Two figures, one Conon, in the midst he set,
And one- how call you him, who with his wand
Marked out for all men the whole round of heaven,
That they who reap, or stoop behind the plough,
Might know their several
seasons?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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" "A certain
Captain Kao Hsia-yu was
courting
a dancing-girl.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Gliding in negligent career,
He bending whispered in her ear
Some madrigal not worth a rush,
And pressed her hand--the crimson blush
Upon her cheek by adulation
Grew
brighter
still.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings,
This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings;
Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys,
Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: 310
So well-bred
spaniels
civilly delight
In mumbling of the game they dare not bite.
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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I
recollect
it well!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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If we
insist on asking whether Euripides himself, in real life or in a play of
his own free invention, would have
considered
Admetus's conduct to
Heracles entirely praiseworthy, the answer will certainly be No, but it
will have little bearing on the play.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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On beholding a picture of a New England village as it then appeared,
with a fair open prospect, and a light on trees and river, as if it
were broad noon, we find we had not thought the sun shone in those
days, or that men lived in broad
daylight
then.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The wind and I, we both were there,
But neither long abode;
Now through the
friendless
world we fare
And sigh upon the road.
| Guess: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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For she, and she
Spak swich a word; thus loked he, and he;
Lest tyme I loste, I dar not with yow dele;
Com of therfore, and
bringeth
him to hele.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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_ Point me not to a good,
To leave me
straight
bereaved.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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A rich and goodly
merchandise
is hers;
But soon the tempest wakes,
And wind and wave to such mad fury stirs,
That, driven on the rocks, in twain she breaks;
My heart with pity aches,
That a short hour should whelm, a small space hide,
Riches for which the world no equal had beside.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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Die without
satisfaction!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Dark
shepherdess
of many a golden star,
Dost see me, Mother Night?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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My counsel sends to execute a deed;
A poet begs me I will hear him read;
'In Palace Yard at nine you'll find me there--'
'At ten for certain, sir, in
Bloomsbury
Square--'
'Before the Lords at twelve my cause comes on--'
'There's a rehearsal, sir, exact at one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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_S' io
credessi
per morte essere scarco.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Thy fierce
forekings
had clench'd their pirate hides
To the bleak church doors, like kites upon a barn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
About our souls in care and cark
Our
blackness
shuts like prison-bars:
The poor souls crouch so far behind
That never a comfort can they find
By reaching through the prison-bars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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I wish to stand as on a boat and dare
The sweeping storm, mighty, like flag unrolled
In darkness but with helmet made of gold
That
shimmers
restlessly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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My
memories
freeze
Like birds' cry
In hollow trees.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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"
What joy, for
fatherland
to die!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLXXIV
Now when the sky and when the earth again
Fill with ice: cold hail scattered everywhere,
And the horror of the worst months of the year
Makes the grass bristle across the plain:
Now when the wind mutinously prowling,
Cracks the boulders, and uproots the trees,
When the
redoubled
roaring of the seas
Fills all the shoreline with its wild surging:
Love burns me, and winter's bitter cold
That freezes all, cannot freeze the old
Ardour in my heart that lasts forever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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I reached Khasan, a
miserable
town, which I found laid waste, and
well-nigh reduced to ashes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Where Urizen & all his Hosts hang their
immortal
lamps
Thou neer shalt leave this cold expanse where watry Tharmas mourns
So spoke Los.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd
Of the Two Worlds so wisely--they are thrust
Like foolish
Prophets
forth; their Words to Scorn
Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
I of
Book II in the new text, the
situation
in the legend is as follows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"
He said in his great heart's vanity,
"I will fashion a
wondrous
thing
To stand in a palace of onyx
And blind the eyes of a king.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
V
Do not, beloved, regret that you yielded to me so quickly:
I entertain no base, insolent
thoughts
about you.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And now Dawn broke, and, leaving the saffron bed of Tithonus, shed her
radiance anew over the world; when the Queen saw from her watch-tower
the first light whitening, and the fleet standing out under squared
sail, and
discerned
shore and haven empty of all their oarsmen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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The principal
confederates
of Pugatchef surrounded him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
]
1748 He wat3 in
drowping
depe,
Bot ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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They had not,
however, the full
animation
of speech, as one heard it in the dirge
at the end of the play set by Miss Allgood herself, who played the
principal musician.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
"When I awoke, 'twas in a
twilight
bower; 420
Just when the light of morn, with hum of bees,
Stole through its verdurous matting of fresh trees.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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So that eternal love in love's fresh case,
Weighs not the dust and injury of age,
Nor gives to
necessary
wrinkles place,
But makes antiquity for aye his page;
Finding the first conceit of love there bred,
Where time and outward form would show it dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
His tragedy is
enthusiastically praised by
Schlegel
for "the celestial purity, the fresh
breath of life and youth, that is diffused over so dreadful a subject.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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HEPHAESTUS
Lo, 'tis toward--no
weakness
in the work!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Is it the dirt, the squalor,
the wear of human bodies,
and the dead faces of our
neighbours?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
'Tis not wise until the latest hour
To enjoy delight's ephemeral dower:
Birds to
southern
seas have taken flight,
Fading flow'rs wait till the snows alight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project
Gutenberg-tm
electronic
works
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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While the fat steam of female
sacrifice
Fills the priest's nostrils, and puts out his eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my
companions
was a bent bow;
My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Her eyes were so beautiful with the
light of
holiness
that I did not know them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
But I must want
Lips against mine, and arms
marrying
me,
And breast to kiss with its dear warmth my breast,--
Body must love!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Hrothgar
couldst thou
aid at all, the honored chief,
in his wide-known woes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine to
aggravate
thy store;
Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
Within be fed, without be rich no more:
So shall thou feed on Death, that feeds on men,
And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
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: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The children of whose turbaned seas,
Or what
Circassian
land?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
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 |
|
e mowynge to
done
wickednesse
or ellys ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Let the
preacher
preach in his pulpit!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Some bore amain
The death-vat, some the corbs of hallowed grain;
Or kindled fire, and round the fire and in
Set
cauldrons
foaming; and a festal din
Filled all the place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
No more should I be dismayed
If beside the verdant hedges,
We again
together
strayed,
I would whisper soft my pledges
And to thee all homage tender.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Cette bete suait du sang a chaque pierre
Et c'etait degoutant, la Bastille debout
Avec ses murs lepreux qui nous racontaient tout
Et, toujours, nous
tenaient
enfermes dans leur ombre!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
My modir is she, and of
childhede
5885
I bothe worshipe hir, and eek drede;
For who that dredith sire ne dame
Shal it abye in body or name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Particularly
I remark An English countess goes upon the stage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Play up thy
flawless
silver flute; 5
Dead ripe are fruit and grain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
And other
withered
stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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O brother, taken
from my unhappy self; thou by thy dying hast broken my ease, O brother; all
our house is buried with thee; with thee have
perished
the whole of our
joys, which thy sweet love nourished in thy lifetime.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Tosto fur sovr' a noi, perche correndo
si movea tutta quella turba magna;
e due dinanzi
gridavan
piangendo:
<
e Cesare, per soggiogare Ilerda,
punse Marsilia e poi corse in Ispagna>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Cupid sagaciously led past those
palazzos
so fine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
'sorted and consorted, contrary to thy established proclaimed
edict and
continent
canon; which, with, O, with- but with this I
passion to say wherewith-'
COSTARD.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
But thou 'vailedest alone all these to conquer in love-lowe,
When
conjoined
once more unto thy yellow-haired spouse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
"--
Then, like a man that feels a sudden thought
His purpose change, the mingling crowd he sought,
And left the question, which a moment hung
Scarce half suppress'd upon my
faltering
tongue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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I hope he is well, and beg to be
remembered
to him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
O Hymen
Hymenaee
io, 170
O Hymen Hymenaee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Men of steel
flickered
and gleamed
Like riot of silver lights,
And the gold of the knight's good banner
Still waved on a castle wall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Ah,
shameless!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
"_
[A long and wearisome ditty, called "The
Highland
Lad and Lowland
Lassie," which Burns compressed into these stanzas, for Johnson's
Museum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
The Emperor strongly
wished that he should be present at the signature of the treaty; and, in
fact, though he was not one of the envoys from Milan, the success of the
negotiation was
generally
attributed to him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
225
XXVI
"The suns of twenty summers danced along,--
Too little marked how fast they rolled away:
But, through severe
mischance
and cruel wrong,
My father's substance fell into decay:
We toiled and struggled, hoping for a day 230
When Fortune might [13] put on a kinder look;
But vain were wishes, efforts vain as they;
He from his old hereditary nook
Must part; the summons [14] came;--our final leave we took.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Do the corpulent
sleepers
sleep?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
As such, he has chosen his own selections and
determined the order in which they are to be printed, but he has had no
authority over either the choice or
grouping
of his fellow exhibitors'
contributions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
In matters of science it is the
ultimate
sensation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
For thou, for man
Has such a treasure in his heart of love,
It must be
squandered
out in charity,
Not used as a gentle money to repay
Worth (as a woman spends her love).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
--The
Selection
was reissued by Ward, Lock, and Co.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
"Is it
possible
that I have
written verses that are 'filled with beauty,' and is it possible
that you really think them worthy of being given to the world?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
"I fear thee and thy
glittering
eye
"And thy skinny hand so brown"--
Fear not, fear not, thou wedding guest!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Perchance to rouse on mine own head
The
sleeping
hate of the world?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Now all thy forces try;
Now all thy charms apply;
Revenge upon her ear the
conquests
of her eye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
_]
Love is an immoderate thing
And can never be content,
Till it dip an ageing wing,
Where some
laughing
element
Leaps and Time's old lanthorn dims.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
His prospects on leaving
Edinburgh
341
LIII.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
MARGARETE
(fahrt fort):
Liebt mich- nicht- liebt mich- nicht-
(Das letzte Blatt ausrupfend, mit holder Freude.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
The picture is not barren of
instruction
to actual men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Ellis appears at the top of the manuscript page: "(a
separate
sheet: It cannot be placed as its sequel is missing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
--
what brings you
bragging
now?
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Older than Saturn, 5
Older than Rhea,
That
mournful
music,
Falling and surging
With the vast rhythm
Ceaseless, eternal, 10
Keeps the long tally
Of all things mortal.
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No
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The saffron flame, that flaming nothing harms Hides Khadeeth's pearl and all the
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_ It is in truth
An easy thing to stand aloof from pain
And lavish
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