The people of Stratford-on-Avon have
remembered
little about him, and
invented no legend to his glory.
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Yeats |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast,
quenching
my fire,
A deity at the gods' ambrosial feast.
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Ronsard |
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O
laughter
if only to royally invest
My absent tomb purple, down there, is spread.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Give a
description
of Prince Arthur.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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1819-1901 231
WAR POEMS--
EMBARCATION 235
DEPARTURE 237
THE COLONEL'S SOLILOQUY 239
THE GOING OF THE BATTERY 242
AT THE WAR OFFICE 245
A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY 247
THE DEAD DRUMMER 249
A WIFE IN LONDON 251
THE SOULS OF THE SLAIN 253
SONG OF THE SOLDIERS' WIVES 260
THE SICK GOD 263
POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE--
GENOA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN 269
SHELLEY'S SKYLARK 272
IN THE OLD THEATRE, FIESOLE 274
ROME: ON THE PALATINE 276
,, BUILDING A NEW STREET IN THE 278
ANCIENT QUARTER
,, THE VATICAN: SALA DELLE MUSE 280
,, AT THE PYRAMID OF CESTIUS 283
LAUSANNE: IN GIBBON'S OLD GARDEN 286
ZERMATT: TO THE MATTERHORN 288
THE BRIDGE OF LODI 290
ON AN INVITATION TO THE UNITED 295
STATES
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS--
THE MOTHER MOURNS 299
"I SAID TO LOVE" 305
A COMMONPLACE DAY 307
AT A LUNAR ECLIPSE 310
THE LACKING SENSE 312
TO LIFE 316
DOOM AND SHE 318
THE PROBLEM 321
THE SUBALTERNS 323
THE SLEEP-WORKER 325
THE BULLFINCHES 327
GOD-FORGOTTEN 329
THE BEDRIDDEN PEASANT TO AN 333
UNKNOWING
GOD
BY THE EARTH'S CORPSE 336
MUTE OPINION 339
TO AN UNBORN PAUPER CHILD 341
TO FLOWERS FROM ITALY IN WINTER 344
ON A FINE MORNING 346
TO LIZBIE BROWNE 348
SONG OF HOPE 352
THE WELL-BELOVED 354
HER REPROACH 358
THE INCONSISTENT 360
A BROKEN APPOINTMENT 362
"BETWEEN US NOW" 364
"HOW GREAT MY GRIEF" 366
"I NEED NOT GO" 367
THE COQUETTE, AND AFTER 369
A SPOT 371
LONG PLIGHTED 373
THE WIDOW 375
AT A HASTY WEDDING 378
THE DREAM-FOLLOWER 379
HIS IMMORTALITY 380
THE TO-BE-FORGOTTEN 382
WIVES IN THE SERE 385
THE SUPERSEDED 387
AN AUGUST MIDNIGHT 389
THE CAGED THRUSH FREED AND HOME 391
AGAIN
BIRDS AT WINTER NIGHTFALL 393
THE PUZZLED GAME-BIRDS 394
WINTER IN DURNOVER FIELD 395
THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM 397
THE DARKLING THRUSH 399
THE COMET AT YALBURY OR YELL'HAM 402
MAD JUDY 403
A WASTED ILLNESS 405
A MAN 408
THE DAME OF ATHELHALL 412
THE SEASONS OF HER YEAR 416
THE MILKMAID 418
THE LEVELLED CHURCHYARD 420
THE RUINED MAID 422
THE RESPECTABLE BURGHER ON "THE 425
HIGHER CRITICISM"
ARCHITECTURAL MASKS 428
THE TENANT-FOR-LIFE 430
THE KING'S EXPERIMENT 432
THE TREE: AN OLD MAN'S STORY 435
HER LATE HUSBAND 439
THE SELF-UNSEEING 441
DE PROFUNDIS I.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I shall scarce
Help crying out or
shuddering
this time!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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If these be
compared
with Mr.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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LVII
Others shall behold the sun
Through the long
uncounted
years,--
Not a maid in after time
Wise as thou!
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Sappho |
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Worthiest
man!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The laws of God, as well as of the land,
Abhor, a perpetuity should stand:
Estates have wings and hang in fortune's power
Loose on the point of every
wavering
hour,
Ready, by force, or of your own accord,
By sale, at least by death, to change their lord.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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en ho, an auncian hit semed,
& he3ly
honowred
with ha?
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| Question: |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I could laugh--
more beautiful, more
intense?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form,
including
any
word processing or hypertext form.
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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I will accept nothing which all cannot have their
counterpart
of on the same terms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Queen Gulnaar laughed like a
tremulous
rose:
"Here is my rival, O King Feroz.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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For thou, for man
Has such a
treasure
in his heart of love,
It must be squandered out in charity,
Not used as a gentle money to repay
Worth (as a woman spends her love).
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this
electronic
work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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This
battle had taken place only a few months before the
production
of 'The
Frogs.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Impalpable
charm of back streets
In which I find myself:
Cool spaces filled with shadow.
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Imagists |
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: _ut clam_ Schoell
72
_inixsa_
La1: _innix?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Lucretius |
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A few moments
afterwards
the clank of chains was heard, and there
entered--Chvabrine.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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She'd no recourse to that nobility,
Who by their
exploits
won themselves glory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Then
The fool cried shrilly, "Shall a knight of France
Go
stabbing
his own cattle?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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I enclose you some poetic
bagatelles
of my late composition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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The gods have sent us here as
ambassadors
to treat for peace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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The
croupier
raked in the money while he looked on in stupid terror.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Does my joy
sometimes
erupt?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Time's river winds in foaming centuries
Its changing, swift, irrevocable course
To far off and
incalculable
seas;
She is twin-born with primal mysteries,
And drinks of life at Time's forgotten source.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Now the last age by Cumae's Sibyl sung
Has come and gone, and the majestic roll
Of circling
centuries
begins anew:
Justice returns, returns old Saturn's reign,
With a new breed of men sent down from heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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"The first that died was little Jane;
"In bed she moaning lay,
"Till God
released
her of her pain,
"And then she went away.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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supplies
fram after eaferum, to govern it, = _concerning_
(?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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You'll know it by the row of stars
Around its
forehead
bound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"Oh Day of Fire and Sun"
Oh day of fire and sun,
Pure as a naked flame,
Blue sea, blue sky and dun
Sands where he spoke my name;
Laughter
and hearts so high
That the spirit flew off free,
Lifting into the sky
Diving into the sea;
Oh day of fire and sun
Like a crystal burning,
Slow days go one by one,
But you have no returning.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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I have no heart to feast
With guests so insolent, nor can indulge
The
pleasures
of a mind at ease, with you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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When all the
children
sleep
She turns as long away
As will suffice to light her lamps;
Then, bending from the sky
With infinite affection
And infiniter care,
Her golden finger on her lip,
Wills silence everywhere.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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241
When
grievances
urged, he swells like squatted
toad,
Frisks like a frog to croak a tax's load:
His patient piss he could hold longer than:
An urinal, and sit like any hen ;
At table jolly as a country host,
And soaks his sack with Norfolk like a toast ;
At night than Chanticleer more brisk and hot,.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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It is not that I forget the friend of my heart and the companion of my
peregrinations; but I have been condemned to
drudgery
beyond
sufferance, though not, thank God, beyond redemption.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
1137-1152)
Born apparently in Gascony, his real name unknown, he probably spent most of his career in the courts of William X of
Aquitaine
and Eble III of Ventadorn.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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The orator who, in the following generation, pronounced the
funeral
panegyric
over the remains of Lucius Posthumius Megellus,
thrice Consul, would borrow largely from the lay; and thus some
passages, much disfigured, would probably find their way into the
chronicles which were afterwards in the hands of Dionysius and
Livy.
| 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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Meanwhile
The fire runs deeper,
consuming
these selves in its growth.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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LE GOUT DU NEANT
Morne esprit, autrefois
amoureux
de la lutte,
L'Espoir, dont l'eperon attisait ton ardeur,
Ne veut plus t'enfourcher!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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He gathered all that springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling,
seasoned
sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last
glimmers
of day
A face like all the forgotten faces.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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From this perplexity will free thee soon
Experience, if thereof thou trial make,
The
fountain
whence your arts derive their streame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Io vidi una di lor trarresi avante
per
abbracciarmi
con si grande affetto,
che mosse me a far lo somigliante.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Facts, centuries before,
He
traverses
familiar,
As one should come to town
And tell you all your dreams were true;
He lived where dreams were sown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The
shepherd
sees them and the boy goes bye
And gets a stick and progs the hole to try.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
) The "False Dawn"; Subhi Kazib, a
transient
Light on the Horizon
about an hour before the Subhi sadik or True Dawn; a well-known
Phenomenon in the East.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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There in a moment I have seen
The buried Past arise;
The fields of
Thessaly
grew green,
Old gods forsook the skies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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--2) _to offer_: him Hygd gebēad hord and
rīce, _offered him the
treasure
and the chief power_, 2370; inf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
--
As if with keenness for our fate,
Our faltering few steps on
To white rest, and a place of rest
Invisible
at dawn,--
And yet with neither love nor hate,
Those stars like some snow-white
Minerva's snow-white marble eyes
Without the gift of sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Sweet the lark's wild-warbled lay,
Sweet the tinkling rill to hear;
But, Delia, more
delightful
still
Steal thine accents on mine ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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that from him the grave did hide
The empty loom, cold hearth, and silent wheel,
And tears that flowed for ills which
patience
could not heal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Then hail, sweet Sirmio; thou that wast,
And art, mine own
unrivalled
Fair!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
And after three and thirty years, during which my mother, and the
nurse, and the priest have all died, (the shadow of God be upon
their spirits) the
soothsayer
still lives.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Thou art my friend, Admetus;
therefore
bold
And plain I tell my story, and withhold
No secret hurt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
' So far from considering
this as a matter for
condemnation
I rather thought it would have given
my friends pleasure that I had courage to make use of the strength
with which Nature has endowed me, when it not only procured me
infinitely more pleasure than I should have received from sitting in a
post-chaise, but was also the means of saving me at least thirty
shillings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Before all my tinder
Dies away into coals, coals then to ashes decline,
She will be back and new faggots as well as big logs will be blazing,
Making a
festival
where lovers will warm up the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
_
Here awa, there awa,
wandering
Willie,
Now tired with wandering, haud awa hame;
Come to my bosom, my ae only dearie,
And tell me thou bring'st me my Willie the same.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
E-meteg,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
XI
Four
gigantic
men in triumph
Brought along the slaughtered Bear.
| Guess: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
has
Adua, but as the mouth of the Adua is seven miles west of
Cremona and
Bedriacum
twenty-two miles east of Cremona, the
figures given do not suit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
von (Robert), p39 1887, Internet Book Archive Images
Medusas,
miserable
heads
With hairs of violet
You enjoy the hurricane
And I enjoy the very same.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
My First is ageing day by day:
My Second's age is ended:
My Third enjoys an age, they say,
That never seems to fade away,
Through
centuries
extended.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Even such a stock by Nilus' banks might grow;
Yea and the Cyprian stamp, in female forms,
Shows to the life, what males
impressed
the same.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone:
A wind from the pine-trees
trickles
on my bare head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
_ All things,
If not all men: the universal rumour--
My own
presence
on the spot--the place--the time-- 160
And every speck of circumstance unite
To fix the blot on you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
The great
object of the warriors on both sides is, as in the Iliad, to
obtain possession of the spoils and bodies of the slain; and
several
circumstances
are related which forcibly remind us of the
great slaughter round the corpses of Sarpedon and Patroclus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
It also tells you how
you can
distribute
copies of this etext if you want to.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
There came a wind like a bugle;
It quivered through the grass,
And a green chill upon the heat
So ominous did pass
We barred the windows and the doors
As from an emerald ghost;
The doom's
electric
moccason
That very instant passed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Every one of you won the war,
You and you and you--
You that carry an
unscathed
head,
You that halt with a broken tread,
And oh, most of all, you Dead, you Dead!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
(4) The chief motive is in the spirit of Aristophanes,
the great master of
personal
satire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
"Hey, but here's a toy shop, here's a drum for me,
Penny
whistles
too to play the tune!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
And I watch his spears through the dark clash And it fills all my heart with rejoicing
And pries wide my mouth with fast music When I see him so scorn and defy peace,
His lone might 'gainst all
darkness
opposing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
I look upon these rings thick set with pearls,
And emerald and
amethyst
and jasper,
And they are burning coals upon my flesh!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Would'st thou haue that
Which thou esteem'st the Ornament of Life,
And liue a Coward in thine owne
Esteeme?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
in þȳstrum bād,
_remained
in darkness_, 87; flota
stille bād, _the craft lay still_, 301; receda .
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Beowulf |
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But within this fretted shell,
The wonder of Love made visible,
The King a private gentle mood
There placed, of
pleasant
quietude.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And, god wot, I wol hate hir
evermore!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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What are the showy treasures,
What are the noisy
pleasures?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The Loir is a
tributary
of the larger Loire, in the Vendomois.
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Ronsard |
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If thou wert
terrified
and did'st not hear,
Myself I'm sure was quite o'ercome with fear.
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La Fontaine |
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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Then the high-street gay signs of triumph wore,
Covered with showy cloths of different dye,
Which deck the walls, while sylvan leaves in store,
And scented herbs upon the
pavement
lie.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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DEATH BY WATER
Phlebas the Phoenician, a
fortnight
dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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By clocks 't was morning, and for night
The bells at
distance
called;
But epoch had no basis here,
For period exhaled.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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No pain now was mine, but a wish that I spoke,--
A mastering wish to serve this man
Who had ventured through hell my doom to revoke,
As only the truest of
comrades
can.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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MY DEAR SIR,
I have not time at present to upbraid you for your silence and
neglect; I shall only say I
received
yours with great pleasure.
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Robert Forst |
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--C'est que les vents tombant des grands monts de Norwege
T'avaient parle tout bas de l'apre
liberte!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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As for the rest of the world, it languished away, while Ceres,
Derelict
of her true task, dalliance offered in love.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Could it mean
To last, a love set
pendulous
between
Sorrow and sorrow?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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ys
tydynges
harde sche spokyn;
She com forthe in A sempyll pace,
Sory, I wott, welle ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The rest listen to_
MATTHEW'S _"elegy,"
consisting
of scraps from Marlowe.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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From the circle of your cropped hair
there is light,
and about your male torse
and the foot-arch and the
straight
ankle.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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By alone I mean without a
material
being, and my cat is a mystic companion, a spirit.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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