He acknowledges the omnipotence and
benevolence of God, confesses the limitations and imperfections of human
knowledge, teaches humility in the
presence
of unanswerable problems,
urges submission to Divine Providence, extols virtue as the true source
of happiness, and love of man as an essential of virtue.
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Alexander Pope |
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Spices we carried,
Laid them upon his breast;
Tenderly
buried
Him whom we loved the best;
Cleanly to bind him
Took we the fondest care,
Ah!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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contrarious
fortune [[pg 77]]
make?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The
blackbird
sings us home, on a sudden peers
The round tower hung with ivy's blackened chains,
Then past the little green the byeway veers,
The mill-sweeps torn, the forge with cobwebbed panes
That have so many years looked out across the plains.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I ask as one who knew the brook, its strength
And impulse, having dipped a finger-length
And made it leap my knuckle, having tossed
A flower to try its
currents
where they crossed.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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She, in after time,
Gave o'er the throne, as
birthgift
to a god,
Phoebus, who in his own bears Phoebe's name.
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Aeschylus |
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Painting
is truly a luminous language.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
V
Do not, beloved, regret that you yielded to me so quickly:
I
entertain
no base, insolent thoughts about you.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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We might safely
accept the sustained
judgment
of a thousand years of Greece.
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Sappho |
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I dwell with you where never breath
Is drawn, but fragrance vital flows
From life to life, even as a rose
Unseen pours
sweetness
through each vein
And from the air distills again.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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]
[Footnote 48: One
_verchok_
= 3 inches.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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She will return on foot,
dreaming
and meditating--and alone, always
alone, for the child is turbulent and selfish, without gentleness or
patience, and cannot become, any more than another animal, a dog or a
cat, the confidant of solitary griefs.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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On and away, their hasting feet
Make the morning proud and sweet;
Flowers they strew,--I catch the scent;
Or tone of silver instrument
Leaves on the wind
melodious
trace;
Yet I could never see their face.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Il etait tard; ainsi qu'une medaille neuve
La pleine lune s'etalait,
Et la
solennite
de la nuit, comme un fleuve,
Sur Paris dormant ruisselait.
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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--thus much, I prythee, say
Unto the Count--it is
exceeding
just
He should have cause for quarrel.
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Everything
goes the same without me there.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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OUR second gossip thus obtained success;
But now the third: we'll see if she had less:
To female friends she often visits paid,
And various
pastimes
there had daily play'd;
A leering lover who was weary grown,
Desired ONE night she'd meet him quite alone.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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It is worth noting that Pope was the
first
Englishman
of letters who threw himself thus boldly upon the
public and earned his living by his pen.
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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She stays veiled and
unnoticing
in the background.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Generally, every fruit, on ripening, and just before it falls, when it
commences a more independent and
individual
existence, requiring less
nourishment from any source, and that not so much from the earth
through its stem as from the sun and air, acquires a bright tint.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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With shaded eyes your vision follows
The gentle swans'
receding
train.
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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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Now it murmured a delightfully common song that filled the
faubourgs
with joy, an old, banal tune: why did its words pierce my soul and make me cry, like any romantic ballad?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Dawn court done, the scented smoke you carry filling your sleeves, the poem finished, pearls and jade are right on your
flourished
brush.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Much else there is,
conjecture
well might guess,
But let words teach the man who stands to hear.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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What a tender mother you are; but
nevertheless
I shall rip
it open.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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" My day of youth went yesterday;
My hair no longer bounds to my foot's glee,
Nor plant I it from rose or myrtle-tree,
As girls do, any more: it only may
Now shade on two pale cheeks the mark of tears,
Taught
drooping
from the head that hangs aside
Through sorrow's trick.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Ranimeras-tu donc tes epaules marbrees
Aux
nocturnes
rayons qui percent les volets?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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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,
And thus I made reply.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Ihr habt mich weidlich
schwitzen
machen.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Not only is the nunnery
Crowded; the
precincts
too are crammed with people.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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He merely asked his friends to
come and help him drink some, of a
remarkable
fine quality and rich
flavour, that he had ordered up from the city a couple of months ago,
and of which he would be in the receipt upon the morrow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Ah,
happiest
spot of earth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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The
epileptic
on the bed
Curves backward, clutching at her sides.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Theseus
Traitor, do you dare to show
yourself
before me?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
]
{and} knowen 2264
whiche strondes
habounden
most of tendre fisshes or
of sharpe fisshes ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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orthography despising,
Metreless verses recognizing
By
friendship
how they were abused,
Hewn, hacked, and otherwise ill-used.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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IV
Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,
Most
gracious
singer of high poems!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And then the rolling thunder gets awake,
And from black clouds the
lightning
flashes break.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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But why this
mourning
hair, this garb of woe?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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I rush there: when, at my feet, entwine (bruised
By the languor tasted in their being-two's evil)
Girls sleeping in each other's arms' sole peril:
I seize them without untangling them and run
To this bank of roses wasting in the sun
All perfume, hated by the
frivolous
shade
Where our frolic should be like a vanished day.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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]
[Footnote 4: 'Poems of
Wordsworth
selected and arranged by Matthew
Arnold'.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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And poets found, old writers say,
A yew tree where his body lay;
But a wild apple hid the grass
With its sweet blossom where hers was;
And being in good heart, because
A better time had come again
After the deaths of many men,
And that long
fighting
at the ford,
They wrote on tablets of thin board,
Made of the apple and the yew,
All the love stories that they knew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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In many cases these
verses will seem to the reader like poetry torn up by the roots, with
rain and dew and earth still clinging to them, giving a freshness and
a
fragrance
not otherwise to be conveyed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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At the
invitation
of the king of
Mombas, GAMA enters the port, and reaches the place intended for his
destruction.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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37 BC
THE ECLOGUES
by Virgil
ECLOGUE I
MELIBOEUS TITYRUS
MELIBOEUS
You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy
Reclining, on the slender oat rehearse
Your silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields,
And home's
familiar
bounds, even now depart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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20
From far the lowings come
Of cattle driven home:
From farther still the wind brings fitfully
The vast
continual
murmur of the sea,
Now loud, now almost dumb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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"
Seven queens shone round her ivory bed,
Like seven soft gems on a silken thread,
Like seven fair lamps in a royal tower,
Like seven bright petals of Beauty's flower
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose
"Where is my rival, O King Feroz?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings
covering
the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume enclosed by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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55
In white and glowing blossomy undulation 57
Stars ascend up there 58
Par from the harbour's noise 59
My child came home 60
Love calls not worthy him whoe'er
renounced
61
Behold the crossways 62
Windows where I gazed with you 63
Whene'er I stand upon your bridge 64
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Yet Jove had fear'd the giant rush,
Their
upraised
arms, their port of pride,
And the twin brethren bent to push
Huge Pelion up Olympus' side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And then I thought there grew
Still waters on my sight,
unshored
and blue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
CXX
That you were once unkind
befriends
me now,
And for that sorrow, which I then did feel,
Needs must I under my transgression bow,
Unless my nerves were brass or hammer'd steel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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even though in this case there was
probably
no diminishment in his grade in the civil service.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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One day, she even
ventured
to smile upon her admirer,
for such he seemed to be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
In obstinacy, bigotry, and
vanity this character represents the class of judges with which
Coke identified himself in the
Overbury
trial.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Approving all, she faded at self-will,
And shut the chamber up, close, hush'd and still,
Complete
and ready for the revels rude,
When dreadful guests would come to spoil her solitude.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Note the feeling of fate in the first
appearance
of
Apollonius.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Tu Fu is placed first by the Chinese
because he is the greatest
national
poet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
10
But com thou Goddes fair and free,
In Heav'n ycleap'd Euphrosyne,
And by men, heart-easing Mirth,
Whom lovely Venus at a birth
With two sister Graces more
To Ivy-crowned Bacchus bore;
Or whether (as som Sager sing)
The frolick Wind that
breathes
the Spring,
Zephir with Aurora playing,
As he met her once a Maying, 20
There on Beds of Violets blew,
And fresh-blown Roses washt in dew,
Fill'd her with thee a daughter fair,
So bucksom, blith, and debonair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Here,
regarding
the palace, and a testimony of the love that the King of England possessed for his mistress, is this quatrain from a poem whose Author I do not know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
What profit hast thou in such
manslaying?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
He in the midst, that on his breast looks down,
Is the great Chiron who
Achilles
nurs'd;
That other Pholus, prone to wrath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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tu (seu tarda situ rebusque exhausta senectus
errauit, seu blanda diu Fortuna regressum
maluit) attonitum et uenturi fulminis ictus
horrentem tonitru tantum lenique procella
contentus monuisse senem; cumque horrida supra
aequora curarum socius procul Itala rura
linqueret, hic mollis Campani litoris oras
et Diomedeas
concedere
iussus in arcis,
atque hospes, non exsul, erat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
THE KING OF ARGOS
Mysterious
thy resolve--avow it clear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online
payments
and credit card
donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Les Amours de Marie: VI
I'm sending you some flowers, that my hand
Picked just now from all this blossoming,
That, if they'd not been gathered this evening,
Tomorrow would be
scattered
on the ground.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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77 _saeuumque_ Schulze ||
_pectoris_
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
"Now speaks mine other heart with
cheerier
seeming:
`Ho, Admiral!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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" I am naturally anxious
that what I have written should
circulate
as I wrote it, if it circulate
at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
What to him are all our wars,
What but death
bemocking
folly?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
THE TOMB OF A YOUNG GIRL
We still
remember!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Wyrd they knew not,
destiny dire, and the doom to be seen
by many an earl when eve should come,
and
Hrothgar
homeward hasten away,
royal, to rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Striking too is Keats's very Greek
identification
of the gods with the
powers of Nature which they represent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
ou In my sones man,
ffor
seuentene
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
SCENT OF IRISES
A faint,
sickening
scent of irises
Persists all morning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
50
Them first they bound to mangers, which with oats
And mingled barley they supplied, then thrust
The chariot sidelong to the
splendid
wall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Too much zeal was a thing
that she did not approve of;
preferring
instead, a tempered and sober
tenderness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Yon rising Moon that looks for us again--
How oft
hereafter
will she wax and wane;
How oft hereafter rising look for us
Through this same Garden--and for one in vain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Mt mind was once the true survey
Of all these meadows fresh and gay,
And in the
greenness
of the grass
Did see its hopes as in a glass,
When Juliana came, and she,
What I do to the grass, does to my thoughts
and me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
The waves in easy motion went rolling on their way,
English colours were a-flying where the British
squadron
lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
what
conqueror
hath committed this cruelty upon you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
On the eve of that day of their
evenings
the last!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Her port is all divine; her radiant smile,
And e'en her scorn, the captive heart beguile;
Her accents breathe of heaven; her auburn hair
(Whether it wanton with the sportive air,
Or bound in shining wreaths adorns her face,)
Secures her conquests with resistless grace;
Her eyes, that sparkle with
celestial
fire,
Have render'd me the slave of fond desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
Through heavy sleep on
sightless
eyes doth stay!
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With this, there growes
In my most ill-composd Affection, such
A
stanchlesse
Auarice, that were I King,
I should cut off the Nobles for their Lands,
Desire his Iewels, and this others House,
And my more-hauing, would be as a Sawce
To make me hunger more, that I should forge
Quarrels vniust against the Good and Loyall,
Destroying them for wealth
Macd.
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Yonge Egelrede, a knyghte of comelie mien,
Affynd unto the kynge of Dynefarre,
At echone tylte and tourney he was seene,
And lov'd to be amonge the bloudie warre;
He couch'd hys launce, and ran wyth mickle myghte 135
Ageinste the brest of Sieur de Bonoboe;
He grond and sunken on the place of fyghte,
O
Chryste!
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--Yet
sometimes
my heart was trammelled
With fear, evader!
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the friend of
childish
days
Away, Tattiana, hath been ta'en.
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"Tears may be ours, but proud, for those who win
Death's royal purple in the foeman's lines;
Peace, too, brings tears; and 'mid the battle-din,
The wiser ear some text of God divines,
For the
sheathed
blade may rust with darker sin.
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SOLLIVS MODESTVS
APOLLINARIS
SIDONIVS
430-80 A.
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That which wants
power needs
external
aid.
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"You'll find him sleeping like a
gentleman
with all his luggage round him
in a Second-class apartment.
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Fitzdottrel
is a 'squire of Norfolk'.
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_uuidulum_
Paris.
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