'The second two: they wait,' he said, 'pass on;
His Highness wakes:' and one, that clashed in arms,
By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led
Threading
the soldier-city, till we heard
The drowsy folds of our great ensign shake
From blazoned lions o'er the imperial tent
Whispers of war.
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Tennyson |
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FAUST:
Was
murmelst
du?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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my picture rare
Found beneath antique rubbish heap,
My great and
tapestried
oak chair
I will from you no longer keep.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"'I am content to be so weak:
Put
strength
into the words I speak,
And I am strong in what I seek.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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And I
whispered
"'Tis time!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I thank thee, good
Essenian!
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Longfellow |
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For he who dazzles, makes men Samson-blind,
Will see the pillars of his palace kiss
E'en at the
whelming
ruin!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Thie
countrymen
shall rere thee, on the playne,
A pyle of carnes, as anie grave can boaste;
Further, a just amede to thee to bee,
Inne heaven thou synge of Godde, on erthe we'lle synge of thee.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The delicacy of your courtly train
To wash a wretched
wanderer
would disdain;
But if, in tract of long experience tried,
And sad similitude of woes allied,
Some wretch reluctant views aerial light,
To her mean hand assign the friendly rite.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Love, from his retreat,
Ambushed
and shadowy, bends his fatal bow,
And I too well his ancient arrows know:
Crime, horror, folly.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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He throws his basket down to climb the tree
And wonders what the red
blotched
eggs can be:
The green woodpecker bounces from the view
And hollos as he buzzes bye "kew kew.
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John Clare |
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How maystow in thyn herte finde 265
To been to me thus cruel and
unkinde?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Good sons and brave good sires approve:
Strong bullocks, fiery colts, attest
Their fathers' worth, nor
weakling
dove
Is hatch'd in savage eagle's nest.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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From the Ruler-of-Man no wrath shall seize me,
when life from my frame must flee away,
for killing of
kinsmen!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The reticent volcano keeps
His never slumbering plan;
Confided are his projects pink
To no
precarious
man.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Thank Heaven,
It righted, and then turned; and after it
The whole flock
followed
safe--four, five, six, seven,
Yes, they were all there safe.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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He recalls
the fact that Saturn himself was not the first ruler, but
received
his
kingdom from his parents, the earth and sky, and he prophesies that
progress will continue in the overthrow of Jove by a yet brighter and
better order.
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Keats |
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']
[Footnote 7:
'When in a dusty
whirlwind
thou didst lie,
Thy valour lost, forgot thy chivalry.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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In the women's good graces seek first to be seated;
Their oh's and ah's, well known of old,
So thousand-fold,
Are all from a single point to be treated;
Be
decently
modest and then with ease
You may get the blind side of them when you please.
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| Question: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The owlets through the long blue night
Are
shouting
to each other still:
Fond lovers!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
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request, of the work in its
original
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Why are Eyelids stord with arrows ready drawn,
Where a
thousand
fighting men in ambush lie!
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blake-poems |
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Two notes are especially struck by them: the passions and
the
absurdity
of half-drunken revellers, and the joy and mystery of the
wild things in the forest.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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So have I seen a vine, wiiose lasting age,
Of many a winter hath
survived
the rage.
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Marvell - Poems |
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A newspaper is a court
Where every one is kindly and
unfairly
tried
By a squalor of honest men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Stephen Crane |
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For in this single answer Apollo deceived me, never found false
before, when he
prophesied
thee safety on ocean and arrival on the
Ausonian coasts.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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CHORUS
Ah, but I fled to the shrines, I called to our helpers on high,
When the stone-shower roared at the
portals!
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Aeschylus |
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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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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Radiant life,
Face so fair--
Crowned with the
gracious
glory of wife--
Your glance lights all this happy day,
Your tender glow
And murmurs low
Make miracle, miracle, everywhere.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Oh, city of Cranaus,[163] thy ambassadors are
laughing
at
thee!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Helas, Lui, comme
Mille anges blancs qui se
separent
sur la route,
S'eloigne par dela la montagne!
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| Question: |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Are not your
Frenchmen
neate?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Let
darkness
vanish;--tocsins be resounding,
And flash, ye guns!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Auch er bereute seine Fehler sehr,
Ja, und
bejammerte
sein Ungluck noch viel mehr.
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
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1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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"There's nothing for it but to rise and go to the door,"
And in his
comfortable
seat he groans and sighs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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let me hear
The name I used to run at, when a child,
From innocent play, and leave the
cowslips
plied,
To glance up in some face that proved me dear
With the look of its eyes.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Stephen Crane |
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CANTO IV
To sinfull house of Pride, Duessa
guides the faithfull knight,
Where brother's death to wreak Sansjoy
doth
chalenge
him to fight.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Then comes the statelier Eden back to men:
Then reign the world's great bridals, chaste and calm:
Then springs the
crowning
race of humankind.
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| Question: |
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Tennyson |
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Beating the
cliffs and circling the rocks, they thunder in a
thousand
valleys.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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He really was a man of
extraordinary
talent, an affectionate husband,
and a good father.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Sound understanding and good sense
Speak out with little art or rule;
And when you've
something
earnest to utter,
Why hunt for words in such a flutter?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Imagination flowers and vanishes, swiftly, following the flow of the writing, round the fragmentary stations of a capitalised phrase
introduced
by and extended from the title.
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| Question: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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You stirred it with agile foot, but yesterday,
And
suddenly
ash drowned the horizon's circle.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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I am not utterly
forsaken!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Longfellow |
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_Scandal_
She hastens out and scarcely pins her clothes
To hear the news and tell the news she knows;
She talks of sluts, marks each
unmended
gown,
Her self the dirtiest slut in all the town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Bryghte sonne han ynne hys roddie robes byn dyghte,
From the rodde Easte he flytted wythe hys trayne, 735
The howers drewe awaie the geete of nyghte,
Her sable
tapistrie
was rente yn twayne.
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| Question: |
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"Howe oft ynne battaile have I stoode,
Whan thousands dy'd arounde; 130
Whan smokynge
streemes
of crimson bloode
Imbrew'd the fatten'd grounde:
"How dydd I knowe thatt ev'ry darte,
Thatt cutte the airie waie,
Myghte nott fynde passage toe my harte, 135
And close myne eyes for aie?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The great men held a
large portion of the
community
in dependence by means of advances
at enormous usury.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Here Earth's ancient children, the Titans' brood, hurled down by
the thunderbolt, lie
wallowing
in the abyss.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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His sinews, shrunk with age, and stiff with toil,
In the warm bath foment with
fragrant
oil.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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The nymphs, and cruel Cupid too,
Sharpening his pointed dart
On an old home besmeared with blood,
Forbear thy
perjured
heart.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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faith in fallen things--be thou my crown,
My force, my joy, my prop on which I lean:
Yes, whilst _he's_ there, or
struggle
some or fall,
O France, dear France, for whom I weep in vain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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" or the like; that go a-begging for
some meaning, and labour to be
delivered
of the great burden of nothing.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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'545 Socinus':
the name of two famous heretics, uncle and nephew, of the sixteenth
century, who denied the
divinity
of Christ.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Diegue
To instruct by example,
courting
envy,
Would simply be to read my history.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Sometimes these cogitations still amaze
The
troubled
midnight and the noon's repose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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that ever lovers mote endure,
For love, so many a perilous
aventure!
| 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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Du sollst das Muster aller Frauen
Nun bald
leibhaftig
vor dir sehn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The winds that make Icarian billows dark
The
merchant
fears, and hugs the rural ease
Of his own village home; but soon, ashamed
Of penury, he refits his batter'd craft.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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With that she gan hir face for to wrye
With the shete, and wex for shame al reed; 1570
And
Pandarus
gan under for to prye,
And seyde, `Nece, if that I shal be deed,
Have here a swerd, and smyteth of myn heed.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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O dass kein Flugel mich vom Boden hebt
Ihr nach und immer nach zu
streben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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10
Pug _leaps at_ Pitfall's
_comming
in_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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But
wherefore
this?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Then it may be, O flattering tale,
Some future ignoramus shall
My famous
portrait
indicate
And cry: he was a poet great!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The orphans of the heart must turn to thee,
Lone mother of dead
empires!
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but O my soul is white!
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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But the moving
horsemen
did not hear that I spoke the Han tongue:
Their Captain took me for a Tartar born and had me bound in chains.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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After having vied with returned favours
squandered
treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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MAHMUD:
Then, take this signet, _250
Unlock the seventh chamber in which lie
The treasures of
victorious
Solyman,--
An empire's spoil stored for a day of ruin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
O
sweetest
essence!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Dissolve the floors of the memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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A virtue, like allay, so gone
Throughout
your form, as though that move,
And draw, and conquer all men's love,
This subjects you to love of one,
Wherein you triumph yet: because
'Tis of yourself, and that you use
The noblest freedom, not to choose
Against or faith, or honour's laws.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Thou heavily
drudgest
women,
But yet thou art afraid of them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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But could I like
Montgomeries
fight,
Or gab like Boswell,
There's some sark-necks I wad draw tight,
An' tie some hose well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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From this adventure I learned
something
of a town life; but the
principal thing which gave my mind a turn, was a friendship I formed
with a young fellow, a very noble character, but a hapless son of
misfortune.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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A
fragment
of the South Babylonian version of the tenth book was
published in 1902, a text from the period of Hammurapi, which showed
that the Babylonian epic differed very much from the Assyrian in
diction, but not in content.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I am as woeful as
Virginius
was,
And have a thousand times more cause than he
To do this outrage; and it now is done.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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And I, could I stand by
And see you freeze,
Without my right of frost,
Death's
privilege?
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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For thirty years, he produced and
distributed
Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And there she sits, until the moon
Through half the clear blue sky will go,
And when the little breezes make
The waters of the pond to shake,
As all the country know,
She
shudders
and you hear her cry,
"Oh misery!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Some catch themselves to every mound,
Then lingeringly and slowly move
As if they knew the
precious
ground
Were opening for their fertile love:
They almost try to dig, they need
So much to plant their thistle-seed.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Rilke - Poems |
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[Note 61:
Hospitality
is a national virtue of the Russians.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Or when the minstrel, tale half told, Shall burst to lilting at the phrase
"Audiart, Audiart"
Bertrans, master of his lays,
Bertrans
of Aultaforte thy praise
Sets forth, and though thou hate me well, Yea, though thou wish me ill,
Audiart, Audiart Thy loveliness is here writ till,
Audiart,
2
Oh, till thou come again.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly
When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:
But, for their virtue only is their show,
They live unwoo'd, and
unrespected
fade;
Die to themselves.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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When Catiline by rapine swelled his store;
When Caesar made a noble dame a wh***;
In this the lust, in that the avarice
Were means, not ends;
ambition
was the vice.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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