`For wel I woot, thou menest wel, parde;
Therfore
I dar this fully undertake.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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What do you think
endures?
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Whitman |
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IV
He speaks to the moonlight
concerning
the Beloved.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Let them sail for Porto Rique,
Far-off heats through seas to seek;
I will follow thee alone,
Thou
animated
torrid-zone!
| Guess: |
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Emerson - Poems |
|
Accursed Cossacks,
Traitors
and miscreants, you, you it is
Have ruined us!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: XCIV
Whether her golden hair curls languidly,
Or whether it swims by, in two flowing waves
That over her breasts wander there, and stray,
And across her neck float playfully:
Whether a knot,
ornamented
richly,
With many a ruby, many a rounded pearl,
Ties the stream of her rippling curls,
My heart delights itself, contentedly.
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Ronsard |
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"
The stranger
vanished
.
| Guess: |
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
All morning I heard him fret:
"Oh, when will she come,
Fleurette?
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
So don't you join our fraternity,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Villon |
|
And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
| Guess: |
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Yet he
continued to work almost to the last, and distributed copies of his
'Ethic Epistles' to his friends about three weeks before his death, with
the smiling remark that like the dying
Socrates
he was dispensing his
morality among his friends.
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Alexander Pope |
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Where are these
Gentlemen?
| Guess: |
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Additional terms will be linked
to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
permission of the copyright holder found at the
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of this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Apples on the small trees
are hard,
too small,
too late ripened
by a
desperate
sun
that struggles through sea-mist.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Chimene
complains
he has killed her father,
Yet I'd have done so, if I'd been younger.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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The diuell himselfe could not pronounce a Title
More
hatefull
to mine eare
Macb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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To the sons and
daughters
of labour
and poverty they are matters of the most serious nature: to them the
ardent hope, the stolen interview, the tender farewell, are the greatest
and most delicious parts of their enjoyments.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
I will not say thirteen's an age unfit
The
contrary
most fully I admit;
The LAW supposes (such its prudent fears)
Maturity at still more early years;
But this apparently refers to towns,
While LOVE was born for groves, and lawns, and downs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Yes, here within thy
sanctified
walls there's a soul in each object,
ROMA eternal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Da tutte parti saettava il giorno
lo sol, ch'avea con le saette conte
di mezzo 'l ciel cacciato Capricorno,
quando la nova gente alzo la fronte
ver' noi, dicendo a noi: <
mostratene
la via di gire al monte>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
The
greatest
poet does
not moralise or make applications of morals,--he knows the soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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There grasped me firm
and haled me to bottom the hated foe,
with
grimmest
gripe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
But soon I heard the dash of oars,
I heard the Pilot's cheer;
My head was turned
perforce
away,
And I saw a boat appear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
CXXXI
For he turf, stone, and trunk, and shoot, and lop,
Cast without cease into the
beauteous
source;
Till, turbid from the bottom to the top,
Never again was clear the troubled course.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Let generous pity warm thee,
My wonted peace restore;
And
grateful
I shall bless thee still,
And love thee more and more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
The Spanish critics,
however, have discovered many
inconsistencies
in it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Do not think me unaware,
I who have
snatched
at you
as the street-child clutched
at the seed-pearls you spilt
that hot day
when your necklace snapped.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
eue him
strength
& mygh[t]e 69
A?
| 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 |
|
Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
A nomad life passed
amid the beauties of nature acted powerfully in
developing
his
poetical genius.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
FAUST:
Suss
Liebchen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Where one is,
The other
worthily
should also be;
That as their warfare was alike, alike
Should be their glory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Alang the solitary shore
Where
flitting
sea-fowl round me cry,
Across the rolling, dashing roar,
I'll westward turn my wishful eye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
in what quarter sleep
Their other
princes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
"Give voice to us, we pray, O Lord,
"That we may sing Thy
goodness
to the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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On every wooden dish, a humble claim,
Two rude cut letters mark the owner's name;
From every nook the smile of plenty calls,
And rusty
flitches
decorate the walls,
Moore's Almanack where wonders never cease--
All smeared with candle snuff and bacon grease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Thy age, like ours, O Soul of Sir John Cheek,
Hated not
Learning
wors then Toad or Asp;
When thou taught'st Cambridge, and King Edward Greek.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
1713 Issues
proposals
for translation of Homer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
And thence,
Rejected down the abhorring steeps, man's life
Is wasted in this country, set to run
A blind, ignorant, unremembered course,
Treading with hopeless feet of griev'd waters
Unending unblest spaces, the
shameful
road
Of dirt thickening into slime its flow,
An insane weather driving.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Which, oh, which
Your
dreadful
fault?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Lustig, as the
Dutchman
says.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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m platz lo gais temps de pascor
The joyful
springtime
pleases me
Ai!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
3, a full refund of
any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic
work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of
receipt of the work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
But near the casement wide to the north,
A gold is dying, in accord with the decor
Perhaps, those unicorns dashing fire at a nixie,
She who, naked and dead in the mirror, yet
In the oblivion enclosed by the frame, is fixed
As soon by
scintillations
as the septet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
And next to the
invention
of speaking itself, the
most important invention for the poet has been the invention of writing
and reading; for this has added immensely to the scope of his mastery
over words.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
For his capacity, you are to be quicker and fuller of those reaches and
glances of wit or learning, as he is able to
entertain
them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Parsifal
Parsifal has conquered the girls, their sweet
Chatter, amusing lust - and his inclination,
A virgin boy's, towards the Flesh, tempted
To love the little tits and gentle babble;
He's conquered lovely Woman, of subtle
Heart, showing her cool arms, provoking breast;
He's conquered Hell,
returned
to his tent,
With a weighty trophy on his boyish arm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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"
LINES WRITTEN A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, ON
REVISITING
THE BANKS
OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR, July 13, 1798.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
LXXVI
Ye have heard how Marsyas,
In the folly of his pride,
Boasted of a
matchless
skill,--
When the great god's back was turned;
How his fond imagining 5
Fell to ashes cold and grey,
When the flawless player came
In serenity and light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
What
bursting
anguish tears my heart;
From thee, my Jeany, must I part!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
what conqueror hath
committed
this cruelty upon you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
PauPs, which
was
afterwards
laid aside, and the stones intended for that,
were bought by the Lord Cl;irendon to build his house with.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
nē his līf-dagas lēoda
ǣnigum nytte tealde (_nor did he count his life useful to any man_), 795;
þæt ic mē ǣnigne under swegles begong ge-sacan ne tealde (_I
believed
not
that I had any foe under heaven_), 1774; cwæð hē þone gūð-wine gōdne tealde
(_said he counted the war-friend good_), 1811; hē ūsic gār-wīgend gōde
tealde (_deemed us good spear-warriors_), 2642; pl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Soon her consenting hand
was clasped in his: the shades of evening
favoured
their escape .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
children
small,
Blue-eyed, wailing through the city--
Our own babes cry in them all:
Let us take them into pity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
How
fragrant
the perfume breathed forth in your words.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Et, des pieds jusques a la tete,
Un air subtil, un
dangereux
parfum
Nagent autour de son corps brun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Creating the works from print
editions
not protected by U.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Loud clanged beneath his horse-hoofs
The helmets of the dead,
And many a curdling pool of blood
Splashed
him heel to head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
The soul sees through the senses, imagines, hears,
Has from the body's powers its acts and looks:
The spirit once
embodied
has wit, makes books,
Matter makes it more perfect and more fair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
THE BLOSSOM
Merry, merry
sparrow!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
'twas too much;
Methought I fainted at the charmed touch,
Yet held my recollection, even as one
Who dives three fathoms where the waters run
Gurgling in beds of coral: for anon, 640
I felt upmounted in that region
Where falling stars dart their artillery forth,
And eagles struggle with the
buffeting
north
That balances the heavy meteor-stone;--
Felt too, I was not fearful, nor alone,
But lapp'd and lull'd along the dangerous sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
When their frenzy seemed
heightened
and her first task complete, the
purpose and all the house of Latinus turned upside down, the dolorous
goddess flies on thence, soaring on dusky wing, to the walls of the
gallant Rutulian, the city which Danae, they say, borne down on the
boisterous south wind, built and planted with Acrision's people.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
I
marvelled
at your height.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Mie friende, Syr Hughe, whatte
tydynges
brynges thee here?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
+Inscribed
to a dear Child:
in memory of golden summer hours
and whispers of a summer sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
When
besieged
by Don Alonzo, according to
some, it was garrisoned by an army of 200,000 men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
--
why not
hitherto?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Then the words
Proceeded, with voice, alter'd from itself
So clean, the
semblance
did not alter more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
He
commanded
where he spoke, and had his
judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
The argument of mine
afflicted
stile:?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
, _sudden,
unexpected
attack_: nom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
A furious stream of lightning seems to flow
Like a long snake
uncoiling
its fell ring.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
XXXVIII
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
The fingers of this hand
wherewith
I write;
And ever since, it grew more clean and white.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Like leviathans afloat
Lay their
bulwarks
on the brine;
While the sign of battle flew
On the lofty British line:
It was ten of April morn by the chime:
As they drifted on their path
There was silence deep as death;
And the boldest held his breath
For a time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
It seems I have lived for a hundred years
Among these things;
And it is useless for me now to make
complaint
against them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
These bloody
garments!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
And yet we must
Beware, and mark the natural kiths and kins
Of
circumstance
and office, and distrust
The rich man reasoning in a poor man's hut,
The poet who neglects pure truth to prove
Statistic fact, the child who leaves a rut
For a smoother road, the priest who vows his glove
Exhales no grace, the prince who walks afoot,
The woman who has sworn she will not love,
And this Ninth Pius in Seventh Gregory's chair,
With Andrea Doria's forehead!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
To such a man since harbour you afford,
Relate the farther fortunes of your lord;
What cares his mother's tender breast engage,
And sire
forsaken
on the verge of age;
Beneath the sun prolong they yet their breath,
Or range the house of darkness and of death?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
But a smooth and
steadfast
mind,
Gentle thoughts, and calm desires,
Hearts with equal love combined,
Kindle never-dying fires:--
Where these are not, I despise
Lovely cheeks or lips or eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
If not,
Upon his
soldiers
he hath lavisht her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
To most Germans
Schiller
is still a great poet;
but to the rest of Europe hardly one at all.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Oh, swift as light they speed, The first light into
darkness
hurled, Each to his work, above, below,
The sons of God that make the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
"
exclaimed
the old man,
"Happy are my eyes to see you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
I love my own fond lover,
Young Calais, son of Thurian Ornytus:
For him I'd die twice over,
Would Fate but spare the sweet
survivor
thus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
765
I've passed the bounds of
cautious
modesty.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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In the ponds the ice cracks with a merry and
inspiriting din, and down the larger streams is whirled grating
hoarsely, and
crashing
its way along, which was so lately a highway
for the woodman's team and the fox, sometimes with the tracks of the
skaters still fresh upon it, and the holes cut for pickerel.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And still in their
language
quack Vive le Roy !
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Marvell - Poems |
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But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:
Would it have been worth while
If one, settling a pillow or
throwing
off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all.
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T.S. Eliot |
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They fostered not my
childhood
nor mine age.
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Aeschylus |
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Songs of a Strolling Player
THROUGH the blossoms softly simmer
Drops
profound
and fair
Since the light-beams o'er them shimmer.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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But
Hawthorne
worked in his
laboratory of evil wearing mask and gloves; he never descended into the
mud and sin of the street.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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LXXVIII
Once in the shining street,
In the heart of a
seaboard
town,
As I waited, behold, there came
The woman I loved.
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Sappho |
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