To evry erle and knyghte the worde is gyven,
And cries _a guerre_ and
slughornes
shake the vaulted heaven.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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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.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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'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.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Each of
these
qualities
I grant.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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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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Shelley |
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A troop of boys visited the
different orchards, and, encircling the apple trees,
repeated
the
following words:--
"Stand fast, root!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He
promised
'a new start'.
| Guess: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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So don't you join our fraternity,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
|
LVII
Alone stood brave Horatius,
But
constant
still in mind;
Thrice thirty thousand foes before,
And the broad flood behind.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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_Inghinidhe
na h-Eireann_ is always thorough, and one
cannot doubt that the performance of Dr.
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Yeats |
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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.
| Guess: |
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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?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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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.
| Guess: |
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Golden Treasury |
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Ask ye,
Boeotian
shades, the reason why?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A peaceful
rumbling
there,
The town's at our feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
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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| Source: |
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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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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And having given ourselves all to amazement,
We are made like a
prophesying
song
Of life all joy, a bride in the arms of God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Think: when you were born my arms
received
you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Sith yet there is a credence in my heart,
An
esperance
so obstinately strong,
That doth invert th' attest of eyes and ears;
As if those organs had deceptious functions
Created only to calumniate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Hyde saith he hourly waits for a
despatch
;
Harry came post just as he showed his watch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Evidently
Blake tried it as Night the Third and as Night the First at least twice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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[292] _And his own
brothers
shake the hostile lance.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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--With downcast looks the joyless victor sate,
Revolving
in his alter'd soul
The various turns of Chance below;
And now and then a sigh he stole;
And tears began to flow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
At the hour when this wood with gold and ashes heaves
A feast's excited among the
extinguished
leaves:
Etna!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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We had now, therefore,
the complete Mummy at our disposal; and to those who are aware how very
rarely the unransacked antique reaches our shores, it will be evident,
at once that we had great reason to
congratulate
ourselves upon our good
fortune.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
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owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the
Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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For having traffic with thy self alone,
Thou of thy self thy sweet self dost deceive:
Then how when nature calls thee to be gone,
What
acceptable
audit canst thou leave?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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He lean'd him to an ancient aik,
Whose trunk was mould'ring down with years;
His locks were bleached white with time,
His hoary cheek was wet wi' tears;
And as he touch'd his trembling harp,
And as he tun'd his doleful sang,
The winds,
lamenting
thro' their caves,
To echo bore the notes alang.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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"They say it was a shocking sight
After the field was won;
For many
thousand
bodies here
Lay rotting in the sun:
But things like that, you know, must be
After a famous victory.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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' 'Nay, we thought of that,'
She answered, 'but it pleased us not: in truth
We shudder but to dream our maids should ape
Those monstrous males that carve the living hound,
And cram him with the fragments of the grave,
Or in the dark dissolving human heart,
And holy secrets of this microcosm,
Dabbling a shameless hand with shameful jest,
Encarnalize their spirits: yet we know
Knowledge
is knowledge, and this matter hangs:
Howbeit ourself, foreseeing casualty,
Nor willing men should come among us, learnt,
For many weary moons before we came,
This craft of healing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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It came without a
flourish—simply
print ed some very good contributions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Wait, that the rebels may deliver me
In bonds to the
Otrepiev?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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ORESTES (_turning
suddenly
to_ ELECTRA).
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I can't conceive a woman in
her senses
refusing
Dick.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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[ Art thou not my slave & shalt thou dare
To smite me with thy tongue beware lest I sting also thee,]
Who art thou Diminutive husk & shell* [
Broke from my bonds I scorn my prison & yet I love]
If thou hast sinnd & art polluted know that I am pure*
And
unpolluted
& will bring to rigid strict account
All thy past deeds [So] hear what I tell thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
The
preterite
of _ederu_,
to be in misery, has not been found.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Pau-Puk-Keewis heard the shouting,
Knew the voice of Hiawatha,
Knew the outcry of Iagoo,
And, forgetful of the warning,
Drew his neck in, and looked downward,
And the wind that blew behind him
Caught his mighty fan of feathers,
Sent him wheeling,
whirling
downward!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
eoferas cnysedan, _when the
heroes rushed upon each other_, 1329, where eoferas and fēðan stand in the
same
relation
to each other as cnysedan and hniton.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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But Enkidu
understood
not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something
different
from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings from broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their
household
fires.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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We
returned
to the citadel along the heights, plucking such flowers as
grew there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Thus may Cyprus'
heavenly
queen,
Thus Helen's brethren, stars of brightest sheen,
Guide thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
The
hierodule
opened her mouth
speaking unto Enkidu.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
)
Golden-winged, silver-winged,
Winged with
flashing
flame,
Such a flight of birds I saw,
Birds without a name:
Singing songs in their own tongue
(Song of songs) they came.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
advanced
the forms of heroes slain
By stern AEgysthus, a majestic train:
And, high above the rest Atrides press'd the plain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
The "four summer
weeks"
referred
to in the first stanza, were those spent at Piel during
the year 1794.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
His relation to her, indeed, was probably simpler than to
Lady Bedford, their
friendship
more equal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
The "friend," as Dykes Campbell
points out, was Southey, whose "Book of the Church" had been
attacked
by
Charles Butler.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
I shall never be
married!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
For him alone you change the law
That has been
countless
times observed at court?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a
physical
medium
and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
th see, [folio 27a]
hij
spredden
fer & wyde in ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
LYCIDAS
Your pleas but linger out my heart's desire:
Now all the deep is into silence hushed,
And all the
murmuring
breezes sunk to sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
[618] The
taxiarch
had the command of 128 men; the strategus had the
direction of an army.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Chvabrine
came to the rescue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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See, not one tree but what has lost its leaves--
And yet the
landscape
wears a pleasing hue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
_
TO THE PRINCES OF ITALY,
EXHORTING
THEM TO SET HER FREE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers, pleasant in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit -
somewhat
deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
, who composed a famous work
called 'A
Treatise
on the Sublime'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
XIX
The wofull Dwarfe, which saw his
maisters
fall,
Whiles he had keeping of his grasing steed,
And valiant knight become a caytive thrall, 160
When all was past, tooke up his forlorne weed,?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
--No need,
I think, to bring up into speech the years
Since in the barley-field
Manasses
lay
Shot by the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
'
"'Hearten her very tender, then,' says Dravot, 'or I'll hearten you with
the butt of a gun so you'll never want to be
heartened
again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
"
XXV
This time of year a
twelvemonth
past,
When Fred and I would meet,
We needs must jangle, till at last
We fought and I was beat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
"Come, listen, my men, while I tell you again
The five unmistakable marks
By which you may know, wheresoever you go,
The
warranted
genuine Snarks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
4 On the five plains the forts will lie empty, 12 the wind-blown billows will
dissipate
on the eight rivers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
To him, his love for his wife and
children
is a beautiful thing, a
subject to speak and sing about as well as an emotion to feel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
The
inverted
form used here, liuzhui ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Each
character
on which my eye reposes
Nature in act before my soul discloses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Thy ever-youthful waters keep
A course of lively pleasure;
And gladsome notes my lips can breathe
Accordant
to the measure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
A smile suffused Jehovah's face;
The
cherubim
withdrew;
Grave saints stole out to look at me,
And showed their dimples, too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
The Bandersnatch fled as the others appeared
Led on by that fear-stricken yell:
And the Bellman
remarked
"It is just as I feared!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
We need your
donations
more than ever!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
I, like Matine bee,
In act and guise,
That culls its sweets through toilsome hours,
Am roaming Tibur's banks along,
And
fashioning
with puny powers
A laboured song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Myself conjectured, Were they pearls,
What
necklaces
could be!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
(It falls and sings through the years, but wakes
No
answering
echo of joy or pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
" Soon as they heard
My words, he and
Sordello
backward drew,
As suddenly amaz'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
What
heartache
-- ne'er a hill!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Your rights alone inspire this
boldness
in me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Envy at last the silence broke,
And smiling, with malignant sneer,
Upon her sister dear,
Who stood in expectation by,
Ever
implacable
and cruel, spoke
"I would be blinded of _one_ eye!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
One can often recognize in _D_ the source of a stop
in _1633_, or can see what the
pointing
and use of capitals would have
been had Donne himself supervised the printing.
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A solemn sound, that echoes far and wide
Over the red roofs of the cottages,
And bids the
laboring
hind a-field, the shepherd,
Guarding his flock, the lonely muleteer,
And all the crowd in village streets, stand still,
And breathe a prayer unto the blessed Virgin!
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SILENT HOUR
Whoever weeps
somewhere
out in the world
Weeps without cause in the world
Weeps over me.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Nearer they come--Eugene
appears!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Of wealthy lustre was the banquet-room,
Fill'd with
pervading
brilliance and perfume:
Before each lucid pannel fuming stood
A censer fed with myrrh and spiced wood,
Each by a sacred tripod held aloft,
Whose slender feet wide-swerv'd upon the soft
Wool-woofed carpets: fifty wreaths of smoke
From fifty censers their light voyage took
To the high roof, still mimick'd as they rose
Along the mirror'd walls by twin-clouds odorous.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Spring will not wait the loiterer's time
Who keeps so long away;
So others wear the broom and climb
The
hedgerows
heaped with may.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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His quaint opinions to inspect,
His knowledge to unfold
On what concerns our mutual mind,
The literature of old;
What interested scholars most,
What
competitions
ran
When Plato was a certainty.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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