I do my part, for I meet him halfway and
proclaim
his adventures
Praising his name in advance, even before he's begun.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the
strength
to force the moment to its crisis?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Wherefore
fear the Sin which brings to
another Gain?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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O lullaby, with your daughter, and the innocence
Of your cold feet, greet a terrible new being:
A voice where harpsichords and viols linger,
Will you press that breast, with your
withered
finger,
From which Woman flows in Sibylline whiteness to
Those lips starved by the air's virgin blue?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Should auld
acquaintance
be forgot,
And auld lang syne!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_
The last evening, as I was straying out, and thinking of "O'er the
hills and far away," I spun the
following
stanza for it; but whether
my spinning will deserve to be laid up in store, like the precious
thread of the silk-worm, or brushed to the devil, like the vile
manufacture of the spider, I leave, my dear Sir, to your usual candid
criticism.
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Robert Burns |
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"
The Powers aboon will tent thee,
Misfortune
sha'na steer thee;
Thou'rt like themselves sae lovely,
That ill they'll ne'er let near thee.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Eternal Nymph, you're the grace
Of my
ancestral
place:
So, in this fresh, green view,
See your Poet, who brings
An un-weaned kid to you,
Whose horns, in offering,
Bud from its brow in youth.
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Ronsard |
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I lay my hand upon my swelling breast,
And
grateful
would, but cannot speak the rest.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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OF GRACE
(BALLATA,
FRAGMENT)
ii
FPULL well thou knowest, song, what grace I mean,
E'en as thou know'st the sunlight I have lost.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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What of the faith and fire within us
What was it kept you so long, brave German
submersible?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
The Eye
Said the Eye one day, "I see beyond these valleys a
mountain
veiled
with blue mist.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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suffecit
mandasse
deam: tua littera nobis
et pecus et segetes et domus ampla fuit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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King
Marsilies
hath ever been my foe.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Farewell, thou
generous
heart and true!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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As the widowed vine which grows in naked field ne'er uplifts itself, ne'er
ripens a mellow grape, but bending prone 'neath the weight of its tender
body now and again its highmost bough touches with its root; this no
husbandmen, no
herdsmen
will foster: but if this same chance to be joined
with marital elm, it many husbandmen, many herdsmen will foster: so the
virgin, whilst she stays untouched, so long does she age, unfostered; but
when fitting union she obtain in meet time, dearer is she to her lord and
less of a trouble to parent.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais,
beautiful
Athenian courtesan and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see
Sections
3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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His known patrons include
Geoffrey
II, Duke of Brittany and Dalfi d'Alvernha; he was at one time in Poitiers at the court of Richard I of England, on whose death he wrote this planh.
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Troubador Verse |
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There was once a day--but old Time then was young--
That brave Caledonia, the chief of her line,
From some of your
northern
deities sprung,
(Who knows not that brave Caledonia's divine?
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Robert Burns |
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is metyng--
To
witnesse
he take?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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habit can efface,
Interest o'ercome, or policy take place:
By
actions?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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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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Sara Teasdale |
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And, so knowing,
For mere insane delight in violent things,
Wilt thou awake in the fickle mood of men
Again that ancient
ignominy
which once,
Till beauty freed them, loaded the souls of women?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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My
choicest
model thou hast ta'en.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I should see your
backside
then.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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]
[Footnote 38: This name, derived from two Greek words meaning _rump_ and
_fancy_, was meant for Nicolai of Berlin, a great hater of Goethe's
writings, and is explained by the fact that the man had for a long time a
violent affection of the nerves, and by the
application
he made of leeches
as a remedy, (alluded to by Mephistopheles.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I rush there: when, at my feet, entwine (bruised
By the languor tasted in their being-two's evil)
Girls
sleeping
in each other's arms' sole peril:
I seize them without untangling them and run
To this bank of roses wasting in the sun
All perfume, hated by the frivolous shade
Where our frolic should be like a vanished day.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Then "mid the gray there peeps a glimmer soon,
A new light rises 'neath the evening star,
A grass-plot
stretches
o'er a crag afar.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Petr' Andrejitch, I did not expect
this of you; aren't you ashamed of
yourself?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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--I got indeed to the length of three or four stanzas, in
the way of address to the shade of the bard, on
crowning
his bust.
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Robert Burns |
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"
I turn'd, and o'er my brow the mantling shame,
Within me as I felt that new fire swell,
Of
conscious
treason came.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Bards for my own land only I invoke,
(For the war the war is over, the field is clear'd,)
Till they strike up marches henceforth triumphant and onward,
To cheer O Mother your boundless
expectant
soul.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Once again
the
faithful
woman instructs her heroic lover in the conventions
of society, this time teaching him the importance of the family
in Babylonian life, and obedience to the ruler.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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How
penetrating
is the end of an autumn day!
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| Answer: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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There was a
children's
practice
in the school-house.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Chacun, pendant la nuit, avait reve des siennes
Dans quelque songe etrange ou l'on voyait joujoux,
Bonbons
habilles
d'or, etincelants bijoux,
Tourbillonner, danser une danse sonore,
Puis fuir sous les rideaux, puis reparaitre encore!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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What was their horror on seeing the boat (including the churn and the
tea-kettle) in the mouth of an enormous Seeze Pyder, an aquatic and
ferocious
creature
truly dreadful to behold, and, happily, only met with in
those excessive longitudes!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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--from my house hath outcast me;
She hath borne
children
to our enemy;
She hath made me naught, she hath made Orestes naught.
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Euripides - Electra |
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As children bid the guest good-night,
And then reluctant turn,
My flowers raise their pretty lips,
Then put their
nightgowns
on.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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But soon
As thou hast skill to read of heroes' fame,
And of thy father's deeds, and inly learn
What virtue is, the plain by slow degrees
With waving corn-crops shall to golden grow,
From the wild briar shall hang the blushing grape,
And
stubborn
oaks sweat honey-dew.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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But I look to the west when I gae to rest,
That happy my dreams and my
slumbers
may be;
For far in the west lives he I loe best,
The man that is dear to my babie and me.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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e
prophete
went for?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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]
All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,
Led yellow Autumn wreath'd with nodding corn;
Then Winter's time-bleach'd locks did hoary show,
By Hospitality with cloudless brow:
Next
followed
Courage with his martial stride,
From where the Feal wild-woody coverts hide;^8
Benevolence, with mild, benignant air,
A female form, came from the tow'rs of Stair;^9
Learning and Worth in equal measures trode,
From simple Catrine, their long-lov'd abode:^10
Last, white-rob'd Peace, crown'd with a hazel wreath,
To rustic Agriculture did bequeath
The broken, iron instruments of death:
At sight of whom our Sprites forgat their kindling wrath.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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XXVI
Contemplativeness, her delight,
E'en from her cradle's earliest dream,
Adorned with many a vision bright
Of rural life the
sluggish
stream;
Ne'er touched her fingers indolent
The needle nor, o'er framework bent,
Would she the canvas tight enrich
With gay design and silken stitch.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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--I must rebuke
This
drunkenness
of triumph ere it die,
And dying, bring despair.
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Shelley |
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It has, for instance, been seriously
debated, whether an epic should not contain a
catalogue
of heroes.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And will this divine grace, this supreme perfection depart those for whom life exists only to
discover
and glorify them?
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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I
foresee that poverty and obscurity
probably
await me, and I am in some
measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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what a small part of his whole work it
represents!
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| Question: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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True, they may lay your proud
despoilers
low,
But not for you will Freedom's altars flame.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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'
To that
Criseyde
answerde thus anoon,
`Ne hadde I er now, my swete herte dere, 1210
Ben yolde, y-wis, I were now not here!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And as you left,
suspired
confused and jaded
In sighful accents the deserted glade.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Not that he is a materialist; on the contrary,
he is a most strenuous
assertor
of the soul, and, with the soul, of the
body as its infallible associate and vehicle in the present frame of
things.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Woe and alack for the sound,
for the rattle of cars to the wall,
And the creak of the
grinding
axles!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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O good old man, how well in thee appears
The
constant
service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Theseus
Traitor, do you dare to show
yourself
before me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Quick, rub thine eyes and draw thy hose:
The Morning comes ere
darkness
goes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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If It be
pleasant
to look on, stalled in the packed serai,
Does not the Young Man try Its temper and pace ere he buy?
| Guess: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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The spirit of the Middle Ages with its religious fervour and
superstitious fanaticism is symbolized in several poems, the most
important among which are _The Cathedral_, _God in the Middle Ages_,
_Saint Sebastian_ personifying martyrdom, and _The Rose Window_, whose
glowing magic is compared to the
hypnotic
power of the tiger's eye.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Me seemeth good that, with some little train,
Forthwith
from Ludlow the young prince be fet
Hither to London, to be crown'd our King.
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare |
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Could I, in melting verse, my
thoughts
but throw,
As in my heart their living load I bear,
No soul so cruel in the world was e'er
That would not at the tale with pity glow.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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"
Light flew his earnest words, among the
blossoms
blown.
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Oh what a
multitude
they seemed, these flowers of London town!
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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The world
dishonored
thou hast left.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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This
projected
audience
is one hundred million readers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Let us
commemorate
her then ourselves in festival private
(Two constitute a whole tribe, when they are two in love).
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Oh that I might on the mountain-height,
Walk in the noon of thy blessed light,
Round mountain-caverns with spirits hover,
Float in thy
gleamings
the meadows over,
And freed from the fumes of a lore-crammed brain,
Bathe in thy dew and be well again!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Somewhere or other, may be near or far;
Past land and sea, clean out of sight;
Beyond the
wandering
moon, beyond the star
That tracks her night by night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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That, barking busy 'mid the
glittering
rocks,
Hunts, where he points, the intercepted flocks; 1793.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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For, as
Aristotle
says rightly, the moving of laughter is
a fault in comedy, a kind of turpitude that depraves some part of a man's
nature without a disease.
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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A sad and anxious retinue of friends
accompanies
the adventurers
through the streets; but the voice of lamentation is drowned by
the shouts of admiring thousands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Thou who didst waken from his summer-dreams
The blue Mediterranean, where he lay
Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams,
Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay,
And saw in sleep old palaces and towers
Quivering within the wave's intenser day,
All
overgrown
with azure moss and flowers
So sweet, the sense faints picturing them!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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For those my
unbaptised
rhymes,
Writ in my wild unhallowed times;
For every sentence, clause, and word,
That's not inlaid with Thee, my Lord,
Forgive me, God, and blot each line
Out of my book that is not Thine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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"So there were many, many wizards all through the hundred kingdoms who
tried to work the charm, but failed; many wizard heads
bleached
on the
walls, and for weeks a troupe of carrion crows hung like a cloud above
the towers of the city gateways.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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`Ye, blisful god, han me so wel beset
In love, y-wis, that al that bereth lyf 835
Imaginen ne cowde how to ben bet;
For, lord, with-outen
Ialousye
or stryf,
I love oon which that is most ententyf
To serven wel, unwery or unfeyned,
That ever was, and leest with harm distreyned.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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_L' aura gentil che
rasserena
i poggi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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To Theophile Gautier
Friend, poet spirit, you have fled our night,
You left our noise, to
penetrate
the light;
Now your name will shine on pure summits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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THAT DREADFUL DRAGON,
symbolical
of Satan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But that can never be;
For thine orb is bright,
And the clouds are light,
That at
intervals
shadow the star-studded night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
1745 appears dimly to fore-shadow the office of the evil archer Loki,
who in the Scandinavian mythology shoots Balder with a
mistletoe
twig.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
If he has made, 140
As he saith--which I know not, nor believe--
But, if he made us--he cannot unmake:
We are
immortal!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
While dust
reanimate
begins to stir
Here, there, beyond, beyond, reach beyond reach;
While every wave refashions on the beach
Alive or dead-in-life some seafarer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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No marble bust, philosopher, nor stone,
But similar
sensation
would have shown.
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La Fontaine |
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One fallow field he pointed out to me
Where but the day before a peasant ploughed,
Dreaming of next year's fruit, and there his plough
Stood now mid-field, his horses commandeered,
A
monstrous
sable crow perched on the beam.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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THE SACK OF ROME AND THE END OF VITELLIUS
While things[212] went thus on Vitellius' side, the Flavian army 78
after leaving Narnia spent the days of the
Saturnalian
holiday[213]
quietly at Ocriculum.
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Tacitus |
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Rebuild or ruin: either fill
Of vital force the wasted rill,
Or tumble all again in heap
To
weltering
Chaos and to sleep.
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Emerson - Poems |
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nam sanctae Veneri Cupidinique
uouit, si sibi restitutus essem
desissemque truces uibrare iambos, 5
electissima pessimi poetae
scripta
tardipedi
deo daturam
infelicibus ustulanda lignis.
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Latin - Catullus |
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we do each of us still retain the same princi-
ples upon which we first undertook it ; and that,
though perhaps we may
sometimes
differ in our
advice concerning the way of proceeding, yet we
have the same good ends in the general ; and by
this unlucky falling out, we shall be provoked to
a greater emulation of serving you.
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Marvell - Poems |
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At early morn, the careful housewife, led
To cull her dinner from its garden bed,
Of weedless herbs a healthier
prospect
sees,
While hum with busier joy her happy bees;
In brighter rows her table wealth aspires,
And laugh with merrier blaze her evening fires; 1820.
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William Wordsworth |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And there was great
rejoicing
in that distant city of Wirani,
because its king and its lord chamberlain had regained their reason.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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E si come
ciascuno
a noi venia,
vedeasi l'ombra piena di letizia
nel folgor chiaro che di lei uscia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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In his
_Present
State of Ireland_ (p.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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A poor man
determines
to go out into the world and make his fortune.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Where is the
instrument
whence the sounds flow?
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Rilke - Poems |
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e a-vyse;
Such
glaumande
gle glorious to here,
Dere dyn vp-on day, daunsyng on ny3tes,
48 [D] Al wat3 hap vpon he3e in halle3 & chambre3,
With lorde3 & ladies, as leuest him ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The
thundering
line of battle stands,
And in the air Death moans and sings;
But Day shall clasp him with strong hands,
And Night shall fold him in soft wings.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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