Gryphon remained, and sullied with the scorn
Esteemed
himself, which on his mate was shed;
And rather than be there, he, in his ire,
Would gladly find himself i' the midst of fire.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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There is peace
In homeward waters, where at last the weary
Shall find rebirth, and their long
struggle
cease.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Now
fighting
solely in my own cause,
You ask my death and I accept your laws.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"
I bore it--bore it like a man--
This
agonizing
witticism!
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Lewis Carroll |
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And cruel was the grief that played
With the queen's spirit; and she said:
"What do I hear,
reigning
alone?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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_See Note_]
[17 then thou knew'st when _1669_]
[19 must] doe _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_,
_O'F_, _P_, _TC_]
[20 Prophane,]
Profaness
_A18_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_,
_S96_, _TC_]
[24 feare's as strong _1635-54_, _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_,
_Lec_, _TCC:_ feares are strong _1669_, _B_, _Cy_, _O'F_, _P_,
_S_, _S96:_ feare is strong, _N_, _TCD_]
[26 have.
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John Donne |
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"You are aware of the great barrier in the path of an
American
writer.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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inde coronatas ubi ture
piaueris
aras,
luxerit et tota flamma secunda domo,
sit mensae ratio, noxque inter pocula currat,
et crocino naris murrea pungat onyx.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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35 Seeing Off Zheng Qian (18) Who Has Been
Banished
to the Post of Revenue Manager in Taizhou.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The city was held by the
Archduke
Leopold for the
Emperor.
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John Donne |
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XXIX
Fast, fast, with heels wild spurning,
The dark-gray charger fled:
He burst through ranks of
fighting
men,
He sprang o'er heaps of dead.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the
beginning
of his four and a half year residence in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Oh,
sweetest
mine!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Keats - Lamia |
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That through the gross and murky air I spied
A shape come swimming up, that might have quell'd
The stoutest heart with wonder, in such guise
As one returns, who hath been down to loose
An anchor
grappled
fast against some rock,
Or to aught else that in the salt wave lies,
Who upward springing close draws in his feet.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I adjure you, take that fearful Gorgon
somewhat
farther away.
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Aristophanes |
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Is there a sky
overhead?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I went with more, and kissed her for the last,
And thought with tears on
pleasures
that were past;
And, the last kindness left me then to do,
I went, at milking, where the blossoms grew,
And handfuls got of rose and lambtoe sweet,
And put them with her in her winding-sheet.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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This only help I find amid Love's strife;
Wherefore
it me behoves to live my life
In arms, which else from me too rapid goes.
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Petrarch |
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She
Had by the gods since time out of mind at their
banquets
been dreaded,
Yelling with brassiest voice orders to great and to small.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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Aeschylus |
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Have you got a brook in your little heart,
Where bashful flowers blow,
And
blushing
birds go down to drink,
And shadows tremble so?
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
_General
Treatment of the Plot_
For the main plot we have no direct source.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Have you no mite to give away,
So the poor may eat on
Christmas
Day?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Thinks I, while I smoke my pipe
Here beside the
tumbling
Fleet,
Apples drop when they are ripe,
And when they drop are they most sweet.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
' they cried, 'The world is wide,
But
fettered
limbs go lame!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Most of his
familiar
short poems are in the old
style, which neglects the formal arrangement of tones.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
La foule
Pres de cet homme-la se sentait l'ame soule,
Et, dans la grande cour, dans les appartements,
Ou Paris
haletait
avec des hurlements,
Un frisson secoua l'immense populace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious,
Not once
vouchsafe
to hide my will in thine?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Madden's Preface to his
edition of "Syr Gawayne," which also contains a sketch of the very
different views taken of Sir Gawayne by the
different
Romance writers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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he loved as in our times
Men love no more, as only the
Mad spirit of the man who rhymes
Is still condemned in love to be;
One image occupied his mind,
Constant affection intertwined
And an habitual sense of pain;
And distance
interposed
in vain,
Nor years of separation all
Nor homage which the Muse demands
Nor beauties of far distant lands
Nor study, banquet, rout nor ball
His constant soul could ever tire,
Which glowed with virginal desire.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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the
remembering
wine;
Retrieve the loss of me and mine!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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EXPLICIT
LIBER PRIMUS.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"There is a sense of the word Love," he wrote
to
Wordsworth
in 1812, "in which I never felt it but to you and one of your
household.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the
palpitating
air!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Once lately, when someone was singing,
Suddenly
I heard a verse--
Before I had time to catch the words
A pain had stabbed my heart.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"
"How can you expect me to be
thinking?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The
song already referred to
possesses
delicacy and some beauty of imagery,
but lacks Jonson's customary polish and smoothness.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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did we stop
discouraged
nodding
on our way?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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How seriously we may
take this swing of the
pendulum
is to be noted in a speech of the poet's
at the time of the Revolution: "Come," he said, "let us go shoot General
Aupick!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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It is to these passages that Carlyle refers in his _Past and
Present_: 'A certain degree of soul, as Ben Jonson reminds us,
is indispensable to keep the very body from
destruction
of the
frightfulest sort; to 'save us,' says he, 'the expense of salt.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"
[Sidenote A: Sir Gawayne, in answer to
questions
put to him,]
[Sidenote B: tells the prince that he is of Arthur's court.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And
wherefore
ride ye in such guise
Before the ranks of Rome?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
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received
the work electronically, the person or entity
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receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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glancing
round he sees Cloanthus
passing up behind and keeping nearer.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
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Christina Rossetti |
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"For it is wrought of pure
unmingled
light,
Dipped in the white flame whence all flame is born--
The flame that makes all eyes, though diamond-bright,
Seem obscure mirrors, darkened and forlorn.
| 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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Our
knocking
ha's awak'd him: here he comes
Lenox.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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The bitter little that of life remains:
No more the
thickening
brakes and verdant plains
To thee a home, or food, or pastime yield.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
And, as the bright dimensions of the star
In heav'n excelling, as once here on earth
Were, in my
eyeballs
lively portray'd,
Lo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
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alternate
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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* * * * *
WALTER DE LA MARE
THE MOTH
Isled in the
midnight
air,
Musked with the dark's faint bloom,
Out into glooming and secret haunts
The flame cries, 'Come!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
But care draws forth the power within,
And
cultured
minds are strong for good:
Let manners fail, the plague of sin
Taints e'en the course of gentle blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
--
Behold, the torches now
encompass
us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
" I satisfied
The' inquiry, and the sage enjoin'd me straight:
"Let thy safe memory store what thou hast heard
To thee importing harm; and note thou this,"
With his rais'd finger bidding me take heed,
"When thou shalt stand before her
gracious
beam,
Whose bright eye all surveys, she of thy life
The future tenour will to thee unfold.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Say, is she living still
Or dead, your
mistress?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Cast off then his corselet of iron,
helmet from head; to his
henchman
gave, --
choicest of weapons, -- the well-chased sword,
bidding him guard the gear of battle.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Index of First Lines
Under the
Mirabeau
flows the Seine
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
The anemone and flower that weeps
The angels the angels in the sky
I've gathered this sprig of heather
The strollers in the plain
My gipsy beau my lover
The gypsy knew in advance
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
Autumn ill and adored
The room is free
Our story's noble as its tragic
Love is dead within your arms
In the evening light that's faded
You've not surprised my secret yet
Evening falls and in the garden
You descended through the water clear
O my abandoned youth is dead
Admire the vital power
From magic Thrace, O delerium!
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
However, there is no cue from the
manuscript
about exactly where these lines should be inserted, so Erdman's placement of them is conjectural.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Such flowers, immense, that every one
Usually had as adornment
A clear contour, a lacuna done
To
separate
it from the garden.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
The Hill of Posilipo is
situated
to the west of the city of Naples, and is the site of Virgil's tomb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
10
Have the laden galleons been sighted
Stoutly
labouring
up the sea from Tyre?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Myself I regain the city,
girding on my shining armour; fixed to renew every danger, to retrace my
way
throughout
Troy, and fling myself again on its perils.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
And then, not to mislead,
I give you an
adversary
to fear indeed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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from on high,
Touch by my humble voice, that
stubborn
wrath may yield!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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"
The gallant Paulus
faithful
thus explain'd
The various deeds the pictur'd flags contain'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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So light his step, so merry his smile,
A milkmaid
loitered
beside a stile,
Set down her pail and rested awhile,
A wave-haired milkmaid, rosy and white;
The Prince, who had journeyed at least a mile,
Grew athirst at the sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
The child
inclined
his ear,
And then grew weary and gray.
| 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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who may dare
Its
realities
to scan?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
_ix_
Puerarum manibus
confectum
pulcerrime.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Then strongly fencing ill-got wealth by law,
Indentures, covenants,
articles
thy draw,
Large as the fields themselves, and larger far
Than civil codes, with all their glosses, are;
So vast, our new divines, we must confess,
Are fathers of the Church for writing less.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
"Such still, such ages weave ye, as ye run,"
Sang to their
spindles
the consenting Fates
By Destiny's unalterable decree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
A year ago we walked in the jangling city
Together
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Then Ajax threw;
Through Hector's shield the forceful javelin flew,
His corslet enters, and his garment rends,
And
glancing
downwards, near his flank descends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
His wise and patient heart shall share
The strong sweet loveliness of all things made, 10
And the
serenity
of inward joy
Beyond the storm of tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Sappho |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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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).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Richard the old, lead them in th'field he shall,
He'll strike hard there with his good
trenchant
lance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Apollinax
rolling under a chair,
Or grinning over a screen
With seaweed in its hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
XLIX
Who when these two approaching he aspide,
At their first presence grew agrieved sore,
That forst him lay his heavenly thoughts aside; 435
And had he not that Dame
respected
more,
Whom highly he did reverence and adore,
He would not once have moved for the knight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Si je desire une eau d'Europe, c'est la flache
Noire et froide ou, vers le crepuscule embaume,
Un enfant accroupi, plein de tristesse, lache
Un bateau frele comme un
papillon
de mai.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
What is her pyramid of
precious
stones?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
It was thought meet
Paris should do some
vengeance
on the Greeks;
Your breath with full consent benied his sails;
The seas and winds, old wranglers, took a truce,
And did him service.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
--my
thoughts
do twine and bud
XXX I see thine image through my tears to-night
XXXI Thou comest!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Fresh carved cedar, mimicking a glade
Of palm and plantain, met from either side,
High in the midst, in honour of the bride:
Two palms and then two plantains, and so on,
From either side their stems branch'd one to one
All down the aisled place; and beneath all
There ran a stream of lamps
straight
on from wall to wall.
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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CHORUS
Smitten!
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when to these
imagination
flies,
I wonder that I am not long since dead!
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Roaring let out the fluid, the molten metal ran in channels
Cut by the plow of ages held in Urizens strong hand
In many a valley, for the Bulls of Luvah dragd the Plow
With trembling horror pale aghast the Children of Men Man
Stood on the infinite Earth & saw these visions in the air
In waters & in Earth beneath they cried to one another
What are we terrors to one another - Come O brethren
wherefore
Was this wide Earth spread all abroad.
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In his early youth a desire to make
money[421] had led him to resign his
senatorial
rank.
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Tacitus |
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True
Such a
marriage
was worth an old song,
Heard in Heaven though, as plain as the New.
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What, is there aught
prosperity
for woman
But to be shining in the thought of man?
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What better tale could any lover tell
When age or death his
reckoning
shall write
Than thus, 'Love taught me only to rebel
Against these things,--the thieving of delight
Without return; the gospellers of fear
Who, loving, yet deny the truth they bear,
Sad-suited lusts with lecherous hands to smear
The cloth of gold they would but dare not wear.
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All offices were done
By him, so ample, full, and round,
In weight, in measure, number, sound,
As, though his age imperfect might appear,
His life was of
humanity
the sphere.
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[Sidenote D: The hunters, dispersed by a wood's side,]
[Sidenote E: come upon the track of a fox,]
[Sidenote F: which is
followed
up by the hounds.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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On Chalais'
Vicomtess
I call;
I'd have her give instantly
Her throat and hands to me.
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