A chosen company issue from the
gates while the morning star is high; they pour forth with meshed nets,
toils, broad-headed hunting spears, Massylian
horsemen
and sinewy
sleuth-hounds.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Is she not supple and strong
For hurried
passion?
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Sappho |
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I
intended
to show you the way to a secret staircase,
while the Countess was asleep, as we would have to cross her chamber.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I've
gathered
flowers all as I came along,
At every step a flower
Fed by your last bright shower,--
[She divides an armful of all sorts of flowers with April, who
strolls away through the garden.
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| Question: |
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Christina Rossetti |
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Wide sea, that one
continuous
murmur breeds
Along the pebbled shore of memory!
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Keats |
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And O dear what shall I do,
When nobody
whispers
to marry me--
Nobody cometh to woo?
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| Question: |
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John Clare |
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Themselves unmoved, the
stoutest
hearts that e'er
To Love were rebels; from those feet so fair,
From her whole form, for Eden only meet,
My spirit took its life--now these delight
The King of Heaven and his angelic train,
While, blind and naked, I am left in night.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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You may still wander through
old
orchards
of native fruit of great extent, which for the most part
went to the cider-mill, now all gone to decay.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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His heart in me keeps him and me in one,
My heart in him his
thoughts
and senses guides:
He loves my heart, for once it was his own,
I cherish his because in me it bides:
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his.
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Golden Treasury |
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Laurentiani
51 _nam_] _non_ G || _anatunsia_ D
52 _torruerit_ Turnebus: _corpuerit_ Markland
54
_eetheis_
G: _oethis_ BLa1RVen: _cetheis_ O || _malia_ a:
_maulia_ GORVen: _manlia_ Dp
55 _pupula_ scripsi, cf.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Have you marked but the fall o' the snow
Before the soil hath
smutched
it?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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, _father's
brother_
in comp.
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Beowulf |
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Light in the eyes again,
Strength in the hand,
A spirit dares, dies, forgives,
And can
understand!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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THE TRAVELLING BEAR
Grass-blades push up between the cobblestones
And catch the sun on their flat sides
Shooting
it back,
Gold and emerald,
Into the eyes of passers-by.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old person of Skye,
Who waltz'd with a
Bluebottle
fly:
They buzz'd a sweet tune, to the light of the moon,
And entranced all the people of Skye.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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" Wherefore speak
Of Scylla, child of Nisus, who, 'tis said,
Her fair white loins with barking monsters girt
Vexed the Dulichian ships, and, in the deep
Swift-eddying whirlpool, with her sea-dogs tore
The
trembling
mariners?
| Guess: |
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Last eve in dreams, I saw thee stand,
Like queenly nymphs from Fairy-land--
Enchantress of the flowery wand,
Most
beauteous
Isadore!
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Poe - 5 |
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He still visits the
hospitals
on Sundays, and often
on other days as well.
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Whitman |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
"
must at least have suspected it, for in a letter dated 5th
September, 1884, she wrote:--
MY DEAR FRIEND,-- What
portfolios
full of verses
you must have!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM At the Pond and Terrace of Consort Zheng, Happy to Meet
Instructor
Zheng 283 At the end of my rope, I see how a real friend behaves, the age is blocked, I grieve at the hard ways.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Allume le desir dans les regards des
rustres!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_an_) R sed _an_
pallidiore
atramento
9 _agis_ a
11 _tunicam_ om.
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Latin - Catullus |
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to see her stoop to please;
A beauty so
renowned
for charms and pride,
'Twould take a week, to note each trait described;
No other fault than paleness he could trace,
Which gave her (causes known) still higher grace.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Thrice to its pitch his lofty voice he rears;
The well-known voice thrice
Menelaus
hears:
Alarm'd, to Ajax Telamon he cried,
Who shares his labours, and defends his side:
"O friend!
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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XXVI
Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit,
To thee I send this written embassage,
To witness duty, not to show my wit:
Duty so great, which wit so poor as mine
May make seem bare, in wanting words to show it,
But that I hope some good conceit of thine
In thy soul's thought, all naked, will bestow it:
Till
whatsoever
star that guides my moving,
Points on me graciously with fair aspect,
And puts apparel on my tatter'd loving,
To show me worthy of thy sweet respect:
Then may I dare to boast how I do love thee;
Till then, not show my head where thou mayst prove me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Some of Petrarch's biographers date his commencement of
the study of Greek from the period of Barlaamo's first visit to Avignon;
but I am
inclined
to postpone it to 1342, when Barlaamo returned to the
west and settled at Avignon.
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Petrarch |
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As pleased as little
children
where these grow
In cobbled pattens and worn gowns they go,
Proud of their wisdom when on gooseberry shoots
They stuck eggshells to fright from coming fruits
The brisk-billed rascals; pausing still to see
Their neighbour owls saunter from tree to tree,
Or in the hushing half-light mouse the lane
Long-winged and lordly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
"
THYRSIS
"Here is a hearth, and resinous logs, here fire
Unstinted, and doors black with
ceaseless
smoke.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Such
blushing
fear
Dies at the last from hearts of human kind.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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They sat and
listened
to the brooks and birds,
And watched the starlight perish in pale flame,
Wondering what God would look like when He came.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Lord, this is
violence
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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If him whom God
destroys
He maddens first,
Then thy destruction slake thy madman's thirst.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Most
gracious
Duke,
To my unfolding lend your prosperous ear,
And let me find a charter in your voice
To assist my simpleness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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shall I quit thee
For huffing, braggart, puffed
nobility?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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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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fulle sooner schulde mie hartes blodde smethe,
Fulle soonere woulde I
tortured
bee toe deathe;
Botte--Birtha ys the pryze; ahe!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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But to make an unyielding courage bend,
To make that unfeeling heart of his feel pain, 450
To fetter a captive
astonished
by his chains,
Fighting the yoke, that delights him so, in vain:
That's what I wish, that is what excites me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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swā se secg hwata
secgende
wæs lāðra spella
(partitive gen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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O shadows vain
Except in outward
semblance!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Exit FABIAN
My lord, so please you, these things further thought on,
To think me as well a sister as a wife,
One day shall crown th'
alliance
on't, so please you,
Here at my house, and at my proper cost.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Then, turning to my love, I said,
'The dead are dancing with the dead,
The dust is
whirling
with the dust.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Hence,
wayfarer, thou shalt be in awe of this God, and it will be
profitable
to
thee to keep thy hands off.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
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active links or
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Keats - Lamia |
|
It also tells you how
you may
distribute
copies of this eBook if you want to.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
But the
queen became ill as the time for the tour jousts drew near and he asked
her whether she was too feeble to go to see
Lancelot
in the lists.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
'
The virginal, living and lovely day
Will it fracture for us with a wild wing-blow
This solid lost lake whose frost's haunted below
By the glacier,
transparent
with flights not made?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Narcissus
fell in love with his own reflection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
To fair request
Silent
performance
maketh best return.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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| Question: |
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Poe - 5 |
|
With this poem should be compared the description of Harun al Rashid's
Garden of
Gladness
in the story of Nur-al-din Ali and the damsel Anis al
Talis in the Thirty-Sixth Night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
See them,
sounding
the flood that floats them on,
Moving their sides like human forms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Judea,
everything not known there,
not
identical
with A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
She must have change, she must;
therefore
put money in
thy purse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Could
_anything_
estrange me from a friend such as you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
The Warders
strutted
up and down,
And kept their herd of brutes,
Their uniforms were spick and span,
And they wore their Sunday suits,
But we knew the work they had been at,
By the quicklime on their boots.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
The
majority
threw away their arms
and begged for quarter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
let who may
Against thy faults be railing,
(Though far, I pray, from us be they
That never had a
failing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
having several words in a line
beginning
with
the same letter, is another device frequently employed by Spenser for
musical effect; e.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not received written
confirmation
of compliance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Du stehest still, er wartet auf;
Du
sprichst
ihn an, er strebt an dir hinauf;
Verliere was, er wird es bringen,
Nach deinem Stock ins Wasser springen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Like flowers
sequestered
from the sun
And wind of summer, day by day
I dwindled paler, whilst my hair
Showed the first tinge of grey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
The moderns must not dare to make use of them, or at the
very best moderns must only venture upon such
exceptions
to the rules as
classic precedents would justify.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
'T was such a gallant, gallant sea
That
beckoned
it away!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
His kindly lord
he first had greeted in
gracious
form,
with manly words.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
I crept and touched the foam with fevered hands
And cried to Love, from whom the sea is sweet,
From whom the sea is
bitterer
than death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
"
They 'ngage them then, true love and faith swearing;
A thousand score of Franks
surround
them still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
My cold lips frame
Tremulously the
familiar
name,
Unheard of her upon my breath:
'Elizabeth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
1010 Did our blood ties not provide enough
restraint!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
1540
What nedeth yow to tellen al the chere
That
Deiphebus
un-to his brother made,
Or his accesse, or his siklych manere,
How men gan him with clothes for to lade,
Whan he was leyd, and how men wolde him glade?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
also the speed of the journey home with ymb
ān-tīd ōþres
dōgores
of l.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
The
circumstances
here mentioned are literally true.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
For 1300 years they had been
under the
Patriarch
of Babylon, who appointed their _Mutran_, or
archbishop.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES
WHITTINGHAM
AND CO.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to
darkness
utterly,
It might be well perhaps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
And then the
festival
begins!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
And as one sees most fearful things
In the crystal of a dream,
We saw the greasy hempen rope
Hooked to the blackened beam,
And heard the prayer the hangman's snare
Strangled
into a scream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
He is weak, very old--he can
scarcely
uptear
A young pine-tree for staff since his legs cease to bear;
But here's to replace him!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Elan,
daughter
of Healfdene, king of the Danes, (?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
156
_scilla_
O: _silla_ GRVenLa1
158 _conub_ BAC: _connub.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
For, fisherman, what fresh or
seawater
catch
equals him, either in form or savour,
that lovely divine fish, Jesus, My Saviour?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
[709]
Presumably
a man in extreme poverty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
A
CEREMONY
IN GLOUCESTER.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
In this wise was the dead
Patroclus
brought back to Achilles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
It is
observable
too, that ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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'Twas well enough when summer came,
The long, warm,
lightsome
summer-day,
Then at her door the _canty_ dame
Would sit, as any linnet gay.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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or fancy I'm
lonesome?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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--
or fancy I'm
lonesome?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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the objects fair,
To whom ye for
unnumbered
crimes
Had to compose in secret rhymes,
To whom your hearts were consecrate,--
Did they not all the Russian tongue
With little knowledge and that wrong
In charming fashion mutilate?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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the word _loth_, _loath_, _looth_, occurred
to myself and an assistant
independently
before we saw that it is
mentioned in the foot-note.
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John Donne |
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To
introduce
myself to your story
It's as the frightened hero
If he touched with naked toe
A blade of territory
Prejudicial to glaciers I
Know of no sin's naivety
Whose loud laugh of victory
You won't have then denied
Say if I'm not filled with joyousness
Thunder and rubies to the hubs no less
To see in the air this fire is piercing
With royal kingdoms far scattering,
The wheel, crimson, as if in dying,
Of my chariot's single evening.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Franceline rose in the dawning gray,
And her heart would dance though she knelt to pray,
For her man Michel had holiday,
Fighting
for France.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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