"
"Old man, I am impressed by what you say,
But my soul is not
fashioned
like other men's.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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In abandoned cities foxes and badgers talk, in
deserted
villages tigers and leopards contend.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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_
CHORUS
Many and
marvellous
the things of fear
Earth's breast doth bear;
And the sea's lap with many monsters teems,
And windy levin-bolts and meteor gleams
Breed many deadly things--
Unknown and flying forms, with fear upon their wings,
And in their tread is death;
And rushing whirlwinds, of whose blasting breath
Man's tongue can tell.
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Aeschylus |
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To what
benevolent
demon, then, do I owe being thus surrounded with
mystery, with silence, with peace, and sweet odours?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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In sooth that craft of thine
Standeth
assoiled of all that here is wrought.
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Aeschylus |
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HIGH on a mountain of enamell'd head--
Such as the drowsy shepherd on his bed
Of giant pasturage lying at his ease,
Raising his heavy eyelid, starts and sees
With many a mutter'd "hope to be forgiven"
What time the moon is quadrated in Heaven--
Of rosy head, that towering far away
Into the sunlit ether, caught the ray
Of sunken suns at eve--at noon of night,
While the moon danc'd with the fair stranger light--
Uprear'd upon such height arose a pile
Of gorgeous columns on th' unburthen'd air,
Flashing from Parian marble that twin smile
Far down upon the wave that
sparkled
there,
And nursled the young mountain in its lair.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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You are
rich; go buy
yourself
a bier, and I will knead you a honey-cake for
Cerberus.
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Aristophanes |
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I am alone,
And made of something which the world has not,
Unless its
substance
can devour my spirit.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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This cherubim
One may
distinguish
among the angelic hierarchies, vowed to the service and glory of the divine, beings with unknown forms and the most amazing beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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I walk face lowered, and I glower,
And neither song nor
hawthorn
flower,
Can please me more than winter's ice.
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Troubador Verse |
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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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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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at is
grattest
in grene, when greue3 ar bare,
208 [C] & an ax in his o?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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" When at the first invention of printing, the art
was ascribed to the devil, the
illuminated
red ink parts were said by the
people to be done in blood.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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THE
suppliant
belle now hoped to be allowed
One half his bed to whom her sighs were vowed;
But terror closed her lips; she nothing said,
Though oft her eyes were to his pillow led.
| Guess: |
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La Fontaine |
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I wonder how the rich may feel, --
An
Indiaman
-- an Earl?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The play is
somewhat
Satyric in character.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Perhaps
so, but if it is a Spirit from beyond the world that decides when a
nation shall awake into imaginative energy, and no
philosopher
has ever
found what brings the moment, it cannot be for us to judge.
| Guess: |
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Yeats |
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Thou know'st her grace in moving, Thou dost her skill in loving,
Thou know'st what truth she proveth, Thou knowest the heart she moveth, O song where grief
assoneth
!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
The kestrel
hovering
by day,
And the little owls that call by night,
Bid him be swift and keen as they,
As keen of ear, as swift of sight.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Thus they
discoursing
stood; Argus the while,
Ulysses' dog, uplifted where he lay 350
His head and ears erect.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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That robe of quality so struts and swells,
None see what parts of nature it conceals:
The
exactest
traits of body or of mind,
We owe to models of an humble kind.
| Guess: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Shall I believe
That unsubstantial Death is amorous,
And that the lean
abhorred
monster keeps
Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
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Shakespeare |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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_
HE
CELEBRATES
THE BIRTHPLACE OF LAURA.
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Petrarch |
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Your
movements
have their primal bent from heaven;
Not all; yet said I all; what then ensues?
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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On Elphinstone's
Translation
Of Martial's Epigrams
O Thou whom Poetry abhors,
Whom Prose has turned out of doors,
Heard'st thou yon groan?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
When I go back to town some one will say:
'I think that
stranger
must have gone away.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Thou loosest labour
As easie may'st thou the
intrenchant
Ayre
With thy keene Sword impresse, as make me bleed:
Let fall thy blade on vulnerable Crests,
I beare a charmed Life, which must not yeeld
To one of woman borne
Macd.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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chi m'avria tratto su per la
montagna?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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No poppy in the May-glad mead Would match her
quivering
lips' red If 'gainst her lips it should be laid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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It has been occasionally
difficult
to decide whether some of the
allusions, to minute points in ancient history, mediaeval mythology, and
contemporary politics, should be explained or left alone; but I have
preferred to err on the side of giving a brief clue to details, with
which every scholar is familiar.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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) A
thousand
years to each Planet.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Now know I, made by sad experience wise,
That Fate would teach me by a life of tears,
On wings how
fleeting
fast all earthly rapture flies!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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His mind is
concrete
and fastidious,
His nose is remarkably big;
His visage is more or less hideous,
His beard it resembles a wig.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Land of Ontario, Erie, Huron,
Michigan!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
in truth, we groan
Impatiently
to be alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
It's not time but we
ourselves
who pass,
And soon beneath the silent tomb we lie:
And after death there'll be no news, alas,
Of these desires of which we are so full:
So love me now, while you are beautiful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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_) assert Venus incited her to infidelity, in
revenge for the wound she had
received
from her husband.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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No, neither he, nor his
compeers
by night
Giving him aid, my verse astonished.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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So the men rush like clouds,
They strike their iron edges on the Bishop's chair
And fling down the
lanterns
by the tower stair.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
Dick's heart stood still, and he came very near to being
disgusted
with
his queen who could do no wrong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Thus I
conceive
by him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The good Hebrew Revelation takes no
cognizance
of all this
cheerful snow.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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'
"That's the right way to cure a Sprite
Of such like goings-on--
But
gracious
me!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Caecilius was an
Insubrian
Gaul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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'
So should my papers, yellow'd with their age,
Be scorn'd, like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And
stretched
metre of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice,--in it, and in my rhyme.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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'All
precious
souls are there
Most safe, elect by grace,
All tears are wiped for ever from their face:
Untired in prayer 30
They wait and praise
Hidden for a little space.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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The illustrious
head of the
aristocratical
party, Marcus Furius Camillus, might
perhaps be, in some measure, protected by his venerable age and
by the memory of his great services to the state.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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An acquaintance that begins with a
compliment
is sure to develop into a
real friendship.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And as the
lengthening
days of summer throve,
She sighed, then withered by the waving rushes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Tell him your parents have
strictly forbidden you to play for
anything
but nuts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"
Queen Gulnaar's daughter two spring times old,
In blue robes bordered with tassels of gold,
Ran to her knee like a
wildwood
fay,
And plucked from her hand the mirror away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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* * * * *
JOHN FREEMAN
I WILL ASK
I will ask primrose and violet to spend for you
Their smell and hue,
And the bold,
trembling
anemone awhile to spare
Her flowers starry fair;
Or the flushed wild apple and yet sweeter thorn
Their sweetness to keep
Longer than any fire-bosomed flower born
Between midnight and midnight deep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
It has not weakened your noble ardour;
And your great virtue inspires my favour;
Wishing a perfect warrior for my son,
I made no error in thus
choosing
one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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I laugh his laughter
and sing his happy hours, and with thrice winged feet I dance
his
brighter
thoughts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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150
Is this a neighbourhood of men endued
With voice
articulate?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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[13] Here this late text
includes
both variants _pasaru_ and
_zakaru_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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They also
considered
the former as assisting the soul in its ascent to
its pristine state of felicity; but the latter as of a
punishing and avenging characteristic.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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In a certain great assembly, of which you are a
distinguished member, panegyrics on your private virtues have so often
wounded your delicacy, that we shall not
distress
you with anything on
the subject.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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"
Then began the
greatest
battle
That the sun had ever looked on,
That the war-birds ever witnessed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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'
'Be gin'rous for yourselves, where _you_'re to pay,
Thet's the best prectice,' sez a
shepherd
gray;
'Ez for their oaths they wun't be wuth a button,
Long 'z you don't cure 'em o' their taste for mutton;
Th' ain't but one solid way, howe'er you puzzle:
Tell they're convarted, let 'em wear a muzzle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Into the secret
wilderness
of their love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Can I let this
offender
go free?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I'll stride out with only my thought in sight,
Seeing nothing beyond, without hearing a sound,
Alone and unknown, back bowed, folded hands,
Sad, since
daylight
to me will seem night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
"Leave me with mine own,
"And take you yours away;
"I can't buy of your
patterns
of God,
"The little Gods you may rightly prefer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Through those thousand years poets and critics vied with one
another in proclaiming her verse the one unmatched
exemplar
of lyric art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Ed elli a me: <
che sempre al
cominciar
di sotto e grave;
e quant' om piu va su, e men fa male.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
--
That so your happiness in the thought of God
Stands, that he open'd man's expense of grief
To give your oars unscrupulous room, to be
The
buoyancy
of your delighted barges,
Sliding with fortunate lanterns and with tunes
And odorous holiday, O kings, O you
The pleasure of God, richly, joyously launcht
On this kind sea, the tame sorrow of Man?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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His
lordship
is unwell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
[100]
The song of mountain-streams, unheard by day,
Now hardly heard, beguiles my
homeward
way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
His poems, written during the War and Siege, collected under the title of
"L'Annee Terrible" (The
Terrible
Year, 1870-71), betray the long-tried
exile, "almost alone in his gloom," after the death of his son Charles and
his child.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
third, in what follows, puts from time to time fragrant
herbs into the fire so that it
flickers
up into
brighter flame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Note: The Scythians at the extreme end of the Empire in Roman times were
regarded
as living barbaric lives (See Ovid's Tristia and Ex Ponto).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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The first is that stage plays are known
to have been
performed
in Rome as early as the middle of the fourth
century.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Youths and boys minding geese and ducks:
Women and girls tending
mulberries
and hemp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So
deliciously
you, Mery, that I dream
Of what impossibly flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of darkened crystal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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When
knowledge
only could have filled,
And virtue all those furrows tilled.
| Guess: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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_Herry_, to plunder; most
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Chatterton had shown (by his article on
Christmas
games, &c.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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See, all our fools
aspiring
to be knaves!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Royalty
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Ah, deadly thought, as I speak, at this moment, here,
They brave the fury of a
maddened
lover!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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But feare not yet
To take vpon you what is yours: you may
Conuey your pleasures in a
spacious
plenty,
And yet seeme cold.
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What,
shrinking
from thine own delightsomeness?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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In support of this tradition, the
etymology
of their
name is adduced as a proof.
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Tacitus |
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On these
occasions his daughter Emily emerged from her wonted
retirement
and
did her part as gracious hostess; nor would any one have known from
her manner, I have been told, that this was not a daily occurrence.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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