II
What shall we do,
Cytherea?
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Sappho |
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Men, women, rich and poor, in the cool hours,
Shuffled their sandals o'er the pavement white,
Companion'd or alone; while many a light
Flared, here and there, from wealthy festivals,
And threw their moving shadows on the walls,
Or found them cluster'd in the
corniced
shade
Of some arch'd temple door, or dusky colonnade.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Therefore
a vital heat and wind there is
Within the very body, which at death
Deserts our frames.
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Lucretius |
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that speech which tamed the wildest
thought!
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Petrarch |
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What profits
loathing
ere ye know?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Yet, if we have a fair gale of
wind, I forbid not the
steering
out of our sail, so the favour of the
gale deceive us not.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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or a prepared
constitution?
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Whitman |
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But under one name I'd have thee yoke them both;
And when, for instance, I shall speak of soul,
Teaching
the same to be but mortal, think
Thereby I'm speaking also of the mind--
Since both are one, a substance inter-joined.
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Lucretius |
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--So the green-gowned faeries say
Living over
Blackmoor
way.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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When I can scarce breathe beneath a
shameful
yoke!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Morning has not
occurred!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Yet there
happened
in my time one
noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking; his language
(where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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O sweet are Coila's haughs an' woods,
When
lintwhites
chant amang the buds,
And jinkin' hares, in amorous whids
Their loves enjoy,
While thro' the braes the cushat croods
With wailfu' cry!
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Robert Burns |
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I speak to the
rebellious
woman Vashti.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Es ist so elend, in der Fremde schweifen
Und sie werden mich doch
ergreifen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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It is
well known that those who advocate the claims of
Mehetable
Goings are
unable to find any trace of her existence prior to October of that year.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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More bright than ever, and a lovelier fair,
Before me she appears,
Where most she's conscious that her sight will please
This is one pillar that
sustains
my life;
The other her dear name,
That to my heart sounds so delightfully.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Zu jenen Spharen wag ich nicht zu streben,
Woher die holde
Nachricht
tont;
Und doch, an diesen Klang von Jugend auf gewohnt,
Ruft er auch jetzt zuruck mich in das Leben.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Henceforth
in my name
Take courage, O thou woman,--man, take hope!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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222, the lines occur:
'Four years and thirty, told this very week,
Have I been now a
sojourner
on earth.
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William Wordsworth |
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And were you saved,
And I
condemned
to be
Where you were not,
That self were hell to me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Who oft towards the park for quiet wandered
When far a bird allured him o'er the lea,
Who sat beside the tranquil pool and pondered,
And
listened
to the silent secrecy?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
'Twas in the
seventeen
hunder year
O' grace, and ninety-five,
That year I was the wae'est man
Of ony man alive.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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We'd have our change of hope and fear,
Small quarrels,
reconcilements
sweet:
I'd perch by you to chirp and cheer,
Or hop about on active feet
And fetch you dainty bits to eat.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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The wealth might disappoint,
Myself a poorer prove
Than this great
purchaser
suspect,
The daily own of Love
Depreciate the vision;
But, till the merchant buy,
Still fable, in the isles of spice,
The subtle cargoes lie.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Nothing is sure for me but what's uncertain:
Obscure,
whatever
is plainly clear to see:
I've no doubt, except of everything certain:
Science is what happens accidentally:
I win it all, yet a loser I'm bound to be:
Saying: 'God give you good even!
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Villon |
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Must you needs be so cruel, you
beautiful
Broom,
Because you are covered with paint?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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In the first consulate of Pompey, two, Cinna, were wont to frequent
Mucilla: now again made consul, the two remain, but
thousands
may be added
to each unit.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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At Venice the
distinction
was merely
civil.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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There, by the starlit fences,
The wanderer halts and hears
My soul that lingers sighing
About the
glimmering
weirs.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I would not kiss thy face again
Nor round thy shining
slippers
crawl.
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John Clare |
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I do not say
from the public: I fear those naught who hurry along the thoroughfares
hither thither
occupied
on their own business: truth my fear is from thee
and thy penis, pestilent eke to fair and to foul.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Thrill of the Dawn
CAN such a pain be
branded?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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' quod she, `out of this regioun
I, woful wrecche and
infortuned
wight,
And born in corsed constellacioun, 745
Mot goon, and thus departen fro my knight;
Wo worth, allas!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
— The Rochester Htrald, Rochester, New York
• :— The
Literary
Digest, New York Rates, $1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Obvious
typographical
errors have been corrected.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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'At Dawn I Love You'
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
All night I have gazed at you
I've all to divine I am certain of shadows
They give me the power
To envelop you
To stir your desire to live
At my
motionless
core
The power to reveal you
To free you to lose you
Invisible flame in the day.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The place,--remote: their coats and scarves old:
The year,--fruitful: their talk and
laughter
gay.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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LXIII
A
beautiful
child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
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Sappho |
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For the heart of man must seek and wander, 5
Ask and question and
discover
knowledge;
Yet above all goodly things is wisdom,
And love greater than all understanding.
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Sappho |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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XLII
They sang, whilst
negligently
seated,
Attentive to the echoing sound,
Tattiana with impatience waited
Until her heart less high should bound--
Till the fire in her cheek decreased;
But tremor still her frame possessed,
Nor did her blushes fade away,
More crimson every moment they.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Turn to my arms, to my
embraces
turn!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Moi, je cours avec eux assommer les mouchards:
Et je vais dans Paris, noir, marteau sur l'epaule,
Farouche, a chaque coin
balayant
quelque drole,
Et, si tu me riais au nez, je te tuerais!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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) as the only Ground he had got to stand
upon, however
momentarily
slipping from under his Feet.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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)
But then the
speckled
hill of moss 1836.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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He had also contrived the
discovery
of the stained
handkerchief and shirt.
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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His "Odes,"
collected
in a volume, gave his ever-active mother her
opportunity at Court.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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þæt
healreced
hātan wolde .
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Beowulf |
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like a
steersman
skilled,
Enshield the city's bulwarks, ere the blast
Of war comes darting on them!
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Aeschylus |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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--We who have
laboured
long and sore
Times out of mind,
And keen are yet, must not regret
To drop behind.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Fully
persuaded
that I could have
justified myself had I chosen, she suspected the motive which had kept
me silent, and deemed herself the sole cause of my misfortune.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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XVII
Of high and
superhuman
genius, tied
By love and blood, lo!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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You
forestalled
them; but this valiant band
Is best deployed against the African.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Means I must use thou say'st, prediction else
Will unpredict and fail me of the Throne:
My time I told thee, (and that time for thee
Were better farthest off) is not yet come;
When that comes think not thou to find me slack
On my part aught endeavouring, or to need
Thy politic maxims, or that cumbersome 400
Luggage of war there shewn me, argument
Of human
weakness
rather then of strength.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Lycius then press'd her hand, with devout touch,
As pale it lay upon the rosy couch:
'Twas icy, and the cold ran through his veins;
Then sudden it grew hot, and all the pains
Of an
unnatural
heat shot to his heart.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Accursed
be ye both!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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" "Be it so," we both
replied, and on those terms we
mutually
pledged our words.
| Guess: |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Proculus, a Roman senator, said that Romulus had
descended from heaven and spoken to him and then
ascended
again (Livy,
I, 16).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I would be
Known as the woman whom his
strength
had chosen
To ruin the Assyrians!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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" I
decided that if the shaking of her breasts could be
stopped, some of the fragments of the afternoon might
be collected, and I concentrated my attention with
careful
subtlety
to this end.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Had Lycius liv'd to hand his story down,
He might have given the moral a fresh frown,
Or clench'd it quite: but too short was their bliss
To breed
distrust
and hate, that make the soft voice hiss.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Within a whyl the hert [y]-founde is,
Y-halowed, and
rechased
faste
Longe tyme; and at the laste, 380
This hert rused and stal away
Fro alle the houndes a prevy way.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
at
swiftnesse
is ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
London:
documents
at sight,
Asked me in demotic French
To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel
Followed by a weekend at the Metropole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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She leant against the armed man,
The statue of the armed knight;
She stood and
listened
to my lay,
Amid the lingering light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Nay, under
the wintry star thou labourest on thy fleet, and hastenest to launch
into the deep amid
northern
gales; ah, cruel!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Horace, when he asserted the dependence of
Lucilius
on the old
Attic Comedy, was nearer the truth than Quintilian.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
14) Donne's pledge of affection if
he lives, his
testament
if he dies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
" the Poker he sang,
"You have perfectly
conquered
my heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Mochte selbst solch einen Herren kennen,
Wurd ihn Herrn
Mikrokosmus
nennen.
| 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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Now on the moth-time of that evening dim
He would return that way, as well she knew,
To Corinth from the shore; for freshly blew
The eastern soft wind, and his galley now
Grated the quaystones with her brazen prow
In port Cenchreas, from Egina isle
Fresh anchor'd; whither he had been awhile
To
sacrifice
to Jove, whose temple there
Waits with high marble doors for blood and incense rare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Welcome then,
Thou unsubstantial air that I
embrace!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
One stroke
Rolled the smith's head from his neck, and gave
him
remembrance
undying.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
The modern language of
corrupted
peers,
Or what was spoke at Cressy and Poitiers?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
e
serieauntz
of ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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For ever wave, for ever float and shine
Before my
yearning
eyes, oh!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Paradiso
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
It levelled strong Euphrates in its course;
Supreme yet weightless as an idle mote
It seemed to tame the waters without force
Till not a murmur swelled or billow beat:
Lo, as the purple shadow swept the sands,
The prudent crocodile rose on his feet
And shed
appropriate
tears and wrung his hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
In
mounting
higher,
The angels would press on us and aspire
To drop some golden orb of perfect song
Into our deep, dear silence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
_ He was not once; but time and
troubles
have
Made him what you beheld.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
The watercourses were my guide;
I
travelled
grateful by their side,
Or through their channel dry;
They led me through the thicket damp,
Through brake and fern, the beavers' camp,
Through beds of granite cut my road,
And their resistless friendship showed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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--Thus have we, with care,
Gathered some flowers to please your eager mood,
Brothers
who dream that distant things are good!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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'Once I dwelt apart,
Now I live with all;
As shepherd's lamp on far hill-side
Seems, by the
traveller
espied,
A door into the mountain heart,
So didst thou quarry and unlock
Highways for me through the rock.
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Emerson - Poems |
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dis, si tu le sais,
A cet
agonisant
que le loup deja flaire
Et que surveille le corbeau,
A ce soldat brise, s'il faut qu'il desespere
D'avoir sa croix et son tombeau;
Ce pauvre agonisant que le loup deja flaire!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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But when the Night had thrown her pall
Upon that spot, as upon all,
And the mystic wind went by
Murmuring
in melody--
Then--ah then I would awake
To the terror of the lone lake.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And in the pool's clear idleness,
Moving like dreams through happiness,
Shoals of small bright fishes were;
In and out weed-thickets bent
Perch and carp, and sauntering went
With
mounching
jaws and eyes a-stare;
Or on a lotus leaf would crawl,
A brinded loach to bask and sprawl,
Tasting the warm sun ere it dipt
Into the water; but quick as fear
Back his shining brown head slipt
To crouch on the gravel of his lair,
Where the cooled sunbeams broke in wrack,
Spilt shatter'd gold about his back.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Se mala
cupidigia
altro vi grida,
uomini siate, e non pecore matte,
si che 'l Giudeo di voi tra voi non rida!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The leaves that wave against my cheek caress
Like women's hands; the embracing boughs express
A
subtlety
of mighty tenderness;
The copse-depths into little noises start,
That sound anon like beatings of a heart,
Anon like talk 'twixt lips not far apart.
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Sidney Lanier |
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In circle close each
heavenly
party sat,
Intent to form the future scheme of fate;
But mix not yet in fight, though Jove on high
Gives the loud signal, and the heavens reply.
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Iliad - Pope |
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