"
His spear in hand he
brandishes
and wields,
Towards Carlun has turned the point of steel.
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Chanson de Roland |
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_ This ends not thus,
The
oracular
fate ordains.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Owneth thy sire one third, one third is right of thy mother,
Only the third is thine: stint thee to strive with the others,
Who to the
stranger
son have yielded their dues with a dower!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Where is thy place of
blissful
rest?
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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--for she was a maid
More beautiful than ever twisted braid,
Or sigh'd, or blush'd, or on spring-flowered lea
Spread a green kirtle to the minstrelsy:
A virgin purest lipp'd, yet in the lore
Of love deep learned to the red heart's core:
Not one hour old, yet of sciential brain
To unperplex bliss from its neighbour pain;
Define their pettish limits, and estrange
Their points of contact, and swift counterchange;
Intrigue with the specious chaos, and dispart
Its most
ambiguous
atoms with sure art;
As though in Cupid's college she had spent
Sweet days a lovely graduate, still unshent,
And kept his rosy terms in idle languishment.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The work of many days so
transitory!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Another Fan
(Of Mademoiselle Mallarme's)
O dreamer, that I may dive
In pure
pathless
joy, understand,
How by subtle deceits connive
To keep my wing in your hand.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Rememberest
thou how, hand in hand
O friend, O lover, we did stand,
And knew that she was dead?
| Guess: |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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XXVIII
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
Bearing some trophy as an ornament,
Whose roots from earth are almost rent,
Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;
More than half-bowed towards its final bed,
Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,
While, leafless now, its heavy crown is leant
Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;
And though at the first strong wind it must fall,
And many young oaks are rooted within call,
Alone among the devout populace is revered:
Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,
That, among cities which have
flourished
here,
This old honoured dust was the most honoured.
| Guess: |
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Sea Garden
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
CCLXI
In the admiral is much great virtue found;
He strikes Carlun on his steel helm so brown,
Has broken it and rent, above his brow,
Through his thick hair the sword goes
glancing
round,
A great palm's breadth and more of flesh cuts out,
So that all bare the bone is, in that wound.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Die Madels sind doch sehr interessiert,
Ob einer fromm und
schlicht
nach altem Brauch.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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In
this desire to approach the
Nameless
One, the young Brother in _The Book
of a Monk's Life_ builds up about God parables, images and legends
reminiscent of those of the 17th century Angelus Silesius, but sustained
by a more pregnant language because exalted by a more ardent visionary
force.
| Guess: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Go, for
yourself
procure renown,
Bonnie laddie, Highland laddie;
And for your lawful king, his crown,
Bonnie Highland laddie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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These lines of Milton--
"What could it less, when spirits
immortal
sung?
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers, pleasant in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit -
somewhat
deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
The money or other
property
one has on hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Hounded by misery till my final breath,
I lay down a painful life in
tormented
death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Now
wrinkled
forehead, hair gone grey:
Sparse eyelashes: eyes so dim,
That laughed and flashed once every way,
And reeled their roaming victims in:
Nose bent from beauty, ears thin,
Hanging down like moss, a face,
Pallid, dead and bleak, the chin
Furrowed, a skinny-lipped disgrace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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If to be the thrall
Of love, and faith too
generous
to defend
Its very life from him she loved, be sin,
What hope of grace may the seducer win?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Come there, beautiful child, with me,
Come to the arcades of Araby,
To the land of the date and the purple vine,
Where pleasure her rosy wreaths doth twine,
And gladness shall be alway thine;
Singing at sunset next thy bed,
Strewing
flowers under thy head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Those who approached
Petilius
Cerialis found themselves
in dire danger, for the soldiers indignantly refused their terms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Tacitus |
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" So spoke I, and spread
over my neck and broad
shoulders
a tawny lion-skin for covering, and
stoop to my burden.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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(This from his pledge I learn'd, which, safely stored
Among my treasures, still adorns my board:
For Tydeus left me young, when Thebe's wall
Beheld the sons of Greece
untimely
fall.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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How many valiant sons, in early bloom,
Has that cursed hand send
headlong
to the tomb!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Come hither, beauteous boy; for you the Nymphs
Bring baskets, see, with lilies brimmed; for you,
Plucking pale violets and poppy-heads,
Now the fair Naiad, of
narcissus
flower
And fragrant fennel, doth one posy twine-
With cassia then, and other scented herbs,
Blends them, and sets the tender hyacinth off
With yellow marigold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
XXIV
If that blind fury that
engenders
wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
| Guess: |
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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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It went to have
vengeance
on the eagle and break its eggs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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MEPHISTOPHELES (zu Faust):
Komm nur geschwind und lass dich fuhren;
Du musst
notwendig
transpirieren,
Damit die Kraft durch Inn- und Aussres dringt.
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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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The fact is,
In caverns by the water-side,
And other places that I've tried,
I've had a lot of practice:
"But I have never taken yet
A strict
domestic
part,
And in my flurry I forget
The Five Good Rules of Etiquette
We have to know by heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
I see the convent's gleaming wall
Rise from its groves of pine,
And towers of old
cathedrals
tall,
And castles by the Rhine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Pleasures the sex, as children birds, pursue,
Still out of reach, yet never out of view;
Sure, if they catch, to spoil the toy at most,
To covet flying, and regret when lost:
At last, to follies youth could scarce defend,
It grows their age's
prudence
to pretend;
Ashamed to own they gave delight before,
Reduced to feign it, when they give no more:
As hags hold Sabbaths, less for joy than spite,
So these their merry, miserable night;
Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide,
And haunt the places where their honour died.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
_A great hall in the castle of the
COUNTESS
CATHLEEN.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
300
He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts;
But double griefs afflict concealing harts,
As raging flames who
striveth
to suppresse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I sit with sad civility, I read
With honest anguish, and an aching head;
And drop at last, but in
unwilling
ears,
This saving counsel, "Keep your piece nine years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Farther in summer than the birds,
Pathetic from the grass,
A minor nation celebrates
Its
unobtrusive
mass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
_zag-sal_,
liturgical
note, 103 f.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Oft hast thou seen bolts of the thunder hurl'd
As from thy threshold; day by day hast been
A little lower than the chilly sheen
Of icy pinnacles, and dipp'dst thine arms
Into the deadening ether that still charms 210
Their marble being: now, as deep profound
As those are high,
descend!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men,
To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,
And roam along, the world's tired denizen,
With none who bless us, none whom we can bless;
Minions of splendour shrinking from
distress!
| 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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And do so, love; yet when they have devis'd,
What strained touches
rhetoric
can lend,
Thou truly fair, wert truly sympathiz'd
In true plain words, by thy true-telling friend;
And their gross painting might be better us'd
Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abus'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I need not to
accomplish
my intent,
In other love, impure or pure, despair;
The rose I well might gather from the thorn:
My longing only is of hope forlorn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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He never spoke a word too much--
Except of Story, or some such,
Whom, though
condemned
by ethics strict,
The heart refuses to convict.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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ou hem
chastise
& lere; 41
Wite ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
XL
He who hath lived and living, thinks,
Must e'en despise his kind at last;
He who hath suffered ofttimes shrinks
From shades of the
relentless
past.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was
preserved
for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
In the edition of 1836 these two couplets of 1815 were compressed into
one, and in that edition lines 200-201
preceded
lines 198-199.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Forming in column, they advance noisily,
and the horse hoof shakes the
crumbling
plain with four-footed
trampling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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I was born beneath
A northern sky, but yet the Latin muse
To me is a familiar voice; I love
The
blossoms
of Parnassus, I believe
The prophecies of singers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I marvel wherefore thou hast not from friendship
Disclosed
thyself ere now before my father,
Or else before our king from joy, or else
Before Prince Vishnevetsky from the zeal
Of a devoted servant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And Mary, who was growing old,
Knew that the pottage would be cold
When he returned;
He
hungered
only for the night,
And westward, bending sharp and bright,
The thin moon burned.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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"Were he
ever so brazen-faced, he should never escape my
vengeance!
| 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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les,
Ofte goo to sek men; &
herberewe
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
'127 Clarissa':
it does not appear that Pope had any
individual
lady in mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
The Cloud descended and the Lily bowd her modest head:
And went to mind her
numerous
charge among the verdant grass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
"
With vassalage he goes to strike that pagan,
Shatters
his shield, against his heart he breaks it,
Tears the chin-guard above his hauberk mailed;
So flings him dead: his saddle shall be wasted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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As to ascend
That steep, upon whose brow the chapel stands
(O'er Rubaconte, looking lordly down
On the well-guided city,) up the right
Th' impetuous rise is broken by the steps
Carv'd in that old and simple age, when still
The
registry
and label rested safe;
Thus is th' acclivity reliev'd, which here
Precipitous from the other circuit falls:
But on each hand the tall cliff presses close.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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oh, quickly bear me hence
To wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense:
Where
Contemplation
plumes her ruffled wings,
And the free soul looks down to pity kings!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
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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Come, go; I will fall
prostrate
at his feet,
And never rise until my tears and prayers
Have won his Grace to come in person hither
And take perforce my husband from the Abbess.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Judith, be not too
scornful
of their noise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
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: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
- You comply with all other terms of this
agreement
for free
distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The
daughter
of beauty wip'd her pitying tears with her white veil,
And said, Alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
What made me happy, that I owned; 140
You were my wonders, you my Lars,
In darkling days my sun and stars,
And over you
entranced
I hung,
Too young to know that I was young.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
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 |
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Turmoil grown visible beneath our peace,
And we that are grown
formless
rise above, Fluids intangible that have been men,
We seem as statues round whose high risen base Some overflowing river is run mad;
In us alone the element of calm !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
For on no bruit and rumour of great deeds,
But on their doing, is his spirit set,
And in his heart he reaps a furrow rich,
Wherefrom
the foison of good counsel springs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Ye, who would more of Spain and Spaniards know,
Go, read whate'er is writ of bloodiest strife:
Whate'er keen Vengeance urged on foreign foe
Can act, is acting there against man's life:
From flashing scimitar to secret knife,
War
mouldeth
there each weapon to his need--
So may he guard the sister and the wife,
So may he make each curst oppressor bleed,
So may such foes deserve the most remorseless deed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
]
Fountain
of sorrows, centre of mad ire,
Rank error's school and fane of heresy,
Once Rome, now Babylon, the false and free,
Whom fondly we lament and long desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Doe you not hope your
Children
shall be Kings,
When those that gaue the Thane of Cawdor to me,
Promis'd no lesse to them
Banq.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Its stem will stretch to the length of
three or four feet--thus preserving its head above water
in the
swellings
of the river.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Were it not that his art's glory, full of fire
Till the dark
communal
moment all of ash,
Returns as proud evening's glow lights the glass,
To the fires of the pure mortal sun!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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for 'tis hard
At
eighteen
not to play the fool!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
A term of
familiar
address; friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
He said, 'Ay, ay,' but did not come: he threw himself down on
some loose sheaves, and lay looking at the sky, and
particularly
at a
large, bright star, which shone like another moon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
This is, of course, no
argument
against the poems
now-we mean it only as against the poets _thew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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So lost ye both, being in
falseness
one,
What fortune else had granted; she thy curse,
Who marred thee as she loved thee, and thou hers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The incident in which
Rudhall appears is worth
relating
at length.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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EBOOK WORKS OF W B YEATS, VOL 6 ***
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Whose grievous fall, when false Duessa spide,
Her golden cup she cast unto the ground,
And crowned mitre rudely threw aside;
Such percing griefe her stubborne hart did wound, 220
That she could not endure that
dolefull
stound,
But leaving all behind her, fled away;
The light-foot Squire her quickly turnd around,
And by hard meanes enforcing her to stay,
So brought unto his Lord, as his deserved pray.
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--Of which Aristophanes affords an ample
harvest, having not only outgone Plautus or any other in that kind, but
expressed all the moods and figures of what is
ridiculous
oddly.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Snowfalls hiss
Fall and how I miss
My beloved in my arms
The Farewell
(Alcools: L'Adieu)
I've gathered this sprig of heather
Autumn is dead you will remember
On earth we'll see no more of each other
Fragrance of time sprig of heather
Remember I wait for you forever
Acrobats
(Alcools:Saltimbanques)
The strollers in the plain
walk the length of gardens
before the doors of grey inns
through villages without churches
And the children gone before
The others follow dreaming
Each fruit tree resigns itself
When they signal from afar
They have burdens round or square
drums and golden tambourines
Apes and bears wise animals
gather coins as they progress
The Bells
(Alcools: Les Cloches)
My gipsy beau my lover
Hear the bells above us
We loved passionately
Thinking none could see us
But we so badly hidden
All the bells in their song
Saw from heights of heaven
And told it everyone
Tomorrow Cyprien Henry
Marie Ursule Catherine
The baker's wife her husband
and Gertrude that's my cousin
Will smile when I go by them
I won't know where to hide
You far and I'll be crying
Perhaps I shall be dying
The Gypsy
(Alcools: La tzigane)
The gypsy knew in advance
Our two lives star-crossed by night
We said farewell to her and then
from that deep well Hope began
Love heavy a performing bear
Danced upright when we wanted
And the blue bird lost his plumes
And the beggars lost their Ave
We knew quite well that we were damned
But hope of love in the street
Made us think hand in hand
Of what the Gypsy did foresee
The Sign
(Alcools: Signe)
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
Parting I love the fruits I detest the flowers
I regret every one of the kisses that I've given
Such a bitter walnut tells his grief to the showers
My Autumn eternal O my spiritual season
The hands of lost lovers juggle with your sun
A spouse follows me it's my fatal shadow
The doves take flight this evening their last one
One Evening
(Alcools: Un soir)
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
And you sustain me
Let them tremble a long while all these lamps
Pray pray for me
The city's metallic and it's the only star
Drowned in your blue eyes
When the tramways run spurting pale fire
Over the twittering birds
And all that trembles in your eyes of my dreams
That a lonely man drinks
Under flames of gas red like a false dawn
O clothed your arm is lifted
See the speaker stick his tongue out at the listeners
A phantom has committed suicide
The apostle of the fig-tree hangs and slowly rots
Let us play this love out then to the end
Bells with clear chimes announce your birth
See
The streets are
garlanded
and the palms advance
Towards thee
Moonlight
(Alcools: Clair de Lune)
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
The orchards and towns are greedy tonight
The stars appear like the image of bees
Of this luminous honey that offends the vines
For now all sweet in their fall from the sky
Each ray of moonlight's a ray of honey
Now hid I conceive the sweetest adventure
I fear stings of fire from this Polar bee
that sets these deceptive rays in my hands
And takes its moon-honey to the rose of the winds
Autumn Ill
(Alcools: Automne malade)
Autumn ill and adored
You die when the hurricane blows in the roseries
When it has snowed
In the orchard trees
Poor autumn
Dead in whiteness and riches
Of snow and ripe fruits
Deep in the sky
The sparrow hawks cry
Over the sprites with green hair the dwarfs
Who've never been loved
In the far tree-lines
the stags are groaning
And how I love O season how I love your rumbling
The falling fruits that no one gathers
The wind the forest that are tumbling
All their tears in autumn leaf by leaf
The leaves
You press
A crowd
That flows
The life
That goes
Hotels
(Alcools: Hotels)
The room is free
Each for himself
A new arrival
Pays by the month
The boss is doubtful
Whether you'll pay
Like a top
I spin on the way
The traffic noise
My neighbour gross
Who puffs an acrid
English smoke
O La Valliere
Who limps and smiles
In my prayers
The bedside table
And all the company
in this hotel
know the languages
of Babel
Let's shut our doors
With a double lock
And each adore
his lonely love
Hunting Horns
(Alcools: Cors de chasse)
Our story's noble as its tragic
like the grimace of a tyrant
no drama's chance or magic
no detail that's indifferent
makes our great love pathetic
And Thomas de Quincey drinking
Opiate poison sweet and chaste
Of his poor Anne went dreaming
We pass we pass since all must pass
Often I'll be returning
Memories are hunting horns alas
whose note along the wind is dying
Vitam Impendere Amori
(Vitam Impendere Amori: To Threaten Life for Love)
Love is dead within your arms
Do you remember his encounter
He's dead you restore the charms
He returns at your encounter
Another spring of springs gone past
I think of all its tenderness
Farewell season done at last
You'll return as tenderly
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it by
necessite
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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That was in July, Sixty-three,
The very day that General Lee,
Flower of
Southern
chivalry,
Baffled and beaten, backward reeled
From a stubborn Meade and a barren field.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Nay, it is deeper than my sister's
depth and stronger than my brother's strength, and
stranger
than
the strangeness of my madness.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The leaves, like women, interchange
Sagacious confidence;
Somewhat of nods, and
somewhat
of
Portentous inference,
The parties in both cases
Enjoining secrecy, --
Inviolable compact
To notoriety.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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In a sweat he arose; and the storm
shrieked
shrill,
And smote as in savage joy;
While High-Stoy trees twanged to Bubb-Down Hill,
And Bubb-Down to High-Stoy.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Grosart have slightly misrepresented the
relation of _Hesperides_ to the
anthology
known as _Witts Recreations_:
Mr.
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or,
Your
_Sutlers_
wife, i' the leaguer, of two blanks!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I have seen
A pine in Italy that cast its shadow
Athwart a cataract; firm stood the pine--
The
cataract
shook the shadow.
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For
southern
wind and east wind meet
Where, girt and crowned by sword and fire,
England with bare and bloody feet
Climbs the steep road of wide empire.
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Wilde - Poems |
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May," and
"Garmison,"
referred
to in places as "Jerry" or "Jack.
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Kipling - Poems |
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What would I give for a heart of flesh to warm me through,
Instead of this heart of stone ice-cold
whatever
I do;
Hard and cold and small, of all hearts the worst of all.
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LFS}
A shadowy human form winged & in his depths
The dazzlings as of gems shone clear, rapturous in joy fury
Glorying in his own eyes Exalted in terrific Pride
[ Searching for glory wishing that the heavens had eyes to See
And courting that the Earth would ope her Eyelids & behold
Such wondrous beauty
repining
in the midst of all his glory
That nought but Enion could be found to praise adore & love
Three days in self admiring raptures on the rocks he flamd
And three dark nights repind the solitude.
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Blake - Zoas |
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He knows of nothing but the
football
match,
And where hens lay, and when the duck will hatch.
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The Ball no
Question
makes of Ayes and Noes,
But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes;
And He that toss'd Thee down into the Field,
He knows about it all--HE knows--HE knows!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Ma conveniesi a quella pietra scema
che guarda 'l ponte, che
Fiorenza
fesse
vittima ne la sua pace postrema.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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