_ Herrick is here
imitating
the well-known lines of
Catullus to Lesbia (_Carm.
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Robert Herrick |
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The stars which gleamed in the
empyrean
dome,
Under the thousand arches in heaven's space
Shone as through meshes of the blackest lace.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And the light of Days that have Been the dark of the Days that Are,
And Love's torch
stinking
and stale, like the butt of a dead cigar--
The butt of a dead cigar you are bound to keep in your pocket--
With never a new one to light tho' it's charred and black to the socket!
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Kipling - Poems |
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O Atthis, how I loved thee long ago
In that fair
perished
summer by the sea!
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Sappho |
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Night and the Madman
"I am like thee, O, Night, dark and naked; I walk on the flaming
path which is above my day-dreams, and
whenever
my foot touches
earth a giant oak tree comes forth.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
May her eyes and her cheek be fair
To all men except the King of Aragon,
And may I come
speedily
to Beziers
Whither my desire and my dream have preceded
me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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There little lambtoe bunches springs
In red tinged and
begolden
dye
For ever, and like China kings
They come but never seem to die.
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John Clare |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Oh, my lost child,
Hide not in proud impenetrable grief _105
Thy
sufferings
from my fear.
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Shelley |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with discordant mutiny,
Working on you its eternal
vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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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.
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Villon |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife Ambroise de Lore, as though
composed
by him.
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Villon |
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They found that the
writings
of Hsu[65] were all boasts and lies:
To the Lofty Principle and Great Unity in vain they raised their
prayers.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And their long holiday that feared not grief,
For all
belonged
to all, and each was chief.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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IV
O Pan of the evergreen forest,
Protector of herds in the meadows,
Helper of men at their toiling,--
Tillage and harvest and herding,--
How many times to frail mortals 5
Hast thou not
hearkened!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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_ A
heavenly
bride--or human?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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7
_effectis_
scripsi: _efficit_ ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Those fruits, nor winter's cold nor summer's heat 140
Fear ever, fail not, wither not, but hang
Perennial, whose unceasing zephyr breathes
Gently on all,
enlarging
these, and those
Maturing genial; in an endless course
Pears after pears to full dimensions swell,
Figs follow figs, grapes clust'ring grow again
Where clusters grew, and (ev'ry apple stript)
The boughs soon tempt the gath'rer as before.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Caparyson
a score of stedes; flie, flie.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Up, lad, up, 'tis late for lying:
Hear the drums of morning play;
Hark, the empty
highways
crying
"Who'll beyond the hills away?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Bartholomew; [c] there, see
A work completed to our hands, that lays,
If any
spectacle
on earth can do, 680
The whole creative powers of man asleep!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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je veux qu'on me couche
Parmi les Morts des eaux
nocturnes
abreuves!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Indi spiro: <
da te, la voglia tua discerno meglio
che tu
qualunque
cosa t'e piu certa;
perch' io la veggio nel verace speglio
che fa di se pareglio a l'altre cose,
e nulla face lui di se pareglio.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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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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Not large my cups, nor rich my cheer,
This Sabine wine, which erst I seal'd,
That day the
applauding
theatre
Your welcome peal'd,
Dear knight Maecenas!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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THE LETTER
Little cramped words
scrawling
all over the paper
Like draggled fly's legs,
What can you tell of the flaring moon
Through the oak leaves?
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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"
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smooths her hair with
automatic
hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came
Missiues
from
the King, who all-hail'd me Thane of Cawdor, by which Title
before, these weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to
the comming on of time, with haile King that shalt be.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
This might
suggest that history would be the thing for an epic poet; and so it
would be, if history were
superior
to legend in poetic reality.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The ladies of the corridor
Find
themselves
involved, disgraced,
Call witness to their principles
And deprecate the lack of taste
Observing that hysteria
Might easily be misunderstood;
Mrs.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Granville the polite,
And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write;
Well-natured Garth, inflamed with early praise;
And Congreve loved, and Swift endured my lays;
The courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield, read;
Even mitred
Rochester
would nod the head,
And St.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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I have sojourned in the Muse's land,
Have wandered with the wandering star,
Seeking for strength, and in my hand
Held all
philosophies
that are;
Yet nothing could I hear nor see
Stronger than That Which Needs Must Be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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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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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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_
[475] Almost innumerable, and
sometimes
as whimsically absurd as the
"Arabian Nights' Entertainments," are the holy legends of India.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Or wallow naked in December snow
By
thinking
on fantastic summer's heat?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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I mean that is hard by and next them, which
they will utter
unretarded
without any shamefastness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Then, 'twas before my time, the Roman
At yonder heaving hill would stare:
The blood that warms an English yeoman,
The
thoughts
that hurt him, they were there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
`But Troilus, I pray thee tel me now, 330
If that thou trowe, er this, that any wight
Hath loved
paramours
as wel as thou?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
A LITTLE BOY LOST
"Nought loves another as itself,
Nor
venerates
another so,
Nor is it possible to thought
A greater than itself to know.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Meantime
on Ilion's tower Apollo stood,
And calling Mars, thus urged the raging god:
"Stern power of arms, by whom the mighty fall;
Who bathest in blood, and shakest the embattled wall,
Rise in thy wrath!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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XXVI
Who would demonstrate Rome's true grandeur,
In all her vast dimensions, all her might,
Her length and breadth, and all her depth and height
Needs no line or lead, compass or measure:
He only need draw a circle, at his leisure,
Round all that Ocean in his arms holds tight,
Be it where Sirius
scorches
with his light,
Or where the northerlies blow cold forever.
| 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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- 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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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heofena helm herian ne cūðon, _could not worship the defence
of the
heavens_
(God), 182; nē hūru Hildeburh herian þorfte Eotena trēowe,
_had no need to praise the fidelity of the Eotens_, 1072; pres.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Nam quo me
referam?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Oh, might I lie on the wind, or fly
In the wilful sea-bird's track,
Would I hurry on, with a
homesick
cry--
Or hasten back?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
There are poems in _The Book of Pilgrimage_ of the stillness of a
whispered prayer in a great
Cathedral
and there are others that carry in
their exultation the music of mighty hymns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
[Thomas Sloan was a west of Scotland man, and seems, though not much
in correspondence, to have been on
intimate
terms with Burns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Over sea, over shore, where the cannons loudly roar,
He still was a
stranger
to fear;
And nocht could him quail, or his bosom assail,
But the bonie lass he lo'ed sae dear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the
strengthless
dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl's.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
I was a queen, the
daughter
of a king.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Erkennst
du deinen Herrn und Meister?
| 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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Time was when, with the crowd's
farewell
'Hurrah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
BRANDER:
Die kommen eben von der Reise,
Man sieht's an ihrer
wunderlichen
Weise;
Sie sind nicht eine Stunde hier.
| 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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MOPSUS
"For Daphnis cruelly slain wept all the Nymphs-
Ye hazels, bear them witness, and ye streams-
When she, his mother,
clasping
in her arms
The hapless body of the son she bare,
To gods and stars unpitying, poured her plaint.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Hold, and smite me not,
Old
housefolk
of my father!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Is it that death forgets to free
You fishes of
melancholy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
She dresses ay sae clean and neat,
Both decent and genteel:
And then there's
something
in her gait
Gars ony dress look weel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
"
A son of God was the Goodly Fere That bade us his
brothers
be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Fond of rambling, I hunted the shark 'long the beach,
And no osprey in ether soared out of my reach;
And the bear that I pinched 'twixt my finger and thumb,
Like the lynx and the wolf, perished
harmless
and dumb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
checks, online payments and credit card donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
) 15
All pitiful knaves and by-street wenchers fare,
And thou, (than any worse), with hanging hair,
In coney-breeding
Celtiberia
bred,
Egnatius!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Yestreen we left her there, who 'gan to take
Some care of us and friendlier looks to dart;
Now from our eyes she draws a very lake:
Return alone--I love to be apart--
Try, if perchance the day will ever break
To mitigate our still
increasing
smart,
Partner and prophet of my lifelong ache.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
But they are few, and all romance has flown,
And men can
prophesy
about the sun,
And lecture on his arrows--how, alone,
Through a waste void the soulless atoms run,
How from each tree its weeping nymph has fled,
And that no more 'mid English reeds a Naiad shows her head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Now laverocks wake the merry morn
Aloft on dewy wing;
The merle, in his
noontide
bow'r,
Makes woodland echoes ring;
The mavis wild wi' mony a note,
Sings drowsy day to rest:
In love and freedom they rejoice,
Wi' care nor thrall opprest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
"A poet ought not to pick Nature's pocket," he said, and it is for
colour and sound, in their most
delicate
forms, that he goes to natural
things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
I shall have time in all the
years and years to come, to know
everything
about you; and there will be
no secrets between us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
He suffered from
rheumatic
fever complicated by an enlarged heart, and died in October 1879, aged eight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Here is the source,
Whence cause of merit in you is deriv'd,
E'en as the
affections
good or ill she takes,
Or severs, winnow'd as the chaff.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
He
selected
his card and placed upon it his fresh stake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Calico ban,
The little Mice ran
To be ready in time for tea;
Flippity
flup,
They drank it all up,
And danced in the cup:
But they never came back to me;
They never came back,
They never came back,
They never came back to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Or Hylas
mirrored
in the perfect stream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
"For the charges at our inn,
You with maiden smiles shall pay;
I the landlord's heart will win
In a scholar's
pleasant
way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
"
His spear in hand he
brandishes
and wields,
Towards Carlun has turned the point of steel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
_ This ends not thus,
The
oracular
fate ordains.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Owneth thy sire one third, one third is right of thy mother,
Only the third is thine: stint thee to strive with the others,
Who to the
stranger
son have yielded their dues with a dower!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Where is thy place of
blissful
rest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
--for she was a maid
More beautiful than ever twisted braid,
Or sigh'd, or blush'd, or on spring-flowered lea
Spread a green kirtle to the minstrelsy:
A virgin purest lipp'd, yet in the lore
Of love deep learned to the red heart's core:
Not one hour old, yet of sciential brain
To unperplex bliss from its neighbour pain;
Define their pettish limits, and estrange
Their points of contact, and swift counterchange;
Intrigue with the specious chaos, and dispart
Its most
ambiguous
atoms with sure art;
As though in Cupid's college she had spent
Sweet days a lovely graduate, still unshent,
And kept his rosy terms in idle languishment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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The work of many days so
transitory!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Another Fan
(Of Mademoiselle Mallarme's)
O dreamer, that I may dive
In pure
pathless
joy, understand,
How by subtle deceits connive
To keep my wing in your hand.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Rememberest
thou how, hand in hand
O friend, O lover, we did stand,
And knew that she was dead?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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XXVIII
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
Bearing some trophy as an ornament,
Whose roots from earth are almost rent,
Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;
More than half-bowed towards its final bed,
Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,
While, leafless now, its heavy crown is leant
Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;
And though at the first strong wind it must fall,
And many young oaks are rooted within call,
Alone among the devout populace is revered:
Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,
That, among cities which have
flourished
here,
This old honoured dust was the most honoured.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Sea Garden
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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CCLXI
In the admiral is much great virtue found;
He strikes Carlun on his steel helm so brown,
Has broken it and rent, above his brow,
Through his thick hair the sword goes
glancing
round,
A great palm's breadth and more of flesh cuts out,
So that all bare the bone is, in that wound.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Die Madels sind doch sehr interessiert,
Ob einer fromm und
schlicht
nach altem Brauch.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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In
this desire to approach the
Nameless
One, the young Brother in _The Book
of a Monk's Life_ builds up about God parables, images and legends
reminiscent of those of the 17th century Angelus Silesius, but sustained
by a more pregnant language because exalted by a more ardent visionary
force.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Go, for
yourself
procure renown,
Bonnie laddie, Highland laddie;
And for your lawful king, his crown,
Bonnie Highland laddie.
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Robert Burns |
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These lines of Milton--
"What could it less, when spirits
immortal
sung?
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers, pleasant in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit -
somewhat
deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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The money or other
property
one has on hand.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Hounded by misery till my final breath,
I lay down a painful life in
tormented
death.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Now
wrinkled
forehead, hair gone grey:
Sparse eyelashes: eyes so dim,
That laughed and flashed once every way,
And reeled their roaming victims in:
Nose bent from beauty, ears thin,
Hanging down like moss, a face,
Pallid, dead and bleak, the chin
Furrowed, a skinny-lipped disgrace.
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Villon |
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If to be the thrall
Of love, and faith too
generous
to defend
Its very life from him she loved, be sin,
What hope of grace may the seducer win?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Come there, beautiful child, with me,
Come to the arcades of Araby,
To the land of the date and the purple vine,
Where pleasure her rosy wreaths doth twine,
And gladness shall be alway thine;
Singing at sunset next thy bed,
Strewing
flowers under thy head.
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Hugo - Poems |
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