I had rather wear her grace
Than an earl's
distinguished
face;
I had rather dwell like her
Than be Duke of Exeter
Royalty enough for me
To subdue the bumble-bee!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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Songs can the very moon draw down from heaven
Circe with singing changed from human form
The
comrades
of Ulysses, and by song
Is the cold meadow-snake, asunder burst.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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)
The ghosts of dead loves everyone
That make the stark winds reek with fear
Lest love return with the foison sun And slay the
memories
that me cheer (Such as I drink to mine fashion) Wincing the ghosts of yester-year.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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In the history of the earth
hitherto
the largest and most
stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir.
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Whitman |
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I swear to you the
architects
shall appear without fail!
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Whitman |
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Creating the works from print
editions
not protected by U.
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Yeats |
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Pain or
pleasure
transported her, and the whole of pain or
pleasure might be held in a flower's cup or the imagined frown of
a friend.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Nor this through stroke
Of human suffering, such as justifies
Remissness and inaptitude of mind,
But through presumption; even in pleasure pleased
Unworthily, disliking here, and there 110
Liking; by rules of mimic art transferred
To things above all art; but more,--for this,
Although a strong infection of the age,
Was never much my habit--giving way
To a comparison of scene with scene, 115
Bent overmuch on superficial things,
Pampering
myself with meagre novelties
Of colour and proportion; to the moods
Of time and season, to the moral power,
The affections and the spirit of the place, 120
Insensible.
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William Wordsworth |
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All
fortunes
made;
Turn the key and bolt the door,
Sweet is death forevermore.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
Nor the seas change us, nor the
tempests
bend;
Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars:
And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,
We should but vow the faster for the stars.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Indebted
as I was to your
goodness
beyond what I can ever repay, I eagerly
grasped at your offer to have the mare with me.
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Robert Burns |
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[_During the last words_ ADMETUS _and_
ALCESTIS
_have entered_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Roses and Thorns_
QVIS deus hoc medium uallauit
uepribus
aurum,
iussit et inclusam sentibus esse rosam?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I give you here a saying deep and therefore, haply true;
'Tis out of Merlin's prophecies, but quite as good as new:
The
question
boath for men and meates longe voyages yt beginne
Lyes in a notshell, rather saye lyes in a case of tinne.
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James Russell Lowell |
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With pomp great as queens in their coach and
six horses ;
Their
bastards
made dukes, earls, viscounts, and
lords,
And all the high titles that honour affords.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Then slowly climb the many-winding way,
And frequent turn to linger as you go,
From loftier rocks new loveliness survey,
And rest ye at 'Our Lady's House of Woe;'
Where frugal monks their little relics show,
And sundry legends to the stranger tell:
Here impious men have punished been; and lo,
Deep in yon cave
Honorius
long did dwell,
In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,
And how, how rare and strange it is, to find
In a life
composed
so much, so much of odds and ends,
(For indeed I do not love it.
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T.S. Eliot |
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But you are man, you well can understand
The shame that cannot be
explained
for shame.
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Tennyson |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sea Garden, by Hilda Doolittle
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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| Question: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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His mother died,--the only friend he had,--
Some tears escaped, but his philosophy
Couched like a cat sat
watching
close behind
And throttled all his passion.
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| Question: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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All have not
appeared
in the form of snowflakes but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp sorcerers and obey them.
| Guess: |
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Appoloinaire |
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Thou, thou art here, to human sight
Clothed all with
incorrupted
light;
--But yet how more admir'dly bright
Wilt thou appear, when thou art set
In thy refulgent thronelet,
That shin'st thus in thy counterfeit!
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Robert Herrick |
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But the prince's
prudence
is his chief art and
safety.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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You are
supposed
to have escaped, en masse, from your keepers.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Note: See Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' for an
expression
of like sentiment.
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Ronsard |
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--in whose
ennobling
stir
I feel myself exalted--can ye not
Accord me such a being?
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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How,
justified
by it, the horrors, evils, battles of the earth!
| Guess: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Of the earlier verses of Burns few are preserved: when composed, he
put them on paper, but the kept them to himself: though a poet at
sixteen, he seems not to have made even his brother his confidante
till he became a man, and his
judgment
had ripened.
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| Question: |
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Robert Forst |
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Two blows I aimed at thee, for twice thou kissedst my
fair wife; but I struck thee not, because thou
restoredst
them to me
according to agreement.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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It seems odd that such
points should need mentioning; but Greek drama has always suffered from a
school of critics who approach a play with a greater equipment of
aesthetic theory than of
dramatic
perception.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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To pass it, scarcely he a moment took;
On
Florence
instantly he cast a look;--
Delighted with the beauty of the spot,
He there resolved to fix his earthly lot,
Regarding it as proper for his wiles,
A city famed for wanton freaks and guiles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Childe Harold sailed, and passed the barren spot
Where sad
Penelope
o'erlooked the wave;
And onward viewed the mount, not yet forgot,
The lover's refuge, and the Lesbian's grave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd
Who rose before us, and as
Prophets
burn'd,
Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep
They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.
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| Question: |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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" If it had been said to
Homer, that his gods cannot be "good" because their
behaviour
is
consistently cynical, cruel, unscrupulous and scandalous, he would
simply think he had not heard aright: Zeus is an habitual liar, of
course, but what has that got to do with his "goodness"?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And still it lives, that keen and
heavenward
flame,
Lives in his eye, and trembles in his tone:
And these wild words of fury but proclaim
A heart that beats for thee, for thee alone!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
630
As
painctyd
Bruton, when a wolfyn wylde,
When yt is cale and blustrynge wyndes do blowe,
Enters hys bordelle, taketh hys yonge chylde,
And wyth his bloude bestreynts the lillie snowe,
He thoroughe mountayne hie and dale doth goe, 635
Throwe the quyck torrent of the bollen ave,
Throwe Severne rollynge oer the sandes belowe
He skyms alofe, and blents the beatynge wave,
Ne stynts, ne lagges the chace, tylle for hys eyne
In peecies hee the morthering theef doth chyne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
And if Hernani
Attempts
to fight you need not kill the man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
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assistance they need, is critical to
reaching
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Or
cormorants
plunging one by one, cutting
The flood, pearls flying from their wings?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
205
Phaedra
Wretched woman, whose name do you dare to
mention?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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You burden the trees
with black drops,
you swirl and crash--
you have broken off a
weighted
leaf
in the wind,
it is hurled out,
whirls up and sinks,
a green stone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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for Beauty stands 220
In the admiration only of weak minds
Led captive; cease to admire, and all her Plumes
Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy,
At every sudden slighting quite abasht:
Therefore with manlier objects we must try
His constancy, with such as have more shew
Of worth, of honour, glory, and popular praise;
Rocks whereon
greatest
men have oftest wreck'd;
Or that which only seems to satisfie
Lawful desires of Nature, not beyond; 230
And now I know he hungers where no food
Is to be found, in the wide Wilderness;
The rest commit to me, I shall let pass
No advantage, and his strength as oft assay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Into the framework of
his romance of chivalry he
inserted
a veiled picture of the struggles and
sufferings of his own people in Ireland.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
CINO
ITALIAN
CAMPAGNA
1309, THE OPEN-ROAD
AH !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
A painter of the Umbrian school
Designed upon a gesso ground
The nimbus of the
Baptized
God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
But what use is it to affect a proud
display?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Make me not sighted like the basilisk;
I have look'd on
thousands
who have sped the better
By my regard, but kill'd none so.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Moses on the Nile--_Dublin
University
Magazine_
Envy and Avarice--_American Keepsake_
ODES.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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'Round me the old sorrow was awaking, And the
breaking
of some mighty heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The
employment
of the
classic machinery was almost as impossible.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Yet no hall that wealth e'er plann'd
Waits you more surely than the wider room
Traced by Death's yet
greedier
hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word processing or
hypertext
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Fame lives not in the breath of words,
In public praises' hue and cry;
The music of these summer birds
Is silent in a winter sky,
When thine shall live and
flourish
on,
Oer wrecks where crowds of fames are gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
There a lone couple lived,
secluded
there
From all the world considers joy or care,
Lived to themselves, a long lone journey trod,
And through their Bible talked aloud to God;
While one small close and cow their wants maintained,
But little needing, and but little gained.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
| 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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And Faith shall come forth the finer,
From
trampled
thickets of fire,
And the orient open diviner
Before her, the heaven rise higher.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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XI
As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st,
In one of thine, from that which thou departest;
And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestow'st,
Thou mayst call thine when thou from youth convertest,
Herein lives wisdom, beauty, and increase;
Without this folly, age, and cold decay:
If all were minded so, the times should cease
And
threescore
year would make the world away.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But while our author has borrowed many of the details of his story from the
"Roman de Perceval" by Chrestien de Troyes, he has made the narrative more
attractive by the introduction of several
original
and highly interesting
passages which throw light on the manners and amusements of our ancestors.
| 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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And
standing
on the altar high,
"Lo, what a fiend is here!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
I once hoped to pluck the fruits of life:
But now alas, they are all
withered
and dry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
>>
Cette petite
anecdote
racontee par les historiens du poete est devenue
classique; mais nous n'avons pu resister au plaisir de la repeter ici.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
the Sylphs
contrive
it all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| 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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I am much
interested
for that best of men, Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
My soul burns with the
quenchless
fire
That lit my lover's funeral pyre:
Alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
[And
mistakingly
printed 'ic' as Midland or Northern 'ic', instead of the Southern 'ich'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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_/ Tomo
1/ Madrid/ Libreria de
Leocadio
Lopez/13--Calle del Carmen--13/ 1876/
[8?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
ere to-morrow's dawn be here,
"Send forth my messengers over the sea,
To seek seven
beautiful
brides for me;
"Radiant of feature and regal of mien,
Seven handmaids meet for the Persian Queen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
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with the phrase "Project Gutenberg"
associated
with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
XXXV
So
answered
those strange horsemen,
And each couched low his spear;
And forthwith all the ranks of Rome
Were bold, and of good cheer:
And on the thirty armies
Came wonder and affright,
And Ardea wavered on the left,
And Cora on the right.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
We'll make foul weather with despised tears;
Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer corn
And make a dearth in this
revolting
land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
"
An account of all this was laid before Tiberius, who slighted it, and
by hesitation
fostered
the war.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
This only a poore flash, a
lightning
is 95
Before my Muses death, as after his.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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You who
consoled
me in funereal night,
Bring me Posilipo, the sea of Italy,
The flower that pleased my grieving heart,
And the trellis where the vine entwines the rose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
So when that Angel of the darker Drink
At last shall find you by the river-brink,
And,
offering
his Cup, invite your Soul
Forth to your Lips to quaff--you shall not shrink.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
A little
distance
from the prow
Those crimson shadows were:
I turn'd my eyes upon the deck--
O Christ!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Or friends or
kinsfolk
on the citied earth,
To share our marriage feast and nuptial mirth?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
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 |
|
Alexey
Ivanytch
tries to oblige me to marry
him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
): _non
iusseris_
ego in ed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Oenone
Why grant him a
complete
victory so?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Down the long dusky line
Teeth gleam and eyeballs shine;
And the bright bayonet,
Bristling
and firmly set,
Flashed with a purpose grand,
Long ere the sharp command
Of the fierce rolling drum
Told them their time had come,
Told them what work was sent
For the black regiment.
| Guess: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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So all my spirit fills
With
pleasure
infinite,
And all the feathered wings of rest
Seem flocking from the radiant West
To bear me thro' the night.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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_--how just the
expression!
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Robert Burns |
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A clock stopped -- not the mantel's;
Geneva's
farthest
skill
Can't put the puppet bowing
That just now dangled still.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Extinguish
my eyes, I still can see you,
Close my ears, I can hear your footsteps fall,
And without feet I still can follow you,
And without voice I still can to you call.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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" Lynette cried,
reddening
with shame.
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Tennyson |
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Mais, saints du ciel, en haut du chene,
Mat perdu dans le soir charme,
Laissez les
fauvettes
de mai
Pour ceux qu'au fond du bois enchaine,
Dans l'herbe d'ou l'on ne peut fuir,
La defaite sans avenir.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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In the lair (the form) of the female hare superfetation (second
conception
during gestation) is possible.
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Appoloinaire |
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what
wrinkles
she has
on her face!
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Aristophanes |
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O dear to me my birth-things--all moving things, and the trees where I was
born,[1] the grains, plants, rivers;
Dear to me my own slow,
sluggish
rivers, where they flow distant over flats
of silvery sands or through swamps;
Dear to me the Roanoke, the Savannah, the Altamahaw, the Pedee, the
Tombigbee, the Santee, the Coosa, and the Sabine--
O pensive, far away wandering, I return with my soul to haunt their banks
again.
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Whitman |
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I HAVE A
RENDEZVOUS
WITH DEATH.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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At foot--a few sparse harebells: blue
And still as were the friend's dark eyes
That dwelt on mine,
transfixèd
through
With sudden ecstatic surmise.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Li veggio d'ogne parte farsi presta
ciascun' ombra e basciarsi una con una
sanza restar,
contente
a brieve festa;
cosi per entro loro schiera bruna
s'ammusa l'una con l'altra formica,
forse a spiar lor via e lor fortuna.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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This
messager
took leve and wente
Upon his wey, and never ne stente
Til he com to the derke valeye 155
That stant bytwene roches tweye
Ther never yet grew corn ne gras,
Ne tree, ne nothing that ought was,
Beste, ne man, ne nothing elles,
Save ther were a fewe welles 160
Came renning fro the cliffes adoun,
That made a deedly sleping soun,
And ronnen doun right by a cave
That was under a rokke y-grave
Amid the valey, wonder depe.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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--Published 1798
Included among the "Poems of
Sentiment
and Reflection.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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So, when you had risen
from all the lethargy of love and its heat,
you would have
summoned
me, me alone,
and found my hands,
beyond all the hands in the world,
cold, cold, cold,
intolerably cold and sweet.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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