Far off he stands
In sunset land, and on his shoulder bears
The pillar'd mountain-mass whose base is earth,
Whose top is heaven, and its
ponderous
load
Too great for any grasp.
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Aeschylus |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Thus far sped the sacred
contests
to their holy lord.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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VII
Now when the rosy-fingred
Morning?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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_
"On the other side,
Incensed
with indignation, Satan stood
Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,
That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge
In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair
Shakes pestilence and war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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What opponent can there be in
pacifying
the border?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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It was not long I lived there,
But I became a woman
Under those vehement stars,
For it was there I heard
For the first time my spirit
Forging an iron rule for me,
As though with slow cold hammers
Beating out word by word:
"Take love when love is given,
But never think to find it
A sure escape from sorrow
Or a complete repose;
Only
yourself
can heal you,
Only yourself can lead you
Up the hard road to heaven
That ends where no one knows.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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blake-poems |
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Quarrels
were
forgotten, reciprocal wrongs forgiven, the thought of duels was blotted
out of the memory, and rancour fled away like smoke.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the
countries
of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Fantasque, un nez
poursuit
Venus au ciel profond.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The Tortoise
Feeling
'Feeling'
Raphael Sadeler (I), 1581, The Rijksmuseun
From magic Thrace, O
delerium!
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Appoloinaire |
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org/2/3/0/5/23058/
Produced by David Widger
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
With _Das Buch der Bilder_ the dream is ended, the veil of mist is
lifted and before us are
revealed
pictures and images that rise before
our eyes in clear colourful contours.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And
standing
on the altar high,
"Lo, what a fiend is here!
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blake-poems |
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Just gods, who see the grief that overwhelms me, 1165
How could I ever
engender
a child so guilty?
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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A
DREADFULL
DRAGON, Fallen Pride.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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First the 1645 volume of the Minor Poems has been
printed entire; then follow in order the poems added in the reissue of
1673; the Paradise Lost, from the edition of 1667; and the Paradise
Regain'd and Samson
Agonistes
from the edition of 1671.
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| Question: |
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Milton |
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Should my Jones more
Dorkings
send,
I will give you three, my friend!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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ou In my sones man,
ffor
seuentene
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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AS I CAME DOWN IN THE HARBOR By Louis Ginsberg
As I came down in the harbor, I saw ships careening — Tall ships with taut sails, bulging slowly away;
As I came down in the harbor, like far
swallows
flying, Delicate were the sails I saw, poised faint and dim !
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Nor courts he saw, no suits would ever try,
Nor dared an oath, nor
hazarded
a lie.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Quest' ultima gia mai non si cancella
se non servata; e intorno di lei
si preciso di sopra si favella:
pero
necessitato
fu a li Ebrei
pur l'offerere, ancor ch'alcuna offerta
si permutasse, come saver dei.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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When
speaking
of Scamp ill,
I certainly _follow, not set_ an example.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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His sister, wife, and children yawned,
With a long, slow, and drear ennui,
All human
patience
far beyond; _715
Their hopes of Heaven each would have pawned,
Anywhere else to be.
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Shelley |
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"It is traced through the hands of Hermes, he being
the wealth giving god, whose
blessing
is most efficacious in
furthering the process of acquisition.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Walpurgis
is the female saint
who converted the Saxons to Christianity.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Thus Rilke's
monograph
on Auguste Rodin will
remain the poet's testament on Life and Art.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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_100
A man who thus twice
crucifies
his God
May well .
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Whose
multitudes
are these?
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that
scatters
the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And so many
children
poor?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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55
Tu fero iuveni in manus
Floridam ipse puellulam
Dedis a gremio suae
Matris, o
Hymenaee
Hymen,
O Hymen Hymenaee.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Pale ashes of the house of
Lancaster!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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The prince listened to the Classic of Poetry,
commenting
on each section.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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And strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot
Some could articulate, while others not:
And
suddenly
one more impatient cried--
"Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came
Missiues
from
the King, who all-hail'd me Thane of Cawdor, by which Title
before, these weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to
the comming on of time, with haile King that shalt be.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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But from my grave across my brow
Plays no wind of healing now,
And fire and ice within me fight
Beneath the
suffocating
night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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But the other name of
_Desperati_ they rejected as a calumny, retorting it back upon their
adversaries, who more justly
deserved
it.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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IV
Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,
Most
gracious
singer of high poems!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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They set a vile
example!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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[56]
In the
frontier
wars of Ta-li[57] I fell into the Tartars' hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Those fruits, nor winter's cold nor summer's heat 140
Fear ever, fail not, wither not, but hang
Perennial, whose unceasing zephyr breathes
Gently on all,
enlarging
these, and those
Maturing genial; in an endless course
Pears after pears to full dimensions swell,
Figs follow figs, grapes clust'ring grow again
Where clusters grew, and (ev'ry apple stript)
The boughs soon tempt the gath'rer as before.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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an so 3428
as bounte {and}
prowesse
ben ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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COUNTING SHEEP
Half-awake I walked
A dimly-seen sweet
hawthorn
lane
Until sleep came;
I lingered at a gate and talked
A little with a lonely lamb.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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It was hardy and full of sap; and in all the
various juices which it yielded might be
distinguished
the flavor
of the Ausonian soil.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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as 'twere fain
That your
paternal
river's banks,
And Vatican, in sportive strain,
Should echo thanks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Do you
understand
crime and innocence so poorly?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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be capable of peace, its trials,
For the tug and mortal strain of nations come at last in prosperous
peace, not war;)
In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee, thou in
disease shalt swelter,
The livid cancer spread its hideous claws, clinging upon thy
breasts, seeking to strike thee deep within,
Consumption of the worst, moral consumption, shall rouge thy face
with hectic,
But thou shalt face thy fortunes, thy diseases, and surmount them all,
Whatever they are to-day and whatever through time they may be,
They each and all shall lift and pass away and cease from thee,
While thou, Time's spirals rounding, out of thyself, thyself still
extricating, fusing,
Equable, natural, mystical Union thou, (the mortal with
immortal
blent,)
Shalt soar toward the fulfilment of the future, the spirit of the
body and the mind,
The soul, its destinies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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FUZZY-WUZZY
(Soudan
Expeditionary
Force)
We've fought with many men acrost the seas,
An' some of 'em was brave an' some was not:
The Paythan an' the Zulu an' Burmese;
But the Fuzzy was the finest o' the lot.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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]
[fa] _The Grand
Chancellor
of the Ten_.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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FAUST:
Schaff mir etwas vom
Engelsschatz!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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No sooner have
you
obtained
them, than you cease to be secure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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[Sidenote: You cannot, therefore, esteem him to be a man whom you
see thus
transformed
by his vices.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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The muses must not be offended when I tell them, the
concerns
of my
wife and family will, in my mind, always take the _pas_; but I assure
them their ladyships will ever come next in place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Damned Fact,
How it did greeue
Macbeth?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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If the question were put to me I should
probably
evade it by
pointing out that Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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The city cast
Her people out upon her; and Antony,
Enthron'd i' th' market-place, did sit alone,
Whistling
to th' air; which, but for vacancy,
Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too,
And made a gap in nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Force and
prudence
are invoked in vain;
The illness that seems cured appears again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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She went that evening from the abbey gray,
Her task
committing
to another's hand;
-- Left it to Fraud to feed, till her return,
The war, and make the fires she kindled burn;
XXVII
And she believed, that she with greater power
Should go, did Pride with her as well repair;
And she (for all were guested in one bower)
In search of her had little way to fare.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Besides that, it was bordered by evanescent isthmuses, with a great
gulf-stream running about all over it; so that it was
perfectly
beautiful,
and contained only a single tree, 503 feet high.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Sample copies can be supplied only at the full
subscription
price, fifteen cents.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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What force or guile could not subdue,
Thro' many warlike ages,
Is wrought now by a coward few
For
hireling
traitor's wages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine Elizabethan
translation
which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
| 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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Whilst I, from boyhood up, a
wretched
monk,
Wander from cell to cell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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A LITTLE BOY LOST
"Nought loves another as itself,
Nor
venerates
another so,
Nor is it possible to thought
A greater than itself to know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I have heard that on a day
Mine host's signboard flew away
Nobody knew whither, till
An astrologer's old quill
To a sheepskin gave the story--
Said he saw you in your glory
Underneath a new-old Sign
Sipping
beverage
divine,
And pledging with contented smack
The Mermaid in the Zodiac!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
)
That first mild touch of
sympathy
and thought, 115
In which they found their kindred with a world
Where want and sorrow were.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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For
myself, I would always take it as a
compliment
to have it said, that
my heart ran before my head,--and surely the gallant though
unfortunate house of Stewart, the kings of our fathers for so many
heroic ages, is a theme * * * * * *
* * * * *
JAMIE GAY.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Now when, declining from the noon of day,
The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray;
When hungry judges soon the sentence sign, 85
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine;
When merchants from th' Exchange return in peace,
And the long labours of the toilet cease,
The board's with cups and spoons, alternate, crowned,
The berries crackle, and the mill turns round; 90
On shining altars of Japan they raise
The silver lamp, and fiery spirits blaze:
From silver spouts the
grateful
liquors glide,
While China's earth receives the smoking tide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Oh, swift as light they speed, The first light into
darkness
hurled, Each to his work, above, below,
The sons of God that make the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Good
hope was then
entertained
of a peaceful settlement, and Herrick's ode,
enthusiastic as it is, expresses little more than this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
The
hastiest
comparison of their
poetic work will show that their only common ideal was the worship of an
exotic beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
And, so knowing,
For mere insane delight in violent things,
Wilt thou awake in the fickle mood of men
Again that ancient
ignominy
which once,
Till beauty freed them, loaded the souls of women?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Thus rendered by
Fanshaw--
_Neptune
disclos'd new isles which he did play
About, and with his billows danc't the hay.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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But my mind was weary Almost as the
twilight
of the day,
And my soul was sullen, and a little Tired of his everlasting talk.
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Serre, fourmillant, comme un million d'helminthes,
Dans nos
cerveaux
ribote un peuple de Demons,
Et, quand nous respirons, la Mort dans nos poumons
Descend, fleuve invisible, avec de sourdes plaintes.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Her face, sad and worn,
was in perfect keeping with the deep
mourning
in which she was dressed.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Gama
showed him his arms, and
explained
the force of his cannon, but he did
not affect to know much about religion; however he frankly promised to
show him his books of devotion whenever a few days refreshment should
give him a more convenient time.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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This was in the white of the year,
That was in the green,
Drifts were as
difficult
then to think
As daisies now to be seen.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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When the false swain was
hurrying
o'er the deep
His Spartan hostess in the Idaean bark,
Old Nereus laid the unwilling winds asleep,
That all to Fate might hark,
Speaking through him:--"Home in ill hour you take
A prize whom Greece shall claim with troops untold,
Leagued by an oath your marriage tie to break
And Priam's kingdom old.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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His wise and patient heart shall share
The strong sweet loveliness of all things made, 10
And the
serenity
of inward joy
Beyond the storm of tears.
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Sappho |
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With what
mysterious
daring
Didst thou put forth each murmuring, odorous bough
And trust it to the frail support of air?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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, _body-sark, shirt of mail
covering
the body_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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ECLOGUE VIII
TO POLLIO DAMON ALPHESIBOEUS
Of Damon and Alphesiboeus now,
Those shepherd-singers at whose rival strains
The heifer wondering forgot to graze,
The lynx stood awe-struck, and the flowing streams,
Unwonted loiterers, stayed their course to hear-
How Damon and Alphesiboeus sang
Their
pastoral
ditties, will I tell the tale.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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If a man takes their cloak, they are to give him their
coat, just to show that
material
things are of no importance.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Lastly, before our very eyes is seen
Thing to bound thing: air hedges hill from hill,
And
mountain
walls hedge air; land ends the sea,
And sea in turn all lands; but for the All
Truly is nothing which outside may bound.
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Lucretius |
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The sentries sheltered their
guilt under the general's disgrace, pretending that they had orders to
keep quiet and not disturb him: so they had dispensed with the
bugle-call and the
challenge
on rounds, and dropped off to sleep
themselves.
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Tacitus |
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Many
now talk about
evolution
and natural selection, who have never read a
line of Darwin.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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This
bird, the Great Northern Diver, well deserves its name; for when
pursued with a boat, it will dive, and swim like a fish under water,
for sixty rods or more, as fast as a boat can be paddled, and its
pursuer, if he would
discover
his game again, must put his ear to the
surface to hear where it comes up.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Look up and see the casement broken in,
The bats and owlets
builders
in the roof!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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