What
immortal
grief hath touched thee
With the poignancy of sadness,--
Testament of tears?
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Sappho |
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[246] The actor,
representing
Procne, was dressed out as a courtesan, but
wore the mask of a bird.
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Aristophanes |
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' However, Blake seems to indicate a re-sequencing of the material to the order shown here, indicating the insertion of these 3 lines with a letter X at their head and a corresponding X at the end of the
preceding
section [ending '.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Thy sister doth not haunt these fields, Pandion is not here,
Here is no cruel Lord with murderous blade,
No woven web of bloody heraldries,
But mossy dells for roving
comrades
made,
Warm valleys where the tired student lies
With half-shut book, and many a winding walk
Where rustic lovers stray at eve in happy simple talk.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Yet do I not require
Thy purpose; whether thy proud heart must have
The wound of death from steel that has not toucht
The peevish misery these Jews call blood;
Whether thy mind is for velvet slavery
In the desires of some
Assyrian
lord--
Forgive me, Judith!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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In one half-hour I can walk off
to some portion of the earth's surface where a man does not stand from
one year's end to another, and there, consequently,
politics
are not,
for they are but as the cigar-smoke of a man.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The fact is, that soon after my arrival at the cottage there had
occurred to myself an
incident
so entirely inexplicable, and which had
in it so much of the portentous character, that I might well have been
excused for regarding it as an omen.
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Poe - 5 |
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Houghton
Mifflin Company, Boston, 1914.
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Imagists |
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For "IS" and "IS-NOT" though with Rule and Line,
And, "UP-AND-DOWN" without, I could define,
I yet in all I only cared to know,
Was never deep in
anything
but--Wine.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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This
dreadful
monster won't escape: believe me.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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There, when the turf in springtime flowers,
With downward eye and gazes sad,
Stands amid the
glancing
showers
A jonquil, not a Grecian lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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She returned to Hyderabad in September 1898, and in
the
December
of that year, to the scandal of all India, broke
through the bonds of caste, and married Dr.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The soul unto itself
Is an imperial friend, --
Or the most
agonizing
spy
An enemy could send.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Canzon: Spear
Or might my
troubled
heart be fed UpOn the frail clear light there shed>
Then were my pain at last allay'd.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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armed for virtue when I point the pen,
Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men;
Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car;
Bare the mean heart that lurks beneath a star;
Can there be wanting, to defend her cause,
Lights of the Church, or
guardians
of the laws?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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XXXV
Meanwhile the Tuscan army,
Right
glorious
to behold,
Come flashing back the noonday light,
Rank behind rank, like surges bright
Of a broad sea of gold.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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If you do love
Rosalind
so near the heart as your gesture cries
it out, when your brother marries Aliena shall you marry her.
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Shakespeare |
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There was first the
danger of their being left fatherless, a dire
calamity
in the heroic age.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Your lights are but dank shoals,
slate and pebble and wet shells
and seaweed
fastened
to the rocks.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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No less the rooms within
commends*
The house was built upon the place.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"
LXXII
I heard the gods reply:
"Trust not the future with its perilous chance;
The
fortunate
hour is on the dial now.
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Sappho |
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With shaded eyes your vision follows
The gentle swans'
receding
train.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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O tyrant thoughts,
vouchsafe
me some repose!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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No, neither he, nor his
compeers
by night
Giving him aid, my verse astonished.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And I have known the arms already, known them all--
Arms that are
braceleted
and white and bare
(But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!
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T.S. Eliot |
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James Russell Lowell |
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Entends-tu retentir les
refrains
des dimanches
Et l'espoir qui gazouille en mon sein palpitant?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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By the turning, once again,
The moon
thniwfeh
up your visage wan,
And yet too late to call you back.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"How sweet is mortal
Sovranty!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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both are
necessary
to me
in order that I may see the two sides of the cloth that I weave.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Such signs were
mournful
and alarming things,
And far more weighty than conjecture brings;
Though foes made double what they heard of all,
Swore lies as proofs, and prophesied her fall.
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John Clare |
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His horse he's spurred, the clear blood issued;
He's
gallopped
on, over a ditch he's leapt,
Full fifty feet a man might mark its breadth.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Since that time he has been
steadily
on active
service.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Cette
caricature
de Louis XVI, d'abord:
_Et prenant ce gros-la dans son regard farouche.
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
Well, then, I hate thee,
Unrighteous
Picture;
Wicked Image, I hate thee;
So, strike with thy vengeance
The heads of those little men
Who come blindly.
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Stephen Crane |
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In direful hunger craving
Summers & Winters round revolving in the
frightful
deep.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Because I think that life is
far too
important
a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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When the seventh self thus spake the other six selves looked with
pity upon him but said nothing more; and as the night grew deeper
one after the other went to sleep
enfolded
with a new and happy
submission.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Lines longer than 78 characters are broken
according
to metre,
and the continuation is indented two spaces.
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Sara Teasdale |
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qui si nuota
altrimenti
che nel Serchio!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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) Ever the
selfsame
dream!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Or ni feriale
ni
astrale!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And it bears the fruit of Deceit,
Ruddy and sweet to eat,
And the raven his nest has made
In its
thickest
shade.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Je
celebrai
mon jour de fete
Dans une oasis d'Afrique
Vetu d'une peau de girafe.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Der
Meerkater
mit den Jungen sitzt darneben und warmt sich.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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But
evermore
a Claudius shrinks from a stricken field,
And changes color like a maid at sight of sword and shield.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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the Spirits
Of Luvah & Vala
shudderd
in their Orb: an orb of blood!
| Guess: |
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Blake - Zoas |
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"
CXLI
The count Rollanz, back to the field then hieing
Holds Durendal, and like a vassal striking
Faldrun of Pui has through the middle sliced,
With twenty-four of all they rated highest;
Was never man, for
vengeance
shewed such liking.
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Chanson de Roland |
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THE permutation could not well be made,
But scandal would such
practices
upbraid;
In country villages each step is seen;
Thus, round the whisper went of what had been,
And placed at length the thorn where all was ease;
The pow'rs divine alone it could displease.
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La Fontaine |
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Donne
is
probably
echoing St.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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She
remained
in England,
with an interval of travel in Italy, till 1898, studying first at
King's College, London, then, till her health again broke down,
at Girton.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The last named appeared just
before the publication of the volume "Excursions," which
collected
the
several papers.
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| Question: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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19-24, 1846]
_The assaulting
American
army at the attack on Monterey numbered
six thousand six hundred and twenty-five; the defeated Mexicans
were about ten thousand.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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He purchased books on farming, held conversations with the old and the
knowing; and said unto himself, "I shall be prudent and wise, and my
shadow shall
increase
in the land.
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Robert Burns |
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The
business
was a fraud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit www.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I swear I can see all right when I'm--when I'm
moderately
screwed,
as you say.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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If you received it
on a physical medium, you must return it with your note, and
such person may choose to
alternatively
give you a replacement
copy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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inmitis nidos coluber
custodiet
ante
et uitulos fetae poterunt seruare leaenae.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Thus Love
triumphs
over Man;
Chastity triumphs over Love; Death triumphs over both; Fame triumphs
over Death; Time triumphs over Fame; and Eternity triumphs over Time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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"The
mountain
of Tsang-wu shall fall and the waters of the Hsiang
shall cease, sooner than the marks of our tears shall fade from these
bamboo-leaves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
ipsicilla_ RVen: _Hypsithilla_ Scaliger: _Ipsitilla_
Buecheler:
_Hypsiphylla_
Palmer: _Ipsimilla_ Leo
4 _illud, adiuuato_ Lachm.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that
engenders
wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"Come thou--thou never knewest
A grief, that thou
shouldst
fear one!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
"
Thus in the regions of eternal shade
Conferr'd the mournful phantoms of the dead;
While from the town, Ulysses and his band
Pass'd to Laertes'
cultivated
land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Each year brings forth its millions; but how long
The tide of generations shall roll on,
And not the whole combined and
countless
throng
Compose a mind like thine?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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during my night
I, having become lusty,
wandered
about
in the midst of omens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Even as an arrow through a cloud, darting from the string when Parthian
hath poisoned it with bitter gall,
Parthian
or Cydonian, and sped the
immedicable shaft, leaps through the swift shadow whistling and unknown;
so sprung and swept to earth the daughter of Night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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trenches
are scraped flat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
[98]
One I behold who, 'cross the foaming flood, 380
Leaps with a bound of graceful hardihood;
Another high on that green ledge;--he gained
The tempting spot with every sinew strained; [99]
And
downward
thence a knot of grass he throws,
Food for his beasts in time of winter snows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
) Why are they
wailing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
ROMANCE
ROMANCE, who loves to nod and sing,
With drowsy head and folded wing,
Among the green leaves as they shake
Far down within some shadowy lake,
To me a painted paroquet
Hath been--a most
familiar
bird--
Taught me my alphabet to say--
To lisp my very earliest word
While in the wild wood I did lie,
A child--with a most knowing eye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Then in battle order they
advanced
up the
steep hill in front of them, until they reached the lowest gates of
the fortress on the Capitol.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
[661]
Wretched
woman, where are
your senses?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
"
Boldly the hero spake with brow severe,
Of fraud alike unconscious, as of fear:
His noble
confidence
with truth impressed
Sunk deep, unwelcome, in the monarch's breast,
Nor wanting charms his avarice to gain
Appear'd the commerce of illustrious Spain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
I shall not want Pipit in Heaven:
Madame Blavatsky will
instruct
me
In the Seven Sacred Trances;
Piccarda de Donati will conduct me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
VII
Rome
Oh for the rising moon
Over the roofs of Rome,
And swallows in the dusk
Circling a
darkened
dome!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
All men admired he to that pitch could fly :
Powder ne'er blew tnun up so soon, so high ;
But sure his late good
luisbaridry
in petre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
The fourth's a
Highland
Donald hastie,
A d--n'd red wud Kilburnie blastie!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
MOERIS
O Lycidas,
We have lived to see, what never yet we feared,
An
interloper
own our little farm,
And say, "Be off, you former husbandmen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
For all I knew it may have sharpened spears
And
arrowheads
itself.
| 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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e
nat{ur}e
of p{ar}ties or of membris.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
The more my own fond wishes would impel
My steps to you, sweet company of
friends!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
ion's,---- 85
And therefore, let me obtaine, that you will yeeld
To timing a poore
Gentlemans
di?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
The chosen angels, and the blest above,
Heaven's
citizens!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Orrick Johns
Margaret Widdemer
Percival Allen
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Percy Helen Hoyt Howard Mumford Jones Amory Hare Cook
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Come rather on some autumn afternoon,
When red and brown are burnished on the leaves,
And the fields echo to the gleaner's song,
Come when the
splendid
fulness of the moon
Looks down upon the rows of golden sheaves,
And reap Thy harvest: we have waited long.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For
familiar
hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your thoughts for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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When once my will was captive by my fate,
And I had lost the liberty, which late
Made my life happy; I, who used before
To flee from Love (as fearful deer abhor
The following huntsman),
suddenly
became
(Like all my fellow-servants) calm and tame;
And view'd the travails, wrestlings, and the smart,
The crooked by-paths, and the cozening art
That guides the amorous flock: then whilst mine eye
I cast in every corner, to espy
Some ancient or modern who had proved
Famous, I saw him, who had only loved
Eurydice, and found out hell, to call
Her dear ghost back; he named her in his fall
For whom he died.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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May God never grant me power
Not
inspired
by true love's art!
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Troubador Verse |
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Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep, for
reasons;
(With
gathering
murk, with muttering thunder and lambent shoots we
all duly awake,
South, North, East, West, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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So should kinsmen be,
not weave one another the net of wiles,
or with deep-hid
treachery
death contrive
for neighbor and comrade.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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yes, but tell me, if you can,
Is this
superscription
Caesar's here upon our brother man?
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James Russell Lowell |
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