While in and out the verses wheel
The wind-caught robes trim feet reveal,
Lithe ankles that to music glide,
But
chastely
and by chance descried;
Art?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Resplendent, fleet and flowing
It hastens with the clouds; behold
An offering's-billet glowing:
It tells what it
bestowed
when cold.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Drama: _The
Widowing
of Mrs.
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Imagists |
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He waits
impatient
for his bride.
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Longfellow |
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--Seemeth to thee,
forsooth,
The tyrant of the gods in everything to be
Thus
violent?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Mais,
repondrais-je, etait-ce une raison pour publier cette chose faite a
coups de <> dans des manuels
surannes
ou de trop
moisis historiens?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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For criterion must be found
Worthy of greater trust, which shall defeat
Through own
authority
the false by true;
What, then, than these our senses must there be
Worthy a greater trust?
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Lucretius |
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Its
business
office is located at 809 North 1500 West, Salt
Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful Athenian courtesan and mistress of
Alexander
the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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The suns go on without end:
The
universe
holds no friend:
And so I come back to you.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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In the talk on the soul
and
eternity
and God, off of his equal plane, he is silent.
| Guess: |
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Whitman |
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"
retorted
the Commandant's wife, "are not
husband and wife the same flesh and spirit?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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CHOR:
Judex ergo cum sedebit,
Quidquid
latet adparebit,
Nil inultum remanebit.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Is it that death forgets to free
You fishes of
melancholy?
| Guess: |
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Appoloinaire |
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But other parts,
Those sunk,
immersed
below the water-line,
Seem broken all and bended and inclined
Sloping to upwards, and turned back to float
Almost atop the water.
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Lucretius |
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"[92]
[92]
Confucius
said that it was not till _sixty_ that "his ears obeyed
him.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Of Provence and far halls of memory,
Lo, there come echoes, faint diversity
Of blended bells at even's end, or
As the distant seas should send her
The tribute of their trembling,
ceaselessly
Resonant.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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But all I hear is silence,
And
something
that may be leaves or may be sea.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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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.
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Imagists |
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My reflections were broken by the arrival of a Cossack, who came running
to tell me that the great Tzar
summoned
me to his presence.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I told ye then he should prevail and speed 40
On his bad Errand, Man should be seduc't
And flatter'd out of all, believing lies
Against his Maker; no Decree of mine
Concurring to necessitate his Fall,
Or touch with
lightest
moment of impulse
His free Will, to her own inclining left
In eevn scale.
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Milton |
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And studying all the summer night,
Her
matchless
songs does meditate ;
ir.
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Marvell - Poems |
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DEATH BY WATER
Phlebas the Phoenician, a
fortnight
dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"LUGG"
corrected
to _LUGGS_.
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| Question: |
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Robert Herrick |
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I had
got up before
breakfast
and gone out to buy a newspaper.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Yeats |
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"
Then I
stretched
forth my arms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Stephen Crane |
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4 These are the stone
funerary
horses.
| Guess: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"
18
For my heart was sick and sore within me, — The poor fellow, every word he spoke
Shamed me, there was
something
in his gesture Almost comic that I could not bear.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Yea, men will crouch no more to fallen power
And kingship
overthrown!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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--
And all the more since he was wont to give,
Concerning
the immortal gods themselves,
Many pronouncements with a tongue divine,
And to unfold by his pronouncements all
The nature of the world.
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| Question: |
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Lucretius |
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What elements of beauty are seen in the
description
of dawn and sunrise
in ii?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Or wast Thou, then, an ebbing tide that left
Strewn with dead miracle those eldest shores, 420
For men to dry, and dryly lecture on,
Thyself thenceforth
incapable
of flood?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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He thereat was stung,
Perverse, with stronger fancy to reclaim
Her wild and timid nature to his aim:
Besides, for all his love, in self despite,
Against his better self, he took delight
Luxurious
in her sorrows, soft and new.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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"The jewels lost in Palmyra of old,
Metals unknown, pearls of the outer sea,
Are far too dim to set within the gold
Of the bright crown that Time
prepares
for me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers,
pleasant
in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit - somewhat deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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"
"Do I know this
country?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Songs of a Strolling Player
THROUGH the blossoms softly simmer
Drops
profound
and fair
Since the light-beams o'er them shimmer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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XXXIII cum XXXII
continuant
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Or even at times, when days are dark,
GAROTTE?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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He held authority in that house,--authority limited,
indeed, to one-half of one
afternoon
in seven, but very real while it
lasted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Syrr CHARLES dydd uppe the
scaffold
goe,
As uppe a gilded carre 350
Of victorye, bye val'rous chiefs
Gayn'd ynne the bloudie warre:
And to the people hee dydd saie,
"Beholde you see mee dye,
For servynge loyally mye kynge, 355
Mye kynge most rightfullie.
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| Question: |
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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She had expected to find the young officer there, but
she felt
relieved
to see that he was not.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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At half-past seven, element
Nor
implement
was seen,
And place was where the presence was,
Circumference between.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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For wit thou wel,
withouten
wene, 2415
In swich astat ful oft have been
That have the yvel of love assayd,
Wher-through thou art so dismayd.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Yet the great herd, the multitude, that in all other things
are divided, in this alone
conspire
and agree--to love money.
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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When we began to tire of
childish
play
We seemed still more and more to prize each other:
We talked of marriage and our marriage day;
And I in truth did love him like a brother,
For never could I hope to meet with such another.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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| Question: |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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What are they, pray, but spiritual
Excisemen?
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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Yet I feared this time that I had hurt him, Such
offended
silence long he kept:
On his hand I laid my hand in pity, Penitent, —and softly he began,
"Ah that night in May, do you remember?
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He was born at Old
Aberdeen
on May 19, 1895.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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It has been my
purpose to suggest that, while this principle itself is strictly and
simply the Human Aspiration for Supernal Beauty, the manifestation of
the Principle is always found in _an elevating excitement of the soul,
_quite
independent
of that passion which is the intoxication of the
Heart, or of that truth which is the satisfaction of the Reason.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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e kyng Edward com
corouned
myd gret blis; 80
?
| 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 |
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Wherefore
I say: O love, as summer goes,
I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums,
That you may hail anew the bird and rose
When I come back to you, as summer comes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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With weary frame which painfully I bear,
I look behind me at each onward pace,
And then take comfort from your native air,
Which following fans my melancholy face;
The far way, my frail life, the cherish'd fair
Whom thus I leave, as then my
thoughts
retrace,
I fix my feet in silent pale despair,
And on the earth my tearful eyes abase.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Pagans are come great
martyrdom
seeking;
Noble and fair reward this day shall bring,
Was never won by any Frankish King.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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And court the flower that
cheapens
his array.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Is it for me, the
favourite
of my lord?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Search well the measure--
The words--the
syllables!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
che qual elli scelse
l'umile pianta, cotal si rinacque
subitamente
la onde l'avelse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
THE LETTER
Little cramped words scrawling all over the paper
Like
draggled
fly's legs,
What can you tell of the flaring moon
Through the oak leaves?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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, On Receiving A Favour
Extemporaneous
Effusion
On being appointed to an Excise division.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
For, God no such specifique poyson hath
As kills we know not how; his
fiercest
wrath
Hath no antipathy, but may be good
At lest for physicke, if not for our food.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Is it not
strange?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
We let them pass; all
appearing
tranquil;
No soldiers at the port, the city still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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The well-reeved guns, the netted canopy,
The hoarse command, the busy humming din,
When, at a word, the tops are manned on high:
Hark to the boatswain's call, the cheering cry,
While through the seaman's hand the tackle glides
Or schoolboy midshipman that,
standing
by,
Strains his shrill pipe, as good or ill betides,
And well the docile crew that skilful urchin guides.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The moaning and groaning,
The sighing and sobbing,
Are quieted now,
With that horrible throbbing
At heart:--ah, that horrible,
Horrible
throbbing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
My colleen, I have seen some other girls
Restless and ill at ease, but years went by
And they grew like their
neighbours
and were glad
In minding children, working at the churn,
And gossiping of weddings and of wakes;
For life moves out of a red flare of dreams
Into a common light of common hours,
Until old age bring the red flare again.
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Yeats |
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Li Po |
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And with a
fixed stare, as if peering through some
invisible
window opening upon
eternity, he died, August 31, 1867, aged forty-six.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Poetry, in
especial
lyrical poetry, must be acknowledged the supreme
art, culminating as it does in a union of the other arts, the musical,
the plastic, and the pictorial.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
It might be told (but
wherefore
speak of things
Common to all?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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But to
forswear
mine oath!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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These three months past indeed,
He, whose chose to enter, with free leave
Hath taken; whence I wand'ring by the shore
Where Tyber's wave grows salt, of him gain'd kind
Admittance, at that river's mouth, tow'rd which
His wings are pointed, for there always throng
All such as not to
Archeron
descend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Groom, now 'tis meet thou hither pace,
With bride in genial bed to blend,
For sheenly shines her flowery face
Where the white
chamomiles
contend 190
With poppies blushing red.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Medoro is
disposed
to meet his doom,
Or to enclose his master in the tomb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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But there was a class of
compositions
in which the great families
were by no means so courteously treated.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Cry over ridges and down
tapering
coombs,
Carry the flying dapple of the clouds
Over the grass, over the soft-grained plough,
Stroke with ungentle hand the hill's rough hair
Against its usual set.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
SPAU, a town in Belgium noted for its
healthful
waters,
now a generic name for German watering-places.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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This hour shall be
A glass of wine
Poured out into the
unremembering
sea Without regret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He prostrated himself on the
cold floor, and
remained
motionless for a long time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But why not go and defend
yourself?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
out of whose rift there came
Small drops of gory bloud, that
trickled
down the same.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Has not the god of the green world, 5
In his large tolerant wisdom,
Filled with the ardours of earth
Her twenty
summers?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And
vanishes
along the level of the roofs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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A something in a summer's noon, --
An azure depth, a
wordless
tune,
Transcending ecstasy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Henceforth I'll rove where busy ploughs
Are
whistling
thrang,
An' teach the lanely heights an' howes
My rustic sang.
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Robert Burns |
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Presently
they saw, all thirty of them, and at a
distance
of about half-a-mile,
some hundred and fifty of the people of faery.
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Yeats |
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Artemis
The
thirteenth
returns.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Meredith - Poems |
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And day by day they'd force the woods to move
Still higher up the mountain, and to yield
The place below for tilth, that there they might,
On plains and uplands, have their meadow-plats,
Cisterns and runnels, crops of standing grain,
And happy vineyards, and that all along
O'er hillocks, intervales, and plains might run
The silvery-green belt of olive-trees,
Marking the plotted landscape; even as now
Thou seest so marked with varied loveliness
All the terrain which men adorn and plant
With rows of goodly fruit-trees and hedge round
With
thriving
shrubberies sown.
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Lucretius |
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Or is it for a younger, fairer corse,
That gathered States for
children
round his knees,
That tamed the wave to be his posting-horse,
Feller of forests, linker of the seas,
Bridge-builder, hammerer, youngest son of Thor's?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Death sudden snatch'd the dear
lamented
maid!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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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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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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