The
wilderness
is cracked and browned
But through the water pale and thin
Still shine the unoffending feet
And there above the painter set
The Father and the Paraclete.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Life is but a day at most,
Sprung from night, in darkness lost;
Day, how rapid in its flight--
Day, how few must see the night;
Hope not
sunshine
every hour,
Fear not clouds will always lower.
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Robert Burns |
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Thin Sigismond was still as dog at gaze,
But
Ladislaus
leaped, and howl did raise,
And laughed and gnashed his teeth, till, like a cloud
That sudden bursts, his rage was all avowed.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Fan was so moved by
their reply that he exempted their husbands from
national
service.
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Li Po |
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Torture me not,
Charming
Marina; say not that 'twas my rank
And not myself that thou didst choose.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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(Mephistopheles bohrt; einer hat indessen die
Wachspfropfen
gemacht
und verstopft.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"
He strove to match her scorn with scorn,
He
faltered
in his place:
"Lady," he said,--"Maude Clare," he said,--
"Maude Clare":--and hid his face.
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Christina Rossetti |
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30
Yet
graceful
ease, and sweetness void of pride,
Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide:
If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forgive 'em all.
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Alexander Pope |
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Or labour hard the panegyric close,
With all the venal soul of
dedicating
prose?
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Robert Forst |
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There are a few
things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works
even without
complying
with the full terms of this agreement.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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For seven years he was clerk
of the Court of Chancery in Dublin, and then was
appointed
clerk to the
Council of Munster.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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10
Know you, solely to drop in the earth the germs of a greater religion,
The
following
chants each for its kind I sing.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And you who know my
suffering
spirit,
Will see me end this thing as I began it.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Cryseyda
gan al his chere aspyen,
And leet so softe it in hir herte sinke, 650
That to hir-self she seyde, `Who yaf me drinke?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
Envoi
Fair is this damsel and right courteous,
And many watch her beauty's
gracious
ways.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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*Unguided
Love hath fallen--'mid "tears of perfect moan.
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Poe - 5 |
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IX
So th' one for wrong, the other strives for right,
And each to deadly shame would drive his foe:
The cruell steele so greedily doth bight 75
In tender flesh that streames of bloud down flow,
With which the armes, that earst so bright did show,
Into a pure
vermillion
now are dyde:
Great ruth in all the gazers harts did grow,
Seeing the gored woundes to gape so wyde, 80
That victory they dare not wish to either side.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The sea that
overflows
the shore
With billows frothed and curled,
Must ebb once more.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
And I must borrow every changing
find
expression
.
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T.S. Eliot |
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of
Zhuangzi
the useless chu tree is ignored because its timber cannot be used.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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EJC}
At the first Sound the Golden sun arises from the Deep
And shakes his awful hair
The Eccho wakes the moon to unbind her silver locks
The golden sun bears on my song
And nine bright spheres of harmony rise round the fiery King
The joy of woman is the Death of her most best beloved
Who dies for Love of her
In torments of fierce jealousy & pangs of adoration
The Lovers night bears on my song
And the nine Spheres rejoice beneath my powerful controll
They sing unceasing to the notes of my immortal hand
The solemn silent moon
Reverberates the living harmony upon my limbs
The birds & beasts rejoice & play
And every one seeks for his mate to prove his inmost joy
Furious & terrible they sport & rend the nether deeps
The deep lifts up his rugged head
And lost in infinite huming wings vanishes with a cry
The fading cry is ever dying
The living voice is ever living in its inmost joy
Arise you little
glancing
wings & sing your infant joy
Arise & drink your bliss
For every thing that lives is holy for the source of life
Descends to be a weeping babe
For the Earthworm renews the moisture of the sandy plain
Now my left hand I stretch to earth beneath
And strike the terrible string
I wake sweet joy in dens of sorrow & I plant a smile
In forests of affliction
And wake the bubbling springs of life in regions of dark death
O I am weary lay thine hand upon me or I faint
I faint beneath these beams of thine
For thou hast touchd my five senses & they answerd thee
Now I am nothing & I sink
And on the bed of silence sleep till thou awakest me
Thus sang the Lovely one in Rapturous delusive trance
Los heard delighted reviving he siezd her in his arms delusive hopes
Kindling She led him into Shadows & thence fled outstretchd
Upon the immense like a bright rainbow weeping & smiling & fading
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I am made to sow the thistle for wheat; the nettle for a nourishing dainty
I have planted a false oath in the earth, it has brought forth a poison tree
I have chosen the serpent for a councellor & the dog
For a schoolmaster to my children
I have blotted out from light & living the dove & nightingale
And I have caused the earth worm to beg from door to door
I have taught the thief a secret path into the house of the just
I have taught pale artifice to spread his nets upon the morning
My heavens are brass my earth is iron my moon a clod of clay
My sun a pestilence burning at noon & a vapour of death in night
What is the price of Experience do men buy it for a song
Or wisdom for a dance in the street?
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Blake - Zoas |
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_Puelle_ GRVenB ||
_saeptis_
T: _septis_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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They laughed to know the world so wide;
The
mountains
said, 'Good-day!
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Emerson - Poems |
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"The first that died was sister Jane; [4]
In bed she moaning lay, 50
Till God
released
her of her pain;
And then she went away.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Doff these links:
By this
compliance
thou wilt win the lords
To favour, and perhaps to set thee free.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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For you, on Latmos, fondling your sleeping boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As
restraint
for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the daylight that your night forgot.
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Ronsard |
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Nor would they call with
lamentations
loud
Around the fields for daylight and the sun,
Quaking and wand'ring in shadows of the night;
But, silent and buried in a sleep, they'd wait
Until the sun with rosy flambeau brought
The glory to the sky.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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And now, borne seaward from the river-stream
Of the Oceanus, we plow'd again
The
spacious
Deep, and reach'd th' AEaean isle,
Where, daughter of the dawn, Aurora takes
Her choral sports, and whence the sun ascends.
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But now the evening curdles dank and grey,
Changing
her watchet hue for sombre weed;
And moping owls, to close the lids of day,
On drowsy wing proceed;
While chickering crickets, tremulous and long,
Light's farewell inly heed,
And give it parting song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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John Clare |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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For he who dazzles, makes men Samson-blind,
Will see the pillars of his palace kiss
E'en at the
whelming
ruin!
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Hugo - Poems |
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_Dublin
University
Magazine_
TO SOME BIRDS FLOWN AWAY.
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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poor youth,
What taste of purer air hast thou to soothe
My
essence?
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| Question: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
First before all there answers Falfarun;
--Brother he was to King Marsiliun--
"Fair sir nephew, go you and I at once
Then verily this battle shall be done;
The
rereward
of the great host of Carlun,
It is decreed we deal them now their doom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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She sees them already house-building, already
trusting
in the
land, their ships left empty.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
When they left the moon was high, and they walked along the road
singing and
shouting
together.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The
unfeeling
heart can't know a pain so sweet:
Love reigns on earth above, not beneath our feet.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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It is natural
that the poets of a generation should have points in common; but to my
fond eye those who have graced these collections look as diverse as
sheep to their shepherd, or the members of a Chinese family to their
uncle; and if there is an allegation which I would 'deny with both
hands', it is this: that an insipid sameness is the chief characteristic
of an
anthology
which offers--to name almost at random seven only out of
forty (oh ominous academic number!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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One warm, flush'd moment, hovering, it might seem
Dash'd by the wood-nymph's beauty, so he burn'd;
Then,
lighting
on the printless verdure, turn'd
To the swoon'd serpent, and with languid arm,
Delicate, put to proof the lythe Caducean charm.
| Guess: |
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Keats |
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Is't
history?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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What glory can her
wondrous
eyes behold?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Hubur,
mythical
river, 197, 42.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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356:
To be abroad
chanting
some bawdy song,
And laugh, and measure thighs, then squeak, spring, itch,
Do all the tricks of a salt lady bitch!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
XXXVIII
And she, uplifting their moist rays and bright,
Most kindly to the
inquiring
Child replied;
And of the cause of her unhappy plight,
Him, since he sought it, fully satisfied.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Between the tree-stems, marbled plain at first,
Came jasper pannels; then, anon, there burst
Forth
creeping
imagery of slighter trees,
And with the larger wove in small intricacies.
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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48), some are doubtless taken from Harsnet's
_Discovery_, though Darrel does not quote these
passages
in the
_Detection_.
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The flying Mede, his
shaftless
broken bow;
The fiery Greek, his red pursuing spear;
Mountains above, Earth's, Ocean's plain below;
Death in the front, Destruction in the rear!
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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That I not mix thee so, my brain excuses,
I mean with great, but disproportioned Muses;
For if I thought my
judgment
were of years,
I should commit thee surely with thy peers,
And tell how far thou didst our Lily outshine,
Or sporting Kyd, or Marlow's mighty line.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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'71'
Made men
suspicious
of their wives.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Bulls would toss their friends,
And trample under foot, and from beneath
Rip flanks and bellies of horses with their horns,
And with a threat'ning
forehead
jam the sod;
And boars would gore with stout tusks their allies,
Splashing in fury their own blood on spears
Splintered in their own bodies, and would fell
In rout and ruin infantry and horse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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SILENCE
THERE are some qualities--some
incorporate
things,
That have a double life, which thus is made
A type of that twin entity which springs
From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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"
NURSE'S SONG
When voices of children are heard on the green,
And
whisperings
are in the dale,
The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind,
My face turns green and pale.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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But when thou, O queen, whilst gazing at the
stars, shalt
propitiate
the goddess Venus with festal torch-lights, let not
me, thine own, be left lacking of unguent, but rather gladden me with large
gifts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Catullus - Carmina |
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An Inhabitant
Of that same town, in which the pair had left
So lively a
remembrance
of their griefs, 290
By chance of business, coming within reach
Of his retirement, to the forest lodge
Repaired, but only found the matron there, [16]
Who told him that his pains were thrown away,
For that her Master never uttered word 295
To living thing--not even to her.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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[19] I use the
Japanese
form as being more familiar.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, an' your friends which are no more,
If we 'adn't lost some messmates we would 'elp you to deplore;
But give an' take's the gospel, an' we'll call the bargain fair,
For if you 'ave lost more than us, you
crumpled
up the square!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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DEATH BY WATER
Phlebas the Phoenician, a
fortnight
dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Another like faire tree eke grew thereby, 420
Whereof whoso did eat, eftsoones did know
Both good and ill: O
mornefull
memory:
That tree through one mans fault hath doen us all to dy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And the host rubbed his hands and smiled at his wife; for his guests
were
spending
freely.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And the power of a
seductive
lover
Stifle with craven silence all my honour!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Let vs seeke out some
desolate
shade, & there
Weepe our sad bosomes empty
Macd.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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O ken ye how Meg o' the Mill was married,
An' ken ye how Meg o' the Mill was
married?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With
sorceries
sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's mysterious season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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I fitted to the latch
My hand, with trembling care,
Lest back the awful door should spring,
And leave me
standing
there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
LX
With the bold
semblance
of a valiant knight,
Behold a warrior threads the forest hoar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
]
The small child sang; the mother, outstretched on the low bed,
With anguish moaned,--fair Form pain should possess not long;
For, ever nigher, Death hovered around her head:
I
hearkened
there this moan, and heard even there that song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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_has_--Here begynyth the
parlement
of Foulys; D.
| 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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crackling)
salt" is the "Farre pio et
saliente
mica" of III.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
In this volume were the _Ruins
of Time_ and the _Tears of the Muses_, two poems on the
indifference
shown
to literature before 1580, and the remarkable _Mother Hubberds Tale_, a
bitter satire on the army, the court, the church, and politics.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But 'tis not ours, with forces not our own
To combat:
strength
is of the gods alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
]
Sic a reptile was Wat,
Sic a
miscreant
slave,
That the very worms damn'd him
When laid in his grave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
I'm dead: by death I'll answer her,
And off I'll go: she'll see me gone,
To
wretched
exile, who knows where?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Darkness again the wood investeth,
The moon midst clouds is seen to sail,
And once more on the margin resteth
The maiden
beautiful
and pale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
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Meredith - Poems |
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For while they all were
travelling
home,
Cried Betty, "Tell us Johnny, do,
"Where all this long night you have been,
"What you have heard, what you have seen,
"And Johnny, mind you tell us true.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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My man, from sky to sky's so far,
We never crossed before;
Such leagues apart the world's ends are,
We're like to meet no more;
What
thoughts
at heart have you and I
We cannot stop to tell;
But dead or living, drunk or dry,
Soldier, I wish you well.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Chor: Many are the sayings of the wise
In antient and in modern books enroll'd;
Extolling Patience as the truest fortitude;
And to the bearing well of all calamities,
All chances incident to mans frail life
Consolatories writ
With studied argument, and much perswasion sought
Lenient of grief and anxious thought,
But with th' afflicted in his pangs thir sound 680
Little prevails, or rather seems a tune,
Harsh, and of
dissonant
mood from his complaint,
Unless he feel within
Some sourse of consolation from above;
Secret refreshings, that repair his strength,
And fainting spirits uphold.
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Milton |
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Then there's a lull--a half-hush;
And forward the little waves rush,
Toppling
and hurrying,
Each other worrying,
And in their haste
Run to waste.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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heoldon hēah gesceap,
_we
received
a heavy fate, heavy fate befell us_, 3085.
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Beowulf |
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But if one should look at me with the old hunger in Plank
her eyes,
How will I be
answering
her eyes?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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1 _locum_
quattuor
codices Censorini
2 _silua_ suppleuerunt Itali: fort.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Nor this be marvel: hale are all,
Well ye digest; no fears appal
For household-arsons, heavy ruin,
Plunderings
impious, poison-brewin' 10
Or other parlous case forlorn.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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It was one
of the most
interesting
sights which I saw in Canada.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the secretaries of
Cardinal
Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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they will lie
becalmed
in sight of strand,--
Sight of my strand, where I do dwell alone;
Their songs wake singing echoes in my land,--
They cannot hear me moan.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The glory of evening was spread through the west;
--On the slope of a
mountain
I stood;
While the joy that precedes the calm season of rest
Rang loud through the meadow and wood.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Darthula
will enter the battle of steel.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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No use of lanthornes; and in one place lay
Feathers
and dust, to day and yesterday.
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John Donne |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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(A Russian
prisoner
enters.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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14 _cognitissima_ ah2:
_cognotissima_
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
But the face of the older hermit grew
exceedingly
dark, and he
cried, "O thou cursed coward, thou wouldst not fight.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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He sits in a
beautiful
parlor,
With hundreds of books on the wall;
He drinks a great deal of Marsala,
But never gets tipsy at all.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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She syttes upon a rocke,
She bendes before his speere,
She ryses from the shocke,
Wieldynge
her owne yn ayre.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Hearts that are
happiest
hold not by it;
Better we let, then, the old view reign;
Since there is peace in it, why decry it?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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