38: 'You have certain rich city
chuffs, that when they have no acres of their own, they will go
and plough up fools, and turn them into
excellent
meadow.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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2 Approaching old age, my
loneliness
in travel is extreme, 8 pained by these times, the chance to meet is remote.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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He
stumbled
forward and put his arm round her, and her head
fell on his shoulder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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Arriving, I hid quite two thirds of the men
In the holds of the vessels there, and then
The rest, whose numbers now
increased
hourly,
Devoured by impatience, gathering round me,
Lay down on the ground, where in silence
The best part of a fine night was spent.
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| Question: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Again he comes; nor dart nor lance avail,
Nor the wild plunging of the
tortured
horse;
Though man and man's avenging arms assail,
Vain are his weapons, vainer is his force.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
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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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Behold me here
Brought down to slave's estate, and far away
Wanders Orestes, banished from the wealth
That once was thine, the profit of thy care,
Whereon these revel in a
shameful
joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Knowest thou the shore
Where no
breakers
roar,
Where the storm is o'er?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Then he was a god, to the red man's dreaming;
Then the chiefs brought treasures grotesque and fair,--
Magical trinkets and pipes and guns,
Beads and furs from their medicine-lair,--
Stuck holy
feathers
in his hair,
Hailed him with austere delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Then, sore afraid, their admiral they sought,
To whom the keys of
Sarraguce
they brought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Whose secret
Presence
through Creation's veins
Running Quicksilver-like eludes your pains;
Taking all shapes from Mah to Mahi and
They change and perish all--but He remains;
LII.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Then might you see the wild things of the wood,
With Fauns in
sportive
frolic beat the time,
And stubborn oaks their branchy summits bow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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InTem- Hesaith:"Redspearsborethewarriordawn Of old
**:
Strange!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
CLI
Love is too young to know what
conscience
is,
Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
regards this passage as dating the time and place of the
poem
relatively
to the times of heathenism.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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But never at our Vesper prayer,
Nor e'er before
Confession
chair
Kneels he, nor recks he when arise
Incense or anthem to the skies,
But broods within his cell alone,
His faith and race alike unknown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Thrice to its pitch his lofty voice he rears;
The well-known voice thrice
Menelaus
hears:
Alarm'd, to Ajax Telamon he cried,
Who shares his labours, and defends his side:
"O friend!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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"He
remarked
to me then," said that mildest of men,
"'If your Snark be a Snark, that is right:
Fetch it home by all means--you may serve it with greens
And it's handy for striking a light.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
O Rose of the crimson beauty,
Why hast thou awakened the
sleeper?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Triumphs
for nothing and lamenting toys
Is jollity for apes and grief for boys.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
) To the
title-page was prefixed a
portrait
in an oval frame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
--
"Yes, the
Christians
smile at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
You other Jews waiting in all lands for your
Messiah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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XI
Kindling
autumnal fire in a rustic, convivial fireplace
(How the sticks crackle and spew flames and glittering sparks!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
***
A NEW
NATIONAL
ANTHEM.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Then, when we
have danced, clinked our cups and thrown
Hyperbolus
through the doorway,
we will carry back all our farming tools to the fields and shall pray the
gods to give wealth to the Greeks and to cause us all to gather in an
abundant barley harvest, enjoy a noble vintage, to grant that we may
choke with good figs, that our wives may prove fruitful, that in fact we
may recover all our lost blessings, and that the sparkling fire may be
restored to the hearth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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From out the whitest cloud of summer steals
The wildest lightning: from this face of thine
Thy soul, a fire-of-heaven, warm and fine,
In
marvellous
flashes its fair self reveals.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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III
Now on the place of slaughter
Are cots and
sheepfolds
seen,
And rows of vines, and fields of wheat,
And apple-orchards green;
The swine crush the big acorns
That fall from Corne's oaks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Fortunate
they
Who, though once only and then but far away,
Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
"
The stars of Night contain the
glittering
Day
And rain his glory down with sweeter grace
Upon the dark World's grand, enchanted face --
All loth to turn away.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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You will not then on palfrey nor on steed,
Jennet nor mule, come
cantering
in your speed;
Flung you will be on a vile sumpter-beast;
Tried there and judged, your head you will not keep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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omnia ludus habet
cantusque
chorique licentes;
tum primum roseo Silenus cymbia musto
plena senex auide non aequis uiribus hausit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
[438]
_And vow, that
henceforth
her Armada's sails
Should gently swell with fair propitious gales.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Then mix him with your Onion (cut up
likewise
into Scraps),--
When your Stuffin' will be ready, and very good--perhaps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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that
dwellest
where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Wretched
man, insult not sacred things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
You would deny the joy and sense
Of keeping an
honourable
silence?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
The wind and I, we both were there,
But neither long abode;
Now through the
friendless
world we fare
And sigh upon the road.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
His feet the foremost breakers lave;
His band are
plunging
in the bay,
Their sabres glitter through the spray;
Wet--wild--unwearied to the strand
They struggle--now they touch the land!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
If I glance up
it is written on the walls,
it is cut on the floor,
it is
patterned
across
the slope of the roof.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
The contents supply the South
Babylonian version of the second book of the epic _sa nagba imuru_,
"He who has seen all things,"
commonly
referred to as the Epic of
Gilgamish.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
frōde
feorhlege
(_the laying down of my old
life_), 2801; dat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
The Muses and the Graces, grouped in threes,
Enringed a
billowing
fountain in the midst;
And here and there on lattice edges lay
Or book or lute; but hastily we past,
And up a flight of stairs into the hall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
from half past seven till the night coming
on
prevented
further view.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn
We lose too soon, and only find delight
In
withered
husks of some dead memory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
From Maximin
IN sorrow, day and night the
disciple
watched
Upon the mount where from the Lord ascended:
"Thus leaveth thou thy faithful to despair?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Our law and our
religion
call thee
A punishment and a reward.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Only Rome could mighty Rome resemble,
Only Rome force sacred Rome to tremble:
So Fate's command issued its decree,
No other power, however bold or wise,
Could boast of
matching
her who matched we see,
Her power with earth's, her courage with the sky's.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
'
Ther-with he caste on
Pandarus
his ye
With chaunged face, and pitous to biholde; 555
And whan he mighte his tyme aright aspye,
Ay as he rood, to Pandarus he tolde
His newe sorwe, and eek his Ioyes olde,
So pitously and with so dede an hewe,
That every wight mighte on his sorwe rewe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
So she stood arrayed
Before the Hearth-Fire of her home, and prayed:
"Mother, since I must vanish from the day,
This last, last time I kneel to thee and pray;
Be mother to my two
children!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful Athenian courtesan and mistress of
Alexander
the Great (356-323BC).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
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 |
|
Adde thereto a Tigers Chawdron,
For th'
Ingredience
of our Cawdron
All.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
They are not made
Frailly by earth or hands, but
immortal
in our dream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
"
"Surely," replied this other;
"His
grandfathers
beat them many times.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
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different
way.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Then shepherds took the badge of royalty,
And the stout labourer the sword did wield:
The Consuls' power was
annually
revealed,
Till six month terms won greater majesty,
Which, made perpetual, accrued such power
That the Imperial Eagle seized the hour:
But Heaven, opposing such aggrandisement,
Handed that power to Peter's successor,
Who, called a shepherd, fated to reign there,
Shows that all returns to its commencement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
XVII
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
Bearing the fire of Heaven's menaces,
Heaven feared not the dire audaciousness,
That so stoked the Giants'
reckless
might.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
_The author's name first
appeared
on the title-page of the Seventh
Edition_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
I
gathered
roses redder than my gown
And played that I was Saint Elizabeth,
Whose wine had turned to roses in her hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Highbury
bore me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
III
Doth o'er us pass, when, as th'
expanding
eye
To the loved object-so the tear to the lid
Will start, which lately slept in apathy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties,
including
placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Keen
Whoorwood
next in aid of damsel frail,
That pierced the giant Mordaunt through his
mail:
And surly Williams the accountant's bane,
And Lovelace young of chimney-men the cane.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
The
building
was
rectangular, with opposite doors -- mainly west and east -- and a
hearth in the middle of th single room.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
How
wonderful
the whole world becomes to
one!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Let us see the ghost' -- his
household
fly
With lamps to search the night --
So Norsemen's sails run out and try
The Sea of the Dark with light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
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: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
), has been
illuminatingly
developed in an
unpublished monograph by Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Beloved, I, amid the darkness greeted
By a
doubtful
spirit-voice, in that doubt's pain
Cry, "Speak once more--thou lovest!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
All else there is, he moulds and shifts at will,
Not scant of
strength
nor breath, whate'er he do.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
But what can have
attracted
such a
crowd at that early hour?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
For such
the expression of the
American
poet is to be transcendent and new.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Often a hidden god
inhabits
obscure being;
And like an eye, born, covered by its eyelids,
Pure spirit grows beneath the surface of stones!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
"
Then Vivien, as if she were the
tenderest
hearted little maid that ever
lived, burst into tears and said:
"No, master, don't be angry at your little girl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Page 18
[THE first
following
version of the Life of St Alexius, from Laud 622, is the longest--and latest, no doubt*.
| 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 |
|
AND
SLUGGISH
GERMAN, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Andrew on his cross,
The
patience
of St.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
<
lo bulicame che sempre si scema>>,
disse 'l centauro, <
che da quest' altra a piu a piu giu prema
lo fondo suo, infin ch'el si raggiunge
ove la
tirannia
convien che gema.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
"
Whereupon
a million strove to answer him.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
A Boredom, made
desolate
by cruel hope
Still believes in the last goodbye of handkerchiefs!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Though the Sultan "shower'd Favors upon him," Omar's Epicurean
Audacity of Thought and Speech caused him to be
regarded
askance in
his own Time and Country.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
"History," says Hume with the utmost gravity, "has preserved
some
instances
of Edgar's amours, from which, as from a specimen,
we may form a conjecture of the rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Germanicus applauded their zeal; but
accepted
only the horses and
arms for the service of the war.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
His ardour
straight
the obedient prince suppress'd,
And, artful, thus the suitor-train address'd:
"O lay the cause on youth yet immature!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
I will punish your
Megarian
lingo.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
"Now, dear knave,
Be kind and tell me -- tell me quickly, too, --
Some proper reasonable ground or cause,
Nay, tell me but some shadow of some cause,
Nay, hint me but a thin ghost's dream of cause,
(So will I thee absolve from being whipped)
Why I, Lord Raoul, should turn my horse aside
From riding by yon pitiful villein gang,
Or ay, by God, from riding o'er their heads
If so my humor serve, or through their bodies,
Or miring
fetlocks
in their nasty brains,
Or doing aught else I will in my Clermont?
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LXXXVII cum LXXXVI
continuant
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Rich diamonds shine brightest, being sett
And
compassed
within a foyle of Jett.
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What confusion would cover the
innocent
Jesus
To meet so enabled a man!
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More than I, if truth were told,
Have stood and sweated hot and cold,
And through their reins in ice and fire
Fear
contended
with desire.
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It can hardly be doubted that a story so admirably adapted to the
purposes both of the poet and of the demagogue would be eagerly
seized upon by minstrels burning with hatred against the
Patrician order, against the
Claudian
house, and especially
against the grandson and namesake of the infamous Decemvir.
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She turned, she toss'd herself in bed,
On all sides doubts and terrors met her;
Point after point did she discuss;
And while her mind was
fighting
thus,
Her body still grew better.
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Did he not straight
In pious rage, the two
delinquents
teare,
That were the Slaues of drinke, and thralles of sleepe?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Betwixt these rockie Pillars Gabriel sat
Chief of th' Angelic Guards,
awaiting
night; 550
About him exercis'd Heroic Games
Th' unarmed Youth of Heav'n, but nigh at hand
Celestial Armourie, Shields, Helmes, and Speares
Hung high with Diamond flaming, and with Gold.
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A DIVINE IMAGE
Cruelty has a human heart,
And
Jealousy
a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secrecy the human dress.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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