Yea sometimes in a
bustling
man-filled place Meseemeth some-wise thy hair wandereth Across mine eyes, as mist that halloweth The air awhile and giveth all things grace.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Vainly valiant, you have missed
The manhood that should yours resist,--
Its complement; but if I could,
In severe or cordial mood,
Lead you rightly to my altar,
Where the wisest Muses falter,
And worship that world-warming spark
Which dazzles me in
midnight
dark,
Equalizing small and large,
While the soul it doth surcharge,
Till the poor is wealthy grown,
And the hermit never alone,--
The traveller and the road seem one
With the errand to be done,--
That were a man's and lover's part,
That were Freedom's whitest chart.
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Emerson - Poems |
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'
Than
thoughte
he thus: `If I my tale endyte
Ought hard, or make a proces any whyle,
She shal no savour han ther-in but lyte,
And trowe I wolde hir in my wil bigyle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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365
Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit,
_Sappho_ can tell you how this man was bit;
This dreaded Sat'rist
_Dennis_
will confess
Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress:
So humble, he has knock'd at _Tibbald's_ door, 370
Has drunk with _Cibber_, nay has rhym'd for _Moore_.
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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Now, the pears;
So shall your children's
children
pluck their fruit.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Love pardons the unpardonable past:
Love in a
dominant
embrace holds fast
His frailer self, and saves without her will.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Perche s'appuntano i vostri disiri
dove per
compagnia
parte si scema,
invidia move il mantaco a' sospiri.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Nay, the wild rocks and woods then voiced the roar
Of Afric lions
mourning
for thy death.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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There, in a long series of fine actions,
He would see how men conquer nations,
Takes a position,
organise
an army.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And how she wept, and clasped his knees;
And how she tended him in vain--
And ever strove to expiate
The scorn that crazed his brain;--
And that she nursed him in a cave;
And how his madness went away,
When on the yellow forest-leaves
A dying man he lay;--
His dying words-but when I reached
That tenderest strain of all the ditty,
My
faltering
voice and pausing harp
Disturbed her soul with pity!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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XXX
"My sister was assured the huntress maid
Falsely
conceited
her a man to be;
Nor in that need could she afford her aid;
And found herself in sore perplexity.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Se raro e denso cio
facesser
tanto,
una sola virtu sarebbe in tutti,
piu e men distributa e altrettanto.
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| Question: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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| Question: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I kissed the little
leafless
stem,
But oh, my poor heart knew
The words the flower had said to me,
They were not true.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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The hour is growing late--the Duke awaits use--
Thy
presence
is expected in the hall
Below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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The Cinnabar
Courtyard
is near to royal concerns, moving swift as spirits, the imperial guard is firm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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And real in this sense they have been to every human
being who, from
whatever
sense of delusion, has at any time believed
himself under supernatural agency.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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The minds which Heaven
abandons
to thy reign,
Haply are bound in many times and ways,
But mine one only chain,
Its wisdom shielding me from more, obeys;
Yet freedom brings no joy, though that he burst.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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He divided its
territory
between himself and Napoleon, Austria
retaining Istria, Dalmatia, and the left bank of the Adige in the
Venetian State, with the "maiden city" itself; France receiving the rest
of the territory and the Ionian Islands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Jonson does not speak of the trial as of a
contemporary
or nearly
contemporary event.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Sordello
to himself
Drew him, and cry'd: "Lo there our enemy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Apart from his depth
and beauty, he has created a new form, endowed
verse with new colour and sound, and greatly ex-
tended the possibilities of
expression
in the German
language.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
]
Ho,
warriors!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Beneath these glimmering arches Jessamine
Walked with her lover long ago; and in
The leaf-dimmed light he questioned, and she spoke;
Then on them both, supreme, love's
radiance
broke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Coral beneath the ocean-stream,
Whose brink when your
adventurer
slips
Full oft he perisheth on them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Belinda burns with more than mortal ire,
And fierce
Thalestris
fans the rising fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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'Twas one of the Invisible,
Guiding his tongue with
prescient
power.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Go, so all is
prepared
now for us to leave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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'To-morrow,' once I said to him with smiles:
'To-night,' he answered gravely and was dumb,
But pointed out the stones that
numbered
miles
And miles to come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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" ('mid the roar)
"Pass pieces; fix
prolonge
to fire
Retiring.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Ses yeux profonds sont faits de vide et de tenebres
Et son crane, de fleurs
artistement
coiffe,
Oscille mollement sur ses freles vertebres.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Gracious
my Lord,
I should report that which I say I saw,
But know not how to doo't
Macb.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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A li se tint de l'autre part
Li Diex d'Amors, cil qui depart 870
Amoretes
a sa devise.
| 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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In thieving thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high,
surmounted
by a cross-beam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Quelques jours plus tard, la duchesse
rencontrant
Baudelaire dans le
salon d'une vieille parente a elle, lui demanda si elle n'aurait pas
l'occasion de manger encore des pommes de terre frites.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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In
the principal salon stood a long table, at which about twenty men sat
playing faro, the host of the
establishment
being the banker.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The bow had quell'd
And shafts, in quick
succession
sent, the rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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So flies the spray of Adria
When the black squall doth blow
So corn-sheaves in the flood-time
Spin down the
whirling
Po.
| 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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And when I passed by him again I saw two crows
building
a nest
under his hat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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--unto thee
Indifferent
should the smile or frown
Of Beauty be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Relapses into Then on she went, as one half blind,
Temptation: For things were
stirring
in her mind;
Then turned about with fixed intent
And, heading for the bootshop, went
And Falls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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For verily love knows not "mine" or "thine;"
With
separate
"I" and "thou" free love has done,
For one is both and both are one in love:
Rich love knows nought of "thine that is not mine;"
Both have the strength and both the length thereof,
Both of us of the love which makes us one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
In every issue there is sure to be at least one poem so
interesting
as to justify the publication of that number of the magazine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Upon the shining panels, or upon skins gilded with a sombre opulence,
beatified paintings have a discreet life, as calm and
profound
as the
souls of the artists who created them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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She
is thinking we admire the length of her tail and the
profundity
of
her mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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A peaceful
rumbling
there,
The town's at our feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
No pity, no release, no
respite!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
TO TERZAH
Whate'er is born of mortal birth
Must be
consumed
with the earth,
To rise from generation free:
Then what have I to do with thee?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
ider wende in
clennesse!
| 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 |
|
Therefore the maidens cease to sing,
And the young men are very sad;
Therefore the sowing is not glad,
And
mournful
is the harvesting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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You are the fools, not I--for I did dwell
With a deep thought, and with a
softened
eye, 40
On that old Sexton's natural homily,
In which there was Obscurity and Fame,--
The Glory and the Nothing of a Name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Imitations
of Charette drivers, Yankee, 99.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Come to the walls this evening, and I'll show thee
The golden place of light, the little world
Of triumphing glory framed in midst of the dark,
Pillar'd on four great bonfires fed with spice,
Enclosing in a globe of flame the tent
Wherein the sleepless lusts of Holofernes
Madden themselves all night, a revel-rout
Of naked girls luring him as he lies
Filling his blood with wine, the scented air
Injur'd
marvellously
with piping shrills
Of lechery made music, and small drums
That with a dancing throb drive his swell'd heart
Into desires beyond the strength of man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Sappho was at the height
of her career about six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric
poetry was peculiarly
esteemed
and cultivated at the centres of Greek life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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I did inherit
Thy
withering
portion with the fame,
The searing glory which hath shone
Amid the jewels of my throne,
Halo of Hell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
The
daylight
is not so pure as my heart's depths.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
for the vale profound
Is
overflowing
with the sound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
The
repetition
of the name made known, II.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
One night, one night, one night quite late,
Things became
different
then.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
--O spectres saints et blancs de Bethleem,
Charmez plutot le bleu de leur
fenetre!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
"
"How
pleasant
to know Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
The years that he
passed in Macao were probably the
happiest
of his life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
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 |
|
None doubt this truth, except one only fair,
Who all excels, for whom alone I care;
She plainly sees, yet
disbelieves
my woe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
So humbly craving the
continuance of your
honourable
favour towards me, and th' eternall
establishment of your happines, I humbly take leave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
He marvels at the paradox,
drums his head with the tattoo:
how can a thing as small as he
shape and
maintain
an art
out of himself universal enough
to carry her daily vigil
to crystalled immortality?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
they were once
Material
as thou art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
) His
Legions are I, IV Macedonica, XV Primigenia, XVI, V Alaudae,
XXII Primigenia, I Italica, XXI Rapax, and
detachments
from
Britain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Not Berenice's locks first rose so bright,
The skies
bespangling
with dishevelled light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
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almost no restrictions whatsoever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Be added to your years what mine abate,
And in my
children
Paullus' age be blessed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
She feels a love for little things
That very few can feel beside,
And still the grass eternal springs
Where castles stood and
grandeur
died.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
The cold sea north,
southwards
the burying sand
Dispute o'er Egypt--while the smiling land
Still mockingly their empire does refuse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Ed ecco, si come ne scrive Luca
che Cristo apparve a' due ch'erano in via,
gia surto fuor de la sepulcral buca,
ci apparve un'ombra, e dietro a noi venia,
dal pie
guardando
la turba che giace;
ne ci addemmo di lei, si parlo pria,
dicendo: <>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
--_The epic fable_,
_differing
from the dramatic_.
| 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 |
|
Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
I went my way; but yet--in saddened spirit
Pondering
on all that had my vision crossed,
Leaves of old summers, fair ones of old time--
Through all, at distance, would my fancy see,
In the woods, statues; shadows in the past!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
All creatures, Pope asserts, are bound together and live not for
themselves alone, but man is
preeminently
a social being.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
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 |
|
We are hereditary guests; our Sires
Were friends long since; as, when thou seest him next,
The Hero old Laertes will avouch,
Of whom, I learn, that he frequents no more
The city now, but in sequester'd scenes 240
Dwells sorrowful, and by an antient dame
With food and drink supplied oft as he feels
Refreshment needful to him, while he creeps
Between the rows of his
luxuriant
vines.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Will it please you to see the Epilogue, or
to hear a
Bergomask
dance between two of our company?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
I love thee, Mary dearly love--
There's nought so fair on earth I see,
There's nought so dear in heaven above,
As Mary
Bayfield
is to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Ma
perciocche
giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero,
Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Manuscript
reads--
but heere she comes I fairly step aside
& hearken, if I may, her buisnesse heere.
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Milton |
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The sea which cannot rest
From its
undernote
of doom
(We swooning breast on breast)
Shall murmur thro' my room.
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Tennyson |
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As music and splendour
Survive not the lamp and the lute,
The heart's echoes render
No song when the spirit is mute--
No song but sad dirges,
Like the wind through a ruin'd cell,
Or the
mournful
surges
That ring the dead seaman's knell.
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Golden Treasury |
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It is an echo of:
He rode upon the
cherubins
and did fly;
He came flying upon the wings of the wind.
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John Donne |
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Since ev'ry Tree beginns to blossome now
Perfuminge
and enamelinge each bow,
Hartes should as well as they, some fruits allow.
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John Donne |
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Over the joyful Earth & Sea, and ascended into the Heavens {It looks as though a strike line
crossing
out this line has been erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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How else dispose of an
immortal
force
No longer needed?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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O, when the heat
Of
shameful
passion is o'erspent, how then
Shall I detest thee!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Read then of faith
That shone above the fagot;
Clear strains of hymn
The river could not drown;
Brave names of men
And
celestial
women,
Passed out of record
Into renown!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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And then her mouth, more
delicate
5
Than the frail wood-anemone,
Brushes my cheek, and deeper grow
The purple shadows.
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Sappho |
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suus cuique attributus est error: 20
sed non uidemus
manticae
quod in tergo est.
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Latin - Catullus |
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