Winters know
Wise and polite,--and if I drew
Wisp and meteor nightly falling
With beams
December
planets dart
With the key of the secret he marches faster
Would you know what joy is hid
Yes, sometimes to the sorrow-stricken
You shall not be overbold
You shall not love me for what daily spends
Your picture smiles as first it smiled
* * * * *
INDEX OF TITLES
[The titles in small capital letters are those of the principal
divisions of the work; those in lower case are of single poems, or the
subdivisions of long poems.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Davies' _Epigrams_ were first published along with Marlowe's version
of Ovid's _Elegies_, but no date is affixed to any of the three
editions which
followed
one another.
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John Donne |
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Before Carlun now both the two appear:
They have their spurs, are fastened on their feet,
And, light and strong, their hauberks brightly gleam;
Upon their heads they've laced their helmets clear,
And girt on swords, with pure gold hilted each;
And from their necks hang down their quartered shields;
In their right hands they grasp their
trenchant
spears.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The Franks dismount, and dress
themselves
for war,
Put hauberks on, helmets and golden swords;
Fine shields they have, and spears of length and force
Scarlat and blue and white their ensigns float.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch
Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith,
The army of
unalterable
law.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Or if you wake your ears for the river's voice,
You hear the chime of fawning lipping water,
Trodden to
chattering
falsehood by the keels
Of kings' happiness.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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We wander there, we wander here,
We eye the rose upon the brier,
Unmindful
that the thorn is near,
Among the leaves;
And tho' the puny wound appear,
Short while it grieves.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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XIV
There pass the
careless
people
That call their souls their own:
Here by the road I loiter,
How idle and alone.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Oh whence, I asked, and
whither?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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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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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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The purple pride
Which on thy soft cheek for
complexion
dwells
In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dy'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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Pleasantly and well-suited I walk:
Whither I walk I cannot define, but I know it is good;
The whole universe
indicates
that it is good,
The past and the present indicate that it is good.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Even some of those
purposely so embalmed, may have been
overlooked
by their executors, and
still remain in the tomb.
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Poe - 5 |
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Have you got hold of
anything?
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Latin - Catullus |
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Mir wird, bei meinem
kritischen
Bestreben,
Doch oft um Kopf und Busen bang.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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* * * * *
THE POEM
Were there, below, a spot of holy ground
Where from distress a refuge might be found,
And
solitude
prepare the soul for heaven;
Sure, nature's God that spot to man had given [1]
Where falls the purple morning far and wide 5
In flakes of light upon the mountain-side;
Where with loud voice the power of water shakes [2]
The leafy wood, or sleeps in quiet lakes.
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William Wordsworth |
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"
He answering thus: "By thee conducted first,
I enter'd the
Parnassian
grots, and quaff'd
Of the clear spring; illumin'd first by thee
Open'd mine eyes to God.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Knows he who tills this lonely field
To reap its scanty corn,
What mystic fruit his acres yield
At
midnight
and at morn?
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Tytler's anecdotes I have by me,
taken down in the course of my
acquaintance
with him, from his own
mouth.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Was hilft es, viel von
Stimmung
reden?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"
"So may long space thy spirit guide thy limbs,"
He answer straight return'd; "and so thy fame
Shine bright, when thou art gone; as thou shalt tell,
If
courtesy
and valour, as they wont,
Dwell in our city, or have vanish'd clean?
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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):
Then Death, that
ceaseless
Traveller,
Shall on his rounds by us be whirled.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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But when a day or two
confirms
her stay
Boldly she sings and loud for half the day;
And soon the village brings the woodman's tale
Of having heard the newcome nightingale.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
"
There are in _The Book of Pictures_ poems in which this will to
concentrate a mood into its essence and finality is applied to purely
lyrical poems as in _Initiation_, that stands out in this volume like
"the great dark tree" itself so immeasurable is the straight line of its
aspiration
reaching
into the far distant silence of the night; or as in
the poem entitled _Autumn_, with its melancholy mood of gentle descent
in all nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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To your
question
now,
Which touches on the workman and his work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Com' io nel quinto giro fui dischiuso,
vidi gente per esso che piangea,
giacendo
a terra tutta volta in giuso.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
)
This vault of air, this
congregated
ball,
Self-centred sun, and stars that rise and fall,
There are, my friend!
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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'"
To the foregoing verse an historic interest attaches, if, that is, we are
right in
supposing
it to have inspired Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Lone in the light of that magical grove,
I felt the stars of the spirits of Love
Gather and gleam round my
delicate
youth,
And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth;
To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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His eye glanced at the white-nosed bee;
He knew those
children
of the Spring:
When he was well and on the lea
He held one in his hands to sing,
Which filled his heart with glee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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A l'ange, a l'idole immortelle,
A la tres bonne, a la tres belle
Qui fait ma joie et ma sante,
Salut en
immortalite!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I love the south-west wind, or low or loud,
And not the less when sudden drops of rain
Moisten my pallid cheek from ebon cloud,
Threatening soft showers again,
That over lands new
ploughed
and meadow grounds,
Summer's sweet breath unchain,
And wake harmonious sounds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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If little labour, little are our gains:
Man's
fortunes
are according to his pains.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Behn's, founded on
the Rebellion of Bacon: for even these kennels of
literature
may yield a
fact or two to pay the raking.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Regarded
as god of light, 157,
1 ff.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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inges in
knowynge
vsen more of hir faculte or of hir power.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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But all your souls He'll lay, our
Glorious
God,
In Paradise, His holy flowers upon!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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That we perceived
ourselves
erst only .
| Guess: |
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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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Elvire
Reject, Madame, so tragic a design;
Reject this law,
tyrannical
and blind.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Of the several theories which have been advanced to
account for their disappearance, the most plausible seems to be that which
represents them as having been burned at
Byzantium
in the year 380 Anno
Domini, by command of Gregory Nazianzen, in order that his own poems might
be studied in their stead and the morals of the people thereby improved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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The senate had recently in Galba's principate passed a
resolution authorizing the
prosecution
of informers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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No harp's delight,
no glee-wood's
gladness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
With the great gale we journey
That breathes from gardens thinned,
Borne in the drift of blossoms
Whose petals throng the wind;
Buoyed on the heaven-heard whisper
Of dancing
leaflets
whirled
From all the woods that autumn
Bereaves in all the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
A cloud was hanging o'er the western mountains;
Before its blue and moveless depth were flying _4235
Gray mists poured forth from the unresting fountains
Of darkness in the North:--the day was dying:--
Sudden, the sun shone forth, its beams were lying
Like boiling gold on Ocean, strange to see,
And on the shattered vapours, which defying _4240
The power of light in vain, tossed restlessly
In the red Heaven, like wrecks in a
tempestuous
sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Modern
pictures
are, no doubt, delightful to look at.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
They, seeing and
recalling
soon to mind
Ulysses, in the middle mansion stood
Wond'ring, when thus Ulysses with a voice 460
Of some reproof, but gentle, them bespake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Yeats' free
adaptation
is the well-known poem 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep' (In 'The Rose').
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
once more, my
friends!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Il entend leurs cils noirs battant sous les silences
Parfumes; et leurs doigts
electriques
et doux
Font crepiter parmi ses grises indolences
Sous leurs ongles royaux la mort des petits poux.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
In the
beginning
was the Word.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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by the two
goddesses!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Nō þȳ ǣr fēa-sceafte findan meahton
2375 æt þām
æðelinge
ǣnige þinga,
þæt hē Heardrēde hlāford wǣre,
oððe þone cyne-dōm cīosan wolde;
hwæðre hē him on folce frēond-lārum hēold,
ēstum mid āre, oð þæt hē yldra wearð,
2380 Weder-Gēatum wēold.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
"
[Illustration]
There was a Young Lady of Russia,
Who
screamed
so that no one could hush her;
Her screams were extreme,--no one heard such a scream
As was screamed by that Lady of Russia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I'm not for
witchcraft
now inclined.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Time
consumes
words, like love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Knobs at left upper and left lower corners to
facilitate
the
holding of the tablet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
The
epileptic
on the bed
Curves backward, clutching at her sides.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Refulgent arms his mighty limbs infold,
Immortal
arms of adamant and gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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guilty authors of my cherish'd pain,
That you alone can judge me, well I know,
When from your burning beams I melt like snow,
Haply your sweet disdain
Offence in my
unworthiness
may see;
Ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
SGANARELLE: Yes, that was so formerly; but we have
changed all that, and
nowadays
we practise medicine by
an entirely new method.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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--for how should swallow
Contend with swans or what compare could be
In a race between young kids with
tumbling
legs
And the strong might of the horse?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
"
And they
answered
me saying, "No, not one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Thus lived and died Robert Burns, the chief of
Scottish
poets: in his
person he was tall and sinewy, and of such strength and activity, that
Scott alone, of all the poets I have seen, seemed his equal: his
forehead was broad, his hair black, with an inclination to curl, his
visage uncommonly swarthy, his eyes large, dark and lustrous, and his
voice deep and manly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
What, torture our
embassage?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Two young Cossack girls,
children
of the master of the
"_izba_," laid the table with a white cloth, brought bread, fish, soup,
and big jugs of wine and beer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Besides,
Sun with his heat draws off a mighty part:
Yea, we behold that sun with burning beams
To dry our
garments
dripping all with wet;
And many a sea, and far out-spread beneath,
Do we behold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
For these with war sad Europe they inflame,
Rome says for God, and France
declares
for
fame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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[7] The standard text of the Assyrian version is by
Professor
Paul
Haupt, _Das Babylonische Nimrodepos_, Leipzig, 1884.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Our love was new, and then but in the spring,
When I was wont to greet it with my lays;
As Philomel in summer's front doth sing,
And stops her pipe in growth of riper days:
Not that the summer is less pleasant now
Than when her
mournful
hymns did hush the night,
But that wild music burthens every bough,
And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
or
cannot the heart, in the midst of crowds, feel
frightfully
alone?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I, godlike, who in fancy saw but now
Eternal truth's fair glass in wondrous nearness,
Rejoiced in heavenly radiance and clearness,
Leaving the earthly man below;
I, more than cherub, whose free force
Dreamed, through the veins of nature penetrating,
To taste the life of Gods, like them creating,
Behold me this
presumption
expiating!
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| Question: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
|
Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
XIV
I heard a voice serene and low
(With my heart I seemed to hear it,)
Fall soft and slow as snow on snow,
Like grace of the
heavenly
spirit;
As sweet as over new-born son
The croon of new-made mother, 110
The voice begun, 'Sore tempted one!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Ay, my dear lady, in the mouths of two
Good
witnesses
each word is true;
I've a friend, a fine fellow, who, when you desire,
Will render on oath what you require.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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At last, dull wearinesse of former fight 490
Having yrockt asleepe his irkesome spright,
That
troublous
dreame gan freshly tosse his braine,
With bowres, and beds, and Ladies deare delight:
But when he saw his labour all was vaine,
With that misformed spright he backe returnd againe.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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You fly me, Chloe, as o'er trackless hills
A young fawn runs her
timorous
dam to find,
Whom empty terror thrills
Of woods and whispering wind.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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First Titus gave tall Caeso
A death wound in the face;
Tall Caeso was the bravest man
Of the brave Fabian race:
Aulus slew Rex of Gabii,
The priest of Juno's shrine;
Valerius smote down Julius,
Of Rome's great Julian line;
Julius, who left his mansion,
High on the Velian hill,
And through all turns of weal and woe
Followed
proud Tarquin still.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful Athenian courtesan and
mistress
of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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Leaves, flowers and fruit and one
delightful
song
Remain; these days are short, but now the nights
Intense and long, hang out their utmost lights;
Such starry nights are long, yet not too long;
Frost nips the weak, while strengthening still the strong
Against that day when Spring sets all to rights.
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Christina Rossetti |
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How I adore you, you happy things, you dears
Riding the air and
carrying
all the time
Your little lanterns behind you: it cheers
My heart to see you settling and trying to climb
The cornstalks, tipping with fire their spears.
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Imagists |
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Venus
intercedes
with
her son in favour of the Portuguese.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Dost thou desire my
slumbers
should be broken,
While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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at
chateryng
or anoying
folye ne may not attayne.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Many are Poets but without the name; 10
For what is Poesy but to create
From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim[316]
At an external life beyond our fate,
And be the new Prometheus of new men,[317]
Bestowing
fire from Heaven, and then, too late,
Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain,
And vultures to the heart of the bestower,
Who, having lavished his high gift in vain,
Lies to his lone rock by the sea-shore?
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Byron |
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The
liegemen
were lusty; my life-days never
such merry men over mead in hall
have I heard under heaven!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Nine queens out of the Country-under-Wave
Have woven it with the fleeces of the sea
And they were long
embroidering
at it.
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Yeats |
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