So with our
Tuscans!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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In the
southern
clime,
Where the summer's prime
Never fades away,
Lovely Lyca lay.
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blake-poems |
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The country girls in Ayrshire, instead of the line--
"She me forsook for a great duke,"
say
"For Athole's duke she me forsook;"
which I take to be the
original
reading.
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Robert Burns |
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"I fear thee, ancient
Mariner!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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_l_) O sed Madano _Ge(l)lius_ potius
uisum est:
_Lelius_
GCDB Laurentiani || _solere_ Parthenius:
_flere_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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About the same time they
perceived
a large frog, spotted with green, and
with a sky-blue stripe under each ear.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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It look'd around, as eager to explore
If there were other with me; but perceiving
That fond
imagination
quench'd, with tears
Thus spake: "If thou through this blind prison go'st.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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What help was it for the
Trojans to escape war's doom and thread their flight through Argive
fires, to have exhausted all those perils of sea and
desolate
lands,
while they seek Latium and the towers of a Troy rebuilt?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Oh the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
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blake-poems |
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" I asked him,
restraining
with
difficulty my indignation.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The bad will basely, good will bravely, do ;
And few, indeed, can parallel our climes,
For worth heroic, or heroic crimes^
The trial would, however, be too nice,
Which
stronger
were, a Scotch or English vice ;
Or whether the same virtue would reflect.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Have you no comfort for me
Cold-colored
flowers?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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To prove the truth of what I state
Let me an
anecdote
relate:
A Gascon with his comrade sat
At tavern drinking.
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La Fontaine |
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E come 'l volger del ciel de la luna
cuopre e
discuopre
i liti sanza posa,
cosi fa di Fiorenza la Fortuna:
per che non dee parer mirabil cosa
cio ch'io diro de li alti Fiorentini
onde e la fama nel tempo nascosa.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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'Tis plain that for prowess, not plunged into exile,
for high-hearted valor,
Hrothgar
ye seek!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
Then he cried aloud, "Who dwells in this place,
discourse
with me to
hold?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Varus, are your trees in
planting?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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He grips the tankard of brown ale
That spills a
generous
foam:
Oft-times he drinks, they say, and winks
At drunk men lurching home.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Even yet, however, he was not completely satisfied and from time to time
he added a touch to his work until he finally
produced
the finished
picture which we know as 'The Rape of the Lock'.
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Alexander Pope |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Wir legen nur ein gultig Zeugnis nieder,
Dass ihres Ehherrn
ausgereckte
Glieder
In Padua an heil'ger Statte ruhn.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Now bless'd in heaven as then alone on earth;
Wretched and lonely thou hast left me here,
Fond lingering by the scenes, with sorrows drown'd,
To thee which
consecrate
I still revere.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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pour tout et mieux dire, dans
les tiroirs fermes d'un absent, voici _le livre des poesies completes
d'Arthur Rimbaud_, avec ses additions
inutiles
a mon avis et ses
deplorables mutilations irreparables a jamais, il faut le craindre.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Fate and Venus are satisfied, in that the Trojans have touched
our
fruitful
Ausonian fields.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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A PAUSE OF THOUGHT
I looked for that which is not, nor can be,
And hope deferred made my heart sick in truth:
But years must pass before a hope of youth
Is
resigned
utterly.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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FOR Alibech great
feasting
was prepared,
When, through simplicity, the girl declared,
To those around, without the least restraint,
How she had acted to be made a saint.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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I stood in the porch and heard how the deacon
cried out:--Grishka
Otrepiev
is anathema!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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O that some minstrel's harp were near
To utter notes of gladness
And chase this silence from the air,
That fills my heart with
sadness!
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Golden Treasury |
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Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Traveling Late: Extempore 321 On mountain roads a bugle blows now and then?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The author of the Decamerone regarded Petrarch as his
literary
master.
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Petrarch |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in
shuttered
rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Such an one as women draw away from For the tobacco ashes scattered on his coat And sith his throat
Show razor's
unfamiliarity
And three days' beard:
Such an one picking a ragged Backless copy from the stall,
Too cheap for cataloguing, Loquitur,
"Ah-eh!
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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I envy e'en the body of the Lord,
Oft as those
precious
lips of hers draw near it.
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| Question: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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An enlarged edition of his poems was
published
there in
1787, and the money derived from this enabled him to aid his brother in
Mossgiel, and to take and stock for himself the farm of Ellisland in
Dumfriesshire.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Domestic
cares afflict the husband's bed,
Or pains his head:
Those that live single, take it for a curse,
Or do things worse:
Some would have children: those that have them, moan
Or wish them gone:
What is it, then, to have, or have no wife,
But single thraldom, or a double strife?
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Golden Treasury |
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That this might happen at Rome can scarcely be doubted; for
something very like this has
happened
in several countries, and,
among others, in our own.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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| Question: |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Imagists |
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WHEN pleasing tales and fables I endite,
I, who in humble verse presume to write,
May surely use this
privilege
of old,
And, to my fancy, appellations mould.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Around, around, they waltzed and wound;
Some wheeled in
smirking
pairs;
With the mincing step of a demirep
Some sidled up the stairs:
And with subtle sneer, and fawning leer,
Each helped us at our prayers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The
contents
supply the South
Babylonian version of the second book of the epic _sa nagba imuru_,
"He who has seen all things," commonly referred to as the Epic of
Gilgamish.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The repetition makes us feel the
monotony
of her days and
nights of grief.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Hence 'tis an easy matter to persuade
Mine host his buxom daughter to forego,
And let them, where they will the damsel bear;
In that to treat her well the
travellers
swear.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
checks, online payments and credit card donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The battle in which the Venetians under Nicolo
Pisani were defeated by the Genoese under
Paganino
Doria was fought
November 4, 1354.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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e disposic{i}ou{n} {and} ordenaunce
cleuynge
to moeuable ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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--Puis, tu peux y compter, tu te feras des frais
Avec tes hommes noirs, qui prennent nos requetes
Pour se les
renvoyer
comme sur des raquettes
Et, tout bas, les malins se disent; <
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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What
blessedness
within this prison pent!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"
"I am like thee, O, Night, silent and deep; and in the heart of
my
loneliness
lies a Goddess in child-bed; and in him who is being
born Heaven touches Hell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight
shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
The
schoolboy
hears and brushes through the trees
And runs about till drabbled to the knees.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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per quam demisso
quotiens
tibi fune pependi,
alterna ueniens in tua colla manu!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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nunc ab
auspicio
bono profecti
mutuis animis amant amantur.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Once a youthful pair,
Filled with softest care,
Met in garden bright
Where the holy light
Had just removed the
curtains
of the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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The west and the east he
considers
as two great
empires; the one of the true religion, the other of a false.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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"
[545] The basket in which Aristophanes shows us
Socrates
suspended to
bring his mind nearer to the subtle regions of air.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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A
melancholy
Bird?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
* * * * *
And thou, sea-born Aphrodite, 25
In whose beneficent keeping
Earth, with her
infinite
beauty,
Colour and fashion and fragrance,
Glows like a flower with fervour
Where woods are vernal!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Tell us, Padre Cura,
Who are these Gypsies in the
neighborhood?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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A Single Smile
A single smile disputes
Each star with the
gathering
night
A single smile for us both
And the blue of your joyful eyes
Against the mass of night
Finding its flame in my eyes
I have seen by needing to know
The deep night create the day
With no change in our appearance.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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All
Summarised
The Soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I have
forgotten
you long, long ago.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The
immutable
calm of this white burning,
O my fearful kisses, makes you say, sadly,
'Will we ever be one mummified winding,
Under the ancient sands and palms so happy?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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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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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Let the hoarse torrent
In the blue canyon,
Murmuring
mightily
10
Out of the grey mist
Of primal chaos,
Cease not proclaiming
How I adore thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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_ Ay, as a
pettifogger
by his buckram bag.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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250
We thinke the heavens enjoy their Sphericall,
Their round proportion
embracing
all.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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One science only will one genius fit; 60
So vast is art, so narrow human wit:
Not only bounded to
peculiar
arts,
But oft in those confin'd to single parts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
When the seventh self thus spake the other six selves looked with
pity upon him but said nothing more; and as the night grew deeper
one after the other went to sleep
enfolded
with a new and happy
submission.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
--
Yes, you are right, we need not hunt for motives:
There is no crime from which this man would shrink;
He recks not human law; and I have noticed
That often when the name of God is uttered,
A sudden
blankness
overspreads his face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
1225
For what new torment have I
reserved
myself?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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And we stood on a sea's edge we saw not; for whiter than new-washed
fleece
Fled foam underneath us, and round us, a
wandering
and milky smoke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Aricia
And you think Hippolytus, kinder than his father,
Being more humane, will make my chains
lighter?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Thou canst not
understand
my seafaring thoughts, nor would I have
thee understand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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's notice and approbation, I
assure you I
"Turn out the burnt o' my shin,"
as the famous Ramsay, of
jingling
memory, says, at such a patroness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Dispel my doubts,
Make sure the bliss I have
implored
so long.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
We have been, let us say, to hear the latest Pole
Transmit
the Preludes, through his hair and finger tips.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
They pass before me, these Eyes full of light,
Eyes made
magnetic
by some angel wise;
The holy brothers pass before my sight,
And cast their diamond fires in my dim eyes.
| 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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A GAME OF CHESS
The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra
Reflecting
light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
"
"It appears that he is in strength, indeed,"
observed
Chvabrine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I have too long walked hand in hand with death
To shudder at that pale
familiar
face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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'Twas a peaceful summer's morning, when the first thing gave
us warning
Was the booming of the cannon from the river and the shore:
"Child," says grandma, "what's the matter, what is all this
noise and
clatter?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Yeats |
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"
They go to
strikewith
th'swords, are on their belts.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"
I answer'd: "Teacher, I
conclude
thy words
So certain, that all else shall be to me
As embers lacking life.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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We choose a place, and fling
ourselves on the lap of earth at the water's edge, and,
allotting
the
oars, spread ourselves on the dry beach for refreshment: the dew of
slumber falls on our weary limbs.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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_Rapido fiume che d'
alpestra
vena.
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Petrarch |
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In his
perplexity
a happy thought, little less in fact than an
inspiration of genius, came to Pope.
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Alexander Pope |
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"Believ'st thou,
Malacoda!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Therefore
the winds, piping to us in vain,
As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea
Contagious fogs; which, falling in the land,
Hath every pelting river made so proud
That they have overborne their continents.
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Shakespeare |
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Then I went to the heath and the wild,
To the
thistles
and thorns of the waste;
And they told me how they were beguiled,
Driven out, and compelled to the chaste.
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blake-poems |
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The
indirect
is always as great and real as the direct.
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Whitman |
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'
'Damsel,' he said, 'you be not all to blame,
Saving that you
mistrusted
our good King
Would handle scorn, or yield you, asking, one
Not fit to cope your quest.
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Tennyson |
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With watchers doth he go
Begirt, and mailed
pikemen?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Thou beauteous wreath, with
melancholy
eyes,
Possess whatever bliss thou canst devise,
Telling me only where my nymph is fled,--
Where she doth breathe!
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Keats - Lamia |
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