And sharp the link of life will snap,
And dead on air will stand
Heels that held up as
straight
a chap
As treads upon the land.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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accipe supremo dictum mihi
forsitan
ore,
quod, tibi qui mittit, non habet ipse, uale!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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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 |
|
The Etudes Critiques of Edmond Scherer were
collected
in 1863.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
I was
received
like one of the
family in the household of the Commandant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
A second
volume (1890-1902)
contains
Cantos VII.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Fine was the mitigated fury, like
Apollo's presence when in act to strike
The serpent--Ha, the
serpent!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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He represents him as one whose trust was in the five
wounds, and in whom the five virtues which distinguished the true knight
were more firmly
established
than in any other on earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
It
does not blow till towards the month of July--you then
perceive
it gradually open its petals--expand them--fade
and die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Far away
The dim waves rise and wrestle with each other
And fall down
headlong
on the beach.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Like a pine
Too
strongly
rooted in the rock to bend
Or break beneath the fury of the storm,
He towered amid the hurricane of death
That roared and flamed around him.
| 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 |
|
140
That I may pass in
patience
still speak:
Let me have music dying, and I seek
No more delight--I bid adieu to all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
More
multiform
far--more lasting thou than they.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
The wind begun to rock the grass
With
threatening
tunes and low, --
He flung a menace at the earth,
A menace at the sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
"
HOLY THURSDAY
Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and
fruitful
land, --
Babes reduced to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Do the feasters
gluttonous
feast?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
As old Toledos past their days of war
Are kept
mnemonic
of the strokes they bore,
So art thou with us, being good to keep
In our heart's sword-rack, though thy sword-arm
sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Haile wedded Love, mysterious Law, true source 750
Of human ofspring, sole proprietie,
In
Paradise
of all things common else.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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gedrogen
hæfde eorðan wynne, _that he had now enjoyed the
pleasures
of earth_ (i.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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The soul sees through the senses, imagines, hears,
Has from the body's powers its acts and looks:
The spirit once
embodied
has wit, makes books,
Matter makes it more perfect and more fair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
The tapers slowly fade
Thou
speedest
from these halls,
Now that thy love is dead--
And sound of weeping falls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
{1e} A
disturber
of the border, one who sallies from his haunt in
the fen and roams over the country near by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
To be sure, these two are not numbered, so that I was long
undecided as to just what their proper
position
might be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
XLIII
THE
IMMORTAL
PART
When I meet the morning beam,
Or lay me down at night to dream,
I hear my bones within me say,
"Another night, another day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
For there was Milton like a seraph strong,
Beside him Shakespeare bland and mild;
And there the world-worn Dante grasp'd his song,
And
somewhat
grimly smiled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Let me, I pray, your
teachings
share!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Herself, the holy cake in her pure hands, hard by the
altars, with one foot unshod and garments flowing loose, she invokes the
gods ere she die, and the stars that know of doom; then prays to
whatsoever deity looks in righteousness and
remembrance
on lovers ill
allied.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
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: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
It sometimes, however,
supports
readings which are otherwise confined
to _O'F_ and the later editions of the poem, showing that these may be
older than 1632-5.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
"
I could not
dishearten
him by saying the truth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Næs þā on hlytme, hwā þæt hord strude,
syððan or-wearde ǣnigne dǣl
secgas gesēgon on sele wunian,
3130 lǣne licgan: lȳt ǣnig mearn,
þæt hī
ofostlice
ūt geferedon
dȳre māðmas; dracan ēc scufun,
wyrm ofer weall-clif, lēton wǣg niman,
flōd fæðmian frætwa hyrde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all their prosperity; if need be,
you shall have every one of those houses to destroy them;
You thought not to destroy those
valuable
houses, standing fast, full of
comfort, built with money;
May they stand fast, then?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
O jealousy, that art
The canker of the heart;
And mak'st all hell
Where thou do'st dwell;
For pity be
No fury, or no
firebrand
to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
How can you
understand
that this my heart
Is but a sparrow in an eagle's nest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
"His
glorious
acts and illustrious deeds often shall mothers attest o'er
funeral-rites of their sons, when the white locks from their heads are
unloosed amid ashes, and they bruise their discoloured breasts with feeble
fists.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
He robbed the rich to give
to the poor, and waged
ceaseless
war against the wealthy prelates of the
church.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
at ich take god to
witnesse!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
Shake off those baby-bands from your strong
armSy
Henceforth be deaf to that old witch's charms ;
Taste the
delicious
sweets of sovereign power,
'TIS royal game whole kingdoms to deflower.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
For your
interest
or favour with him, you are to be the
shorter or longer, more familiar or submiss, as he will afford you time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
uiuerit_ O: _fouerit_ potest uideri legisse Agius
in Epicedio
Hathumodae
73, 4 (Poet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
" My
journal for the last year or two has been
_selenitic_
in this sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
The many heard, and the loud revelry
Grew hush; the stately music no more breathes;
The myrtle sicken'd in a
thousand
wreaths.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Come in, dear fly, and pardon my delay
In thus existing; I can promise you
Next time you come you'll find no dying poet--
Without
sufficient
spleen to see me through,
The joke becomes too tedious a jest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Vampyre
booksellers
drain him to the heart,
And scorpion critics cureless venom dart.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
20
Deaf, drooping, that is now his doom:
His world is in this single room:
Is this a place for
mirthful
cheer?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
All good
thoughts
be near,
For thee to speak and me to understand!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
230
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
One of the low on whom
assurance
sits
As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Although
his father's temple be fallen, and though of its pillars
Scarcely a pair yet records ancient glory adored,
Nevertheless the son's place of worship still stands, and forever
Will there the ardent requests alternate with the thanks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
"Hernani" is the
most famous play in the European literature of the
nineteenth
century.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
The Hottentots eagerly devour the
marrow of the koodoo and other
antelopes
raw, as a matter of course.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Ay, my dear lady, in the mouths of two
Good
witnesses
each word is true;
I've a friend, a fine fellow, who, when you desire,
Will render on oath what you require.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
CXLVII
Oliver feels that death is drawing nigh;
To avenge himself he hath no longer time;
Through the great press most
gallantly
he strikes,
He breaks their spears, their buckled shields doth slice,
Their feet, their fists, their shoulders and their sides,
Dismembers them: whoso had seen that sigh,
Dead in the field one on another piled,
Remember well a vassal brave he might.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
When the
Sergeant
learnt that we came from Fort Belogorsk he took us
direct to the General.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
[_The_
CONSPIRATORS
_write their names on pieces of
parchment, and throw them into an urn.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
Raymond's interesting
observations
annexed to his
translation of Coxe's 'Tour in Switzerland'.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
"
I bowed my head; despair
overwhelmed
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
And I
remember
still
The words, and from whom they came,
Not he that repeateth the name,
But he that doeth the will!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
He remarks, "The English
term _eagre_ still survives in
provincial
dialect for the tide-wave or bore
on rivers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
THE CHILD'S GRAVE
I came to the
churchyard
where pretty Joy lies
On a morning in April, a rare sunny day;
Such bloom rose around, and so many birds' cries
That I sang for delight as I followed the way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Her love, too, is quite
different
from
his.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
"
So much I heard, and so much tell to thee,
Not knowing if I speak unto his kin
Who rule his home; but well, I deem, it were,
Such news should
earliest
reach a parent's ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
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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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
until the firmament
Outblackens
Erebus, and the full-cavern'd earth
Crumbles into itself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
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: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Credo, sic mater, sic Liber avonculus eius, 5
Sic
maternus
avos dixerat atque avia.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee
So far from home into my deeds to pry,
To find out shames and idle hours in me,
The scope and tenure of thy
jealousy?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Perhaps a few on the ground show their red cheeks above the
early snow, and occasionally some even preserve their color and
soundness under the snow
throughout
the winter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
VII
"But reached not France, for southern tempest's spite
Impelled me hither; lodged in royal bower
Ten months or more; for --
miserable
wight!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
e on
Emperoure
his honde vp took,
And wolde haue taken out ?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax
treatment
of donations received from
outside the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
org
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
_Eighth and Cheaper
Edition_
(_1s.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
It is no little thing, when a fresh soul
And a fresh heart, with their
unmeasured
scope
For good, not gravitating earthward yet,
But circling in diviner periods,
Are sent into the world,--no little thing,
When this unbounded possibility
Into the outer silence is withdrawn.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
However,
considering
the confusion, our
loss was less than might have been expected, for the Germans, not
daring to venture out of the marsh, withdrew to their camp.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Existence of undoubted
plagiarisms
from Shakespeare, Gray, &c.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
FAUST:
O glucklich, wer noch hoffen kann,
Aus diesem Meer des Irrtums
aufzutauchen!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Far thee well Lord,
I would not be the
Villaine
that thou think'st,
For the whole Space that's in the Tyrants Graspe,
And the rich East to boot
Mal.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Bicaus hee fyghteth for hys
countryes
gare?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your
inexperience
on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
'
He ended; and Ilioneus pursued his speech with these words:
'King, Faunus'
illustrious
progeny, neither hath black tempest driven us
with stress of waves to shelter in your lands, nor hath star or shore
misled us on the way we went.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
If I did know you, I knew too much of you since the first
beginning
of
my life!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Yeats |
|
It was
precisely at the time at which the Roman people rose to
unrivalled political
ascendency
that they stooped to pass under
the intellectual yoke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
At length the sun, gazing upon the earth,
Dispers'd those vapours that offended us;
And, by the benefit of his wished light,
The seas wax'd calm, and we discovered
Two ships from far making amain to us-
Of Corinth that, of
Epidaurus
this.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Your folds ye
gateways
wide-ope swing!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Even it indicted, what is that but fudge
To him who counted-in the
elective
judge?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
]
[Sidenote B: She desires some gift,]
[Sidenote C: by which to
remember
him.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
"
"Surely," replied this other;
"His
grandfathers
beat them many times.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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A Muse by these is like a
mistress
us'd,
This hour she's idoliz'd, the next abus'd;
While their weak heads like towns unfortify'd,
'Twixt sense and nonsense daily change their side.
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Alexander Pope |
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Two other
minstrels
there I spied that bore
His name, renown'd on Arno's tuneful shore.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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By sea, too, the
Etesian[453] winds from the north-west favoured ships sailing
eastward, but
hindered
the voyage from the East.
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Tacitus |
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The truth, I fancy, this: bodies there are
Whose clashings, motions, order, posture, shapes
Produce the fire and which, by order changed,
Do change the nature of the thing produced,
And are thereafter nothing like to fire
Nor whatso else has power to send its bodies
With impact
touching
on the senses' touch.
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Lucretius |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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If you would but eat
something
you'd find out
That you have had these thoughts from lack of food,
For hunger makes us feverish.
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Yeats |
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`Wherfore I am, and wol be, ay redy
To peyne me to do yow this servyse;
For bothe yow to plese thus hope I 990
Her-afterward; for ye beth bothe wyse,
And conne it
counseyl
kepe in swich a wyse
That no man shal the wyser of it be;
And so we may be gladed alle three.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And, by the Lord,
Katrina!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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