Down the
slippery
slopes of Myrtle,
Where the early pumpkins blow,
To the calm and silent sea
Fled the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe everywhere in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not mysterious at all
We are the
evidence
ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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To what
distraction
did love not drive my mother!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And soon from loaded trees in noiseless woods
The snows slip thudding down,
Scattering in their trail
Bright icy sparkles through the
glittering
air;
And the fir-branches, patiently bent so long,
Sigh as they lift themselves to rights again.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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e dynt with [t]o 3elde
2224 With a
borelych
bytte, bende by ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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These
accidents
are deep;
It was the good God's will.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Have tidings reach'd him of our host's return,
Which here he would
divulge?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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O day
remembered
yet!
| Guess: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
La Figlia Che Piange
Stand on the highest pavement of the stair--
Lean on a garden urn--
Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair--
Clasp your flowers to you with a pained surprise--
Fling them to the ground and turn
With a fugitive
resentment
in your eyes:
But weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.
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T.S. Eliot |
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too late repents me,
That I did fall
To love at all,
Since love so much
contents
me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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If thought is life
And
strength
and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed:
But
wherefore
says she not she is unjust?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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O the
bleeding
drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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What new life-power it gives me, canst thou guess--
This conversation with the
wilderness?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I tell thee, friend, a speculating churl
Is like a beast, some evil spirit chases
Along a barren heath in one
perpetual
whirl,
While round about lie fair, green pasturing places.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Unheard, unseen, three years her arts prevail;
The fourth, her maid reveal'd the amazing tale,
And show'd as unperceived we took our stand,
The
backward
labours of her faithless hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Lest there grow
From thee the
avenger?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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The child
inclined
his ear,
And then grew weary and gray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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How bold the flight of Passion's
wandering
wing,
How swift the step of Reason's firmer tread,
How calm and sweet the victories of life, _60
How terrorless the triumph of the grave!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Kline (C) Copyright 2004 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted,
electronically
or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
[43] The
necessaries
of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
But where then did you get these pretty
chattels?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Hope comes to kindle wrath; they hurl their
missiles
strongly; even
as under black clouds cranes from the Strymon utter their signal notes
and sail clamouring across the sky, and noisily stream down the gale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Habt Ihr so
mancherlei?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
'
'I graunte it you,' quod she; and right anoon 645
This formel egle spak in this degree,
Almighty
quene, unto this yeer be doon
I aske respit for to avysen me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The myrtle groves are those of the Underworld in
Classical
mythology.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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But the rest
are hardly well-drawn, or, at least,
pleasingly
portrayed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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With emulation's noblest fires I glow,
And soon that reptile race that boast below
Bright Fame's conducting lamp, that seems to vie
With my incessant
journeys
round the sky,
And gains, or seems to gain, increasing light,
Yet shall its glories sink in gradual night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Redistribution is subject to the
trademark license, especially
commercial
redistribution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The Foundation is committed to
complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Sweet and most
gracious
treasure,
May He who formed you in measure
Grant joy desired, now, in excess!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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" He froze me with a sneer,
"A light
eruption
on the firmament.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
' Who can keep always to
the little pathway between speech and silence, where one meets none
but discreet
revelations?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Fendent le lac aux eaux
rougies!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Hasan demanded a place in the government, which the
Sultan granted at the Vizier's request; but discontented with a
gradual rise, he plunged into the maze of intrigue of an oriental
court, and, failing in a base attempt to supplant his benefactor, he
was
disgraced
and fell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
The thridde, ferthe, fifte, sixte day 1205
After tho dayes ten, of which I tolde,
Bitwixen hope and drede his herte lay,
Yet som-what
trustinge
on hir hestes olde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
THE trial o'er, a gallows treble-faced,
Was, for their swinging, in the market placed,
ONE of the three harangued the mob around,
(His speech was for the others also found)
Then, 'bout their necks the halters being tied,
Repentant and
confessed
the culprits died.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Few roods of ground the piles we raise
Will leave to plough; ponds wider spread
Than Lucrine lake will meet the gaze
On every side; the plane unwed
Will top the elm; the violet-bed,
The myrtle, each
delicious
sweet,
On olive-grounds their scent will shed,
Where once were fruit-trees yielding meat;
Thick bays will screen the midday range
Of fiercest suns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
But here in Heorot a hand hath slain him
of
wandering
death-sprite.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
_
Years of the
unperformed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Facts, centuries before,
He
traverses
familiar,
As one should come to town
And tell you all your dreams were true;
He lived where dreams were sown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
The sable presbyters approach
The avenue of penitence;
The young are red and pustular
Clutching
piaculative pence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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"
And Hegel mocked, "A very
pleasant
whim.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
The sonnets of Les Antiquites provide a fascinating comment on the Classical Roman world as seen from the
viewpoint
of the French Renaissance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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There seemed not a holy thing in hail,
Nor shape of light or love,
From the Abbey north of
Blackmore
Vale
To the Abbey south thereof.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Then
murmured
Florian gazing after her,
'An open-hearted maiden, true and pure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
My thoughts are with the Dead; with them
I live in long-past years,
Their virtues love, their faults condemn,
Partake their hopes and fears,
And from their lessons seek and find
Instruction
with an humble mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Ah, quietly the shingle waits the tides
Whose waves are stinging kisses, but to me
Love brought no peace, nor
darkness
any rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
they were living things,
Most
terrible
to see.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
He
traveling
with me needs the best blood, thews, endurance,
None may come to the trial till he or she bring courage and health,
Come not here if you have already spent the best of yourself,
Only those may come who come in sweet and determin'd bodies,
No diseas'd person, no rum-drinker or venereal taint is permitted here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
A solemn sacrifice,
performed
in state,
You drink by measure, and to minutes eat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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The
happiness
of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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er nis no
discorde
to [tho] verray 4612
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
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?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
XXIX
" 'Twas thus with the male sex at enmity,
Some years the lonely women lived forlorn:
Then found that hurtful to
themselves
would be
The scheme, save changed; for if from them were born
None to perpetuate their empery,
The idle law would soon be held in scorn,
And fail together with the fruitful reign,
Which they had hoped eternal should remain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The poet inserts a
digression
relating
that accident, with all its particulars.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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But now he half-raises his deep-sunken eye,
And the motion
unsettles
a tear;
The silence of sorrow it seems to supply,
And asks of me why I am here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
380
Not higher that Hill nor wider looking round,
Whereon for different cause the Tempter set
Our second Adam in the Wilderness,
To shew him all Earths
Kingdomes
and thir Glory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
"By day, if he should be alone--
At home or on a walk--
You merely give a hollow groan,
To
indicate
the kind of tone
In which you mean to talk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| Guess: |
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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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]
216 [E] & al
bigrauen
with grene, in gracios[1] werkes;
A lace lapped aboute, ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
135
XVI
Thus as he spake, his visage wexed pale,
And chaunge of hew great passion did bewray;
Yet still he strove to cloke his inward bale,
And hide the smoke that did his fire display,
Till gentle Una thus to him gan say; 140
O happy Queene of Faeries, that has found
Mongst many, one that with his
prowesse
may
Defend thine honour, and thy foes confound:
True Loves are often sown, but seldom grow on ground.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
_ The Roman name
corresponding
to the Greek Satyr.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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GD} Los now repented that he had smitten Enitharmon he felt love
Arise in all his Veins he threw his arms around her loins To heal the wound of his smiting
They eat the fleshly bread, they drank the nervous [bloody] wine *
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Blake - Zoas |
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Act III Scene II (Phaedra)
Phaedra
O you, who see the shame into which I fall,
Implacable Venus, am I
sufficiently
in thrall?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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It was refurbished in the reign of Taizong and served as a summer palace during his reign and that of his
successor
Gaozong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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90
XI
But now seemde best the person to put on
Of that good knight, his late beguiled guest:
In mighty armes he was yclad anon:
And silver shield, upon his coward brest
A bloudy crosse, and on his craven crest 95
A bounch of haires
discolourd
diversly:
Full jolly knight he seemde, and well addrest,
And when he sate upon his courser free,
Saint George himself ye would have deemed him to be.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Latin - Catullus |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's
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A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Sometyme
the wyseste lacketh pore mans rede.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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If I have found
Another, true to save me at the bound
Of life and death, that other's child am I,
That other's
fostering
friend, until I die.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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9
YOUR EYES ARE LIKE THE SEA By Leslie Nelson Jennings
Your eyes are like the sea
When air and sky, by some old alchemy,
Draw from the fires of spring The very
substance
of infinity—
The color of the stars' own conjuring.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And lastly, whatso fires
Of ether thou from earth beholdest, these
Thou mayst
consider
as possibly of size
The least bit less, or larger by a hair
Than they appear--since whatso fires we view
Here in the lands of earth are seen to change
From time to time their size to less or more
Only the least, when more or less away,
So long as still they bicker clear, and still
Their glow's perceived.
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| Question: |
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Lucretius |
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Caorsines
and Gascona
Prepare to quaff our blood.
| Guess: |
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Alas, for Jessie
Cameron!
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Christina Rossetti |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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By what means may he essay
entrance?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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The
incident
in which
Rudhall appears is worth relating at length.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Carestia, don't you dare to leave
That place without
bringing
away
Part of the joy that she can weave
Who grants me more joy than I can say.
| Guess: |
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Troubador Verse |
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The image of it gives me content already; and I trust it
will grow to a most
prosperous
perfection.
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Shakespeare |
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They left the
peaceful
river,
The cricket-field, the quad,
The shaven lawns of Oxford,
To seek a bloody sod--
They gave their merry youth away
For country and for God.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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No man may my sorwe glade,
That maketh my hewe to falle and fade,
And hath myn
understonding
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That me is wo that I was born!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them imprisoned in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves,
sounding
out magic words, so they themselves are immortal.
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Appoloinaire |
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Poi ch'ell' avea 'l parlar cosi disciolto,
cominciava
a cantar si, che con pena
da lei avrei mio intento rivolto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Now, like two clouds dissolving, drop,
And at each tear, in
distance
stop ;
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Now, like two fountains, trickle down ;
Now like two floods o*errun and drown :
Thus let your streams overflow your spring.
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Marvell - Poems |
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For he hears the lambs'
innocent
call,
And he hears the ewes' tender reply;
He is watching while they are in peace,
For they know when their Shepherd is nigh.
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blake-poems |
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I noticed
that the fields were
furrowed
or thrown into beds seven or eight feet
wide to dry the soil.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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'_The Ballad
of Reading Goal_' _was
published
anonymously under the signature of C.
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Wilde - Poems |
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to{ur}ment
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Tennyson |
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