The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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| Question: |
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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How space quivers
Like an
enormous
kiss
That, wild to be born for no one, can neither
Burst out or be soothed like this.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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And the
Ferryman
of the Dead,
His hand that hangs on the pole, his voice that cries;
"Thou lingerest; come.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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_ But
suffering
more grievous still than this he may inflict.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
And as each jarring, monster-mass is past,
Fond
recollect
what once thou wast:
In manner due, beneath this sacred oak,
Hear, Spirit, hear!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
And you who know my
suffering
spirit,
Will see me end this thing as I began it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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" He then tells very
agreeably the stories of Elfleda and Elfrida, two stories which
have a most
suspicious
air of romance, ad which, indeed, greatly
resemble, in their character, some of the legends of early Rome.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The fastidious care with which each poem is built
out of the simplest of technical elements, the precise tone and color of
language employed to articulate impulse and mood, and the reproduction
of objective
substances
for a clear visualization of character and
scene, all tend by a sure and unfaltering composition, to present a
lyric art unique in English poetry of the last twenty-five years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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We'll go
forthwith
and learn what is resolved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Though its walls stand, shall bring the city lower :
When legislators shall their trust betray,
Saving their own, shall give the rest away ;
And those false men, by the easy people sent^
Give taxes to the king by parliament ;
When
barefaced
villains shall not blush to cheat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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For that cry
Ourselves
and all the sons of heaven
Have pity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The grass does not refuse
To
flourish
in the spring wind;
The leaves are not angry
At falling through the autumn sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Grant that the
powerful
still the weak control;
Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole:
Nature that tyrant checks; he only knows,
And helps, another creature's wants and woes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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The servant bids his master remain
awhile, saying, "I have brought you hither at this time, and now ye are
not far from that noted place that ye have so often
enquired
after.
| 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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Yes, yes, their bodies go
'Neath burning sun and icy star
To chaunted songs of woe,
Dragging cold cannon through a mud
Of rain and blood;
The new moon glinting hard on eyes
Wide with
insanities!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
My lord, what
misfortune
could equal mine?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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The purple pride
Which on thy soft cheek for
complexion
dwells
In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dy'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
But with Milton, it has become
necessary
to entrust to
the supernatural action the whole aim and purport of the poem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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This great work, in fact, is to be
regarded
as poetical,
only when, losing sight of that vital requisite in all works of Art,
Unity, we view it merely as a series of minor poems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
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 |
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" He was at first victorious; for his own talents
were superior to those of the captains who were opposed to him;
and the Romans were not
prepared
for the onset of the elephants
of the East, which were then for the first time seen in
Italy--moving mountains, with long snakes for hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
A day may save a heart from
breaking
too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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"
Through slaughter-reek strode he to succor his chieftain,
his battle-helm bore, and brief words spake: --
"Beowulf dearest, do all bravely,
as in
youthful
days of yore thou vowedst
that while life should last thou wouldst let no wise
thy glory droop!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
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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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Quant aux
quelques
morceaux en prose qui terminent le volume, je les
eusse retenus pour les publier dans une nouvelle edition des oeuvres en
prose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
XXXIV
And now it seemes, that she
suborned
hath
This craftie messenger with letters vaine,
To worke new woe and unprovided scath, 300
By breaking of the band betwixt us twaine;
Wherein she used hath the practicke paine
Of this false footman, clokt with simplenesse,
Whom if ye please for to discover plaine,
Ye shall him Archimago find, I ghesse, 305
The falsest man alive; who tries shall find no lesse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
It was the Huguenots
Yesterday
that he wanted to behead,
And now it is the duellists.
| 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 |
|
VII
Dead leaves and
stricken
boughs
She heaped o'er the fallen form--
Wolf nor hawk nor lawless storm
Him from his rest should rouse;
But first, with solemn vows,
Took rifle, pouch, and horn,
And the belt that he had worn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Next he
levelled
his spear full on Magus from far.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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They hanged him as a beast is hanged:
They did not even toll
A requiem that might have brought
Rest to his startled soul,
But
hurriedly
they took him out,
And hid him in a hole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
' John Earle makes a similar reference in his
_Character_ of _An Idle
Gallant_
(ed.
| 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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iam me prodere, iam non dubitas fallere,
perfide?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
'
Falls a small cry in the dark and calls--
'I see you
standing
there!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Chimene
You think if he's the victor I'll
surrender?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
19
_libera_
O || _quem_ Paris.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Chisel, file, and ream
That you may lock
Vague dream
In the
resistant
block!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
"My dear
Tibullus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
where
The dancers will break footing, from the care
Of
watching
up thy pregnant lips for more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
He delights, as in an intellectual exercise, in the
grapple with difficult technique, the
victorious
wrestle with grotesque
rhymes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
From the window I look out
To mark thy
beautiful
parade,
Stately marching in cap and coat
To some tune by fairies played;--
A music heard by thee alone
To works as noble led thee on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
"
Lightly
answered
the Colonel's son: "I hold by the blood of my clan:
Take up the mare for my father's gift--by God, she has carried a man!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
[Illustration]
There was an old person of Sark,
Who made an unpleasant remark;
But they said, "Don't you see what a brute you must be,
You
obnoxious
old person of Sark!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
A true witch-element,
methinks!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
"
The
bloodshed
and the attendant miseries which the unparalleled rapine
and cruelties of the Spaniards spread over the new world, indeed
disgrace human nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Below the ice, the unheard stream's
Clear heart thrilled on in ecstasy;
And lo, a visionary blush
Stole warmly o'er the
voiceless
wild;
And in her rapt and wintry hush
The lonely face of Nature smiled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
He did not even seem to know
I watched him gliding through the
vitreous
deep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
)
For
presently
O soldiers, we too camp in our place in the
bivouac-camps of green,
But we need not provide for outposts, nor word for the countersign,
Nor drummer to beat the morning drum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
)
Would Baudelaire recall these prophetic words if he were able to revisit
the
glimpses
of the Champs Elysees at the Autumn Salons?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the
changing
breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks pricking us more than a cobbler's awl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Let this pernitious houre,
Stand aye
accursed
in the Kalender.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
It's the voice that the light made us understand here
That Hermes
Trismegistus
writes of in Pimander.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Here no man
treadeth
oft nor loud,
Through casement comes the Autumn balm,
Here to the hopeless, hope is vowed,
To pleadings, tendered words of calm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Sightless
I see my fair; though mute, I mourn;
I scorn existence, and yet court its stay;
Detest myself, and for another burn;
By grief I'm nurtured; and, though tearful, gay;
Death I despise, and life alike I hate:
Such, lady, dost thou make my wayward state!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
adscriptum
postea huc migrauit
347 _sub tegmine_ R
349 _gnatorum_ ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
I find them
described
chiefly in Brand's "Popular Antiquities.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Thus she lamented day & night, compelld to labour & sorrow
Luvah in vain her lamentations heard; in vain his love
Brought him in various forms before her still she knew him not
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Still she despisd him, calling on his name & knowing him not
Still hating still professing love, still labouring in the smoke
And Los &
Enitharmon
joyd, they drank in tenfold joy To come in
From all the sorrow of Luvah & the labour of Urizen {These two lines struck through, but then marked (to the right of the main body of text) with the following: "To come in.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Stern Urizen beheld
In woe his brethren & his Sons in darkning woe lamenting
Upon the winds in clouds involvd Uttering his voice in
thunders
Commanding all the work with care & power & severity
Then siezd the Lions of Urizen their work, & heated in the forge
Roar the bright masses, thund'ring beat the hammers, many a Globe pyramid {Lowercase "globe" mended to "Globe," then struck.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Ven: _diu_ A
_natisque_
Da: _gnatisque al.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
You see
I've had it since I was born;
And lately a
devilish
corn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
But the longer I live on this
Crumpetty
Tree
The plainer than ever it seems to me
That very few people come this way
And that life on the whole is far from gay!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Most women in London
nowadays
seem to furnish their rooms with nothing
but orchids, foreigners and French novels.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
The due time
of battle will arrive, call it not forth, when furious
Carthage
shall
one day sunder the Alps to hurl ruin full on the towers of Rome.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
I have tried to
describe
what seems to me to
have been the path of enlightenment which opened the way for him to
a change which on every ground of prudence and ambition was desirable
and natural.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
who so dost goad us on
In the brief life, and in the eternal then
Thus
miserably
o'erwhelm us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
"I've sought that cub in every hole,
'Midland, and coast, and islet,
For he's the thief who came and stole
Our
sheathless
jewelled stilet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
a zealous Lancastrian, who
was
executed
at Bristol in the latter end of 1461, the first year of
Edward the Fourth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
I've buried myriads by the hour,
And still there
circulates
each hour a new, fresh blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Bealo-cwealm hafað
"fela feorh-cynna feorr
onsended!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
I sought long days amid the cliffs
thinking
to find The body-house of him, and then
There at the blue cave-mouth my joy
Grew pain for suddenness, to see him 'live.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
LXII
"Terence, this is stupid stuff:
You eat your
victuals
fast enough;
There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering
fuel in vacant lots.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
There's grief of want, and grief of cold, --
A sort they call 'despair;'
There's
banishment
from native eyes,
In sight of native air.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Of all things that life or perhaps my temperament
has given me I prize the gift of
laughter
as beyond price.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
From these to have escap'd
sufficeth
not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Under
the
influence
of the good wine, however, the conversation then became
general.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Unauthenticated
Download
Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 314 ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
"
The Great Longing
Here I sit between my brother the
mountain
and my sister the sea.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Nemone in tanto potuit populo esse, Iuventi,
Bellus homo, quem tu
diligere
inciperes,
Praeterquam iste tuus moribunda a sede Pisauri
Hospes inaurata pallidior statua,
Qui tibi nunc cordist, quem tu praeponere nobis 5
Audes, et nescis quod facinus facias.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
He askid of me than hostages:--
I have,' he seide, 'taken fele homages
Of oon and other, where I have been 2045
Disceyved ofte,
withouten
wene.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
e lat vs
nou{m}bre
hem amonges ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work
electronically
in lieu of a refund.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
'T was a long parting, but the time
For
interview
had come;
Before the judgment-seat of God,
The last and second time
These fleshless lovers met,
A heaven in a gaze,
A heaven of heavens, the privilege
Of one another's eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Heaven's boughs bent down with their alchemy,
Perfumed
airs, and thoughts of wonder.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
and fell so
unnatural
words from a
parent's lips?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
A sound breaks the misty stillness,
And quickly he glances around;
Through the mist, forms like towering giants
Seem rising out of the ground;
A challenge, the
firelock
flashes,
A sword cleaves the quivering air,
And the sentry lies dead by the postern,
Blood staining his bright yellow hair.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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TO BE NEAR HER
RECOMPENSES
HIM FOR ALL THE PERILS OF THE WAY.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And those magic pipes a-blowing
Have
fulfilled
thee in thy reign
By thy Lake with honey flowing,
By thy sheepfolds and thy grain;
Where the Sun turns his steeds
To the twilight, all the meads
Of Molossus know thy sowing
And thy ploughs upon the plain.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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sacred to the fall of day
Queen of
propitious
stars, appear,
And early rise, and long delay
When Caroline herself is here!
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Golden Treasury |
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And heard this voice of sorrow
breathed
from the hollow pit.
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blake-poems |
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Their sharp, full cheer, from rank on rank,
Rose joyously, with a willing breath--
Rose like a
greeting
hail to death.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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There's grief of want, and grief of cold, --
A sort they call 'despair;'
There's
banishment
from native eyes,
In sight of native air.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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'Twas all in vain, a useless matter,
And
blankets
were about him pinned;
Yet still his jaws and teeth they clatter, 115
Like a loose casement in the wind.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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With pictures of human
Infelicity in Men
possessed
of them all, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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You yourself, defeating my powers' eclipse,
Recalling my soul, already hovering on my lips, 770
You revived me with your
flattering
advice.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
April is the
cruellest
month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I shall write immediately to Andrej
Karlovitch to beg him to send you away from Fort
Belogorsk
to some place
still further removed, so that you may get over this folly.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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