Where I
proposed
to go
When time's brief masquerade was done,
Is mapped, and charted too!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The
flooring
sounds 'neath Eviradnus' tread
Above abysses many.
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Hugo - Poems |
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It was said that the
wishes of the initiates were always granted, and they were feared as
to-day the
_jettatori_
(spell-throwers, casters of the evil eye) in
Sicily are feared.
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Aristophanes |
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,
_treasure
out of the old times_: dat.
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Beowulf |
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And with low voice and doleful look
These words did say:
In the touch of this bosom there worketh a spell,
Which is lord of thy utterance,
Christabel!
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"
ECLOGUE III
MENALCAS
DAMOETAS
PALAEMON
MENALCAS
Who owns the flock, Damoetas?
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The sun set this evening in masses of cloud,
The storm comes to-morrow, then calm be the night,
Then the Dawn in her chariot
refulgent
and proud,
Then more nights, and still days, steps of Time in his flight.
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Hugo - Poems |
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the
fabulous
ghosts, the dark abyss,
The void of the Plutonian hall, where soon as e'er you go,
No more for you shall leap the auspicious die
To seat you on the throne of wine; no more your breast shall glow
For Lycidas, the star of every eye.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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4870
This hadde sotil dame Nature;
For noon goth right, I thee ensure,
Ne hath entent hool ne parfyt;
For hir desir is for delyt,
The which
fortened
crece and eke 4875
The pley of love for-ofte seke,
And thralle hem-silf, they be so nyce,
Unto the prince of every vyce.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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If this be Love, how is the evil wrought,
That all men write against his
darkened
name?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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viden ut faces
Splendidas
quatiunt
comas?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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--How shall I name thee what thou art,
Woman, thou dream of man's desire that God
Caught out of man's first sleep and
fashioned
real?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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n
They chide me that the skein I used to spin Holds not my
interest
now,
They mock me at the route.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are
in a constant state of change.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Which
shews, that the only decay or hurt of the best men's
reputation
with the
people is, their wits have out-lived the people's palates.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Thinking
of this, my voice chokes and I ask of Heaven above,
Was I spared from death only to spend the rest of my years in
sorrow?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Gone is that King, and the old spear laid low
That
Tantalus
wielded when the world was young.
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Euripides - Electra |
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org/contact
For
additional
contact information:
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Wilde - Poems |
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Mean while revive;
Abandon fear; to
strength
and counsel joind
Think nothing hard, much less to be despaird.
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Milton |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Then such a rearing without bridle,
A raging which no arm could fend,
An opening of new
fragrant
spaces,
A thrill in which all senses blend.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The Count of
Toulouse
is Raymond VII.
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Troubador Verse |
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DEATH BY WATER
Phlebas the Phoenician, a
fortnight
dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Their meeting takes place under an influence, alien I know, that of Music heard in concert; one finds there several
techniques
that seem to me to belong to Literature, I reclaim them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Between the tree-stems, marbled plain at first,
Came jasper pannels; then, anon, there burst
Forth creeping imagery of
slighter
trees,
And with the larger wove in small intricacies.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Sometimes he came with arms outspread
Like wings,
revolving
in the scene
Upon his longer axis, and
With no small dignity of mien.
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| Question: |
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Robert Forst |
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He begged
persistently
to be allowed to retire from Court.
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Li Po |
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In shadowy chambers ghost-fires are green,5
mournful
rivulets pour over broken roadways.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Electric signs flash on and out,
And gold-eyed motors dart about,
And trolleys jangle,
And crowds untangle,
And still they stand on their icy beat,
And still the
tambourines
repeat,
"God looks down from His judgment seat,
'Good will on earth' is His message sweet.
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| Question: |
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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[2] Omar
himself alludes to his name in the following whimsical lines:--
"'Khayyam, who stitched the tents of science,
Has fallen in grief's furnace and been
suddenly
burned;
The shears of Fate have cut the tent ropes of his life,
And the broker of Hope has sold him for nothing!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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(Thou canst not with thy dumbness me deceive,
I know before the fitting man all Nature yields,
Though answering not in words, the skies, trees, hear his voice--and
thou O sun,
As for thy throes, thy perturbations, sudden breaks and shafts of
flame gigantic,
I understand them, I know those flames, those
perturbations
well.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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raynde]]
221
And droffe ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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A
thousand
piles the dusky horrors gild,
And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Al was for nought, she herde nought his pleynte;
And whan that he bithoughte on that folye, 545
A
thousand
fold his wo gan multiplye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Then shall crash
That massive form and fabric of the world
Sustained
so many aeons!
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| Question: |
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Lucretius |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Wilde - Poems |
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'
Quick answered Lilia 'There are
thousands
now
Such women, but convention beats them down:
It is but bringing up; no more than that:
You men have done it: how I hate you all!
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Tennyson |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"The huge Orion, of portentous size,
Swift through the gloom a giant-hunter flies:
A
ponderous
mace of brass with direful sway
Aloft he whirls, to crush the savage prey!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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yif we willen
graunten
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The Tibetan Goat
Hilly Landscape with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Nicolaes
Visscher
(I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
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Appoloinaire |
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)
Mery,
Without dawn too grossly now inflaming
The rose, that splendid, natural and weary
Sheds even her heavy veil of
perfumes
to hear
Beneath the flesh the diamond weeping,
Yes, without those dewy crises!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Note: Ixion was
tormented
on a wheel in Hades, Tantalus by water and food just out of reach, Prometheus by having his liver torn by vultures, Sisyphus by being forced eternally to roll a boulder to the top of a hill and see it roll back again.
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Ronsard |
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Quo mea se molli candida diva pede 70
Intulit et trito fulgentem in limine plantam
Innixa arguta constituit solea,
Coniugis ut quondam flagrans advenit amore
Protesilaeam
Laudamia domum
Inceptam frustra, nondum cum sanguine sacro 75
Hostia caelestis pacificasset eros.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Ora chi fosti,
piacciati
ch'io sappia,
e perche tanti secoli giaciuto
qui se', ne le parole tue mi cappia>>.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if
bereaved
of light.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"Then may the Fates look up 10
And smile a little in their
tolerant
way,
Being full of infinite regard for men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sappho |
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And all my
Children?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
For heavenly beauty he in vain inquires,
Who ne'er beheld her eyes'
celestial
stain,
Where'er she turns around their brilliant fires:
He knows not how Love wounds, and heals again,
Who knows not how she sweetly smiles, respires
The sweetest sighs, and speaks in sweetest strain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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The
footnotes
in the actual play were added by the author as part of
his thesis.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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But the sum was
honestly
earned by hard and wearisome work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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'Tis thy
message?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonilie,
His clean hearth-stane, his thrifty wifie's smile,
The lisping infant,
prattling
on his knee,
Does a' his weary kiaugh and care beguile,
And makes him quite forget his labour and his toil.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Princes, my
suitors!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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For so as I haue gadered {and}
p{ro}ued
a lytel her byforn
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Upon the mount
Most high above the waters, all my life,
Both
innocent
and guilty, did but reach
From the first hour, to that which cometh next
(As the sun changes quarter), to the sixth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
When Juan sought the
subterranean
flood.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Flowers so kindly,
Over all brightly,
Noble Beatrice, and grows so sweetly
Your Honour to me;
For as I see,
Value adorns your sovereignty,
And, to be sure, the
sweetest
speech;
Of gracious deeds you are the seed;
Verity,
Mercy,
You have: and great learning truly;
Bravery
Plainly,
Decked, with your generosity.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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She
sprinkled
bright water from the stream
On those that were faint with the sunny beam;
And out of the cups of the heavy flowers _35
She emptied the rain of the thunder-showers.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
With fixed heed, suspense and motionless,
Wond'ring I gaz'd; and
admiration
still
Was kindled, as I gaz'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Drank, and sang songs, and revelled, my head hot
With wine and
flowers!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Have ye beheld the young God of the Seas,
My
dispossessor?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
All these details of
language
must be adjusted; else it
is quite useless to go to the Assembly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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I freed Nature from a treacherous opponent:
He served as food for that
monstrous
regiment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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next year,
Unless I love thee
fondlier
than before,
And with each twelve month love thee more and more,
As much as lover's life can slay with yearning, 5
Alone in Lybia, or Hind's clime a-burning,
Be mine to encounter Lion grisly-eyed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Parsifal
Parsifal has
conquered
the girls, their sweet
Chatter, amusing lust - and his inclination,
A virgin boy's, towards the Flesh, tempted
To love the little tits and gentle babble;
He's conquered lovely Woman, of subtle
Heart, showing her cool arms, provoking breast;
He's conquered Hell, returned to his tent,
With a weighty trophy on his boyish arm.
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19th Century French Poetry |
|
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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or, A shadowe of Truth in
certaine
Epigrams and Satyres.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
"
An expression of interior agitation passed over the face of the old
woman; then she
relapsed
into her former apathy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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This should be
something
queer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Verbenna
down to Ostia
Hath wasted all the plain;
Astur hath stormed Janiculum,
And the stout guards are slain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
how he charm'd us with a flow of sense,
And won the heart with manly
eloquence!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
And that my Soul
embraces
you this hour, and we affect each other without
ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is
every bit as wonderful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
My good I seek in the good of another,
This marriage means so much to all three;
Make my soul strong, or
complete
it swiftly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Ring, for the scant
salvation!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Envy so parch'd my blood, that had I seen
A fellow man made joyous, thou hadst mark'd
A livid
paleness
overspread my cheek.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
For if woe and ail
Perchance
are toward, then the man to whom
The bane can happen must himself be there
At that same time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Seek thou
straight
Athena's land,
And round her awful image clasp thine hand,
Praying: and she will fence them back, though hot
With flickering serpents, that they touch thee not,
Holding above thy brow her gorgon shield.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or
sharpened
claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
" like Christ on the darkening
hilltop!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Then - you would only
have been me
- since I am
here - lonely, sad -
- no, I remember
a
childhood
-
- yours
twin voices
but without you
I'd not have - known
18.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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XXV
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
To wake from Hades, and their idle pose,
Those old Caesars, and the shades of those,
Who once raised this ancient city higher:
Or that I had Amphion's to inspire,
And with sweet harmony these stones enclose
To quicken them again, where they once rose,
Ausonian glory conjuring from its pyre:
Or that with skilful pencil I might draw
The portrait of these palaces once more,
With the spirit of some high Virgil filled;
I would attempt,
inflamed
by my ardour,
To recreate with the pen's slight power,
That which our own hands could never build.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
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 |
|
"No, ('tis reply'd) the first
Almighty
Cause 145
Acts not by partial, but by gen'ral laws;
Th' exceptions few; some change since all began:
And what created perfect?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Yonder,
gathering
driftwood for her fire.
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{41} ["Ficta omnia
celeriter
tanquam flosculi decidunt, nec simulatum
potest quidquam esse diuturnum.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Years following years, steal
something
every day,
At last they steal us from ourselves away;
In one our frolics, one amusements end,
In one a mistress drops, in one a friend:
This subtle thief of life, this paltry time,
What will it leave me, if it snatch my rhyme?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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If I go forth, a host
Of feasts and bridal dances,
gatherings
gay
Of women, will be there to fright me away
To loneliness.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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CCXIX
Three columns now, he has, the
Emperour
Charles.
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Chanson de Roland |
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e same
roundenes
of a body .
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Still louder the
breakwater
sounds,
And hissing it beats the surf
Up to the sand-dune heights.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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He wears a hoop-ring on his thumb; he has
Of
gravidad
a dose, full in the face.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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At the first sight of her he quits the fray,
And wears a
semblance
loving and humane.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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While yet each shaft flew
deathful
from his hand:
Chief after chief expired at every wound,
And swell'd the bleeding mountain on the ground.
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