And here's a song of flowers to suit such hours:
A song of the last lilies, the last flowers,
Amid my
withering
bowers.
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Christina Rossetti |
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_uelleque
tot tibi_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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But when in his immortal mind he felt
His altering form and soldered limbs to melt,
Down on the deck he laid himself, and died,
With his dear sword
reposing
by his side.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Grant, O Zeus,
Grant me my father's murder to avenge--
Be thou my willing
champion!
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Aeschylus |
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The honest heart that's free frae a'
Intended
fraud or guile,
However Fortune kick the ba',
Has aye some cause to smile;
An' mind still, you'll find still,
A comfort this nae sma';
Nae mair then we'll care then,
Nae farther can we fa'.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Thee Chauntress oft the Woods among
I woo to hear thy eeven-Song;
And missing thee, I walk unseen
On the dry smooth-shaven Green,
To behold the wandring Moon,
Riding neer her highest noon,
Like one that had bin led astray
Through the Heav'ns wide pathles way; 70
And oft, as if her head she bow'd,
Stooping
through a fleecy cloud.
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Milton |
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holding Thee in sight,
I'll drain this cup of gall,
And scale with step resolved that
dangerous
height,
Which rather seems a fall.
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Hugo - Poems |
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amphitrionem_
RVen:
_aphitrite_
O unde in ed.
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Latin - Catullus |
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We need your
donations
more than ever!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Know that if Sun and Moone together doe
Rise in one point, they doe not set so too; 200
Therefore thou maist, faire Bride, to bed depart,
Thou art not gone, being gone; where e'r thou art,
Thou leav'st in him thy
watchfull
eyes, in him thy loving heart.
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John Donne |
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e
fautlest
freke, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Love that is dead and buried, yesterday
Out of his grave rose up before my face,
No
recognition
in his look, no trace
Of memory in his eyes dust-dimmed and grey.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Ben Jonson calls the
former a "thrifty and right
worshipful
game".
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Robert Herrick |
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Silent and
motionless
we lie;
And no one knoweth more than this.
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Longfellow |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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Tennyson |
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For shame
extirpate
from each loyal breast
That senseless rancour, against interest.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Whom thus afflicted when sad Eve beheld,
Desolate where she sate,
approaching
nigh,
Soft words to his fierce passion she assay'd:
But her with stern regard he thus repell'd.
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Milton |
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the fair with anger cried;
Ne'er think of that: I'll say I had a fall;
Such accident a loss I would not call,
When Time so clearly on the wing appears,
'Tis right to banish scruples, cares, and fears;
Nor think of clothes nor dress, however fine,
But those to dirt or flames at once resign;
Far better this than
precious
time to waste,
Since frequently in minutes bliss we taste;
A quarter of an hour we now should prize,
The place no doubt will very well suffice;
With you it rests such moments to employ,
And mutually our bosoms fill with joy.
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La Fontaine |
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"
Scarcely
was the first course served when another noise than that of
music was heard.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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e cheke in hast: 741
Ac Alexius was of god fulfild,
In gode
penaunce
he it helde,
And ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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_ divinity) of the righteous is such
that no time can impair it, no power can diminish it, nor can any
wickedness
obscure it.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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urimur_ G: _urimur_
RVenAC:
_urintur_
B m.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The times were big
With ominous change, which, night by night, provoked 535
Keen struggles, and black clouds of passion raised;
But memorable moments intervened,
When Wisdom, like the Goddess from Jove's brain,
Broke forth in armour of
resplendent
words,
Startling the Synod.
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William Wordsworth |
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But 'she turn'd to pray'
in such a sense is a hideously
elliptical
construction and cannot,
I think, be what Donne meant to write.
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John Donne |
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It is
for this reason that we oppose the cosmic poet, who seems to us to shirk
the real
difficulties
of his art.
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Imagists |
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A mad-pursuing of the fog-born elf,
Whose
flitting
lantern, through rude nettle-briar,
Cheats us into a swamp, into a fire, 280
Into the bosom of a hated thing.
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Keats |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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_ This
is a
difficult
stanza in a difficult poem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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ONE eve I went this charming fair to see;
The husband
happened
(luckily for me)
To be abroad; but just as it was night
The master came, not doubting all was right;
No Cloris howsoe'er was in the way;
A servant girl, of disposition gay,
Well known to me, with pretty smiling face,
'Tis said, was led to take her lady's place.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
A number of
personal
references are best pursued by reading a biography of Nerval, of his early meeting with 'Adrienne' and later relationship with the actress Jenny Colon.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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tu uero, regina, tuens cum sidera diuam
placabis festis luminibus Venerem, 90
sanguinis
expertem non ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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A
deputation
was sent with presents
to Civilis and Veleda, and obtained all that the people of Cologne
desired.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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There came and look'd him in the face
An angel
beautiful
and bright;
And that he knew it was a Fiend,
This miserable Knight!
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Golden Treasury |
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Strangely enough, that very night at the ball, Tomsky had rallied her
about her
preference
for the young officer, assuring her that he knew
more than she supposed he did.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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20
Ah cannot wee,
As well as Cocks and Lyons jocund be,
After such
pleasures?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Note: The Scythians at the extreme end of the Empire in Roman times were
regarded
as living barbaric lives (See Ovid's Tristia and Ex Ponto).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ronsard |
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'
While he was speaking he crossed himself, and when he had
finished
he
drew the nightcap over his ears, to shut out the noise, and closed his
eyes, and composed himself to sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Willow,
twinkling
in the sun,
Still your leaves and hear me,
I can answer spring at last,
Love is near me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: L
Though the human spirit gives itself noble airs
In Plato's doctrine, who calls it divine influx,
Without the body it would do nothing much,
While vainly
praising
its origin up there.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Adjust their clothes, and to
confession
draw
Those venial sins, an atom, or a straw;
But oh!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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That shy untameable enemy, one who 1220
Seemed
offended
by respect, annoyed by tears,
That tiger I could not approach without fear,
Submissive, docile, knows a conqueror's art:
Aricia has found the pathway to his heart.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
--
Yet silenced cannot be this throbbing
Which
dolefulness
alone dispels.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Foremost he {21a} fared, a few at his side
of the wiser men, the ways to scan,
till he found in a flash the
forested
hill
hanging over the hoary rock,
a woful wood: the waves below
were dyed in blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
| 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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Before them lay
The sleeping Mahaud--and not far away
The fatal pit, near which the
champion
knight
With evil Emperor must contend for right,
Though weaponless he was.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
]
[Footnote 15:
Whirlwind
of snow.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Queen Leonora, treated
with indifference by her
daughter
and son-in-law, resolved on the murder
of the latter, but the plot was discovered, and she was sent prisoner to
Castile.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
The manner in which this
interweaving
was accomplished is one of the
most satisfactory evidences of Pope's artistic genius.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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-- A greater ne'er saw I
of
warriors
in world than is one of you, --
yon hero in harness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Li T'ai-po was, I am afraid,
a bit of a
Bohemian
(laughter), and his Bacchanalian experiences have
been repeated in later days even with the great poets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And if
perchance
the chickadee
Lisp a faint note anon,
The snow is summer's canopy,
Which she herself put on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
For ever it has been that
mourners
in their turn were mourned,
Saint and Sage,--all alike are trapped.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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TO MY CHILDREN
Jaya Surya, aetat 4
Golden sun of victory, born
In my life's
unclouded
morn,
In my lambent sky of love,
May your growing glory prove
Sacred to your consecration,
To my heart and to my nation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
XXIX
All that the
Egyptians
once devised,
All that Greece, with its Corinthian,
Ionic, Attic, and its Dorian
Ornament, in its temples apprised,
All that the art of Lysippus comprised,
The hand of Apelles, or the Phidian,
That used to adorn this city, and this land,
Grandeur that even Heaven once surprised,
All that Athens in its wisdom showed,
All that from richest Asia ever flowed,
All that from Africa strange and new was sent,
Was here on view.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
20
LII
Lo, on the distance a dark blue ravine,
A fold in the
mountainous
forests of fir,
Cleft from the sky-line sheer down to the shore!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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I moved my fingers off
As
cautiously
as glass,
And held my ears, and like a thief
Fled gasping from the house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Men loved
unkindness
then, but lightless in the quarry
I slept and saw not; tears fell down, I did not mourn;
Sweat ran and blood sprang out and I was never sorry:
Then it was well with me, in days ere I was born.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Don't laugh at my advice; 'twere like the boys,
Who better might amuse
themselves
with toys.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
"He is a
charming
man"--"But after all what did he mean?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Your message we
delivered
to Charlun,
Both his two hands he raised against the sun,
Praising his God, but answer made he none.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
To whom the great
Creatour
thus reply'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Still ever that slip and slide
Of the feet that shuffle or glide,
And linger or haste through the
populous
waste
Of the shadowy, dim-lit square!
| 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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And later, in August it may be,
When the meadows
parching
lie,
Beware, lest this little brook of life
Some burning noon go dry!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
O God of the night,
What great sorrow
Cometh unto us,
That thou thus
repayest
us
Before the time of its coming?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Or not those in
Commission
yet return'd?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Oh, there is sweetness in the
mountain
air
And life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
'
The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In
trembling
zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired his priestly care.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
My ancestor perished on
the scaffold for
conscience
sake,[71] my father fell with the martyrs
Volynski and Khuchtchoff,[72] but that a '_boyar_' should forswear his
oath--that he should join with robbers, rascals, convicted felons,
revolted slaves!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Saguenay
River, 91, 94.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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What war could ravish,
commerce
could bestow,
And he returned a friend, who came a foe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
The themes of
_Traumgekront_ are extended somewhat beyond the immediate environment
of Prague and some of the most beautiful poems are
luminous
pictures of
villages hidden in the snowy blossoming of May and June, out of which
rises here and there the solitary soft voice of a boy or girl singing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
at it ne haue no
necessite
of hys
owen nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
"
methought
she said,
"These eyes not yet from thee withdraw their light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Atheists are as dull,
Who cannot guess God's
presence
out of sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Quand tu vas
balayant
l'air de ta jupe large,
Tu fais l'effet d'un beau vaisseau qui prend le large,
Charge de toile, et va roulant
Suivant un rythme doux, et paresseux, et lent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
DOBCHINSKI: A
startling
announcement!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
'254'
John Gay, the author of some very
entertaining
verses, was an intimate
friend of Pope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Ab l'alen tir vas me l'aire
I breathe deeply, draw in the air,
That blows here from
Provence!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Though all we knew depart,
The old
commandments
stand:
"In courage keep your heart,
In strength lift up your hand,"
Once more we hear the word
That sickened earth of old:
"No law except the sword
Unsheathed and uncontrolled,"
Once more it knits mankind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Thou, mother of my mortal part,
With cruelty didst mould my heart,
And with false self-deceiving tears
Didst bind my nostrils, eyes, and ears,
Didst close my tongue in
senseless
clay,
And me to mortal life betray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread
tribunal
of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the
copyright
holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
The
immediate
cause of the
downfall of this execrable government was said to have been an
attempt made by Appius Claudius upon the chastity of a beautiful
young girl of humble birth.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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She heard of servant-maids the note,
Who in the orchards
gathered
fruit,
Singing in chorus all the while.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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That ought to be sufficient for those American
Intellectuals
who are bemoaning the deca dence of poetry.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Hailie the bordeleire, who lyves to reste,
Ne ys att nyghtys flemynge hue dysmayde;
The starres doe scantillie[110] the sable brayde; 1010
Wyde ys the sylver lemes of comforte wove;
Speke, Celmonde, does ytte make thee notte
afrayde?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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en he keuere3 bi a cragge, & come3 of a hole,
Whyrlande
out of a wro, wyth a felle weppen,
[F] A dene3 ax nwe dy3t, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I cannot guess why Rome will not allow
Exchange in wedlock, and its leave avow;
Not ev'ry time such wishes might arise,
But, once in life at least, 'twere not unwise;
Perhaps one day we may the boon obtain;
Amen, I say: my sentiments are plain;
The
privilege
in France may yet arrive
There trucking pleases, and exchanges thrive;
The people love variety, we find;
And such by heav'n was ere for them designed.
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La Fontaine |
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The long struggle of the
Servians
against the Ottoman
power was recorded in lays full of martial spirit.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I do not like to
remember
things any more.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Unmindful of the roses,
Unmindful of the thorn,
A reaper tired reposes
Among his
gathered
corn:
So might I, till the morn!
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Christina Rossetti |
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Straight yonder, where
Aegisthus
makes his prayer!
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Euripides - Electra |
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