tu uero, regina, tuens cum sidera diuam
placabis festis luminibus Venerem, 90
sanguinis
expertem non ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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A
deputation
was sent with presents
to Civilis and Veleda, and obtained all that the people of Cologne
desired.
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Tacitus |
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There came and look'd him in the face
An angel
beautiful
and bright;
And that he knew it was a Fiend,
This miserable Knight!
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Golden Treasury |
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Strangely enough, that very night at the ball, Tomsky had rallied her
about her
preference
for the young officer, assuring her that he knew
more than she supposed he did.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Appoloinaire |
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Ah cannot wee,
As well as Cocks and Lyons jocund be,
After such
pleasures?
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John Donne |
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Note: The Scythians at the extreme end of the Empire in Roman times were
regarded
as living barbaric lives (See Ovid's Tristia and Ex Ponto).
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Ronsard |
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'
While he was speaking he crossed himself, and when he had
finished
he
drew the nightcap over his ears, to shut out the noise, and closed his
eyes, and composed himself to sleep.
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Yeats |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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Ronsard |
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Willow,
twinkling
in the sun,
Still your leaves and hear me,
I can answer spring at last,
Love is near me!
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: L
Though the human spirit gives itself noble airs
In Plato's doctrine, who calls it divine influx,
Without the body it would do nothing much,
While vainly
praising
its origin up there.
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Ronsard |
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Adjust their clothes, and to
confession
draw
Those venial sins, an atom, or a straw;
But oh!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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That shy untameable enemy, one who 1220
Seemed
offended
by respect, annoyed by tears,
That tiger I could not approach without fear,
Submissive, docile, knows a conqueror's art:
Aricia has found the pathway to his heart.
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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--
Yet silenced cannot be this throbbing
Which
dolefulness
alone dispels.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Foremost he {21a} fared, a few at his side
of the wiser men, the ways to scan,
till he found in a flash the
forested
hill
hanging over the hoary rock,
a woful wood: the waves below
were dyed in blood.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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| Question: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Before them lay
The sleeping Mahaud--and not far away
The fatal pit, near which the
champion
knight
With evil Emperor must contend for right,
Though weaponless he was.
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Hugo - Poems |
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]
[Footnote 15:
Whirlwind
of snow.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Queen Leonora, treated
with indifference by her
daughter
and son-in-law, resolved on the murder
of the latter, but the plot was discovered, and she was sent prisoner to
Castile.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The manner in which this
interweaving
was accomplished is one of the
most satisfactory evidences of Pope's artistic genius.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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-- A greater ne'er saw I
of
warriors
in world than is one of you, --
yon hero in harness!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Li T'ai-po was, I am afraid,
a bit of a
Bohemian
(laughter), and his Bacchanalian experiences have
been repeated in later days even with the great poets.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And if
perchance
the chickadee
Lisp a faint note anon,
The snow is summer's canopy,
Which she herself put on.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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For ever it has been that
mourners
in their turn were mourned,
Saint and Sage,--all alike are trapped.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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TO MY CHILDREN
Jaya Surya, aetat 4
Golden sun of victory, born
In my life's
unclouded
morn,
In my lambent sky of love,
May your growing glory prove
Sacred to your consecration,
To my heart and to my nation.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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XXIX
All that the
Egyptians
once devised,
All that Greece, with its Corinthian,
Ionic, Attic, and its Dorian
Ornament, in its temples apprised,
All that the art of Lysippus comprised,
The hand of Apelles, or the Phidian,
That used to adorn this city, and this land,
Grandeur that even Heaven once surprised,
All that Athens in its wisdom showed,
All that from richest Asia ever flowed,
All that from Africa strange and new was sent,
Was here on view.
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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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20
LII
Lo, on the distance a dark blue ravine,
A fold in the
mountainous
forests of fir,
Cleft from the sky-line sheer down to the shore!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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I moved my fingers off
As
cautiously
as glass,
And held my ears, and like a thief
Fled gasping from the house.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Men loved
unkindness
then, but lightless in the quarry
I slept and saw not; tears fell down, I did not mourn;
Sweat ran and blood sprang out and I was never sorry:
Then it was well with me, in days ere I was born.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Don't laugh at my advice; 'twere like the boys,
Who better might amuse
themselves
with toys.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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"He is a
charming
man"--"But after all what did he mean?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Your message we
delivered
to Charlun,
Both his two hands he raised against the sun,
Praising his God, but answer made he none.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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To whom the great
Creatour
thus reply'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Still ever that slip and slide
Of the feet that shuffle or glide,
And linger or haste through the
populous
waste
Of the shadowy, dim-lit square!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And later, in August it may be,
When the meadows
parching
lie,
Beware, lest this little brook of life
Some burning noon go dry!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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O God of the night,
What great sorrow
Cometh unto us,
That thou thus
repayest
us
Before the time of its coming?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Or not those in
Commission
yet return'd?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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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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Oh, there is sweetness in the
mountain
air
And life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
'
The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In
trembling
zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired his priestly care.
| Guess: |
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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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My ancestor perished on
the scaffold for
conscience
sake,[71] my father fell with the martyrs
Volynski and Khuchtchoff,[72] but that a '_boyar_' should forswear his
oath--that he should join with robbers, rascals, convicted felons,
revolted slaves!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Saguenay
River, 91, 94.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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What war could ravish,
commerce
could bestow,
And he returned a friend, who came a foe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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The themes of
_Traumgekront_ are extended somewhat beyond the immediate environment
of Prague and some of the most beautiful poems are
luminous
pictures of
villages hidden in the snowy blossoming of May and June, out of which
rises here and there the solitary soft voice of a boy or girl singing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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at it ne haue no
necessite
of hys
owen nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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"
methought
she said,
"These eyes not yet from thee withdraw their light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Atheists are as dull,
Who cannot guess God's
presence
out of sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Quand tu vas
balayant
l'air de ta jupe large,
Tu fais l'effet d'un beau vaisseau qui prend le large,
Charge de toile, et va roulant
Suivant un rythme doux, et paresseux, et lent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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DOBCHINSKI: A
startling
announcement!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
'254'
John Gay, the author of some very
entertaining
verses, was an intimate
friend of Pope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Ab l'alen tir vas me l'aire
I breathe deeply, draw in the air,
That blows here from
Provence!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Though all we knew depart,
The old
commandments
stand:
"In courage keep your heart,
In strength lift up your hand,"
Once more we hear the word
That sickened earth of old:
"No law except the sword
Unsheathed and uncontrolled,"
Once more it knits mankind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Thou, mother of my mortal part,
With cruelty didst mould my heart,
And with false self-deceiving tears
Didst bind my nostrils, eyes, and ears,
Didst close my tongue in
senseless
clay,
And me to mortal life betray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread
tribunal
of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the
copyright
holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The
immediate
cause of the
downfall of this execrable government was said to have been an
attempt made by Appius Claudius upon the chastity of a beautiful
young girl of humble birth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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She heard of servant-maids the note,
Who in the orchards
gathered
fruit,
Singing in chorus all the while.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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That ought to be sufficient for those American
Intellectuals
who are bemoaning the deca dence of poetry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Hailie the bordeleire, who lyves to reste,
Ne ys att nyghtys flemynge hue dysmayde;
The starres doe scantillie[110] the sable brayde; 1010
Wyde ys the sylver lemes of comforte wove;
Speke, Celmonde, does ytte make thee notte
afrayde?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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en he keuere3 bi a cragge, & come3 of a hole,
Whyrlande
out of a wro, wyth a felle weppen,
[F] A dene3 ax nwe dy3t, ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
I cannot guess why Rome will not allow
Exchange in wedlock, and its leave avow;
Not ev'ry time such wishes might arise,
But, once in life at least, 'twere not unwise;
Perhaps one day we may the boon obtain;
Amen, I say: my sentiments are plain;
The
privilege
in France may yet arrive
There trucking pleases, and exchanges thrive;
The people love variety, we find;
And such by heav'n was ere for them designed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
The long struggle of the
Servians
against the Ottoman
power was recorded in lays full of martial spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I do not like to
remember
things any more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Unmindful of the roses,
Unmindful of the thorn,
A reaper tired reposes
Among his
gathered
corn:
So might I, till the morn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Straight yonder, where
Aegisthus
makes his prayer!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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ALCESTIS,
_daughter
of Pelias, his wife_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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"The King of Plagues, the Chosen of Sinai,
Is he that, o'er the rushing waters driven,
A
vigorous
hand hath rescued for the sky;
Ye whose proud hearts disown the ways of heaven!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Strict Pastoral Poetry was first written or perfected by the Dorian
Greeks settled in Sicily: but the
conventional
use of it, exhibited more
magnificently in _Lycidas_ than in any other pastoral, is apparently of
Roman origin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
"The
bustling
fates
"Heap his hands with corpses
"Until he stands like a child,
"With surplus of toys.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
[33]
Down through stones, through mosses flowing,
See the brook and
brooklet
springing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Pugatchef was seated in an
armchair
on the threshold of the Commandant's
house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Ne li gravo vilta di cuor le ciglia
per esser fi' di Pietro Bernardone,
ne per parer dispetto a maraviglia;
ma
regalmente
sua dura intenzione
ad Innocenzio aperse, e da lui ebbe
primo sigillo a sua religione.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
My voice, a lioness that mourns
Her darling cubs'
undoing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
When
those disabilities were removed, she rapidly became more than a
match for
Carthage
and Macedon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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--He is insensibly subdued
To settled quiet: he is one by whom
All effort seems forgotten; one to whom
Long
patience
hath [1] such mild composure given, 10
That patience now doth seem a thing of which
He hath no need.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
And of the needle-seller's[749] with
Pamphilus?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
The young lambs ran a pretty race;
The morning sun shone bright and warm;
"Kilve," said I, "was a
pleasant
place,
"And so is Liswyn farm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
The
speaker in the Dialogue is aware of this distinction, and, subject to
it, the various
branches
of poetry are with him so many different
modes of eloquence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Note: Pound utilises an issue of
translation
regarding the last line of verse 1, E jois le grans, e l'olors d'enoi gandres in Canto XX.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
If it be thy
pleasure
let us rather cast
a lot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
_The Plot_: The Redcross Knight reaches the Brazen Tower in which Una's
parents, the King and Queen of Eden, are
besieged
by the Dragon.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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If but e'en now thou fall
into this blind world, from that
pleasant
land
Of Latium, whence I draw my sum of guilt,
Tell me if those, who in Romagna dwell,
Have peace or war.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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consequence
of resou{n}.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Stand forth reveal'd; with him thy cares employ
Against thy foes; be valiant and
destroy!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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'Is there a man whose
judgment
clear,
Can others teach the way to steer,
Yet runs himself life's mad career,
Wild as the wave?
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William Wordsworth |
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The mass of
fighting
men is hardly mentioned.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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At first Zourine willingly
listened, then his words became fewer and more vague, and at last he
replied to one of my questions by a
vigorous
snore, and I then followed
his example.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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I ne'er refused to say
You're a good
creature
in your way;
Nay, I could write a book myself,
Would fit a parson's lower shelf,
Showing how very good you are.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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do not dread thy mother's door,
Think not of me with grief and pain:
I now can see with better eyes;
And worldly
grandeur
I despise
And fortune with her gifts and lies.
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Golden Treasury |
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While in sweet cadence rising small and still
The far-off minstrels of the haunted hill,
As the last
bleating
of the fold expires,
Tune in the mountain dells their water lyres.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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