I have heard
She would not take a last
farewell
of him,
She fear'd it might unman him for his end.
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Tennyson |
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Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force,
fascination?
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Whitman |
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Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
What you get married for if you don't want
children?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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attables dans le
splendide
orgie.
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Hugo - Poems |
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For princes are easy to be deceived; and what wisdom can escape
where so many court-arts are
studied?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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With what regret from many a place we go,
Though
tenderest
bonds may bind us to it!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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She would have smiled, if the flower
That never bloomed, to please,
Could open to the coolest hour
Of passing and
forgetful
breeze.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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ALLE (indem sie die Pfropfen ziehen und jedem der
verlangte
Wein ins Glas
lauft):
O schoner Brunnen, der uns fliesst!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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II
Withdrawn within the cavern of his wings,
Grave with the joy of
thoughts
beneficent,
And finely wrought and durable and clear
If so his eyes showed forth the mind's content, So sate the first to whom remembrance clings, Tissued like bat's wings did his wings appear, Not of that shadowy colouring and drear,
But as thin shells, pale saffron, luminous;
Alone, unlonely, whose calm glances shed Friend's love to strangers though no word were
said,
Pensive his godly state he keepeth thus.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The good must merit God's
peculiar
care:
But who, but God, can tell us who they are?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Tennyson |
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CATULLUS tells us, ev'ry matron sage
Will peep most willingly (whate'er her age),
At that
gigantick
gift, which Juno made,
To Venus' fruit, in gardens oft displayed.
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La Fontaine |
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Its
business
office is located at 809 North 1500 West, Salt
Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The Serpent
The Fall
'The Fall'
Anonymous,
Hieronymus
Cock, c.
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Appoloinaire |
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453;
amphitheatre
at, v.
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Byron |
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But for the love of god, sin ye be brought
In thus good plyt, lat now non hevy thought
Ben
hanginge
in the hertes of yow tweye:' 1140
And bar the candele to the chimeneye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And I have
travelled
many miles to see
If aught which he had owned might still remain for me.
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William Wordsworth |
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What if thou, in gazing so,
Shouldst
behold but only one
Attribute, the veil undone--
Even that to which we dare to press
Nearest, for its gentleness--
Ay, his love!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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No text on sea-horizons
cloudily
writ,
No maxim vaguely starred in fields or skies,
But this wise thou-in-me deciphers it:
Oh, thou'rt the Height of heights, the Eye of eyes.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I give him also this my golden cup
Splendid, elaborate; that, while he lives
What time he pours libation forth to Jove
And all the Gods, he may
remember
me.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Thou, who since yesterday hast rolled o'er all
The busy, idle
blockheads
of the ball,
Hast thou, oh, sun!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The poet moulds that which appears
evanescent and ephemeral in image and in mood into
everlasting
values.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And never a human voice comes near
To speak a gentle word:
And the eye that watches through the door
Is
pitiless
and hard:
And by all forgot, we rot and rot,
With soul and body marred.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Modern
geographers
I 'twas there they thought,
Where Venice twenty years the Turks had fought,
(While the first year the navy is but shown,
The next divided, and the third we've none.
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Marvell - Poems |
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--I am dazed,
See the dew is on the grass,
Wakened
butterflies
amazed
Follow thee as on we pass.
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Hugo - Poems |
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I will depart, re-tune the songs I framed
In verse
Chalcidian
to the oaten reed
Of the Sicilian swain.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And Faith shall come forth the finer,
From trampled
thickets
of fire,
And the orient open diviner
Before her, the heaven rise higher.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Queen Gulnaar laughed like a
tremulous
rose:
"Here is my rival, O King Feroz.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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210, 211, gives a
description
of the British pearl, which, he says, was next in value to the Indian;—"Its surface is of a gold color, but it is cloudy, and less transparent than the Indian.
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Tacitus |
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Viens-tu troubler, avec ta
puissante
grimace,
La fete de la Vie?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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' For the 'Allegory,' though shrewd enough in most
things, had the
reputation
of being 'saift-baked,' i.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The folk of the Weders fashioned there
on the
headland
a barrow broad and high,
by ocean-farers far descried:
in ten days' time their toil had raised it,
the battle-brave's beacon.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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But when now meeting in a third encounter, the lines are locked
together all their length, and man singles out his man; then indeed,
amid groans of the dying, deep in blood roll armour and bodies, and
horses half slain mixed up with
slaughtered
men.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Arcturus
Arcturus brings the spring back
As surely now as when
He rose on eastern islands
For Grecian girls and men;
The
twilight
is as clear a blue,
The star as shaken and as bright,
And the same thought he gave to them
He gives to me to-night.
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| Question: |
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Sara Teasdale |
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"
With look unmov'd the gallant youth replied,
"For you, my friends, my
fleetest
speed was tried;
'Twas you the fierce barbarians meant to slay;
For you I fear'd the fortune of the day;
Your danger great without mine aid I knew,
And, swift as lightning, to your rescue flew.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Thou wast no true
begetter
of my blood,
Nor she my mother who dares call me child.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Robert Herrick |
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Can you bring yourself to hate her
innocent
charms?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Honest traveling is about as dirty work as you can do, and a
man needs a pair of
overalls
for it.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"It
contains
no criticism, no letters, nothing but verse, and that usually of a high order of excellence.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The
breaking
of the day
Addeth to my degree;
If any ask me how,
Artist, who drew me so,
Must tell!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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' And with these words,
planting his left foot on the dead, he tore away the broad heavy
sword-belt
engraven
with a tale of crime, the array of grooms foully
slain together on their bridal night, and the nuptial chambers dabbled
with blood, which Clonus, son of Eurytus, had wrought richly in gold.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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If
the second copy is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing
without further
opportunities
to fix the problem.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The
guardian
of the Pass leaps like a wolf on all who are not his
kinsmen.
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Li Po |
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* * * * *
FRANK PREWETT
TO MY MOTHER IN CANADA, FROM SICK-BED IN ITALY
Dear mother, from the sure sun and warm seas
Of Italy, I, sick, remember now
What sometimes is forgot in times of ease,
Our love, the always felt but
unspoken
vow.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Cousin Nancy
Miss Nancy
Ellicott
Strode across the hills and broke them,
Rode across the hills and broke them--
The barren New England hills--
Riding to hounds
Over the cow-pasture.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The Portuguese prince even visited the
Kingdoms
of Prester John and returned to his own country after three years and four months.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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When Catiline with vipers did conspire
To murder Rome, and bury it in fire,
A
sacramental
bowl of human gore.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Vanish in glowing
Flame,
Salamander!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"
At this, from every side they hurried in,
Rubbing their sleepy eyes with lazy wrists,
And doubling over head their little fists 510
In
backward
yawns.
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| Question: |
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Keats |
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According to these
Gentlemen, the four
Elements
are inhabited by Spirits, which they call
Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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e
myrye fortune ne
corrumpe
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Mirthful gold of a cymbal beaten with fists,
The sun all at once strikes the pure nakedness
That breathed itself out of my coolness of nacre,
Rancid night of the skin, when you swept over me,
Not knowing,
ungrateful
one, that it was, this make-up,
My whole anointing, drowned in ice-water perfidy.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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or the beautiful
maternal
cares?
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Whitman |
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Non va co' suoi fratei per un cammino,
per lo furto che
frodolente
fece
del grande armento ch'elli ebbe a vicino;
onde cessar le sue opere biece
sotto la mazza d'Ercule, che forse
gliene die cento, e non senti le diece>>.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
-
Who sung the stave I filched from you that day
To
Amaryllis
wending, our hearts' joy?
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Rather stout blows with Durendal I'll lay,
With my good sword that by my side doth sway;
Till
bloodied
o'er you shall behold the blade.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And forthe went the sextayne, 203
And fownde
alexknelyng
In ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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" Sir Brunello cries,
"Ladies and cavaliers, the
enchanter
sties.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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'd thy infant thought,
Of all the Nurse and all the Priest have taught; 30
Of airy Elves by
moonlight
shadows seen,
The silver token, and the circled green,
Or virgins visited by Angel-pow'rs,
With golden crowns and wreaths of heav'nly flow'rs;
Hear and believe!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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an uncouth shape,
Shown by a sudden turning of the road,
So near that,
slipping
back into the shade
Of a thick hawthorn, I could mark him well, 390
Myself unseen.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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The
animadversions
of the Board of Excise
CCXXVII.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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vn
Because of the beautiful white
shoulders
and the rounded breasts
1 can in no wise forget my beloved of the peach-
trees,
And the little winds that speak when the dawn is
unfurled
And the rose-colour in the grey oak-leaf's fold
When it first comes, and the glamour that rests On the little streams in the evening; all of these Call me to her, and all the loveliness in the world Binds me to my beloved with strong chains of gold.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Now you're
eternally
bound.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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' His conduct is a golden augury of the success of
his future career--may the
unextinguished
Spirit of his illustrious
friend animate the creations of his pencil, and plead against Oblivion
for his name!
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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'
But your tresses are a tepid river,
Where the soul that haunts us drowns, without a shiver
And finds the
Nothingness
you cannot know!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Lang_
Have You Nothing to Say for
Yourself?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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You complain of a yoke imposed long ago:
Even the gods of Olympus, those gods, we know,
Who
frighten
criminals with thunderous action, 1305
Have sometimes burned with an illicit passion.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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--First, we require in our poet or maker (for that
title our language affords him
elegantly
with the Greek) a goodness of
natural wit.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Not a grave of the
murdered
for freedom but grows seed for freedom, in its
turn to bear seed,
Which the winds carry afar and resow, and the rains and the snows nourish.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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terni 56
tunc_ O
61
_bachantis_
GOR || _eheu_ Bergk: _heue_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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O, so unnatural Nature,
You whose
ephemeral
flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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scenes in strong
remembrance
set!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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is free from care;
This juice, possessing virtues so divine,
Has also pow'rs that prove the most malign:
Whoe'er receives the patient's first embrace;
Too fatally the dire effects will trace;
Death oft succeeds the momentary joy;
We
scarcely
good can find without alloy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Youth and the Pilgrim
Gray pilgrim, you have
journeyed
far,
I pray you tell to me
Is there a land where Love is not,
By shore of any sea?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Ronsard's Cassandra, was Cassandra Salviati, the
daughter
of an Italian banker.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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And what is it to you,
When strangely shudders the fabric of your navy
To feel the thrilling tide beneath it grieving;
Or when its timber drinks the river's mood,
The mighty mood of man's Despair, which runs
Like subtle electric blood through all the hulls,
And tips each
masthead
with a glimmering candle
Blue pale and flickering like a ghost?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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For they've been to the Lakes, and the
Torrible
Zone,
And the hills of the Chankly Bore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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I spurn the Past, my mind
disdains
its nod,
Nor kneels in homage to so mean a God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Who bade you arise from your
darkness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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e
wedenysday
a ni?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
Redistribution
is subject to the trademark license, especially
commercial redistribution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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{and} cause of
to{ur}ment
to
shrewes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Pain turned to
pleasure
at his call,
Health lived and issued from his voice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The
helpless
worm arose and sat upon the Lillys leaf,
And the bright Cloud saild on, to find his partner in the vale.
| Guess: |
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--Mid savage rocks and seas of snow that shine
Between
interminable
tracts of pine, 645
Round a lone fane the human Genii mourn,
Where fierce the rays of woe collected burn.
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She turned and saw him, but she felt no dread,
Her purity, like
adamantine
mail.
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Two Truths are told,
As happy
Prologues
to the swelling Act
Of the Imperiall Theame.
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His geneml tone is that of broad laughing banter,
taken as to the persons I mention, I will assure the reader
that I intend not Hudibras; for he is a man of the other robe,
and his excellent wit hath taken a flight fur above these
ivhifficrs ; that whoever dislikes his subject cannot but com-
mend his
performance
of it, and calculate if on so barren a
theme he were so copious, what admirable sport he would
have made of an ecclesiastical politician.
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I'll have no adulteries,
No eyes but mine
enjoying
thee.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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the Heaven
And Enion
desolate
where art though Tharmas O return
Three days she waild & three dark nights sitting among the Rocks
While the bright spectre hid himself among the ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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This favour'd region of the Cyprian queen
Received
its freight--a heaven-abandon'd scene.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Upon soft verdure saw, one here, one there,
Cupids a
slumbering
on their pinions fair.
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It was
composed
in front of the house of Alfoxden, in the
spring of 1798.
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MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE
PHILOLOGICAL
SOCIETY.
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