Tracle," and thin I made
sich an illigant
obaysance
that it wud ha quite althegither bewildered
the brain o' ye.
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Poe - 5 |
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Why with the animals
wanderest
thou on the plain?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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_The Sleep of Spring_
O for that sweet,
untroubled
rest
That poets oft have sung!
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John Clare |
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I had sat within that marble circle where the
oldest bard is as the young,
And the pipe is ever
dropping
honey, and the
lyre's strings are ever strung.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Your name from hence immortal life shall have,
Though I, once gone, to all the world must die:
The earth can yield me but a common grave,
When you
entombed
in men's eyes shall lie.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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e
emperour
he ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
In the evening
The far valleys were
sprinkled
with tiny lights.
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Stephen Crane |
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Then, at once,
He fell back, and rolled
crashing
from the height
Into the dusk of pines.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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ai ne
suffreden
neuer de?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"I saw my sons resume their ancient fire;
I saw fair freedom's
blossoms
richly blow:
But ah!
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Robert Forst |
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Suddenly we find that we are no
longer the actors but the
spectators
of the play.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
Then the
clansmen
departed, by this path and that; and over the hill
Sped Maclean with an outward wrath for an inward shame;
And that place of the lashing full quiet became;
And the wife and the child stood sad; and bloody-backed Hamish sat still.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The Latin is seldom
intelligible
without reference to the
Chinese.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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That very woman--
For I know well that you are
praising
Aoife--
Now hates you and will leave no subtilty
Unknotted that might run into a noose
About your throat, no army in idleness
That might bring ruin on this land you serve.
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Yeats |
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If 'twas not thy heart's wish to yoke with me, through
holding in horror the dread decrees of my stern sire, yet thou couldst have
led me to thy home, where as thine handmaid I might have served thee with
cheerful service, laving thy snowy feet with clear water, or spreading the
purple
coverlet
o'er thy couch.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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As men talk in a dream, so Corinth all,
Throughout
her palaces imperial,
And all her populous streets and temples lewd,
Mutter'd, like tempest in the distance brew'd,
To the wide-spreaded night above her towers.
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Keats - Lamia |
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ou
drouppedest
euery day in myn
eer{e}s {and} in my ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but oh my soul is white!
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blake-poems |
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upon the left hand thou shalt find
The Chalybes, stout
craftsmen
of the steel--
Beware of them!
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Aeschylus |
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'Mid life's bright glow she dwelt within my soul,
The sovereign tenant of a humble cell,
But when for heaven she bade the world farewell,
Death seem'd to grasp me in his fierce control:
My wither'd love torn from its brightening goal--
My soul without its
treasure
doom'd to dwell--
Could I but trace their grief, their sorrow tell,
A stone might wake, and fain with them condole.
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Petrarch |
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'
I asked the
childish
voice.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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WINDFLOWER
LEAF
This flower is repeated
out of old winds, out of
old times.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Greetings, in pale libation and madness,
Don't think to some hope of magic
corridors
I offer
My empty cup, where a monster of gold suffers!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I can hardly doubt that he must be
identified
with the Dr.
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Robert Herrick |
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Steamer,
straining
at your ropes
Lift your anchor towards an exotic rawness!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe
everywhere
in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not mysterious at all
We are the evidence ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Do I think the air a condescension,
The earth a politeness,
Heaven a boon
deserving
thanks?
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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For cold thy bed to rest upon,
And cold the falling year
Whose
withered
leaves are lost and sere.
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Christina Rossetti |
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It was brutal and coarse and violent,--man being naturally
gentle when he's
fighting
for his life.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Knobs at left upper and left lower corners to
facilitate
the
holding of the tablet.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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To Harmony's
enchanting
notes,
As moves the mazy dance, man.
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| Question: |
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Robert Forst |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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| Question: |
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Lewis Carroll |
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O
amazement
of things!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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e freke in his fyue fyngres,
[B] & alle his
afyaunce
vpon folde wat3 in ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Him they trouble and repel,
Us they comfort and allure,
And happy it were, if our delight
Were as great as his
affright!
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Longfellow |
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THE years had passed away, when Philip tried,
In matters more
profound
his son to guide;
He spoke of Paradise and Heav'n above;
But not a word of woman,--nor of LOVE.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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'Gainst Nature still,
Thriftlesse Ambition, that will rauen vp
Thine owne liues meanes: Then 'tis most like,
The
Soueraignty
will fall vpon Macbeth
Macd.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Life's hopes waste all to
nothingness
away
As showers at night wash out the steps of day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The horse will set his foot and bite
Close to the ground lark's guarded nest
And snort to meet the prickly sight;
He fans the feathers of her breast--
Yet thistles prick so deep that he
Turns back and leaves her
dwelling
free.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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at quondam lacrimis et supplice dextra
et uotis
precibusque
uirum concede moueri,
o genetrix: duro nec enim ex adamante creati,
sed tua turba sumus.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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THE BLOSSOM
Merry, merry
sparrow!
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blake-poems |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Among the rocks--an empty hollow,
Secret, still,
mysterious!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Tosto che loco li la circunscrive,
la virtu
formativa
raggia intorno
cosi e quanto ne le membra vive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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who will give me back my
terrible
array?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I lived on dread; to those who know
The
stimulus
there is
In danger, other impetus
Is numb and vital-less.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Then stand with vs:
The West yet
glimmers
with some streakes of Day.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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LIV
How soon will all my lovely days be over,
And I no more be found beneath the sun,--
Neither beside the many-murmuring sea,
Nor where the plain-winds whisper to the reeds,
Nor in the tall beech-woods among the hills 5
Where roam the bright-lipped Oreads, nor along
The pasture-sides where berry-pickers stray
And harmless
shepherds
pipe their sheep to fold!
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Sappho |
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unsōfte
þonan feorh
oð-ferede, 2142.
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Beowulf |
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And ther-with-al such cold me hente, 1730
That, under clothes warme and softe,
Sith that day I have
chevered
ofte.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The cowslip blossom, with its ruddy streak,
Would tempt her furlongs from the path to seek;
And gay long purple, with its tufty spike,
She'd wade oer shoes to reach it in the dyke;
And oft, while scratching through the briary woods
For
tempting
cuckoo-flowers and violet buds,
Poor Jane, I've known her crying sneak to town,
Fearing her mother, when she'd torn her gown.
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John Clare |
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at ne may nat
vnbytide
it mot bitide by
necessite.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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This last, Madam, is
scarcely
what my pride can bear.
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Robert Forst |
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Nor longer check my conquests on the foe;
But, pierced by this, to endless
darkness
go,
And add one spectre to the realms below!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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'
"While yet I spoke, a sudden sorrow ran
Through every breast, and spread from man to man,
Till wrathful thus
Eurylochus
began:
"'O cruel thou!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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They were now alarmed at this,
and had good reason to implore aid before the enemy should recover
their strength and bethink
themselves
of victory, or at any rate of
revenge.
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Tacitus |
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"
One morning thus, by
Esthwaite
lake,
When life was sweet, I knew not why,
To me my good friend Matthew spake, 15
And thus I made reply.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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When they had leaned their limbs upon snowy benches reposing,
Tables largely
arranged
with various viands were garnisht.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"You are right, lady; I only arrived
yesterday
from the country.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Not a
solitary
gun
Left to tell the fort had won,
Or lost the day!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Redistribution is
subject to the
trademark
license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Thus, too, the ramparts of the mighty world
On all sides round shall taken be by storm,
And tumble to wrack and
shivered
fragments down.
| Guess: |
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Lucretius |
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They fought,
Wrangled
over the world,
A morsel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Moment when one must
break with the
living memory,
to inter it
- place it in the coffin,
hide it - with
the brutality of
placing it there,
raw contact
to see it no longer
except as
idealised
-
later, no longer him
living, there - but
the germ of his being
taken back into itself -
the germ allowing
thought for him
- sight of him
vision (ideality
of state) and
speech for him
for in us, pure
him, a refining
- become our
honour, the source
of our finer
feelings -
true re-entry
into the ideal
24.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Where thine ancient care for thy people, and the hand Turnus thy
kinsman hath so often
clasped?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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And the
Governor
of Han-tung, because his long sleeves would not keep
still when the flutes called to him, rose and drunkenly danced.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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What God gives, and what we take,
'Tis a gift for Christ, His sake:
Be the meal of beans and peas,
God be thanked for those and these:
Have we flesh, or have we fish,
All are
fragments
from His dish.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Spring one soft day will open the leaves,
Spring one bright day will lure back the flowers;
Never fancy my
whistling
wind grieves,
Never fancy I've tears in my showers;
Dance, nights and days!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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"
Here Alfred, King of the Saxons,
Ceased writing for a while;
And raised his eyes from his book,
With a strange and puzzled look,
And an
incredulous
smile.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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A beauteous youth,
majestic
and divine,
He seem'd; fair offspring of some princely line!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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XLII
My future will not copy fair my past--
I wrote that once; and thinking at my side
My ministering life-angel justified
The word by his
appealing
look upcast
To the white throne of God, I turned at last,
And there, instead, saw thee, not unallied
To angels in thy soul!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Meredith - Poems |
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566-589), and thus
completely
equipped for his adventure he first
hears mass, and afterwards takes leave of Arthur, the knights of the
Round Table, and the lords and ladies of the court, who kiss him and
commend him to Christ.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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no thought
We give them; Punic seaman's fear
Is all of Bosporus, nor aught
Recks he of pitfalls otherwhere;
The soldier fears the mask'd retreat
Of Parthia; Parthia dreads the thrall
Of Rome; but Death with
noiseless
feet
Has stolen and will steal on all.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
Then the flicker of the blaze
Gleams on volumes of old days,
Written by masters of the art,
Loud through whose
majestic
pages
Rolls the melody of ages,
Throb the harp-strings of the heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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The meadow grass could be
cemented
down
From growing under pavements of a town;
The apple trees be sent to hearth-stone flame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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"
He did; not with cold wonder fearingly,
But Orpheus-like at an Eurydice;
For so
delicious
were the words she sung,
It seem'd he had lov'd them a whole summer long:
And soon his eyes had drunk her beauty up,
Leaving no drop in the bewildering cup,
And still the cup was full,--while he afraid
Lest she should vanish ere his lip had paid
Due adoration, thus began to adore;
Her soft look growing coy, she saw his chain so sure:
"Leave thee alone!
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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To let thee sit beneath the fall of tears
As salt as mine, and hear the sighing years
Re-sighing on my lips renunciative
Through those infrequent smiles which fail to live
For all thy
adjurations?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Wherewith
their cheeks are wet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Over them he
stretched
his right hand,
To subdue their stubborn natures,
To allay their thirst and fever,
By the shadow of his right hand;
Spake to them with voice majestic
As the sound of far-off waters,
Falling into deep abysses,
Warning, chiding, spake in this wise:--
"O my children!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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[Sidenote: so God in the plan of his
Providence
disposes
everything to be brought about in a certain order and in a proper
time;]
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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"To-day my soul clasps Form; but where is my troth
Of
yesternight
with Tune: can one cleave to both?
| Guess: |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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That Emperour to
Rencesvals
doth fare.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The
seventeenth
summer now, alas!
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Lewis Carroll |
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During the night he awoke with a start; the moon shone into his chamber,
making
everything
plainly visible.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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With pride as lofty as the towering cloud,
I would have stilled these
clamouring
demons loud,
And turned in scorn my sovereign head away
Had I not seen--O sight to dim the day!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Erect in
fresh courage and arms, he with his faithful sword, he
towering
fierce
over his spear, they face one another panting in the battle shock.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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For ferh wearde and
gūðmōde
grummon, B.
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Beowulf |
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[58] _pataku_ has apparently the same sense originally as _bataku_,
although the one forms its
preterite
_iptik_, and the other
_ibtuk_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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enne
repreued
he ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The red-eyed scavengers are creeping
From Kentish Town and Golder's Green;
Where are the eagles and the
trumpets?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes, great and small,
That stood along the floor and by the wall;
And some
loquacious
Vessels were; and some
Listen'd perhaps, but never talk'd at all.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And wondered if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His
sightless
soul may stray.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Canto VII
<
superillustrans claritate tua
felices ignes horum
malacoth!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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HASTINGS
_has passed over the jewels to_ MARLOW'S
_care.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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|| _ueniam ante
requirens_ Hermes
2
batriade
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Latin - Catullus |
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