Accursed
be that tongue that tels mee so;
For it hath Cow'd my better part of man:
And be these Iugling Fiends no more beleeu'd,
That palter with vs in a double sence,
That keepe the word of promise to our eare,
And breake it to our hope.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Vaughan's
beautiful
though quaint verses should be compared with
Wordsworth's great Ode, No.
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| Question: |
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Golden Treasury |
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"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,
And how, how rare and strange it is, to find
In a life
composed
so much, so much of odds and ends,
(For indeed I do not love it .
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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[This letter was in answer to one from Dunbar, in which the witty
colonel of the Crochallan Fencibles
supposed
the poet had been
translated to Elysium to sing to the immortals, as his voice had not
been beard of late on earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
From--" Days"
As on the languorous settle
Slumber evaded me long,
Then bring me no wondrous saga,
Nor sooth me with slumbrous song
From maidens of mythical regions
That
favoured
my fancy erewhile,
But snare me into your bondage
Flute-players from the Nile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing
nocturnal
hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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650
To
disentangle
that confusing problem, too
My sister would have handed you the fatal clew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Cursed ambition,
detestable
obsession
Whose tyranny sways the noblest of men!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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The folk of the Weders
fashioned
there
on the headland a barrow broad and high,
by ocean-farers far descried:
in ten days' time their toil had raised it,
the battle-brave's beacon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
The first and
obvious thing to remark is, that an
unquestionably
epic effect can be
given without any supernatural machinery at all.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
The steel-clad
champion
death drops all around
As glaciers water.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
So looked the chief, so moved: to mortal eyes
Object
uncouth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
_The
Vanities
of Life_
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
The Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation ("the
Foundation" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection
of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
It sifts from leaden sieves,
It powders all the wood,
It fills with
alabaster
wool
The wrinkles of the road.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
'
"Thus he: the beeves around
securely
stray,
When swift to ruin they invade the prey;
They seize, they kill!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Let my despair burst forth, at liberty,
Your speech has now too long
restrained
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
SCENT OF IRISES
A faint, sickening scent of irises
Persists
all morning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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The callous palms of the
laborer are
conversant
with finer tissues of self-respect and heroism,
whose touch thrills the heart, than the languid fingers of idleness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Were you a lesser planet, doom'd to run
A shorter journey round a nobler sun;
Ranging among yon dusky orbs below,
A more degrading doom I could not know:
Now spread your swiftest wings, my steeds of flame,
We must not yield to man's
ambitious
aim.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
The way I read a letter 's this:
'T is first I lock the door,
And push it with my fingers next,
For
transport
it be sure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Here no man
treadeth
oft nor loud,
Through casement comes the Autumn balm,
Here to the hopeless, hope is vowed,
To pleadings, tendered words of calm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Several Cossacks
immediately seized the old
Commandant
and dragged him away to the
gallows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
In March, December, and in July,
"Tis all the same with Harry Gill;
The
neighbours
tell, and tell you truly,
His teeth they chatter, chatter still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
And a verse of a Lapland song
Is haunting my memory still:
"A boy's will is the wind's will,
And the
thoughts
of youth are long, long thoughts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Norway himself, with terrible numbers,
Assisted by that most disloyal traitor
The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict,
Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof,
Confronted
him with self-comparisons,
Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm,
Curbing his lavish spirit; and, to conclude,
The victory fell on us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
"'Tis thus they feasted on the flesh of oxen and, tired
of warfare,
unharnessed
their foaming steeds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
--
And hear above me on the autumnal blast
The cataract of Death far
thundering
from the heights.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
I don't think it is
building
I want to do.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
I was seven years old when the sovran of rings,
friend-of-his-folk, from my father took me,
had me, and held me, Hrethel the king,
with food and fee,
faithful
in kinship.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Who all
commands
sold through the navy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
The silver bugle blows across the meer,
And some will hear it early, others late;
But each will lay himself upon his bier
And hold thereon a moment's solemn state:
And there will be the brief
funereal
rites Whence all shall pass into the utter drear Where sunless, moonless, days succeed to nights, And no wind stirs the surface of the meer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against
The want of you;
Of
squeezing
it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
When safe upon the barren rock he stood,
A new alarm the stripling terrified;
To be within those narrow bounds confined,
And die, with
hardship
and with hunger pined.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
So, lifted with prophetic pride,
Raised conquering hands to heaven and cried:
"All hail the Stars and
Stripes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
org
While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited
donations
from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Ballade: Du
Concours
De Blois
I'm dying of thirst beside the fountain,
Hot as fire, and with chattering teeth:
In my own land, I'm in a far domain:
Near the flame, I shiver beyond belief:
Bare as a worm, dressed in a furry sheathe,
I smile in tears, wait without expectation:
Taking my comfort in sad desperation:
I rejoice, without pleasures, never a one:
Strong I am, without power or persuasion,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Yet all is well; he has but passed
To Life's appointed bourne:
And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn,
For his
mourners
will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Yet cruel one, if you still seek fresh glory
Attack some more
rebellious
enemy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Swift as they trace the heav'n's wide
circling
line,
Whirl'd on their proper axles, bright they shine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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befongen
frēawrāsnum, 1452; see wrāsn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
The Caterpillar
Plants, Caterpillars and Insects
'Plants, Caterpillars and Insects'
Jacob l' Admiral (II),
Johannes
Sluyter, 1710 - 1770, The Rijksmuseun
Work leads us to riches.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
In a vision announced he to him then
A battle, should be fought against him yet,
Significance
of griefs demonstrated.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
_
TO A FRIEND,
ENCOURAGING
HIM TO PURSUE POETRY.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Here every tree is strange to me,
All foreign things where eer I go,
There's none where boyhood made a swee
Or
clambered
up to rob a crow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
XXXI
No
pleasure
is omitted there; since they
Alike are prisoners in Love's magic hall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
O I could play the woman with mine eyes,
And
Braggart
with my tongue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
roscida purpurea
supprime
lora manu!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Yes, just to see how
horrible
they are.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Even
Baudelaire
had his sane moments.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
His
blinding
light
He flingeth white
On God's and Satan's brood,
And reconciles
By mystic wiles
The evil and the good.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Now lat hir slepe, and we our tales holde
Of Troilus, that is to paleys riden,
Fro the scarmuch, of the whiche I tolde,
And in his chaumbre sit, and hath abiden 935
Til two or three of his
messages
yeden
For Pandarus, and soughten him ful faste,
Til they him founde and broughte him at the laste.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Now my lips falling on your silver'd skull,
My fingers in the valleys of your cheeks,
Or my hands in your thin strong hands fast caught,
Your body
clutched
to mine, mine bent to yours:
Now love undying feeds on love beautiful,
Now, now I am but thought kissing your thought .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
"
»s
A CHANGE SONG By Marguerite Wilkinson
0 life, what would you make of me That, turning, I may find no more
A welcome at each
friendly
door
That once stood open wide to me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
The second and third of these couplets were
cancelled
in the edition of
1815, and the whole passage was withdrawn in 1827.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
_--Ino, the
daughter
of
Cadmus and Hermione, and second spouse of Athamas, king of Thebes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
I had
realised
this for myself at the very dawn of my manhood, and
had forced my age to realise it afterwards.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Dans les terminaisons latines
Des cieux moires de vert
baignent
les Fronts vermeils
Et taches du sang pur des celestes poitrines,
De grands linges neigeux tombent sur les soleils.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Poor
Socrates
(who next more memorable?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
It is the
greatest
honour of kings to
distinguish the characters of their officers, and to employ them
accordingly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
The gesture, the
movement
begins in _Advent_ and _Celebration_ to
disturb the stillness prevailing in the first two volumes of poems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Last day my mind was in a bog,
Down George's Street I stoited;
A
creeping
cauld prosaic fog
My very sense doited.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Thus will I not too
heinously
regard
A woman's death who did her husband slay,
The guardian of her home; and if the votes
Equal do fall, Orestes shall prevail.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Let vs seeke out some
desolate
shade, & there
Weepe our sad bosomes empty
Macd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Who this high gift of
strength
committed to me,
In what part lodg'd, how easily bereft me,
Under the Seal of silence could not keep,
But weakly to a woman must reveal it 50
O'recome with importunity and tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
The grim-eyed lioness pursues the wolf,
The wolf the she-goat, the she-goat herself
In wanton sport the
flowering
cytisus,
And Corydon Alexis, each led on
By their own longing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Thou hast
suffered
her to do
Thine office, her, no kin to me nor you,
Yet more than kin!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
"
But still he
flattered
her aside--
And from the linden sounded wide:
Huzza!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
haec etiam queritur secum: 'quonam usque uerendus
cunctatur
mea uota socer?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Please check the Project
Gutenberg
Web pages for current donation
methods and addresses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Kline (C) Copyright 2004-2009 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted,
electronically
or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
He had on a
gunnysack
shirt over his bones,
And he lifted an elbow socket over his head,
And he lifted a skinny signal finger.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
XIV
That
Emperour
hath ended now his speech.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
: spatium unius uersus in O titulo carens
1 _exuritionum_ uel
_exuricionum_
?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
On the wind of January
Down flits the snow,
Travelling
from the frozen North
As cold as it can blow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Whether the all-cheering sun be free to shed
His beams around thee, or thou rest thy head
Pillowed
in some dark dungeon's noisome den, 1815.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Canto XV
Benigna volontade in che si liqua
sempre l'amor che drittamente spira,
come cupidita fa ne la iniqua,
silenzio
puose a quella dolce lira,
e fece quietar le sante corde
che la destra del cielo allenta e tira.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
He feels with emotion what a
beautiful
act it
would have been for his old father.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
But thou, say
wherefore
to such perils past
Return'st thou?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
_Graip_, a pronged instrument for
cleaning
cowhouses.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
How else dispose of an
immortal
force
No longer needed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
XCVII
How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the
fleeting
year!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
"
O, what a shout there went
From the black
regiment!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"If I myself upon a looser Creed
Have loosely strung the Jewel of Good deed,
Let this one thing for my
Atonement
plead:
That One for Two I never did misread.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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It then goes out an act,
Or is
entombed
so still
That only to the ear of God
Its doom is audible.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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12),
Parisinum
7989, Harleianos
duo, quorum alter 2574 (_h_) saepe consentit cum Oxoniensi (_O_), alter
(4094) post Tibullum Propertiumque habet Catulli LXI, LXII, II, X, V-IX,
XI-XVII 14, duo Phillippicos, alterum 9591, scriptum anno 1453 (nunc
Bodl.
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Latin - Catullus |
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For heaven's sake dry your tears, nor by such woe
-- An evil omen for my arms -- offend;
And learn, 'tis Honour pricks me to the field,
And not an argent bird and
blazoned
shield.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Oenone
I've explained, my Lord, all that
happened
then.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Whether
we drink them or not, as yet, before their strength is drawn, these
leaves, dried on great Nature's coppers, are of such various pure and
delicate tints as might make the fame of
Oriental
teas.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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this chill wind across the
mountain
rushing
Will drive me wild!
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Hugo - Poems |
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O
kindness
so ill repaid!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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but with an angel's air,
Astonished, eager, unaware,
Or elfin's, wandering with a grace
Foreign to any
fireside
race,
And with a gaiety unknown
In the light feet and hair backblown,
And with a sadness yet more strange,
In meagre cheeks which knew to change
Or faint or fired more swift than sight,
And forlorn hands and lips pressed white,
And fragile voice, and head downcast,
Hiding tears, lifted at the last
To speed with one pale smile the wise
Glance of the grey immortal eyes.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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XVII
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high
deserts?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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What state above, what
symmetry
below,
Lines have, or should have, thou the best can'st show.
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