The variant has _ultaprid ki-is-su-su_,
"he shook his
murderous
weapon.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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In the
East,
maturity
comes early; and this child had already lived through
all a woman's life.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The Trojans are in no
respects
blockaded, and receive
assistance from their allies to the very end.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Si quid erit, de me tacita quod mente queraris,
Pendeat extrema mollis ab aure manus:
Quum tibi, quae faciam, mea lux, dicamve placebunt,
Versetur
digitis annulus usque tuis,
Tange manu mensam, quo tangunt more precantes,
Optabis merito quum mala multa viro.
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John Donne |
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In a manly stubbomess,
Than be fatted up express,
For the
Cannibal
to dine.
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Marvell - Poems |
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XLIV
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious
distance should not stop my way;
For then despite of space I would be brought,
From limits far remote, where thou dost stay.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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There was room, at least, for lyrical
emotion in those first steps into the wilderness,--in that first sense
of
desolation
after wrath,--in that first audible gathering of the
recriminating "groan of the whole creation,"--in that first darkening of
the hills from the recoiling feet of angels,--and in that first silence
of the voice of God.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Angels'
breathless
ballot
Lingers to record thee;
Imps in eager caucus
Raffle for my soul.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
There are no cornices; but
the folds of the whole fabric (which are sharp rather than massive, and
have an airy appearance), issue from beneath a broad
entablature
of rich
giltwork, which encircles the room at the junction of the ceiling and
walls.
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Poe - 5 |
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or in
p{ar}chemyn
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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For you, on Latmos,
fondling
your sleeping boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As restraint for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the daylight that your night forgot.
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Ronsard |
|
V
The
troubled
river knew them,
And smoothed his yellow foam,
And gently rocked the cradle
That bore the fate of Rome.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Now is the time to show by deeds of wonder
That manly
greatness
not to godlike glory yields;
Before that gloomy pit to stand, unfearing,
Where Fantasy self-damned in its own torment lies,
Still onward to that pass-way steering,
Around whose narrow mouth hell-flames forever rise;
Calmly to dare the step, serene, unshrinking,
Though into nothingness the hour should see thee sinking.
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| Question: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Glories of long-held desire, Ideas
Were all exalted in me, to see
The Iris family appear
Rising to this new duty,
But the sister sensible and fond
Carried her look no further
Than a smile, and as if to understand
I
continue
my ancient labour.
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| Question: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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A wreck, as it looked, we lay--
(Rib and
plankshear
gave way
To the stroke of that giant wedge!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
A fragment of the South Babylonian version of the tenth book was
published in 1902, a text from the period of Hammurapi, which showed
that the Babylonian epic differed very much from the
Assyrian
in
diction, but not in content.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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One way all travel; the dark urn
Shakes each man's lot, that soon or late
Will force him,
hopeless
of return,
On board the exile-ship of Fate.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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[80]
Longing for each other we are all grown gray;
Through the
Fleeting
World rolled like a wave in the stream.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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None sued, for Mercy knew her cry was vain,
The captive died upon the battle-plain:[kq]
In either cause, one rage alone possessed
The empire of the
alternate
victor's breast; 920
And they that smote for freedom or for sway,
Deemed few were slain, while more remained to slay.
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Byron |
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To you what triumph, where ye now are blest,
If of our worthy choice the fame have spread:
And how his laurell'd crest,
Will old
Fabricius
rear, with joy elate,
That his own Rome again shall beauteous be and great!
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| Question: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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speak and save,
For
jealousy
is cruel as the grave.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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To be jealous of a Hebe's fate
Possessed by some demon now a negress
I don't come to conquer your flesh tonight, O beast
The sun, on the sand, O
sleeping
wrestler,
Eyes, lakes of my simple passion to be reborn
I bring you the child of an Idumean night!
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| Answer: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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MORE
NONSENSE
PICTURES, RHYMES, BOTANY, ETC.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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at si, cum referetque diem condetque relatum,
lucidus orbis erit, frustra terrebere nimbis
et claro siluas cernes
Aquilone
moueri.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Que celui-la qui rit de mon inquietude,
Et qui n'est pas saisi d'un frisson fraternel
Songe bien que malgre tant de decrepitude
Ces sept monstres hideux avaient l'air
eternel!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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O glorious chief, while storms and oceans rav'd,
What
hopeless
toils thy dauntless valour brav'd!
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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I told him that I had composed a
treatise
on the subject.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
"
[Illustration]
There was an old man of Ibreem,
Who
suddenly
threaten'd to scream;
But they said, "If you do, we will thump you quite blue,
You disgusting old man of Ibreem!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Ididnotknow One half the
substance
of his speech with me.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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what more can they
pretend?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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KATE: In which of your
characters
may we address you?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
"
A son of God was the Goodly Fere That bade us his
brothers
be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
That
whistling
boy who minds his goats
So idly in the grey ravine,
"The brown-backed rower drenched with spray, 5
The lemon-seller in the street,
And the young girl who keeps her first
Wild love-tryst at the rising moon,--
"Lo, these are wiser than the wise.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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You lay what
imputations
you please
upon me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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And hour by hour, when the air was still, _70
The vapours arose which have
strength
to kill;
At morn they were seen, at noon they were felt,
At night they were darkness no star could melt.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
]
As life wanes on, the
passions
slow depart,
One with his grinning mask, one with his steel;
Like to a strolling troupe of Thespian art,
Whose pace decreases, winding past the hill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And chaste Diana, and Juno, the august,
All the gods, in short, witnessing my tenderness, 1405
Will
guarantee
the faith of my sacred promise.
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| Question: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The fine slender shoulder-blades:
The long arms, with tapering hands:
My small breasts: the hips well made
Full and firm, and sweetly planned,
All Love's
tournaments
to withstand:
The broad flanks: the nest of hair,
With plump thighs firmly spanned,
Inside its little garden there?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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You are naught
But the
defilement
that is in me now,
Rejoicing to be lodged safely within me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Hear how
Homer has described the same: "The
snowflakes
fall thick and fast on a
winter's day.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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fine cause for
lamentation!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Thy
dangerous
glances
Make women of men;
New-born, we are melting
Into nature again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
_Sport in the Meadows_
Maytime is to the meadows coming in,
And cowslip peeps have gotten eer so big,
And water blobs and all their golden kin
Crowd round the shallows by the
striding
brig.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
When I see the
blossoming
trees
And hear the nightingale in song,
Then how can a man go wrong,
Who chooses loving and is pleased.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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She has vassals to attend her;
She will bring, in spite of frost,
Beauties
that the earth hath lost;
She will bring thee, all together,
All delights of summer weather;
All the buds and bells of May,
From dewy sward or thorny spray;
All the heaped Autumn's wealth,
With a still, mysterious stealth:
She will mix these pleasures up
Like three fit wines in a cup,
And thou shalt quaff it;--thou shalt hear
Distant harvest-carols clear;
Rustle of the reaped corn;
Sweet birds antheming the morn:
And in the same moment--hark!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Strange, above all, thy length of tress,
And this all solemn
silentness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Cease that proud temper: Venus loves it not:
The rope may break, the wheel may
backward
turn:
Begetting you, no Tuscan sire begot
Penelope the stern.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
And left--her slender sweetness to divine,
Alone a necklace
wreathed
with silken tresses,
(With which a godly friend arrayed her shrine)
A marble block amid the weeds and cresses.
| 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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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
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 |
|
Speaks not of self that mystic tone,
But of the
Overgods
alone:
It trembles to the cosmic breath,--
As it heareth, so it saith;
Obeying meek the primal Cause,
It is the tongue of mundane laws.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
"Who told you to write and
denounce
me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
There's cloud upon the hill-top and there 's mist deep down the hollow,
And fog among the rushes and the
rustling
sedge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Every
modern traveler
involuntarily
uses a similar expression.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Whoe'er she be,
That not
impossible
She
That shall command my heart and me;
Where'er she lie,
Lock'd up from mortal eye
In shady leaves of destiny:
Till that ripe birth
Of studied Fate stand forth,
And teach her fair steps to our earth;
Till that divine
Idea take a shrine
Of crystal flesh, through which to shine:
--Meet you her, my Wishes,
Bespeak her to my blisses,
And be ye call'd, my absent kisses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
["Burns," says Hogg, in a note on this Poem, "has written more from
his own heart and his own
feelings
than any other poet.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a
reminder
of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Silent he Urizeneye'd the Prince * {In the gap after this stanza, several
fragments
of erased lines appear:
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Explosion
de chaleur
Dans ma noire Siberie!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
/ "---- I suoi
pensieri
in lui
dormir non ponno"--Tasso.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Elvire
Through his efforts those two kings were won;
His hand
conquered
them, he was the one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
"
Last eve, as I was leading the king's children From the pasture where they played,
A fairy bugle sounded from an oak-tree Where tired elves had strayed;
And as it
thrilled
across the purple uplands And dropped to one soft note,
A golden birdie darted from the branches With white and silver throat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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at quen he
blusched
?
| 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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
I hear the
Egyptian
harp of many strings,
The primitive chants of the Nile boatmen,
The sacred imperial hymns of China,
To the delicate sounds of the king, (the stricken wood and stone,)
Or to Hindu flutes and the fretting twang of the vina,
A band of bayaderes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
But best befriended of the God
He who, in evil times,
Warned by an inward voice,
Heeds not the
darkness
and the dread,
Biding by his rule and choice,
Feeling only the fiery thread
Leading over heroic ground,
Walled with mortal terror round,
To the aim which him allures,
And the sweet heaven his deed secures.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Lo, I have
followed
you hither to Rome, and I'd like to do something
Here in this far away land pleasing to such an old friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Hast thou not seen, sweeping so far and high,
The meteors, midnight
flambeaus
of the sky,
How after them they draw long trails of flame
Wherever Nature gives a thoroughfare?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
He was
altogether
ignorant; but possessed a
wonderful facility in pouring out doggrel verse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Your lady's rich, and money does not want;
Howe'er, my little dog to her I'll grant
If she'll a night permit me in her bed,
The
treasure
shall at once to her be led.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
' At last, wearied out, he
retorted
one day:
'Wal, Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
"
His voice had taken the peculiar
flatness
of the blind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Thaw your glue-pot,--
Blow up your ash-heap to a flame, and brew,
With a dull fire, in your stew-pot,
Of other men's
leavings
a ragout!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Nativity, once in the main of light,
Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd,
Crooked
eclipses
'gainst his glory fight,
And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
'
She looks into me
The unknowing heart
To see if I love
She has
confidence
she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
when I think of that vision divine,
Think of writing it, line by line,
I stand in awe of the
terrible
curse,
Like the trump of doom, in the closing verse!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Those gods you
endlessly
weep will return!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
--
That was a
wonderful
look he had in his eyes:
'Tis a heart, I believe, that will burn marvellously!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Cool upon his brow
The quiet
darkness
brooded, as he scanned
The starry sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Appear for him,
Avenger!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
In the
preparation
of the present school edition it has been thought best
to omit Heyne's notes, as they concern themselves principally with
conjectural emendations, substitutions of one reading for another, and
discussions of the condition of the Ms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
"
The "_kibitka_"
followed
at a walk.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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What a career
For me when the
ancestral
horn he breaks
Of the nobility.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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sparge, precor, flores supra mea busta, uiator:
fauisti uiuo
forsitan
ipse mihi.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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[57]
_Quellen
Studien_, p.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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One day--oh, bitter
thought!
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Hugo - Poems |
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I alone am
faithful!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The
trumpets
sound, their voice is very clear,
And the olifant its echoing music speaks.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The
allusions
of Camoens to
this voyage, though in the spirit of his age, are by no means improper.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Now, Doge, denounce me 250
As rebel slave of a revolted
Council!
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Byron |
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hear my latest breath;
The gods inspire it, and it sounds thy death:
Insulting
man, thou shalt be soon as I;
Black fate o'erhangs thee, and thy hour draws nigh;
Even now on life's last verge I see thee stand,
I see thee fall, and by Achilles' hand.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Their
shivered
swords are red with rust,
Their plumed heads are bowed;
Their haughty banner, trailed in dust,
Is now their martial shroud.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The "Yo Fu Kuang T'i" says: Kao Huan
attacked
Pi,
king of Chou, but lost nearly half his men.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The
reference
is
to a group of freethinkers who came into prominence in King William's
reign.
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Alexander Pope |
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Hyde's early poems have even in translation a
_naivete_
and wildness
that sets them, as I think, among the finest poetry of our time; but he
had ceased to write any verses but those Oireachtas odes that are but
ingenious rhetoric.
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Yeats |
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