Gazing into her eyes, holding hands, giving kisses, exchanging
Syllables
sweet and those words lovers alone understand,
Murmuring our conversations we stutter in sweet oratory.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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Villon |
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The snare was set amid those threads of gold,
To which Love bound me fast;
And from those bright eyes melted the long cold
Within my heart that pass'd;
So sweet the spell their sudden
splendour
cast,
Its single memory still
Deprives my soul of every other will.
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Petrarch |
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"
[Sidenote A: Then cried he aloud,]
[Sidenote B: "Who dwells here
discourse
with me to hold?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Whoe'er she be,
That not
impossible
She
That shall command my heart and me;
Where'er she lie,
Lock'd up from mortal eye
In shady leaves of destiny:
Till that ripe birth
Of studied Fate stand forth,
And teach her fair steps to our earth;
Till that divine
Idea take a shrine
Of crystal flesh, through which to shine:
--Meet you her, my Wishes,
Bespeak her to my blisses,
And be ye call'd, my absent kisses.
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Golden Treasury |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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III
Unlike are we, unlike, O
princely
Heart!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Le tas des ouvriers a monte dans la rue,
Et ces maudits s'en vont, foule
toujours
accrue
De sombres revenants, aux portes des richards.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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A
bursting
bubble is our life:
I also, what am I?
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Christina Rossetti |
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There are remains of walling, much higher up the ghyll; but these are
probably the work of miners,
formerly
engaged there.
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William Wordsworth |
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1195
I flew here only in hope his son might be rescued:
And tore myself from Oenone's
trembling
arms,
Yielding to that remorse that does me harm.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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With
graceful
mien his cap aslant was turn'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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many a time and oft had Harold loved,
Or dreamed he loved, since rapture is a dream;
But now his wayward bosom was unmoved,
For not yet had he drunk of Lethe's stream:
And lately had he learned with truth to deem
Love has no gift so grateful as his wings:
How fair, how young, how soft soe'er he seem,
Full from the fount of joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its
bubbling
venom flings.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Drummond
says that he was 'accused upon' the play, and that
the King 'desired him to conceal it'.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Meredith - Poems |
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'
And he: 'Thy
melancholy
phantom, thine, O my father, came before me
often and often, and drove me to steer to these portals.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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O the fading eyes, the grimed face turned bony,
Oped mouth gushing, fallen head,
Lessening
pressure
of a hand, shrunk, clammed and stony!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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How beautiful and perfect are the
animals!
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Whitman |
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3 Blow, as is wont, in the new Moon
With
Trumpets
lofty sound, 10
Th'appointed time, the day wheron
Our solemn Feast comes round.
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Milton |
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XV
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Too calm and sad a face in front of thine;
For we two look two ways, and cannot shine
With the same
sunlight
on our brow and hair.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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In me the caresser of life wherever moving,
backward
as well as
forward sluing,
To niches aside and junior bending, not a person or object missing,
Absorbing all to myself and for this song.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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So saying, from the Tree her step she turnd,
But first low Reverence don, as to the power
That dwelt within, whose presence had infus'd
Into the plant
sciential
sap, deriv'd
From Nectar, drink of Gods.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Nor column
trophied
for triumphal show?
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Then was my error when the old way quite
Of liberty was bann'd and barr'd to me:
He follows ill who pleases but his sight:
To its own harm my soul ran wild and free,
Now doom'd at others' will to wait and wend;
Because that once it
ventured
to offend.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I'll be under the earth, a
boneless
phantom,
At rest in the myrtle groves of the dark kingdom:
You'll be an old woman hunched over the fire,
Regretting my love for you, your fierce disdain,
So live, believe me: don't wait for another day,
Gather them now the roses of life, and desire.
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Ronsard |
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who pressed,
And nigh
concealed
the sea beneath his breast.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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It does not vent its loathing, does not turn
Upon its makers with
destroying
hate.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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But not the huge Cathedral's height, nor yet its vault sublime,
Nor porch, nor glass, nor streaks of light, nor shadows deep with time;
Nor massy towers, that fascinate mine eyes;
No, 'tis that spot--the mind's tranquillity--
Chamber
wherefrom
the song mounts cheerily,
Placed like a joyful nest well nigh the skies.
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Hugo - Poems |
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And
yesterday
it fell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1203 and was present at the siege of
Constantinople
in 1204.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Till thirty were not left alive
They dwindled, dwindled, one by one,
And I may say that many a time
I wished they all were gone:
They
dwindled
one by one away;
For me it was a woeful day.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Be, as thy
presence
is, gracious and kind,
Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove:
Make thee another self for love of me,
That beauty still may live in thine or thee.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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LOUIS UNTERMEYER
MONOLOG FROM A MATTRESS
_Heinrich
Heine aetat 56, loquitur:_
Can that be you, _la mouche?
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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When Hugo rose in the Senate, on the first
occasion after his return to Paris after the expulsion of the Napoleons,
and his white head was seen above that of Rouher, ex-Prime Minister of the
Empire, all the house shuddered, and in a nearly
unanimous
voice shouted:
"The judgment of God!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Ronsard |
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Smearing
its gold on
the sky the fire dances, lances itself through the doors, and lisps and
chuckles along the floors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Last eve in dreams, I saw thee stand,
Like queenly nymphs from Fairy-land--
Enchantress of the flowery wand,
Most
beauteous
Isadore!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
CORYDON
"This
bristling
boar's head, Delian Maid, to thee,
With branching antlers of a sprightly stag,
Young Micon offers: if his luck but hold,
Full-length in polished marble, ankle-bound
With purple buskin, shall thy statue stand.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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It is invigorating to breathe the
cleansed
air.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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VI
IN Reading gaol by Reading town
There is a pit of shame,
And in it lies a
wretched
man
Eaten by teeth of flame,
In a burning winding-sheet he lies,
And his grave has got no name.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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There was such
intricate
clamor of tongues,
That still the reason was not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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While unacquainted with the fact, 'tis naught;
If known:--e'en then 'tis
scarcely
worth a thought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Pursue what chance or fate
proclaimeth
best;
Peace waits us on the shores of Acheron:
There no forced banquet claims the sated guest,
But Silence spreads the couch of ever welcome rest.
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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And prayer-book next, much worn though strongly bound,
Proves him a
churchman
orthodox and sound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Tu devant li pour moy te per
En li
moustrant
que, s'a li per
Ne sui, si est il mon frere.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Lo duca mio allor mi die di piglio,
e con parole e con mani e con cenni
reverenti
mi fe le gambe e 'l ciglio.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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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.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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The very
aspersion
is grievous, which makes him choose his way
in his life as he would in his journey.
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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| Answer: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Oxford,
Clarendon
Press, 1903, page
3).
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their
habitation
chose out thee,
Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot
And all things turns to fair that eyes can see!
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The word refers to various sorts of pipes, some of which were made of cane and
featured
a single 'reed' cut into the side of the cane itself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Then, for a little moment, all people held their breath;
And through the crowded Forum was
stillness
as of death;
And in another moment brake forth from one and all
A cry as if the Volscians were coming o'er the wall.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
"With a lady--where did you pick her up,
brother?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The same anger of heaven, the same human passions,
the same
criminal
motives drove them into discord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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XL
He there does now enjoy
eternall
rest
And happy ease, which thou dost want and crave,
And further from it daily wanderest:
What if some little paine the passage have, 355
That makes fraile flesh to feare the bitter wave?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And thou grim pow'r, by life abhorr'd,
While life a
pleasure
can afford,
Oh!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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The Project
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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What have I still of wreathing for the head
Stored in my
chambers?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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" He finally arrived at
Hochelaga
on
the 2d of October.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Arthur, whose giddy son
neglects
the Laws,
Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause:
Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 25
And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Petr'
Andrejitch
lately composed a song, and he began singing it
to me this morning.
| 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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Life wanes; and when love folds his wings above
Tired hope, and less we feel his
conscious
pulse,
Let us go fall asleep, dear friend, in peace:
A little while, and age and sorrow cease;
A little while, and life reborn annuls
Loss and decay and death, and all is love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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What combat, siege, ambush could not farther
Nor Aragon indeed, nor Grenada,
Neither your foes, nor yet the envious,
The Count has perpetrated on us,
Hating your choice, proud of the advantage
Granted him by my
weakness
at my age.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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One thing alone can hope to answer your fear;
It is that which
struggles
and blinds us and burns between us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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During the ride I turned over in my
mind a thousand
projects
for rescuing the poor girl without being able
to decide on any.
| 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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Alive in you is
Holofernes
now,
But fed and rejoicing; I have filled your hunger.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And sleeps he then the heavy sleep of death,
Quintilius?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Din filled the room; the Danes were bereft,
castle-dwellers and
clansmen
all,
earls, of their ale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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* Our Abbess, too, now far in age,
* Doth your
succession
near presage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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The maids in haste
Snatch from the orchard hedge the mizzled clothes
And
laughing
hurry in to keep them dry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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After
Claudian
we pass into the final darkness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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On the green sheep-track, up the heathy hill,
Homeward
I wind my way; and lo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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After the deal was over, the cards were
shuffled
and the game began
again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Who then of the Nymphs had sung,
Or who with
flowering
herbs bestrewn the ground,
And o'er the fountains drawn a leafy veil?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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He loved her ill, if he
resigned
the task.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the
countries
of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The country saved from a cruel enemy,
Your hand securing the sceptre firmly,
The Moors defeated, before our alarms
Secured the orders to repulse their arms,
These are
exploits
that deny your King
The means of just reward for anything.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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All attempts that are new in
this kind, are dangerous, and somewhat hard, before they be
softened
with
use.
| 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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What were the words
Sardanapalus
said?
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Hugo - Poems |
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I ask of Thee no vanity
To
evidence
and prove Thee.
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Rilke - Poems |
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A few
copies had been
procured
from friends.
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Li Po |
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2224 gescēod =
gesceōd
ll.
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Beowulf |
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hȳrde ic snotor-līcor on swā geongum feore guman
þingian
(_I never heard a
man so young speak so wisely_), 1844.
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Beowulf |
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Albion groand on Tyburns brook
Albion gave his loud death groan The Atlantic Mountains trembled
Aloft the Moon fled with a cry the Sun with streams of blood
From Albions Loins fled all Peoples and Nations of the Earth Fled {Erdman's notes
indicate
that "Blake first wrote ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Keats - Lamia |
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I weep alone the woes which all my kind
Should weep--for virtue's fairest flower has pined
Beneath thy touch: what second blooms
instead?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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ON BEING REMOVED FROM HSUN-YANG AND SENT TO CHUNG-CHOU
A remote place in the mountains of Pa (Ssech'uan)
Before this, when I was stationed at Hsun-yang,
Already I
regretted
the fewness of friends and guests.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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