And every day for seven moons I
proclaimed
my Joy from the
house-top--and yet no one heeded me.
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XXX
Right opposite
Tattiana
placed,
She, than the morning moon more pale,
More timid than a doe long chased,
Lifts not her eyes which swimming fail.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And in our evil day they still watch
over the
loveliness
of the earth.
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It
is also
uncertain
whether he knew, when he entered the service of Lin,
that this prince was about to take up arms against the Emperor.
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Li Po |
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'Tis not her glass, but you, that flatters her;
And out of you she sees herself more proper
Than any of her
lineaments
can show her.
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Shakespeare |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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If not the
tradesman
who set up to-day,
Much less the 'prentice who to-morrow may.
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, _Ruins and
Excavations
of Ancient Rome_, _ii.
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Byron |
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The question therefore concerning the authenticity of these Poems must
now be decided by an examination of the
fragments
upon vellum, which
Mr.
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paragraph
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liebe Frau,
verzweifelt
nicht!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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But don't forget to charge the knight of stitches,
The measure carefully to take,
And, as he loves his
precious
neck,
To leave no wrinkles in the breeches.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace, on the green
grass by a moat, or in the dull
loneliness
of your chamber, you should
waken up, your intoxication already lessened or gone, ask of the wind,
of the wave, of the star, of the bird, of the timepiece; ask of all that
flees, all that sighs, all that revolves, all that sings, all that
speaks, ask of these the hour; and wind and wave and star and bird and
timepiece will answer you: "It is the hour to be drunken!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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For the second proof on which my
ascription
of the poems to Roe
is based is the singular regularity with which they adhere to one
another.
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John Donne |
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When from the dark synod, or blood-reeking field,
To his chamber the monarch is led,
All
soothers
of sense their soft virtue shall yield,
And quietness pillow his head.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"Sweet sleep, come to me
Underneath
this tree;
Do father, mother, weep?
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blake-poems |
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Removing the third case, we
discovered
and took out the body itself.
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Poe - 5 |
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Ich grusse dich, du einzige Phiole,
Die ich mit Andacht nun
herunterhole!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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A LONELY PLACE
The
leafless
trees, the untidy stack
Last rainy summer raised in haste,
Watch the sky turn from fair to black
And watch the river fill and waste;
But never a footstep comes to trouble
The sea-gulls in the new-sown corn,
Or pigeons rising from late stubble
And flashing lighter as they turn.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I
recognise
my blood in you complete.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Plant, quadruped, bird,
By one music enchanted,
One deity stirred,--
Each the other adorning,
Accompany
still;
Night veileth the morning,
The vapor the hill.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Now, in the
desolate
dawn,
Crying of blue jays.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Die without
satisfaction!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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try thy Arts I also will try mine
For I percieve Thou hast Abundance which I claim as mine
Urizen startled stood but not Long soon he cried
Obey my voice young Demon I am God from Eternity to Eternity
Thus Urizen spoke collected in himself in awful pride
Art thou a visionary of Jesus the soft
delusion
of Eternity
Lo I am God the terrible destroyer & not the Saviour
Why should the Divine Vision compell the sons of Eden to forego each his own delight to war against his Spectre
The Spectre is the Man the rest is only delusion & fancy
So spoke the Prince of Light & sat beside the Seat of Los
Upon the sandy shore rested his chariot of fire
Ten thousand thousand were his hosts of spirits on the wind:
Ten thousand thousand glittering Chariots shining in the sky:
They pour upon the golden shore beside the silent ocean.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Close at his side was Titus
On an Apulian steed,
Titus, the
youngest
Tarquin,
Too good for such a breed.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged men, wise
guardians
of the poor.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I know not whether I am sitting on the
ruins of a wall, or on the
material
which is to compose a new one.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And when
Admetus has made a
thrilling
answer about eternal sorrow, and the
silencing of lyre and lute, and the statue who shall be his only bride,
Alcestis earnestly calls the attention of witnesses to the fact that he
has sworn not to marry again.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"
And then he swore a dreadful oath,
He swore by the Kingdoms Three,
That, should he meet the Carmilhan,
He would run her down, although he ran
Right into
Eternity!
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Longfellow |
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With curses, shrieks, and cries,
Horses and wagons and men
Tumbled back through the
shuddering
glen,
And above us the fading skies.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A fearful cry, risen from the depths of the sea,
Troubled, in an instant, the quiet of the scene:
And from the heart of the earth a
strident
voice
Replied with groans to that formidable noise.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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It is
possible
that I may have met one, and
that he concealed his poetic gifts.
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Li Po |
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We have such
associations
as when the traveler stands by the
ruins of Palmyra or Hecatompolis.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But many years before
Lucilius was born, Naevius had been flung into a dungeon, and
guarded there with circumstances of unusual rigor, on account of
the bitter lines in which he had
attacked
the great Caecilian
family.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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[15] The Greek word for _friend of strangers_ is [Greek: philoxenos],
which
happened
also to be the name of one of the vilest debauchees in
Athens.
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Aristophanes |
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'T is as in midmost us there glows a sphere Translucent, molten gold, that is the "I" And into this some form
projects
itself:
Christus, or John, or eke the Florentine; And as the clear space is not if a form 's
Imposed thereon,
So cease we from all being for the time,
And these, the Masters of the Soul, live on.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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[i]]
* * * * *
FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT
[Footnote A: Wordsworth
originally
wrote "sees.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I
wondered
if he really thought it fair
For him to have the say when we were done.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Suddenly he
struggled
upward laughing,
Tears of joy were streaming down his face:
In my breast the pang of some departure Seized me, and I wept, I know not why.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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prive de trop de choses qui furent, aux deplorables fins de
pueriles et criminelles rancunes, sans meme d'excuses suffisamment
betes, confisquees,
confisquees?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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When evening quickens faintly in the street,
Wakening the appetites of life in some
And to others
bringing
the Boston Evening Transcript,
I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning
Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld,
If the street were time and he at the end of the street,
And I say, "Cousin Harriet, here is the Boston Evening Transcript.
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T.S. Eliot |
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CHORUS
Here in this Argive land--so runs the tale--
Io was
priestess
once of Hera's fane.
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Aeschylus |
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Of late I have been quite absurd,--
So many
neighbours
here exist--
Am I to go through the whole list?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Look where a three-point star shall weave his beam
Into the slumb'rous tissue of some stream,
Till his bright self o'er his bright copy seem
Fulfillment dropping on a come-true dream;
So in this night of art thy soul doth show
Her excellent double in the
steadfast
flow
Of wishing love that through men's hearts doth go:
At once thou shin'st above and shin'st below.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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It is the dark idolatry of self, _3390
Which, when our
thoughts
and actions once are gone,
Demands that man should weep, and bleed, and groan;
Oh, vacant expiation!
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Then
methinks
I hear
Almost thy voice's sound,
Afar its echo falls,
And calmer grows my care.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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With twenty sail did I climb
the Phrygian sea; oracular tokens led me on; my goddess mother pointed
the way; scarce seven survive the
shattering
of wave and wind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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A party was chosen--and seven
survived
till the powder was laid.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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providing
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Meredith - Poems |
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IV
BLUEBIRD'S GREETING
Over the mossy walls,
Above the slumbering fields
Where yet the ground no
fruitage
yields,
Save as the sunlight falls
In dreams of harvest-yellow,
What voice remembered calls,--
So bubbling fresh, so soft and mellow?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I watched the
careless
spring too many times
Light her green torches in a hungry wind;
Too many times I watched them flare, and then
Fall to forsaken embers in the autumn.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Quando s'ebbe
scoperta
la gran bocca,
disse a' compagni: <
che quel di retro move cio ch'el tocca?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Then up came the blacksmith: Sir Barley, said he,
I should just like to storm your old tower for a spree;
And my
strength
for your strength and bar your renown
I'd soon try your spirit by cracking your crown.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The critics have,
I think, failed somewhat to reckon with this stratum in Donne's songs,
of poems Petrarchian in
convention
but with a Petrarchianism coloured
by Donne's realistic temper and impatient wit.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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_Quel ch'
infinita
providenza ed arte.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Note: Hercules, Alcmene's son, tormented by the shirt of Nessus
immolated
himself on a pyre on Mount Oeta, and was deified.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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In the parching August wind,
Cornfields
bow the head,
Sheltered in round valley depths,
On low hills outspread.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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LIX
Walking in the sky,
A man in strange black garb
Encountered
a radiant form.
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Stephen Crane |
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Louis, Missouri, where she
attended
a
school that was founded by the grandfather of another great poet from
St.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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To Gavarni, the poet of chloroses,
I leave his troupes of
beauties
sick and wan;
I cannot find among these pale, pale roses,
The red ideal mine eyes would gaze upon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Apropos--Is your play then
accepted
at last?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
That Emperour stood still and
listened
then:
"My lords," said he, "Right evilly we fare!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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What profit will thy dead wife gain
thereby?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Mad, that I see
Thy
brother?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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_
When I tell you, my dear Sir, that a friend of mine in whom I am much
interested, has fallen a
sacrifice
to these accursed times, you will
easily allow that it might unhinge me for doing any good among
ballads.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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_A25_ (with its partial
duplicate
_C_) is the only manuscript which
attributes to 'J.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire
Sprinkled
with stars, like Ariadne's tiar:
Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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are we to let
ourselves
be bested by a mob of women?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
1470
`Ye shal eek seen, your fader shal yow glose
To been a wyf, and as he can wel preche,
He shal som Grek so preyse and wel alose,
That
ravisshen
he shal yow with his speche,
Or do yow doon by force as he shal teche.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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You light
surfaces
only, I force surfaces and depths also.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Look to him, father, lest he wink, and the golden apple be stol'n away,
For his ancient heart is drunk with over-watchings night and day,
Round about the
hallowed
fruit tree curled--
Sing away, sing aloud evermore in the wind, without stop,
Lest his scaled eyelid drop, For he is older than the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
* * * * *
_Wilde's Poems were first
published
in volume form in 1881_, _and were
reprinted four times before the end of 1882_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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1921
CONRAD AIKEN
Earth Triumphant The Macmillan Company 1914
Turns and Movies
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Peire Raimon de
Toulouse
(fl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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" In
1845 it found its
appropriate
place in the "Selections from Chaucer
modernised.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
The earliest version of these lines
appeared
in the "Southern Literary
Messenger" for September, 1835, as "Lines written in an Album," and was
addressed to Eliza White, the proprietor's daughter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
IV
Mute Seminary there,
Filled once with resonant hymn and prayer,
How your meek walls and windows
shuddered
then!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
[1]
I fear thee and thy
glittering
eye,
And thy skinny hand, so brown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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They tell it to the hills --
The hills just tell the orchards --
And they the
daffodils!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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It is
impossible
to pray for
tsar Herod; the Mother of God forbids it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
MEPHISTOPHELES (fur sich):
Nun mach ich mich
beizeiten
fort!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The Critic else
proceeds
without remorse,
Seizes your fame, and puts his laws in force.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
And in the 'Epistle to Arbuthnot' we recognize in Pope ideals of
independence, of devotion to his art, of simple living, of loyal
friendship, and of filial piety which shine in
splendid
contrast with
the gross, servile, and cynically immoral tone of the age and society in
which he lived.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Africa, Spain, neither are you disgraced,
Nor that race that holds the English firth,
Nor, by the French Rhine, soldiers of worth,
Nor Germany with other
warriors
graced.
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Then in the silent cabinet
He in imagination saw
The time when Melancholy's claw
'Mid worldly
pleasures
chased him yet,
Caught him and by the collar took
And shut him in a lonely nook.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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He told Spence in the last years of his
life: "I had once thought of
completing
my ethic work in four
books.
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Alexander Pope |
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* Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Stephen Crane |
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She had never
really died; she only had a sort of nervous
catalepsy
induced by all the
"suggestion" of death by which she was surrounded.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The
bird whose eye takes in the Green
Mountains
on the one side, and the
ocean on the other, need not be at a loss to find its way.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Though I am
different
from you,
We were born involved in one another:
Nor by any means can we escape
The intimate sharing of good and ill.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The
Immediate
Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The last volume of the 'Iliad' appeared in the spring of 1720, and in it
Pope gave a renewed proof of his
independence
by dedicating the whole
work, not to some lord who would have rewarded him with a handsome
present, but to his old acquaintance, Congreve, the last survivor of the
brilliant comic dramatists of Dryden's day.
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Alexander Pope |
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Je n'ai pas oublie, voisine de la ville,
Notre blanche maison, petite mais tranquille,
Sa Pomone de platre et sa vieille Venus
Dans un bosquet chetif cachant leurs membres nus;
Et le soleil, le soir, ruisselant et superbe,
Qui, derriere la vitre ou se brisait sa gerbe,
Semblait, grand oeil ouvert dans le ciel curieux,
Contempler nos diners longs et silencieux,
Repandant
largement
ses beaux reflets de cierge
Sur la nappe frugale et les rideaux de serge.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And gleams, through the pallor,
A mouth with a
conquering
smile;
Red chilli, a scarlet flower,
Hearts'-blood gives it fire.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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She hath drawn me from mine old ways,
Till men say that I am mad;
But I have seen the sorrow of men, and am glad, For I know that the wailing and
bitterness
are a folly.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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