III
O distant,
terrible
forests of Maine,
With huge trees numberless as the rain
That falls on your lonely lakes!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love
And these black bodies and this
sunburnt
face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
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blake-poems |
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With futile hands we seek to gain
Our inaccessible desire,
Diviner summits to attain,
With faith that sinks and feet that tire;
But nought shall conquer or control
The
heavenward
hunger of our soul.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The
footsteps
of people on the pavement sounded, as they grew
indistinct in the distance, like a many-times-repeated kiss that was
all one long kiss.
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Kipling - Poems |
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For ever left alone am I,
Then
wherefore
should I fear to die?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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les colliers tinteront
cherront
les masques
Va-t'en va-t'en contre le feu l'ombre prevaut
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Then inland just where the small meadow begins,
Well
bulwarked
with boulders that jut in the tide,
Lies safe beyond storm-beat the harbour in sun.
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Sappho |
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Then keep your heart for men like me
And safe from
trustless
chaps.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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the US Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) organization with EIN
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Mine eyes were dim with tears unshed;
Yes, I was firm--thus wert not thou;--
My baffled looks did fear yet dread
To meet thy looks--I could not know
How anxiously they sought to shine _5
With
soothing
pity upon mine.
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Shelley |
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In the amplitude of her joy, the Moon filled all your chamber as with a
phosphorescent air, a luminous poison; and all this living radiance
thought and said: "You shall be for ever under the
influence
of my kiss.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The softest dreams, the
sweetest
rest,
The brightest sun, the bluest sky,
Are love's own home and canopy.
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John Clare |
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So owned and enjoyed it
after
downfall
of devils, the Danish lord,
wonder-smiths' work, since the world was rid
of that grim-souled fiend, the foe of God,
murder-marked, and his mother as well.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The
prehistoric
Sumerian dynasties were all transformed into the realm
of myth and legend.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Like a fair house built on another man's ground; so
that I have lost my edifice by
mistaking
the place where
erected it.
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Shakespeare |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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Compare Coleridge's
description
of Christabel's
room: _Christabel_, i.
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Keats |
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"Only be no atheist,
Like a non-bear who respects not
His great Maker--Yes, a Maker
Hath this
universe
created.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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So doth the greater glory dim the less:
A
substitute
shines brightly as a king
Until a king be by, and then his state
Empties itself, as doth an inland brook
Into the main of waters.
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Shakespeare |
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_]
The maples, shedding their spinning seeds,
Called to his appleseeds in the ground,
Vast chestnut-trees, with their
butterfly
nations,
Called to his seeds without a sound.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the
gashouse
190
Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
And on the king my father's death before him.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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_The Poet's Death_
The world is taking little heed
And plods from day to day:
The vulgar
flourish
like a weed,
The learned pass away.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The first word that he
uttered was, "Where is the
govenour
of this gang?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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There is a city Canopus, last of the land,
By Nile's very mouth and bank;
There at length Zeus makes thee sane,
Stroking with gentle hand, and
touching
only.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Some
travelers
tell us that an
Indian had no name given him at first, but earned it, and his name was
his fame; and among some tribes he acquired a new name with every new
exploit.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Any one could have told him that
Sappers and Gunners are
perfectly
different branches of the Service.
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Kipling - Poems |
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But how do the
Corinthians
concern me?
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Aristophanes |
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I heare a
knocking
at the South entry:
Retyre we to our Chamber:
A little Water cleares vs of this deed.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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If I these
thoughts
may not prevent,
If such be of my creed the plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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When he was young he little knew
Of
husbandry
or tillage;
And now he's forced to work, though weak,
--The weakest in the village.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Though they sleep or wake to torment
and wish to
displace
our old cells--
thin rare gold--
that their larve grow fat--
is our task the less sweet?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Have the high gods deigned to show thee 5
Destiny, and disillusion
Fills thy heart at all things human,
Fleeting
and desired?
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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This first phase in Rilke's work may be
defined as the phase of
reposeful
nature.
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Rilke - Poems |
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So judge thou still, presumptuous, till the wrauth,
Which thou incurr'st by flying, meet thy flight
Seavenfold, and scourge that wisdom back to Hell,
Which taught thee yet no better, that no pain
Can equal anger
infinite
provok't.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Always
eavesdropping
on gentlemen!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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how can one
deliberately
renounce
this coloured, unquiet, fiery human life of
the earth?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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--
So prays the loyal,
solitary
band
That guards the Apian land.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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'
To him the footman does his embassy;
But he, who knightly worth or courteous lore
Had never known, directs his whole intent
The count by
treacherous
fraud to circumvent.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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MOLLY MAGUIRE AT MONMOUTH
WILLIAM COLLINS
[Sidenote: June 28, 1778]
_The battle of
Monmouth
was indecisive, but the Americans held
the field, and the British retreated and remained inactive for the
rest of the summer.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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9, 77 II 13;
_uttakkalu_
< _uttakkaru_, Ebeling, KTA.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I called myself Dimitry, and deceived
The
brainless
Poles.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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'Happy at
conquering
these treacherous fears
My crime's to have parted the dishevelled tangle
Of kisses that the gods kept so well mingled:
For I'd scarcely begun to hide an ardent laugh
In one girl's happy depths (holding back
With only a finger, so that her feathery candour
Might be tinted by the passion of her burning sister,
The little one, naive and not even blushing)
Than from my arms, undone by vague dying,
This prey, forever ungrateful, frees itself and is gone,
Not pitying the sob with which I was still drunk.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Ye,
liberated
lands, we hail!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last
glimmers
of day
A face like all the forgotten faces.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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A father
mother surviving him
in sad existence
like two
extremes
-
ill fused in him
that are parted
-hence his death -
cancelling this small
child's 'self'
2.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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This grove to thee devote I give,
Priapus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Cromwell
returned
from Ireland in 1650.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
ise four
passiou{n}s
ouer come ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Had Lycius liv'd to hand his story down,
He might have given the moral a fresh frown,
Or clench'd it quite: but too short was their bliss
To breed
distrust
and hate, that make the soft voice hiss.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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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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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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how my spirit would rejoice,
And leap within me at the cry)
The battle-cry of
Victory!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Do not let it serve some impious
purpose!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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750
>>
Son
contenement
et son estre.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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In cursed tyme I born was,
weylaway!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Question your Grace the late ambassadors
With what great state he heard their embassy,
How well supplied with noble counsellors,
How modest in exception, and withal
How terrible in constant resolution,
And you shall find his vanities forespent
Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
Covering
discretion with a coat of folly;
As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots
That shall first spring and be most delicate.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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That may be,
But
something
of politeness would go with them;
We should lose something of the stately manners
Of the old school.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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She lived to
be a woman, and to marry one John Bishop,
overseer
at Polkemmet, where
she died in 1817.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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-- Now haste is best,
that we go to gaze on our Geatish lord,
and bear the
bountiful
breaker-of-rings
to the funeral pyre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Far off winter was driven;
fair lay earth's breast; and fain was the rover,
the guest, to depart, though more gladly he pondered
on wreaking his vengeance than roaming the deep,
and how to hasten the hot encounter
where sons of the
Frisians
were sure to be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Nor was I hungry; so I found
That hunger was a way
Of persons outside windows,
The
entering
takes away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Say 'twas Ulysses: 'twas his deed declare,
Laertes' son, of Ithaca the fair;
Ulysses, far in
fighting
fields renown'd,
Before whose arm Troy tumbled to the ground.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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e
co{n}tre
of siriens wi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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When even there, where most thou
praisest
me,
For writing better, I must envy thee.
| 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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" Or there 's no
Purgatory
for the dead ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could
scarcely
cry "Weep!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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In storms by sea, in perils on the shore;
Forget whatever was in Fortune's power,
And share the
pleasures
of this genial hour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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No help, nor hope, nor view had I, nor person to
befriend
me, O;
So I must toil, and sweat, and moil, and labour to sustain me, O;
To plough and sow, to reap and mow, my father bred me early, O;
For one, he said, to labour bred, was a match for Fortune fairly, O.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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See them,
sounding
the flood that floats them on,
Moving their sides like human forms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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L'irreparable ronge avec sa dent
maudite!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Do you hope to see it
In one of your
withered
days?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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non opulens nec egens, parcus sine
sordibus
egi:
uictum habitum mores semper inempta habui.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The holy man a knotted
cincture
wore;
But, 'neath his garb:--heart-rotten to the core.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her
distress!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Then I'd like to be a bull, white as snow,
Transforming myself, for carrying her,
In April, when, through meadows so tender,
A flower, through a
thousand
flowers, she goes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Most of the
conjurers
pretended to be able to recover stolen
treasure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The
prehistoric
Sumerian dynasties were all transformed into the realm
of myth and legend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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He's sworn thereby, the Spanish Sarazand,
In the
rereward
if he shall find Rollant,
Battle to himself and all his band,
And verily he'll slay him if he can.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Why should false
painting
imitate his cheek,
And steel dead seeming of his living hue?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Oh, swift as light they speed, The first light into
darkness
hurled, Each to his work, above, below,
The sons of God that make the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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I give thee back thy false, ephemeral vow;
But, O beloved comrade, ere we part,
Upon my
mournful
eyelids and my brow
Kiss me who hold thine image in my heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
And as he walked he looked from side to side
To find some
pleasant
nook for his repast,
Since appetite was come to munch at last
The princely morsel!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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the only sound,
The
dripping
of the oar suspended!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
It is a
perilous
tale!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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One of the
principal
agents in this planting, the red
squirrels, were all the while curiously inspecting me, while I was
inspecting their plantation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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LXXVIII
Once in the shining street,
In the heart of a
seaboard
town,
As I waited, behold, there came
The woman I loved.
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Sappho |
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Could they be
ensnared
when
taken?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Just the laws which bid
The fatal bullet penetrate,
Or
innocently
past me fly.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The practice is
said to date from 1702, when an English admiral brought back fifty tons
of snuff found on board some Spanish ships which he had
captured
in Vigo
Bay.
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Alexander Pope |
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1340
Should I in making a
statement
all too sincere,
Cover with shameful blushes the brow of a father?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"
The poems of Sappho so
mysteriously
lost to us seem to have consisted of at
least nine books of odes, together with _epithalamia_, epigrams,
elegies, and monodies.
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Sappho |
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Who else would be willing in such
troubled
times to show his good heart so openly?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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To Be,
contents
his natural desire,
He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; 110
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,
His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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That was the last hail-storm to trouble spring:
He came in gloomy haste,
Pusht in front of the white clouds quietly basking,
In such a hurry he tript against the hills
And stumbling forward spilt over his shoulders
All his black baggage held,
Streaking
downpour
of hail.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Regarded
as god of light, 157,
1 ff.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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It would be difficult
By JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
Love and
Liberation
$1.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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