The passion of love had fallen from the high
estate it once possessed and become the mere
relaxation
of the idle
moments of a man of fashion.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
"I don't see
anything
very striking in the fact that a woman of eighty
refuses to gamble," objected Naroumov.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Revenge induced her ev'ry thing to tell,
Though she were
implicated
with the belle.
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La Fontaine |
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The gilded youth flocked around him,
neglecting
society, preferring the
charms of faro to those of their sweethearts.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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and my fears
Draw swiftly o'er mine eyes a mist fulfilled of tears,
When I behold thy frame
Bound, wasting on the rock, and put to shame
By
adamantine
chains!
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Aeschylus |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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They look in every
thoughtless
nest
Where birds are covered warm;
They visit caves of every beast,
To keep them all from harm:
If they see any weeping
That should have been sleeping,
They pour sleep on their head,
And sit down by their bed.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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At the very least it has enriched the thought of humanity with
some
imperishable
lines.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For Love doth use us for a sound of song,
And Love's meaning our life wields,
Making our souls like
syllables
to throng
His tunes of exultation.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Can you not let them rest, those sacred ghosts
Of our dead selves—yes, yours and mine and theirs Who knew not life, yet wept its utmost cares And laughed more joys than all
creation
boasts?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Luxurious here, Ulcinda's harvests smile,
And here, disdainful of the seaman's toil,
The whirling tides of Jaquet furious roar;
Alike their rage when swelling to the shore,
Or, tumbling backward to the deep, they force
The boiling fury of their gulfy course:
Against their headlong rage nor oars nor sails,
The
stemming
prow alone, hard toil'd, prevails.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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LX
Next much more affable, with
courteous
lore
Seasoning her answers to his suit, replies;
Nor looking at the king, sometimes forbore
To fix upon his face her pitying eyes.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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That thou wouldst spout a little
streamlet
o'er 720
These sorry pages; then the verse would soar
And sing above this gentle pair, like lark
Over his nested young: but all is dark
Around thine aged top, and thy clear fount
Exhales in mists to heaven.
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Keats |
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And thus one stanza,
perhaps the finest as poetry, becomes the
biography
of his soul:
"There was a time when, though my path was rough,
This joy within me dallied with distress,
And all misfortunes were but as the stuff
Whence Fancy made me dreams of happiness:
For hope grew round me, like the twining vine,
And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine
But now afflictions bow me down to earth:
Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth;
But oh!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I
therefore
resolved to follow such a pious example and
made straight for the pap.
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Aristophanes |
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Our lofty spars were down,
To bide the battle's frown
(Wont of old renown)--
But every ship was drest
In her bravest and her best,
As if for a July day;
Sixty flags and three,
As we floated up the bay--
Every peak and mast-head flew
The brave Red, White, and Blue--
We were
eighteen
ships that day.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Few names could evoke a wider expression of passing regret at their
appearance in the
obituary
column; for until his health began to fail he
was known to an immense and almost a cosmopolitan circle of acquaintance,
and popular wherever he was known.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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such an one was I--
The wind it
whistled
to my bone.
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Tennyson |
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Produced by an anonymous Project
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Stephen Crane |
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His
chief works are _The Countess of
Pembrokes
Ivy Church_ (1591) and _The
Countess of Pembrokes Emmanuel_ (1591).
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John Donne |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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Not free from boding thoughts, [4] a while
The Shepherd stood; then makes his way 35
O'er rocks and stones, following the Dog [5]
As quickly as he may;
Nor far had gone before he found
A human skeleton on the ground;
The
appalled
Discoverer with a sigh [6] 40
Looks round, to learn the history.
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William Wordsworth |
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Slothe moe wulde jade thee than the
roughest
daie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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It is clear, then, that no Authoritarian
Socialism
will do.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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There is one Poem which I have
intentionally
placed out of its
chronological place, viz.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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IX
I not for this (for that were wrong) opine
That you should cease to love; for you, without
A lover, like
uncultivated
vine,
Would be, that has no prop to wind about.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I say to-night
There's
something
thwarts me when I wish to pray,
And thrusts into my mind, instead of prayers,
Hate and revenge, and things that are not prayers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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e lede lay lurked a ful longe quyle,
1196 [H] Compast in his
concience
to quat ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Say, Muse, their Names then known, who first, who last,
Rous'd from the slumber, on that fiery Couch,
At thir great Emperors call, as next in worth
Came singly where he stood on the bare strand,
While the
promiscuous
croud stood yet aloof?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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--Why, To-morrow I may be
Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n
Thousand
Years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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1
Thou who
stealest
fire,
From the fountains of the past,
To glorify the present; oh, haste,
Visit my low desire!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
My
forebears
and relations have lived near Rosses and Drumcliff these
many years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
"
"By MARIE, and alle
Seinctes
ynne Heav'n,
Thys sunne shall be hys laste.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
To whom the Tempter
impudent
repli'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
What rumour without is there
breeding?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
þæt wæs
fore-mǣrost
foldbūendum
receda under roderum, 309.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
20
XCVIII
I am more
tremulous
than shaken reeds,
And love has made me like the river water.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Why can I never tear away
The veils from the old
friendliness
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Virtue alone is happiness, and virtue consists in a
recognition
of the
laws of Providence, and in love for one's fellow-man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
He literally identified himself with De Quincey and
Poe,
translating
them so wonderfully well that some unpatriotic persons
like the French better than the originals.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Thou
liftedst
us: we slew and with thee fell--
From golden thrones of wisdom weeping fell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
This cherubim
One may
distinguish
among the angelic hierarchies, vowed to the service and glory of the divine, beings with unknown forms and the most amazing beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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why fearing of Time's tyranny,
Might I not then say, 'Now I love you best,'
When I was certain o'er incertainty,
Crowning
the present, doubting of the rest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Tapestries
were hung on
the walls, and willing hands prepared the banquet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Line after line the
troopers
came
To the edge of the wood that was ring'd with flame;
Rode in and sabred and shot--and fell;
Nor came one back his wounds to tell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
The light of her face falls from its flower,
as a hyacinth,
hidden in a far valley,
perishes
upon burnt grass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Those gods you
endlessly
weep will return!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
The clock is on the stroke of one;
But neither Doctor nor his guide
Appear along the
moonlight
road,
There's neither horse nor man abroad,
And Betty's still at Susan's side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
I think that the change
to some higher color in a leaf is an evidence that it has arrived at a
late and perfect maturity,
answering
to the maturity of fruits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I pray thee, take
And keep yon woman for me till I make
My
homeward
way from Thrace, when I have ta'en
Those four steeds and their bloody master slain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
For the words which I intended the corpse to
speak, I confidently depended upon my ventriloquial abilities; for their
effect, I counted upon the conscience of the
murderous
wretch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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(See other
englisht
copies of these '15 Tokens' attributed to St.
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| Question: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
G
[861] 145 not you] you not W, G
[862] 148 Coozners 1641
_Cozeners_
1692, 1716 cozeners W, G
[863] 166 in it G
[864] 167 () ret.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
_All insert_ ther
_before_
no.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
II
Maidens the poets learn from you to tell
How solitary and remote you are,
As night is lighted by one high bright star
They draw light from the
distance
where you dwell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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--But, O God,
Strengthen me that I bend not into scorn
Of all this
desperate
folk; for I am weak
With pitying their lamentable souls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
GD}
He Losanswer'd, darkning more with indignation hid in smiles *
I die not Enitharmon tho thou singst thy Song of Death *
Nor shalt thou me torment For I behold the Fallen Man *
Seeking to comfort Vala [[word]]she will not be comforted *
She rises from his throne and seeks the shadows of her garden
Weeping for Luvah lost, in the bloody beams of your false morning
Sickning lies the Fallen Man his head sick his heart faint *
Mighty
atchievement
of your power!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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, _gold-giver_,
designation
of the prince: acc.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe everywhere in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not mysterious at all
We are the
evidence
ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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" It is
doubtful
whether one can
call it a tragedy at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Seeing we had no other judge but God,
And He had sentenced me, and there were none _145
But you to be the executioners
Of His decree
enregistered
in heaven?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Quiet, quiet, above,
beneath!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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"
Answers Rollanz: "Utter not such
outrage!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Narcissus
fell in love with his own reflection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
The pen falls
powerless
from my shivering hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
And
standing
on the altar high,
"Lo, what a fiend is here!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
II
You are useless,
O grave, O beautiful,
the
landsmen
tell it--I have heard--
you are useless.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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You're all
deceived
deceivers!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Thou drawest breath
Even now, long past thy portioned hour of death,
By
murdering
her .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Her bosom heaved--she stepp'd aside,
As conscious of my look she stept--
Then suddenly, with
timorous
eye
She fled to me and wept.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Great
exploits
his whom the Lord God endows!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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And thou, famed Lisbon, whose embattled wall
Rose by the hand that wrought proud Ilion's[217] fall;[218]
Thou queen of cities, whom the seas obey,
Thy dreaded
ramparts
own'd the hero's sway.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
It would be peculiarly
interesting to the great
Posthumian
House, which numbered among
its many images that of the Dictator Aulus, the hero of Regillus.
| 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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He has a great delight who drowns
his gaze in the
immensity
of sky and sea.
| Guess: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Whom did the dwarf see
in the
dungeons
of Pride?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
So those four abode
Within one house together; and as years
Went forward, Mary took another mate;
But Dora lived
unmarried
till her death.
| Guess: |
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Tennyson |
|
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Lewis Carroll |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
From murderous
Epigrams
flee,
Cruel Wit and Laughter impure
That brings tears to the high Azure,
And all that base garlic cuisine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
His ginnes hath he set
withoute
1620
Right for to cacche in his panteres
These damoysels and bacheleres.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
'
So they
disputed
to an' fro
Till cunnin' Isrel sez to Joe,
'Don't le's stay here an' play the fool,
Le's wait till both on us git cool,
Jest for a day or two le's hide it,
An' then toss up an' so decide it.
| Guess: |
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James Russell Lowell |
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That azure feldspar hight the microcline, Or, on its wing, the Menelaus weareth
Such subtlety of shimmering as beareth This marvel onward through the crystalline, A splendid calyx that about her gloweth, Smiting the
sunlight
on whose ray she goeth.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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To-morrow we will polish it, said he:
Then in perfection soon the whole will be;
And from
repeating
this so oft, you'll get
As perfect issue as was ever met.
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La Fontaine |
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But to win better
audience
for my rhyme,
My canto I defer to other time.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The Controversy between the
Puritans
and the Stage.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Leaving behind august Virginia,
Proud Massachusetts, and proud Maine,
Planting the trees that would march and train
On, in his name to the great Pacific,
Like Birnam wood to Dunsinane,
Johnny
Appleseed
swept on,
Every shackle gone,
Loving every sloshy brake,
Loving every skunk and snake,
Loving every leathery weed,
Johnny Appleseed, Johnny Appleseed,
Master and ruler of the unicorn-ramping forest,
The tiger-mewing forest,
The rooster-trumpeting, boar-foaming, wolf-ravening forest,
The spirit-haunted, fairy-enchanted forest,
Stupendous and endless,
Searching its perilous ways
In the name of the Ancient of Days.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The rat is the
concisest
tenant.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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They then particularly
entreated
them not to quarrel; and all the parents
sent off their children with a parting injunction.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Through snow and mud
He walked with troubled and
uncertain
gait,
As though his sabots trod upon the dead,
Indifferent and hostile to the world.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Come, then, and let us now a model see,
Let
Phantasy
with all her various choir,
Sense, reason, passion, sensibility,
But, mark me, folly too!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The Trojans scatter and turn in hasty terror; and
had the
conqueror
forthwith taken thought to burst the bars and let in
his comrades at the gate, that had been the last day of the war and of
the nation.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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