how
entirely
he looks the rogue!
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Aristophanes |
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Long life, my Lord, an' health be yours,
Unskaithed by hunger'd Highland boors;
Lord grant me nae duddie, desperate beggar,
Wi' dirk, claymore, and rusty trigger,
May twin auld Scotland o' a life
She likes--as
butchers
like a knife.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I sate all night beside thee:
The grey owl on the ruined wall shut both his eyes to hide thee,
And ever he flapped his heavy wing all
brokenly
and weak,
And the long grass waved against the sky, around his gasping beak.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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rich Niobe
For all her stony sorrows hath her sons; but Italy,
What Easter Day shall make her children rise,
Who were not Gods yet
suffered?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Mastery
I would not have a god come in
To shield me
suddenly
from sin,
And set my house of life to rights;
Nor angels with bright burning wings
Ordering my earthly thoughts and things;
Rather my own frail guttering lights
Wind blown and nearly beaten out;
Rather the terror of the nights
And long, sick groping after doubt;
Rather be lost than let my soul
Slip vaguely from my own control--
Of my own spirit let me be
In sole though feeble mastery.
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Sara Teasdale |
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May he be damned to hell henceforth,
Who fauts thy weight or
measure!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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On her return from the drive, she
hastened
to her chamber to
read the missive, in a state of excitement mingled with fear.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Meredith - Poems |
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And to
vindicate
it,
Hinderd'?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Those here
selected
are
strung into something of an Eclogue, with perhaps a less than equal
proportion of the "Drink and make-merry," which (genuine or not)
recurs over-frequently in the Original.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894)
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The Jaguar's Dream
Beneath the dark mahoganies, creepers in flower
Hang in the heavy, motionless, fly-filled air,
Twining among the tree-stumps, falling where,
They cradle the brilliant parrot, the quarreller,
The wild monkeys, spiders with yellow hair.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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_ This poem, like the last, is _probably_
addressed to
Christopher
Brooke, but it is not so headed in any
edition or MS.
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John Donne |
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The
conversation
was revived
By the coarse wit of worldly hate;
But round the hostess scintillate
Light sallies without coxcombry,
Awhile sound conversation seems
To banish far unworthy themes
And platitudes and pedantry,
And never was the ear affright
By liberties or loose or light.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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When he
grew up he retired to the Min Mountains, and even when summoned to the
provincial
examinations
he made no response.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Dei cinque che mi fan cerchio per ciglio,
colui che piu al becco mi s'accosta,
la
vedovella
consolo del figlio:
ora conosce quanto caro costa
non seguir Cristo, per l'esperienza
di questa dolce vita e de l'opposta.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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'I you require and pray, that ye
Of me have mercy and pitee, 3420
To stinte your yre that greveth so,
That I wol swere for evermo
To be
redressid
at your lyking,
If I trespasse in any thing;
Save that I pray thee graunte me 3425
A thing that may nat warned be,
That I may love, al only;
Non other thing of you aske I.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Hath not the potter power
over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and
another unto
dishonour?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Now--if thou let thyself be
schooled
by me--
Thou must not kick against the goad.
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Aeschylus |
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Dost thou not know, my Queen,
That, when I taught thee songs, thou
taughtest
me
The divine secret, Beauty?
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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HARDCASTLE: Young man, young man, from your father's letter I
expected
a well-bred, modest visitor, not a coxcomb and a bully.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Act I Scene IV (Phaedra, Oenone, Panope)
Panope
I wished to hide the
sorrowful
news from you,
My lady: but now I must reveal it to you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Is't not like
That devil-spider that devours her mate
Scarce freed from her
embraces?
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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In
peaceful
times to be sent from the imperial presence to a post in the provinces would be a cause for resentment?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The grass, that elsewhere grows as best it may
Under the larches, countable long nesh blades,
Here in clear sky pads the ground thick and close
As wool upon a
Southdown
wether's back;
And as in Southdown wool, your hand must sink
Up to the wrist before it find the roots.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Next his heart the
fireside
band
Of mother, father, sister, stand;
Names from awful childhood heard
Throbs of a wild religion stirred;--
Virtue, to love, to hate them, vice;
Till dangerous Beauty came, at last,
Till Beauty came to snap all ties;
The maid, abolishing the past,
With lotus wine obliterates
Dear memory's stone-incarved traits,
And, by herself, supplants alone
Friends year by year more inly known.
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Emerson - Poems |
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There is
poetry in her, because poetry comes
unconsciously
out of deep feeling, but
there is no artistic eloquence.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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It is not only in the rose,
It is not only in the bird,
Not only where the rainbow glows,
Nor in the song of woman heard,
But in the darkest, meanest things
There alway, alway
something
sings.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Nec nimio tum plus quam nunc
mortalia
saecla
dulcia linquebant languentis lumina uitae.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
If you do not, you can receive
a refund of the money (if any) you paid for this eBook by
sending a request within 30 days of
receiving
it to the person
you got it from.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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)
Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so
digress?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Could it be the memory of his misdeeds that so
oppressed
him?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Hail, Bards
triumphant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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* * * * *
TO A YOUNG LADY, WHO HAD BEEN
REPROACHED
FOR TAKING LONG WALKS IN THE
COUNTRY [A]
Composed 1802.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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De
_Datano_
fusius dixi in ed.
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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And doun from thennes faste he gan avyse
This litel spot of erthe, that with the see 1815
Embraced is, and fully gan despyse
This
wrecched
world, and held al vanitee
To respect of the pleyn felicitee
That is in hevene above; and at the laste,
Ther he was slayn, his loking doun he caste; 1820
And in him-self he lough right at the wo
Of hem that wepten for his deeth so faste;
And dampned al our werk that folweth so
The blinde lust, the which that may not laste,
And sholden al our herte on hevene caste.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could
scarcely
cry 'Weep!
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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CHOR DER JUNGER:
Hat der Begrabene
Schon sich nach oben,
Lebend Erhabene,
Herrlich
erhoben;
Ist er in Werdeluft
Schaffender Freude nah:
Ach!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Heatherlegh
was
watching
me intently from behind the papers on his writing-table.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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And you climbed yet
further!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
_ Nicholas
Hilliard
(1537-1619), the first
English miniature painter.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Toi qui, meme aux lepreux, aux parias maudits,
Enseignes
par l'amour le gout du Paradis,
O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_
My Mouche, the other day as I lay here,
Slightly
propped up upon this mattress-grave
In which I've been interred these few eight years,
I saw a dog, a little pampered slave,
Running about and barking.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Perhaps I
believed
too much in false witnesses: 1485
Raised my cruel hand too soon for you to bless,
Ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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--
Often, in doubt, I'd paused to
question
one,
With nervous hands, as they who read Moon-type;
And more than once I'd caught a moment's sleep
Beside the highway, in the dripping grass,
While one of these white sentinels stood guard,
Knowing me for a friend, who loves the road,
And best of all by night, when wheels do sleep
And stars alone do walk abroad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I sought long days amid the cliffs
thinking
to find The body-house of him, and then
There at the blue cave-mouth my joy
Grew pain for suddenness, to see him 'live.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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`And certes yow ne haten shal I never,
And
freendes
love, that shal ye han of me, 1080
And my good word, al mighte I liven ever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
She has written
_Fighting
France_, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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3 I am ashamed I am not that Qi persuader,4 44 I only
resemble
those men of Lu.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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(Only certain very bold
instructions
of mine, encroachments etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
{114a}
It is true, there is no sound but shall find some lovers, as the
bitterest confections are
grateful
to some palates.
| 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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[453] A staff in use among the
Lacedaemonians
for writing cipher
despatches.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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And
standing
on the altar high,
"Lo, what a fiend is here!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Were you
initiated
into the Great Mysteries in that
cloak?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Thereon, so soon as sleep, now in mid-career of waning night, had given
rest and gone; soon as a woman, whose task is to sustain life with her
distaff and the slender labours of the loom, kindles the ashes of her
slumbering fire, her toil
encroaching
on the night, and sets a long task
of fire-lit spinning to her maidens, that so she may keep her husband's
bed unsullied and nourish her little children,--even so the Lord of
Fire, nor slacker in his hours than she, rises from his soft couch to
the work of his smithy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Full well they wist that on
warriors
many
battle-death seized, in the banquet-hall,
of Danish clan.
| 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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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely
motionless
nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Nowe bie the goddes, Magnus, dyscourteous knyghte,
Bie cravente[94] havyoure havethe don oure woe, 715
Dyspendynge all the talle menne yn the fyghte,
And placeyng
valourous
menne where draffs mote goe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Hippolytus,
hardened
by their savage laws,
Hears love's language he never heard before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Et nous nous le
rappelons
et il voyage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
She doth not tack from side to side--
Hither to work us weal
Withouten
wind, withouten tide
She steddies with upright keel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
In this distressed doubtfull agonie, 195
When him his dearest Una did behold,
Disdeining life,
desiring
leave to die,
She found her selfe assayld with great perplexitie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
And now he is
jingling
his
bells along the road.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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O, so unnatural Nature,
You whose
ephemeral
flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
HELEN:
O speak not so,
But come to me and pour thy woe _570
Into this heart, full though it be,
Ay, overflowing with its own:
I thought that grief had severed me
From all beside who weep and groan;
Its
likeness
upon earth to be, _575
Its express image; but thou art
More wretched.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
E cio fa certo che 'l primo superbo,
che fu la somma d'ogne creatura,
per non
aspettar
lume, cadde acerbo;
e quinci appar ch'ogne minor natura
e corto recettacolo a quel bene
che non ha fine e se con se misura.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
I omit quoting any
of the dull epigrams
ascribed
to Homer for, as Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Grand go the years in the
crescent
above them;
Worlds scoop their arcs, and firmaments row,
Diadems drop and Doges surrender,
Soundless as dots on a disk of snow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Two
swimmers
wrestled on the spar
Until the morning sun,
When one turned smiling to the land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Then Mary
Bayfield
seeks the glen,
The white hawthorn and grey oak tree,
And nought but heaven can tell me then
How dear thy beauty is to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
GD} His head beamd light & in his vigorous voice was
prophesyNor
kissd nor em.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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The yoke of force is broken from the neck--
The isle of Ajax and th'
encircling
wave
Reek with a bloody crop of death and wreck
Of Persia's fallen power, that none can lift nor save!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
It's only
complete
loss of control over the speech and memory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Nay, 'tis older news that foreign sailor
With the cheek of sea-tan stops to prattle
To the young fig-seller with her basket 15
And the breasts that bud beneath her tunic,
And I hear it in the
rustling
tree-tops.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Instead of thanking his lucky stars that he was free, Dicky discovered
exactly how an injured husband feels--again, not at all the knowledge
to which a boy is entitled--for his mind went back to his wife as he
remembered her in the thirty-shilling "suite" in
Montpelier
Square, when
the dawn of his last morning in England was breaking, and she was crying
in the bed.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Hear me, ye
Ithacans!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Him Phoebus'
interpreter
accosts with high
courtesy: "Anchises, honoured with the splendour of Venus' espousal, the
gods' charge, twice rescued from the fallen towers of Troy, lo!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now,
And will never be any more
perfection
than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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There she stood
About a young bird's flutter from a wood,
Fair, on a sloping green of mossy tread,
By a clear pool, wherein she passioned
To see herself escap'd from so sore ills,
While her robes
flaunted
with the daffodils.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Mountains
mourn & Rivers faint & fail
There is no City nor Corn-field nor Orchard!
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Blake - Zoas |
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If this be Love, how is the evil wrought,
That all men write against his
darkened
name?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Child:
Father what is that in the sky
beckoning
to me with long finger?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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15
4 _pupis_ OC:
_puppis_
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Latin - Catullus |
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(84)
But other forces have our hopes o'erthrown,
And Troy
prevails
by armies not her own.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Then, by
producing
'The Persae,' I have taught you to conquer all your
enemies; 'twas my greatest work.
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Aristophanes |
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Blind
Whose hopes in thee alone have centred been;
In thee my heart was
captived
by her mien
Who bore it with her when she earth rejoin'd:
Her better spirit, now a deathless flower,
And in the highest heaven that still shall be,
Each day inflames me with its beauties more.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Dame Life, tho' fiction out may trick her,
And in paste gems and
frippery
deck her;
Oh!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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His canvas is the
beautiful
bright veil
Through which her sorrow shines.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And
henceforth
Charles only to Charles shall sit ;
His master-hand the ancients shall outdo.
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Marvell - Poems |
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous bourgmestres vous bateliers
Et vous conseillers de regence
Vous aussi tziganes sans papiers
La vie vous pourrit dans la panse
La croix vous pousse entre les pieds
Le vent du Rhin ulule avec tous les hiboux
Il eteint les cierges que toujours les enfants rallument
Et les feuilles mortes
Viennent couvrir les morts
Des enfants morts parlent parfois avec leur mere
Et des mortes parfois
voudraient
bien revenir
Oh!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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31; first meeting of Byron and
Sheridan
at his house, iv.
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Byron |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Boris Godunov, by Alexander Pushkin
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I thought just how red apples wedged
The stubble's joints between;
And carts went
stooping
round the fields
To take the pumpkins in.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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130
They sought the forum; countless swarm'd the throng
Behind them as they went, and many a youth
Strong and
courageous
to the strife arose.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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