The sultan lord knew not her name;
But to the door that fair shape came:
The hour had struck, the way was right,
Traced by her lamp's pale,
flickering
light.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I touch this flower of silken leaf,
Which once our
childhood
knew;
Its soft leaves wound me with a grief
Whose balsam never grew.
| Guess: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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For we do see
Through some pores form-and-look of things to flow,
Through others heat to go, and some things still
To
speedier
pass than others through same pores.
| Guess: |
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Lucretius |
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The queen she sought, the queen her hours bestowed
In curious works; the
whirling
spindle glow'd
With crimson threads, while busy damsels call
The snowy fleece, or twist the purpled wool.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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* * * * *
O Hermes, master of knowledge,
Measure and number and rhythm,
Worker of wonders in metal, 15
Moulder of
malleable
music,
So often the giver of secret
Learning to mortals!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sappho |
|
What know you of her
struggles
or her grief?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Oh,
Good and noble, you,
Your face should sweeter show,
Light my heart through and
through!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Who are you, sweet boy, with cheeks yet
blooming?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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That such a
view of the matter is entitled to a great deal of weight, and at any rate
to candid consideration and construction, appears to me not to admit of a
doubt: neither is it dubious that the contrary view, the only view which a
mealy-mouthed British nineteenth century admits as endurable, amounts to
the condemnation of nearly every great or eminent literary work of past
time,
whatever
the century it belongs to, the country it comes from, the
department of writing it illustrates, or the degree or sort of merit it
possesses.
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| Question: |
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Whitman |
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An eye for nature's depths
receive!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
LXXXVIII cum LXXXVII
continuant
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
XIX
There is a medlar-tree
Growing in front of my lover's house,
And there all day
The wind makes a
pleasant
sound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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EVIRADNUS
MOTIONLESS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Thy
beautiful
daughter is safe and free--
Sir Leoline greets thee thus through me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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uocibus
adsiduis
litus resonet: tamen heia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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As I had
promised
I would, long I awaited you there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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What's to be done for those suffering,
All those for your good service meant,
Who waited on you, life's
ornament?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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I give thee back thy false,
ephemeral
vow;
But, O beloved comrade, ere we part,
Upon my mournful eyelids and my brow
Kiss me who hold thine image in my heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Alchemically she is De Nerval's feminine
principle
to be fused with the masculine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
OF GRACE
CANZON: THE VISION
TO OUR LADY OF VICARIOUS
ATONEMENT
EPILOGUE
NOTES
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Let the glad lark-song
Over the meadow, 30
That melting lyric
Of molten silver,
Be for a signal
To
listening
mortals,
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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For the
poet of "literary" epic, however, it is his own
consciousness
that must
select the kind of theme which will fulfil the epic intention for his
own day; it is his own determination and studious endurance that will
draw the theme into the secrets of his being.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
But doubtless the real reason for the hard
division
of epic poetry into
two classes, and for the presumed inferiority of "literary" to
"authentic," lies in the application of that curiosity among false
ideas, the belief in a "folk-spirit.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I only knew what hunted thought
Quickened
his step, and why
He looked upon the garish day
With such a wistful eye;
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
This is
also a good way to get them
instantly
upon announcement, as the
indexes our cataloguers produce obviously take a while after an
announcement goes out in the Project Gutenberg Newsletter.
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| Question: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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There she stood
About a young bird's flutter from a wood,
Fair, on a sloping green of mossy tread,
By a clear pool, wherein she passioned
To see herself escap'd from so sore ills,
While her robes
flaunted
with the daffodils.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
We who have seen
So
marvellous
things know well the end not yet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The Caterpillar
Plants,
Caterpillars
and Insects
'Plants, Caterpillars and Insects'
Jacob l' Admiral (II), Johannes Sluyter, 1710 - 1770, The Rijksmuseun
Work leads us to riches.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Donne has pleaded guilty to a careless and
passionate youth:
In mine
Idolatry
what showres of raine
Mine eyes did waste?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Ihr Instrumente
freilich
spottet mein,
Mit Rad und Kammen, Walz und Bugel:
Ich stand am Tor, ihr solltet Schlussel sein;
Zwar euer Bart ist kraus, doch hebt ihr nicht die Riegel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Could she have guessed that it would be;
Could but a crier of the glee
Have climbed the distant hill;
Had not the bliss so slow a pace, --
Who knows but this surrendered face
Were
undefeated
still?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
XLIII
The
forlorne
Maiden, whom your eyes have seene
The laughing stocke of fortunes mockeries, 375
Am th' only daughter?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Both
warriors
appear in later books of the _Faerie Queene_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
When the
long Atlantic coast
stretches
longer, and the Pacific coast stretches
longer, he easily stretches with them north or south.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Daly,
Philadelphia Evening Ledger
"All the
contents
are interesting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
When such as we spun at the wheel,
Our mothers kept us in-doors after dark;
While she stood cozy with her spark,
Or sate on the door-bench, or
sauntered
round,
And never an hour too long they found.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
<
lo
bulicame
che sempre si scema>>,
disse 'l centauro, <
che da quest' altra a piu a piu giu prema
lo fondo suo, infin ch'el si raggiunge
ove la tirannia convien che gema.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Where are the teams of last
December?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
XL
Ah, what detains thee, Phaon,
So long from Mitylene,
Where now thy
restless
lover
Wearies for thy coming?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
_Reprinted January_ 1909, 1913
"_Poems_, _Past and Present_": _First
edition_
1901 (dated 1902)
_Second Edition_ 1903.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
And
sometimes
he would hear coming and going in the wood
music that when it stopped went from his memory like a dream; and once
in the stillness of midday he heard a sound like the clashing of many
swords, that went on for a long time without any break.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Yea, the lines hast thou laid unto me
in
pleasant
places, And the beauty of this thy Venice
hast thou shown unto me Until is its loveliness become unto me
a thing of tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Project
Gutenberg is a
registered
trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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A vast void carried through the fog's drifting,
By the angry wind of words he did not say,
Nothing, to this Man abolished yesterday:
'What is Earth, O you, memories of
horizons?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
through mist and cloud
That merry peal comes ringing loud;
And Geraldine shakes off her dread,
And rises lightly from the bed;
Puts on her silken vestments white,
And tricks her hair in lovely plight,
And nothing
doubting
of her spell
Awakens the lady Christabel
"Sleep you, sweet lady Christabel?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
The 'potamus can never reach
The mango on the mango-tree;
But fruits of
pomegranate
and peach
Refresh the Church from over sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
60
Then will I Jehovah's praise
According
to his justice raise
And sing the Name and Deitie
Of Jehovah the most high.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Two years of
speechless
bliss are gone,
I thank thee, dearest, for the dream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Meantime the bard,
alternate
to the strings,
The loves of Mars and Cytherea sings:
How the stern god, enamour'd with her charms
Clasp'd the gay panting goddess in his arms,
By bribes seduced; and how the sun, whose eye
Views the broad heavens, disclosed the lawless joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Come and behold this
gladsome
thing that
laugheth in the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
XIV Gemina arrives from Britain and
receives
submission of
Nervii and Tungri.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
I find the meaning of their gentle look
More
difficult
than any learned book.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
She was sprung of English nobles, I was born of English peasants;
What was _I_ that I should love her, save for
competence
to pain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
With mien to match the morning
And gay
delightful
guise
And friendly brows and laughter
He looked me in the eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
Do you wish her named by some slanderer
As
receiving
the murderer of her father?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Since she
disdains
me, I must suffer,
Whom I long for more than another.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
is Athens yet
inviolate?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Then
Evangeline
lighted the brazen lamp on the table,
Filled, till it overflowed, the pewter tankard with brown ale,
While from his pocket the notary drew his papers and ink-horn,
Wrote with a steady hand the date and the age of the parties,
And the great seal of the law was set like a sun on the margin.
| 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 |
|
Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
But first
behooves
thee of this water drink,
Or ere that longing be allay'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
O joy, for what
recoveries
rare!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
_ is to be assigned to Wittipol, the first
speech must be an aside, as it is inconceivable that Merecraft should
introduce
Fitzdottrel
first under his own name, and then as the
'Duke of Drown'd-land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Till
Darkness
and silence of the hill
Received her in their restful care
And stars came dropping through the air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
The lady similar emotions showed;
For opportunity their bosoms glowed;
And who will feel in
argument
so bold,
When this I say, the contrary to hold?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
He laughed--the gauntlet
trembled
at his stroke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
"GD}
I see,
invisible
descend into the Gardens of Vala
Luvah walking on the winds, I see the invisible knife
I see the shower of blood: I see the swords & spears of futurity
Tho in the Brain of Man we live, & in his circling Nerves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
It pleased the public no less, and its sale, together with that of the
"Odes" and a West Indian romance, "Buck Jargal," together with a royal
pension,
emboldened
the poet to renew his love-suit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering
fuel in vacant lots.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
"
Well, then, I hate thee,
Unrighteous
Picture;
Wicked Image, I hate thee;
So, strike with thy vengeance
The heads of those little men
Who come blindly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
So they began to sing, voice answering voice
In strains alternate- for
alternate
strains
The Muses then were minded to recall-
First Corydon, then Thyrsis in reply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Galaxies
and Nebulae.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
" Lucius
Apronius
had moved, that "with
the rest might preside the company of heralds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
'
HOLY THURSDAY
Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and
fruitful
land,--
Babes reduced to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
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sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
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the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
To evry erle and knyghte the worde is gyven,
And cries _a guerre_ and
slughornes
shake the vaulted heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
II
For by all bitters else which interpose
Before
enjoyment
of this choicest sweet,
Love is augmented, to perfection grows,
And takes a finer edge; to drink and eat,
Hunger and thirst the palate so dispose,
And flavour more our beverage and our meat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
'Tis known, too much thought dazes oft a mind,
Till it can learn nought of the signèd evil
God hath put in the faces of evil notions,
That
spiritual
sight may ken them coming
Sly and demure, and safely shut the brain
Ere they be in and swell themselves to lordship.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Each of
these
qualities
I grant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
There was a youth, who, as with toil and travel,
Had grown quite weak and gray before his time;
Nor any could the restless griefs unravel
Which burned within him,
withering
up his prime
And goading him, like fiends, from land to land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
A troop of boys visited the
different orchards, and, encircling the apple trees,
repeated
the
following words:--
"Stand fast, root!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
He
promised
'a new start'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
So don't you join our fraternity,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
LVII
Alone stood brave Horatius,
But
constant
still in mind;
Thrice thirty thousand foes before,
And the broad flood behind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
_Inghinidhe
na h-Eireann_ is always thorough, and one
cannot doubt that the performance of Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
And thus we rust Life's iron chain
Degraded
and alone:
And some men curse, and some men weep,
And some men make no moan:
But God's eternal Laws are kind
And break the heart of stone.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Yet, though a dreary strain, to this I cling,
So that it wean me from the weary dream
Of selfish grief or gladness--so it fling
Forgetfulness around me--it shall seem
To me, though to none else, a not
ungrateful
theme.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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What man art thou that, thus bescreen'd in night,
So
stumblest
on my counsel?
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Some village-Hampden, that with
dauntless
breast
The little tyrant of his fields withstood,
Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,
Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood.
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Golden Treasury |
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Ask ye,
Boeotian
shades, the reason why?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A peaceful
rumbling
there,
The town's at our feet.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Waldron's_ A
Collection
of Miscellaneous Poetry, 1802, _from a MS.
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John Donne |
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Oft times one like an angel walked with me,
With spirit-discerning eyes like flames of fire,
But deep as the
unfathomed
endless sea,
Fulfilling my desire:
And sometimes like a snowdrift he was fair,
And sometimes like a sunset glorious red, 50
And sometimes he had wings to scale the air
With aureole round his head.
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Christina Rossetti |
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But I've a rendezvous with Death
At
midnight
in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Pedicabo
ego vos et inrumabo,
Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi,
Qui me ex versiculis meis putastis,
Quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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