Quivi venimmo; e quindi giu nel fosso
vidi gente
attuffata
in uno sterco
che da li uman privadi parea mosso.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Die
Botschaft
hor ich wohl, allein mir fehlt der Glaube;
Das Wunder ist des Glaubens liebstes Kind.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Charme profond, magique, dont nous grise
Dans le present le passe
restaure!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Never, please God His Angels and His Saints,
Never by me shall
Frankish
valour fail!
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Chanson de Roland |
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NEIGHBOUR
But patience, if you please: attend I pray
You've no
conception
what I meant to say:
The playful fair was actively employ'd,
In plucking am'rous flow'rs--they kiss'd and toy'd.
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La Fontaine |
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850
Forthwith from out the Arke a Raven flies,
And after him, the surer messenger,
A Dove sent forth once and agen to spie
Green Tree or ground whereon his foot may light;
The second time returning, in his Bill
An Olive leafe he brings, pacific signe:
Anon drie ground appeers, and from his Arke
The ancient Sire
descends
with all his Train;
Then with uplifted hands, and eyes devout,
Grateful to Heav'n, over his head beholds 860
A dewie Cloud, and in the Cloud a Bow
Conspicuous with three lifted colours gay,
Betok'ning peace from God, and Cov'nant new.
| Guess: |
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Milton |
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Erewhile 'twas corn resplendent and unstained,
Or crystal, that through morning radiance shone,
Now flowing agate, deep and sombre-veined,
Then like a crimson sparkling
precious
stone.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Evermore
Fresh shall my honours grow, while
pontiffs
still
Do climb the Capitol with silent maid.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Does it answer
universal
needs?
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| Question: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Extremes
in nature equal ends produce,
In man they join to some mysterious use;
Though each by turns the other's bound invade,
As, in some well-wrought picture, light and shade,
And oft so mix, the difference is too nice
Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Thou wast no true
begetter
of my blood,
Nor she my mother who dares call me child.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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In her consists my
happiness
and thine;
Without her, follows to myself and thee,
Herself, the land, and many a Christian soul,
Death, desolation, ruin, and decay.
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare |
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A pleasant sleep,
tsarevich!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Over the city bridge Night comes majestical,
Borne like a queen to a
sumptuous
festival.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Grudge no expense, be gen'rous, and be bold,
Your
handfuls
scatter, lavish be of gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
A t dawn of day, when falcon shakes his wing,
M ainly from pleasure, and from noble usage,
B lackbirds too shake theirs then as they sing,
R
eceiving
their mates, mingling their plumage,
O, as the desires it lights in me now rage,
I 'd offer you, joyously, what befits the lover.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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So that these mornings you come as his sweetheart, awakening me at
His festive altar again, where I must
celebrate
him?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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5
There we heard the breath among the grasses
And the gurgle of soft-running water,
Well
contented
with the spacious starlight,
The cool wind's touch and the deep blue distance,
Till the dawn came in with golden sandals.
| Guess: |
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Sappho |
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" It was famous in the
classical ages for
cultivating
literature.
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Petrarch |
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Ma quando disse: <
che qui e buono con l'ali e coi remi,
quantunque puo, ciascun pinger sua barca>>;
dritto si come andar vuolsi rife'mi
con la persona, avvegna che i pensieri
mi
rimanessero
e chinati e scemi.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"I have seen," he said,
"Rome's eagle in a Punic fane,
And armour, ne'er a blood-drop shed,
Stripp'd from the soldier; I have seen
Free sons of Rome with arms fast tied;
The fields we spoil'd with corn are green,
And
Carthage
opes her portals wide.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Geography, the world, is in it;
The Great Sea, the brood of islands, Polynesia, the coast beyond;
The coast you henceforth are facing--you
Libertad!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in
paragraphs
1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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I saw the Days deformed and low,
Short and bent by cold and snow;
The merry Spring threw wreaths on them,
Flower-wreaths gay with bud and bell;
Many a flower and many a gem,
They were
refreshed
by the smell,
They shook the snow from hats and shoon,
They put their April raiment on;
And those eternal forms,
Unhurt by a thousand storms,
Shot up to the height of the sky again,
And danced as merrily as young men.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Aux yeux du
souvenir
que le monde est petit!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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What hast thou to do
With looking from the lattice-lights at me,
A poor, tired,
wandering
singer, singing through
The dark, and leaning up a cypress tree?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I cling to you
Conscious
of the chasm under us,
And a terrible whirring deafens my ears.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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_ This
is the
punctuation
of _H39_, and is obviously right, 'in equitie'
going with what follows.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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She doth not wait for June;
Before the world is green
Her sturdy little countenance
Against the wind is seen,
Contending with the grass,
Near kinsman to herself,
For
privilege
of sod and sun,
Sweet litigants for life.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
As music is the language of nature; and poetry, particularly
songs, are always less or more localized (if I may be allowed the
verb) by some of the modifications of time and place, this is the
reason why so many of our Scots airs have
outlived
their original, and
perhaps many subsequent sets of verses; except a single name or
phrase, or sometimes one or two lines, simply to distinguish the tunes
by.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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To test his
perception
and prove her feigned
truth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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e [[pg 18]]
co{n}fessiou{n}
of myn accuso{ur}s.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Of the _Satyres_, too, many of the variants represent,
I can well believe, different
versions
of the poems circulated by the
poet among his friends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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His flurry now can't last long;
He'll never again see land--
Try that on _him_,
Marchand!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Unfortunate
at best
In the midst of such woe to talk of rest!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
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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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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mā,
contracted
compar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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But that she goes to this old thorn,
The thorn which I've
described
to you,
And there sits in a scarlet cloak,
I will be sworn is true.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
I was not born for Courts or great affairs; 265
I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs;
Can sleep without a Poem in my head;
Nor know, if
_Dennis_
be alive or dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
He "never deviates into
sense;" but those who
appreciate
him never feel the need of such deviation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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She
bewailed
not herself, and we will bewail her not,
But with tears of pride rejoice
That an English soul was found so crystal-clear
To be triumphant voice
Of the human heart that dares adventure all
But live to itself untrue,
And beyond all laws sees love as the light in the night,
As the star it must answer to.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Holding fast upon his shell,
"Lady Jingly Jones,
farewell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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They set a vile
example!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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_Particulars as to the original publication of each poem
will be found in_ '_A
Bibliography
of the Poems of Oscar Wilde_,' _by
Stuart Mason_, _London_ 1907.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
The whisper to his ear did seem
Like echoed flow of silent stream,
Or shadow of forgotten dream,
The whisper
trembling
in the wind:
"Her fate with thine was intertwined,"
So spake it in his inner mind:
[Picture: a scared dullard, gibbering low]
"Each orbed on each a baleful star:
Each proved the other's blight and bar:
Each unto each were best, most far:
"Yea, each to each was worse than foe:
Thou, a scared dullard, gibbering low,
AND SHE, AN AVALANCHE OF WOE!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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having got
Thee in the net of his devices,
Sold thee into endless slavery,
Made thee a drudge to boil the pot, 30
Thee, Helios' daughter, who dost bear
His
likeness
in thy golden hair;
Thee, by nature wild and wavery,
Palpitating, evanescent
As the shade of Dian's crescent,
Life, motion, gladness, everywhere!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
There it shines clear,
And
brighter
here,--
I live--by 'Pollo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
She leaps: they shake and pale; she glows--
And who but knows
How the rejoiced heart aches
When Venus all his starry vision shakes;
When through his mind
Tossing with random airs of an
unearthly
wind,
Rose-bosom'd, rose-limb'd,
The mistress of his starry vision arises,
And the boughs glittering sway
And the stars pale away,
And the enlarging heaven glows
As Venus light-foot mid the twined branches goes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony
This
universal
frame began:
When nature underneath a heap
Of jarring atoms lay
And could not heave her head,
The tuneful voice was heard from high
Arise, ye more than dead!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
* * * * *
The
background
against which the figure of Rainer Maria Rilke is
silhouetted is so varied, the influences which have entered into his
life are so manifold, that a study of his work, however slight, must
needs take into consideration the elements through which this poet has
matured into a great master.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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One spot on the margin of Lake
Regillus
was
regarded during many ages with superstitious awe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Let us stay
Rather on earth, Beloved,--where the unfit
Contrarious
moods of men recoil away
And isolate pure spirits, and permit
A place to stand and love in for a day,
With darkness and the death-hour rounding it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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defect in this
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receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
"
And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while,
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the
sprinkled
streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the
floor--
And this, and so much more?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
The
strongest
man may die of thirst:
My love is in its grave!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Why fall the Sparrow & the Robin in the
foodless
winter?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Ahi quanto mi parea pien di
disdegno!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
After the transports of horror-filled passion led
Your madness as far as your father's bed,
You dare to present your hostile face to me
You
approach
this place full of your infamy, 1050
Rather than finding, under some unknown sky,
A country where my name never met the eye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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O feet, where'er your path extends
I long enough
deceived
have erred.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Let Earth, with grain and cattle rife,
Crown Ceres' brow with
wreathen
corn;
Soft winds, sweet waters, nurse to life
The newly born!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
For what admir'st thou, what
transports
thee so,
An outside?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
XV
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Too calm and sad a face in front of thine;
For we two look two ways, and cannot shine
With the same
sunlight
on our brow and hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Li Po, styled T'ai-po, was descended in the ninth
generation
from
the Emperor Hsing-sh?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
What is that sound high in the air
Murmur of maternal lamentation
Who are those hooded hordes swarming
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth 370
Ringed by the flat horizon only
What is the city over the mountains
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
Falling towers
Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
Vienna London
Unreal
A woman drew her long black hair out tight
And fiddled whisper music on those strings
And bats with baby faces in the violet light 380
Whistled, and beat their wings
And crawled head downward down a
blackened
wall
And upside down in air were towers
Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
And what
shoulder
and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Why, God would be content
With but a
fraction
of the love
Poured thee without a stint.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
I visit these, to whose
indulgent
cares
I owe the nursing of my tender years:
For strife, I hear, has made that union cease
Which held so long that ancient pair in peace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
MELIBOEUS
But we far hence, to burning Libya some,
Some to the Scythian steppes, or thy swift flood,
Cretan Oaxes, now must wend our way,
Or Britain, from the whole world
sundered
far.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
He, of all heroes I heard of ever
from sea to sea, of the sons of earth,
most
excellent
seemed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
As most
betickling
his desire
To know his Queen, mixt with the far-
Fetcht binding-jelly of a star.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
70
Once moe the skie was blacke, the thounder rolde;
Faste reyneynge oer the plaine a prieste was seen;
Ne dighte full proude, ne
buttoned
up in golde;
His cope and jape[46] were graie, and eke were clene;
A Limitoure he was of order seene; 75
And from the pathwaie side then turned hee,
Where the pore almer laie binethe the holmen tree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
There is indeed in mind that heat it gets
When seething in rage, and flashes from the eyes
More swiftly fire; there is, again, that wind,
Much, and so cold,
companion
of all dread,
Which rouses the shudder in the shaken frame;
There is no less that state of air composed,
Making the tranquil breast, the serene face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
It is a ruin where the jackals rest,
And rend and tear and glut
themselves
and slay--
A perfume swims about your naked breast!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
She has such a
penchant
for bothering me too!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
My wife and children are amazed I survived, when
surprise
settles, they wipe away tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
Then to my lord, where by the meadow side
He prays the
woodland
nymphs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
And the
Initiate
of
Tz?
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Li Po |
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" The ancient tower
Sends out, above the houses and the trees,
And the wide fields below the ancient walls,
A
measured
phrase of bells.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"Oh bless'd
Ulysses!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The memory languidly revolved, the heart
Reposed in noontide rest, the inner pulse
Of
contemplation
almost failed to beat.
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William Wordsworth |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Sappho |
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That auld, capricious carlin, Nature,
To mak amends for
scrimpit
stature,
She's turn'd you off, a human creature
On her first plan,
And in her freaks, on ev'ry feature
She's wrote the Man.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Often since, in the nights of June,
We sit on the sand and watch the moon,--
She has gone to the great
Gromboolian
Plain,
And we probably never shall meet again!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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--Il s'aidait
De journaux
illustres
ou, rouge, il regardait
Des Espagnoles rire et des Italiennes.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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s
abilities
and how crucial the post is?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Veiled from the sun in a hollow of the forest,
He sinks down; stretched out on a level stone,
Cleans his paw with a broad lick of his tongue
Blinks golden eyes dull with sleepiness;
And, as his inert forces, in imagination
Make his tail flicker and his flanks quiver,
Dreams himself deep in some green plantation,
Leaping, and plunging
dripping
claws forever
Into bullocks' flesh as they bellow and shiver.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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[585] The women broke the seals their
husbands
had affixed, and then,
with the aid of their ring bearing the same device, they replaced them as
before.
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Aristophanes |
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An infinitesimal odour of the most exquisite choice, mingled with a
floating humidity, swims in this atmosphere where the drowsing spirit is
lulled by the
sensations
one feels in a hothouse.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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One by one flitting,
Like a
mournful
bird
Whose song is tired at last
For no mate is heard.
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Christina Rossetti |
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`O cruel god, O
dispitouse
Marte, 435
O Furies three of helle, on yow I crye!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Among the incidents of Petrarch's life, in 1348, we ought to notice his
visits to Giacomo da Carrara, whose family had supplanted the Della
Scalas at Padua, and to
Manfredi
Pio, the Padrone of Carpi, a beautiful
little city, of the Modenese territory, situated on a fine plain, on the
banks of the Secchio, about four miles from Correggio.
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Petrarch |
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is
penaunce
now 3e take,
& eft hit schal amende;"
[I] ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Description of the
pictures
222
Bacchus appears as Mohammed, to a priest in a dream 238
The king consults with the magi and the soothsayers 240
The priest consults his friends 241
How evil counsellors mislead kings 242
The king's defiant speech and base accusation 244
Gama's answer to the king 245-247
Gama detained prisoner in the kotwal's house 250
BOOK IX.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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