You descend from them, you are my issue;
Your first sword-thrust
equalled
mine too;
And with fine ardour your lively youth
Attains my fame with this single proof.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Why but to awe,
Why but to keep ye low and ignorant,
His worshippers; he knows that in the day
Ye Eate thereof, your Eyes that seem so cleere,
Yet are but dim, shall
perfetly
be then
Op'nd and cleerd, and ye shall be as Gods,
Knowing both Good and Evil as they know.
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Milton |
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Condensed
mythological references abound.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Then we said,
"Our feast, too, shall soon be spread,
Of good
Thanksgiving
turkey.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The effect of
a page of her more recent manuscript is
exceedingly
quaint and
strong.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The five acres of land that lay about the
house furnished Pope with inexhaustible
entertainment
for the rest of
his life.
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Alexander Pope |
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand
fruitful
poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's sensitive conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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s Altar, by legend
constructed
by Duke Wen of Qin, was a mound that marked Fuzhou, where Du Fu?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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I never knew
anything
so
un-English in my life.
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Kipling - Poems |
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travelling
along even to its destind end
Then falling down.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Tired with kisses sweet,
They agree to meet
When the silent sleep
Waves o'er heaven's deep,
And the weary tired
wanderers
weep.
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blake-poems |
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Highbury
bore me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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org
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
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Lewis Carroll |
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Blest a hundredfold
The tie of sword and lyre; the
selfsame
laurel
Binds them in friendship.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Where
breathes
the foe but falls before us?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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A wyfe he had, she hyght a gales,
An holey woman
withowten
lees; 20
She louyd god with all her myght,
And seruyd hym bothe daye and nyght;
She was of gode wyll, and hart Free
To all ?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I
know the emperor, and have some
influence
with him.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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_ It did not sound sad to Keats at first, but as it
dies away it takes colour from his own melancholy and sounds
pathetic
to
him.
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Keats |
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Haply this humble boast
May win me in her fair esteem a place;
For sure the end and aim
Of all my tears, my sorrowing heart's sole claim,
Were the soft trembling of relenting eyes,
The
generous
lover's last, best, dearest prize.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the
copyright
holder, your use and distribution
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"I have been
wondering
frequently of late
(But our beginnings never know our ends!
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T.S. Eliot |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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It was as if a
chirping
brook
Upon a toilsome way
Set bleeding feet to minuets
Without the knowing why.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Then she
questioned
him:--
"Had he been long here, and where from?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Now, therefore, let him sit
And brave the imminent doom, and fix his faith
On his supernal noises, hurtling on
With restless hand the bolt that breathes out fire;
For these things shall not help him, none of them,
Nor hinder his perdition when he falls
To shame, and lower than patience: such a foe
He doth himself prepare against himself,
A wonder of unconquerable hate,
An
organizer
of sublimer fire
Than glares in lightnings, and of grander sound
Than aught the thunder rolls, out-thundering it,
With power to shatter in Poseidon's fist
The trident-spear which, while it plagues the sea,
Doth shake the shores around it.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Then he
bethought
him
To take from us our privilege of hiring
Our serfs at will; we are no longer masters
Of our own lands.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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So will I build my altar in the fields,
And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be,
And the sweet
fragrance
that the wild flower yields
Shall be the incense I will yield to Thee,
Thee only God!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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--
The frost-king ties my fumbling feet,
Sings in my ears, my hands are stones,
Curdles the blood to the marble bones,
Tugs at the heart-strings, numbs the sense,
And hems in life with
narrowing
fence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
On one occasion, while
playing with the Duke of Orleans, she lost an
enormous
sum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Ah, YOU to our childhood the legend told,
"At the end of the rainbow lies the gold,"
And now in our
thrilling
hearts we hold
The gold that never will pass away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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A JEST
CONCERNING
CALVUS.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Serpent, we might have spar'd our coming hither,
Fruitless
to me, though Fruit be here to excess,
The credit of whose vertue rest with thee,
Wondrous indeed, if cause of such effects.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Note: Ixion tried to seduce Juno, but Jupiter
substituted
a cloud for her person.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Therefore, we usually do NOT keep any
of these books in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The task of
restoring
the Capitol[377] was entrusted to Lucius 53
Vestinus, who, though only a knight, yet in reputation and influence
could rank with the highest.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Mine arms enfold
That, which unswayed by me grew up and bloomed
To other worlds:
Mine own, and yet so
infinitely
far.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Black day he chose for planting thee,
Accurst he rear'd thee from the ground,
The bane of
children
yet to be,
The scandal of the village round.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And now, as the night was senescent,
And star-dials pointed to morn--
As the star-dials hinted of morn--
At the end of our path a liquescent
And nebulous lustre was born,
Out of which a miraculous crescent
Arose with a
duplicate
horn--
Astarte's bediamonded crescent,
Distinct with its duplicate horn.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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LVIII
He chose for his
companions
in the fight
The faithful Brandimart and Olivier:
Well has he proved the one and the other's might;
Knows he alike to both is passing dear.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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To think just how the fire will burn,
Just how long-cheated eyes will turn
To wonder what myself will say,
And what itself will say to me,
Beguiles the
centuries
of way!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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An
engraving
of it may be seen in
Onseley's Oriental Collections, and another will be found in Sir G.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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That's why I'll never have a child,
Never shut up a
chrysalis
in a match-box
For the moth to spoil and crush its bright colours,
Beating its wings against the dingy prison-wall.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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'
Thus frantic, crazy man, God wot,
I'll call to mind things half-forgot;
And oft between
Repeat the times that I have seen;
Thus ripe with tears,
And
twisting
my Iulus' hairs,
Doting, I'll weep and say, 'In truth,
Baucis, these were my sins of youth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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In
unhonoured
darkness,
Far from gods, we fare,
Lit unto our task with torch of sunless regions,
And o'er a deadly way--
Deadly to the living as to those who see not
Life and light of day--
Hunt we and press onward.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Cool upon his brow
The quiet
darkness
brooded, as he scanned
The starry sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it
Since what is kept must be
adulterated?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Yes, just to see how
horrible
they are.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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They sent to the
designer
an insipid German chromo-lithograph, full
of faces without expression or dignity, and gestures without personal
distinction, and the designer, too anxious for success to reject any
order, has carried out this ignoble design in glass of beautiful
colour and quality.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Is your sole virtue committing
outrage?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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We bring thee our thanks and our
garlands
for tribute,
The wealth of our valleys, new-garnered and ripe;
O sender of rain and the dewfall, we hail thee,
We praise thee, Varuna, with cymbal and pipe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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So he brought the cows home at evening, and every one
wondered
at all
the milk they gave that night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Go hence, and with this parting kiss,
Which joins two souls, remember this:
Though thou be'st young, kind, soft, and fair
And may'st draw thousands with a hair;
Yet let these glib
temptations
be
Furies to others, friends to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Marks,
notations
and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Where Anna sits, so well content to look
On her lov'd daughter, that with
moveless
eye
She chants the loud hosanna: while, oppos'd
To the first father of your mortal kind,
Is Lucia, at whose hest thy lady sped,
When on the edge of ruin clos'd thine eye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
In Italy in Arms he is the true acolyte of Beauty,
worshipping
and tending at her immemorial shrine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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As love and duty shall drive you on,
Live, and don't allow that child of a Scythian, 210
Crushing your children in
despised
embrace,
To command the gods' and Greece's noblest race.
| Guess: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And Johnny burrs, and laughs aloud;
Whether in cunning or in joy
I cannot tell; but while he laughs,
Betty a drunken
pleasure
quaffs 380
To hear again her Idiot Boy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee,
Wisdome makes him an Arke where all agree;
The foole, in whom these beasts do live at jarre,
Is sport to others, and a Theater;
Nor scapes hee so, but is himselfe their prey, 5
All which was man in him, is eate away,
And now his beasts on one another feed,
Yet couple'in anger, and new
monsters
breed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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sadol searwum fāh (_saddle
cunningly
ornamented_), 1039;
earmbēaga fela, searwum ge-sǣled (_many cunningly-linked armlets_),
2765.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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' But when one reads Blake, it is as though the spray
of an inexhaustible fountain of beauty was blown into our faces, and
not merely when one reads the _Songs of Innocence_, or the lyrics he
wished to call 'The Ideas of Good and Evil,' but when one reads those
'Prophetic Works' in which he spoke
confusedly
and obscurely because
he spoke of things for whose speaking he could find no models in the
world about him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
XXXI
Bold
Brandimart
designed upon the day
Of battle, for his royal father's sake,
And his own honour, no device more gay
Than a dim surcoat to the field to take.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The soul sees through the senses, imagines, hears,
Has from the body's powers its acts and looks:
The spirit once
embodied
has wit, makes books,
Matter makes it more perfect and more fair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Whan
Pandarus
saw tyme un-to his tale,
And saw wel that hir folk were alle aweye,
`Now, nece myn, tel on,' quod he; `I seye, 1195
How liketh yow the lettre that ye woot?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
A chaplain of Cortes, writing about thirty years
after the conquest of Mexico, in an age of
printing
presses,
libraries, universities, scholars, logicians, jurists, and
statesmen, had the face to assert that, in one engagement against
the Indians, St.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Our teachers teach that one and one make two:
Later, Love rules that one and one make one:
Abstruse the
problems!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
We know not when
Death or
disaster
comes,
Mightier than battle-drums
To summon us away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
"For Annie" was first
published
in the "Flag of our Union," in the
spring of 1849.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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"Wee all must die," quod brave Syr CHARLES; 105
"Whatte bootes ytte howe or whenne;
Dethe ys the sure, the
certaine
fate
Of all wee mortall menne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Reeds in a trice are sprouting and rustling in
murmuring
breezes:
"Midas, o Midas the King--bears the ears of an ass!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Nothing is sure for me but what's uncertain:
Obscure,
whatever
is plainly clear to see:
I've no doubt, except of everything certain:
Science is what happens accidentally:
I win it all, yet a loser I'm bound to be:
Saying: 'God give you good even!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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"
Answering
not, mine eyes I rais'd,
And saw her, where aloof she sat, her brow
A wreath reflecting of eternal beams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"Joy touch'd my secret soul and
conscious
heart,
Pleased with the effect of conduct and of art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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The jew is
underneath
the lot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Oh, airth's sweet cup
snetched
from us barely tasted,
The grave's real chill is feelin' life wuz wasted!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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What is this, that rises like the issue of a King,
And weares vpon his Baby-brow, the round
And top of
Soueraignty?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
[59] In the mouths of the two heroes,
however, these words mean exactly
opposite
things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
The State-house
glittered
on old Beacon Hill,
Gold in the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Come del suo voler li angeli tuoi
fan
sacrificio
a te, cantando osanna,
cosi facciano li uomini de' suoi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
AT NIGHT
WE are apart; the city grows quiet between us,
She hushes herself, for midnight makes heavy her eyes,
The tangle of traffic is ended, the cars are empty,
Five streets divide us, and on them the
moonlight
lies.
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And still, perhaps, with
faithless
gleam,
Some other loiterer beguiling.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The hunter lo'es the morning sun,
To rouse the
mountain
deer, my jo;
At noon the fisher seeks the glen,
Alang the burn to steer, my jo;
Gie me the hour o' gloamin gray,
It maks my heart sae cheery, O,
To meet thee on the lea-ring,
My ain kind dearie O!
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in a
Prospect
of Flowers 78
Digitized by VjOOQIC
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Marvell - Poems |
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Welcome back, you little nations,
Far-travelled in the south plantations;
Bring your music and rhythmic flight,
Your colors for our eyes' delight:
Freely nestle in our roof,
Weave your chamber weatherproof;
And your
enchanting
manners bring
And your autumnal gathering.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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LVI _AD
CATONEM_
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Latin - Catullus |
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Keats |
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In 1807, Wordsworth wrote to Sir George:
"I am quite
delighted
to hear of your picture for 'Peter Bell' .
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William Wordsworth |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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If we imagine no worse of them than they of themselves,
they may pass for
excellent
men.
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Shakespeare |
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Gives too soon
Into weak hands, what's thought can be dispensed with
Till the refusal
propagates
a fear.
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T.S. Eliot |
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And now 'tis done: more durable than brass
My
monument
shall be, and raise its head
O'er royal pyramids: it shall not dread
Corroding rain or angry Boreas,
Nor the long lapse of immemorial time.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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No word from over the starry line,
No motion felt in the dark,
And never a day gives ever a sign
Or a dream sets seal with
palpable
mark.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Hyde's, which was
performed
in Sligo
Convent a few months ago, that holy vision of the central story of the
world, as it is seen through the minds and the traditions of the poor,
the constables might upset the cradle.
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Yeats |
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[43] Text has
erroneous
form.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"
The great earth-shaker thus: to whom replies
The imperial goddess with the radiant eyes:
"Good as he is, to
immolate
or spare
The Dardan prince, O Neptune!
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Iliad - Pope |
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