er were,
Two
fyngeres
?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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One thing alone can hope to answer your fear;
It is that which
struggles
and blinds us and burns between us.
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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| Question: |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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--thy
priestly
raiment
Fills me with dread--thy ebony crucifix
With horror and awe!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
THE CONTEST
I
Your stature is modelled
with
straight
tool-edge:
you are chiselled like rocks
that are eaten into by the sea.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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My baby
daughter
bit at me in her hunger, I feared tigers and wolves would hear her cries.
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Within the green hillside,
Under yon whispering tuft of oldest pine,
Is an ingoing grotto, strown with spar
And
ivymatted
at the mouth, wherein
Thou unbeholden may'st behold, unheard
Hear all, and see thy Paris judge of Gods.
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| Question: |
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Tennyson |
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The usual
spelling
of the name seems to have
been _Groenland_, as here.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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thou dogge, and acte a
warriors
parte.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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nam
quaecumque
homines bene cuiquam aut dicere possunt
aut facere, haec a te dictaque factaque sunt.
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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The
ascending
day-star with a bolder eye
Hath lit each dew-drop on our trimmer lawn!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Oh I have been to Ludlow fair
And left my necktie God knows where,
And carried half-way home, or near,
Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer:
Then the world seemed none so bad,
And I myself a
sterling
lad;
And down in lovely muck I've lain,
Happy till I woke again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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How
beautiful
thou art!
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Keats |
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Let it touch Woman and flesh becomes
Finer and more thrilled
Than air
contrived
in tune,
Lighter round the soul
Than flame is round burning.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Bewitch'd I sure must be,
To lose in
grieving
all my maiden prime.
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Keats |
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Upon her silken avalanche of down,
Dying she breathes a long and swooning sigh;
And watches the white visions past her flown,
Which rise like
blossoms
to the azure sky.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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There is a light cloud by the moon--[372]
'Tis passing, and will pass full soon--
If, by the time its vapoury sail
Hath ceased her shaded orb to veil,
Thy heart within thee is not changed,
Then God and man are both avenged;
Dark will thy doom be, darker still
Thine
immortality
of ill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
[Illustration]
There was a young person in red,
Who
carefully
covered her head,
With a bonnet of leather, and three lines of feather,
Besides some long ribands of red.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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195_; _The
Identity
of
Junius with a Distinguished Living Character established_, _iv.
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Byron |
|
)
_the
mountain
nymph_: compare Wordsworth's Sonnet, No.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
LFS}
Spreading them out before the Sun like Stalks of flax to dry
The infant joy is beautiful but its anatomy
Horrible Ghast & Deadly nought shalt thou find in it
But Death Despair & Everlasting brooding Melancholy
Thou wilt go mad with horror if thou dost Examine thus * {added on center right margin, 90 degrees rotated LFS}
Every moment of my secret hours Yea I know
That I have sinnd & that my Emanations are become harlots
I am already distracted at their deeds & if I look
Upon them more Despair will bring self murder on my soul
O Enion thou art thyself a root growing in hell
Tho thus heavenly beautiful to draw me to
destruction
Sometimes I think thou art a flower expanding *{This and the following four lines are added evidently in light pencil in the top margin.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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This fatal
marriage
I both wish and fear:
I dare expect only imperfection here.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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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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| Source: |
Li Po |
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You fly me, Chloe, as o'er
trackless
hills
A young fawn runs her timorous dam to find,
Whom empty terror thrills
Of woods and whispering wind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Too long shut in strait and few,
Thinly dieted on dew,
I will use the world, and sift it,
To a
thousand
humors shift it,
As you spin a cherry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where
blossomed
many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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The
incidents
recorded of this storm are matter of history
in and around Tampa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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For out of Shushan to the ends of the earth
Great news runs, with a hidden
soundless
speed
Through secret channels in the folks' dim mind,
As water races through smooth sloping gutters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Swiftly and quietly down she slips,
A lighthouse to starboard, and one to port,
The colored lanterns of passing ships, A tow of barges, an old gray fort;
And we aboard her are lulled to rest
By the
rhythmic
beat of her mighty heart,
By the song of the winds from the salt southwest And the wash of the waters her great prows part.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
That sight
rejoicing
and with hearts reviv'd
They view'd, and thus Pisistratus his speech
Amid them all to Menelaus turn'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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There open fanes and gaping graves
Yawn level with the
luminous
waves;
But not the riches there that lie
In each idol's diamond eye--
Not the gaily-jewelled dead
Tempt the waters from their bed;
For no ripples curl, alas!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
net/
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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With what regret from many a place we go,
Though
tenderest
bonds may bind us to it!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
They stripped him of his canvas clothes,
And gave him to the flies:
They mocked the swollen purple throat,
And the stark and staring eyes:
And with
laughter
loud they heaped the shroud
In which their convict lies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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whom you shall easily
find
attending
the young Lord S.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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How should I pay for one poor graven steeple
Whereon you
shattered
what you shall not know?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Bless, Lord, Thy
servants!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
"
The truth may be that he
contracted
his last illness as the result of
falling into the water while drunk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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"
Do we want laurels for
ourselves
most,
Or most that no one else shall have any?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
124 _scuscitata cano
uoltarium_
(_uolunt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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"
Her visage
scorched
him ere she spoke:
"There are," she said, "a kind of folk
Who have no horror of a joke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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And oftentimes,
A few sheep, stragglers from some mountain-flock,
Would watch my motions with suspicious stare,
From the remotest outskirts of the grove,--
Some nook where they had made their final stand, 30
Huddling
together from two fears--the fear
Of me and of the storm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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It
perseveres
if grief be all its view,
And squanders gems for which no mortal thanks,
And blesses when self as sacrifice it burns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Say that the fates of time and space obscured me,
Led me a
thousand
ways to pain, bemused me,
Wrapped me in ugliness; and like great spiders
Dispatched me at their leisure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Judith, our fates are closer to one another's
Than one might think, seeing my face and yours:
The whole divine abyss is present in your eyes,
And I feel the starry gulf within my soul;
We are both
neighbours
of the silent skies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Pernicious
prayer!
| 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 |
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O
Prophet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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No god is there of carven stone
To watch with still
approving
eyes
My thoughts like steady incense rise;
I dream and weep alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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_ Quite a
peculiar
juice is blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Yet, arts are thine that rock th'
unsleeping
heart,
And smiles to Solitude and Want impart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Grant, O Zeus,
Grant me my father's murder to avenge--
Be thou my willing
champion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
"It is, moreover, asserted that 'the predominant
character
of the
whole body of the present English poetry is a _disgust_ and
_contempt_ for life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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their
brooding
was deep,?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
"
"This tongue that talks, these lungs that shout,
These thews that hustle us about,
This brain that fills the skull with schemes,
And its humming hive of dreams,-"
"These to-day are proud in power
And lord it in their little hour:
The
immortal
bones obey control
Of dying flesh and dying soul.
| 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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Then cling to her;
And say if thou hast found a guest of grace
In God's son,
Heracles!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Were that machine the
property
of all, everyone
would benefit by it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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My days I sing, and the lands--with
interstice
I knew of
hapless war.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
, though a cheap card to win on,
But t'other was jes' New York trash to begin on; 180
They ain't o' no good in
European
pellices,
But think wut a help they'd ha' ben on their gallowses!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
From the warm concave of that fluted note
Somewhat, half song, half odor, forth did float,
As if a rose might somehow be a throat:
"When Nature from her far-off glen
Flutes her soft
messages
to men,
The flute can say them o'er again;
Yea, Nature, singing sweet and lone,
Breathes through life's strident polyphone
The flute-voice in the world of tone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
The Horse
Pegasus
'Pegasus'
Jacopo de' Barbari, 1509 - 1516, The Rijksmuseun
My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
That for reins will hold tight to frenzy,
My verses, the
patterns
of all poetry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
"Heart's palfrey
caracoled
gayly round,
Heart tra-li-raed merrily;
But Brain sat still, with never a sound --
Full cynical-calm was he.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
No one knows what made those wild
thoughts
arise:
But the waves have snatched her forever from our eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
The young
Simeonova
too there
With Ozeroff was wont to share
Applause, the people's donative.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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HOLY THURSDAY
'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their
innocent
faces clean,
Came children walking two and two, in read, and blue, and green:
Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow,
Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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A day it was when I could bear
To think, and think, and think again;
With so much
happiness
to spare,
I could not feel a pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Perhaps 't is some strange charm to draw him here, 'Thout which he may not leave his new-found crew That ride the two-foot
coursers
of the deep,
And laugh in storms and break the fishers' nets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Ces vers etaient d'un monsieur qui faisait
beaucoup
de sonnets
a l'epoque et de qui le nom m'echappe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Shivering they sit on
leafless
bush, or frozen stone
Wearied with seeking food across the snowy waste; the little
Heart, cold; and the little tongue consum'd, that once in thoughtless joy
Gave songs of gratitude to [[the]]waving corn fields round their nest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
For those high songs, lo, men that moan,
And raiment black where once was white;
Who guide me
homeward
in the night,
On that waste bed to lie alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
is, god of heuene:
To mychel ioye he tourne my
sweuene!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
Why was
Hippolytus
here with you as well?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
If a frost comes we shall not
have a hundred thousand men out of work, tramping about the streets in a
state of disgusting misery, or whining to their
neighbours
for alms, or
crowding round the doors of loathsome shelters to try and secure a hunch
of bread and a night's unclean lodging.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
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WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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XXIII
The lads in their
hundreds
to Ludlow come in for the fair,
There's men from the barn and the forge and the mill and the fold,
The lads for the girls and the lads for the liquor are there,
And there with the rest are the lads that will never be old.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
In blood his arms were and his hauberk steeped,
And
bloodied
o'er, shoulders and neck, his steed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
DIE KUCHE
She lets the hydrant water run:
He fancies lonely, banal,
bald-headed mountains,
affected by the daily
caress of the
tropical
sun,
weeping tears the length of brooks
down their faces and flanks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
scis Mariam patremque ducem, qui cuspide Gallos
Italiumque fouet, nec te
praeclara
Serenae
fama latet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
What shall we do
tomorrow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
The clumsy hops, the crooked springs,
'Tis quite
disreputable!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Primes de quoi Deduit servoit,
Et quel
compaignie
il avoit
Sans longue fable vous veil dire,
Et du vergier tretout a tire 700
La facon vous redirai puis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Love, hast thou forgotten
The red spears of the dawn, The
pennants
of the morning?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
And Johnny burrs, and laughs aloud;
Whether in cunning or in joy
I cannot tell; but while he laughs,
Betty a drunken
pleasure
quaffs 380
To hear again her Idiot Boy.
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Moncli (Monclis, Monclin, Mondis) and his lady, Audierna, are presumed to be
characters
in a lost romance.
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Troubador Verse |
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May is a full light wind of lilac
From Canada to
Narragansett
Bay.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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erfore
leye a
rekenyng
wi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The judge accurst, incontinent,
And
stranger
dame have dragg'd thee down.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Over the joyful Earth & Sea, and ascended into the Heavens {It looks as though a strike line
crossing
out this line has been erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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This Diamond he greetes your Wife withall,
By the name of most kind Hostesse,
And shut vp in
measurelesse
content
Mac.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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See them,
sounding
the flood that floats them on,
Moving their sides like human forms.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And layeth oer the hylls a muddie soft;
So Harold ranne upon his
Normanne
foes.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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