After you have bowed down the old things shall
be again, and another Argo shall carry heroes over sea, and another
Achilles
beleaguer
another Troy.
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| Question: |
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Yeats |
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The stars, the elements, and Heaven have made
With blended powers a work beyond compare;
All their consenting influence, all their care,
To frame one perfect
creature
lent their aid.
| Guess: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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At the
beginning
of the period Sh?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Li Po |
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He quaff'd the gore; and straight his soldier knew,
And from his eyes pour'd down the tender dew:
His arms he stretch'd; his arms the touch deceive,
Nor in the fond embrace, embraces give:
His substance vanish'd, and his
strength
decay'd,
Now all Atrides is an empty shade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Nor beast,
Nor man, but one of those
lascivious
gods
Our lonely God detests, Chemosh or Baal
Or Peor who goes whoring among women.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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It is a government, that English one,--like
most other European ones,--that cannot afford to be forgotten, as you
would
naturally
forget it; under which one cannot be wholesomely
neglected, and grow up a man and not an Englishman merely,--cannot be
a poet even without danger of being made poet-laureate!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He
selected
his card--an ace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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_o_ RB) GRBVen:
_penies_
OACLa1 || _adest ut_ ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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or engaged in
business?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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When charged
therewith
he gazed, and answered bold:
"Be needy I or no,
I will not help lay low a house so fair!
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| Question: |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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er, myn
honoured
ladye3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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XXXVIII
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
The fingers of this hand
wherewith
I write;
And ever since, it grew more clean and white.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an Old Lady of Chertsey,
Who made a
remarkable
curtsey;
She twirled round and round, till she sank underground,
Which distressed all the people of Chertsey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Canst thou give to a frame
tremblingly
alive as the tortures of
suspense, the stability and hardihood of the rock that braves the
blast?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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PORTRAIT
OF A MACHINE
What nudity is beautiful as this
Obedient monster purring at its toil;
These naked iron muscles dripping oil
And the sure-fingered rods that never miss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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what crueler light is borne aloft in the
heavens?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Indulgence
bids the dropsy grow;
Who fain would quench the palate's flame
Must rescue from the watery foe
The pale weak frame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Werejeweledtales
An opiate meet to quell the malady Oflifeunlived?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Wherefore
his ridges are not curls
And ripples of an inland mere?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Venus comes in all her might,
Quits Cyprus for my heart, nor lets me tell
Of the Parthian, hold in flight,
Nor
Scythian
hordes, nor aught that breaks her spell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
"
My mother went to find my commission, which she kept in a box with my
christening clothes, and gave it to my father with, a
trembling
hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Then lord Anchises: 'Souls, for whom second bodies are destined
and due, drink at the wave of the Lethean stream the
heedless
water of
long forgetfulness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Scott's poems have not
the depth nor the definiteness of symbolic intention--what is sometimes
called the epic unity--and this is what we can always
discover
in any
poetry which gives us the peculiar experience we must associate with the
word epic, if it is to have any precision of meaning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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At which the
universal
host up-sent
A shout that tore Hell's conclave, and beyond
Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
| 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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I
wondered
if he really thought it fair
For him to have the say when we were done.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I feel your spirit and I close my eyes,
Knowing the bright hair blowing in the sun,
The eager whisper and the
searching
eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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And he had learned to love,--I know not why,
For this in such as him seems strange of mood,--
The helpless looks of blooming infancy,
Even in its
earliest
nurture; what subdued,
To change like this, a mind so far imbued
With scorn of man, it little boots to know;
But thus it was; and though in solitude
Small power the nipped affections have to grow,
In him this glowed when all beside had ceased to glow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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These shall the fury Passions tear,
The vultures of the mind,
Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear,
And Shame that skulks behind;
Or pining Love shall waste their youth,
Or Jealousy with rankling tooth
That inly gnaws the secret heart,
And Envy wan, and faded Care,
Grim-visaged
comfortless
Despair,
And Sorrow's piercing dart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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But heaven in thy
creation
did decree
That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell;
Whate'er thy thoughts, or thy heart's workings be,
Thy looks should nothing thence, but sweetness tell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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O DEAREST DRED, O beloved object of reverence; a common
salutation
of
royalty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
[Illustration:
SOLITUDES
OF VAUCLUSE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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He was
proud--he remembered the indifferent
practice
of the corps to which he
belonged, and turning to Gibson, one of his fellow-soldiers, who stood
at his bedside with wet eyes, "John," said he, and a gleam of humour
passed over his face, "pray don't let the awkward-squad fire over me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
A number of personal references are best pursued by reading a biography of Nerval, of his early meeting with 'Adrienne' and later
relationship
with the actress Jenny Colon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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For pryde is founde, in every part, 2245
Contrarie
unto Loves art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Gilgamish
is enamoured of the beautiful virgin goddess Ishara, and Enkidu,
fearing the effeminate effects of his friend's attachment, prevents
him forcibly from
entering
a house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The nephew does things very
shabbily, and I think the
Memsahib
must help him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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COUNTING SHEEP
Half-awake I walked
A dimly-seen sweet
hawthorn
lane
Until sleep came;
I lingered at a gate and talked
A little with a lonely lamb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Note: Pound
utilises
an issue of translation regarding the last line of verse 1, E jois le grans, e l'olors d'enoi gandres in Canto XX.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
"
"Well hast thou spoke (rejoin'd the
attentive
swain):
Thy lips let fall no idle word or vain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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His eldest
daughter
was Biatrix.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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I will reveal a great, a terrible
conspiracy
against the gods
to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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(thus his heart he vents)
Once spread the
inviting
banquet in our tents:
Thy sweet society, thy winning care,
Once stay'd Achilles, rushing to the war.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
PLANH
It is of the white
thoughts
that he saw in the Forest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Enfin la verite froide se revela:
J'etais mort sans surprise, et la
terrible
aurore
M'enveloppait.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
_
"On the other side,
Incensed
with indignation, Satan stood
Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,
That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge
In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair
Shakes pestilence and war.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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This should be a privacy,
Not even your lover near, this hour of first
Strange knowledge that you have
accepted
love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
I wot the
stranger
worketh woe within--
For lo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
'
Withouten wordes mo, right than, 6135
Fals-Semblant his sermon bigan,
And seide hem thus in audience:--
Barouns, tak hede of my
sentence!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
II
I squared the broad foundations in
Of
ashlared
masonry;
I moulded mullions thick and thin,
Hewed fillet and ogee;
I circleted
Each sculptured head
With nimb and canopy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Aboute hir eyen two a purpre ring
Bi-trent, in sothfast
tokninge
of hir peyne, 870
That to biholde it was a dedly thing,
For which Pandare mighte not restreyne
The teres from his eyen for to reyne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Thee, Socrates,
Thou dear and very strong one, I forgive
Thy year-worn cloak, thine iron stringencies
That were but dandy upside-down, thy words
Of truth that, mildlier spoke, had
mainlier
wrought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Heated with wine, to rinse our mouths and hands
In those cold waters was a joy beyond
compare!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Hence "Notre Dame" long stood
unique: it was
translated
in all languages, and plays and operas were
founded on it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Those who
practice
poetry search for and love only the perfection that is God Himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
* You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
632
625 _The Arbiter of
pleasure
and of play_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or
sharpened
claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
VIII
So, I ask the wives of Lodi
For
traditions
of that day;
But alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
LEAVES
ONE by one, like leaves from a tree,
All my faiths have forsaken me;
But the stars above my head
Burn in white and
delicate
red,
And beneath my feet the earth
Brings the sturdy grass to birth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Never sadder tale was heard
By a man of woman born:
The
Marineres
all return'd to work
As silent as beforne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
WHOis she coming, that the roses bend
Their
shameless
heads to do her honour ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Oddly
enough the late Francis
Thompson
used 'carcanet' in the sense of
'coronet':
Who scarfed her with the morning?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
I skoal to the eyes as grey-blown mere (Who knows whose was that
paragon?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Earth
breathes
him like an eternal spring: he is a second sky over
the Earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
the raskall routes appall,
Men into stones
therewith
he could transmew,
And stones to dust, and dust to nought at all;
And when him list the prouder lookes subdew,
He would them gazing blind, or turne to other hew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
--Me voila libre et
solitaire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Great
Menelaus
views with pitying eyes,
Lifts his bright lance, and at the victor flies;
Mars urged him on; yet, ruthless in his hate,
The god but urged him to provoke his fate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
_100
A man who thus twice
crucifies
his God
May well .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Any fairly practised writer,
with the
slightest
ear for rhythm, could compose, for hours together, in
the easy running metre of 'The Song of Hiawatha.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
"'Tis no common rule,
Lycius," said he, "for uninvited guest
To force himself upon you, and infest
With an unbidden
presence
the bright throng
Of younger friends; yet must I do this wrong,
And you forgive me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
There
happiness
attends
With inbred joy until the heart oerflow,
Of which the world's rude friends,
Nought heeding, nothing know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
We
disembark
and worship Apollo's
town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
The butternut, which is a
remarkably
spreading
tree, is turned completely yellow, thus proving
its relation to the hickories.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
'
Falls a small cry in the dark and calls--
'I see you
standing
there!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
He died in 1173,
possibly
a victim of the widespread epidemic of that year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
The pigeons from the dove cote cooed over the old lane,
The crow flocks from the oakwood went flopping oer the grain;
Like lots of dear old
neighbours
whom I shall see no more
They greeted me that morning I left the English shore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation
information
page at www.
| 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 |
|
les colliers
tinteront
cherront les masques
Va-t'en va-t'en contre le feu l'ombre prevaut
Ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
ir swiche men
ben frendes at nede as ben
conseiled
by fortune {and} nat by vertue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
grāpode
gearofolm, _he took hold with ready hand_, 2086.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Fourth Self: I, amongst you all, am the most miserable, for naught
was given me but odious hatred and
destructive
loathing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Quivi venimmo; e quindi giu nel fosso
vidi gente
attuffata
in uno sterco
che da li uman privadi parea mosso.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Flexibus in calami tamen omnia sponte le-
guntur :
Quod non
significant
verba, figura notat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
The works of the poet were much admired in society, but
he was not happy in his
domestic
life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
"
Small the Theme of My Chant
Small the theme of my Chant, yet the greatest--namely, One's-Self--
a simple,
separate
person.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Not now are we one of these spacious and haughty States, (nor any five, nor
ten;)
Nor market nor depot are we, nor money-bank in the city;
But these, and all, and the brown and spreading land, and the mines below,
are ours;
And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers great and small;
And the fields they moisten are ours, and the crops, and the fruits are
ours;
Bays and channels, and ships sailing in and out, are ours--and we over all,
Over the area spread below, the three
millions
of square miles--the
capitals,
The thirty-five millions of people--O bard!
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Whitman |
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How much better is it to be silent, or at least to speak
sparingly!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Thou hast brought it about that both our peoples,
sons of the Geat and Spear-Dane folk,
shall have mutual peace, and from
murderous
strife,
such as once they waged, from war refrain.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I will leave all, and come and make the hymns of you;
None have understood you, but I understand you;
None have done justice to you--you have not done justice to yourself;
None but have found you imperfect--I only find no
imperfection
in you;
None but would subordinate you--I only am he who will never consent to
subordinate you;
I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what
waits intrinsically in yourself.
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Whitman |
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huld know his
countenance!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The majestic quietude of the long lines of _The Book of
Pictures_ is broken, the colours are more vibrant, more scintillating
and the
pictures
are painted in nervous, darting strokes as though to
convey the manner in which they were perceived: in one single,
all-absorbing glance.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Lurcanio's heart with vengeful hatred glows
Against Geneura; while that other knight
As well
maintains
the quarrel for her right.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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He
promised
'a new start'.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Sweet friend, do you wake or are you
sleeping?
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Troubador Verse |
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Division
into
Act and Scene referring chiefly to the Stage (to which this work never
was intended) is here omitted.
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Milton |
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