Derriere
les ennuis et les vastes chagrins
Qui chargent de leur poids l'existence brumeuse,
Heureux celui qui peut d'une aile vigoureuse
S'elancer vers les champs lumineux et sereins!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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[Footnote 1: Marie,
daughter
of King Louis Philippe, afterwards Princess
of Wurtemburg.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The naked Hulk
alongside
came
And the Twain were playing dice;
"The Game is done!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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what defence, if fix'd on him, he spy
The languid sweetness of the
stedfast
eye!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Who of mortals hearing
Doth not quake for awe,
Hearing all that Fate thro' hand of God hath given us
For
ordinance
and law?
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Aeschylus |
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The
warriors
rose;
sad, they climbed to the Cliff-of-Eagles,
went, welling with tears, the wonder to view.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Thou art Lucina, Juno hight
By mothers lien in painful plight,
Thou
puissant
Trivia and the Light 15
Bastard, yclept the Lune.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The sober lav'rock, warbling wild,
Shall to the skies aspire;
The gowdspink, Music's gayest child,
Shall sweetly join the choir;
The
blackbird
strong, the lintwhite clear,
The mavis mild and mellow;
The robin pensive Autumn cheer,
In all her locks of yellow.
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The year is not given, but I think it must have been 1804, as he says
that "within the last month," he had written, "700 additional lines" of
'The Prelude'; and that poem was
finished
in May 1805.
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William Wordsworth |
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Living Rome, the
ornament
of the world,
Now dead, remains the world's monument.
| Guess: |
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I dried my tears, and armed my fears
With ten
thousand
shields and spears.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"
MOODS
Oh that a Song would sing itself to me
Out of the heart of Nature, or the heart
Of man, the child of Nature, not of Art,
Fresh as the morning, salt as the salt sea,
With just enough of
bitterness
to be
A medicine to this sluggish mood, and start
The life-blood in my veins, and so impart
Healing and help in this dull lethargy!
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Longfellow |
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Till she retires,
determined
we remain,
And both the prince and augur threat in vain:
His pride of words, and thy wild dream of fate,
Move not the brave, or only move their hate,
Threat on, O prince!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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147 The belief in the existence of men of larger stature in earlier
times, is by no means
confined
to Homer.
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Iliad - Pope |
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" The
head lifted up its eyelids and looked abroad, and thus much spoke with
its mouth as ye may now hear:
"Loke, Gawayne, thou be prompt to go as thou hast promised, and seek
till thou find me
according
to thy promise made in the hearing of these
knights.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Alfred de Musset, 1904-7
The New York Public Library: Digital Collections
Song
I said to my heart, my feeble heart:
It's enough surely to love one's
mistress?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Dear brother Noll, I plead against
thyself!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Saint Mark's great bell at dawn shall find me
wakeful!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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But, O ye Six that round him lay
And
bloodied
up that April day!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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A hedge is about it, very tall,
Hazy and cool, and
breathing
sweet.
| Guess: |
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Nor is it difficult to perceive the tendency of this
_abandon-to elevate _immeasurably all the
energies
of mind-but, again,
so to mingle the greatest possible fire, force, delicacy, and all good
things, with the lowest possible bathos, baldness, and imbecility, as to
render it not a matter of doubt that the average results of mind in
such a school will be found inferior to those results in one _(ceteris
_paribus) more artificial.
| Guess: |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
"And all the spirits fleet
Do suffer a sky-change,
More
strangely
than the dew,
To God's own angels new,"
The Grave said to the Rose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Though oak-beams split,
though boats and sea-men flounder,
and the strait grind sand with sand
and cut
boulders
to sand and drift--
your eyes have pardoned our faults,
your hands have touched us--
you have leaned forward a little
and the waves can never thrust us back
from the splendour of your ragged coast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread
tribunal
of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Ye, who would more of Spain and Spaniards know,
Go, read whate'er is writ of bloodiest strife:
Whate'er keen Vengeance urged on foreign foe
Can act, is acting there against man's life:
From flashing scimitar to secret knife,
War mouldeth there each weapon to his need--
So may he guard the sister and the wife,
So may he make each curst
oppressor
bleed,
So may such foes deserve the most remorseless deed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
There's my
exchange
[throws down a glove].
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
--Il revait la prairie amoureuse, ou des houles
Lumineuses, parfums sains,
pubescences
d'or,
Font leur remuement calme et prennent leur essor!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
If nine times you your
bridegroom
kiss,
The tenth you know the parson's is.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
"
Then a silence
suffuses
the story,
And a softness the teller's eye;
And the children no further question,
And only the waves reply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
"
And I must borrow every changing
find
expression
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Already my spirit, longing for better ways,
Paces through my flesh, rebelliously,
And already brings the victim fuel to feed
His
immolation
in your vision's rays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
*****
And the conditions force [the water and air]
Deeply to
penetrate
from the open sea,
And to out-blow abroad, and to up-bear
Thereby the flame, and to up-cast from deeps
The boulders, and to rear the clouds of sand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Surprised at trembling, though it was with cold,
Who ne'er had trembled out of fear, the veterans bold
Marched stern; to grizzled
moustache
hoarfrost clung
'Neath banners that in leaden masses hung.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Fresh as the first beam
glittering
on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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But peers beyond her mesh,
And wishes, and denies, --
Lest
interview
annul a want
That image satisfies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
O shield our Caesar as he goes
To furthest Britain, and his band,
Rome's
harvest!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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while others of the human race
Die only once,
appointed
twice to die!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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I'd earn more worth than any other,
If such a
nightgown
were given me
As Iseult handed to her lover,
For it was never worn, certainly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Their long cries enter the blue clouds;
Their
flapping
wings tirelessly beat and throb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
[Note 78: This touching scene
produced
a lasting impression on
Pushkin's mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
"
To whom the
hospitable
swain rejoins:
"Thy passion, prince, belies thy knowing mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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For their design is not to make love, or inspire it; they decorate
themselves
in this manner as they proceed to war, in order to seem taller and more terrible; and dress for the eyes of their enemies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Perhaps, if I the cup should hold awry,
The liquor out might on a sudden fly;
I'm sometimes awkward, and in case the cup
Should fancy me another, who would sup,
The error, doubtless, might unpleasant be:
To any thing but this I will agree,
To give you pleasure, Damon, so adieu;
Then Reynold from the
antlered
corps withdrew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
SCENE: The
Athenian
Ecclesia on the Pnyx; afterwards Dicaeopolis' house
in the country.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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While in sweet cadence rising small and still
The far-off
minstrels
of the haunted hill,
As the last bleating of the fold expires,
Tune in the mountain dells their water lyres.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
It had been
declared
by an ancient
oracle that Nineveh could never be taken unless the river became an
enemy to the city.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
At noonday tumbled
Leaflets,
changing
with delight upon your lips,
And as you slept there played with you, bunches,
bushes,
Billows of roses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
on thine:--thou wert my purer mind;
Thou wert the
inspiration
of my song; _10
Thine are these early wilding flowers,
Though garlanded by me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the changing breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks
pricking
us more than a cobbler's awl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
He poses as a person of
infinite leisure (which is what we should most like our friends to
possess) and free from worldly
ambitions
(which constitute the greatest
bars to friendship).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
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agreement
for free
distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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| Question: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"But I sent on my messenger,
With cunning arrows
poisonous
and keen,
To take forthwith her laughing life from her,
And dull her little een,
"And white her cheek, and still her breath,
Ere her too buoyant Hodge had reached her side;
So, when he came, he clasped her but in death,
And never as his bride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
"
Then I: "But she, my only choice,
Is now at
Kingsbere
Grove?
| 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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Tout droit dans son armure, un grand homme de pierre
Se tenait a la barre et coupait le flot noir;
Mais le calme heros, courbe sur sa rapiere,
Regardait
le sillage et ne daignait rien voir.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Who 'll let me out some gala day,
With implements to fly away,
Passing
pomposity?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
For the
transport
in their rhythm
Was the throb of thy desire,
And thy lyric moods shall quicken 35
Souls of lovers yet unborn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Yet it remains one of the most characteristic
and
delightful
of Euripidean dramas, as well as, by modern standards, the
most easily actable.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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He spake no dream, for as his words had end,
Our Saviour lifting up his eyes beheld
In ample space under the broadest shade
A Table richly spred, in regal mode, 340
With dishes pil'd, and meats of noblest sort
And savour, Beasts of chase, or Fowl of game,
In pastry built, or from the spit, or boyl'd,
Gris-amber-steam'd; all Fish from Sea or Shore,
Freshet, or purling Brook, of shell or fin,
And
exquisitest
name, for which was drain'd
Pontus and Lucrine Bay, and Afric Coast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
O, this world's
transience!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
John Finley and the
_Atlantic
Monthly_:--"The Road to Dieppe"; Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
WARD,
ADOLPHUS
WILLIAM.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Had Lycius liv'd to hand his story down,
He might have given the moral a fresh frown,
Or clench'd it quite: but too short was their bliss
To breed
distrust
and hate, that make the soft voice hiss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
'
And the Soul was a-tremble like as a new-born thing,
Till the spark of the dawn wrought a
conscience
in heart as in wing,
Saying, `Thou art the lark of the dawn; it is time to sing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
The wasps flourish greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A
necklace
of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Forth they fared by the footpaths thence,
merry at heart the
highways
measured,
well-known roads.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
'My eye,
piercing
the reeds, speared each immortal
Neck that drowns its burning in the water
With a cry of rage towards the forest sky;
And the splendid bath of hair slipped by
In brightness and shuddering, O jewels!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
It is one of
the few
passages
in Homer that must lie at the mercy of conjecture.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
When the enemies of Inez had
persuaded him that her death was
necessary
to the welfare of the state,
he took a journey to Coimbra, that he might see the lady, when the
prince, his son, was absent on a hunting party.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And she to that
answerde
him as hir leste;
And with hir goodly wordes him disporte
She gan, and ofte his sorwes to comforte.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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All the past we leave behind,
We debouch upon a newer
mightier
world, varied world,
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,
Pioneers!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Dehors le mur est plein d'aristoloches
Ou vibrent les
gencives
des lutins.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Their
children
cried, "O ma and pa!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
The
question
of the number, the character, and the length of the Notes,
which a wise editor should append to the works of a great poet, (or to
any classic), is perhaps still 'sub judice'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
"
"How can you expect me to be
thinking?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
The great Li Po is no
exception
to this rule.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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_est_) G ||
_pinguis_
TO: _pingues_ GR
et cett.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
'308 painted child':
Hervey was
accustomed
to paint his face like a woman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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LIII
Art thou the top-most apple
The
gatherers
could not reach,
Reddening on the bough?
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Sappho |
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In the beauty of poems are the tuft and final
applause
of science.
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Whitman |
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Songs of a Strolling Player
THROUGH the
blossoms
softly simmer
Drops profound and fair
Since the light-beams o'er them shimmer.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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He built soon
after a house,
sometimes
railed the Saint's Rest, which still stands in
Ipswich on the slope of Heart-break Hill, close by Labour-in-vain Creek.
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Emerson - Poems |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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That
sightless
are those orbs of hers?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Are they
conspiring
to cause me inner pain?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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O weary fa' the
waukrife
cock,
And the foumart lay his crawin!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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For the heart of man must seek and wander, 5
Ask and question and
discover
knowledge;
Yet above all goodly things is wisdom,
And love greater than all understanding.
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Sappho |
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A drop of blood, as if athwart a dream,
Fell on the shroud, and
reddened
his right hand.
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Hugo - Poems |
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From Kelso town I took the road
By the full-flood Tweed;
The black clouds swept across the moon
With
devouring
greed.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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You'll have five
lectures
every day;
Be in at the stroke of the bell I pray!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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