Do not expect, despite all my affection,
Craven
feelings
aimed in your direction.
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Les Amours de Cassandre: XCIV
Whether her golden hair curls languidly,
Or whether it swims by, in two flowing waves
That over her breasts wander there, and stray,
And across her neck float playfully:
Whether a knot, ornamented richly,
With many a ruby, many a rounded pearl,
Ties the stream of her rippling curls,
My heart
delights
itself, contentedly.
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Ronsard |
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Ah, those learned
fellows!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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How
wonderful
the whole world becomes to
one!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Say,
Have I in Argos any still to trust;
Or is the love, once borne me, trod in dust,
Even as my
fortunes
are?
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Euripides - Electra |
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I see the wild flowers, in their summer morn
Of beauty, feeding on joy's luscious hours;
The gay convolvulus, wreathing round the thorn,
Agape for honey showers;
And slender kingcup, burnished with the dew
Of morning's early hours,
Like gold yminted new;
And mark by rustic bridge, oer shallow stream,
Cow-tending boy, to toil unreconciled,
Absorbed as in some vagrant summer dream;
Who now, in gestures wild,
Starts dancing to his shadow on the wall,
Feeling self-gratified,
Nor fearing human thrall:
Then thread the sunny valley laced with streams,
Or forests rude, and the
oershadowed
brims
Of simple ponds, where idle shepherd dreams,
And streaks his listless limbs;
Or trace hay-scented meadows, smooth and long,
Where joy's wild impulse swims
In one continued song.
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John Clare |
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805
Criseyde
mene was of hir stature,
Ther-to of shap, of face, and eek of chere,
Ther mighte been no fairer creature.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Where lambs have nibbled, silent move
The feet of angels bright;
Unseen they pour blessing,
And joy without ceasing,
On each bud and blossom,
And each
sleeping
bosom.
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blake-poems |
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THE METHOD OF TRANSLATION
It is commonly
asserted
that poetry, when literally translated, ceases
to be poetry.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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O Prince de l'exil, a qui l'on a fait tort,
Et qui, vaincu, toujours te
redresses
plus fort,
O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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were fair, but at the gifties to clutch
Fraudfully, viler seems than greed of
greediest
harlot
Who with her every limb maketh a whore of herself.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And now another in my teeming brain
Prepares
itself: whence I resume the strain.
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Petrarch |
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In cursed tyme I born was,
weylaway!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And, lastly,
grandest!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
generous
Greek bestow'd
A radiant belt that rich with purple glow'd.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Poor
thoughtless
wench!
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John Clare |
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Where'er he be, on water or on land,
Under pale suns or climes that flames enfold;
One of Christ's own, or of Cythera's band,
Shadowy beggar or Croesus rich with gold;
Citizen, peasant, student, tramp; whate'er
His little brain may be, alive or dead;
Man knows the fear of mystery everywhere,
And peeps, with
trembling
glances, overhead.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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XXXVI
When I pass thy door at night
I a
benediction
breathe:
"Ye who have the sleeping world
In your care,
"Guard the linen sweet and cool, 5
Where a lovely golden head
With its dreams of mortal bliss
Slumbers now!
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Sappho |
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That's what I call a genuine art,
To make poor rats with poison
wriggle!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Chanson de Roland |
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Con men di
resistenza
si dibarba
robusto cerro, o vero al nostral vento
o vero a quel de la terra di Iarba,
ch'io non levai al suo comando il mento;
e quando per la barba il viso chiese,
ben conobbi il velen de l'argomento.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I say, as if this little flower
To Eden
wandered
in --
What then?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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A later volume, called May Day,
followed
in 1867.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Whan I
remembre
me of my wo,
Ful nygh out of my wit I go.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Bie Goddes hie hallidome ne
thoughte
the thynge.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Where'er he be, on water or on land,
Under pale suns or climes that flames enfold;
One of Christ's own, or of Cythera's band,
Shadowy beggar or Croesus rich with gold;
Citizen, peasant, student, tramp; whate'er
His little brain may be, alive or dead;
Man knows the fear of mystery everywhere,
And peeps, with
trembling
glances, overhead.
| 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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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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XV
In this the love of the fair sex
Beats that of friends and relatives:
In love, although its
tempests
vex,
Our liberty at least survives:
Agreed!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Thou canst not ask me with thee here to roam
Over these hills and vales, where no joy is,--
Empty of
immortality
and bliss!
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Keats - Lamia |
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And rounde aboute the risynge waters lave,
And their longe hayre arounde their bodie flies,
Such
majestic
was in her porte displaid,
To be excelld bie none but Homer's martial maid.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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In cursed tyme I born was,
weylaway!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
And now another in my teeming brain
Prepares
itself: whence I resume the strain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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XXXVI
When I pass thy door at night
I a
benediction
breathe:
"Ye who have the sleeping world
In your care,
"Guard the linen sweet and cool, 5
Where a lovely golden head
With its dreams of mortal bliss
Slumbers now!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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" KAU}
For measurd out in orderd spaces the Sons of Urizen
{Lowecase
"sons" mended to "Sons.
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Blake - Zoas |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Except the heaven had come so near,
So seemed to choose my door,
The
distance
would not haunt me so;
I had not hoped before.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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O ye gods,
vouchsafe
me this in return
for my probity.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"
PINE
By John Russell McCarthy
You must have dreamed a little every year For fifty years: you must have been a child, Shy and diffident with the violets, School-girlish with the daisies, or perhaps
A youthful Indian with the hickory tree;
You must have been a lover with the beech, A wise young father walking with your sons Beneath the maple; then have battled long Grim and defiant with the oak : all these
You must have been for fifty
dreaming
years Before you may hold converse with the pine.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Would you know how that is
possible?
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Quando mi vide star pur fermo e duro,
turbato un poco disse: <
tra
Beatrice
e te e questo muro>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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bānhūs
gebræc, 2509;
similarly, 3148.
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Beowulf |
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With other
ministrations
thou, O nature!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And
fiercely
by the arm he took her,
And by the arm he held her fast,
And fiercely by the arm he shook her,
And cried, "I've caught you then at last!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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De la male Sapho, l'amante et le poete,
Plus belle que Venus par ses mornes
paleurs!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
_The "Hymn to Love"
is reprinted by
permission
from "The Vineyard.
| 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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Happier in this than
mightiest
bards have been,
Whose fate to distant homes confined their lot,
Shall I unmoved behold the hallowed scene,
Which others rave of, though they know it not?
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Fear the gaze in the blind wall that watches:
There is a verb
attached
to matter itself.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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From out the whitest cloud of summer steals
The wildest lightning: from this face of thine
Thy soul, a fire-of-heaven, warm and fine,
In
marvellous
flashes its fair self reveals.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
That's what I call a genuine art,
To make poor rats with poison
wriggle!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
O, though no gift, no "prevalence of prayer,"
Nor lovers'
paleness
deep as violet,
Nor husband, smit with a Pierian fair,
Move you, have pity yet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
I floated down its
historic
stream in
something more than imagination, under bridges built by the Romans,
and repaired by later heroes, past cities and castles whose very names
were music to my ears, and each of which was the subject of a legend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
In cursed tyme I born was,
weylaway!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Her household motions light and free,
And steps of virgin-liberty;
A
countenance
in which did meet 15
Sweet records, promises as sweet;
A Creature not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food;
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
'Tis said that
Euripides
has sent an old man here to-day, one
of his relations .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Whan I
remembre
me of my wo,
Ful nygh out of my wit I go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Where'er he be, on water or on land,
Under pale suns or climes that flames enfold;
One of Christ's own, or of Cythera's band,
Shadowy beggar or Croesus rich with gold;
Citizen, peasant, student, tramp; whate'er
His little brain may be, alive or dead;
Man knows the fear of mystery everywhere,
And peeps, with
trembling
glances, overhead.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Poor
thoughtless
wench!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
I have the original words of a song for the last air, in
the
handwriting
of the lady who composed it; and they are superior to
any edition of the song which the public has yet seen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
That's what I call a genuine art,
To make poor rats with poison
wriggle!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
At last I had occasion to go
to Minnesota, and on entering
Michigan
I began to notice from the cars
a tree with handsome rose-colored flowers.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Superb,
magnificent
of revels--doubt
That sagest lose their heads in such a rout!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
at in
godenesse
schulden be; li?
| 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 |
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: _orbis o piissimei_ Haupt: _urbis oppidissime_
Heyse: _urbis ob luem
ipsimae_
Munro: immo _suae_ h.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Why, the
realisation
of their own
soaring desires.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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the her name) at home to end his days;
Base wealth
preferring
to eternal praise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Iliad - Pope |
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That is the
manufacturing
spot,
And will at home and well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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[Note 21: The poet was, on his mother's side, of African extraction,
a
circumstance
which perhaps accounts for the southern fervour of
his imagination.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Particularly in the cycle _Songs of the Maidens_ in the book
_Celebration_, the atmosphere is condensed and becomes the psychic
background of the
landscape
against which the gesture of longing or
expectation is seen and felt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
The English 'translation' is offered as an equivalent text to, or
interpretation
of, the original.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Seeing me he became uneasy, but soon
recovered
himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
XXXVI
When I pass thy door at night
I a
benediction
breathe:
"Ye who have the sleeping world
In your care,
"Guard the linen sweet and cool, 5
Where a lovely golden head
With its dreams of mortal bliss
Slumbers now!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
King Mandricardo, armed from foot to head,
Leapt on the steed and
galloped
o'er the plain,
And swore upon the camp to turn his back
Till he should find the champion clad in black.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
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: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
"
Fancying herself a queen,
All unseen,
Thus
vibrating
in delight;
In her indolent coquetting
Quite forgetting
How the hours wing their flight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Zum
Blutstuhl
bin ich schon entruckt.
| 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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The Lion
Wild Animals
'Wild Animals'
Caspar Luyken,
Christoph
Weigel, 1695 - 1705, The Rijksmuseun
O lion, miserable image
Of kings lamentably chosen,
Now you're only born in a cage
In Hamburg, among the Germans.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
The play which is mere propaganda shows its
leanness more
obviously
than a propagandist poem or essay, for dramatic
writing is so full of the stuff of daily life that a little falsehood,
put in that the moral may come right in the end, contradicts our
experience.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Copyright laws in most
countries
are
in a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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sister
women, if we would compel our
husbands
to make peace, we must refrain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Why have you left the
chamber?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
In cursed tyme I born was,
weylaway!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Ill
LOVE calls not worthy him whoe'er
renounced
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
XXXVI
When I pass thy door at night
I a
benediction
breathe:
"Ye who have the sleeping world
In your care,
"Guard the linen sweet and cool, 5
Where a lovely golden head
With its dreams of mortal bliss
Slumbers now!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sappho |
|
"
So said I to the brightness, which erewhile
To me had spoken, and my will declar'd,
As
Beatrice
will'd, explicitly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Poor
thoughtless
wench!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
That's what I call a genuine art,
To make poor rats with poison
wriggle!
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Where'er he be, on water or on land,
Under pale suns or climes that flames enfold;
One of Christ's own, or of Cythera's band,
Shadowy beggar or Croesus rich with gold;
Citizen, peasant, student, tramp; whate'er
His little brain may be, alive or dead;
Man knows the fear of mystery everywhere,
And peeps, with
trembling
glances, overhead.
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Appoloinaire |
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Es ist
wahrhaftig
eine Schmach:
Gesellschaft konnten sie die allerbeste haben,
Und laufen diesen Magden nach!
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that
sometimes
it brought
Faint fare-thee-wells, and sigh-shrilled adieus!
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I floated down its
historic
stream in
something more than imagination, under bridges built by the Romans,
and repaired by later heroes, past cities and castles whose very names
were music to my ears, and each of which was the subject of a legend.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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And now another in my teeming brain
Prepares
itself: whence I resume the strain.
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Petrarch |
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Thou canst not ask me with thee here to roam
Over these hills and vales, where no joy is,--
Empty of
immortality
and bliss!
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Keats - Lamia |
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It attained a still higher degree
of
excellence
among the English and the Lowland Scotch, during
the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.
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