No more: for now into a
populous
plain
We must descend.
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William Wordsworth |
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Bacchus I saw in
mountain
glades
Retired (believe it, after years!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The
reminiscence
comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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His fool, or
professional
jester, was not only a fool, however.
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Poe - 5 |
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Un soir fait de rose et de bleu mystique,
Nous
echangerons
un eclair unique,
Comme un long sanglot, tout charge d'adieux;
Et plus tard un Ange, entr'ouvrant les portes,
Viendra ranimer, fidele et joyeux,
Les miroirs ternis et les flammes mortes.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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) I have
attained
the highest power.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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If, as in other times,
When kindled to true virtue was mankind,
The genius, energy of man could find
Entrance in divers climes,
Mountains
and seas o'erpassing, seeking there
Honour, and culling oft its garland fair,
Mine were such wish, not mine such need would be.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Quare iam te cur amplius
excrucies?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The shutters were drawn and the undertaker wiped his feet--
He was aware that this sort of thing had
occurred
before.
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T.S. Eliot |
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827
Hie tamen interpres, quo non
securior
alter.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Whether yet thou thenke up-on
Criseyde?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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If she looks upon the hedge or up the leafing tree,
The
whitethorn
or the brown oak are made dearer things to me.
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John Clare |
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ay her flesche folden to home,
1364
Strakande
ful stoutly mony stif mote3.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Can anybody tell us where
Lysistrata
is?
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Aristophanes |
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Every such tree
becomes a nucleus of red, as it were, where, with the
declining
sun,
that color grows and glows.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Then, glancing narrow at the wall,
And narrow at the floor,
For firm conviction of a mouse
Not
exorcised
before,
Peruse how infinite I am
To -- no one that you know!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Surely some
fortunate
hour 5
Phaon will come, and his beauty
Be spent like water to plenish
Need of that beauty!
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Sappho |
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To think others shall be just as eager, and we quite
indifferent!
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Whitman |
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bysigum gebǣded, _distressed
by trouble, difficulty, danger_ (of battle), 2581; _to drive, to send
forth_: strǣla storm
strengum
gebǣded, _the storm of arrows sent with
strength_, 3118; _overcome_: draca .
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Beowulf |
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Some of the Portuguese
courtiers (the same ungenerous minds, perhaps, who advised the rejection
of Columbus because he was a
foreigner)
proposed the assassination of
that great man, thereby to conceal from Spain the advantages of his
navigation.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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created by him in an
unnatural
manner.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But that your
trespass
now becomes a fee;
Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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His
range of
sympathy
is wider.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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490
Then, in the turbulence of glee,
And in the excess of amity,
Says Benjamin, "That Ass of thine,
He spoils thy sport, and hinders mine:
If he were tethered to the waggon, 495
He'd drag as well what he is dragging;
And we, as brother should with brother,
Might trudge it
alongside
each other!
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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We bring thee our love and our garlands for tribute,
With gifts of thy opulent giving we come;
O source of our
manifold
gladness, we hail thee,
We praise thee, O Prithvi, with cymbal and drum.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"A poet ought not to pick Nature's pocket," he said, and it is for
colour and sound, in their most
delicate
forms, that he goes to natural
things.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"
Far and faint, yet each moment clearer,
Straight
as an arrow down the sound,
An old-time freighter is drawing nearer, "City of Taunton" westward bound.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Stephen Crane |
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What shall we do
tomorrow?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The song was an
impromptu,
enclosed
in a letter to Moore of December 24, 1816.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Come, Mercury, by whose
minstrel
spell
Amphion raised the Theban stones,
Come, with thy seven sweet strings, my shell,
Thy "diverse tones,"
Nor vocal once nor pleasant, now
To rich man's board and temple dear:
Put forth thy power, till Lyde bow
Her stubborn ear.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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How would the gods my
righteous
toils succeed,
And bless the hand that made a stranger bleed?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Since they were printed off, the Editor has had an
opportunity of
comparing
them with a copy made by Mr.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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1 A Tang
commandery
under the charge of Guo Ziyi.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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In fact, it is so
interesting
that the people who use it do not
know what it means.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
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destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium
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discontinue
all use of and all access to other copies of
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He reserves his lash for
those who trample on their neighbors and insult "fallen worth," for cold
or treacherous friends, liars, and
babbling
blockheads.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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What groans did men on that sad day beget
Even for themselves, and O what wounds for us,
What tears for our children's
children!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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" aloud I cried,
"If your victorious arms the fray decide:
Oh, bind us closely with your
strongest
chain!
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Petrarch |
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In front of the Cyclopean haven lies
A level island, not
adjoining
close
Their land, nor yet remote, woody and rude.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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'Twas he, indignant at the honor paid
To crime, who with his heel an onslaught made
Upon Duke Lupus' shameful monument,
Tore down, the statue he to
fragments
rent;
Then column of the Strasburg monster bore
To bridge of Wasselonne, and threw it o'er
Into the waters deep.
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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XXI
When but a boy he Olga loved
Unknown as yet the aching heart,
He
witnessed
tenderly and moved
Her girlish gaiety and sport.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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PLANH FOR THE YOUNG ENGLISH KING THAT IS, PRINCE HENRY PLANTAGENET, ELDER
all the grief and woe and bitterness, IFAll dolour, ill and every evil chance
That ever came upon this
grieving
world Were set together, they would seem but light
Against the death of the young English King.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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e
entrailes
of his brest.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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355
Say, who, by thinking on Canadian hills,
Or wild Aosta lulled by Alpine rills,
On Zutphen's plain; or where with soften'd gaze
The old grey stones the plaided chief surveys,
Can guess the high resolve, the cherish'd pain 360
Of him whom passion rivets to the plain,
Where breath'd the gale that caught Wolfe's happiest sigh,
And the last sun-beam fell on Bayard's eye,
Where
bleeding
Sydney from the cup retir'd,
And glad Dundee in "faint huzzas" expir'd.
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William Wordsworth |
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]e dele his
matynnes
telle!
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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XXII
Soone as she parted thence, the
fearfull
twaine, 190
That blind old woman and her daughter deare,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Toward what
eventual
dream
Sleeps its cold on,
When into ultimate dark
These lives shall be gone,
And even of man not a shadow remain
Of all he has done?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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see; round quickly came a crowd;
The father, mother, all the servants ran;
The
neighbours
too; the husband then began
To state the circumstance that gave him pain;
And fully all the folly to explain.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Christmas
celebrated
anew, mentioned full often.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Leonor
By keeping your noble rank in mind;
Heaven owes you a king, you love a
subject!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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++By this she hadde endid hir{e} song{e} / whan the
swetnesse
1700
of hir{e} ditee hadde thorw p{er}ced me ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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_Printed
by
M.
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Robert Herrick |
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Two bodies
therefore
be;
Bind one, and one will flee.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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But at his touch,
Such sanctity hath Heauen giuen his hand,
They
presently
amend.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Villages burned down to dust,
Torture, murder, bestial lust,
Filth too foul for printer's ink,
Crime from which the apes would shrink--
Strange the offerings that you press
On the God of
Righteousness!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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El Desdichado (The Disinherited)
I am the
darkness
- the widower - the un-consoled,
The prince of Aquitaine in the ruined tower;
My sole star is dead - and my constellated lute
Bears the black sun of Melancholy.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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The chiefest blessings Adam's
chaplain
got.
| Guess: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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Prophetically rang the bells with solemn pealing;
A prayer was then the ecstasy of bliss;
A blessed and
mysterious
yearning
Drew me to roam through meadows, woods, and skies;
And, midst a thousand tear-drops burning,
I felt a world within me rise
That strain, oh, how it speaks youth's gleesome plays and feelings,
Joys of spring-festivals long past;
Remembrance holds me now, with childhood's fond appealings,
Back from the fatal step, the last.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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_a_
contains
seven syllables in all, _b_ contains six (occasionally
five), save when ᵕᵕ takes the place of one accented syllable.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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One black night I stood
in a garden with
fireflies
in my hair like darting restless stars
caught in a mesh of darkness.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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coniugium per lustra nouem sine crimine concors
unum habui: natos
quattuor
edidimus.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Some fly, some cower in vain,
Hoping that Time, the grim and eager foe,
Will pass them by; and some run to and fro
Like the Apostles or the
Wandering
Jew;
Go where they will, the Slayer goes there too!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Then as she saw that he
half disdained her she began to put on very grave and serious fits,
turned red and pale when he came near her, or sighed or gazed at him, so
silently and with such sweet
devotion
that he half believed that she
really loved him truly.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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So Pickett charged, a man indued
With
knightly
power to lead a multitude
And bring to fame the scarred surviving few.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Whatever
is given them; but ask for yourself.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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He
vnneiled
his honden two,
And seide, 'wi?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Plead you for peace to the
lifeless
bodies that the battle-lot hath
slain?
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Ay,
wonderful
in Jewry.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And whan that he in chaumbre was allone,
He doun up-on his beddes feet him sette,
And first be gan to syke, and eft to grone, 360
And
thoughte
ay on hir so, with-outen lette,
That, as he sat and wook, his spirit mette
That he hir saw a temple, and al the wyse
Right of hir loke, and gan it newe avyse.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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But withall, Sir,
Such an
infernall
?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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And in my
hearing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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When proud Arzilla's strength, Alcazer's towers,
And Tingia,
boastful
of her num'rous powers,
Beheld their adamantine walls o'erturn'd,
Their ramparts levell'd, and their temples burn'd.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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It came in his mind
to bid his henchmen a hall uprear,
a master mead-house,
mightier
far
than ever was seen by the sons of earth,
and within it, then, to old and young
he would all allot that the Lord had sent him,
save only the land and the lives of his men.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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What blow has
snatched
him?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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ECLOGUE V
MENALCAS MOPSUS
MENALCAS
Why, Mopsus, being both
together
met,
You skilled to breathe upon the slender reeds,
I to sing ditties, do we not sit down
Here where the elm-trees and the hazels blend?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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At length the sexton, hearing from without
The tumult of the
knocking
and the shout,
And thinking thieves were in the house of prayer,
Came with his lantern, asking, "Who is there?
| Guess: |
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Longfellow |
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--'Tis restless magic all; at once the bright [vi]
Breaks on the shade, the shade upon the light,
Fair Spirits are abroad; in sportive chase
Brushing with lucid wands the water's face,
While music stealing round the glimmering deeps
Charms the tall circle of th'
enchanted
steeps.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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WALK
Sudden struggle for
foothold
on the pavement,
Familiar ascension.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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He could
scarcely
believe his eyes.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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ai wery weren; & leten be al stille,
And he[r] gredyng forberen; &
turneden
to goddes wille; 156
ffor ?
| Guess: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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LES
FEUILLES
D'AUTOMNE.
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"Only man, that smooth-skinned being,
Could in
borrowed
wool, so artful,
Dress himself, or could, so artful,
Thus provide himself with pockets.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Person of Chili,
Whose conduct was painful and silly;
He sate on the stairs, eating apples and pears,
That
imprudent
Old Person of Chili.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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895
His
garnement
was everydel
Y-portreyd and y-wrought with floures,
By dyvers medling of coloures.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Curch, a
kerchief
for the head.
| 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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My lady shows herself, not to my good,
A woman indeed, scorns my behest,
Since she wishes not what she should
But what's
forbidden
her finds best.
| Guess: |
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' In his note on the present passage, he
adds that it was
probably
'adopted by gamblers and others, as a
mark of wealth, to entrap the unwary.
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TO HIS
PECULIAR
FRIEND, MR.
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Startled sands blur the desert sun;
Flying snows
bewilder
the Tartar sky.
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Li Po |
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[Footnote 210: This song is not old; its author, the late John Mayne,
long
outlived
Burns]
[Footnote 211: By Crawfurd.
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Robert Burns |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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"With such mad seas the daring Gama fought
For many a day, and many a
dreadful
night,
Incessant labouring round the stormy Cape,
By bold ambition led.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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My
frivolous
muse has now opened
--Cupid, the scamp--opens lips hitherto sealed so well.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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In the faint fragrance of flowers,
On the sweet draft of the sea-wind,
Linger strange hints now that loosen
Tears for thy gay gentle spirit,
O
Lityerses!
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Sappho |
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Such an one as women draw away from For the tobacco ashes scattered on his coat And sith his throat
Show razor's unfamiliarity And three days' beard:
Such an one picking a ragged
Backless
copy from the stall,
Too cheap for cataloguing, Loquitur,
"Ah-eh!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Evidemment
il se <> pour mieux
plaire a quelque belle.
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