Gods, recompense the Greeks even
thus, if with
righteous
lips I call for vengeance!
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I knew his perils from of old,
I know them now, when I behold
The bitter faring of my King,
Whose love is taken, and his life
Left
evermore
an empty thing.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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She has also had
poultry boiled for you,
sweetmeats
makes, and has prepared you some
delicious wine.
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Aristophanes |
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Full five-and-thirty years he lived
A running
huntsman
merry;
And still the centre of his cheek
Is red as a ripe cherry.
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Golden Treasury |
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Oxford, MS 38655-4109
Contact us if you want to arrange for a wire
transfer
or payment
method other than by check or money order.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Though the
universe
appears to be at rest, this is a fallacy of the
senses, due to the fact that the motions of "first bodies" are not
cognisable by our eyes; indeed, a similar phenomenon is the apparent
vanishing of motion due to distance; for a white spot on a far-off
hill may really be a frolicsome lamb.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Whose state, like pine-trees, waving to and fro,
Droops, and o'er canopies his regal brow,
This couplet was inserted in the
editions
1793 to 1832.
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William Wordsworth |
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The last line of this
stanza concludes the whole
argument
which began at l.
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John Donne |
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It was always
springtime
once in my heart.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Rude boy, he flies like lightning o'er the heath
Past wither'd trees like you; you're
wrinkled
now;
The white has left your teeth
And settled on your brow.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Sans mors, sans eperons, sans bride,
Partons a cheval sur le vin
Pour un ciel
feerique
et divin!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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CHORUS
Clear unto thee, O maid, is her command,
But thou--within the toils of Fate thou art--
If such thy will, I urge thee to obey;
Yet I
misdoubt
thou dost nor hear nor heed.
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Aeschylus |
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Had Coleridge been able to live uninterruptedly in the company of the
Wordsworths, even with the unsympathetic wife at home, the opium in the
cupboard, and the _magnum opus_ on the desk, I am
convinced
that we
should have had for our reading to-day all those poems which went down with
him into silence.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Well then, stay here; but know, 25
When thou hast stayd and done thy most;
A naked
thinking
heart, that makes no show,
Is to a woman, but a kinde of Ghost;
How shall shee know my heart; or having none,
Know thee for one?
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John Donne |
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A procession of priests, in their robes, sang anthems and
offered up
invocations
to heaven.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Time bring back the order of classic days;
Earth has shuddered with
prophetic
breath.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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There are never wanting that dare prefer the worst preachers, the worst
pleaders, the worst poets; not that the better have left to write or
speak better, but that they that hear them judge worse; _Non illi pejus
dicunt_, _sed hi
corruptius
judicant_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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) The author
terminated
his wedding year with the "Ode to
Louis XVIII.
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Hugo - Poems |
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--The oldest
Ayrshire
reel, is
Stewarton Lasses, which was made by the father of the present Sir
Walter Montgomery Cunningham, alias Lord Lysle; since which period
there has indeed been local music in that country in great
plenty.
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Robert Burns |
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Gutenberg
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| Question: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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swum the deep
{These fragments
penciled
in above the ink line.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The water it soon came in, it did;
The water it soon came in:
So, to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet
In a pinky paper all folded neat;
And they
fastened
it down with a pin.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall
My buried life, and Paris in the Spring,
I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world
To be
wonderful
and youthful, after all.
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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He
could not bear the sight of his mother; she revived in him some painful
memories, but that passed, and he
clamoured
for her when she was absent.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The man, who,
stretched
in Isis' calm retreat,
To books and study gives seven years complete,
See!
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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They were afraid to answer, but sat
stone-still in a dead silence, as if
overpowered
by sleep;
"Not all from fear, but some for courtesy" (ll.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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LES PETITES VIEILLES
A VICTOR HUGO
I
Dans les plis sinueux des
vieilles
capitales,
Ou tout, meme l'horreur, tourne aux enchantements,
Je guette, obeissant a mes humeurs fatales,
Des etres singuliers, decrepits et charmants.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Euripides seems to have taken positive pleasure in Admetus, much as
Meredith did in his famous Egoist; but Euripides all through is kinder to
his victim than
Meredith
is.
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Foremost
among them was Alden.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Beside the Pool they have built a shrine; the authorities have
established
a ritual;
A dragon by itself remains a dragon, but men can make it a god.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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He does not rise in piteous haste
To put on convict-clothes,
While some coarse-mouthed Doctor gloats, and notes
Each new and nerve-twitched pose,
Fingering a watch whose little ticks
Are like
horrible
hammer-blows.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Down my cheeks bitter tears incessant rain,
And my heart struggles with
convulsive
sighs,
When, Laura, upon you I turn my eyes,
For whom the world's allurements I disdain,
But when I see that gentle smile again,
That modest, sweet, and tender smile, arise,
It pours on every sense a blest surprise;
Lost in delight is all my torturing pain.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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It
exists because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations
from people in all walks of life.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to
understand
you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The noble blood of Gothic name,
Heroes
emblazoned
high to fame,
In long array;
How, in the onward course of time,
The landmarks of that race sublime
Were swept away!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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[411] A volcanic island in the
northern
part of the Aegaean, celebrated
for its vineyards.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Ed elli a me: <
preghiera
e degna
di molta loda, e io pero l'accetto;
ma fa che la tua lingua si sostegna.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Nay, the gods themselves are fettered
By one law which links together 10
Truth and
nobleness
and beauty,
Man and stars and sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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A fog about the coppice drifts,
Or slowly thickens up and lifts
Into the moist,
despondent
air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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What recks such
Traveller
if the bowers
Which bloom and fade like meadow flowers
A bunch of fragrant lilies be,
Or the stars of eternity?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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The
antecedent
of _which_ is _her_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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There was nothing else to see--
It was all so dull--
Except a few grey legs under shiny black umbrellas
Running along the grey shiny pavements;
Sometimes
there was a waggon
Whose horses made a strange loud hollow sound
With their hoofs
Through the silent rain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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O lullaby, with your daughter, and the innocence
Of your cold feet, greet a terrible new being:
A voice where harpsichords and viols linger,
Will you press that breast, with your withered finger,
From which Woman flows in
Sibylline
whiteness to
Those lips starved by the air's virgin blue?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Quem
patronum
rogaturus?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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mortua cui uita est prope iam uiuo atque uidenti,
qui somno partem maiorem
conteris
aeui
et uigilans stertis nec somnia cernere cessas
sollicitamque geris cassa formidine mentem
nec reperire potes tibi quid sit saepe mali, cum
ebrius urgeris multis miser undique curis
atque animi incerto fluitans errore uagaris.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing
And heavy ignorance aloft to fly,
Have added
feathers
to the learned's wing
And given grace a double majesty.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Sweet hours have
perished
here;
This is a mighty room;
Within its precincts hopes have played, --
Now shadows in the tomb.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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*And Valisnerian lotus thither flown
From
struggling
with the waters of the Rhone:
**And thy most lovely purple perfume, Zante!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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I offered Being for it;
The mighty
merchant
smiled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Its
business
office is located at 809 North 1500 West, Salt
Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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]
[Sidenote B: "'Here are only
beardless
children.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Rust eats the casques enamoured once so much
Of death and daring--which knew kiss-like touch
Of banner--mistress so august and dear--
But not an arm can stir its hinges here;
Behold how mute are they whose threats were heard
Like savage roar--whose
gnashing
teeth and word
Deadened the clarion's tones; the helmets dread
Have not a sound, and all the armor spread,
The hauberks, that strong breathing seemed to sway,
Are stranded now in helplessness alway
To see the shadows, still prolonged, that seem
To take at night the image of a dream.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Belzebuth
enrage racle ses violons!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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At Venice the
distinction
was merely
civil.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I fitted to the latch
My hand, with
trembling
care,
Lest back the awful door should spring,
And leave me standing there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
)
A HUNDRED AND SEVENTY
CHINESE POEMS
TRANSLATED BY
ARTHUR WALEY
[Illustration]
LONDON
CONSTABLE
AND COMPANY LTD.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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So learn to look for
partners
meet,
Shun lofty things, nor raise your aims
Above your fortune.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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[99] 12 Thomas
Gilthead
G
[100] 15 His wife] om.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
_ So let it be;
For then you cannot
separate
me from you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLII
Moon with dark eyes, goddess with horses black,
That steer you up and down, and high and low,
Never remaining long, when once they show,
Pulling your chariot endlessly there and back:
My desires and yours are never a match,
Because the passions that pierce your soul,
And the ardours that inflame mine so,
Court
different
desires to ease their lack.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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How
fragrant
the perfume breathed forth in your words.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
That glorious
victory was principally owing to the
judicious
conduct and
intrepid valour of the gallant laird of Craigie, who died of
his wounds after the action.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But since on me your bright glance ever shines,
E'en as a sunbeam through
transparent
glass,
Suffice then the desire without the lines.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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How the
hemlocks
are tipped in tinsel
By the wizard sun!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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No, no,
intrigues
are forbidden; we believe in good faith.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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I am quite charmed with
Dumfries
folks--Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
With specimens of song,
As if for you to choose,
Discretion in the interval,
With gay delays he goes
To some
superior
tree
Without a single leaf,
And shouts for joy to nobody
But his seraphic self!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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For the first time now
with his leader-lord the
liegeman
young
was bidden to share the shock of battle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
'Twas sunset: when the sun will part
There comes a
sullenness
of heart
To him who still would look upon
The glory of the summer sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Then through the wild Aegean roar
The breezes and the
Brethren
Twain
Shall waft my little boat ashore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
O God of the night,
What great sorrow
Cometh unto us,
That thou thus
repayest
us
Before the time of its coming?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
I wonder it so long
delights
you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
And I would turn and answer
Among the
springing
thyme,
"Oh, peal upon our wedding,
And we will hear the chime,
And come to church in time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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He could not
understand
it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
"Is she more
delicate
than me?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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(Exit,
followed
by Politian.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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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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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Should Prussian power enslave the world and
arrogance
prevail,
Let chaos come, let Moloch rule, and Christ give place to Baal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
'
A great part of the poems and stories in Lady Gregory's book were made
or
gathered
between Burren and Cruachmaa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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That knowing no cause of quarrel or of feud
Between the Earl
Politian
and himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
DAMOETAS
"Prithee, Iollas, for my
birthday
guest
Send me your Phyllis; when for the young crops
I slay my heifer, you yourself shall come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Withouten
wordes mo, right than, 6135
Fals-Semblant his sermon bigan,
And seide hem thus in audience:--
Barouns, tak hede of my sentence!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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For a time the altar stood safe and apart in the midst of its white
light; the eyes of the
troopers
turned upon it.
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Yeats |
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Beowulf |
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glorious is the Church, I ween, but Meekness
dwelleth
here;
Less do I love the lofty oak than mossy nest it bear;
More dear is meadow breath than stormy wind:
And when my mind for meditation's meant,
The seaweed is preferred to the shore's extent,--
The swallow to the main it leaves behind.
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Hugo - Poems |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Lat it stil on the roser sit,
And growe til it amended be, 3125
And
parfitly
come to beaute.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Through all our
literature
your way you took
With modest ease; yet would you soonest pore,
Smiling, with most affection in your look,
On the ripe ancient and the curious nook.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Lie still, my son, the mother said,
Tis but a little space
And half an hour has
scarcely
passed
Since she did pass this place.
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John Clare |
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On this hint Burns
wrote the Elegy: when Tam heard o' this he waited on the poet, caused
him to recite it, and
expressed
displeasure at being numbered with the
dead: the author, whose wit was as ready as his rhymes, added the Per
Contra in a moment, much to the delight of his friend.
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Robert Burns |
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But to the
pleasant
world when thou return'st,
Of me make mention, I entreat thee, there.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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See the note to the
previous
poem.
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William Wordsworth |
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