there she stands,
Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe;
An empty urn within her withered hands,
Whose holy dust was
scattered
long ago;
The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now;
The very sepulchres lie tenantless
Of their heroic dwellers: dost thou flow,
Old Tiber!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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He counted out ninety-four-thousand
rubles and passed them to Herman, who
accepted
them without showing the
least surprise, and at once withdrew.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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With scented breeze, with
flowered
flame,
She touched the earth and took her name
Of May, Rose.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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For thee I
thirsted
in the daily drouth,
For thee I trembled in the nightly frost:
Much sweeter thou than honey to My mouth:
Why wilt thou still be lost?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Across the glittering pastures
And empty upland still
And
solitude
of shepherds
High in the folded hill,
By hanging woods and hamlets
That gaze through orchards down
On many a windmill turning
And far-discovered town,
With gay regards of promise
And sure unslackened stride
And smiles and nothing spoken
Led on my merry guide.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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She tolde eek how Tydeus, er she stente, 1485
Un-to the stronge citee of Thebes,
To cleyme kingdom of the citee, wente,
For his felawe, daun Polymites,
Of which the brother, daun Ethyocles,
Ful
wrongfully
of Thebes held the strengthe; 1490
This tolde she by proces, al by lengthe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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One of their reforms was the remodelling of the
equestrian
order;
and, having effected this reform, they determined to give to
their work a sanction derived from religion.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Ahi come facean lor levar le berze
a le prime
percosse!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Every night we must look, lest the down-slope
Between us and the woods turn suddenly
To a grey onrush full of small green candles,
The
charging
pack with eyes flaming for flesh.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the
marriage
of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"
And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while,
After the sunsets and the
dooryards
and the sprinkled streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the
floor--
And this, and so much more?
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T.S. Eliot |
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begirt with bowers
And
shouting
with a thousand rills.
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Poe - 5 |
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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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--Je suis un cimetiere abhorre de la lune,
Ou comme des remords se
trainent
de longs vers
Qui s'acharnent toujours sur mes morts les plus chers.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Does my joy
sometimes
erupt?
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Appoloinaire |
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Redistribution is
subject to the
trademark
license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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From the window I look out
To mark thy beautiful parade,
Stately
marching
in cap and coat
To some tune by fairies played;--
A music heard by thee alone
To works as noble led thee on.
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Emerson - Poems |
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e erly & late; 495
And tou hast
seuentene
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Straightway I was 'ware,
So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move
Behind me, and drew me
backward
by the hair;
And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,--
"Guess now who holds thee!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Wherefore my cheeks before their time are wan,
For very weeping is my
gladness
fled,
Sorrow has paled my young mouth's vermilion,
And Ruin draws the curtains of my bed.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Of her sands
Let Lybia vaunt no more: if Jaculus,
Pareas and Chelyder be her brood,
Cenchris and Amphisboena, plagues so dire
Or in such numbers
swarming
ne'er she shew'd,
Not with all Ethiopia, and whate'er
Above the Erythraean sea is spawn'd.
| Guess: |
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Is this thy cunning, thou
deceitful
dame?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
{74a} The
lopping of trees makes the boughs shoot out thicker; and the taking away
of some kind of enemies
increaseth
the number.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Why be
frightened
of a love, though, that's so chaste?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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v
All things worth praise
That unto Khadeeth's mart have
From far been brought through perils over-passed, All santal, myrrh, and spikenard that disarms The pard's swift anger; these would weigh but light 'Gainst thy delights, my
Khadeeth!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And if this is what he is in
significance
it is worth
noting what he is in technique.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And Santa Croce wants their mighty dust;
Yet for this want more noted, as of yore
The Caesar's pageant,[441] shorn of Brutus' bust,
Did but of Rome's best Son remind her more:
Happier
Ravenna!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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When the Christians were doomed to the lions of old
By the priest and the praetor, combined to uphold
An idolatrous cause,
Forth they came while the vast Colosseum throughout
Gathered
thousands
looked on, and they fell 'mid the shout
Of "the People's" applause.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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What means death in this rude
assault?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering
the whirlpool.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Imagists |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the
talisman
that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Yet its voice ever a murmur resumes, as of
multitudes
praying:
Liturgies lost in a moan like the mourning of far-away seas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The introduction of
so beautiful a fiction as an
essential
part of the conduct and machinery
of an epic poem, does the greatest honour to the invention of Camoens.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Say, would thy star like Merope's grow dim
If thou
shouldst
wed beneath thee?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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The best singer is not the one
who has the most lithe and
powerful
organ: the pleasure of poems is not in
them that take the handsomest measure and similes and sound.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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for she shelter'd him
From the damp and chilling air;
Blessed,
blessed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Whether 'tis Spring's first shiver, faintly heard
Through the light leaves, or lizards in the brake
The
rustling
thorns have stirr'd,
Her heart, her knees, they quake.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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All round the level rim thereof
Perseus, on winged feet, above
The long seas hied him;
The Gorgon's wild and
bleeding
hair
He lifted; and a herald fair,
He of the wilds, whom Maia bare,
God's Hermes, flew beside him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The
following
evening he went again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I'll be thy Mercury,
Thou Cytherea to me,
Distinguished by thy face
The earth shall learn my place;
As near beneath thy light
Will I outwear the night,
With mingled ray
Leading the
westward
way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Pilgrim Father,
apparition
of.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Illustrious what we name space--sphere of
unnumbered
spirits;
Illustrious the mystery of motion, in all beings, even the tiniest insect;
Illustrious the attribute of speech--the senses--the body;
Illustrious the passing light!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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for whom 40
Contending, many a Trojan, many a Chief
Of Greece died also, while in eddies whelm'd
Of dust thy
vastness
spread the plain,[112] nor thee
The chariot aught or steed could int'rest more!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Next morn, we swept with oars the Saranac,
With skies of benediction, to Round Lake,
Where all the sacred
mountains
drew around us,
Tahawus, Seaward, MacIntyre, Baldhead,
And other Titans without muse or name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
How dreary to be
somebody!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
The tumult
crouches
over us,
Or suddenly drifts to one side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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There sate the prince: the feast Eumaeus spread,
And heap'd the shining
canisters
with bread.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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But, day or night, for ever shall the load
Of wasting agony, that may not pass,
Wear thee away; for know, the womb of Time
Hath not
conceived
a power to set thee free.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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They are reprinted with some
unimportant
alterations
that were chiefly made very soon after their
publication.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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This is my hour of
triumph!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Herein you war against your reputation,
And draw within the compass of suspect
Th'
unviolated
honour of your wife.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Trust not too much to colour, beauteous boy;
White privets fall, dark
hyacinths
are culled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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When the battle went ill, and the bravest were solemn,
Near the dark Seven Pines, where we still held our ground,
He rode down the length of the
withering
column,
And his heart at our war-cry leapt up with a bound;
He snuffed, like his charger, the wind of our powder,--
His sword waved us on and we answered the sign:
Loud our cheer as we rushed, but his laugh rang the louder,
"There's the devil's own fun, boys, along the whole line!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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thy will is here,
That I the tenour of my creed unfold;
And thou the cause of it hast
likewise
ask'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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' It was also employed as a reformatory for
fallen women, and it is here that Winifred in
_Eastward
Ho_ (ed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Chung-chou is noted for its "many flowers and exotic trees," which were
a
constant
delight to its new Governor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Don't laugh in that
horrible
way!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
"
There are, who to my person pay their court:
I cough like Horace, and, though lean, am short,
Ammon's great son one
shoulder
had too high,
Such Ovid's nose, and "Sir!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
'
Victoriously the grand suicide fled
Foaming blood, brand of glory, gold,
tempest!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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And I was
astonished
and said to myself,
"Shall they of this so holy city have but one eye and one hand?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
What could I do, unaided and
unblest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Stand with thy graces forth, brave man, and rise
High with thine own
auspicious
destinies:
Nor leave the search, and proof, till thou canst find
These, or those ends, to which thou wast design'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Sous tes souliers de satin,
Sous tes charmants pieds de soie,
Moi, je mets ma grande joie,
Mon genie et mon destin,
Mon ame par toi guerie,
Par toi, lumiere et
couleur!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
We
learn from Lucan and from Ammianus Marcellinus that the brave
actions of the ancient Gauls were
commemorated
in the verses of
Bards.
| 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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iam coaceruatas nituntur scandere molis,
impius et miles
metuentia
comminus astra
prouocat, infestus cunctos ad proelia diuos
prouocat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
ORESTES (_turning
suddenly
to_ ELECTRA).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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L'HOMME ET LA MER
Homme libre, toujours tu
cheriras
la mer!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Les Odes: 'Pourquoy comme une jeune poutre'
Why like a
skittish
mare
Do you glance askance at me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
"Hey, but here's a toy shop, here's a drum for me,
Penny
whistles
too to play the tune!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
In frost and cold though lame he's forced to go--
The call's more urgent when he
journeys
slow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Virtues
Are forced upon us by our
impudent
crimes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
MRS ELIZ: WHEELER, UNDER THE NAME OF THE LOST SHEPHERDESS
Among the myrtles as I walk'd
Love and my sighs thus intertalk'd:
Tell me, said I, in deep distress,
Where I may find my
Shepherdess?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
But from my grave across my brow
Plays no wind of healing now,
And fire and ice within me fight
Beneath the
suffocating
night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
Do not seek
to
dissuade
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
and would on earth there stood,
Some more of such a frame,
That life might be all poetry,
And
weariness
a name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
The
splendor
of a Burmah,
The meteor of birds,
Departing like a pageant
Of ballads and of bards.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Our trav'ller glad, an appetite displayed;
The lady carefully her guest surveyed,
And anxious seemed to gratify his wish,
By helping what appeared his
favourite
dish.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
The dust replaced in hoisted roads,
The birds jocoser sung;
The
sunshine
threw his hat away,
The orchards spangles hung.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Lines 646-651 were previously
Nature, as in her prime, her virgin reign
Begins, and Love and Truth compose her train;
While, with a pulseless hand, and
stedfast
gaze,
Unbreathing Justice her still beam surveys.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
My books closed again on Paphos' name,
It delights me to choose with
solitary
genius
A ruin, by foam-flecks in thousands blessed
Beneath hyacinth, far off, in days of fame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
His
vassalage
had often been proved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
'Tis the
securest
policy we have,
To make our sense our slave.
| 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 |
|
His larger and more highly finished
landscapes were unequal in technical perfection,--sometimes harsh or cold
in color, or stiff in composition; sometimes full of imagination, at others
literal and prosaic,--but always
impressive
reproductions of interesting or
peculiar scenery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
You're
strangely
proud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
org),
you must, at no
additional
cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
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Lewis Carroll |
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Lo duca stette un poco a testa china;
poi disse: <
colui che i
peccator
di qua uncina>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on
friendly
pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From mournful climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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This
is
indicated
here and elsewhere by the letter A.
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Alexander Pope |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Each one salutes me as he goes,
And I my childish plumes
Lift, in
bereaved
acknowledgment
Of their unthinking drums.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Gia si solea con le spade far guerra;
ma or si fa
togliendo
or qui or quivi
lo pan che 'l pio Padre a nessun serra.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Yet still, ever after that sorrowful day,
Whenever the Butcher was by,
The Beaver kept looking the opposite way,
And
appeared
unaccountably shy.
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Lewis Carroll |
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555
What a strange
prisoner
for such lovely bonds!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And now a tale of love and woe,
A woeful tale of love I sing;
Hark, gentle
maidens!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
The handwriting was at first somewhat like the delicate, running
Italian hand of our elder gentlewomen; but as she
advanced
in
breadth of thought, it grew bolder and more abrupt, until in her
latest years each letter stood distinct and separate from its
fellows.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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