O pang all pangs above
Is
Kindness
counterfeiting absent Love!
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in this wan and heartless mood,
To other thoughts by yonder throstle woo'd,
All this long eve, so balmy and serene,
Have I been gazing on the western sky,
And its
peculiar
tint of yellow green:
And still I gaze--and with how blank an eye
And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars,
That give away their motion to the stars;
Those stars, that glide behind them or between,
Now sparkling, now bedimmed, but always seen
Yon crescent Moon, as fixed as if it grew
In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue;
I see them all so excellently fair,
I see, not feel, how beautiful they are!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Yet do I curse thy pride that aye
So
tauntingly
aspires;
For my love was a gay knight's heir,
And my father was a squire's.
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John Clare |
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Code of Hammurapi IV 52 and Streck in
_Babyloniaca_
II 177.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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She snuffs and barks if any passes bye
And swings her tail and turns
prepared
to fly.
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John Clare |
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This morn the sacrifice of Fraud I stood,
But hark, there lives the brother of my blood,
And lives the friend, whose cares conjoin'd control
These floating towers, both
brothers
of my soul.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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He preached upon "breadth" till it argued him narrow, --
The broad are too broad to define;
And of "truth" until it proclaimed him a liar, --
The truth never
flaunted
a sign.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Imagists |
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_The
Beautiful
Stranger_
I cannot know what country owns thee now,
With France's forest lilies on thy brow.
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John Clare |
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'Behold,' the Fairy cried,
'Palmyra's ruined
palaces!
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Shelley |
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The sails were filled, and fair the light winds blew
As glad to waft him from his native home;
And fast the white rocks faded from his view,
And soon were lost in circumambient foam;
And then, it may be, of his wish to roam
Repented he, but in his bosom slept
The silent thought, nor from his lips did come
One word of wail, whilst others sate and wept,
And to the
reckless
gales unmanly moaning kept.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Down in yon garden sweet and gay
Drink to me only with thine eyes
Duncan Gray cam here to woo
Earl March look'd on his dying child
Earth has not
anything
to show more fair
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!
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Golden Treasury |
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Of all these ways, if each pursues his own,
Satire be kind, and let the wretch alone:
But show me one who has it in his power
To act
consistent
with himself an hour.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Your son my Lord, ha's paid a souldiers debt,
He onely liu'd but till he was a man,
The which no sooner had his
Prowesse
confirm'd
In the vnshrinking station where he fought,
But like a man he dy'de
Sey.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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"
Sleeping
Lyca lay
While the beasts of prey,
Come from caverns deep,
Viewed the maid asleep.
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blake-poems |
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For those my
unbaptised
rhymes,
Writ in my wild unhallowed times;
For every sentence, clause, and word,
That's not inlaid with Thee, my Lord,
Forgive me, God, and blot each line
Out of my book that is not Thine.
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Robert Herrick |
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Whose
causeway
parts the vale with shady rows?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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THE POET'S LOVE-SONG
In noon-tide hours, O Love, secure and strong,
I need thee not; mad dreams are mine to bind
The world to my desire, and hold the wind
A voiceless captive to my
conquering
song.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Noir
assassin
de la Vie et de l'Art,
Tu ne tueras jamais dans ma memoire
Celle qui fut mon plaisir et ma gloire!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And dost thou ask what secret woe
I bear,
corroding
joy and youth?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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They might (were Harpax not too wise to spend)
Give Harpax' self the blessing of a friend;
Or find some doctor that would save the life
Of
wretched
Shylock, spite of Shylock's wife:
But thousands die, without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college, or a cat.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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We in the field have won so many fights,
Combating
through so many regions wide
That Charles holds, whose beard is hoary white!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Soll ich mit Griffel, Meissel, Feder
schreiben?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Mulched with
unsavory
death,
Grow, Soul!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Love lives in sleep,
The
happiness
of healthy dreams:
Eve's dews may weep,
But love delightful seems.
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John Clare |
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O, it may have been
mermaids
that lured her from home,
But nobody knew where _Kilmeny_ had been.
| Guess: |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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[k]
Eager and never weary we pursued
Our home-amusements by the warm peat-fire
At evening, when with pencil, and smooth slate
In square divisions parcelled out and all 510
With crosses and with cyphers scribbled o'er,
We schemed and puzzled, head opposed to head
In strife too humble to be named in verse:
Or round the naked table, snow-white deal,
Cherry or maple, sate in close array, 515
And to the combat, Loo or Whist, led on
A thick-ribbed army; not, as in the world,
Neglected and ungratefully thrown by
Even for the very service they had wrought,
But
husbanded
through many a long campaign.
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William Wordsworth |
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To allow
absolute
freedom in the choice of subject.
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Imagists |
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Questo non e: pero e da vedere
de l'altro; e s'elli avvien ch'io l'altro cassi,
falsificato
fia lo tuo parere.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"Now wenches listen, and let lovers lie,
Ye'll hear a story ye may profit by;
I'm your age treble, with some oddments to't,
And right from wrong can tell, if ye'll but do't:
Ye need not giggle
underneath
your hat,
Mine's no joke-matter, let me tell you that;
So keep ye quiet till my story's told,
And don't despise your betters cause they're old.
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John Clare |
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O unquiet heart,
Why do you praise another,
praising
her,
As if there were no tale but your own tale
Worth knitting to a measure of sweet sound?
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Yeats |
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I shall only add,
that I am truly sorry that a man who stood so high in my
estimation
as
Mr.
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Robert Forst |
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Music once more and
forever!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Don't think that
Hercules
be still that boy whom Alcmene once bore you;
His adulation of me makes him now god upon earth.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I hoped to make
My grannam's lonely cottage
something
safe
From you and what I hated in you.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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_100
SILENUS:
How, touched you not at your
paternal
shore?
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Shelley |
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[Footnote 39: He told his beads backwards; a figurative
expression
to
signify cursing.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And then the rolling thunder gets awake,
And from black clouds the
lightning
flashes break.
| Guess: |
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John Clare |
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Thus, too, in our own
national
songs, Douglas
is almost always the doughty Douglas; England is merry England;
all the gold is red; and all the ladies are gay.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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He sees that
Euripides
may have had his own
reasons for not making Admetus an ideal husband.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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I give thee, sir, the gold-hemmed girdle as a token of thy
adventure
at the Green Chapel.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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83
capable of
salvation
or
1
?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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But he came,
At last,
bringing
that damsel, with the flame
Of God about her, mad and knowing all:
And set her in my room; and in one wall
Would hold two queens!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Out of the window
perilously
spread
Her drying combinations touched by the sun's last rays,
On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays.
| Guess: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Happy as holiday-enjoying face,
Loud tongued, and "merry as a
marriage
bell,"
Thy lightsome step sheds joy in every place;
And where the troubled dwell,
Thy witching smiles wean them of half their cares;
And from thy sunny spell,
They greet joy unawares.
| Guess: |
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John Clare |
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VI
Qui dira ces langueurs et ces pities immondes
Et ce qui lui viendra de haine, o sales fous,
Dont le travail divin deforme encor les mondes
Quand la lepre, a la fin, rongera ce corps doux,
Et quand, ayant rentre tous ces noeuds d'hysteries
Elle verra, sous les tristesses du bonheur,
L'amant rever au blanc million de Maries
Au matin de la nuit d'amour, avec
douleur!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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If all, united, thy
ambition
call,
From ancient story learn to scorn them all.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Peire Vidal (1175 - 1205)
Reputedly the son of a furrier, he started his career as a troubadour in the court of Raimon V of Toulouse and was also associated with Raimon Barral the Viscount of Marseille, King Alfonso II of Aragon,
Boniface
of Montferrat, and Manfred I Lancia.
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Troubador Verse |
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And weary was the long patrol,
The thousand miles of
shapeless
strand,
From Brazos to San Blas that roll
Their drifting dunes of desert sand.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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From one of his letters to Boccaccio, it appears that it
was his
intention
to bestow his library on some religious community,
but, soon after his arrival at Venice, he conceived the idea of offering
this treasure to the Venetian Republic.
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Petrarch |
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With one impulse we are
carried to the cabin of the muskrat, that earliest settler, and see
him dart away under the
transparent
ice, like a furred fish, to his
hole in the bank; and we glide rapidly over meadows where lately "the
mower whet his scythe," through beds of frozen cranberries mixed with
meadow-grass.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The
general was so stupid that she finally
deserted
him.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Then was my spirit vibrant with the spheres;
Its strings across the ringing vault lay hot
Where passed to God the
laughter
and the tears And all the million prayers He heeded not.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Passion impels me, Love escorts and leads,
Pleasure attracts me, habits old enchain,
Hope with its
flatteries
comforts me again,
And, at my harass'd heart, with fond touch pleads.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Though the
dividing
sea
My leg?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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'No,' he replied; 'for if it were the thoughts of a
person who is alive I should feel the living
influence
in my living
body, and my heart would beat and my breath would fail.
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Yeats |
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Am I always to see you
renouncing
life entire,
Making funereal preparations for your death?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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GETTYSBURG: A BATTLE ODE
I
Victors, living, with
laureled
brow,
And you that sleep beneath the sward!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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He acknowledges his
obligations
to the ancient
chronicles; and had doubtless before him the Cronica del famoso
Cavallero Cid Ruy Diez Campeador, which had been printed as early
as the year 1552.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The poet who writes best in the
Shakespearian
manner is a poet with
a circumstantial and instinctive mind, who delights to speak with
strange voices and to see his mind in the mirror of Nature; while Mr.
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Yeats |
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But now, at length, dear Dian sank from sight,
Into a western couch of thunder-cloud;
And thou, a ghost, amid the
entombing
trees
Didst glide away.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Haste we, make haste, begin
To fetch His
brethren
in.
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Christina Rossetti |
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William Wordsworth |
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is still the cause
unfound?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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All the hapless silent lovers,
All the
prisoners
in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,
All the joyous, all the sorrowing, all the living, all the dying,
Pioneers!
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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My heart that sometimes at night tries to know itself,
Or with which last word to name you the most tender
Exults in that which merely
whispered
sister
Were it not, such short tresses so great a treasure,
That you teach me quite another sweetness,
Soft through the kiss murmured only in your hair.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Meredith - Poems |
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money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
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of receipt of the work.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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But from
Ennius himself we learn that there were poets who stood to him in
the same
relation
in which the author of the romance of Count
Alarcos stood to Garcilaso, or the author of the Lytell Geste of
Robyn Hode to Lord Surrey.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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t ne shal nat
amenusen
it ?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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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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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Apollinax rolling under a chair,
Or
grinning
over a screen
With seaweed in its hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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LX
What could be had of armour, rusted o'er
And brown with age, Orlando bids unite;
Meanwhile
with his companions on the shore,
He walks, discoursing on the future fight.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Wild strain of Scalds, that in the sea-worn caves
Rehearsed
their war-spell to the winds and waves;
Or fateful hymn of those prophetic maids,
That call'd on Hertha in deep forest glades;
Or minstrel lay, that cheer'd the baron's feast;
Or rhyme of city pomp, of monk and priest,
Judge, mayor, and many a guild in long array,
To high-church pacing on the great saint's day.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - 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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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Make Athens
tributary
to my power.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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O chalice of all common
miseries!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1203 and was present at the siege of
Constantinople
in 1204.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Then they're so innocent of vice,
So full of piety, correct,
So prudent, and so circumspect
Stately, devoid of prejudice,
So
inaccessible
to men,
Their looks alone produce the spleen.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Tattiana learns the intelligence--
Of her provincial innocence
The unaffected traits she now
Unto a carping world must show--
Her toilette's
antiquated
style,
Her antiquated mode of speech,
For Moscow fops and Circes each
To mark with a contemptuous smile.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Here is a box of
moderate
weight;
I got it somewhere else--no matter!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Starlight is a usual occurrence
Any
pleasant
night beside the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He gaz'd, and, fear his mind surprising,
Himself no more the hermit knows:
He sees with foam the waters rising,
And then
subsiding
to repose,
And sudden, light as night-ghost wanders,
A female thence her form uprais'd,
Pale as the snow which winter squanders,
And on the bank herself she plac'd.
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non ego
luxuriem
regum moremque secutus
quaesiui uultum thalamis, ut nuntia formae
lena per innumeros iret pictura penatis,
nec uariis dubium thalamis laturus amorem
ardua commisi falsae conubia cerae.
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Damned Fact,
How it did greeue
Macbeth?
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Coleridge, when he was by himself,
was never sure of this; there was his _magnum opus_, the revelation of
all philosophy; and he
sometimes
has doubts of the worth of his own poetry.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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e all the _Tropes_ 100
And _Schemes_, that Prince _Quintilian_ can afford you:
And much good do your
_Rhetoriques_
heart.
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To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays,
And yet deny the
careless
husband praise.
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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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Kipling won the Nobel Prize for
Literature
in
1907.
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degorgez
dans les gares!
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That was the reason, as some folks say,
He fought so well on that
terrible
day.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"By the gods of the
ancients!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Not once have I thus
Broken accord,
Order ignored,
Unless I'm floored,
Too low to grace
Her lovely body's dwelling place;
So I fear
slanderers
have their say,
Who cause ladies and lovers dismay,
Lower us, and drive all joy away,
And each and every way harm me.
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Troubador Verse |
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On a cru devoir, evidemment dans un but de rehabilitation qui n'a rien a
voir ni avec la vie honorable ni avec l'oeuvre tres interessante,
[illisible] ouvrir le volume par une piece intitulee
_Etrennes
des
Orphelins_, laquelle assez longue piece, dans le gout un peu Guiraud
avec deja des beautes tout autres.
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Twenty Years
Down on the ancient wharf, the sand, I sit, with a new-comer chatting:
He shipp'd as green-hand boy, and sail'd away, (took some sudden,
vehement notion;)
Since, twenty years and more have circled round and round,
While he the globe was
circling
round and round, --and now returns:
How changed the place--all the old land-marks gone--the parents dead;
(Yes, he comes back to lay in port for good--to settle--has a
well-fill'd purse--no spot will do but this;)
The little boat that scull'd him from the sloop, now held in leash I see,
I hear the slapping waves, the restless keel, the rocking in the sand,
I see the sailor kit, the canvas bag, the great box bound with brass,
I scan the face all berry-brown and bearded--the stout-strong frame,
Dress'd in its russet suit of good Scotch cloth:
(Then what the told-out story of those twenty years?
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