O wonder now
unfurled!
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But who is he,
My
terrible
antagonist?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But sith I see my lord mot nedes dye,
And I with him, here I me shryve, and seye 440
That
wikkedly
ye doon us bothe deye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The wilderness is cracked and browned
But through the water pale and thin
Still shine the
unoffending
feet
And there above the painter set
The Father and the Paraclete.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
A son of God was the Goodly Fere That bade us his
brothers
be.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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do nete nowe to AElla syke love bere,
Botte geven some onne
Celmondes
hedde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
"An
engineer?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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* You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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De ses yeux amortis les
paresseuses
larmes,
L'air brise, la stupeur, la morne volupte,
Ses bras vaincus, jetes comme de vaines armes,
Tout servait, tout parait sa fragile beaute.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
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Appoloinaire |
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260
And now he thither came for like intent;
Where he unwares the fairest Una found,
Straunge Lady, in so straunge habiliment,
Teaching
the Satyres, which her sat around,
Trew sacred lore, which from her sweet lips did redound.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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We're bearing
fivescore
Christian dogs
To serve the cruel drivers:
Some are fair beauties gently born,
And some rough coral-divers.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Comme then, and see you
swotelie
tune the strynge,
And stret[42], and engyne all the human wytte,
Toe please mie dame.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Death -
ridiculous
enemy
- who cannot impose on the child
the notion that you exist!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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In love, he cannot therefore cease his trade;
Scarce the first blush has overspread his cheek,
He feels it,
introverts
his learned eye
To catch the unconscious heart in the very act.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
Oh friend, oh comrade of the radiant days
Of love, of hope, of passionate surmise
When beauty
throbbed
like heat before the eyes And even sorrow wore a golden haze!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He does not stare upon the air
Through a little roof of glass:
He does not pray with lips of clay
For his agony to pass;
Nor feel upon his
shuddering
cheek
The kiss of Caiaphas.
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Wilde - Poems |
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XXII
My glass shall not
persuade
me I am old,
So long as youth and thou are of one date;
But when in thee time's furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"]
XXX
God grant I meet not at a ball
Or at a promenade mayhap,
A
schoolmaster
in yellow shawl
Or a professor in tulle cap.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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115
Cleer was the water, and as cold
As any welle is, sooth to seyne;
And somdel lasse it was than Seine,
But it was
straighter
wel away.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
"Yes, you are quite right, my little father,"
rejoined
she; "it is of
no use your trying to play the sly fox.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And then I go the
furthest
off
To counteract a knock;
Then draw my little letter forth
And softly pick its lock.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"
"And is she not unhappy then, to find
How
wretched
you must be?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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His
imagination
had no will of its own.
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Yeats |
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Wilde - Poems |
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But Pallas knew (thy friends and navy lost)
Once more 'twas given thee to behold thy coast;
Yet how could I with adverse Fate engage,
And mighty Neptune's
unrelenting
rage?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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since the noble Chief
Ulysses is no more, press not as yet
My nuptials, wait till I shall finish, first,
A fun'ral robe (lest all my threads decay) 130
Which for the antient Hero I prepare,
Laertes, looking for the
mournful
hour
When fate shall snatch him to eternal rest;
Else I the censure dread of all my sex,
Should he, so wealthy, want at last a shroud.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Then, as though with a swift
impatient
gesture,
Flashing from distant stars on sweeping wing,
You come, and over earth a magic vesture
Steals gently as the rain falls in the spring.
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Rilke - Poems |
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till to-morrow eve,
And you, my
friends!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But should the gate
confront
another bed,
And on my couch a jealous step-dame sit,
Laud, boys, and praise the bride your sire has wed;
She will be won charmed with your ready wit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Paris could not lay the fold
Belted down with emerald;
Venice could not show a cheek
Of a tint so
lustrous
meek.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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& the hHuman form is no more
The
listning
Stars heard, & the first beam of the morning started back
He cried out to his father, depart!
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Blake - Zoas |
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'391'
An allusion to Addison's unhappy marriage with the
Countess
of Warwick.
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Alexander Pope |
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Notes: The Calends, Latin Kalendae,
corresponded
to the first days of each month of the Roman calendar, signifying the start of the new moon cycle.
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Troubador Verse |
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A sorry lover, how can I be
resigned?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Bellowing
there groan'd
A noise as of a sea in tempest torn
By warring winds.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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--Truth is man's proper good, and the only
immortal thing was given to our
mortality
to use.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Adams
gives way, with the explanation that it is not mistrust but tender
love that enjoins him to watch over her, and, as she leaves him,
Her long with ardent look his eye pursued
Delighted, but
desiring
more her stay.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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A Moment's Halt--a
momentary
taste
Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste--
And Lo!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
LI
Much country had been traversed by the knight,
Urged by the furious rage which him misguides:
At last he reached the hill whose boundary height
Arragonese and
neighbouring
Frank divides.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The Lord descended from above,
And bowed the heavens high;
And
underneath
his feet He cast
The darkness of the sky.
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Longfellow |
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Her public is the noon,
Her providence the sun,
Her progress by the bee proclaimed
In sovereign,
swerveless
tune.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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We were five hundred, but with swift support
Grew to three thousand as we reached the port,
So that seeing us marching to that stage,
Those most terrified found new
courage!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Stephen Crane |
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The Queen who
conquers
all must yield to thee--
The Pleasures fled, but sought as warm a clime;
And Venus, constant to her native sea,
To nought else constant, hither deigned to flee,
And fixed her shrine within these walls of white;
Though not to one dome circumscribeth she
Her worship, but, devoted to her rite,
A thousand altars rise, for ever blazing bright.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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" Answering not, mine eyes I rais'd,
And saw her, where aloof she sat, her brow
A wreath
reflecting
of eternal beams.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Metuere Leones
Sic olim,
sacrosque
artus violare Prophetae
Bellua non ausa est quamquam jejuna, sitimque 75
Optaret nimis humano satiare cruore.
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John Donne |
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O'er plains the rivers wind,
And reach the sea; the bee, by
instinct
driven,
Finds out the honeyed flowers; the eagle flies
To seek the sun; the vulture where death lies;
The swallow to the spring; the prayer to Heaven!
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Hugo - Poems |
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It was by
Harvey that the poet was
introduced
to Sir Philip Sidney, the most
accomplished gentleman in England, and a favorite of Queen Elizabeth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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My pleugh is now thy
bairntime
a';
Four gallant brutes as e'er did draw;
Forbye sax mae, I've sell't awa,
That thou hast nurst:
They drew me thretteen pund an' twa,
The vera worst.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
XXXVIII
The winds out of the west land blow,
My friends have
breathed
them there;
Warm with the blood of lads I know
Comes east the sighing air.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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We learn no other but the confident tyrant
Keeps still in
Dunsinane
and will endure
Our setting down before't.
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Shakespeare |
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Wherefore arise, ye pair, conjoin loves ardently longed-for,
Now doth the groom receive with happiest omen his goddess,
Now let the bride at length to her
yearning
spouse be delivered.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Now Earl of
Leicester!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
Do we want laurels for
ourselves
most,
Or most that no one else shall have any?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Both parties were
actuated
by feelings of pride and ambition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
e
wyldrenesse
of Wyrale; wonde ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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An
elderly waiter with trembling hands was hurriedly
spreading
a pink and white checked cloth over the rusty
green iron table, saying: "If the lady and gentleman
wish to take their tea in the garden, if the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden.
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T.S. Eliot |
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'Vim rebus
aliquando
ipsa verborum humilitas affert.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Till then I salute you with a
significant
look that you do not forget me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And thinks there can be no favor nor fame,
But one may
straightway
pluck the same.
| Guess: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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His
magnanimity, self-control, and good temper, re-
strained him from avenging any insult offered to
himself; — his
chivalrous
love of justice instantly
roused all the lion within him on behalf of the
injured and oppressed.
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Marvell - Poems |
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To be
painstakingly
precise, each contributor has
been his own editor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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See Collier,
_Annals_
3.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The engaging
behaviour
of Gama heightened his esteem into the
sincerest attachment.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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From rainbow clouds there flow not
Drops so bright to see
As from thy
presence
showers a rain of melody.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
II
~The Solitary~
My heart has grown rich with the passing of years,
I have less need now than when I was young
To share myself with every comer,
Or shape my
thoughts
into words with my tongue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
life's
doubtful
day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's
goodness
fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And who is this
pretender?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
I gained it so,
By climbing slow,
By
catching
at the twigs that grow
Between the bliss and me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
L
But ye to whom, when friendship heard,
The first-fruits of my tale I read,
As Saadi
anciently
averred--(86)
Some are afar and some are dead.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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" _
And that was all the
farewell
when I parted from my dear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Gia eran sovra noi tanto levati
li ultimi raggi che la notte segue,
che le stelle
apparivan
da piu lati.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The
visit to Liswyn took place after the
Wordsworths
had left Alfoxden
never to return.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Who shall do
judgment
on me, when she dies?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
To whom thus Zephon,
answering
scorn with scorn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Pain or
pleasure
transported her, and the whole of pain or
pleasure might be held in a flower's cup or the imagined frown of
a friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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BOSER GEIST:
Ihr Antlitz wenden
Verklarte
von dir ab.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Were it not that his art's glory, full of fire
Till the dark
communal
moment all of ash,
Returns as proud evening's glow lights the glass,
To the fires of the pure mortal sun!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and
independence
of mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
One black night I stood
in a garden with
fireflies
in my hair like darting restless stars
caught in a mesh of 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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A
perjured
prince a leaden saint revere,
A godless regent tremble at a star?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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While Waterloo with Cannae's carnage vies,
Morat and Marathon twin names shall stand;
They were true Glory's stainless victories,
Won by the unambitious heart and hand
Of a proud, brotherly, and civic band,
All unbought champions in no princely cause
Of vice-entailed Corruption; they no land
Doomed to bewail the blasphemy of laws
Making king's rights divine, by some
Draconic
clause.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
Jove's favour is their guiding star,
And watchful
potencies
unweave
For them the tangled paths of war.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Keats - Lamia |
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And he has left it
somewhere
buried?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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To let thee sit beneath the fall of tears
As salt as mine, and hear the sighing years
Re-sighing on my lips renunciative
Through those infrequent smiles which fail to live
For all thy
adjurations?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a
pleasant
fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the livelong day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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BERRYING
'May be true what I had heard,--
Earth's a howling wilderness,
Truculent with fraud and force,'
Said I,
strolling
through the pastures,
And along the river-side.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Times mus' be pooty thoroughly out o' all jint,
Ef we can't make a good
constitootional
pint;
An' the good time'll come to be grindin' our exes,
When the war goes to seed in the nettle o' texes:
Ef Jon'than don't squirm, with sech helps to assist him,
I give up my faith in the free-suffrage system;
Democ'cy wun't be nut a mite interestin',
Nor p'litikle capital much wuth investin'; 240
An' my notion is, to keep dark an' lay low
Till we see the right minute to put in our blow.
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James Russell Lowell |
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And
worschiped
hym in word & dede,
Alle ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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More probable it is, that this hasty murder was purely the
work of Tiberius and Livia; that the young Prince, hated and dreaded
by both, fell thus untimely, to rid the one of his
apprehensions
and
a rival, and to satiate in the other the rancorous spirit of a
step-mother.
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Tacitus |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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