He comes and hears--they let the
strongest
loose.
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John Clare |
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ever-push'd
elasticity!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose:
"Give me a rival, O King Feroz.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The fathers' nuptial counsels speed,
Those laws that shall on Rome bestow
A
plenteous
seed!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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ADMETUS (_surprised, then
reluctantly
yielding_).
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Literature, also, from which my spirit asks voluptuousness, that will be the agonised poetry of Rome's last moments, so long as it does not breathe a breath of the reinvigorated stance of the
Barbarians
or stammer in childish Latin like Christian prose.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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A fragment of the South Babylonian version of the tenth book was
published in 1902, a text from the period of Hammurapi, which showed
that the Babylonian epic
differed
very much from the Assyrian in
diction, but not in content.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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His turban has fallen from his forehead,
To assist him the
bystanders
started--
His mouth foams, his face blackens horrid--
See the Renegade's soul has departed.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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It came at length, however,--a
monstrously
big
box of it there was, too--and as the whole party were in excessively
good humor, it was decided, nem.
| Guess: |
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Poe - 5 |
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Beautiful Women
Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young,
The young are beautiful--but the old are more
beautiful
than the young.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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More vital than the
influence
of the personalities and the art treasures
of the countries which Rilke visited and more potent in its effect upon
his creations, like a great sun over the most fruitful years of his
life, stands the towering personality of Auguste Rodin.
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Rilke - Poems |
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I
find no difficulty in the allusion made in the second poem to Dorothy
being yet possibly a "Wife and Friend"; nor to the fact that it was
originally
addressed
"To a beautiful Young Lady.
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William Wordsworth |
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--
To eat
Thanksgiving
turkey.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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When a soft haze the world was veiling,
Each bud a miracle bespoke,
And from their stems a
thousand
flowers I broke,
Their fragrance through the vales exhaling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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For never a shape which charms our sense was made
Without some elemental smoothness; whilst
Whate'er is harsh and irksome has been framed
Still with some
roughness
in its elements.
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| Question: |
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Lucretius |
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And you, Euripides, prove yourself meet to
sprinkle
incense on
the brazier.
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Aristophanes |
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Three women were
assisting
at her toilet.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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So I call in the boy and make him kneel here and tie this up,
and send it to you, a remembrance, from a
thousand
miles away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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The dusk kept dropping, dropping still;
No dew upon the grass,
But only on my
forehead
stopped,
And wandered in my face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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What hum of music, what a radiant tone,
Thrills through me, from my lips the goblet
stealing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
CXXXII
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,
Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain,
Have put on black and loving
mourners
be,
Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The Emperor
bestowed
food upon him and stirred
the soup with his own hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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For, fisherman, what fresh or seawater catch
equals him, either in form or savour,
that lovely divine fish, Jesus, My
Saviour?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
I looked at sunrise once,
And then I looked at them,
And
wishfulness
in me arose
For circumstance the same.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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After this marriage had been celebrated
with magnificent festivities, Petrarch was
requested
by Galeazzo to go
to Paris, and to congratulate the unfortunate King John upon his return
to his country.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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The sea, the earth, the
innumerable
sand,
Archytas, thou couldst measure; now, alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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'Twas well enough when summer came,
The long, warm,
lightsome
summer-day,
Then at her door the _canty_ dame
Would sit, as any linnet gay.
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| Question: |
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And where are you going to, since you have not deposited
your
belongings?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Heeding ancient advice, I leaf through the works of the Ancients
With an
assiduous
hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Who erewhile
Had from her countenance turned, or looked by stealth
(For fear is true-love's cruel nurse), he now
With
steadfast
gaze and unoffending eye,
Worships the watery idol, dreaming hopes
Delicious to the soul, but fleeting, vain,
E'en as that phantom-world on which he gazed,
But not unheeded gazed: for see, ah!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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True it is,
That such one as in contumacy dies
Against the holy church, though he repent,
Must wander thirty-fold for all the time
In his presumption past; if such decree
Be not by prayers of good men shorter made
Look
therefore
if thou canst advance my bliss;
Revealing to my good Costanza, how
Thou hast beheld me, and beside the terms
Laid on me of that interdict; for here
By means of those below much profit comes.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
IV
If my praise her grace effaces,
Then 't is not my heart that showeth, But the skilless tongue that soweth Words
unworthy
of her graces.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
" Through groves of pikes he thunder'd then,
" And
mountains
rais'd of dying men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
VIII
Merry and bold is now that Emperour,
Cordres he holds, the walls are tumbled down,
His
catapults
have battered town and tow'r.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
_Song's Eternity_
What is song's
eternity?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Own to light, love, attraction,
O pearls the sea mingles with its great masses,
O
gleaming
birds of the forest's sombre ocean!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
I saw the _alembic_ swaying from side to side in the distant
corner it had rolled to, and Michael
Robartes
watching me and waiting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
80
You think her old ribs have come all
crashing
through,
If a whisk of Fate's broom snap your cobweb asunder;
But her rivets were clinched by a wiser than you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
It is that distant years which did not take
Thy sovranty, recoiling with a blow,
Have forced my swimming brain to undergo
Their doubt and dread, and blindly to forsake
Thy purity of likeness and distort
Thy
worthiest
love to a worthless counterfeit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
At last the boy Ascanius and his troops burst
through the
ineffectual
leaguer and issue from the camp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Hang him, foul
collier!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
By this the stars were almost gone,
The moon was setting on the hill,
So pale you
scarcely
looked at her:
The little birds began to stir,
Though yet their tongues were still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Fortune in men has some small difference made,
One flaunts in rags, one
flutters
in brocade;
The cobbler aproned, and the parson gowned,
The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned,
"What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Surtout une facture solide, meme un peu trop, qui dit
l'extreme
jeunesse
de l'auteur quand il s'en servit d'apres la formule
parnassienne exageree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
There even toil itself was play;
Twas pleasure een to weep;
Twas joy to think of dreams by day,
The
beautiful
of sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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And when from far away we do behold
The squared towers of a city, oft
Rounded they seem,--on this account because
Each distant angle is perceived obtuse,
Or rather it is not perceived at all;
And perishes its blow nor to our gaze
Arrives its stroke, since through such length of air
Are borne along the idols that the air
Makes blunt the idol of the angle's point
By
numerous
collidings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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I and my king be wyth the Kenters founde; 115
Bythric and Alfwold hedde the
Brystowe
bande;
And Bertrams sonne, the man of glorious wounde,
Lead in the rear the menged of the lande;
And let the Londoners and Suffers plie
Bie Herewardes memuine and the lighte skyrts anie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Series
For the
splendour
of the day of happinesses in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of
derivative
works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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he goes in fer the war;
He don't vally princerple more'n an old cud;
Wut did God make us raytional
creeturs
fer,
But glory an' gunpowder, plunder an' blood?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Orsilochus hurled his spear at the horse of Remulus, whom
himself he shrank to meet, and left the steel in it under the ear; at
the stroke the charger rears madly, and,
mastered
by the wound, lifts
his chest and flings up his legs: the rider is thrown and rolls over on
the ground.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
"
I smile, of course,
And go on
drinking
tea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Her wing shall the eagle flap
O'er the falsehearted;
His warm blood the wolf shall lap
Ere life be parted:
Shame and dishonour sit
By his grave ever;
Blessing
shall hallow it
Never, O never!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
V
It was not
chastity
that made me cold nor fear,
only I knew that you, like myself, were sick
of the puny race that crawls and quibbles and lisps
of love and love and lovers and love's deceit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
The Foundation is
committed
to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I tell the day, to please him thou art bright,
And dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven:
So flatter I the swart-complexion'd night,
When
sparkling
stars twire not thou gild'st the even.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Sweeney shifts from ham to ham
Stirring
the water in his bath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Girls, lovers, youngsters, fresh to hand,
Dancers,
tumblers
that leap like lambs,
Agile as arrows, like shots from a cannon,
Throats tinkling, clear as bells on rams,
Will you leave him here, your poor old Villon?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Bad habit, by the
way, makes one very
unpopular
at the club .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
My
compliments
to sister Beckie,
And eke the same to honest Lucky;
I wat she is a daintie chuckie,
As e'er tread clay;
And gratefully, my gude auld cockie,
I'm yours for aye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
_--The commander of Diu, or Dio, during
this siege, one of the most memorable in the
Portuguese
history.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
O
blinding
hour, O holy, terrible day,
When first the shaft into his vision shone
Of light anatomized!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
In frost and cold though lame he's forced to go--
The call's more urgent when he
journeys
slow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
To assist his glory, he entrusted men of civil virtue, in grand continuation he
withdrew
war?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Thy mossy footstool shall the altar be
'Fore which I'll bend, bending, dear love, to thee:
Those lips shall be my Delphos, and shall speak
Laws to my footsteps, colour to my cheek,
Trembling or
stedfastness
to this same voice,
And of three sweetest pleasurings the choice: 720
And that affectionate light, those diamond things,
Those eyes, those passions, those supreme pearl springs,
Shall be my grief, or twinkle me to pleasure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Fool, to stand here cursing
When I might be
running!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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elich{e} bestes
dreme{n}
alwey [yowre
bygynnynge] al ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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For all whose head this grey sword visiteth
To death are
hallowed
and the Lords of death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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The wind pursued the little bush,
And drove away the leaves
November left; then
clambered
up
And fretted in the eaves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Where sulphury
Fulegethon
does ever burn !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
CHORUS
But by whose word, whose craft, wert thou
impelled?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
And mercy being easie, and glorious
To God; in his sterne wrath, why
threatens
hee?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
ADAM'S CURSE
WE sat
together
at one summer's end,
That beautiful mild woman, your close friend,
And you and I, and talked of poetry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Below, 'twas still all a-roar,
As the ships went by the shore,
But the fire of the fort had slacked,
(So fierce their volleys had been)--
And now, with a mighty din,
The whole fleet came grandly in,
Though sorely
battered
and wracked.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Let me count the ways
XLIV Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers
I
I thought once how
Theocritus
had sung
Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,
Who each one in a gracious hand appears
To bear a gift for mortals, old or young:
And, as I mused it in his antique tongue,
I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,
Those of my own life, who by turns had flung
A shadow across me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Nor had they failed, maturer grown in might,
To accomplish that emprize, but them the son[46]
Of radiant-hair'd Latona and of Jove
Slew both, ere yet the down of
blooming
youth
Thick-sprung, their cheeks or chins had tufted o'er.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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A pigmy scraper, wi' his fiddle,
Wha us'd at trysts and fairs to driddle,
Her
strappan
limb and gausy middle
He reach'd na higher,
Had hol'd his heartie like a riddle,
An' blawn't on fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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The kingdom that was passing was, he held, the kingdom of the Tree of
Knowledge; the kingdom that was coming was the kingdom of the Tree of
Life: men who ate from the Tree of
Knowledge
wasted their days in anger
against one another, and in taking one another captive in great nets;
men who sought their food among the green leaves of the Tree of Life
condemned none but the unimaginative and the idle, and those who forget
that even love and death and old age are an imaginative art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
these
proverbs
are all idle talk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
620
Lette those yatte are unto yer
battayles
fledde,
Take slepe eterne uponne a feerie lowynge bedde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Too anxious a care
in avoiding such would force a tale-writer into a labyrinth of shifts,
into narratives as dull as they are grand, into straits that are utterly
useless, and would make him disregard the
pleasure
of the heart in order
to labour for the gratification of the ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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La Fontaine |
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Passer mortuus est meae puellae,
Passer, deliciae meae puellae,
Quem plus illa oculis suis amabat: 5
Nam mellitus erat suamque norat
Ipsa tam bene quam puella matrem
Nec sese a gremio illius movebat,
Sed
circumsiliens
modo huc modo illuc
Ad solam dominam usque pipiabat.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Lady so graced,
All acclaimed and have praised
Your worth with pleasure freighted;
Who forgets, instead,
May as well be dead,
I adore, you, the ever-exalted;
Since you have the kindest head,
And are best, and the
worthiest
bred,
I've flattered
I've served
More truly than Erec Enida.
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Troubador Verse |
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Did I dream, or did I hear
Politian
was a melancholy man?
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Poe - 5 |
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91 or 90
Just search by the first five letters of the
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you want,
as it appears in our Newsletters.
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Whitman |
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The observation
made as to the spot where the boat disappeared caused it to be found,
through the
exertions
of Trelawny for that effect.
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Shelley |
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Since I wrote to you the last
lugubrious
sheet, I have not had time to
write you further.
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Robert Forst |
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FOOTNOTES:
[F] Of the
personality
of Homer, the maker of the "Iliad" and
the "Odyssey," those great epic poems which were the common heritage
of all Greeks, we have no knowledge.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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his addit teneras nardi
pubentis
aristas
et sociat myrrae uim, Nabathaea, tuae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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During their song
Clytemnestra
appears in the background,
kindling the altars.
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Aeschylus |
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Short was the conflict; furious, blindly rash,
Vain Otho gave his bosom to the gash:
He bled, and fell; but not with deadly wound,
Stretched
by a dextrous sleight along the ground.
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Byron |
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Quivi mori; e come tu mi vedi,
vid' io cascar li tre ad uno ad uno
tra 'l quinto di e 'l sesto; ond' io mi diedi,
gia cieco, a
brancolar
sovra ciascuno,
e due di li chiamai, poi che fur morti.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Contrasts_
ILLIC alternis
depugnat
pontus et aer,
hic riuo tenui peruia ridet humus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Whether, that is, the crag above the
Pullwyke
quarry, at the junction
of the road to Water Barngates and the road to Wray and Outgate is to
be selected, about two miles from Hawkshead; or whether we are to fix
on the spot you have chosen, at the point about a mile north-east of
Hawkshead, 'called in the ordnance map Outgate.
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William Wordsworth |
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I feel as if the grass were pleased
To have it intermit;
The
surreptitious
scion
Of summer's circumspect.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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