deliciaeque
meae Latris, cui nomen ab usu est,
ne speculum dominae porrigat illa nouae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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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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What have we to do
With
Kaikobad
the Great, or Kaikhosru?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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and drery
v{er}s of
wrecchednes
weten my face wi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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On
discovering
what she had eaten, she threw herself from a window to her death.
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Troubador Verse |
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Of all the contrivances of the time
For sowing broadcast the seeds of crime,
There is none so
pleasing
to me and mine
As a pilgrimage to some far-off shrine!
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Longfellow |
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Composed when I had reached Fengxiang, and a personal edict from the emperor
released
me to go to Fuzhou?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Tired with kisses sweet,
They agree to meet
When the silent sleep
Waves o'er heaven's deep,
And the weary tired
wanderers
weep.
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blake-poems |
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And when
Admetus has made a thrilling answer about eternal sorrow, and the
silencing of lyre and lute, and the statue who shall be his only bride,
Alcestis
earnestly
calls the attention of witnesses to the fact that he
has sworn not to marry again.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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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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'
Quod she, and ther-with-al she sore sighte;
And he bigan to glade hir as he mighte;
Took hir in armes two, and kiste hir ofte,
And hir to glade he dide al his entente; 1220
For which hir goost, that
flikered
ay on-lofte,
In-to hir woful herte ayein it wente.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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_ By
studying
the
sky for many hundreds of years wise men found there signs and symbols
which they read and interpreted.
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Keats |
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I will come to meet you as far as ever you please,
Even to the
dangerous
sands of Ch'ang-f?
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Li Po |
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You descended through the water clear
I drowned my self so in your glance
The soldier passes she leans down
Turns and breaks away a branch
You float on
nocturnal
waves
The flame is my own heart reversed
Coloured as that comb's tortoiseshell
The wave that bathes you mirrors well
?
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Appoloinaire |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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Pushkin himself beheld him
When first he reached the court, and through the ranks
Of
Lithuanian
gentlemen went straight
Into the secret chamber of the king.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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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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org
Title: The Queen Of Spades
1901
Author: Alexander
Sergeievitch
Poushkin
Translator: H.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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es better weren;
ysustened
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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* * * * *
--Of the glorious ambitions
Yet unquenched by their fruitions
Of the reading out the nights;
Of the straining at mad heights;
Of achievements, less descried
By a dear few than magnified;
Of praises from the many earned
When praise from love was undiscerned;
Of the sweet reflecting gladness
Softened
by itself to sadness:--
Throw them in, by one and one!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Je suis un vieux boudoir plein de roses fanees,
Ou git tout un fouillis de modes surannees,
Ou les pastels
plaintifs
et les pales Boucher,
Seuls, respirent l'odeur d'un flacon debouche.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Find example of
_tmesis_
(separation of prep.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Keats |
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These are the days when skies put on
The old, old
sophistries
of June, --
A blue and gold mistake.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"
And an English
delegate
thundered:--"The weak an' the lame be blowed!
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Kipling - Poems |
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x) called
attention
to
the precarious, tenure by which the Catholics of his time held their
goods, their persons, their very lives, in security.
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Alexander Pope |
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Innocent
one, for what
Art thou a sufferer?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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As when, their
bucklers
for protection rais'd,
A well-rang'd troop, with portly banners curl'd,
Wheel circling, ere the whole can change their ground:
E'en thus the goodly regiment of heav'n
Proceeding, all did pass us, ere the car
Had slop'd his beam.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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" In other words, to be generally
accepted
an author must
accept the current fashion, foolish though it may be.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
CXXIV
Marvellous
is the battle now and grand,
The Franks there strike, their good brown spears in hand.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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For, wee to live, our
bellowes
weare, and breath,
Nor are wee mortall, dying, dead, but death.
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John Donne |
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They quitte him out to rathe; 205
O nyce world, lo, thy
discrecioun!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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LXXXIX
Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,
And I will comment upon that offence:
Speak of my lameness, and I
straight
will halt,
Against thy reasons making no defence.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Thine, O priest of Egypt, lately
Found I in the vast,
Weed-encumbered sombre, stately,
Grave-yard of the Past;
And a
presence
moved before me
On that gloomy shore,
As a waft of wind, that o'er me
Breathed, and was no more.
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Longfellow |
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Played gentleman, nursed dainty hands,
Borrowed North's money on his lands,
And culled his morals and his graces
From cock-pits, bar-rooms, fights, and races;
His sole work in the farming line
Was keeping droves of long-legged swine,
Which brought great bothers and expenses
To North in looking after fences,
And, when they happened to break through,
Cost him both time and temper too,
For South insisted it was plain
He ought to drive them home again,
And North
consented
to the work
Because he loved to buy cheap pork.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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The ancient Mariner
inhospitably
killeth the pious bird of good omen.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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That, like a cataract, from rock to rock descended
To the abyss, with maddening greed possest:
She, on its brink, with childlike
thoughts
and lowly,--
Perched on the little Alpine field her cot,--
This narrow world, so still and holy
Ensphering, like a heaven, her lot.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The end, elusive and afar,
Still lures us with its
beckoning
flight,
And all our mortal moments are
A session of the Infinite.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The flapping of the sail against the mast,
The ripple of the water on the side,
The ripple of girls'
laughter
at the stern,
The only sounds:--when 'gan the West to burn,
And a red sun upon the seas to ride,
I stood upon the soil of Greece at last!
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And the plane to the pine-tree is whispering some tale of love
Till it rustles with
laughter
and tosses its mantle of green,
And the gloom of the wych-elm's hollow is lit with the iris sheen
Of the burnished rainbow throat and the silver breast of a dove.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Last day my mind was in a bog,
Down George's Street I stoited;
A
creeping
cauld prosaic fog
My very sense doited.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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This I know: in death all silently
He does a
kindlier
thing,
In beckoning pilgrim feet
With marble finger high
To where, by shadowy wall and history-haunted street,
Those matchless singers lie .
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Brotier
supposes
it to be what is now
called _Herirud_, or _La Riviere d'Herat_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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It was a
beggarly
sight.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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in mazes of
delusive
beauty
I have lookd into the secret soul of him I lovd
And in the Dark recesses found Sin & cannot return
Trembling & pale sat Tharmas weeping in his clouds
Why wilt thou Examine every little fibre of my soul *{This and the following 4 lines are written down the top right hand edge of the page.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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A right good
glassful
of the well-known juice!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And for to doon you understonde,
To make
ensample
wol I fonde;
Right as a mirour openly 1585
Sheweth al thing that stant therby,
As wel the colour as the figure,
Withouten any coverture;
Right so the cristal stoon, shyning,
Withouten any disceyving, 1590
The estres of the yerde accuseth
To him that in the water museth;
For ever, in which half that he be,
He may wel half the gardin see;
>>
Qu'a merveilles, ce cuit, tenres
Tout maintenant que vous l'orres.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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]
withdrew
_1633_]
[96 say.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Cities and states are bought and sold by Soudan Zim,
Whose simple word their
thousand
people hold as law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Potiphar
Gubbins, C.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Each one, who bears the sightly quarterings
Of the great Baron (he whose name and worth
The
festival
of Thomas still revives)
His knighthood and his privilege retain'd;
Albeit one, who borders them With gold,
This day is mingled with the common herd.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Oh, workmen, seen by me sublime,
When from the tyrant
wrenched
ye peace,
Can you be dazed by tinselled crime,
And spy no wolf beneath the fleece?
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Yeats' free
adaptation
is the well-known poem 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep' (In 'The Rose').
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Nestoris
est uisus post tria saecla cinis:
qui si longa suae minuisset fata senectae
saucius Iliacis miles in aggeribus,
non ante Antilochi uidisset corpus humari
diceret aut 'O mors, cur mihi sera uenis?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
| 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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Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine to
aggravate
thy store;
Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
Within be fed, without be rich no more:
So shall thou feed on Death, that feeds on men,
And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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7993), and
_irattutu_
in Zimmern, _Shurpu_, Index.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Regarded
as god of light, 157,
1 ff.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Are we swung like two planets,
compelled
in our separate orbits,
Yet held in a flaming circle far greater than our own?
| 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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And everybody cried,
As they
hastened
to their side,
'See, the Table and the Chair
Have come out to take the air!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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HUMAYUN TO ZOBEIDA
(From the Urdu)
You flaunt your beauty in the rose, your glory in the dawn,
Your
sweetness
in the nightingale, your whiteness in the swan.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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LINES ON A CHILD
Encinctured
with a twine of leaves,
That leafy twine his only dress!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
The Emperor
remitted
the sentence of death and changed it
to one of perpetual exile at Yeh-lang.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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THE
BEDRIDDEN
PEASANT
TO AN UNKNOWING GOD
MUCH wonder I--here long low-laid--
That this dead wall should be
Betwixt the Maker and the made,
Between Thyself and me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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'
'Beneath a rod
More heavy, Christ for my sake trod
The
winepress
of the wrath of God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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This done, with herbs, for that occasion dight,
They stop his mouth,
wherewith
he puffs and blows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Pigmalions
painted statue I coulde love,
Soe it were warme and softe, and coulde but move.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The
confusion
of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
]
888 Segge3 hym serued semly in-no3e,
[E] Wyth sere sewes & sete,[2]
sesounde
of ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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They themselves rather are
occasion
best,
Zeal of thy Fathers house, Duty to free
Thy Country from her Heathen servitude;
So shalt thou best fullfil, best verifie
The Prophets old, who sung thy endless raign,
The happier raign the sooner it begins,
Raign then; what canst thou better do the while?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic
philosopher
(368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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I know the grass
Must grow somewhere along this
Thracian
coast, If only he would come some little while and find
it me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Additional terms will be linked
to the Project Gutenberg(TM) License for all works posted with the
permission of the
copyright
holder found at the beginning of this work.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
)
Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so
digress?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
"
"I tire of my beauty, I tire of this
Empty splendour and
shadowless
bliss;
"With none to envy and none gainsay,
No savour or salt hath my dream or day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Meanwhile, in whispers to his heavenly guest
His
indignation
thus the prince express'd:
"Indulge my rising grief, whilst these (my friend)
With song and dance the pompous revel end.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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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!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
The trams come whooping up one by one,
Yellow pulse-beats
spreading
through darkness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
The lovely Thais by his side
Sate like a
blooming
eastern bride
In flower of youth and beauty's pride:--
Happy, happy, happy pair!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
_("Non, l'avenir n'est a
personne!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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CLEMENT: Officer (_to_ BRAIN-WORM), have you the
warrant?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And Sigismond, thus met and horrified,
Recoiled to near the unseen opening wide;
The human club was raised, and struck again * * *
And Eviradnus did alone remain
All empty-handed--but he heard the sound
Of
spectres
two falling to depths profound;
Then, stooping o'er the pit, he gazed below,
And, as half-dreaming now, he murmured low,
"Tiger and jackal meet their portion here,
'Tis well together they should disappear!
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Hugo - Poems |
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TO HIS
HONOURED
FRIEND, M.
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Robert Herrick |
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These syllables that Nature spoke,
And the thoughts that in him woke,
Can
adequately
utter none
Save to his ear the wind-harp lone.
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Emerson - Poems |
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A mouth, now bottomless pit
Glacially screeching laughter,
Now a
transcendental
opening,
Vain smile of La Gioconda.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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stetque
magisque
magis _R_, obestque magisque
magis _GO_, stetque magisque magis _plerique_; LXVIII 115 ter?
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Latin - Catullus |
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The Cottage which was named the EVENING STAR
Is gone--the
ploughshare
has been through the ground
On which it stood; great changes have been wrought 485
In all the neighbourhood:--yet the oak is left
That grew beside their door; and the remains
Of the unfinished Sheep-fold may be seen
Beside the boisterous brook of Green-head Ghyll.
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William Wordsworth |
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O konntest du in meinem Innern lesen,
Wie wenig Vater und Sohn
Solch eines Ruhmes wert
gewesen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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None now the kindred of the unjust shall own;
Forgot the slaughter'd brother and the son:
Each future day
increase
of wealth shall bring,
And o'er the past Oblivion stretch her wing.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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quae de figura
etymologica
scripsit Reid ad Cic.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Leonor
Yet, Madame,
considering
your success
Your show of sadness runs now to excess.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Screaming electric, the atmosphere using,
At random glancing, each as I notice absorbing,
Swiftly on, but a little while alighting,
Curious
enveloped
messages delivering,
Sparkles hot, seed ethereal, down in the dirt dropping,
Myself unknowing, my commission obeying, to question it never daring,
To ages, and ages yet, the growth of the seed leaving,
To troops out of me rising--they the tasks I have set promulging,
To women certain whispers of myself bequeathing--their affection me more
clearly explaining,
To young men my problems offering--no dallier I--I the muscle of their
brains trying,
So I pass--a little time vocal, visible, contrary,
Afterward, a melodious echo, passionately bent for--death making me really
undying,--
The best of me then when no longer visible--for toward that I have been
incessantly preparing.
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Whitman |
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Their gaze draws me into
infinite
space.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the
cleverest
there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of delicate little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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To what
distraction
did love not drive my mother!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Guilt, erring man,
relenting
view,
But shall thy legal rage pursue
The wretch, already crushed low
By cruel Fortune's undeserved blow?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Childlike, I danced in a dream;
Blessings
emblazoned
that day
Everything glowed with a gleam;
Yet we were looking away!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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