This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing
To waft me from distraction; once I loved
Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring
Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved,
That I with stern
delights
should e'er have been so moved.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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40
Thus warned he sought some shepherd's
spreading
thorn
Or hovel from the storm to shield his head,
But sought in vain; for now, all wild, forlorn,
And vacant, a huge waste around him spread;
The wet cold ground, he feared, must be his only bed.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Seize vpon Fife; giue to th' edge o'th' Sword
His Wife, his Babes, and all
vnfortunate
Soules
That trace him in his Line.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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That poor retention could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
Therefore to give them from me was I bold,
To trust those tables that receive thee more:
To keep an adjunct to remember thee
Were to import
forgetfulness
in me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Ye see that I have not
Wherewith
to guard him, O angels, divine ones That pass us a-flying,
Sith sleepeth my child here Stay ye the branches.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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CHORUS: Thy son is rather slaying them; that outcry
From
slaughter
of one foe could not ascend.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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VIII
Merry and bold is now that Emperour,
Cordres he holds, the walls are tumbled down,
His catapults have
battered
town and tow'r.
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Chanson de Roland |
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let not the
offended
muse
Toil's hard hap with scorn accuse.
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Emerson - Poems |
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8, 9, for a
reference
to hawking.
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Beowulf |
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Come, read to me some poem,
Some simple and heartfelt lay,
That shall soothe this restless feeling,
And banish the
thoughts
of day.
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Poe - 5 |
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Le Testament: Rondeau
Death, I cry out at your harshness,
That stole my girl away from me,
Yet you're not
satisfied
I see
Until I languish in distress.
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Villon |
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Worth our watch, dull and sterile,
Worth all the weary time--
Worth the woe and the peril,
To stand in that strait
sublime!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Nor with such rapture e'er joyed his mate of snowy-hued plumage 125
Dove-mate, albeit aye wont in her
immoderate
heat
Said be the bird to snatch hot kisses with beak ever billing,
As diddest thou:--yet is Woman multivolent still.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Sometimes these
cogitations
still amaze
The troubled midnight and the noon's repose.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Nay, that were treasure-trove,
A friend to share, not
faltering
from love,
Fair days and foul the same.
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Euripides - Electra |
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For in a people pledged to idleness,
Like swollen tumour in diseased flesh,
Ambition is
engendered
readily.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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This poem of fin'amor, perfect or true love, is one of the more
comprehensive
statements of the troubadour ideal.
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Troubador Verse |
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Not without wound
(So I make out, at least, thy
hurrying
words)
Comest thou back to us from conquering.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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inviolate to kings);
By this I swear:--when
bleeding
Greece again
Shall call Achilles, she shall call in vain.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Cousin Nancy
Miss Nancy
Ellicott
Strode across the hills and broke them,
Rode across the hills and broke them--
The barren New England hills--
Riding to hounds
Over the cow-pasture.
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T.S. Eliot |
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"
Now we are of late years beginning to
understand
much better what a
Satyr-play was.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Methought it was but added pain on pain
If thou
shouldst
leave me, and roam forth again
Seeking another's roof.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Thou art the grave where buried love doth live,
Hung with the
trophies
of my lovers gone,
Who all their parts of me to thee did give,
That due of many now is thine alone:
Their images I lov'd, I view in thee,
And thou--all they--hast all the all of me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The eternal gates terrific porter lifted the northern bar:
Thel enter'd in & saw the secrets of the land unknown;
She saw the couches of the dead, & where the fibrous roots
Of every heart on earth infixes deep its
restless
twists:
A land of sorrows & of tears where never smile was seen.
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blake-poems |
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It is to tenfold life, to love, to peace, and
raptures
holy:
Unseen descending, weigh my light wings upon balmy flowers:
And court the fair eyed dew, to take me to her shining tent
The weeping virgin, trembling kneels before the risen sun.
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blake-poems |
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The emperor was
furious at the
lightness
of the punishment.
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| Question: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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El mi parea da se stesso rimorso:
o
dignitosa
coscienza e netta,
come t'e picciol fallo amaro morso!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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" and I knew them
For souls of the felled
On the earth's nether bord
Under Capricorn, whither they'd warred,
And I neared in my awe, and gave heedfulness to them
With
breathings
inheld.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Es-tu le fruit d'automne aux saveurs
souveraines?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Polypheme's white tooth
Slips on the nut if, after
frequent
showers,
The shell is over-smooth,--and not so much
Will turn the thing called love, aside to hate
Or else to oblivion.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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THE TIGER
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forest of the night,
What
immortal
hand or eye
Could Frame thy fearful symmetry?
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blake-poems |
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an,
Of
cuntrees
fer & wyde; 504
(43)
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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This shall my love do, give thy sad death one
Tear, that
deserves
of me a million.
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Robert Herrick |
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Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
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Ronsard |
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LES
ETRENNES
DES ORPHELlNS
I
La chambre est pleine d'ombre; on entend vaguement
De deux enfants le triste et doux chuchotement.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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"
The intense energy of their expression is not surpassed by
anything
in
Byron.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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_("Qu'est-ce que
Sigismond
et Ladislas ont dit.
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Hugo - Poems |
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We had a long and merry chat with the family this
Sunday evening in their
spacious
kitchen.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Thus, the
tragic poets of the age of Pericles; the Italian
revivers
of ancient
learning; those mighty intellects of our own country that succeeded
the Reformation, the translators of the Bible, Shakespeare, Spenser,
the Dramatists of the reign of Elizabeth, and Lord Bacon (Milton
stands alone in the age which he illumined.
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Shelley |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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In all her letters,
written in exquisite English prose, but with an ardent imagery
and a vehement sincerity of emotion which make them, like the
poems, indeed almost more directly, un-English, Oriental, there
was always this intellectual, critical sense of humour, which
could laugh at one's own
enthusiasm
as frankly as that enthusiasm
had been set down.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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In discourse more sweet
(For
Eloquence
the Soul, Song charms the Sense,)
Others apart sat on a Hill retir'd,
In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high
Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate,
Fixt Fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, 560
And found no end, in wandring mazes lost.
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Milton |
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And thus we rust Life's iron chain
Degraded
and alone:
And some men curse, and some men weep,
And some men make no moan:
But God's eternal Laws are kind
And break the heart of stone.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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What last curse to sate
My pain, or river of wild words to flow
Bank-high
between?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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With shaded eyes your vision follows
The gentle swans'
receding
train.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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CX
Now
marvellous
and weighty the combat,
Right well they strike, Olivier and Rollant,
A thousand blows come from the Archbishop's hand,
The dozen peers are nothing short of that,
With one accord join battle all the Franks.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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E perche tu non creda ch'io t'inganni,
odi s'i' fui, com' io ti dico, folle,
gia
discendendo
l'arco d'i miei anni.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these
floating
animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Went up a year this
evening!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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81), ladies even went so far in this fad as to patch on one side of the
face or the other,
according
to their politics.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Artistes et ecrivains allaient se dire
bonjour sans quitter leur costume d'interieur et flanaient en neglige
sur le quai Bourbon et sur le quai d'Anjou, si
parfaitement
deserts que
c'etait une joie d'y regarder couler l'eau et d'y boire la lumiere.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Fine, natural verse, and good, I say,
To him who can clearly
understand
it,
If he hopes for joy, the better the fit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Let but the brave old saw and my aunt, the serpent, guide thee,
And, with thy
likeness
to God, shall woe one day betide thee!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Meredith - Poems |
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No sweeter a
daughter
anywhere,
By as much as the weather's stormy,
Through Adam's lineage went straying.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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[Aside] Great men,
That had a court no bigger than this cave,
That did attend themselves, and had the virtue
Which their own conscience seal'd them, laying by
That nothing-gift of
differing
multitudes,
Could not out-peer these twain.
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Shakespeare |
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Suicide, he had persuaded
himself, would be a ludicrous insult to the gravity of the
situation
as
well as a weak-kneed confession of fear.
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Kipling - Poems |
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ye old
mesmerizer
!
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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They should not be
affrighted
or deterred in their entry, but
drawn on with exercise and emulation.
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The grasshopper, from out his sandy screen,
Watching them pass
redoubles
his shrill song;
Dian, who loves them, makes the grass more green,
And makes the rock run water for this throng
Of ever-wandering ones whose calm eyes see
Familiar realms of darkness yet to be.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Pray, dost thou know
Victorian?
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| Question: |
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Longfellow |
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But
many manere errours
misto{ur}ni?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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She
sometimes
hits on a couplet or two, _impromptu.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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However, _hope_ is the cordial of the
human heart, and I
endeavour
to cherish it as well as I can.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
THE KING OF ARGOS
To whom of our guest-champions hast
appealed?
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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_
O stay, sweet
warbling
woodlark, stay!
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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s self-blame, 8
shedding
tears I gaze toward the blue wisps of cloud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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It
cost, in 1710, from twelve to twenty-eight
shillings
per pound.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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| Question: |
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Tennyson |
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during my night
I, having become lusty,
wandered
about
in the midst of omens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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This lovely maid's of royal blood
That ruled Albion's
kingdoms
three,
But oh, alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Women's Voices
Queen of the gourd-flower, queen of the harvest,
Sweet and
omnipotent
mother, O Earth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I
wondered
at you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Thou seest
Dispersedly
the people are returning.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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A similar criticism might be made of their liberty in
neglecting
Goethe's
method of alternating different measures with each other.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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He, as my guest, is my peculiar care:
You share the pleasure, then in bounty share
To worth in misery a reverence pay,
And with a
generous
hand reward his stay;
For since kind heaven with wealth our realm has bless'd,
Give it to heaven by aiding the distress'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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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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WINDFAHNE
(nach der andern Seite):
Und tut sich nicht der Boden auf,
Sie alle zu verschlingen,
So will ich mit behendem Lauf
Gleich in die Holle springen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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der Kerl ist
vogelfrei!
| Guess: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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--
Be welcome,
strangers
both, and pass below
My lintel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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In that dread pause he lay
As in a quiet dream--the slaves obey--
A thousand torches drop,--and hark, the last
Bursts on that awful silence; far away, _4510
Millions, with hearts that beat both loud and fast,
Watch for the springing flame
expectant
and aghast.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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ADMETUS (_his
composure
a little shaken_).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful
symmetry?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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) Ye know
How Divine Providence saved the tsarevich
From out the murderer's hands; he went to punish
His murderer, but God's
judgment
hath already
Struck down Boris.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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]
THETIS CALLING BRIAREUS TO THE
ASSISTANCE
OF JUPITER.
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Iliad - Pope |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Then they're so innocent of vice,
So full of piety, correct,
So prudent, and so circumspect
Stately, devoid of prejudice,
So
inaccessible
to men,
Their looks alone produce the spleen.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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With him rest peaceful in the rural cell,
And all you ask his
faithful
tongue shall tell.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The mother said
gently, "Is that you,
darling?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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at may
gone by
nat{ur}el
office of feet.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Son looks
surprised
to see me end a lie
We'd kept up all these years between ourselves
So as to have it ready for outsiders.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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MELIBOEUS
But we far hence, to burning Libya some,
Some to the Scythian steppes, or thy swift flood,
Cretan Oaxes, now must wend our way,
Or Britain, from the whole world
sundered
far.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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By the
stars I swear, by the
heavenly
powers and all that is sacred beneath the
earth, unwillingly, O queen, I left thy shore.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The
onlookers
exclaimed,
and the host was visibly disturbed.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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A PEASANT,
_husband
of Electra_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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