Let them fight, as you wish: but then,
Will Rodrigue be as you've
imagined
him?
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It has been found
necessary
to
omit a few of the less important verses in the earlier edition to
make room for the most significant of the lyric commemorations of
events almost contemporary, and therefore appealing to us more
immediately, and perhaps more poignantly.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Adam was a mighty man, and Noah a captain of the moving waters,
Moses was a stern and
splendid
king, yea, so was Moses.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
"Nothing, good nurse, there's nothing wrong,
But send your
grandson
before long.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Here, regarding the palace, and a
testimony
of the love that the King of England possessed for his mistress, is this quatrain from a poem whose Author I do not know.
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Appoloinaire |
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When all fear of violence was at an end, Domitian came
out[227] and presented himself to the
generals
of his party.
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Tacitus |
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He was killed
by a
thunderbolt
from the hand of Zeus, as a result of his reckless driving
of the chariot of the sun.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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It is
defined as a natural idea
expressed
in fit words.
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Alexander Pope |
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SIEBEL:
Dem
Liebchen
keinen Gruss!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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IV
As when the shadow of the sun's eclipse
Sweeps on the earth, and spreads a spectral air,
As if the
universe
were dying there,
On continent and isle the darkness dips
Unwonted gloom, and on the Atlantic slips;
So in the night the Belgian cities flare
Horizon-wide; the wandering people fare
Along the roads, and load the fleeing ships.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The
strangers!
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Euripides - Electra |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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XXIII
I loved thee, Atthis, in the long ago,
When the great
oleanders
were in flower
In the broad herded meadows full of sun.
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Sappho |
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Honoured
father, long
Have I desired to ask thee of the death
Of young Dimitry, the tsarevich; thou,
'Tis said, wast then at Uglich.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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than polished floor more nice
The shining river clothed in ice;
A joyous troop of little boys
Engrave the ice with
strident
noise.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Roll'd o'er that mass
Had
Tabernich
or Pietrapana fall'n,
Not e'en its rim had creak'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Where is the
sovereign?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
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Appoloinaire |
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Boldly
defending
your own beautiful apples of gold.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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850
Blacke hys cryne[101] as the wyntere nyghte,
Whyte hys rode[102] as the sommer snowe,
Rodde hys face as the
mornynge
lyghte,
Cale he lyes ynne the grave belowe;
Mie love ys dedde, 855
Gon to hys deathe-bedde,
Al under the wyllowe tree.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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You may as well spred out the unsun'd heaps
Of Misers
treasure
by an out-laws den,
And tell me it is safe, as bid me hope 400
Danger will wink on Opportunity,
And let a single helpless maiden pass
Uninjur'd in this wilde surrounding wast.
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Milton |
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[1]
_Selected
Poems_: Little Classic Edition.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
"I saw him in a
crumbled
cot
Beneath a tottering tree;
That he as phantom lingers there
Is only known to me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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_ 'Sir, I have fele dyvers woning,
That I kepe not rehersed be,
So that ye wolde
respyten
me.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The wild storm makes his lair in thy branches,
Swooping thence on the continent under;
Like a lion,
crouched
close on his haunches,
There awaiteth his leap the fierce thunder,
Growling low with impatience.
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James Russell Lowell |
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++Allas I wepyng am constreined to bygynne vers of
sorouful
matere.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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In bunten Bildern wenig Klarheit,
Viel Irrtum und ein
Funkchen
Wahrheit,
So wird der beste Trank gebraut,
Der alle Welt erquickt und auferbaut.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Surely joy is the
condition
of life.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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What has
happened
to you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Aristophanes |
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Why fall the Sparrow & the Robin in the
foodless
winter?
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| Question: |
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Blake - Zoas |
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Take up the steel, and show us if indeed
Rumour speak true," Right swift Orestes took
The Dorian blade, back from his shoulders shook
His
brooched
mantle, called on Pylades
To aid him, and waved back the thralls.
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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Here is my senseless furniture,
dusty and tattered; the dirty fireplace without a flame or an ember; the
sad windows where the raindrops have traced runnels in the dust; the
manuscripts, erased or unfinished; the almanac with the
sinister
days
marked off with a pencil!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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[_He forces_
MEPHISTOPHELES
_to sit down_.
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| Question: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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alituum pecudumque mihi durique ferarum
non renuere greges; ipsum in conubia terrae
aethera, cum pluuiis
rarescunt
nubila, soluo.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Only a few years
previous
we read in
Advent:
"That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things,
To have no home in the present.
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Rilke - Poems |
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) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The TWO
MERCHANTS
enter.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The
Pannonian
legions are burning to rise in revenge.
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| Question: |
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Tacitus |
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But see how oft
ambitious
aims are crossed,
And chiefs contend till all the prize is lost!
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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[79] This brave Lusitanian, who was first a shepherd and a famous
hunter, and
afterwards
a captain of banditti, exasperated at the tyranny
of the Romans, encouraged his countrymen to revolt and shake off the
yoke.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Eyes blind enow but not too blind to see
The lovely things behind the dross and darkness,
And lovelier things to be;
And friends whose loyalty time nor death shall weaken
And quenchless hope and laughter's golden store--
All that a man might ask thou hast given me, England,
Yet grant thou one thing more:
That now when envious foes would spoil thy splendour,
Unversed
in arms, a dreamer such, as I,
May in thy ranks be deemed not all unworthy,
England, for thee to die.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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May men finde
religioun
6225
In worldly habitacioun?
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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| Question: |
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Meredith - Poems |
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TO EVA
O fair and stately maid, whose eyes
Were kindled in the upper skies
At the same torch that lighted mine;
For so I must
interpret
still
Thy sweet dominion o'er my will,
A sympathy divine.
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Emerson - Poems |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Hide in thy skies, O
sovereign
lamp!
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| Question: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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It
is, moreover,
powerfully
ideal--imaginative.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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" When the English had
possession of Quebec, in 1630, the Indians, attempting to practice the
same familiarity with them that they had with the French, were driven
out of their houses with blows; which accident taught them a
difference between the two races, and
attached
them yet more to the
French.
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| Question: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But if that Heaven
Should give me life, his childhood shall grow up
Familiar
with these songs, that with the night
He may associate Joy!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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An
infallible
secret to prevent the desire of
widowhood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Who is the
landlord?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Lo, through hot
waverings
of the August morn,
Thou givest from thy vasty sides forlorn
Visions of golden treasuries of corn --
Ripe largesse lingering for some bolder heart
That manfully shall take thy part,
And tend thee,
And defend thee,
With antique sinew and with modern art.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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William Wordsworth |
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ENRAGED at what was said, he hurried back,
And, on the clown,
proposed
to make attack,
Who, full of joy, was laughing with his wife,
And tasting pleasantly the sweets of life.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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My crime once known, if you keep the flame,
What will envy and falsehood not
proclaim!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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my harass'd heart
With pure and pious tears do thou fulfil,
That its last sigh at least may be devout,
And free from earthly taint,
As was my
earliest
vow ere madness fill'd my veins!
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Petrarch |
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individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Do you think I am trusty and
faithful?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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" Sir
Brunello
cries,
"Ladies and cavaliers, the enchanter sties.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Me, too, Orion's mate, the
Southern
blast,
Whelm'd in deep death beneath the Illyrian wave.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Madam, though Venus govern your desires,
Saturn is
dominator
over mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Shakespeare |
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Reapers are now going home, back from
harvesting
grain.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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O wander without
brooding
through these valleys,
Through every oft-entwining path again.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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CUSHMAN,
LYSANDER
WILLIAM.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Where is (said
Satyrane)
that Paynims sonne,
That him of life, and us of joy hath reft?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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La Fontaine |
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I was
going to scold him sharply for his
misplaced
zeal, and I could not help
laughing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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She leaves the unfinished tale, in pain,
To end as evening comes again:
And in the cottage gangs with dread,
To meet old Dobson's timely frown,
Who
grumbling
sits, prepared for bed,
While she stands chelping bout the town.
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John Clare |
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Marya
Ivanofna
was very pale.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I thought that this could
scarcely
be,
Yet has it come to pass:
Sweet sweet love was,
Now bitter bitter grown to me.
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Christina Rossetti |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Mesmer- ism
FAMAM
LIBROSQUE
CANO songs?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Up, gird thee now to the steep Isthmian way,
Seeking Athena's blessed rock; one day,
Thy doom of blood
fulfilled
and this long stress
Of penance past, thou shalt have happiness.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Omai
dintorno
a questo consistorio
puoi contemplare assai, se le parole
mie son ricolte, sanz' altro aiutorio.
| Guess: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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That way
blocked!
| Guess: |
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Euripides - Electra |
|
)
Creeping the populous houses through
And nodding their plumes at either side,--
At many a house, where an infant, new
To the sunshiny world, has just
struggled
and cried,--
At many a house where sitteth a bride
Trying to-morrow's coronals
With a scarlet blush to-day:
Slowly creep the funerals,
As none should hear the noise and say
"The living, the living must go away
To multiply the dead.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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He was very fond of
this book; he never read it except with great attention, and it had the
power of
upsetting
his temper very much.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Hush, call no echo up in further proof
Of
desolation!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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--What said
Boileau to you--to you--O lettered Faun,
Who once with Virgil, in the Eclogue, held
That
charming
dialogue?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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s loyalty to friends, but very poorly of his
judgment
in political matters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Neither I nor the one
or two people present or the seers had ever seen, I am convinced,
the
description
in _The Book of Concealed Mystery_, or the mediaeval
diagram.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Question: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Chanson de Roland |
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"When shall this slough of sense be cast,
This dust of
thoughts
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The man of flesh and soul be slain
And the man of bone remain?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Wait till we are in
Kinvara!
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Yeats |
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Meredith - Poems |
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So high, upon my wings, he soar'd in fame,
To hear his song, fair dames and gentle knights
In throngs
delighted
came.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Praeterea nullo litus, sola insula, tecto,
Nec patet
egressus
pelagi cingentibus undis: 185
Nulla fugae ratio, nulla spes: omnia muta,
Omnia sunt deserta, ostentant omnia letum.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Or would it still remember, tho' it spanned
A
thousand
heavens, while the planets fanned
The vacant ether with their voices deep?
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Sara Teasdale |
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The king that
trampled
Troy
Knoweth his son Orestes.
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Euripides - Electra |
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what a pleasant fellow and what a
delightful
prophecy the god
has given you!
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Aristophanes |
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