Her face is rounder than the moon,
And ruddier than the gown
Of orchis in the pasture,
Or
rhododendron
worn.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Wrinkles
no more are or no less
Than beauty turned to sourness.
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Robert Herrick |
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_--Most Chinese
syllables
ended with a vowel or nasal sound.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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What a set would his
shoulders
have, and neck,
To bear his goodly-purposed head; what gait
And usage of his limbs!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For this beauty yet doth hide
Something
more than thou hast spied.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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" Fire shall devour
and wan flames feed on the
fearless
warrior
who oft stood stout in the iron-shower,
when, sped from the string, a storm of arrows
shot o'er the shield-wall: the shaft held firm,
featly feathered, followed the barb.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Songs can the very moon draw down from heaven
Circe with singing changed from human form
The
comrades
of Ulysses, and by song
Is the cold meadow-snake, asunder burst.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The maids beside
Tattiana
keep--
Men opposite.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear:
How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every
blackening
church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.
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blake-poems |
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"Not
marketing
this time, but we'll go into the Parks if
you like.
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Kipling - Poems |
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the very prison walls
Suddenly
seemed to reel,
And the sky above my head became
Like a casque of scorching steel;
And, though I was a soul in pain,
My pain I could not feel.
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Wilde - Poems |
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[B] Dost thou see
That
phantasm
of a woman?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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_Quebremos
el ojo de burlas_,
EVE.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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They burn with an unquenched and smothered fire
Consumed by longings over which they brood,
Oblivious
of time, without desire,
Alone and lost in their great solitude.
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Rilke - Poems |
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So they stormed the iron Hill,
O'er the
sleepers
lying still,
And their trumpets sang them forward through the dull succeeding dawns,
But the thunder flung them wide,
And they crumpled up and died,--
They had waged the war of monarchs--and they died the death of pawns.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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How does he stir each deep
emotion?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Their strange fantastic
habitudes
I know,
Their measured groans in lamentable flow;
When rhyming-fits the faltering tongue employ,
And love sick spasms the mournful Muse annoy;
The smile that like the lightning fleets away,
The sorrows that for half a life delay;
Like drops of honey in a wormwood bowl,
Drain'd to the dregs in bitterness of soul.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And
vanishes
along the level of the roofs.
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T.S. Eliot |
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DRI Fr
an
cois and and thee and
Margot Drink we the
comrades
merrily
?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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[Sidenote: Some, imagining the supreme good to consist in lacking
nothing, labour for an abundance of _riches_; others, supposing
that this good lies in the
_reverence_
and _esteem_ of their
fellow men, strive to acquire honourable positions.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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]
[fa] _The Grand
Chancellor
of the Ten_.
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Byron |
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(In the early fragments the
numerals
indicate the number of the _line_
as given in the principal editions.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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His
knowledge
with old notions still combined
Is twenty years behind the march of mind.
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John Clare |
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But Destiny, untangling this chaos,
In which all good and evil once were lost,
Has since ensured the
heavenly
virtues,
Flying skywards, left the vices behind,
Which, till this day, remain here confined,
Concealed within these ruined avenues.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And here and there, anear, afar,
Streams skyward many a beacon-star,
Conjur'd and charm'd and kindled well
By pure oil's soft and
guileless
spell,
Hid now no more
Within the palace' secret store.
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Aeschylus |
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The atom displaces all atoms beside,
And Genius
unspheres
all souls that abide.
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Emerson - Poems |
|
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Distress
I don't come to conquer your flesh tonight, O beast
In whom are the sins of the race, nor to stir
In your foul tresses a mournful tempest
Beneath the fatal boredom my kisses pour:
A heavy sleep without those dreams that creep
Under
curtains
alien to remorse, I ask of your bed,
Sleep you can savour after your dark deceits,
You who know more of Nothingness than the dead.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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But this, at best, tells as
much one way as another; nay, the Sufi, who may be considered the
Scholar and Man of Letters in Persia, would be far more likely than
the
careless
Epicure to interpolate what favours his own view of the
Poet.
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| Question: |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The then
Earl of Loudon, and father to Earl John before mentioned, had Ramsay
at Loudon, and one day walking
together
by the banks of Irvine water,
near New-Mills, at a place called Patie's Mill, they were struck with
the appearance of a beautiful country girl.
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Robert Forst |
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ha
6
_peruoluit_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With sorceries sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's
mysterious
season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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4870
This hadde sotil dame Nature;
For noon goth right, I thee ensure,
Ne hath entent hool ne parfyt;
For hir desir is for delyt,
The which
fortened
crece and eke 4875
The pley of love for-ofte seke,
And thralle hem-silf, they be so nyce,
Unto the prince of every vyce.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Rose, when I
remember
you,
White and glowing, pink and new,
With so swift a sense of fun
Altho' life has just begun;
With so sure a pride of place
In your very infant face,
I should like to make a prayer
To the angels in the air:
"If an angel ever brings
Me a baby in her wings,
Please be certain that it grows
Very, very much like Rose.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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My eyes are dazzled, on seeing the light of day, 155
My knees,
trembling
beneath me, have given way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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There are many
chimaeras
that exist today, and before combating one of them, the greatest enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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FANTAISIES DECORATIVES
I
LE PANNEAU
UNDER the rose-tree's dancing shade
There stands a little ivory girl,
Pulling the leaves of pink and pearl
With pale green nails of
polished
jade.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Our heroes laugh'd; the treach'ry vile excus'd;
And gave the ring, which much delight diffus'd;
Together with a
handsome
sum of gold,
Which soon a husband in her train enroll'd,
Who, for a maid, the pretty fair-one took;
And then our heroes wand'ring pranks forsook,
With laurels cover'd, which in future times,
Will make them famous through the Western climes;
More glorious since, they only cost, we find,
Those sweet ATTENTIONS pleasing to the MIND.
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La Fontaine |
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She gave him minute
instructions
and a key with which to open the street
door.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Though not
strictly
a troubadour text, it is a first example of a form, the alba, adopted later.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Forgive me, father, if this fault I blame;
Age so advanced, may some
indulgence
claim.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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So great the swiftness,
So great, again, the store of idol-things,
And so, when
perishes
the former image,
And other is gendered of another pose,
The former seemeth to have changed its gestures.
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Lucretius |
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I shall not want Society in Heaven,
Lucretia Borgia shall be my Bride;
Her anecdotes will be more amusing
Than Pipit's
experience
could provide.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What
immortal
hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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blake-poems |
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Sweet is the shade of the
cocoanut
glade, and
the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o' the
moon with the sound of the voices we love.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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who knows what
thoughts
these small heads hold?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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'30-31'
In this couplet Pope hits off the spiteful envy of conceited critics
toward
successful
writers.
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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When we are winding thread, and it is tangled, we pass the
spool across and through the skein, now this way, now that way; even so,
to finish off the War, we shall send
embassies
hither and thither and
everywhere, to disentangle matters.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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"
Thenne FLORENCE, fault'ring ynne her saie,
Tremblynge these wordyes spoke,
"Ah, cruele
EDWARDE!
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Que les soleils sont beaux dans les chaudes
soirees!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
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re-use it under the terms of the Project
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License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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Ye founts all life sustaining,
On which hang heaven and earth, and where
Men's withered hearts their waste repair--
Ye gush, ye nurse, and I must sit
complaining?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Think of those ages of gold when Jupiter followed his urges,
Chose
Callisto
one day, turned to Semel the next.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Every line is
an idea conveying either the beauty and playfulness of the fawn, or the
artlessness of the maiden, or her love, or her admiration, or her
grief, or the fragrance and warmth and _appropriateness _of the little
nest-like bed of lilies and roses which the fawn
devoured
as it lay upon
them, and could scarcely be distinguished from them by the once happy
little damsel who went to seek her pet with an arch and rosy smile on
her face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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'Tis now the hour when midnight silence reigns
O'er earth and sea, and
whispering
Zephyr dies
Within his rocky cell; and Morpheus chains
Each beast that roams the wood, and bird that wings the skies.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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As a
natural
consequence
it has begun to create a spirit of revolt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Minety,
Who
purchased
five hundred and ninety
Large apples and pears, which he threw unawares
At the heads of the people of Minety.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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"
Light flew his earnest words, among the
blossoms
blown.
| Guess: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Where is the
instrument
whence the sounds flow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Apollinaire's Notes to the Bestiary
Admire the vital power
And nobility of line:
It praises the line that forms the images, marvellous
ornaments
to this poetic entertainment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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There was one feudal custom worth keeping, at least,
Roasted bores made a part of each well-ordered feast,
And of all quiet
pleasures
the very _ne plus_
Was in hunting wild bores as the tame ones hunt us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Et, comme des chevaux, en
soufflant
des narines
Nous allions, fiers et forts, et ca nous battait la.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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e pouere,
In grete
meschief
& stronge to couere,
ffor hunger in wrecchednesse.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The jew is
underneath
the lot.
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T.S. Eliot |
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ille sub extrema pendens secluditur ala
et
uolucres
ramo summouet insidias.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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quid
properasse
iuuat, quid parca dedisse quieti
tempora, quid nocti conseruisse diem,
si tamen his standumst, si non datur artibus ullis
ulterior nostro ripa premenda pedi?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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[436] Ariovistus, king of the Suebi, summoned to aid one
Gallic confederacy against another, formed the ambition of
conquering Gaul, but was defeated by Julius Caesar near
Besançon
(Vesontio) in 58 B.
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Tacitus |
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The worlde ys darke wythe nyghte; the wyndes are stylle;
Fayntelie the mone her palyde lyghte makes gleme;
The upryste[106] sprytes the sylente letten[107] fylle,
Wythe ouphant faeryes joynyng ynne the dreme;
The forreste sheenethe wythe the sylver leme; 930
Nowe maie mie love be sated ynn yttes treate;
Uponne the lynche of somme swefte reynyng streme,
Att the swote banquette I wylle
swotelie
eate.
| Guess: |
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Already I have vowed it, to do nought
Save after counsel with my people ta'en,
King though I be; that ne'er in after time,
If ill fate chance, my people then may say--
_In aid of
strangers
thou the state hast slain_.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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When
that was healed he rode away with them to
Caerleon
for a visit with
Queen Guinevere, who dressed Enid again in magnificent clothes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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_94 at the utmost point 1870;
cancelled
for when (where?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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The highest
criticism
really is the record of one's own soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Juste as I was wythe AElla to be bleste,
Shappe foullie thos hathe
snatched
hym awaie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Would I could leave behind me upon earth
Some
monument
to thy glory, such as this!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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_ O yes, my
gentleman
finds all child's play!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
LXIV
Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground,
Why do you stand,
expectant?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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I laugh at those who, while they gape and gaze,
The bald
antiquity
of China praise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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It would be easier to climb to Heaven
than to walk the
Szechwan
Road.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The drooping seaweed hears, in night abyssed,
Far and more far the wave's receding shocks,
Nor doubts, for all the darkness and the mist,
That the pale shepherdess will keep her tryst,
And
shoreward
lead again her foam-fleeced flocks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
The ancient Rhodian will praise the glory
Of that
renowned
Colossus, great in story:
And whatever noble work he can raise
To a like renown, some boaster thunders,
From on high; while I, above all, I praise
Rome's seven hills, the world's seven wonders.
| 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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For my lost sire
continual
sorrows spring,
The great, the good; your father and your king.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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: _haud posse a_ Dap ||
_mentem_
Da:
_mente_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Man feels an
imperious
craving to shun bodily pain and secure mental
pleasure.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Through green bamboos a deep road ran
Where dark
creepers
brushed our coats as we passed.
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Li Po |
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In a burnt, ashen land, where no herb grew,
I to the winds my cries of anguish threw;
And in my thoughts, in that sad place apart,
Pricked gently with the
poignard
o'er my heart.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Her
shuttered
barge
Burned on the water all the day.
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T.S. Eliot |
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For on that bridge which spanned the narrow tide,
A loser to Dordona's lady, vest
And arms suspended from the votive stone
He left; as I, meseems,
erewhile
have shown.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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L'irreparable ronge avec sa dent
maudite!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I love you when the
teardrop
flows,
Hotter than blood, from your large eye;
When I would hush you to repose
Your heavy pain breaks forth and grows
Into a loud and tortured cry.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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--learn
prudence
of a friend!
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Alexander Pope |
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Far thee well Lord,
I would not be the
Villaine
that thou think'st,
For the whole Space that's in the Tyrants Graspe,
And the rich East to boot
Mal.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The sea crept moaning, moaning nigher:
She should have
hastened
to be gone,--
The sea swept higher, breaking by her:
She should have hastened to her home
While yet the west was flushed with fire,
But now her feet are in the foam,
The sea-foam, sweeping higher.
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Christina Rossetti |
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This ode was originally
addressed
to Wordsworth,
but before it was published in its first form, the "William" of the still
existing MS.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Help and releve, thou mighty debonaire,
Have mercy on my
perilous
langour!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Facing the timorous
nakedness
of the gazelle
That trembles, on her back like an elephant gone wild,
Waiting upside down, she keenly admires herself,
Laughing with her bared teeth at the child:
And, between her legs where the victim's couched,
Raising the black flesh split beneath its mane,
Advances the palate of that alien mouth
Pale, rosy as a shell from the Spanish Main.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Under the tow-path past the barges
Never an eight goes
flashing
by;
Never a blatant coach on the marge is
Urging his crew to do or die;
Never the critic we knew enlarges,
Fluent, on How and Why!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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