd
Without ambition, war, or violence; 90
By deeds of peace, by wisdom eminent,
By patience, temperance; I mention still
Him whom thy wrongs with Saintly
patience
born,
Made famous in a Land and times obscure;
Who names not now with honour patient Job?
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No marble bust, philosopher, nor stone,
But similar
sensation
would have shown.
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La Fontaine |
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If I've a worthy
daughter
made a nun,
Is that a reason she's a saint?
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La Fontaine |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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That soul will hate the ev'ning mist,
So often lovely, and will list
To the sound of the coming
darkness
(known
To those whose spirits hearken) as one
Who, in a dream of night, _would_ fly
But _cannot_ from a danger nigh.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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XXV
Would that I might possess the
Thracian
lyre,
To wake from Hades, and their idle pose,
Those old Caesars, and the shades of those,
Who once raised this ancient city higher:
Or that I had Amphion's to inspire,
And with sweet harmony these stones enclose
To quicken them again, where they once rose,
Ausonian glory conjuring from its pyre:
Or that with skilful pencil I might draw
The portrait of these palaces once more,
With the spirit of some high Virgil filled;
I would attempt, inflamed by my ardour,
To recreate with the pen's slight power,
That which our own hands could never build.
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