[Footnote 1: Possibly
suggested
by Tasso, 'Gerus.
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Tennyson |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Wherever
the rain and dew brings moisture fruits form, the sweet and the bitter alike.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Would Baudelaire recall these
prophetic
words if he were able to revisit
the glimpses of the Champs Elysees at the Autumn Salons?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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What man is he, that boasts of fleshly might
And vaine
assurance
of mortality,
Which all so soone as it doth come to fight
Against spirituall foes, yeelds by and by,
Or from the field most cowardly doth fly?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I left the place with all my might, --
My prayer away I threw;
The quiet ages picked it up,
And
Judgment
twinkled, too,
That one so honest be extant
As take the tale for true
That "Whatsoever you shall ask,
Itself be given you.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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A bird, by chance, that goes that way
Soft
overheard
the whole.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"Hātað heaðo-mǣre hlǣw gewyrcean,
"beorhtne æfter bǣle æt brimes nosan;
2805 "se scel tō gemyndum mīnum lēodum
"hēah hlīfian on Hrones næsse,
"þæt hit sǣ-līðend
syððan
hātan
"Bīowulfes biorh, þā þe brentingas
"ofer flōda genipu feorran drīfað.
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Beowulf |
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The styles are taken from
Classical
art.
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Ronsard |
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Beneath the pleasant shade of
beauteous
leaves
I ran for shelter from a cruel light,
E'en here below that burnt me from high heaven,
When the last snow had ceased upon the hills,
And amorous airs renew'd the sweet spring time,
And on the upland flourish'd herbs and boughs.
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Petrarch |
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With panting heart lay like a fish on land,
And quickly judged the fort was not tenal'lc
Which if a house, yet were not
tenantabic
;
Ko man can sit there safe, the cannon pours
Through walls untight, and through the bullci
showers.
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Marvell - Poems |
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[580] Does she let some
vase drop while going or
returning
to the house?
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Aristophanes |
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With an hundred serjeants by force they come;
Thirty of them there are, that
straight
are hung.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Rising from unrest,
The
trembling
woman presse
With feet of weary woe;
She could no further go.
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blake-poems |
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Phaedra
I
predicted
it, but you'd not accept it.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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raynde]]
221
And droffe ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Lo, the ship, at this opportunity, slipped slyly,
Making cunning
noiseless
travel down the ways.
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Stephen Crane |
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The myrrh-hyacinth
spread across low slopes,
violets
streaked
black ridges
through the grass.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Whenever the Emperor thought of giving the poet some official rank,
Kuei-fei
intervened
and dissuaded him.
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Li Po |
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Never by me shall men
reproach
my clan.
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Chanson de Roland |
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A kinde of
arbitrary
_Court_ 'twill be, Sir.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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What groves or lawns
Held you, ye Dryad-maidens, when for love-
Love all
unworthy
of a loss so dear-
Gallus lay dying?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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'303 Sporus':
a
favorite
of Nero, used here for Lord Hervey.
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Alexander Pope |
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Dark
presentiments
rise to terrify me here.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if
bereaved
of light.
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blake-poems |
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Shepster
swayne, you tare mie gratche[37].
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have
measured
out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Thou hast no end to gain--no heart to break--
Castiglione
lied who said he loved--
Thou true--he false!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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What word will men say,--here where Giotto planted
His
campanile
like an unperplexed
Fine question Heavenward, touching the things granted
A noble people who, being greatly vexed
In act, in aspiration keep undaunted?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The
last mentioned passage finds a still closer parallel in a couplet from
the contemporary ballad, which Gifford quotes from
Hutchinson
(p.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Her work was in the
world's
possession
for not far short of a thousand years--a thousand years
of changing tastes, searching criticism, and familiar use.
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Sappho |
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_Ein
Fichtenbaum
steht einsam_--you recall?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Who shall do
judgment
on me, when she dies?
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Euripides - Electra |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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--comes by
my betrayal, while thou suest for our
daughter
in marriage?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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It is the only
regularly
working, trustworthy love-charm in the
country, with one exception.
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Kipling - Poems |
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And only inwardly inclines,
As we are wont if there draws nigh
A
stranger
on his final round.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Alone for
Holofernes
am I come.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Though many a victim from my folds went forth,
Or rich cheese pressed for the unthankful town,
Never with laden hands
returned
I home.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Thou
believest
all I say?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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There 's triumph of the finer mind
When truth,
affronted
long,
Advances calm to her supreme,
Her God her only throng.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Que ce sont bien intrigues de genies
Cette depense et ces
desordres
vains!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"As the
generation
of leaves,
so is the generation of men.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And then the
lighting
of the lamps.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Is your sole virtue
committing
outrage?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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but the third morn
Astonishd he found Enion hidden in the darksom Cave
She spoke What am I
wherefore
was I put forth on these rocks
Among the Clouds to tremble in the wind in solitude
Where is the voice that lately woke the desart Where the face
That wept among the clouds & where the voice that shall reply
No other living thing is here.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Costello knew that it was Bridget Delaney,
a deaf and dumb beggar; and she, when she saw him, stood up and made
a sign to him to follow, and led him and his
companion
up a stair and
down a long corridor to a closed door.
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Yeats |
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Whene'er Ulysses roams the realm of night,
Should
factious
power dispute my lineal right,
Some other Greeks a fairer claim may plead;
To your pretence their title would precede.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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But I look to the west when I gae to rest,
That happy my dreams and my
slumbers
may be;
For far in the west lives he I loe best,
The man that is dear to my babie and me.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Now Anne of Austria shared their drinks,
Collinga
knew her fame,
From Tarnau in Galicia
To Juan Bazaar she came,
To eat the bread of infamy
And take the wage of shame.
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Kipling - Poems |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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from the
innocuous
flames, a lovely birth,
With its own Virtues springs another earth: 1820.
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Hence
shall spring a race of tempered
Ausonian
blood, whom thou shalt see
outdo men and gods in duty; nor shall any nation so observe thy
worship.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Allume ta
prunelle
a la flamme des lustres!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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So they kept us close till nigh on noon,
And then they rang the bell,
And the Warders with their jingling keys
Opened each listening cell,
And down the iron stair we tramped,
Each from his
separate
Hell.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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I
worshipped
the god's temple, an ancient pile of
stone.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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[In order to
complete
the Life of Solomon, of which his Book of Wisdom, &c.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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XV
"From sunrise unto sunset
All earth shall hear thy fame:
A glorious city thou shalt build,
And name it by thy name:
And there,
unquenched
through ages,
Like Vesta's sacred fire,
Shall live the spirit of thy nurse,
The spirit of thy sire.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Thine this
universal
frame,
Thus wondrous fair--Thyself how wondrous then!
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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* * * * *
Does not your ladyship think that an Edinburgh theatre would be more
amused with affectation, folly, and whim of true
Scottish
growth, than
manners which by far the greatest part of the audience can only know
at second hand?
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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but now few, large, and bright,
The stars are round the
crescent
moon!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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I regret that its length
renders it
unsuitable
for the purposes of this lecture.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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He
laboreth
at every tree, --
A worm his utmost goal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I can't help wishing I could send you one,
In wishing you
herewith
a Merry Christmas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky,
And at every
drifting
cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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It whirred like the water at a mill, and rushed and re-echoed,
terrible
to hear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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why melt your voice
In
dolorous
strains, because the perjured fair
Has made a younger choice?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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THE SUMMONS
A sterner errand to the silken troop
Has quenched the uneasy blush that warmed my cheek;
I am commissioned in my day of joy
To leave my woods and streams and the sweet sloth
Of prayer and song that were my dear delight,
To leave the rudeness of my
woodland
life,
Sweet twilight walks and midnight solitude
And kind acquaintance with the morning stars
And the glad hey-day of my household hours,
The innocent mirth which sweetens daily bread,
Railing in love to those who rail again,
By mind's industry sharpening the love of life--
Books, Muses, Study, fireside, friends and love,
I loved ye with true love, so fare ye well!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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And when he raised it
dripping
once and tried
The creepy edge of it with wary touch,
And viewed it over his glasses funny-eyed,
Only disinterestedly to decide
It needed a turn more, I could have cried
Wasn't there danger of a turn too much?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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enne such a
glauerande
glam of gedered rachche3
Ros, ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Non fur piu tosto dentro a me venute
queste parole brievi, ch'io compresi
me
sormontar
di sopr' a mia virtute;
e di novella vista mi raccesi
tale, che nulla luce e tanto mera,
che li occhi miei non si fosser difesi;
e vidi lume in forma di rivera
fulvido di fulgore, intra due rive
dipinte di mirabil primavera.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
340
For, Norcie, could thie myghte and skilfulle lore
Preserve
thee from the doom of Alfwold's speere;
Couldste thou not kenne, most skyll'd Astrelagoure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Soon as returning life regains its seat,
And his breath lengthens, and his pulses beat:
"Yes, I believe (he cries)
almighty
Jove!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
XII
All of those greats: Alexander, Caesar and Henry and Fredrick,
Gladly would share with me half of their hard fought renown,
Could I but grant them my bed for one single night, and its comfort,
But the poor
wretches
are held stark in cold Orkian grip.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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for whensoe'er the sire
Breathed forth
rebellious
fire--
What time his household overflowed the measure
Of bliss and health and treasure--
His children's children read the reckoning plain,
At last, in tears and pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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enne gedere3 he to
Gryngolet
with ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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John's Vale and the Vale of Keswick seen
by day-break--'Skiddaw touched with rosy light,' and the prospect from
Nathdale Fell 'hoar with the frost-like dews of dawn:' thus giving a
beautiful and well-contrasted Panorama, produced by the most delicate
and
masterly
strokes of the pencil.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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"
Thus with emotion he asked, and together
answered
the children,
"Yes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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HEROLD:
Dass die
Hochzeit
golden sei,
Solln funfzig Jahr sein voruber;
Aber ist der Streit vorbei,
Das golden ist mir lieber.
| 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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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A
plague of all
cowards!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife Ambroise de Lore, as though
composed
by him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Each bristl'd hair stood like a stake,
When wi' an eldritch, stoor quaick--quaick--
Amang the springs,
Awa ye squatter'd, like a drake,
On
whistling
wings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
_strings
in hollow shells.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Sweet smiles, in the night
Hover over my
delight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
No portion where the maidens throng to praise
Castor--my Castor, whom in ancient days,
Ere he passed from us and men worshipped him,
They named my
bridegroom!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
The chain of iron, the
Scythian
sword,
It yields and shivers at thy word;
Thy heart is as the rock, and knows
No ruth, nor turning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Pleases the bevy unwed with feigned
complaints
to accuse thee.
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Upon the gallows hung a wretch,
Too sullied for the hell
To which the law
entitled
him.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Why are Selene's white horses
So long
arriving?
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Sappho |
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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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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Thou hast her: may no god
begrudge
your joy.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Another placed
The silver stands, with golden
flaskets
graced:
With dulcet beverage this the beaker crown'd,
Fair in the midst, with gilded cups around:
That in the tripod o'er the kindled pile
The water pours; the bubbling waters boil;
An ample vase receives the smoking wave;
And, in the bath prepared, my limbs I lave:
Reviving sweets repair the mind's decay,
And take the painful sense of toil away.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Then I cried in despair,
"I see
nothing!
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Stephen Crane |
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Meredith - Poems |
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