The poet himself is never cynical; his
joyousness is all too
apparent
in the very manner and intensity of
expression.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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830
Wher shal I seye to yow "wel come" or no,
That alderfirst me
broughte
in-to servyse
Of love, allas!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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7993), and
_irattutu_
in Zimmern, _Shurpu_, Index.
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| Question: |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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WELL-BRED: Ned
Knowell!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The styles are taken from
Classical
art.
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| Question: |
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Ronsard |
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His father
belonged
to a family of praetorian rank; his
mother's father was one of the proscribed.
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Tacitus |
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Not so: a buck was then a week's repast,
And 'twas their point, I ween, to make it last;
More pleased to keep it till their friends could come,
Than eat the sweetest by
themselves
at home.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Oh, thou didst walk in agony,
Hearing thy mother's cry, the cry
Of
wordless
wailing, well know I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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No man doth bear his sin,
But many sins
Are
gathered
as a cloud about man's way.
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| Question: |
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And this first Summer month that brings the Rose
Shall take Jamshyd and
Kaikobad
away.
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| Question: |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The tumult rose and ceased: for Peace is nigh
Where wisdom's voice has found a
listening
heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I would have seen it, but I wait here yet:
I was at the
crowning
of the good king of Estampa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Come, Mercury, by whose minstrel spell
Amphion raised the Theban stones,
Come, with thy seven sweet strings, my shell,
Thy "diverse tones,"
Nor vocal once nor pleasant, now
To rich man's board and temple dear:
Put forth thy power, till Lyde bow
Her
stubborn
ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
But my Lord Raoul was in the mood, to-day,
Which craves
suggestions
simply with a view
To flout them in the face, and so waved hand
Backward, and stayed the on-pressing sycophants
Eager to buy rich praise with bravery cheap.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Like sorrow came upon me, heavier still,
Than when I wander'd from the poppy hill:
And a whole age of lingering moments crept
Sluggishly
by, ere more contentment swept
Away at once the deadly yellow spleen.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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If I may have it when it's dead
I will
contented
be;
If just as soon as breath is out
It shall belong to me,
Until they lock it in the grave,
'T is bliss I cannot weigh,
For though they lock thee in the grave,
Myself can hold the key.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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(Now, the Clangle-Wangle is a most
dangerous
and delusive beast, and by no
means commonly to be met with.
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| Question: |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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--here, in a word, are all
The gods that Varro mentions, great and small;
Each with
innumerable
bonds detain'd,
And Jupiter before the chariot chain'd.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
6 This describes the plundering of the
imperial
tombs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Parce que vous fouillez le ventre de la Femme
Vous craignez d'elle encore une convulsion
Qui crie, asphyxiant votre nichee infame
Sur sa poitrine, en une
horrible
pression.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The man who spoke
When we were at the
Scottish
Gate that day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's
countless
blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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But
suddenly
all changed around!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Content with little, I can p----e here
On
broccoli
and mutton, round the year;
But ancient friends (though poor, or out of play)
That touch my bell, I cannot turn away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Project
Gutenberg is a
registered
trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With
sorceries
sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's mysterious season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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" The better to emphasise my refusal I
struck the ground so
violently
with my foot that my leg was thrust up to
the knee in the recent grave, and I, like a wolf in a trap, was caught
perhaps for ever in the Grave of the Ideal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But it was a
pincushion
heaven, with hymn-books in all the
pews.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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aut quid hic potest
nisi uncta
deuorare
patrimonia?
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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]
List to me, O
Madelaine!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Then turn your forces from this paltry siege
And stir them up against a
mightier
task.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Heaven lit the fatal flame within my breast: 1625
That
detestable
Oenone managed all the rest.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Those hollies of
themselves
a shape
As of an arbour took,
A close, round arbour; and it stands
Not three strides from a brook.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
seest thou how our enemies
Are labouring in
amazement?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Beware the one-eyed Arimaspian band
That tramp on horse-hoofs,
dwelling
by the ford
Of Pluto and the stream that flows with gold:
Keep thou aloof from these.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
That's what I call a genuine art,
To make poor rats with poison
wriggle!
| 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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INCANTATION
When the leaves, by thousands thinned,
A thousand times have whirled in the wind,
And the moon, with hollow cheek,
Staring from her hollow height,
Consolation seems to seek
From the dim, reechoing night;
And the fog-streaks dead and white
Lie like ghosts of lost delight
O'er highest earth and lowest sky;
Then, Autumn, work thy
witchery!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
" remarked one of the
men, addressing a young officer of the
Engineering
Corps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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A rumour, scarcely yet to be
reckoned
sound,
But a pulse quicker or slower, then I know
My plea is granted; death prevails not yet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
The body grows outside, --
The more
convenient
way, --
That if the spirit like to hide,
Its temple stands alway
Ajar, secure, inviting;
It never did betray
The soul that asked its shelter
In timid honesty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"I engage with the Snark--every night after dark--
In a dreamy delirious fight:
I serve it with greens in those shadowy scenes,
And I use it for
striking
a light:
"But if ever I meet with a Boojum, that day,
In a moment (of this I am sure),
I shall softly and suddenly vanish away--
And the notion I cannot endure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
'Or whether mortal taught or God inspired
The power of
unpremeditated
song?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Why
Dost thou keep
silence?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Some mortal may inform thee, or a word,[4]
Perchance, by Jove directed (safest source
Of notice to
mankind)
may reach thine ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
VIII
"Farewell to barn and stack and tree,
Farewell
to Severn shore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
_Sophocles
was first,
Euripides second with the Cretan Women, Alcmaeon in Psophis, Telephus and
Alcestis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
There are enough
soldiers
and cannons
there, and the walls are stone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
_x_2 + 7_x_ + 53 = 11/3
But something
whispered
"It will soon be done:
Bands cannot always play, nor ladies smile:
Endure with patience the distasteful fun
For just a little while!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
Came, as through
bubbling
honey, for Love's sake,
And thus; while Hermes on his pinions lay,
Like a stoop'd falcon ere he takes his prey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Green rushes, then, and
sweetest
bents,
With cooler oaken boughs,
Come in for comely ornaments
To re-adorn the house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
By the turning, once again,
The moon
thniwfeh
up your visage wan,
And yet too late to call you back.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
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: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
Note:
Cassandra
of Troy refused Phoebus Apollo's love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
The prisoner, being
questioned as to his
whereabouts
on the morning of Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
You must
consider
the next from the native point of view.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
_
Shatter her
beauteous
breast ye may;
The spirit of England none can slay!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
He scampered to the bushes far away;
The shepherd called the
ploughman
to the fray;
The ploughman wished he had a gun to shoot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
DESTINY
That you are fair or wise is vain,
Or strong, or rich, or generous;
You must add the
untaught
strain
That sheds beauty on the rose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
You know the rest:
How the rebels, beaten and
backward
pressed,
Broke at the final charge, and ran.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium
with your written explanation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
See me return'd
After long suff'rings, in the
twentieth
year,
To my own land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Receive, Christ Jesus, these two, and the five that remain, into
thy eternal
habitations!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
With not even one blow
landing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Here it is used to
reinforce
the sense of a binding love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
O how charmingly Nature hath array'd thee
With the soft green grass and juicy clover,
And with corn-flowers
blooming
and luxuriant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Thy voice is as the hill-wind over me,
And all my
changing
heart gives heed, my lover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
All but one weighty, grave
request!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
"
Now we are of late years beginning to
understand
much better what a
Satyr-play was.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your
obsessions
in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
60
Then prostrate falls, and begs with ardent eyes
Soon to obtain, and long possess the prize:
The pow'rs gave ear, and granted half his pray'r,
The rest the winds
dispersed
in empty air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling
everything
I love
One that is always new.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Then, bending towards his dear, adorable, and
execrable
wife, his
inevitable and pitiless muse, he kissed her respectfully upon the hand,
and added, "Ah, dear angel, how I thank you for my skill!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
what a knight, were he a
Christian
yet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
All ye friends,
Farewell!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
He has a genius for coining absurd names and words, which, even when they
are suggested by the
exigencies
of his metre, have a ludicrous
appropriateness to the matter in hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
]
It is not
necessary
here to attempt to disentangle or explain away the
numerous amours in which he was engaged through the greater part of his
life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
IV
The diver at
Sorrento
from beneath
The vitreous indigo, who swiftly riseth,
By will and not by action as it seemeth,
Moves not more smoothly, and no thought sur-
miseth
How she takes motion from the lustrous sheath
Which, as the trace behind the swimmer, gleameth Yet presseth back the aether where it streameth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
"
Those two old
Bachelors
without loss of time
The nearly purpledicular crags at once began to climb;
And at the top, among the rocks, all seated in a nook,
They saw that Sage a-reading of a most enormous book.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
My faith I give to Roman Catholiques;
All my good works unto the Schismaticks 20
Of Amsterdam; my best civility
And Courtship, to an Universitie;
My modesty I give to souldiers bare;
My
patience
let gamesters share.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic
tax
returns.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Or, again,
O what could Cretan Bull, or Hydra, pest
Of Lerna, fenced with vipers
venomous?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
His clients from the battle
Bare him some little space,
And filled a helm from the dark lake,
And bathed his brow and face;
And when at last he opened
His
swimming
eyes to light,
Men say, the earliest words he spake
Was, "Friends, how goes the fight?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
)
The ghosts of dead loves everyone
That make the stark winds reek with fear
Lest love return with the foison sun And slay the memories that me cheer (Such as I drink to mine
fashion)
Wincing the ghosts of yester-year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Of the gradual and individual
development
of Homer's heroes,
Schlegel well observes, "In bas-relief the figures are usually in
profile, and in the epos all are characterized in the simplest
manner in relief; they are not grouped together, but follow one
another; so Homer's heroes advance, one by one, in succession before
us.
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Grim
Cerberus
wagg'd his tail to see
Thy golden horn, nor dream'd of wrong,
But gently fawning, follow'd thee,
And lick'd thy feet with triple tongue.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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each
fleeting
hour
Has onward borne, as in a fevered dream,
Such quick reverses, like a judge supreme--
Austere but just, they contemplate the end
To which the current of events must tend.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
hillside
vines dear memories of Thee bring:
A bird at evening flying to its nest
Tells me of One who had no place of rest:
I think it is of Thee the sparrows sing.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Besides, though but a moment since
Serenest was the weather of the sky,
So fiercely sudden is it foully thick
That ye might think that round about all murk
Had parted forth from Acheron and filled
The mighty vaults of sky--so grievously,
As gathers thus the storm-clouds'
gruesome
night,
Do faces of black horror hang on high--
Of which how small a part an image is
There's none to tell or reckon out in words.
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Lucretius |
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SOUTH-WIND
Soft-throated South,
breathing
of summer's ease
(Sweet breath, whereof the violet's life is made!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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We two
together
no more_!
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Whitman |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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darkning
in the West
Lost!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Those golden tresses, teeth of pearly white,
Those cheeks' fair roses
blooming
to decay,
Do in their beauty to my soul convey
The poison'd arrows from my aching sight.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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