Joy of the plenteous dinner, strong carouse and
drinking?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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All the nobles were
summoned
to his room, and
Altun was asked to sing them a song about Tchirek, his native land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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V
I in the cruel city left the peer,
Whence, with the formidable bugle's roar,
He had chased the
unfaithful
people in their fear,
And has preserved himself from peril sore;
And with the sound had made his comrades rear
Then sail, and fly with noted scorn that shore.
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| Question: |
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Last time I danc'd
attendance
on his will
Till Paris was besieg'd, famish'd, and lost.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Shakespeare |
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"
The Commandant had intended to cross-examine his
prisoner
that same day,
but the "_ouriadnik_" had escaped, doubtless with the connivance of his
accomplices.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet--and here's no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my
greatness
flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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Three drops alone
Mix with her drink, and nature
Into a deep and
pleasant
sleep is thrown.
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| Question: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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From very sorrow you drink away what is
left; a real
calamity!
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to understand you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live
everything
will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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_Qual donna attende a
gloriosa
fama.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Petrarch |
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The word order is
inverted
for the sake of the rhyme.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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there she is, [10] the
matchless
Earth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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So
moveless
in time past,
Hath Fortune girded up her loins at last?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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[229] The staff, called a sceptre, generally terminated in a piece of
carved work,
representing
a flower, a fruit, and most often a bird.
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| Question: |
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Aristophanes |
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the vilest in the
dungeon!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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exquisite
dancers in gray twilight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
|
IV
She, who with her head the stars surpassed,
One foot on Dawn, the other on the Main,
One hand on Scythia, the other Spain,
Held the round of earth and sky encompassed:
Jupiter fearing, if higher she was classed,
That the old Giants' pride might rise again,
Piled these hills on her, these seven that soar,
Tombs of her
greatness
at the heavens cast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I would regret that he was shut
out from what, to me and to others, were such
superlative
sources of
enjoyment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Discrecioun out of your heed is goon;
That fele I now,' quod he, `and that is routhe; 895
O tyme y-lost, wel maystow cursen
slouthe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
| 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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We were
enchanted
with the fields,
the tufts of coarse grass
in the shorter grass--
we loved all this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Ful wel [y]-thewed was she holde;
Ne she was derk ne broun, but bright,
And cleer as [is] the mone-light, 1010
>>
Li uns des arcs qui fu hideus,
Et plains de neus, et eschardeus;
Il devoit bien tiex
floiches
traire,
Car el erent force et contraire 980
As autres cinq floiches sans doute.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Blessed are you whose
worthiness
gives scope,
Being had, to triumph; being lacked, to hope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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but one night my vow
Burnt me within, so that I rose and fled,
But wailed and wept, and hated mine own self,
And even the Holy Quest, and all but her;
Then after I was joined with Galahad
Cared not for her, nor
anything
upon earth.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Improbability
of there being poems in a muniment chest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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`O olde, unholsom, and
mislyved
man, 330
Calkas I mene, allas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Mighty subduer of cities, Discretion, O
princess
of nations,
Goddess whom I adore, safely you've led me thus far.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Was himself _one who knew_,
How comes it that he wrote a book
Of five
thousand
words?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Ces yeux
mysterieux
ont d'invincibles charmes
Pour celui que l'austere Infortune allaita!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
LXXVIII
Once in the shining street,
In the heart of a
seaboard
town,
As I waited, behold, there came
The woman I loved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Or hears the hawk when
Philomela
sings?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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--
don't call these things, kisses--
mouth-kisses, hand-kisses,
elbow, knee and toe,
and let it go at that--
disappear
and promise
what you'll never perform:
we've known you to slink away
until drought-time,
drooping-time,
withering-time:
we've caught you crawling off
into winter-time,
try to cover what you've done
with a long white scarf--
your own frozen tears
(likely phrase!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Whiffs of delectable
fragrance
swim by;
Spice-laden vagrants that float and entice,
Tickling the throat and brimming the eye.
| 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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But with the breath which fills
Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers
With the fierce native daring which instils
The
stirring
memory of a thousand years,
And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears.
| 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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Phoebus the
Glorious
descends from his throne!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Give me exhaustless--make me a fountain,
That I exhale love from me
wherever
I go,
For the sake of all dead soldiers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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So many
hurrying
home--
And thou still away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
]
Lancelot's horse
trampled
away among the flowers; for it was April when
he left the court of Arthur, and just one month later he came riding
back among the flowers of the May-time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
This day, by Lake Regillus,
Under the Porcian height,
All in the lands of Tusculum
Was fought a
glorious
fight.
| 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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Here Sappho was the acknowledged queen of song--revered,
studied, imitated, served, adored by a little court of
attendants
and
disciples, loved and hymned by Alcaeus, and acclaimed by her fellow
craftsmen throughout Greece as the wonder of her age.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Omar Khayyam
This eBook is for the use of anyone
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at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Highbury
bore me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Sad Souvenaunce 53
ECHOES 58
A SEA DIRGE 59
YE CARPETTE KNYGHTE 64
HIAWATHA'S PHOTOGRAPHING 66
MELANCHOLETTA 78
A VALENTINE 84
THE THREE VOICES:--
The First Voice 87
The Second Voice 98
The Third Voice 109
TEMA CON
VARIAZIONI
118
A GAME OF FIVES 120
POETA FIT, NON NASCITUR 123
SIZE AND TEARS 131
ATALANTA IN CAMDEN-TOWN 136
THE LANG COORTIN' 140
FOUR RIDDLES 152
FAME'S PENNY-TRUMPET 163
PHANTASMAGORIA
CANTO I
The Trystyng
ONE winter night, at half-past nine,
Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy,
I had come home, too late to dine,
And supper, with cigars and wine,
Was waiting in the study.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
"
The Two Learned Men
Once there lived in the ancient city of Afkar two learned men who
hated and
belittled
each other's learning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Unauthenticated
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Seeing Off Case Reviewer Wei (16) 293 5.
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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YOUR wife the same; to make her, in your eye,
More
beautiful
's the aim you may rely;
For, if unkind, she would a hag be thought,
Incapable soft love scenes to be taught.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
So long as sovereigns live, the subjects kneel,
Crouching like
spaniels
at their royal heel;
But when their might flies, they are shunned by all,
Save worms, which--human-like--still to them crawl
On Troy or Memphis, on Pyrrhus the Great,
Or on Psammeticus, alike falls fate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Is it a type, since Nature's Lyre
Vibrates to every note in man,
Of that
insatiable
desire,
Meant to be so since life began?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Is this
proceeding
just and honourable?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Ses habits etaient deboutonnes,
Et le long
chapelet
des peches pardonnes
S'egrenant dans son coeur, Saint Tartufe etait pale!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
The old
Commandant
made the sign of the cross three times over her, then
raised her up, kissed her, and said to her, in a voice husky with
emotion--
"Well, Masha, may you be happy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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_ Munro:
_sciuntque
Galliae
ultimam et Britanniae_ Birt: fort.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Pale, silent, stern, what could I say to that long-accrued
retribution?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Num satis hybernum
defendis
pellibus astrum,
Qui modo tain mollis, nee bene firmus, eras ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
What a world of happiness their harmony
foretells!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
This
generosity on the part of "Old Charley" was only in accordance with the
whole tenour of his amiable and
chivalrous
conduct during the entire
period of his sojourn in the borough of Rattle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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To blurt all out--
I know that you desire her; without doubt
The flame that rages in my heart warms yours;
To carry out these subtle plans of ours,
We have become as gypsies near this doll,
You as her page--I dotard to control--
Pretended
gallants
changed to lovers now.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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And were you lost, I would be,
Though my name
Rang loudest
On the
heavenly
fame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Everyone
to his liking--
VARLAAM.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
"
VIII
"Farewell to barn and stack and tree,
Farewell
to Severn shore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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All over the corn's dim motion, against the blue
Dark sky of night, the wandering glitter, the swarm
Of questing
brilliant
things:--you joy, you true
Spirit of careless joy: ah, how I warm
My poor and perished soul at the joy of you!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Truly without the falcon's wings to carry me
How can I rival the flying wind's
swiftness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
, _speech in which one
promises
great things for himself
in a coming combat, defiant speech, boasting speech_: acc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Dit a l'autre: Vie et
splendeur!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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For by myn hidde sorwe y-blowe on brede 530
I shal bi-Iaped been a
thousand
tyme
More than that fool of whos folye men ryme.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
HERALD
Nay, ill it were to mar with sorrow's tale
The day of
blissful
news.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
I, Madame, but
returnes
againe to Night
Lady.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
And there I heard, with a secret delight,
Of your maladies
physical
and mental,
Which neither astonished nor dismayed me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
)
Two days ago with dancing
glancing
hair,
With living lips and eyes:
Now pale, dumb, blind, she lies;
So pale, yet still so fair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
>>
Immediatement
sa raison s'en alla.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
_
_When he shifts from side to side
Earthquakes gape and open wide;_
_When a nightmare makes him snore,
All the dead
volcanoes
roar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
To observations which
ourselves
we make,
We grow more partial for the observer's sake;
To written wisdom, as another's, less:
Maxims are drawn from notions, those from guess.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
"I dare say Milton
preferred
'Comus' to either-.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
With shaded eyes your vision follows
The gentle swans'
receding
train.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
AMY LOWELL
AMY LOWELL
VENUS TRANSIENS
Tell me,
Was Venus more beautiful
Than you are,
When she topped
The
crinkled
waves,
Drifting shoreward
On her plaited shell?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
XIV
There pass the
careless
people
That call their souls their own:
Here by the road I loiter,
How idle and alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
woe to you,
His wretched
followers!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
They drew their
scimitars
against us swiftly;
Mingling our blood with theirs most horribly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
The
listener
remained perfectly mute.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
and I the dying boy will see
Stain with his purple blood the waxen bell
That overweighs the jacinth, and to me
The
wretched
Cyprian her woe will tell,
And I will kiss her mouth and streaming eyes,
And lead her to the myrtle-hidden grove where Adon lies!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
At
fourteen
I became your wife;
I was shame-faced and never dared smile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Some other thirsty there may be
To whom this would have pointed me
Had it
remained
to speak.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Among other
mistakes
it reads (with _S96_)
'Thee' for 'them' in l.
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here thy temple was,
And is, despite of war and wasting fire,
And years, that bade thy worship to expire:
But worse than steel, and flame, and ages slow,
Is the drear sceptre and dominion dire
Of men who never felt the sacred glow
That
thoughts
of thee and thine on polished breasts bestow.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Then it was
This earth of thine first gave unto the day
The mortal generations; for prevailed
Among the fields
abounding
hot and wet.
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Lucretius |
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This is more meet for him who rules to drive away his stress--
He, being god, should
lightnings
hurl and make a wilderness--
But, haste!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Music once more and
forever!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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She then exultingly filled the
countries
with
manifold talk, and blazoned alike what was done and undone: one Aeneas
is come, born of Trojan blood; on him beautiful Dido thinks no shame to
fling herself; now they hold their winter, long-drawn through mutual
caresses, regardless of their realms and enthralled by passionate
dishonour.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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ben so che
dolorose
prede.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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As for this Polynices, named too well,
Soon shall we know how his device shall end--
Whether the gold-wrought symbols on his shield,
In their mad
vaunting
and bewildered pride,
Shall guide him as a victor to his home!
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Aeschylus |
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She heard me thus, and though divinely brought, 500
Yet Innocence and Virgin Modestie,
Her vertue and the conscience of her worth,
That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won,
Not obvious, not obtrusive, but retir'd,
The more desirable, or to say all,
Nature her self, though pure of sinful thought,
Wrought in her so, that seeing me, she turn'd;
I follow'd her, she what was Honour knew,
And with obsequious
Majestie
approv'd
My pleaded reason.
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Milton |
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Hold, harm not with the
vengeful
faulchion's edge
This blameless man; and we will also spare
Medon the herald, who hath ever been
A watchful guardian of my boyish years,
Unless Philoetius have already slain him,
Or else Eumaeus, or thyself, perchance,
Unconscious, in the tumult of our foes.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Darkness again the wood investeth,
The moon midst clouds is seen to sail,
And once more on the margin resteth
The maiden
beautiful
and pale.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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