though parted by the sea,
The very name of wife had conjugal rights;
Her cursed image ate, drank, slept with me,
And in the arms of Adiposa oft 290
Her memory has
received
a husband's--
[A LOUD TUMULT, AND CRIES OF 'IONA FOR EVER --NO SWELLFOOT!
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Beware of
them, Diana: their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all
these engines of lust, are not the things they go under; many a
maid hath been seduced by them; and the misery is, example, that
so
terrible
shows in the wreck of maidenhood, cannot for all that
dissuade succession, but that they are limed with the twigs that
threatens them.
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These compilations devote an inordinate space
to his works, and he has been held in
corresponding
esteem by a public
whose knowledge of poetry is chiefly confined to anthologies.
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Li Po |
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And now thou hast
restored
our State,
Pity our Kirk also;
For she by tribulations
Is now brought very low.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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He wheels his mares, who at their
frontlets
chafe
And yearn to charge upon the gates amain.
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Aeschylus |
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Here
_suhuru_
is taken as a loan-word
from sugur timmatu, hair of the head.
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,
_twilight_
or _dawn_: dat.
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Beowulf |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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JOHN GOULD FLETCHER
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER
THE BLUE SYMPHONY
I
The
darkness
rolls upward.
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Imagists |
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I beheld] my
likeness
in the street.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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; that the rhymes and pictures
are by different persons; or that the whole have a
symbolical
meaning,
etc.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The
penitent
shower fell, as down he knelt 290
Before that care-worn sage, who trembling felt
About his large dark locks, and faultering spake:
"Arise, good youth, for sacred Phoebus' sake!
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Keats |
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`Wo worth the faire gemme
vertulees!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Why, Egypt's Gods were rational to these; 400
Their dogs and oxen knew their own degrees,
And, quiet in their kennel or their shed,
Cared little, so that they were duly fed;
But these, more hungry, must have
something
more--
The power to bark and bite, to toss and gore.
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Byron |
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Already 1 begin to call
In their most learned original,
And, where I
language
want, my signs
The bird upon the bough divines.
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Marvell - Poems |
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)
And shall a promise hold,
unbroken?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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But ALL subsists by elemental strife;
And Passions are the
elements
of Life.
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Alexander Pope |
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My
departing
blossoms
Obviate parade.
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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[19] This is to my knowledge the first
occurence
of the infinitive
of this verb, _paheru_, not _paharu_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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What couldn't he do to us
standing
here!
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Robert Forst |
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The eternal gates terrific porter lifted the northern bar:
Thel enter'd in & saw the secrets of the land unknown;
She saw the couches of the dead, & where the fibrous roots
Of every heart on earth infixes deep its
restless
twists:
A land of sorrows & of tears where never smile was seen.
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blake-poems |
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When out of that false nurse at last he found
He could not fish the truth by prayer or fee,
Touching
no chord but yielded a false sound,
He shrewdly waits his time till there should be
Discord between the beldam and his wife:
For whereso women are, is stir and strife.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The day, that to the shades the father sends,
Robs the sad orphan of his father's friends:
He,
wretched
outcast of mankind!
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Iliad - Pope |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and
charitable
donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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A something in a summer's day,
As sIow her flambeaux burn away,
Which
solemnizes
me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The Poetic Sentiment, of course, may develop itself in various modes--in
Painting, in Sculpture, in Architecture, in the Dance--very especially
in Music--and very peculiarly, and with a wide field, in the com
position of the
Landscape
Garden.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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All your coaxing will only make
a bitter fruit--
let them cling, ripen of themselves,
test their own worth,
nipped,
shrivelled
by the frost,
to fall at last but fair
with a russet coat.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smooths her hair with
automatic
hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
"They called me the
hyacinth
girl.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And if my flute can breathe sweet melody,
We may behold Her face who long ago
Dwelt among men by the AEgean sea,
And whose sad house with pillaged portico
And
friezeless
wall and columns toppled down
Looms o'er the ruins of that fair and violet cinctured town.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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May never wicked men
bamboozle
him!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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Li Po |
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I wondered what machine of ages gone
This represented an
improvement
on.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Shalt thou be vanquished, whose
imperial
feet
Have shattered armies and stamped empires dead?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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each his center basement finds; suspended there they stand {According to Erdman, the word "center" was originally deleted by Blake with a strong ink stroke and
therefore
not easily erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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12 Then did I leave them to their will
And to their wandring mind; 50
Their own conceits they follow'd still
Their own devises blind
13 O that my people would be wise
To serve me all their daies,
And O that Israel would advise
To walk my
righteous
waies.
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Milton |
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A Greek who had been Lord Byron's servant commands the
insurgents
in
Attica.
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Shelley |
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It might have been the lighthouse spark
Some sailor, rowing in the dark,
Had
importuned
to see!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot
Some could articulate, while others not:
And
suddenly
one more impatient cried--
"Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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[_They
surround_
JUDITH _and go with her_.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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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!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The flower I gave thee once
Was
incident
to a stride,
A detail of a gesture,
But search those pale petals
And see engraven thereon
A record of my intention.
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Stephen Crane |
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their crime, they were my friends:
Thick as the boars, which some
luxurious
lord
Kills for the feast, to crown the nuptial board.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Yet thou canst more than mock: sometimes my tears
At midnight break through bounden lids -- a sign
Thou hast a heart: and oft thy little leaven
Of dream-taught wisdom works me
bettered
years.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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[54] The tablet is reckoned at forty lines in each column,
[55] Literally "he
attained
my front.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Fortunate
they
Who, though once only and then but far away,
Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Does he approach Petrarch's sonnets for the first time, they will
probably appear to him all as like to each other as the sheep of a
flock; but, when he becomes more familiar with them, he will perceive an
interesting individuality in every sonnet, and will discriminate their
individual character as
precisely
as the shepherd can distinguish every
single sheep of his flock by its voice and face.
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Petrarch |
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'Yet did I not, as some my equals did,
Demand of him, nor being desired yielded;
Finding myself in honour so forbid,
With safest
distance
I mine honour shielded.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Greeks were the ones who began it, and only to Greeks they proclaimed it
Even within Roman walls: "Come to the
sanctified
night.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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My mother (then at home) with all her maids
Handling and gazing on it with delight,
Proposed to
purchase
it, and he the nod
Significant, gave unobserv'd, the while, 560
To the Phoenician woman, and return'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Is my life vulgar, my fate mean,
Which on such golden
memories
can lean?
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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What a thin
membrane
of honour
that is!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I like to see it lap the miles,
And lick the valleys up,
And stop to feed itself at tanks;
And then, prodigious, step
Around a pile of mountains,
And, supercilious, peer
In
shanties
by the sides of roads;
And then a quarry pare
To fit its sides, and crawl between,
Complaining all the while
In horrid, hooting stanza;
Then chase itself down hill
And neigh like Boanerges;
Then, punctual as a star,
Stop -- docile and omnipotent --
At its own stable door.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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FAUST:
Ja, was man so
erkennen
heisst!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Is this your
speeding?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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THERE were no ruins, neither fragments,
There was no chasm, nor grave nor pall,
There was no longing, was no wooing,
Where but one hour
rendered
all.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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In
the finest
allegory
the heroes of the Lusiad receive their reward: and,
by means of this allegory, our poet gives a noble imitation of the
noblest part of the AEneid.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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[541] An
Athenian
admiral.
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Aristophanes |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Eufeniens was his name;
Of
godenesse
was his fame
In ?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I called not thee to burial of my dead,
Nor count thy
presence
here a welcome thing.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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As some dim blur of distant music nears
The long-desiring sense, and slowly clears
To forms of time and apprehensive tune,
So, as I lay, full soon
Interpretation throve: the bee's fanfare,
Through sequent films of discourse vague as air,
Passed to plain words, while, fanning faint perfume,
The bee o'erhung a rich,
unrifled
bloom:
"O Earth, fair lordly Blossom, soft a-shine
Upon the star-pranked universal vine,
Hast nought for me?
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Sidney Lanier |
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c'est ici qu'on vendange
Les fruits
miraculeux
dont votre coeur a faim;
Venez vous enivrer de la couleur etrange
De cette apres-midi qui n'a jamais de fin?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Or hawk the magic of her name about
Deaf doors and
dungeons
where no truth is brought ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The armour, horses, soldiers, and
officers
are described.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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" The commentators do not seem quite agreed
whether "den Alten" (the old one) is an entirely
reverential
phrase here,
like the "ancient of days," or savors a little of profane pleasantry, like
the title "old man" given by boys to their schoolmaster or of "the old
gentleman" to their fathers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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4 This refers to the disastrous defeat of the hastily
assembled
imperial army outside of Tong Pass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss,
Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove:
For, thou betraying me, I do betray
My nobler part to my gross body's treason;
My soul doth tell my body that he may
Triumph in love; flesh stays no farther reason,
But rising at thy name doth point out thee,
As his
triumphant
prize.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Rigaut de
Berbezilh
(fl.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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e castel carnele3,
clambred
so ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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In his prowess he exults,
And the
multitude
insults.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Plessis in libello Traite de
Metrique
Grecque
et Latine p.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
inquired
a chorus of voices.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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[Note 24: The neighbours
complained
of Oneguine's want of courtesy.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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An' blowed an' tore an' reared an' pitched an' all,
-- I had to run a race
"Right out o' bed from that hotel
An' git to yonder risin' ground,
For, 'twixt the sea that riz and rain that fell,
I pooty nigh was
drowned!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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268, known to be a
favourite
passage with Keats.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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XXIX
"Two years were passed since to a distant town
He had repaired to ply a gainful trade: [21]
What tears of bitter grief, till then
unknown!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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" She finds
them "a little incomprehensible," "profound artists in all the subtle
intricacies of fascination," and asks if these "incalculable
frivolities and vanities and coquetries and caprices" are, to us,
an
essential
part of their charm?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Shall I be
faithless
to myself
Or to you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Now by the Cross and God I do adjure thee,
Declare to me the truth upon thy conscience;
Didst recognise the slaughtered boy; was't not
A
substitute?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The hippo's feeble steps may err
In
compassing
material ends,
While the True Church need never stir
To gather in its dividends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Ah,
Postumus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Her life was the normal
blossoming
of a nature
introspective to a high degree, whose best thought could not exist
in pretence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Father, this zeal is
anything
but well!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Perchance
'tis joy,
To see Orestes' comrade, that he feels.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Perhaps,
supported
at another's board!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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And after a thousand years I
ascended
the holy mountain and again
spoke unto God, saying, "Creator, I am thy creation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The
PRETENDER
and
MARINA advance as the first couple.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But to
discover
ALL, his lovely rib
Appeared disposed, though wives can often fib;
The silliest of the throng (or high or low),
Most perfectly the science seem to know.
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La Fontaine |
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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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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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the theme
surmounts
the loftiest strains.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The water still falls into the
'cup of stone,' which
appeared
to be of very long standing.
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William Wordsworth |
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It's beautiful eyes hidden by veils,
It's broad day quivering at noon,
It's the blue
disorder
of clear stars
In an autumn, cool, with no moon!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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It
ends in
rejoicing
and gladness against the tragic convention.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And in hir aspre pleynte than she seyde,
`Pandare
first of Ioyes mo than two
Was cause causinge un-to me, Criseyde,
That now transmuwed been in cruel wo.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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{and} I
ap{er}ceiuede
a litel here
byforn ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Darts shower'd on darts, now round the carcase ring;
Now flights of arrows bounding from the string:
Stones follow stones; some clatter on the fields,
Some hard, and heavy, shake the
sounding
shields.
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Iliad - Pope |
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