And Apollo, the Song-changer,
Was a
herdsman
in thy fee;
Yea, a-piping he was found,
Where the upward valleys wound,
To the kine from out the manger
And the sheep from off the lea,
And love was upon Othrys at the sound.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Where the wind calls our
wandering
footsteps we go.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
And there right suddenly Lord Raoul gave rein
And galloped
straightway
to the crowded square,
-- What time a strange light flickered in the eyes
Of the calm fool, that was not folly's gleam,
But more like wisdom's smile at plan well laid
And end well compassed.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Two
swimmers
wrestled on the spar
Until the morning sun,
When one turned smiling to the land.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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1075
Theseus by your fury
measures
his own good.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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O'er Heorot he lorded,
gold-bright hall, in gloomy nights;
and ne'er could the prince {2d} approach his throne,
-- 'twas
judgment
of God, -- or have joy in his hall.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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This high-toned and lovely
Madrigal
is quite in the style, and worthy
of, the "pure Simonides.
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Golden Treasury |
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A brighter dwelling-place is here for thee--
* It was entire in 1687--the most
elevated
spot in Athens.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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This done, then to th' enamell'd meads
Thou go'st; and as thy foot there treads,
Thou seest a present God-like power
Imprinted in each herb and flower:
And smell'st the breath of great-eyed kine,
Sweet as the
blossoms
of the vine.
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Robert Herrick |
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XLII
O heart of insatiable longing,
What spell, what
enchantment
allures thee
Over the rim of the world
With the sails of the sea-going ships?
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Sappho |
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Far along,
From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,
Leaps the live
thunder!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And then,
foreseeing
all thy life, I added:
But these thou wilt forget; and at the end
Of life the Lord will punish thee.
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Longfellow |
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"Brother and sister shall they be to ours,
And they will learn to climb my knee at even;
When He shall see these
strangers
in our bowers,
More fish, more food, will give the God of Heaven.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But most, through midnight streets I hear
How the
youthful
harlot's curse
Blasts the new-born infant's tear,
And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse.
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blake-poems |
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"I have prayed for thee with bursting sob
When passion's course was free;
I have prayed for thee with silent lips,
In the anguish none could see:
They whispered oft, 'She
sleepeth
soft'--
But I only prayed for thee.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
The King
commands
his provost then, Basbrun:
"Go hang them all on th' tree of cursed wood!
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Silent and
motionless
we lie;
And no one knoweth more than this.
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Longfellow |
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Lo caldo
sghermitor
subito fue;
ma pero di levarsi era neente,
si avieno inviscate l'ali sue.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
His head he raised--there was in sight,
It caught his eye, he saw it plain--
Upon the house-top,
glittering
bright,
A broad and gilded vane.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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O, fiercely doth it draw
Them to its chasm'd maw,
And against it in vain
They linger and strain;
And as they slip away
Into the
seething
gray
Fill all the thunderous air
With the horror of their despair,
And their wild terror wreak
In one hoarse, wailing shriek.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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'Tis that every mother's son
Travails
with a skeleton.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely
comprehend
the plot.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Says to Rollant: "Fool,
wherefore
art so wrathful?
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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And every human heart that breaks,
In prison-cell or yard,
Is as that broken box that gave
Its
treasure
to the Lord,
And filled the unclean leper's house
With the scent of costliest nard.
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Wilde - Poems |
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is
condicioun
ne drawe?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Despised
and Rejected
Long Barren
If Only
Dost thou not Care?
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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It was quite without
ideals, unless indeed the conventions of "good form" may be
dignified
by
that name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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backing clouds
Then sleep fell on her eyelids in a Chasm of the Valley
The
Sixteenth
morn the Spectre stood before her manifest ]
The Spectre thus spoke.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven,
And though no science, fairly worth the seven:
A light, which in
yourself
you must perceive:
Jones and Le Notre have it not to give.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Unnatural
vices
Are fathered by our heroism.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
What Ship Puzzled at Sea
What ship puzzled at sea, cons for the true
reckoning?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
"
The poems of Sappho so mysteriously lost to us seem to have
consisted
of at
least nine books of odes, together with _epithalamia_, epigrams,
elegies, and monodies.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Po himself, soon
realizing
that he was unsuited to Court life, allowed
his conduct to become more and more reckless and unrestrained.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
THE present version of _The Countess Cathleen_ is not quite the version
adopted by the Irish
Literary
Theatre a couple of years ago, for our
stage and scenery were capable of little; and it may differ still more
from any stage version I make in future, for it seems that my people
of the waters and my unhappy dead, in the third act, cannot keep their
supernatural essence, but must put on too much of our mortality, in
any ordinary theatre.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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III
Madame se tient trop debout dans la prairie
Prochaine ou neigent les fils du travail; l'ombrelle
Aux doigts; foulant l'ombelle; trop fiere pour elle
Des enfants lisant dans la verdure fleurie
Leur livre de
maroquin
rouge!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But the host stopt to hint when he'd ordered the dray
Sir Barleycorn's order was
purchase
and pay.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
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Meredith - Poems |
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5
And a gold comb, and girdle,
And
trinkets
of white silver,
And gems are in my sea-chest,
Lest poor and empty-handed
Thy lover should return.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
er we
schullen
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
He saw Misfortune's cauld nor-west
Lang
mustering
up a bitter blast;
A jillet brak his heart at last,
Ill may she be!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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At the same time it will not in the least
hurt me, should you leave it out altogether, and adhere to your first
intention of
adopting
Logan's verses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Better than all measures
Of
delightful
sound,
Better than all treasures
That in books are found,
Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
He came to the green ocean's brim
And saw the wheeling sea-birds skim,
Summer and winter, o'er the wave,
Like
creatures
of a skiey mould,
Impassible to heat or cold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
'
And we in our turn appeal to English tourists who may chance to see
it, to forego the wish of adding to it, or taking
anything
from it, by
engraving their own names; and to let the Monumental Stone stand, as
the poet wished it might
' .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
He
has
requested
me to write three or four songs for him, which he is to
set to music himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
We let them pass; all
appearing
tranquil;
No soldiers at the port, the city still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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O holy pyre, O flame that's
nourished
by
A fire divine, may your fierce heart now burn
My familiar surface so completely, I,
Free and naked, might with a single flight
Rise, beyond the sky, to adore in turn
That other beauty from which your own derives.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
--is there no farther aid
Thou needest,
Jacinta?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Do you understand crime and
innocence
so poorly?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
By Professor Picavet my
attention was called to Bouillet's translation of Plotinus's _Enneads_
with ample notes on the analogies to and
developments
of Neo-Platonic
thought in the Schoolmen.
| 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 yit I am in gret affray
Lest thou do not as I say;
I drede thou canst me greet maugree,
That thou emprisoned art for me; 4400
But that [is] not for my trespas,
For thurgh me never
discovered
was
Yit thing that oughte be secree.
| 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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O God, if Orpheus' voice were mine, to sing
To Death's high Virgin and the Virgin's King,
Till their hearts failed them, down would I my path
Cleave, and naught stay me, not the Hound of Wrath,
Not the grey oarsman of the ghostly tide,
Till back to
sunlight
I had borne my bride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Elle giacean per terra tutte quante,
fuor d'una ch'a seder si levo, ratto
ch'ella ci vide
passarsi
davante.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
was
su_m_del
disseyuable and ful (!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Shall a
beardless
boy,
A cock'red silken wanton, brave our fields
And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,
Mocking the air with colours idly spread,
And find no check?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Lines 585-587 hit off some of the
personal
characteristics of this
hot-tempered critic.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
And even the Abstract Entities
Circumambulate
her charm;
But our lot crawls between dry ribs
To keep our metaphysics warm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
whose gentle virtues have obtain'd
For thee a dwelling with thy Maker blest,
To sit
enthroned
above, in angels' vest
(Whose lustre gold nor purple had attain'd):
Ah!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Snowballs
burst
About them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
THE FUTURE
After ten thousand
centuries
have gone,
Man will ascend the last long pass to know
That all the summits which he saw at dawn
Are buried deep in everlasting snow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Wherever men are staunch and free,
There shall she keep her
fearless
state,
And homeless, to great nations be
The home of all that makes them great.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
) Indeed I hardly knew poor Omar was so
far gone till his Apologist
informed
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
"
"And leave the
children?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Strange that the termagant winds should scold
The
Christmas
Eve so bitterly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
He had nothing of a more detailed or
accurate
nature to
relate, having been afraid of going too far.
| 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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keeping this work in the same format with its
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Ceaseless
she paces to and fro,
O heart-sick days!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Wherefore
I tell thee
truly, 'come ye there, ye be killed, though ye had twenty lives to
spend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Doth my heart
overween?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
915
He semede as he were an aungel
>>
A losenges, a escuciaus,
A oiseles, a lionciaus,
Et a bestes et a liepars;
Fu la robe de toutes pars
Portraite, et ovree de flors
Par
diversete
de colors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
And if I were to die, it seemed sweeter
To give my life
fighting
in your honour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
He
says — " He had before I came in, as I was told,
considered what to do with the gold ; and but
that I by all means
prevented
the offer, I had
* MarvelPs Letters, pp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
The pleasure soon
Becomes a shame, scarce to be spoken aloud;
And in best minds, either
detested
doting
Man's joy in woman's beauty will become;
Or a strict binding fire, holding him down
In lust of beauty where no beauty is.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Then, Pallas over all his features shed 180
Superior
beauty, dignified his form
With added amplitude, and pour'd his curls
Like hyacinthine flow'rs down from his brows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
The heroism we recite
Would be a daily thing,
Did not
ourselves
the cubits warp
For fear to be a king.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Shall I endure the sight of
Somerset?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
--How shall I name thee what thou art,
Woman, thou dream of man's desire that God
Caught out of man's first sleep and
fashioned
real?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
_The Thrush's Nest_
Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush,
That overhung a molehill large and round,
I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush
Sing hymns to sunrise, and I drank the sound
With joy; and, often an intruding guest,
I watched her secret toils from day to day--
How true she warped the moss, to form a nest,
And modelled it within with wood and clay;
And by and by, like heath-bells gilt with dew,
There lay her shining eggs, as bright as flowers,
Ink-spotted-over shells of greeny blue;
And there I
witnessed
in the sunny hours
A brood of nature's minstrels chirp and fly,
Glad as that sunshine and the laughing sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Ses
strophes
bondiront, voila!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Miss Alexander,
perhaps
unaccustomed
to this forward wooing of the muse, allowed the
offering to remain unnoticed for a time: it is now in a costly frame,
and hung in her chamber--as it deserves to be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
I would that I were there and over me
The cold insistence of the tide would roll,
Quenching this burning thing men call the soul,--
Then with the ebbing I should drift and be
Less than the
smallest
shell along the shoal,
Less than the sea-gulls calling to the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Does he still think his error
pardonable?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Peg Nicholson was a good bay mare,
And ance she bore a priest;
But now she's
floating
down the Nith,
For Solway fish a feast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Yet, whether 'tis the queen who writes, or not;
I shall, as usual, here and there allot
Whate'er additions requisite appear;
Without such license I'd not persevere,
But quit, at once,
narrations
of the sort;
Some may be long, though others are too short.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
At such a time
When sun with beams amid the tempest-murk
Hath shone against the showers of black rains,
Then in the swart clouds there emerges bright
The
radiance
of the bow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
- All this transformation
once
barbarous
and
material
external -
now
moral
and within
21.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
'"
DAMOETAS
"Fell as the wolf is to the folded flock,
Rain to ripe corn, Sirocco to the trees,
The wrath of
Amaryllis
is to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Hypocrite
witches, hence avaunt,
* Who, though in prison, yet enchant !
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Marvell - Poems |
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So once it would have been,--'tis so no more;
I have
submitted
to a new control:
A power is gone, which nothing can restore; 35
A deep distress hath humanised my Soul.
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William Wordsworth |
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Mee thinkes all Cities, now, but Anthills bee,
Where, when the severall
labourers
I see,
For children, house, Provision, taking paine,
They'are all but Ants, carrying eggs, straw, and grain; 170
And Church-yards are our cities, unto which
The most repaire, that are in goodnesse rich.
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John Donne |
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"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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blake-poems |
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With shaded eyes your vision follows
The gentle swans'
receding
train.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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LA BEAUTE
Je suis belle, o
mortels!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Then believe me, my sweetheart, do,
While time still flowers for you,
In its
freshest
novelty,
Cull, ah cull your youthful bloom:
As it blights this flower, the doom
Of age will blight your beauty.
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Ronsard |
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The still and stealthy speeding of the pilgrim days unheeding,
At rest upon the roadway that their feet unfaltering trod,
The
faithful
unto death abide, with trust unshaken,
The morn when they shall waken to the reveille of God.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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" He
fired, and slightly wounded his opponent,
shouting
"Bravo!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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How hast thou dried my every source of joy,
And left me to drag on a life of tears,
Through darkling days and
melancholy
nights.
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Petrarch |
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And we
preserved
an admirable mimicry
Without heeding the drip of the blood
From my heart.
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Stephen Crane |
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Non
attender
la forma del martire:
pensa la succession; pensa ch'al peggio
oltre la gran sentenza non puo ire.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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