With a kind of smile,
Which ne'er came from the lungs, but even thus-
For look you, I may make the belly smile
As well as speak- it tauntingly replied
To th' discontented members, the
mutinous
parts
That envied his receipt; even so most fitly
As you malign our senators for that
They are not such as you.
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tecum Naiades faciles uiridique iuuenta
pubentes
Dryades Nymphaeque, unde amnibus umor,
adsint et docilis decantet Oreadas Echo.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The air of that place so attempre was
That never was
grevaunce
of hoot ne cold; 205
Ther wex eek every holsom spyce and gras,
Ne no man may ther wexe seek ne old;
Yet was ther Ioye more a thousand fold
Then man can telle; ne never wolde it nighte,
But ay cleer day to any mannes sighte.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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To Beowulf then the bale was told
quickly and truly: the king's own home,
of
buildings
the best, in brand-waves melted,
that gift-throne of Geats.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Immediately a crowd of
mutinous
fugitives came clamouring round
him.
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Tacitus |
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1295
View it with another eye as
pardonable
error.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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cried a
toothless
nun;
What would he tell us?
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La Fontaine |
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till to-morrow eve,
And you, my
friends!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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--qui boirais
Ton gout de
framboise
et de fraise,
O chair de fleur!
| Guess: |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Who seeks for
friendship
sake
A beggar's house?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Why, nothing
whatever
but bite and
scratch!
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Aristophanes |
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Not so those women loved
Who with
exceeding
grief lamented Thee;
Not so fallen Peter weeping bitterly;
Not so the thief was moved;
Not so the Sun and Moon
Which hid their faces in a starless sky,
A horror of great darkness at broad noon,--
I, only I.
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Christina Rossetti |
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My comrades strip, and,
slippery with oil,
exercise
their ancestral contests; glad to have got
past so many Argive towns, and held on their flight through the
encircling foe.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Duchess Faliero[fg]
Requests
admission to the Giunta's presence.
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Byron |
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No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you,
terrible
year!
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Whitman |
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Why are Eyelids stord with arrows ready drawn,
Where a
thousand
fighting men in ambush lie!
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blake-poems |
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"
"And is this present,
swineherd!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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[516] The Scholiast
conjectures
this Melitus to be the same individual
who later accused Socrates.
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Aristophanes |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then
vanished
to the countries of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Count
Sir, to defend all that I hold sublime,
Such minor
disobedience
is no crime;
However great it seems, you will allow
My service is such as to efface it now.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Ride you this
afternoone?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Thou giv'st the word: Thy creature, man,
Is to
existence
brought;
Again Thou say'st, "Ye sons of men,
Return ye into nought!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Such men are common here,
And
pastoral
maidens milking cows
Are dwelling everywhere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The Lovely Lass O' Inverness
The lovely lass o' Inverness,
Nae joy nor
pleasure
can she see;
For, e'en to morn she cries, alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Orchids all in bloom:
chrysanthemums
smell sweet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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the Spirits
Of Luvah & Vala
shudderd
in their Orb: an orb of blood!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
]
THE BEGGAR MAID
First
published
in 1842, not altered since.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Only can dancing understand
What a
heavenly
way we pass
Treading the green and golden land,
Daffodillies and grass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel,
And robb'd me of my Robe of Honor--Well,
I wonder often what the Vintners buy
One half so
precious
as the stuff they sell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Yesterday, later by five hours than now,
Twelve hundred
threescore
years and six had fill'd
The circuit of their course, since here the way
Was broken.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
"
In such cheer it
struggled
on
Till the battle front was won,
Then the car, its journey done,
Lo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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His breast within
with black
thoughts
welled, as his wont was never.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Ipsa suum Zephyritis eo famulum legarat,
Graia
Canopieis
incola litoribus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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ou art welcome vs vntille,
Her-Inne
schaltou
wone;
Page 44
216
I was out after ?
| 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 |
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Food wherewithal my lord is well supplied,
With tears and grief my weary heart I've fed;
As fears within and paleness o'er me spread,
Oft thinking on its fatal wound and wide:
But in her time with whom no other vied,
Equal or second, to my
suffering
bed
Comes she to look on whom I almost dread,
And takes her seat in pity by my side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Aricia
And how could you endure that
terrible
lies
Should darken the course of so fine a life?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
The fastidious care with which each poem is built
out of the simplest of technical elements, the precise tone and color of
language employed to articulate impulse and mood, and the reproduction
of objective
substances
for a clear visualization of character and
scene, all tend by a sure and unfaltering composition, to present a
lyric art unique in English poetry of the last twenty-five years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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One thing alone can hope to answer your fear;
It is that which
struggles
and blinds us and burns between us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
The
pretender
now
called to them to 'just give him a grip of that villain, and he'd soon
let him know who the imposhterer was!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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The Serpent
The Fall
'The Fall'
Anonymous,
Hieronymus
Cock, c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
How can you
understand
that this my heart
Is but a sparrow in an eagle's nest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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It has
debarred
the
other part of the community from being individual by putting them on the
wrong road, and encumbering them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
This and the note which he appends I find more
incomprehensible
than
the old text.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
'53
pretending
wit:'
presuming, or ambitious mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Something that
concerns
our common safety, and that is just as
pleasant as it is to the purpose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Yet such
desolation
is not the certain consequence of discovery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by
commercial
parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any
country outside the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
There, when new wonders ceas'd to float before,
And thoughts of self came on, how crude and sore
The journey homeward to
habitual
self!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Upon the other hand,
the
terrible
truth that pain is a mode through which man may realise
himself exercises a wonderful fascination over the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
150
Yet am not I the first
mistaken
maid,
By love of Courts to num'rous ills betray'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Digitized by VjOOQIC
180 THE POEMS
I that
perceived
now what his music meant,
Asked civilly, if he had eat his Lent ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
This great work, in fact, is to be regarded as poetical,
only when, losing sight of that vital
requisite
in all works of Art,
Unity, we view it merely as a series of minor poems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Does thou know who made thee,
Gave thee life, and bid thee feed
By the stream and o'er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing, woolly, bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales
rejoice?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
why do you frown
Here dwell no frowns, nor anger, from these gates
Sorrow flies farr: See here be all the pleasures
That fancy can beget on
youthfull
thoughts,
When the fresh blood grows lively, and returns 670
Brisk as the April buds in Primrose-season.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
"
Over the field that there
Gave back the skies
A scattered upward stare
From sightless eyes,
The
furrowed
field that lay
Striving awhile, through many a bleeding dune
Of throbbing clay,--but dumb and quiet soon,
She looked; and went her way,
The Harvest Moon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
My
ploughman
he comes hame at e'en,
He's aften wat and weary;
Cast off the wat, put on the dry,
And gae to bed, my dearie!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Loud as the wolves, on Orcas' stormy steep,
Howl to the roarings of the
Northern
deep,
Such is the shout, the long-applauding note,
At Quin's high plume, or Oldfield's petticoat;
Or when from court a birthday suit bestowed,
Sinks the lost actor in the tawdry load.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
*****
Easy enough by thought of mind to solve
Why fires of
lightning
more can penetrate
Than these of ours from pitch-pine born on earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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On each side every hamlet
Pours forth its joyous crowd,
Shouting lads and baying dogs,
And
children
laughing loud,
And old men weeping fondly
As Rhea's boys go by,
And maids who shriek to see the heads,
Yet, shrieking, press more nigh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
a
shuddring
ran from East to West *
A Groan was heard on high.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Chickens escaped
From farmyard congregations,
Crossed the Appalachians,
And turned to amber trumpets
On the
ramparts
of our Hoosiers' nest and citadel,
Millennial heralds
Of the foggy mazy forest.
| 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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Ah, state
surcharged
with woes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
A few grey hairs his
reverend
temples crowned,
'Twas very want that sold them for two pound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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will ye perish for your leader's vice;
The
purchase
infamy, and life the price?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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"
The
implacable
Venus gazed into I know not what distances with her
marble eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
204:
'Why in the East
Darkness ere day's mid-course, and Morning light
More orient in yon Western Cloud, that draws
O'er the blue Firmament a radiant white,
And slow descends, with something heav'nly
fraught?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
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is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Keats - Lamia |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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While all the great green land has
trampled
on her
The treason and terror of the night we met.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
]
I
The village wherein yawned Eugene
Was a
delightful
little spot,
There friends of pure delight had been
Grateful to Heaven for their lot.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Give me now thy axe and I will grant thee thy
request!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Will the tsar soon come out of the
Cathedral?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
_456_, 457; _Su i
Quattro Cavalli della
Basilica
di S.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
No
proposition
Euclid wrote,
No formulae the text-books know,
Will turn the bullet from your coat,
Or ward the tulwar's downward blow
Strike hard who cares--shoot straight who can--
The odds are on the cheaper man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
The lady fancied what the swain had said,
Was policy, and to
concealment
led.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
inuentrix oleae colitur uinique repertor
et qui primus humo pressit aratra puer,
aras
Paeoniam
meruit medicina per artem,
fretus et Alcides nobilitate deus:
tu quoque, legiferis mundum complexa triumphis,
foedere communi uiuere cuncta facis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
The stiffest o' them a' he bow'd,
The
bauldest
o' them a' he cow'd;
They durst nae mair than he allow'd,
That was a law:
We've lost a birkie weel worth gowd;
Willie's awa!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
I want a lyre with other strings,
Such aid from heaven as some have feign'd they drew,
An eloquence scarce given to mortals, new
And undebased by praise of meaner things,
That ere through age or woe I shed my wings
I may record thy worth with honour due,
In verse as musical as thou art true
And that
immortalizes
whom it sings:--
But thou hast little need.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Might he return, and bless once more our eyes,
New Blackmores and new
Milbourns
must arise:
Nay should great Homer lift his awful head,
Zoilus again would start up from the dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Then all the beasts before thee passed --
Beast War, Oppression, Murder, Lust,
False Art, False Faith, slow
skulking
last --
And out of Time's thick-rising dust
Thy Lord said, "Name them, tame them, Son;
Nor rest, nor rest, till thou hast done.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
What
tydynges
from the kynge?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Now even I come before thee
With oil and honey and wheat-bread,
Praying for
strength
and fulfilment
Of human longing, with purpose 10
Ever to keep thy great worship
Pure and undarkened.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
And the still
Valkyrie
hover panting for hallowed souls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Do
hundreds
play thee, or does but one play?
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Rilke - Poems |
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Et quamvis tecum multo
coniungerer
usu,
Non satis id causae credideram esse tibi.
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Paraphrase Of The First Psalm
The man, in life wherever plac'd,
Hath
happiness
in store,
Who walks not in the wicked's way,
Nor learns their guilty lore!
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"
EPITAPH OF LA FONTAINE
MADE BY HIMSELF
JOHN, as he came, so went away,
Consuming capital and pay,
Holding superfluous riches cheap;
The trick of spending time he knew,
Dividing
it in portions two,
For idling one, and one for sleep.
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La Fontaine |
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Sheer miracles of loveliness
Lie hid in its unlooked-on bed:
Anemones, salt, passionless,
Blow flower-like; just enough alive
To blow and
multiply
and thrive.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Tacitus |
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Distress
I don't come to conquer your flesh tonight, O beast
In whom are the sins of the race, nor to stir
In your foul tresses a mournful tempest
Beneath the fatal boredom my kisses pour:
A heavy sleep without those dreams that creep
Under curtains alien to remorse, I ask of your bed,
Sleep you can savour after your dark deceits,
You who know more of
Nothingness
than the dead.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Yes, here within thy
sanctified
walls there's a soul in each object,
ROMA eternal.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Of all things I bid you, do not fly to the land of the north-west
In Huai-hsi there are rebel bands[78] that have not been subdued;
And a
thousand
thousand armoured men have long been camped in war.
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