Slow-moving and black lines go ceaselessly over the earth,
Northerner goes carried, and Southerner goes carried, and they on the
Atlantic side, and they on the Pacific, and they between, and all
through the
Mississippi
country, and all over the earth.
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Whitman |
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The wings, the
eyebrows
and ah, the eyes!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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We offer
bubbling
bowls of
warm milk and cups of consecrated blood, and lay the spirit to rest in
her tomb, and with loud voice utter the last call.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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He began:
"Do you 'mind that night beside the beaches When the whole world in one brimming cup,
Earth and sky, the sea, clouds, dews, and starlight, To our lips was lifted, and we drank,
"Dizzy with dread joy and
sacrificial
Rapture of self-loss and sorrow dear,
Deep of beauty's draught, divine nirvana, The bewildering wine of all the world?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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er were maked
co{m}parysou{n}
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Her house he enters, ghastly white,
The
vestibule
finds empty quite--
He enters the saloon.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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AND HOLY HEASTS FORETAUGHT, and holy
commands
previously taught
(them).
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Oozed from the bracken's
desolate
track,
By dark rains havocked and drenched black.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But then God had
given him at his birth the soul of a poet, as he himself when quite young
had in mystical marriage taken poverty as his bride: and with the soul of
a poet and the body of a beggar he found the way to
perfection
not
difficult.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Amistris too, and he whose strenuous spear
Was foremost in the fight,
Amphistreus
fell,
And gallant Ariomardus, by whose death
Broods sorrow upon Sardis: Mysia mourns
For Seisames, and Tharubis lies low--
Commander, he, of five times fifty ships,
Born in Lyrnessus: his heroic form
Is low in death, ungraced with sepulchre.
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Aeschylus |
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Nor did gentle Eurytion, though he alone struck the bird down from the
lofty sky, grudge him to be
preferred
in honour.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Then, 'twas before my time, the Roman
At yonder heaving hill would stare:
The blood that warms an English yeoman,
The
thoughts
that hurt him, they were there.
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Though twenty lances brave each single spear,
Never the foes
superior
might to fear
Is our inheritance, our native right,
Well tried, well prov'd in many a dreadful fight.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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TO TIRZAH
Whate'er is born of mortal birth
Must be consumed with the earth,
To rise from
generation
free:
Then what have I to do with thee?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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SGANARELLE: Thus these vapours of which I speak
passing from the left side, where the liver is, to the right
side where the heart is, it happens that the lungs, which
we call in Latin _armyan_, having communication with the
brain, which in Greek we name _nasmus_, by means of the
_vena cava_, which we call in Hebrew _cubile_, in their way
meet the said vapours, which fill the ventricles of the
omoplata; and as the said vapours--be sure you understand
this argument, I beg you--and as these said vapours have
a certain malignancy--listen
carefully
to this, I pray you.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the
original
volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Thou
shouldst
have called me
to share thy doom; in the self-same hour, the self-same pang of steel
had been our portion.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Suddenly they came to the Yangtze River and
remembered
the waters
of Chiao.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The quiet voice that always counselled best,
The mind that so ironically played
Yet for mere gentleness
forebore
the jest.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I am
commanded
here and kept a coil with
'Too young' and next year' and "Tis too early.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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why is so rare good
imperfect
made
While severed from us still my lord remains.
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| Question: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Approving all, she faded at self-will,
And shut the chamber up, close, hush'd and still,
Complete and ready for the revels rude,
When
dreadful
guests would come to spoil her solitude.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Be stylle: swythe lette the
chyrches
rynge mie knelle.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Fitzgerald
Footnotes:
[Footnote 1: Some of Omar's Rubaiyat warn us of the danger of Greatness, the
instability of Fortune, and while advocating Charity to all Men,
recommending us to be too
intimate
with none.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Therein I
treasure
the spice and scent
Of rich and passionate memories blent
Like odours of cinnamon, sandal and clove,
Of song and sorrow and life and love.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Gamel, son of Orm,
What
thinkest
thou this means?
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Tennyson |
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Not for delectations sweet;
Not the cushion and the slipper, not the
peaceful
and the studious;
Not the riches safe and palling, not for us the tame enjoyment,
Pioneers!
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Whitman |
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But Virgil was not a good Roman;
there was
something
in him that was not Roman at all.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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The
bridegroom
spake low and led onward the bride
And before the high altar they stood side by side:
The rite-book is opened, the rite is begun,
They have knelt down together to rise up as one.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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ORESTES
Bethink thee, father, in the laver slain--
ELECTRA
Bethink thee of the net they
handselled
for thee!
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Loe, where
condemned
hee
Beares his owne crosse, with paine, yet by and by 10
When it beares him, he must beare more and die.
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John Donne |
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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.
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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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There might the maiden chide, in love-sick mood,
The
insuperable
rocks and severing flood; 1836.
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William Wordsworth |
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was "bestowed
upon the Khan of the Hsiung-nu as a mark of
Imperial
regard" (Giles).
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I charge thee, do not flatter me
Through pity, with false words; for, in my mind,
Deceiving works more shame than
torturing
doth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Croft's pamphlet, he beautifully
expresses a feeling, of which we imagine few of
us can have been unconscious when
perusing
any
work which strongly appeals to our reason and
conscience, and in which, as we proceed, we seem
to recognize what we have often thought, but
never uttered.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Stand and defy me with thy
intolerable
presence!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
So, at last, third hand
possessed
it--
Julietta, and at Paris
It reposes in her chamber,
Serving as a bed-side carpet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the
changing
breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks pricking us more than a cobbler's awl.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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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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Do the feasters
gluttonous
feast?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
XXXVII
So
frequently
his mind would stray
He well-nigh lost the use of sense,
Almost became a poet say--
Oh!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast,
quenching
my fire,
A deity at the gods' ambrosial feast.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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He put the belt around my life, --
I heard the buckle snap,
And turned away, imperial,
My lifetime folding up
Deliberate, as a duke would do
A kingdom's title-deed, --
Henceforth a
dedicated
sort,
A member of the cloud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Well he knew
The land which lately he had
journeyed
through.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But if you remember, then turn away forever
To the plains and the prairies where pools are far apart,
There you will not come at dusk on closing water lilies,
And the shadow of
mountains
will not fall on your heart.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Es ist mir eine rechte Kunst,
Den armen Ratten Gift zu
streuen!
| 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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I permit that mean attire
Beneath the
feastful
bower.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And ful of anguissh and of grisly drede 155
Abood what lordes wolde un-to it seye;
And if they wolde graunte, as god forbede,
Theschaunge of hir, than
thoughte
he thinges tweye,
First, how to save hir honour, and what weye
He mighte best theschaunge of hir withstonde; 160
Ful faste he caste how al this mighte stonde.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
[Illustration]
The next thing that happened to them was in a narrow part of the sea, which
was so entirely full of fishes that the boat could go on no farther: so
they
remained
there about six weeks, till they had eaten nearly all the
fishes, which were soles, and all ready-cooked, and covered with
shrimp-sauce, so that there was no trouble whatever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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And when the vision seemed to swerve,
'T was but the flickering shine
That gave new grace, a
lovelier
curve,
To every dream-like line.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Thy work was done
Ere we could thank thee; and the high sea swell
Surgeth
unheeding
where thy proud ship fell
By the lone Orkneys, at the set of sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
indicating
direction
or tending to, hence: 1) local =
whither after verbs of motion, _to, up to, at_: cōm tō recede (_to the
hall_), 721; ēode tō sele, 920; ēode tō hire frēan sittan, 642; gǣð eft .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
"Bye foule proceedyngs, murdre, bloude,
Thou wearest nowe a crowne;
And hast
appoynted
mee to dye,
By power nott thyne owne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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nor heed
Whether the object by reflected light
Return thy
radiance
or absorb it quite:
And though thou notest from thy safe recess
Old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air,
Love them for what they _are_; nor love them less,
Because to _thee_ they are not what they _were_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
One day he went as far as the chapel;
but as soon as he got to the door he turned
straight
round again, as
if he hadn't power to pass it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Whiteness
of walls, towers and piers,
That all day dazzled eyes to tears,
Turned from being white-golden flame,
And like the deep-sea blue became.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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This I know: in death all silently
He does a kindlier thing,
In beckoning pilgrim feet
With marble finger high
To where, by shadowy wall and history-haunted street,
Those
matchless
singers lie .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
If I speak gruffly, this mood is
Mere
indignation
at my own
Shortcomings, plagues, uncertainties;
I forget the gentler tone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
"
"Nothing, good nurse, there's nothing wrong,
But send your
grandson
before long.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And you, fair nymphs of Tagus, parent stream,
If e'er your meadows were my pastoral theme,
While you have listen'd, and by
moonshine
seen
My footsteps wander o'er your banks of green,
O come auspicious, and the song inspire
With all the boldness of your hero's fire:
Deep and majestic let the numbers flow,
And, rapt to heaven, with ardent fury glow,
Unlike the verse that speaks the lover's grief,
When heaving sighs afford their soft relief,
And humble reeds bewail the shepherd's pain;
But like the warlike trumpet be the strain
To rouse the hero's ire, and far around,
With equal rage, your warriors' deeds resound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Together
let us fly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
pers_ Merecraft,
Merecraft
_turnes to_ Fitz-dottrel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed
Their snow white blossoms on my head,
With brightest sunshine round me spread
Of spring's unclouded weather,
In this
sequestered
nook how sweet 5
To sit upon my orchard-seat!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
, _so, in such a manner, thus_: swā sceal man dōn,
1173, 1535; swā þā driht-guman
drēamum
lifdon, 99; þæt ge-æfndon swā (_that
we thus accomplished_), 538; þǣr hīe meahton (i.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Sharp fever drains the reeky
moistness
out,
In such a cloud upsteam'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
One must love something in this world of ours, mistress,
They who love nothing live, in their wretchedness,
Like the
Scythians
did, and they would spend their life
Without tasting the sweetness of the sweetest joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
"
Miraut de Garzelas, after the pains he bore a-loving Riels of
Calidorn
and that to none avail, ran mad in the
forest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
(Sie pfluckt eine
Sternblume
und zupft die Blatter ab, eins nach dem
andern.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
"
And I then: "Some one frames upon the keys
That
exquisite
nocturne, with which we explain
The night and moonshine; music which we seize
To body forth our vacuity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
For she, and she
Spak swich a word; thus loked he, and he;
Lest tyme I loste, I dar not with yow dele;
Com of therfore, and
bringeth
him to hele.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
what a reform would I make among the sons and
even the
daughters
of men!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
The wood upon the other
side was very thin, and broke the
moonlight
into long streams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
immediately
after the 'which'
of the preceding line.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of
chestnuts
in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
But though I am a
daughter
to his blood,
I am not to his manners.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
All
creation
slept and smiled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
We are many and strong
Whom thou
standest
among,--
And we press on the air,
And we stifle thee back,
And we multiply where
Thou wouldst trample us down
From rights of our own
To an utter wrong--
And, from under the feet of thy scorn,
O forlorn,
We shall spring up like corn,
And our stubble be strong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
The judgment cannot
be praised which selected a farm with a wet cold bottom, and sowed it
with unsound seed; but that man who
despairs
because a wet season robs
him of the fruits of the field, is unfit for the warfare of life,
where fortitude is as much required as by a general on a field of
battle, when the tide of success threatens to flow against him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Thy brother Luvah hath smitten me but pity thou his youth
Tho thou hast not pitid my Age O Urizen Prince of Light
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Blake - Zoas |
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A flowery
kingdom?
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Stephen Crane |
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wedenysday
a ni?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Burns
March, 1787
Verses
Intended
To Be Written Below A Noble Earl's Picture^1
Whose is that noble, dauntless brow?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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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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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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docte sermones
utriusque
linguae,
uoueram dulcis epulas et album
Libero caprum prope funeratus
arboris ictu.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"Ah," he thought, "if the old
Countess
would only reveal the secret to
me.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And all the while
Artemis and bold Athene admired him,
Slaying stags without dogs or
treacherous
nets;
For he conquered them on foot.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Heathcote
himself, and such large-acred men,
Lords of fat E'sham, or of Lincoln fen,
Buy every stick of wood that lends them heat,
Buy every pullet they afford to eat.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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You, O
hospitable
god, will by no means now banish a stranger
From your Olympian heights back to the base earth again.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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1460
What
proferestow
thy light here for to selle?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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In
thieving
thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high, surmounted by a cross-beam.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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El comincio: <
de l'albero che vive de la cima
e frutta sempre e mai non perde foglia,
spiriti son beati, che giu, prima
che
venissero
al ciel, fuor di gran voce,
si ch'ogne musa ne sarebbe opima.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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BOREDOM, VERSUS ENJOYMENT
If you and I, dear Martial, might
Enjoy our days in Care's despite,
And could control each leisure hour,
Both free to cull life's real flower,
Then should we never know the halls
Of patrons or law's wearying calls,
Or
troublous
court or family pride;
But we should chat or read or ride,
Play games or stroll in porch or shade,
Visit the hot baths or "The Maid.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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With
Charlemagne
I soon will have thee friends;
To Guenelun such justice shall be dealt
Day shall not dawn but men of it will tell.
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o'er whose early tomb
Tears, big tears, gushed from the rough soldier's lid,
Lamenting
and yet envying such a doom,
Falling for France, whose rights he battled to resume.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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This Seyd perceives, then first perceives how few,
Compared
with his, the Corsair's roving crew,
And blushes o'er his error, as he eyes
The ruin wrought by Panic and Surprise.
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Byron |
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