Mother of all,
indulgent
as she's great!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Where lambs have nibbled, silent move
The feet of angels bright;
Unseen they pour blessing,
And joy without ceasing,
On each bud and blossom,
And each
sleeping
bosom.
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blake-poems |
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Was there not someone ask'd me for
forgiveness?
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Tennyson |
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The armed men more weighty were for that,
Many of them down to the bottom sank,
Downstream
the rest floated as they might hap;
So much water the luckiest of them drank,
That all were drowned, with marvellous keen pangs.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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If, which our valley bars, this wall of stone,
From which its present name we closely trace,
Were by
disdainful
nature rased, and thrown
Its back to Babel and to Rome its face;
Then had my sighs a better pathway known
To where their hope is yet in life and grace:
They now go singly, yet my voice all own;
And, where I send, not one but finds its place.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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O, this world's
transience!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The attempt would only hurry me into that sphere of
acute
feelings
from which abstruse research, the mother of self-oblivion,
presents an asylum.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I had read but a few sentences when I
imagined
that a
faint perfume had begun to fill the room, and turning round asked Owen
Aherne if he were lighting the incense.
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Yeats |
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XXII
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Bounded on the Danube, in Africa,
Among the tribes along the Thames' shore,
And where the rising sun ascends in flame,
Her own nurslings stirred, in
mutinous
game
Against her very self, the spoils of war,
So dearly won from all the world before,
That same world's spoil suddenly became:
So when the Great Year its course has run,
And twenty six thousand years are done,
The elements freed from Nature's accord,
Those seeds that are the source of everything,
Will return in Time to their first discord,
Chaos' eternal womb their presence hiding.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Mihi
pergamena
deest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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It is a land of
poverty!
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| Question: |
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blake-poems |
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La sombre Nuit les prend a la gorge; ils finissent
Leur
destinee
et vont vers le gouffre commun;
L'hopital se remplit de leurs soupirs.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Pagans are come great martyrdom seeking;
Noble and fair reward this day shall bring,
Was never won by any
Frankish
King.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Of
Sarraguce
ye'll carry him the keys,
He'll go not hence, say, if he trusts in me.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"
XXV
His right hand glove that
Emperour
holds out;
But the count Guenes elsewhere would fain be found;
When he should take, it falls upon the ground.
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Chanson de Roland |
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From all these echoing arches
ringing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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In a few cases,
where the whole poem has not fallen within the scope of this
volume, only a
fragment
is here given.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Ev'n as large valleys hollow'd out on earth,
"That way," the'
escorting
spirit cried, "we go,
Where in a bosom the high bank recedes:
And thou await renewal of the day.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Here the poor craven, beset on one side by
threatening
letters from
Philip of Valois, and on the other by importunities from the French
party at the papal court, remained in Avignon till July, 1339, after
Petrarch had let loose upon him his epistolary eloquence.
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Petrarch |
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Wild strain of Scalds, that in the sea-worn caves
Rehearsed
their war-spell to the winds and waves;
Or fateful hymn of those prophetic maids,
That call'd on Hertha in deep forest glades;
Or minstrel lay, that cheer'd the baron's feast;
Or rhyme of city pomp, of monk and priest,
Judge, mayor, and many a guild in long array,
To high-church pacing on the great saint's day.
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| Question: |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I went back to the clanging city,
I went back where my old loves stayed,
My heart was full of my new love's glory,--
But my eyes were
suddenly
afraid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Upon the sky-line glows i' the dark
The Sun that now is but a spark;
But soon will be unfurled--
The glorious banner of us all,
The flag that rises ne'er to fall,
Republic
of the World!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more
If we did not make
somebody
poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Monarchs
to it should yield their realms and veil their haughty brows;
My sister it should ever be, my lady and my spouse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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To endure; not to discredit; to be
sufficiently
appropriate
for.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Rude boy, he flies like lightning o'er the heath
Past wither'd trees like you; you're
wrinkled
now;
The white has left your teeth
And settled on your brow.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"`And even while you're thus harassed,
I do believe, if out you went,
You'd go, in spite of all that's passed,
To the children of that
President!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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The east wind blows on the
springtime
ice, 24 far and wide the holy soil is wet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Half a century earlier, the career of Alexander had
excited the
admiration
and terror of all nations from the Ganges
to the Pillars of Hercules.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Oh the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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And the
clockmen
mark the hours as they go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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weorð Denum
æðeling
(_the atheling
dear to the Danes_, Bēowulf), 1815; compar.
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| Question: |
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Beowulf |
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Aricia,
princess
of the royal blood of Athens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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For crystal brows there's nought within;
They are but empty cells for pride;
He who the Syren's hair would win
Is mostly
strangled
in the tide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
)
To find a friend who has these qualities,
Who has, and gives
Those qualities upon which
friendship
lives.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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He often
addressed
a man of about
fifty years old, calling him sometimes Count, sometimes Timofeitsh,
sometimes Uncle.
| 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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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
the
loiterers
call,
And thrones be tumbled in the mire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Lines On The Author's Death
Written With The
Supposed
View Of
Being Handed To Rankine After The Poet's Interment
He who of Rankine sang, lies stiff and dead,
And a green grassy hillock hides his head;
Alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
William Gifford's edition is more
carefully
printed than
that of Whalley, whom he criticizes freely.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
CHORUS
Yet in her dreams she
proffered
it the breast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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The one in black
disgraceful
weeds is Toil;
She sows with never-ending gesture all
The path before his feet, cursing the way
She drags him on with growth of flouting crops,
Urchin thistles, and rank flourishing nettles.
| 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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Him, whom it pleased for our great bitterness To come to earth to draw us from misventure, Who drank of death for our salvacioun,
Him do we pray as to a Lord most righteous And humble eke, that the young English King He please to pardon, as true pardon is,
And bid go in with
honoured
companions
There where there is no grief, nor shall be sadness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
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notations
and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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With shaded eyes your vision follows
The gentle swans'
receding
train.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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For I, besides myself, none other see
That hath
inflicted
on me scathe and scorn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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1505
15 _atque
parentum
Frustrantur falsis_ codd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get
yourself
some teeth.
| 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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GEORGE WASHINGTON
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
[Sidenote: July 8, 1775]
_This is a fragment from the ode for the
centenary
of
Washington's taking command of the American army at Cambridge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
"
As day was dawning the party now broke up, each one
draining
his glass
and taking his leave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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O old pagodas of my soul, how you
glittered
across green trees!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Ulysses lives, his vanquish'd foes to see;
He lives to thy
Telemachus
and thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Yes, all "await the
inevitable
hour;"
The downward journey all one day must tread.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
"
A
thousand
knights they keep in retinue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Perdition
catch my soul, but I do love thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
O wonder now
unfurled!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Is this how the
presumptuous
subject
Shows his consideration, and respect?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Denique testis erit morti quoque reddita praeda,
Cum terrae ex celso coacervatum aggere bustum
Excipiet niveos
percussae
virginis artus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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If thou invite me forth,
I rise above
abasement
at the word.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Your orange hair in the void of the world
The
sentiments
apparent
Would you see
You rise the water unfolds
I only wish to love you
The world is blue as an orange
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
Donkey or cow, cockerel or horse
I looked in front of me
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
We two take each other by the hand
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
She looks into me
A single smile disputes
Translated by A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Le Printemps
adorable
a perdu son odeur!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
We've no
business
down there at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
He was
received
within the humble cell;
The friar's thoughts were on his smiling belle,
Her simple manners, fascinating grace,
Complexion, age; each feature he would trace;
The heaving bosom, and the beauteous charms;
That made him wish to clasp her in his arms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Old faces glimmer'd thro' the doors,
Old
footsteps
trod the upper floors,
Old voices called her from without.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
As the Evian on the height,
Roused from her sleep, looks wonderingly abroad,
Looks on Thrace with snow-drifts white,
And Rhodope by barbarous
footstep
trod,
So my truant eyes admire
The banks, the desolate forests.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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For now indeed, over the salt sea-billow
I sailed: yet dared not look upon the shape
Of him who ruled the helm, although the pillow _1380
For my light head was hollowed in his lap,
And my bare limbs his mantle did enwrap,
Fearing it was a fiend: at last, he bent
O'er me his aged face; as if to snap
Those dreadful
thoughts
the gentle grandsire bent, _1385
And to my inmost soul his soothing looks he sent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
"
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the
Jumblies
live:
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue;
And they went to sea in a sieve.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Let us
withdraw
into the other room.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Does my joy
sometimes
erupt?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
CXLVII
Oliver feels that death is drawing nigh;
To avenge himself he hath no longer time;
Through the great press most gallantly he strikes,
He breaks their spears, their buckled shields doth slice,
Their feet, their fists, their
shoulders
and their sides,
Dismembers them: whoso had seen that sigh,
Dead in the field one on another piled,
Remember well a vassal brave he might.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
XERXES
Ay, launch the woeful sorrow's cry,
The harsh, discordant melody,
For lo, the power, we held for sure,
Hath turned to my
discomfiture!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
In terror,
Remembered
terror, there is peace and rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
FROSCH:
Nein, sagt mir nur, was ist
geschehn?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
THIS EBOOK IS
OTHERWISE
PROVIDED TO YOU "AS-IS".
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
As the little tiny swallow or the chaffinch,
Round their warm and cosey nest are seen to hover,
So hovers there the mother dear who bore him;
And aye she weeps, as flows a river's water;
His sister weeps as flows a streamlet's water;
His
youthful
wife, as falls the dew from heaven--
The Sun, arising, dries the dew of heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
An evil age
erewhile
debased
The marriage-bed, the race, the home;
Thence rose the flood whose waters waste
The nation and the name of Rome.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
, by a Frederick Fotheringham, supposed to
be for Ballochmyle Laird, and
Adamhill
and Shawood were bought for
Oswald's folks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Wollt Ihr mir von der Medizin
Nicht auch ein kraftig
Wortchen
sagen?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
His sinking state was not
unobserved
by his friends, and Syme and
M'Murdo united with Dr.
| Guess: |
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A very woman thou, whose heart leaps light
At wandering
rumours!
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--And
anciently all the oracles were called Carmina; or whatever
sentence
was
expressed, were it much or little, it was called an Epic, Dramatic,
Lyric, Elegiac, or Epigrammatic poem.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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See, not one tree but what has lost its leaves--
And yet the landscape wears a
pleasing
hue.
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Death of thy Soule, those Linnen cheekes of thine
Are
Counsailers
to feare.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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From the cool shade I hear the silver plash
Of the blown
fountain
at the garden's end.
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Sappho |
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My heart replied: It's never enough
We'll never have had enough of sadness:
And don't you see that changeableness
Makes past pain dearer to us, and
sweeter?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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XXIII
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
Who counselled, so his race might not moulder,
Nor Rome's citizens be spoiled by leisure,
That Carthage should be spared
destruction!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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III
One
chuckles
by the brook for me:
One rages under the stone.
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Imagists |
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