But all subsists by elemental strife;
And
passions
are the elements of life.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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GERONTE: But----
LUCINDE (_speaking in
deafening
tone of voice_): It
is no use.
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--The one that ev'ry maid
Pretends
to have, whatever tricks she's played.
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foster child of the
wondrous
nurse!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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but with honest zeal,
To rouse the
watchmen
of the public weal;
To virtue's work provoke the tardy hall,
And goad the prelate slumbering in his stall.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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These, as you see me changed, Alcina roots;
While this
transformed
into a monster strays;
Another melts into a liquid rill;
As suits that haughty fairy's wanton will.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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5
An, continenter quod sedetis insulsi
Centum an ducenti, non putatis ausurum
Me una
ducentos
inrumare sessores?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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" "His mother died last month,"
The
prisoner
said.
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I sometimes think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every
Hyacinth
the Garden wears
Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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It is
lamentable
to
think that such a mind should be buried in metaphysics, and, like the
Nyctanthes, waste its perfume upon the night alone.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Where is the
sovereign?
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The red-eyed scavengers are creeping
From Kentish Town and Golder's Green;
Where are the eagles and the
trumpets?
| Guess: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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That window where my sun is ever seen,
Dazzling
and bright, and Nature's at the none;
And that where still, when Boreas rude has blown
In the short days, the air thrills cold and keen:
The stone where, at high noon, her seat has been,
Pensive and parleying with herself alone:
Haunts where her bright form has its shadow thrown,
Or trod her fairy foot the carpet green:
The cruel spot where first Love spoil'd my rest,
And the new season which, from year to year,
Opes, on this day, the old wound in my breast:
The seraph face, the sweet words, chaste and dear,
Which in my suffering heart are deep impress'd,
All melt my fond eyes to the frequent tear.
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Petrarch |
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Such a
requirement
scares me not;
Such treasures have I in my keeping.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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He
questioned
softly why I failed?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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A star hath set, a star hath risen,
O
Geraldine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The place where they fell and the scenes where they lie,
In the tomb of Siloa--the tear in her eye
She stifled:
transfixed
there it grew like a pearl,
Beneath the dark lash of the sweet Jewish Girl.
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| Question: |
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John Clare |
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Jules Laforgue (1860-1887)
Jules Laforgue
'Jules Laforgue'
1885, Wikimedia Commons
Pierrots
Emerges, on a taut neck,
From a
starched
ruff idem
A beardless face, cold-creamed,
A beanpole: hydrocephalic.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I am
scattered
like
the hot shrivelled seeds.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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II
Do you twit me with days when I had an Ideal,
And saw the sear future through
spectacles
green?
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| Question: |
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James Russell Lowell |
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Sur La Mort de Marie: IV
As in May month, on its stem we see the rose
In its sweet youthfulness, in its freshest flower,
Making the heavens jealous with living colour,
Dawn sprinkles it with tears in the morning glow:
Grace lies in all its petals, and love, I know,
Scenting the trees and
scenting
the garden's bower,
But, assaulted by scorching heat or a shower,
Languishing, it dies, and petals on petals flow.
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Ronsard |
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Fingal saw
Clessammor
low; he moved in the sound of his steel.
| Guess: |
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I Dream'd in a Dream
I dream'd in a dream I saw a city
invincible
to the attacks of the
whole of the rest of the earth,
I dream'd that was the new city of Friends,
Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love, it led the rest,
It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
And in all their looks and words.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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For my crime I now
conceive
a perfect terror:
I view my life with hatred, my love with horror.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Do not shrink nor be afraid,
Blushing
with a sudden heat!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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to what
barbarian
land has my
swift flight taken me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Aristophanes |
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Rigaut de
Berbezilh
(fl.
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Troubador Verse |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
From the proud, pale east the patient morning
Glimmered
sadly on million rooves.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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--The beams that broke
From each celestial file with horror struck
The bowyer god, who felt the
blinding
rays,
And like a mortal stood in fix'd amaze;
While on his spoils the fair assailants flew,
And plunder'd at their ease the captive crew;
And some with palmy boughs the way bestrew'd,
To show their conquest o'er the baffled god.
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Petrarch |
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When he
recovered
I suggested that he should write out the whole affair
from beginning to end, knowing that ink might assist him to ease his
mind.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Of
waistcoats
Harry has no lack,
Good duffle grey, and flannel fine;
He has a blanket on his back,
And coats enough to smother nine.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
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.
| 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 Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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What mortal hath a prize, that other men
May be
confounded
and abash'd withal,
But lets it sometimes pace abroad majestical,
And triumph, as in thee I should rejoice
Amid the hoarse alarm of Corinth's voice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Et quamvis tecum multo
coniungerer
usu,
Non satis id causae credideram esse tibi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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I have not told thee
How the stars, with their
perilous
overlooking,
Have raught away from all his manhood Gwat,
Our fiercest strength.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The heroism we recite
Would be a daily thing,
Did not
ourselves
the cubits warp
For fear to be a king.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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For she hath no
exchequer
now but his,
And proud of many, lives upon his gains.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Do you not see how the ocean trembles under its
sovereigns!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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'That is right, that is a fair price, but I will not speak till I have
good protection, for if the Dermotts lay their hands upon me in any
boreen after sundown, or in Cool-a-vin by day, I will be left to rot
among the nettles of a ditch, or hung on the great sycamore, where they
hung the horse-thieves last
Beltaine
four years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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At dingy desks they toil by day; at night
To gloomy chambers go uncheered by light,
Where pillars rudely grayed by rusty nail
Of heavy hours reveal the weary tale;
Where spiteful ushers grin, all pleased to make
Long
scribbled
lines the price of each mistake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Among the rocks--an empty hollow,
Secret, still,
mysterious!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Why look you, friend,
There's not a
virtuous
woman in Madrid,
In this whole city!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Emerson - Poems |
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Lo ceppo di che
nacquero
i Calfucci
era gia grande, e gia eran tratti
a le curule Sizii e Arrigucci.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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He said to man, 'You have a
wonderful
personality.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Yes, as Sparrowes, Eagles;
Or the Hare, the Lyon:
If I say sooth, I must report they were
As Cannons ouer-charg'd with double Cracks,
So they doubly redoubled
stroakes
vpon the Foe:
Except they meant to bathe in reeking Wounds,
Or memorize another Golgotha,
I cannot tell: but I am faint,
My Gashes cry for helpe
King.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Then, as I turn'd my roving eyes around,
Quirinus I beheld with laurel crown'd,
And five
succeeding
kings.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Non chant per auzel ni per flor
I do not sing for bird or flower,
Nor for snow, now, nor for ice,
Nor for warmth or the cold's power,
Nor for the fields' fresh paradise;
Nor for any pleasure do I sing
Nor indeed have I been a singer,
But for my mistress, all my longing,
For on earth none
lovelier
may linger.
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Troubador Verse |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Blackmouth took the other side:
Honestly
for years an' years he tried
Getting justice for the Indians.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Darius, in the old time, by aid of some Immortal,
Raised up the stately fabric, our wealth of long-ago:
But I tremble lest it totter down, and ruin porch and portal,
And the whirling dust of
downfall
rise above its overthrow!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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It is the unpastured sea
hungering
for calm.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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"
»s
A CHANGE SONG By Marguerite Wilkinson
0 life, what would you make of me That, turning, I may find no more
A welcome at each
friendly
door
That once stood open wide to me?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Lo, where the white-maned horses of the surge, 10
Plunging in
thunderous
onset to the shore,
Trample and break and charge along the sand!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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For myself,
I had no hope, nor even a wish (though a successful play would in the
then state of my finances have been a most welcome piece of good
fortune), that he should accept my performance; so that I incurred no
disappointment when the piece was _judiciously_
returned
as not
calculated for the stage.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Oh may he glean my lips delights unbidden,
--I gleaned them all since as a dream he rose--
The
oleanders
"mid the fragrance hidden
And others smiling as the jasmin blows.
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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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I'd missed her,
She came anew,
To play i' the fount alone but for her sister,
And bared to view
The finest, rosiest, most
tempting
ankle,
Like that of child--
Oh!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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or a fine
Sad memory, with thy songs to
interfuse?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
She the acquaintances she loves,
Her
spacious
fields and shady groves,
Another visit hastes to pay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Who liveth by the ragged pine
Foundeth a heroic line;
Who liveth in the palace hall
Waneth fast and
spendeth
all.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Pisander, urged by fate's decree,
Springs through the ranks to fall, and fall by thee,
Great
Menelaus!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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And you, Neptune, you, if my courage ever 1065
Cleansed your shore of those
infamous
murderers,
Remember that as a prize for all my labour,
You promised to fulfil my future prayer.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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He received a commission in the Royal Marine Artillery
at the end of 1914 and served as a Second
Lieutenant
with an Anti-
Aircraft Battery in April, 1915, returning wounded during the following
June.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Greetings, in pale libation and madness,
Don't think to some hope of magic corridors I offer
My empty cup, where a monster of gold
suffers!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Go, leave the
hopeless
without hope;
Spare your trouble.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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I no longer love Rodrigue the gentleman;
No my love names him to another plan;
If I love, I love he who wrought fine things,
The valorous Cid who has
mastered
kings.
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| Question: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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fearful to offend;
The frail one's advocate, the weak one's friend:
To her, Calista proved her conduct nice;
And good
Simplicius
asks of her advice.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Living, I pass a banished
wanderer
hence,
To leave in death the memory of this cry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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_
Methinks
the thunders still increase: it is
An awful night.
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| Question: |
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Byron |
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888 Segge3 hym serued semly in-no3e,
[E] Wyth sere sewes & sete,[2]
sesounde
of ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
DAMOETAS
"Prithee, Iollas, for my birthday guest
Send me your Phyllis; when for the young crops
I slay my heifer, you
yourself
shall come.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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When in
Rome, in 1819, a friend put into our hands the old
manuscript
account
of the story of the Cenci.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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It is but thirty dawns and
twilights
since
He left his playmates back of the eclipse,
It cannot be he has so soon forgot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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It 's far, far
treasure
to surmise,
And estimate the pearl
That slipped my simple fingers through
While just a girl at school!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Tacitus |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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But ye the fair
New-wedded twain live happy, and
Functions
of lusty married pair 230
Exercise sans surcease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Neat little
inkstand!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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"The river
swelleth
more and more," verse, 120.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Nous en avons assez, la, de ces
cerveaux
plats
Et de ces ventres-dieux.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
But deep this truth impress'd my mind--
Thro' all His works abroad,
The heart
benevolent
and kind
The most resembles God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
While
suffering
from "hope deferred" as to its fate,
Poe presented a copy of "Annabel Lee" to the editor of the "Southern
Literary Messenger," who published it in the November number of his
periodical, a month after Poe's death.
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Moi, je cours avec eux assommer les mouchards:
Et je vais dans Paris, noir, marteau sur l'epaule,
Farouche, a chaque coin balayant quelque drole,
Et, si tu me riais au nez, je te
tuerais!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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290
Kynge Harolde Torcie's trechery dyd spie,
And hie alofe his temper'd swerde dyd welde,
Cut offe his arme, and made the bloude to flie,
His proofe steel armoure did him littel sheelde;
And not contente, he splete his hede in twaine, 295
And down he tumbled on the bloudie grounde;
Mean while the other erlies on the playne
Gave and received manie a bloudie wounde,
Such as the arts in warre han learnt with care,
But manie
knyghtes
were women in men's geer.
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The long struggle of the
Servians
against the Ottoman
power was recorded in lays full of martial spirit.
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Whatever that
secret is, the charm of it never fails after all these years to keep the
poems preserved with a
freshness
and vitality, which are the qualities
of enduring genius.
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'Tis one thing madly to disperse my store;
Another, not to heed to
treasure
more!
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370
Anon they wander'd, by divine converse,
Into Elysium; vieing to rehearse
Each one his own
anticipated
bliss.
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Keats |
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If you are redistributing or
providing
access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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And so artfully has the new matter been woven into the old
that if the
recasting
of 'The Rape of the Lock' were not a commonplace
even in school histories of English literature, not one reader in a
hundred would suspect that the original sketch had been revised and
enlarged to more than twice its length.
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{116a}) We should
therefore
speak
what we can the nearest way, so as we keep our gait, not leap; for too
short may as well be not let into the memory, as too long not kept in.
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For me, for years, here,
Forever, your
dazzling
smile prolongs
The one rose with its perfect summer gone
Into times past, yet then on into the future.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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'Tis sure no
pleasure
to be shot.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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His nervous arm laid many
wretches
low
Rage marked his eyes, whene'er he dealt a blow:
BUT, while the youth was thus engaged in fight,
Grifonio ran to gain a sweeter sight;
The princess was on board full well he knew;
No time he lost, but to her chamber flew;
And, since his pleasures seemed to be her doom;
He bore her like a sparrow from the room:
But not content with such a charming fair,
He took her diamonds, ornaments for hair,
And those dear pledges ladies oft receive,
When they a lover's ardent flame believe.
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