Nicolas' own Edition Suf and Sufi are both
disparagingly
named.
| Guess: |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The wind and I, we both were there,
But neither long abode;
Now through the
friendless
world we fare
And sigh upon the road.
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The sweetest voice that lips contain,
The sweetest thought that leaves the brain,
The sweetest feeling of the heart--
There's
pleasure
in its very smart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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That the English-
speaking public may gain at any rate some faint idea
of his genius, it has been my joyous task to translate
the following small
selection
of his works.
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| Question: |
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Down Aulus springs to slay him,
With eyes like coals of fire;
But faster Titus hath sprung down,
And hath
bestrode
his sire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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from its mass
Walls, palaces, half-cities, have been reared;
Yet oft the enormous
skeleton
ye pass,
And marvel where the spoil could have appeared.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Let the hoarse torrent
In the blue canyon,
Murmuring
mightily
10
Out of the grey mist
Of primal chaos,
Cease not proclaiming
How I adore thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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--La graisse sous la peau parait en feuilles plates;
Et les rondeurs des reins
semblent
prendre l'essor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it
therefore
the less _gone_?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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That such have died enables us
The
tranquiller
to die;
That such have lived, certificate
For immortality.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of
the Project
Gutenberg
License included with this eBook or online at
www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And he is lean and he is sick,
His body
dwindled
and awry
Rests upon ankles swoln and thick;
His legs are thin and dry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
The Rabbit
Rabbits
'Rabbits'
Frederick Bloemaert, Abraham Bloemaert,
Nicolaes
Visscher (I), after 1635 - 1670, The Rijksmuseun
There's another cony I remember
That I'd so like to take alive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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And then he drank a dew
From a convenient grass,
And then hopped
sidewise
to the wall
To let a beetle pass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The love-sick vestal of the old "Frasciti";
Priestess
of Thalia, alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Such excess of horror renders my spirit numb:
So many unforeseen blows
together
rain on me
They stifle my words, and rob me of my speech.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Their wrongs and blasphemies ascend the sky,
And pull descending
vengeance
from on high.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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And cracking frieze and rotten metope
Express, as though they were an open tome
Top-lined with caustic monitory gnome;
"Dunces, Learn here to spell
Humanity!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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naught sensest thou: did she forget us in silence,
Whole she had been; but now whatso she rails and she snarls,
Not only dwells in her thought, but worse and even more risky, 5
Wrathful
she bides.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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In my
intercourse
with the Chinese I cannot recall a modern
Chinese who was a poet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
"
The Bellman
exclaimed
in a fright.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Oh,
In arms' reach, here be Dante, Keats, Chopin,
Raphael, Lucretius, Omar, Angelo,
Beethoven, Chaucer, Schubert, Shakespeare, Bach,
And Buddha (sweetest
masters!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Hardly the
springtime
knows
For which today the cuckoo calls,
And the white blossom blows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Ein wenig besser wurd er leben,
Hattst du ihm nicht den Schein des
Himmelslichts
gegeben;
Er nennt's Vernunft und braucht's allein,
Nur tierischer als jedes Tier zu sein.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
,
_princely
castle, stronghold of a ruler, chief city_:
acc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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saepe uagus Liber Parnasi uertice summo 390
Thyadas effusis euantis crinibus egit,
cum Delphi tota
certatim
ex urbe ruentes
acciperent laeti diuum fumantibus aris.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Who hath imagined them
Round him in fashion'd radiance of desire,
As into light of these exulting bodies
Flaming Spirit is
uttered?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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To sea I gazed, and then I turned
Stricken
toward the shore,
Praying half-crazed to a moon that burned
Above your door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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take it for a rule,
No
creature
smarts so little as a fool.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Inebriate of air am I,
And
debauchee
of dew,
Reeling, through endless summer days,
From inns of molten blue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
You and I
plucking
rushes
Had not plucked a handful when night came!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
"
exclaimed
Lisa, drying her eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
The hemlock's nature thrives on cold;
The gnash of northern winds
Is
sweetest
nutriment to him,
His best Norwegian wines.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Leave the
forsaken
Fauns
In peace beneath their trees!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
'And now beside thee,
bleating
lamb,
I can lie down and sleep,
Or think on Him who bore thy name,
Graze after thee, and weep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
For eighteen
centuries
ripple down the river,
And windy times the stalks of empires wave,
-- Let the winds come from the moor and sigh and shiver,
Fain, fain am I, O Christ, to pass the grave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
He could not
understand
it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
"O still the same
Ulysses!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Certain
characters
of the heroic saga are, so to speak, at home with
Satyrs and others are not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Green's assistance, my whole system for the press, as far as it
exists in any _systematic_ form; that is, beginning with the
Propyleum, On the Power and Use of Words, comprising Logic, as the Canons
of _Conclusion_, as the
criterion
of _Premises_, and lastly as
the discipline and evolution of Ideas (and then the Methodus et Epochee, or
the Disquisition on God, Nature, and Man), the two first grand divisions of
which, from the Ens super Ens to the _Fall_, or from God
to Hades, and then from Chaos to the commencement of living organization,
containing the whole of the Dynamic Philosophy, and the deduction of the
Powers and Forces, are complete.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Thy master and thy
mistress
live.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Delia
descendens
'felicius' inquit 'amata
sum tibi: uixisti, dum tuus ignis eram'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
So, in the like name of that love of ours,
Take back these thoughts which here
unfolded
too,
And which on warm and cold days I withdrew
From my heart's ground.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
, _hereditary possessions,
hereditary
estate_: acc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
But should the gate
confront
another bed,
And on my couch a jealous step-dame sit,
Laud, boys, and praise the bride your sire has wed;
She will be won charmed with your ready wit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
THE PROBLEM
SHALL we conceal the Case, or tell it--
We who believe the
evidence?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
'Tis this: 'I, Satan, god of
darkened
sphere,
The king of gloom and winds that bring things drear,
Alliance make with my two brothers dear,
The Emperor Sigismond and Polish King
Named Ladislaus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The
contours
of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Why will you plead yourself so sad forlorn,
While I am
striving
how to fill my heart
With deeper crimson, and a double smart?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Some must go off: and yet by these I see,
So great a day as this is
cheapely
bought
Mal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
The apple tree has been
celebrated
by the Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, and
Scandinavians.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
_Lan'-ahin_,
hindmost
horse in the plough.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
For half life's seemings are not what they seem,
And vain the laughs we laugh, the shrieks we shriek;
Yea, all is vain that mars the settled meek
Contented
quiet of our daily theme.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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my red arm I bare, my thunders guide,
To dash the offenders in the
whelming
tide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
With what stiff step he
travels!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Valerius
hath fallen fighting
In front of our array;
And Aulus of the seventy fields
Alone upholds the day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Spare us the
inexpiable
wrong, the unutterable shame,
That turns the coward's heart to steel, the sluggard's blood to
flame,
Lest, when our latest hope is fled, ye taste of our despair,
And learn by proof, in some wild hour, how much the wretched
dare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
12) called
Progress
of Civilization, and be the captain
of our Exodus into the Canaan of a truer social order.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
How much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use,
If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine
Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,'
Proving his beauty by
succession
thine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Thy vales of evergreen, thy hills of snow,
Proclaim thee Nature's varied favourite now;
Thy fanes, thy temples to the surface bow,
Commingling
slowly with heroic earth,
Broke by the share of every rustic plough:
So perish monuments of mortal birth,
So perish all in turn, save well-recorded worth;
LXXXVI.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
The wagons
quickened
on the streets,
The thunder hurried slow;
The lightning showed a yellow beak,
And then a livid claw.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
We saw peas, and even beans,
collected
into heaps in the fields.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
But if from Spanish, we turn our eyes to British America,
what a glorious
prospect!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Midst every herd of cattle on the hills,
Dull Grief shall lie, the
herdsman
of the drove.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
One stroke
Rolled the smith's head from his neck, and gave
him
remembrance
undying.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
And so I would, were it not for fear,
For never has one so shaped and made
For love such
diffidence
displayed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Rome is no more: if downed architecture
May still revive some shade of Rome anew,
It's like a corpse, by some magic brew,
Drawn at deep
midnight
from a sepulchre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
His early work, 'The Shepherd's
Week', was planned as a parody on the 'Pastorals' of Pope's rival,
Ambrose Philips, and Pope
assisted
him in the composition of his
luckless farce, 'Three Hours after Marriage'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
WINDOWS where I gazed with you
At eve upon the
landscape
once
Are now illumed with other lights.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
"
"Talk not of oaths (the dreadful chief replies,
While anger flash'd from his disdainful eyes),
Detested
as thou art, and ought to be,
Nor oath nor pact Achilles plights with thee:
Such pacts as lambs and rabid wolves combine,
Such leagues as men and furious lions join,
To such I call the gods!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
MARGARETE:
Wer konnte nur die beiden Kastchen
bringen?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though
they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is most common
among Englishmen and
Americans
to-day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Break forth this morn
In roses, thou but
yesterday
a Thorn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
A very monument of
ignorant
perversity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
120 it is not fitting that
Imperial
Rule be cut off.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
NIGHT
The sun
descending
in the west,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
As usual with such kind of Oriental
Verse, the
Rubaiyat
follow one another according to Alphabetic
Rhyme--a strange succession of Grave and Gay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Nearly all the individual
works in the
collection
are in the public domain in the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
The
phratria
was a division of the tribe and consisted of
thirty families.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
It makes for pretty difficult reading in
our present, less
interested
epoch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Whenever
the thought of
my E.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Atta Troll, who once paraded
Like a mighty lord of deserts,
Free upon the
mountain
summit,
Dances in the vale to rabble!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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In pride, in
reasoning
pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
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Nay, these the things that make the world, The pick and spade, the ax, the mill, The furrowed field, the
ploughman
grim, The sons of God that work His will.
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Thou wrinklest--after thou hast had the sum
Of the
guerdons
of life; yet, since thou cravest ever
What's not at hand, contemning present good,
That life has slipped away, unperfected
And unavailing unto thee.
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And once, or twice, to throw the dice
Is a
gentlemanly
game,
But he does not win who plays with Sin
In the secret House of Shame.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"Give voice to us, we pray, O Lord,
"That we may sing Thy
goodness
to the sun.
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And now
swetnesse
semeth more sweet,
That bitternesse assayed was biforn; 1220
For out of wo in blisse now they flete;
Non swich they felten, sith they were born;
Now is this bet, than bothe two be lorn!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Was it a squirrel's pettish bark,
Or
clarionet
of jay?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Heu palmsB, laurique furor, vel
simplicis
herbae !
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Marvell - Poems |
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Oh, sacrament of summer days,
Oh, last communion in the haze,
Permit a child to join,
Thy sacred emblems to partake,
Thy consecrated bread to break,
Taste thine
immortal
wine!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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[By compliments such as these lines contain, Burns soothed the smart
which his verses "On a lady famed for her caprice"
inflicted
on the
accomplished Mrs.
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Robert Burns |
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"
"You, madam, are the eternal humorist
The eternal enemy of the absolute,
Giving our vagrant moods the
slightest
twist
With your air indifferent and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute--"
And--"Are we then so serious?
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