See, not one tree but what has lost its leaves--
And yet the
landscape
wears a pleasing hue.
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John Clare |
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TO THE PRINCES OF ITALY,
EXHORTING
THEM TO SET HER FREE.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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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.
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Villon |
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, who composed a famous work
called 'A
Treatise
on the Sublime'.
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Alexander Pope |
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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,?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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--No need,
I think, to bring up into speech the years
Since in the barley-field
Manasses
lay
Shot by the sun.
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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.
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| Question: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
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.
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"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.
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Lewis Carroll |
|
4 On the five plains the forts will lie empty, 12 the wind-blown billows will
dissipate
on the eight rivers.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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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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Euripides - Alcestis |
|
The
inverted
form used here, liuzhui ?
| Guess: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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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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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Each
character
on which my eye reposes
Nature in act before my soul discloses.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Thy ever-youthful waters keep
A course of lively pleasure;
And gladsome notes my lips can breathe
Accordant
to the measure.
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Golden Treasury |
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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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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!
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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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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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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.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Myself conjectured, Were they pearls,
What
necklaces
could be!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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(It falls and sings through the years, but wakes
No
answering
echo of joy or pain.
| Guess: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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" Soon as they heard
My words, he and
Sordello
backward drew,
As suddenly amaz'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
What
heartache
-- ne'er a hill!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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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!
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| Question: |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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John Donne |
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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!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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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 |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Nearer they come--Eugene
appears!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
The Elegies have
never before been published as here,
together
in the cyclical form of
their original conception.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
They, hand in hand, with
wandering
steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way.
| 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 |
|
* * * * *
I wish the farmer great joy of his new
acquisition
to his family.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark
as set forth in paragraphs 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch
A broader, browner shade,
Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech
O'er-canopies the glade,
Beside some water's rushy brink
With me the Muse shall sit, and think
(At ease reclined in rustic state)
How vain the ardour of the Crowd,
How low, how little, are the Proud,
How
indigent
the Great!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
If thought is life
And
strength
and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
The Clown Chastised
Eyes, lakes of my simple passion to be reborn
Other than as the actor who
gestures
with his hand
As with a pen, and evokes the foul soot of the lamps,
Here's a window in the walls of cloth I've torn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Now while my
brightest
arms my limbs invest,
To Saturn's son be all your vows address'd:
But pray in secret, lest the foes should hear,
And deem your prayers the mean effect of fear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
IX
And over, all with brasen scales was armd,
Like plated coate of steele, so couched neare,
That nought mote perce, ne might his corse be harmd 75
With dint of sword, nor push of pointed speare;
Which, as an Eagle, seeing pray appeare,
His aery plumes doth rouze, full rudely dight;
So shaked he, that horrour was to heare,
For as the
clashing
of an Armour bright, 80
Such noyse his rouzed scales did send unto the knight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Ne'er could I, nor an I could, should I so losingly love her:
But with Tappo thou dost design every
monstrous
deed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Upon the glazen shelves kept watch
Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith,
The army of
unalterable
law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Away, away, went Auster,
Like an arrow from the bow:
Black Auster was the
fleetest
steed
From Aufidus to Po.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Fingal saw
Clessammor
low; he moved in the sound of his steel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Spotless
the oilcloth on the floor,
Limpid as water each glass case,
Each thing precisely in its place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Amasse les
strideurs
au coeur du clairon lourd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
But if you had a little real love,
A little strength,
You would leave your
nonchalant
idle lovers
And go walking down the white road
Behind the waggoners.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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at
cortaysly
hade hym kydde, & his cry herkened.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it
under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License
included
with this
eBook or online at www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
How mightily
sometimes
we make us comforts of our
losses!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
15
Quod si non aliud potest, ruborem
Ferreo canis
exprimamus
ore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
' quod she, `out of this regioun
I, woful wrecche and infortuned wight,
And born in corsed constellacioun, 745
Mot goon, and thus
departen
fro my knight;
Wo worth, allas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Died the pale mothers, and the virgins, from their arms,
O Caliph,
fiercely
torn, bewailed their young years' blight;
With stabs and kisses fouled, all their yet quivering charms,
At our fleet coursers' heels were dragged in mocking flight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
"
—The
Rochester
Herald, Rochester, New York
— The Literary Digest, New York Rates, $1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
There is only one class in the
community
that thinks more about money
than the rich, and that is the poor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
here thy shape doth seem
Louring no more
defiance!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my
barbaric
yawp over the roofs of the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
The brass-hoof'd steeds tumultuous plunge and bound,
And the thick thunder beats the labouring ground,
Still slaughtering on, the king of men proceeds;
The
distanced
army wonders at his deeds,
As when the winds with raging flames conspire,
And o'er the forests roll the flood of fire,
In blazing heaps the grove's old honours fall,
And one refulgent ruin levels all:
Before Atrides' rage so sinks the foe,
Whole squadrons vanish, and proud heads lie low.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
"--"Through every orb
Of that sad region," he reply'd, "thus far
Am I arriv'd, by heav'nly
influence
led
And with such aid I come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
49) is found in
slightly
altered form
(_Detection_, p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Now thou art gone the use of life is past, 5
The meaning and the glory and the pride,
There is no joyous friend to share the day,
And on the
threshold
no awaited shadow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
'30-31'
In this couplet Pope hits off the spiteful envy of
conceited
critics
toward successful writers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
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 |
|
), and that is full poor for to pay for such
precious
things" (ll.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
" KAU}
And Enitharmon joyd Plotting to rend the secret cloud
To plant divisions in the Soul of Urizen & Ahania
But For infinitely
beautiful
the wondrous work arose {Erdman notes that the word "For" has been deleted in Blake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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That now all sense of sad reality
O'erborne by
transport
wild,--
"Alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
"
THYRSIS
"Now may I seem more bitter to your taste
Than herb Sardinian, rougher than the broom,
More
worthless
than strewn sea-weed, if to-day
Hath not a year out-lasted!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Caparyson
a score of stedes; flie, flie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
All in vain,
The heaven's bluster, January's rain,
And those dread
elemental
powers we call
The Infinite--the whirlwinds that appall--
Thunder and waterspouts; and winds that shake
As 'twere a tree its ripened fruit to take.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Have I
therfore
herbered you
To seye me shame, and eek reprove?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
" KAU}
Severe the labour, female slaves the mortar trod oppressed
Twelve halls after the names of his twelve sons composd
The golden wondrous
building
& three [centr f[orm]] Central Domes after the Names {Erdman posits that Blake erased the words "centr f[orm]" and replaced them with "Central Domes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Ich hore was von
Instrumenten
tonen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Speak now, Love, you have no more to fear:
Cease to hide, this
satisfies
my father;
A single blow brings honour now to me,
My soul to despair, my love to liberty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Surely some
fortunate
hour 5
Phaon will come, and his beauty
Be spent like water to plenish
Need of that beauty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
A Moment's Halt--a
momentary
taste
Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste--
And Lo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Immovably we stood--in joy I found,
Beside me then, firm as a giant pine
Among the mountain-vapours driven around,
The old man whom I loved--his eyes divine
With a mild look of courage answered mine, _2420
And my young friend was near, and ardently
His hand grasped mine a moment--now the line
Of war extended, to our
rallying
cry
As myriads flocked in love and brotherhood to die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Some take it for a
different
kind
of cap or helmet, others for the rim, others for the cone, of the
helmet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
III
Miles slid, and the sight of the port upgrew
As they sped on;
When slipping its bond the
bracelet
flew
From her fondled arm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
Time
consumes
words, like love.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind,
Still constant in a wondrous excellence;
Therefore my verse to
constancy
confin'd,
One thing expressing, leaves out difference.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
They turn to places known so long
I feel that joy was dwelling there,
So home-fed
pleasure
fills the song
That has no present joys to hear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
254 On the right shore of the Suevic sea 255 dwell the tribes of the Aestii, 256 whose dress and customs are the same with those of the Suevi, but their
language
more resembles the British.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
and
wherefore
wert thou chosen?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
from half past seven till the night coming
on
prevented
further view.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
In the
following
poems the author speaks, not in his own person,
but in the persons of ancient minstrels who know only what Roman
citizen, born three or four hundred years before the Christian
era, may be supposed to have known, and who are in no wise above
the passions and prejudices of their age and nation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
To this her mother's plot
She
seemingly
obedient likewise hath
Made promise to the doctor.
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Then,
glancing
narrow at the wall,
And narrow at the floor,
For firm conviction of a mouse
Not exorcised before,
Peruse how infinite I am
To -- no one that you know!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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A PARABLE
Worn and footsore was the Prophet,
When he gained the holy hill;
'God has left the earth,' he murmured,
'Here his
presence
lingers still.
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James Russell Lowell |
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When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smooths her hair with
automatic
hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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No glass renders a man's form
or
likeness
so true as his speech.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Is it the dirt, the squalor,
the wear of human bodies,
and the dead faces of our
neighbours?
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Imagists |
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But
wherefore
all this labour, all this strife?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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IV
She, who with her head the stars surpassed,
One foot on Dawn, the other on the Main,
One hand on Scythia, the other Spain,
Held the round of earth and sky encompassed:
Jupiter fearing, if higher she was classed,
That the old Giants' pride might rise again,
Piled these hills on her, these seven that soar,
Tombs of her
greatness
at the heavens cast.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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XLV
Softer than the hill-fog to the forest
Are the loving hands of my dear lover,
When she sleeps beside me in the starlight
And her beauty
drenches
me with rest.
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Sappho |
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He feels too keenly his
dependence
upon
them, as a child views flowers and stars as personal possessions.
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Rilke - Poems |
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He is alive,
And will be till there is no more a world
Filled with his hidden hunger, waiting for souls
That ford the
monstrous
waters of the world.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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