Jonson not
infrequently
refers to contemporary actors.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Mahony)_
The
Favorite
Sultana
The Pasha and the Dervish
The Lost Battle--_W.
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Hugo - Poems |
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nē his līf-dagas lēoda
ǣnigum nytte tealde (_nor did he count his life useful to any man_), 795;
þæt ic mē ǣnigne under swegles begong ge-sacan ne tealde (_I
believed
not
that I had any foe under heaven_), 1774; cwæð hē þone gūð-wine gōdne tealde
(_said he counted the war-friend good_), 1811; hē ūsic gār-wīgend gōde
tealde (_deemed us good spear-warriors_), 2642; pl.
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Beowulf |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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For this should
vengeance
follow, albeit slow,
Dealt by his consort and his sister dear;
And how he by his wife should long be sought,
With weary womb, with heavy burden fraught,
LXIII
'Twixt Brenta and Athesis, beneath those hills
(Which erst the good Antenor so contented,
With their sulphureous veins and liquid rills,
And mead, and field, with furrows glad indented,
That he for these left pools which Xanthus fills;
And Ida, and Ascanius long lamented,)
Till she a child should in the forests bear,
Which little distant from Ateste are;
LXIV
And how the Child, in might and beauty grown,
That, like his sire, Rogero shall be hight,
Those Trojans, as of Trojan lineage known,
Shall for their lord elect with solemn rite;
Who next by Charles (in succour of whose crown
Against the Lombards shall the stripling fight)
Of that fair land dominion shall obtain,
And the honoured title of a marquis gain;
LXV
And because Charles shall say in Latin `Este',
(That is -- be lords of the dominion round!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And later, in August it may be,
When the meadows
parching
lie,
Beware, lest this little brook of life
Some burning noon go dry!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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He quaff'd the gore; and straight his soldier knew,
And from his eyes pour'd down the tender dew:
His arms he stretch'd; his arms the touch deceive,
Nor in the fond embrace, embraces give:
His substance vanish'd, and his
strength
decay'd,
Now all Atrides is an empty shade.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The Emperor was so pleased with Po's talent that
whenever
he was
feasting or drinking he always had this poet to wait upon him.
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Li Po |
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I look to the west when I gae to rest,
That happy my dreams and my
slumbers
may be;
Far, far in the west is he I lo'e best,
The lad that is dear to my babie and me!
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Robert Burns |
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"
The last part of _The Book of Hours_, _The Book of Poverty and Death_,
is finally a symphony of variations on the two great
symbolic
themes in
the work of Rilke.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Dans quel philtre, dans quel vin, dans quelle tisane
Noierons-nous ce vieil ennemi,
Destructeur
et gourmand comme la courtisane,
Patient comme la fourmi?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays,
And yet deny the
careless
husband praise.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Beyond these things, there is no furniture, if we except
an Argand lamp, with a plain crimson-tinted ground glass shade, which
depends from He lofty vaulted ceiling by a single slender gold chain,
and throws a
tranquil
but magical radiance over all.
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Poe - 5 |
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Sleep is
supposed
to be,
By souls of sanity,
The shutting of the eye.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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If thou hadst had a sword,
Insolent prisoner, then (pointing to his sword) with this I'd soon
Have
vanquished
thee.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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So
cowering
fled the sable heaps of ghosts,
And such a scream fill'd all the dismal coasts.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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is still the cause
unfound?
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John Clare |
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Now when, declining from the noon of day,
The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray;
When hungry judges soon the sentence sign, 85
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine;
When merchants from th' Exchange return in peace,
And the long labours of the toilet cease,
The board's with cups and spoons, alternate, crowned,
The berries crackle, and the mill turns round; 90
On shining altars of Japan they raise
The silver lamp, and fiery spirits blaze:
From silver spouts the
grateful
liquors glide,
While China's earth receives the smoking tide.
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Alexander Pope |
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And, as the year
Grows lush in juicy stalks, I'll
smoothly
steer
My little boat, for many quiet hours,
With streams that deepen freshly into bowers.
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Keats |
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He drifted from speculation to speculation,
often seeming to forget his aim by the way, in almost the collector's
delight over the
curiosities
he had found in passing.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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and Latona and the tones of the Asiatic lyre, which wed so
well with the dances of the
Phrygian
Graces.
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Aristophanes |
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Then might you see the wild things of the wood,
With Fauns in
sportive
frolic beat the time,
And stubborn oaks their branchy summits bow.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Can we alone in furious battle stand,
Against that
numerous
and determined band?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
And the Good God said, "But I too have been
mistaken
for you and
called by your name.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Could you guess what word she
uttered?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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His
troops, being suddenly
surrounded
by a numerous party of the enemy, were
ready to fly, when, at the prayers of the bishop, a venerable old man,
clothed in white, with a red cross on his breast, appeared in the air.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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_100
A man who thus twice
crucifies
his God
May well .
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Shelley |
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But in general the
effect of reading many criticisms on the _Alcestis_ is to make a
scholar realize that, for all the seeming
simplicity
of the play,
competent Grecians have been strangely bewildered by it, and that after
all there is no great reason to suppose that he himself is more sensible
than his neighbours.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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' 525
'Yis,
thamendes
is light to make,'
Quod he, 'for ther lyth noon ther-to;
Ther is no-thing missayd nor do.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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_
[91] The historical
foundation
of the fable of Phaeton is this.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The inmates of the
Pyramids
assume
The hue of Rhamesis, black with the gloom.
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Hugo - Poems |
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v
All things worth praise
That unto Khadeeth's mart have
From far been brought through perils over-passed, All santal, myrrh, and spikenard that disarms The pard's swift anger; these would weigh but light 'Gainst thy delights, my
Khadeeth!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Uc de Saint Circ has him ultimately
withdrawing
to the Cistercian abbey of Dalon and dying there.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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blake-poems |
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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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50
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is
something
he carries on his back,
Which I am forbidden to see.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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No,
gracious
lord, except I cannot do it.
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Shakespeare |
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and accept all the terms of this license and
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property
(trademark/copyright) agreement.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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This is _monte potiri_, to get
the hill; for no perfect
discovery
can be made upon a flat or a level.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Some few there from the common road did stray;
Laelius and Socrates, with whom I may
A longer progress take: Oh, what a pair
Of dear
esteemed
friends to me they were!
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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_The
Beautiful
Stranger_
I cannot know what country owns thee now,
With France's forest lilies on thy brow.
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John Clare |
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"
But when the summer day was past,
He looked to heaven and smiled at last,
Self-answered so--
"Because, O cloud,
Pressing with thy
crumpled
shroud
Heavily on mountain top,--
Hills that almost seem to drop
Stricken with a misty death
To the valleys underneath,--
Valleys sighing with the torrent,--
Waters streaked with branches horrent,--
Branchless trees that shake your head
Wildly o'er your blossoms spread
Where the common flowers are found,--
Flowers with foreheads to the ground,--
Ground that shriekest while the sea
With his iron smiteth thee--
I am, besides, the only one
Who can be bright _without_ the sun.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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From the
forgotten
you call forth dreams; the
child
Reposing on the ground in the corn-clad fields,
In harvest-glow beside the naked mowers.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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nīða genǣgdan nefan
Hererīces
(_in combats pressed hard upon H.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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How it woke one April morn,
Fame shall tell;
As from Moultrie, close at hand,
And the
batteries
on the land,
Round its faint but fearless band
Shot and shell
Raining hid the doubtful light;
But they fought the hopeless fight
Long and well,
(Theirs the glory, ours the shame!
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Thus far sped the sacred
contests
to their holy lord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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How much better is it to be silent, or at least to speak
sparingly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The Horse
Pegasus
'Pegasus'
Jacopo de' Barbari, 1509 - 1516, The Rijksmuseun
My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
That for reins will hold tight to frenzy,
My verses, the
patterns
of all poetry.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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"Now wenches listen, and let lovers lie,
Ye'll hear a story ye may profit by;
I'm your age treble, with some oddments to't,
And right from wrong can tell, if ye'll but do't:
Ye need not giggle
underneath
your hat,
Mine's no joke-matter, let me tell you that;
So keep ye quiet till my story's told,
And don't despise your betters cause they're old.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Starlight is a usual occurrence
Any
pleasant
night beside the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Mais le soleil eveille, a travers les feuillages,
Les vieilles couleurs des vitraux ensoleilles,
La pierre sent toujours la terre maternelle,
Vous verrez des monceaux de ces
cailloux
terreux
Dans la campagne en rut qui fremit, solennelle,
Portant, pres des bles lourds, dans les sentiers sereux,
Ces arbrisseaux brules ou bleuit la prunelle,
Des noeuds de muriers noirs ou de rosiers furieux.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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They were all
glittering
with rich robes and
arms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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What rivers and what heights,
What shores and seas between
Me rise and those twin lights,
Which made the storm and blackness of my days
One
beautiful
serene,
To which tormented Memory still strays:
Free as my life then pass'd from every care,
So hard and heavy seems my present lot to bear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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In the course of the evening, you find chance for certain
Soft
speeches
to Anne, in the shade of the curtain:
You tell her your heart can be likened to _one_ flower,
'And that, O most charming of women, 's the sunflower,
Which turns'--here a clear nasal voice, to your terror, 270
From outside the curtain, says, 'That's all an error.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Fuhr uns gut und mach dir Ehre
Dass wir
vorwarts
bald gelangen
In den weiten, oden Raumen!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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At length along the flowery sward I saw
So sweet and fair a lady pensive move
That her mere thought inspires a tender awe;
Meek in herself, but haughty against Love,
Flow'd from her waist a robe so fair and fine
Seem'd gold and snow
together
there to join:
But, ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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EATING BAMBOO-SHOOTS
My new
Province
is a land of bamboo-groves:
Their shoots in spring fill the valleys and hills.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Et, faisant la victime et la petite epouse,
Son etoile la vit, une chandelle aux doigts,
Descendre
dans la cour ou sechait une blouse,
Spectre blanc, et lever les spectres noirs des toits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And
Lancelot
bode a little, till he saw
Which were the weaker; then he hurled into it
Against the stronger: little need to speak
Of Lancelot in his glory!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Gentle night, do thou
befriend
me,
Downy sleep, the curtain draw;
Spirits kind, again attend me,
Talk of him that's far awa!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
As
Harrington
fell, ye likewise fell --
At the door of the House wherein ye dwell;
As Harrington came, ye likewise came
And died at the door of your House of Fame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
The expression, however, is
classical, and
therefore
retained.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Too pressed to wait, upon her slate
Fame writes a name or two in doubt;
Scarce written, these no longer please,
And her own finger rubs them out:
It may ensue, fair girl, that you
Years hence this
yellowing
leaf may see,
And put to task, your memory ask
In vain, 'This Lowell, who was he?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Just gods, who see the grief that overwhelms me, 1165
How could I ever
engender
a child so guilty?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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And I dreamed the little cottage
Suddenly
became a ballroom.
| 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 |
|
And
standing
on the altar high,
"Lo, what a fiend is here!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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In a burnt, ashen land, where no herb grew,
I to the winds my cries of anguish threw;
And in my thoughts, in that sad place apart,
Pricked gently with the
poignard
o'er my heart.
| 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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And this reviving Herb whose tender Green
Fledges the River-Lip on which we lean--
Ah, lean upon it
lightly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
(thus his heart he vents)
Once spread the
inviting
banquet in our tents:
Thy sweet society, thy winning care,
Once stay'd Achilles, rushing to the war.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
what crueler light is borne aloft in the
heavens?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
]
[fa] _The Grand
Chancellor
of the Ten_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
"
Still from each fact, with skill uncouth
And savage rapture, like a tooth
She wrenched some slow
reluctant
truth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Canst thou give to a frame
tremblingly
alive as the tortures of
suspense, the stability and hardihood of the rock that braves the
blast?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Yet now, before our sun grow dark at noon,
Before we come to nought beneath Thy rod,
Before we go down quick into the pit, 80
Remember us for good, O God, our God:--
Thy Name will I remember, praising it,
Though Thou forget me, though Thou hide Thy face,
And blot me from the Book which Thou hast writ;
Thy Name will I remember in my praise
And call to mind Thy
faithfulness
of old,
Though as a weaver Thou cut off my days,
And end me as a tale ends that is told.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
And thus from year to year, through hope and fear,
With many a curse and many a secret tear,
Striving
in vain his cloud of debt to clear,
At last
He woke to find his foolish dreaming past,
And all his best-of-life the easy prey
Of squandering scamps and quacks that lined his way
With vile array,
From rascal statesman down to petty knave;
Himself, at best, for all his bragging brave,
A gamester's catspaw and a banker's slave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Rude representations of
warriors
show the boar on the helmet
quite as large as the helmet itself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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And strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot
Some could articulate, while others not:
And
suddenly
one more impatient cried--
"Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
Bellerephon was the first to ride Pegasus when he
attacked
the Chimaera.
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Appoloinaire |
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As ouphant faieries, whan the moone sheenes bryghte, 475
In littel circles daunce upon the greene,
All living creatures flie far from their syghte,
Ne by the race of destinie be seen;
For what he be that ouphant
faieries
stryke,
Their soules will wander to Kyng Offa's dyke.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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<>,
rispuose
lui, <
virtu del ciel mi mosse, e con lei vegno.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Each sundown makes them mournful, each sunrise
Brings back the
brightness
in their failing eyes.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The day, that to the shades the father sends,
Robs the sad orphan of his father's friends:
He, wretched outcast of
mankind!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Likewise, thou canst ne'er
Believe the sacred seats of gods are here
In any regions of this mundane world;
Indeed, the nature of the gods, so subtle,
So far removed from these our senses, scarce
Is seen even by
intelligence
of mind.
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Lucretius |
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Her lover sinks--she sheds no ill-timed tear;
Her chief is slain--she fills his fatal post;
Her fellows flee--she checks their base career;
The foe retires--she heads the
sallying
host:
Who can appease like her a lover's ghost?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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At once she pitch'd headlong into the bilge
Like a sea-coot, whence heaving her again, 580
The seamen gave her to be fishes' food,
And I
survived
to mourn her.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed:
But
wherefore
says she not she is unjust?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Wild strain of Scalds, that in the sea-worn caves
Rehearsed
their war-spell to the winds and waves;
Or fateful hymn of those prophetic maids,
That call'd on Hertha in deep forest glades;
Or minstrel lay, that cheer'd the baron's feast;
Or rhyme of city pomp, of monk and priest,
Judge, mayor, and many a guild in long array,
To high-church pacing on the great saint's day.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Stopford Brooke, "at the foot of the Galtees, and bordered
to the north by the wild country, the scenery of which is frequently
painted in the _Faerie Queene_ and in whose woods and savage places such
adventures
constantly
took place in the service of Elizabeth as are
recorded in the _Faerie Queene_, the first three books of that great poem
were finished.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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EJC}
Then I am dead till thou revivest me with thy sweet song
Now taking on Ahanias form & now the form of Enion
I know thee not as once I knew thee in those blessed fields
Where memory wishes to repose among the flocks of Tharmas
Enitharmon answerd Wherefore didst thou throw thine arms around
Ahanias Image I decievd thee & will still decieve
Urizen saw thy sin & hid his beams in darkning Clouds
I still keep watch altho I tremble & wither across the heavens
In strong vibrations of fierce jealousy for thou art mine
Created for my will my slave tho strong tho I am weak {This line appears to have been inserted between 2
existing
lines.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Fair Burnet strikes th' adoring eye,
Heaven's
beauties
on my fancy shine;
I see the Sire of Love on high,
And own His work indeed divine!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Where she (my Pinnace now) in times before, 10
Was leafy woodling on
Cytorean
Chine
For ever loquent lisping with her leaves.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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- All this transformation
once
barbarous
and
material
external -
now
moral
and within
21.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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She
prefaced
half a hint of this
With, "God forbid it should be true!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that
drenches
itself in the sea,
O nights, or the abandoned light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of the East,
Who gave all his
children
a feast;
But they all ate so much, and their conduct was such,
That it killed that Old Man of the East.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Despite the anguish of this sad affair,
When Chimene
Rodrigue
has secured
All my hopes are dead, my spirit cured.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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