I heard, too, the necklace to Hygd he presented,
wonder-wrought treasure, which
Wealhtheow
gave him
sovran's daughter: three steeds he added,
slender and saddle-gay.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Finery,
haughtiness
do not entice me.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Ill
LOVE calls not worthy him whoe'er
renounced
.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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_
Spring up--sway forward--
follow the
quickest
one,
aye, though you leave the trail
and drop exhausted at our feet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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* * *
When the purple flame shoots up,
And Love ascends his throne,
I cannot hear your songs, O birds,
For the
witchery
of my own.
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Emerson - Poems |
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What greater sorrow could afflict my breast,
What more if hoary Peleus were
deceased?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was transparent as a needle
Was it cooing about
something
else?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And now I go--as others already
crucified
have gone.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Break off the parley; for scarce I can refrain
The
execution
of my big-swol'n heart
Upon that Clifford, that cruel child-killer.
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Shakespeare |
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It was as though we saw the Secret Will,
It was as though we floated and were free;
In the south-west a planet shone serenely,
And the high moon, most
reticent
and queenly,
Seeing the earth had darkened and grown still,
Misted with light the meadows of the sea.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Aricia
And how could you endure that
terrible
lies
Should darken the course of so fine a life?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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But from the time when earth was stained with unspeakable scandals
And forth fro'
greeding
breasts of all men justice departed,
Then did the brother drench his hands in brotherly bloodshed,
Stinted the son in heart to mourn decease of his parents, 400
Longed the sire to sight his first-born's funeral convoy
So more freely the flower of step-dame-maiden to rifle;
After that impious Queen her guiltless son underlying,
Impious, the household gods with crime ne'er dreading to sully--
All things fair and nefand being mixt in fury of evil 405
Turned from ourselves avert the great goodwill of the Godheads.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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_Convoyed_,
accompanied
lovingly.
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Robert Burns |
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His eldest
daughter
was Biatrix.
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Troubador Verse |
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,
_wavering_
(like flame), _ghostlike, without distinct bodily
form_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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CH'ANG-KAN
Soon after I wore my hair covering my forehead
I was
plucking
flowers and playing in front of the gate,
When _you_ came by, walking on bamboo-stilts
Along the trellis,[23] playing with the green plums.
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Li Po |
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"Learn, that henceforth thy song shall be,
Not mountains capped with snow,
Nor forests sounding like the sea,
Nor rivers flowing ceaselessly,
Where the
woodlands
bend to see
The bending heavens below.
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Longfellow |
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He
afterwards
married successively Miss Lin, Miss Lu, and Miss Sung.
| Guess: |
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Li Po |
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inges were{n}
i{n}p{re}ntid
in to soules
fro bodies wi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Hovering and
glittering
on the air before the face of Thel.
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blake-poems |
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I carry a piece of
tallow to
preserve
the leather and keep out the water; that's all; and
many an officious shoe-black, who carried off my shoes when I was
slumbering, mistaking me for a gentleman, has had occasion to repent
it before he produced a gloss on them.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He was short in
stature, very thin, and
apparently
very feeble.
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Poe - 5 |
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C'est l'heure ou les
douleurs
des malades s'aigrissent!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Whether 'tis Spring's first shiver, faintly heard
Through the light leaves, or lizards in the brake
The
rustling
thorns have stirr'd,
Her heart, her knees, they quake.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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here the forest ledge slopes--
rain has
furrowed
the roots.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Come where the autumn winds never can sweep,
And the streams of the
woodland
steep thee in sleep,
Like a fond sister charming the eyes of a brother,
Or a little lass lulled on the breast of her mother.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Now I know what
silenced
me.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
XIV
Thus speaking, the trooped apparitions
Began to disband
And resolve them in two:
Those whose record was lovely and true
Bore to northward for home: those of bitter traditions
Again left the land,
XV
And, towering to seaward in legions,
They paused at a spot
Overbending the Race--
That engulphing, ghast, sinister place--
Whither headlong they plunged, to the
fathomless
regions
Of myriads forgot.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I am no fool
To poll
stupidly
into iron.
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Stephen Crane |
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LXXI
Like boy who somewhere his ripe fruit bestows,
And next forgets the place where it is laid,
Then, after many days, conducted goes
By chance, where he the rich deposit made,
And wonders that the hidden
treasure
shows,
Not what it is, but rotten and decayed;
And hates, and scorns, and loathes, with altered eyes,
And throws away what he was used to prize.
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| Question: |
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Saluted Alice, who with anxious look,
Exclaimed,--your work how finely you forsook,
And, but for neighbour Andrew's kindness here,
Our child would incomplete have been--an ear,
I could not let a thing remain like this,
And Andrew would not be to friends remiss,
But, worthy man, he left his
thriving
trade,
And for the babe a proper ear has made.
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La Fontaine |
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" With his helmet on his
head, and spear in his hand, he roams up to the rock, and then he hears
from that high hill beyond the brook a
wondrous
wild noise.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And lest some hideous
listener
tells,
I'll ring my bells.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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by his gray hairs, at that age to which
proper
seriousness
belongs.
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| Question: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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He landed at Boston within the year in good health and hope, and joined
his mother and
youngest
brother Charles in Newton.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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But is
it
possible?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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First march the bold Epirotes,
Wedged close with shield and spear
And the ranks of false Tarentum
Are
glittering
in the rear.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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One could
almost imagine that Euripides had not yet conceived that bad opinion of
the sex which so many of the
subsequent
dramas exhibit.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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In a new months his administration had
become
universally
odious.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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CXLV
Franks are but few; which, when the pagans know,
Among
themselves
comfort and pride they shew;
Says each to each: "Wrong was that Emperor.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Thar's one thing farmers all must do,
To keep themselves from goin' tew
Bankruptcy
and the devil!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
)]
[Footnote 26: Catrine, the seat of
Professor
Dugald Steward.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
X
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Through magic arts won the Golden Fleece,
Sowing the plain with the old serpent's teeth,
To engender
soldiers
from the furrow's store,
This city, that in youthful season bore
A Hydra's nest of warriors, raised a yeast
Of brave nurslings, who their proud glory saw
Fill the Sun's mansions, to the west and east:
But in the end, lacking a Hercules
To vanquish so fecund a progeny,
Arming themselves in civil enmity,
Mowed each other down, a cruel harvest,
Reliving thus the fraternal harsh unrest
Which had blinded that proud seeded army.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The claw of the tender bird
Finds
lodgment
here;
Dye-winged butterflies poise;
Emmet and beetle steer
Their busy course; the bee
Drones, laden, near.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It is a choice and
heavenly
blessing,
Such a dear thing to one's bosom pressing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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_ so
_before_
fro; Tn.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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To allow
absolute
freedom in the choice of subject.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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It
shivered
the window, pane and sash;
It rent the banner with seam and gash.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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_ Who, then, is to release thee, Zeus
unwilling?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Let the sacred hymn gush
from thy divine throat in
melodious
strains; roll forth in soft cadence
your refreshing melodies to bewail the fate of Itys,[202] which has been
the cause of so many tears to us both.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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no
resou{n}s
ytake fro
wi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Their gallery would
necessarily
be limited;
but it would be flexible enough to admit, with every fresh exhibit,
three or four new members who had achieved an importance and an idiom
of their own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And heard this voice of sorrow
breathed
from the hollow pit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
While to the eastward holding straight,
With
rhythmical
thrust and mighty drive,
Every inch of her palpitate, Keenly, powerfully alive,
The "Commonwealth" speeds over the sound As a strong swimmer breasts the sea,
Alert and sure, through a world around,
Wrapped in silence and mystery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on friendly pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From
mournful
climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Winter, the savage warrior, pleases well,
With its storm clouds, the mighty citadel,--
Restoring
it to life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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In golden dreams the sage duennas slept;
A female
sentinel
to watch was kept.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Having worked for others, act now for yourself,
And do not
struggle
against my command,
That will grant you a beloved husband.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
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previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
There--where thy finger
scorched
the tablet stone!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
The saints had hid themselves away from me,
Leaving the windows black against the night;
And when I sank upon the altar steps,
Before the Virgin Mother and her Child,
The last, pale, low-burnt taper
flickered
out,
But in the darkness, smooth and fathomless,
Still twinkled like a star the holy lamp
That cast a dusky glow upon her face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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This dream, this
horrible
dream!
| 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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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O Jewish woman, if thou knewest all
The hunger and the tears the punisht world
Suffers by cause of thee, and of my dream
That thou wert
somewhere
hidden in mankind!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
LXXXVII
Marphisa next made after one that flew,
And
overtook
the wretch, and cleft (before
He the mid square had won) his collar through,
So clean, no surgeon ever pieced it more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
"
Can you see it still," he cried, "my
brother?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
"
"Forty
thousand
rubles," said Herman coolly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Thou, Gabriel, sawest how at His command
Effulgent
beams rushed forth!
| 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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FAUST:
Was
murmelst
du?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
--This edition was
reissued
in 1894.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Yet he with troubles did remain
And
suffered
poverty and pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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at length a brooded *
Smile broke from Urizen for Enitharmon
brightend
more & more
Sullen he lowerd on Enitharmon but he smild on Los
Saying Thou art the Lord of Luvah into thine hands I give
The prince of Love the murderer his soul is in thine hands
Pity not Vala for she pitied not the Eternal Man
Nor pity thou the cries of Luvah.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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For you, on Latmos, fondling your sleeping boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As restraint for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the
daylight
that your night forgot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
If ye meddle nae mair wi' the matter,
Ye may hae some
pretence
to havins and sense,
Wi' people that ken ye nae better,
Barr Steenie!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Below thy sight the mortal cast,
And to the
glorious
vision give at last--
[_with a gesture_]
I must not say what termination!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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shame they embracd not
{This line
penciled
in above the ink line.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Ognuna in giu tenea volta la faccia;
da bocca il freddo, e da li occhi il cor tristo
tra lor
testimonianza
si procaccia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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No, never more
Shall airy voices cheat me to the shore
Of tangled wonder,
breathless
and aghast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
On earth's proud
basilisks
he'll justly fall,
Like Moses' rod, and prey upon them all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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To house of God and
heavenly
joys
Thy summons called our sires,
And good men thought thy sacred voice
Disarmed the thunder's fires.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year;
There are four seasons in the mind of Man:
He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear
Takes in all beauty with an easy span:
He has his summer, when luxuriously
Spring's honey'd cud of youthful thought he loves
To ruminate, and by such dreaming high
Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves
His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings
He furleth close; contented so to look
On mists in idleness--to let fair things
Pass by
unheeded
as a threshold brook:--
He has his Winter too of pale misfeature,
Or else he would forego his mortal nature.
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Golden Treasury |
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It seemed in the
darkness
a sound they heard,--
Was it feeble moaning or uttered word?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Chambers concludes
therefore
that 'the character of the
vice is derived from that of the domestic fool or jester', and that
the term was borrowed by the authors of the moralities from the comic
interludes.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Let foemen's wives and children feel
The
gathering
south-wind's angry roar,
The black wave's crash, the thunder-peal,
The quivering shore.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Though bitter sneers and stinging scorns
Did throng the muse's
dangerous
way,
Thy powers were past such little thorns,
They gave thee no dismay;
The scoffer's insult passed thee by,
Thou smild'st and mad'st him no reply.
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John Clare |
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This world is the nurse of all we know,
This world is the mother of all we feel,
And the coming of death is a fearful blow _15
To a brain
unencompassed
with nerves of steel;
When all that we know, or feel, or see,
Shall pass like an unreal mystery.
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Shelley |
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G
[463] 23
gartering
W, G
[464] 32 Storer 1716 storer W, G
[465] 33 Sulters 1641
[466] 38 Bayliffs 1716 bailiffs W, G
[467] 39,43 SN.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Was there a
footfall?
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Sappho |
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My heart more love than your
forgetfulness!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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But thou, of temples old, or altars new,
Standest
alone--with nothing like to thee--
Worthiest of God, the Holy and the True!
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Byron |
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1225
She shette it, and to Pandarus in gan goon,
There as he sat and loked in-to the strete,
And doun she sette hir by him on a stoon
Of Iaspre, up-on a
quisshin
gold y-bete,
And seyde, `As wisly helpe me god the grete, 1230
I never dide a thing with more peyne
Than wryte this, to which ye me constreyne;'
And took it him: He thonked hir and seyde,
`God woot, of thing ful ofte looth bigonne
Cometh ende good; and nece myn, Criseyde, 1235
That ye to him of hard now ben y-wonne
Oughte he be glad, by god and yonder sonne!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Envy and Avarice, one summer day,
Sauntering
abroad
In quest of the abode
Of some poor wretch or fool who lived that way--
You--or myself, perhaps--I cannot say--
Along the road, scarce heeding where it tended,
Their way in sullen, sulky silence wended;
For, though twin sisters, these two charming creatures,
Rivals in hideousness of form and features,
Wasted no love between them as they went.
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Hugo - Poems |
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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THE ECHOING GREEN
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around
To the bells'
cheerful
sound;
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing Green.
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blake-poems |
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