)
Gay were her minstrels once, for free her throng,
All felt the common joy they now must feign;
Nor oft I've seen such sight, nor heard such song,
As wooed the eye, and thrilled the
Bosphorus
along.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"E la Sua
Volontade
e nostra pace.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Ye see yon birkie, ca'd a lord,
Wha struts, an' stares, an' a' that;
Tho'
hundreds
worship at his word,
He's but a coof for a' that:
For a' that, an' a' that,
His ribband, star, an' a' that:
The man o' independent mind
He looks an' laughs at a' that.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Yet Wordsworth and
Coleridge
are men in years; the one imbued in
contemplation from his childhood; the other a giant in intellect and
learning.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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all that I behold
Within my Soul has lost its splendor & a brooding Fear
Shadows me oer & drives me outward to a world of woe
So waild she trembling before her own Created Phantasm*
{These 10 lines circled and lightly struck out as a block,
restored
in Erdman.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The
reminiscence
comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"The verse adorn again,
Fierce War and
faithful
Love,
And Truth severe, by fairy Fiction drest.
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Golden Treasury |
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But mighte me so fair a grace falle,
That ye me for your
servaunt
wolde calle,
So lowly ne so trewely you serve
Nil noon of hem, as I shal, til I sterve.
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
It may be wilderness without,
Far feet of failing men,
But holiday
excludes
the night,
And it is bells within.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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It was natural that this change should be
reflected
in
Chinese prosody.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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rapid as the light
The
flashing
mass foams shaking the abyss;
The hell of waters!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The wagons
quickened
on the streets,
The thunder hurried slow;
The lightning showed a yellow beak,
And then a livid claw.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"Why wouldn't it scare me to have a fire
Begin in smudge with ropy smoke and know
That still, if I repent, I may recall it,
But in a moment not: a little spurt
Of burning fatness, and then nothing but
The fire itself can put it out, and that
By burning out, and before it burns out
It will have roared first and mixed sparks with stars,
And
sweeping
round it with a flaming sword,
Made the dim trees stand back in wider circle--
Done so much and I know not how much more
I mean it shall not do if I can bind it.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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THE ECHOING GREEN
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around
To the bells'
cheerful
sound;
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing Green.
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blake-poems |
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So wird's Euch an der
Weisheit
Brusten
Mit jedem Tage mehr gelusten.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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IN the
greenest
of our valleys
By good angels tenanted,
Once a fair and stately palace--
Radiant palace--reared its head.
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Poe - 5 |
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PROMETHEUS
She now hath learned, unto its utmost end,
Her pilgrimage; but yet, that she may know
That 'tis no futile fable she hath heard,
I will recount her history of toil
Ere she came hither; let it stand for proof
Of what I told, my
forecast
of the end.
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Aeschylus |
|
Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm
Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of
electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of
computers
including
obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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If it be thy
pleasure
let us rather cast
a lot.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
I asked the
darkened
sea
Down where the fishers go--
It answered me with silence,
Silence below.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Walpole, for example, who cared nothing for poetry, spent large
sums in retaining writers to defend him in the
journals
and pamphlets of
the day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Play the old role, the role that is great or small,
according
as one makes
it!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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"My own Hrothulf" will surely not forget
these favors and
benefits
of the past, but will repay them to the
orphaned boy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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There seem'd from the remotest seat
Of the wide mountain waste
To the soft flower beneath our feet
A magic circle traced
A spirit interfused around,
A thrilling silent life;
To
momentary
peace it bound
Our mortal nature's strife;--
And still I felt the centre of
The magic circle there
Was one fair Form that fill'd with love
The lifeless atmosphere.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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193_;
Shelley's
_Feelings
of a Republican on the Fall of Buonaparte_, _ii.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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ah, meet not his return 180
To his own
country!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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But peers beyond her mesh,
And wishes, and denies, --
Lest
interview
annul a want
That image satisfies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Yea, have heart
To tear the darkness of sin apart;
And find, beyond, our
comforted
sight
Flash full of a glee of fiery light,--
The gods the heathen know through sin,
The gods who give them the world to win!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
"
* * * * *
Yet what are all such
gaieties
to me
Whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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"My lord," he said,
"The stars are displaced
"By this
towering
wisdom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Co: And left your fair side all
unguarded
Lady?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
From Maximin
IN sorrow, day and night the disciple watched
Upon the mount where from the Lord ascended:
"Thus leaveth thou thy
faithful
to despair?
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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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To those who say: "I shall never betray the
interests
of the
masses; I shall always fight for the people.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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[141] Ormuz, or Hormuz, an island at the entrance of the Persian Gulf,
once a great
commercial
depot.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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The Irish herd is now let loose, and comes
By
millions
over, not by hecatombs ;
Digitized by VjOOQIC
OP MARVELL.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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For whereas all other arts consist of doctrine and
precepts, the poet must be able by nature and instinct to pour out the
treasure of his mind, and as Seneca saith, _Aliquando secundum
Anacreontem insanire jucundum esse_; by which he
understands
the poetical
rapture.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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On the other hand, if the earliest text be invariably retained, some of
the best poems will be spoiled (or the
improvements
lost), since
Wordsworth did usually alter for the better.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Time has vanished, and
Eternity reigns--an
Eternity
of delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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In the lair (the form) of the female hare superfetation (second
conception
during gestation) is possible.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
"
"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 |
|
Please check the Project
Gutenberg
Web pages for current donation
methods and addresses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this
agreement
violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Then, with sage doctrine and good will to help,
Forth on his great apostleship he far'd,
Like torrent
bursting
from a lofty vein;
And, dashing 'gainst the stocks of heresy,
Smote fiercest, where resistance was most stout.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
His shrapnel helmet set atilt,
His bombing
waistcoat
sagging low,
His rifle slung across his back:
Poised in the very act to throw.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
worold-āre
forgeaf, 17; þǣm tō hām forgeaf
Hrēðel
Gēata āngan dōhtor (_gave in
marriage_), 374; similarly, 2998; hē mē lond forgeaf, _granted me land_,
2493; similarly, 697, 1021, 2607, 2617; mægen-rǣs forgeaf hilde-bille, _he
gave with his battle-sword a mighty blow_, i.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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For our monarch,
By Thee appointed, for our pious tsar,
Of all good
Christians
autocrat, we pray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Erschien darauf mit bunten Farben
Die junge Konigin im Glas,
Hier war die Arzenei, die
Patienten
starben,
Und niemand fragte: wer genas?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Mine arms enfold
That, which
unswayed
by me grew up and bloomed
To other worlds:
Mine own, and yet so infinitely far.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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'
`Thanne, eem,' quod she, `doth her-of as yow list;
But er he come, I wil up first aryse; 940
And, for the love of god, sin al my trist
Is on yow two, and ye ben bothe wyse,
So wircheth now in so
discreet
a wyse,
That I honour may have, and he plesaunce;
For I am here al in your governaunce.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
The mass can only be
impressed
by masses;
Then each at last picks out his proper part.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Poems in various moods are also
included
in the book and add variety to its feast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
LAUGHING SONG
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the
dimpling
stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
when the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene,
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing "Ha, ha he!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
the
contrary
conception, Tod-feind): nom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
See
skulking
_Truth_ to her old cavern fled, 15
Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
I shall wear the bottoms of my
trousers
rolled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
"
Pleased with her virtuous fears, the king replies:
"Indulge, my son, the cautions of the wise;
Time shall the truth to sure
remembrance
bring:
This garb of poverty belies the king:
No more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
is symple
knowynge
alle ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Steamer,
straining
at your ropes
Lift your anchor towards an exotic rawness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
THE GRINDSTONE
Having a wheel and four legs of its own
Has never availed the
cumbersome
grindstone
To get it anywhere that I can see.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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My friends, the funeral sorrow spare,
The
plaintive
song, and tender tear;
Nor let the voice of grief profane,
With loud laments, the solemn scene;
Nor o'er your poet's empty urn
With useless idle sorrow mourn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Holy Odd's
bodykins
!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Then to my soul there came this sense:
"Her heart has
answered
unto thine;
She comes, to-night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Young things draw our
feelings
to them;
Old people easily give their hearts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
ye
Who scorn whatever actual appears;
Saints, satyrs, seekers of Infinity,
So full of cries, so full of bitter tears;
Te whom my soul has
followed
into hell,
I love and pity, O sad sisters mine,
Tour thirsts unquenched, your pains no tongue can tell,
And your great hearts, those urns of love divine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
be your sighs the gale,
The smiting of your brows the plash of oars,
Wafting the boat, to Acheron's dim shores
That passeth ever, with its
darkened
sail,
On its uncharted voyage and sunless way,
Far from thy beams, Apollo, god of day--
The melancholy bark
Bound for the common bourn, the harbour of the dark!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Yea sometimes in a bustling man-filled place Meseemeth some-wise thy hair
wandereth
Across mine eyes, as mist that halloweth The air awhile and giveth all things grace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
"The Raven" was first
published
on the 29th January, 1845, in the New
York "Evening Mirror"-a paper its author was then assistant editor of.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Salaminian
Teucer on your track,
And Sthenelus, in the fray
Versed, or with whip and rein, should need require,
No laggard.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Any
alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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But who the tendant pomp can tell,
What mighty master of the corded shell
Can sing how heaven above accordant smiled,
And what bright
pageantry
the prospect fill'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
After a few moments the coach stopped before the Palace, and
Marya, after
crossing
a long suite of empty and sumptuous rooms, was
ushered at last into the boudoir of the Tzarina.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Elvire
Chimene is at the palace, bathed in tears,
She'll be
accompanied
when she appears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
'80-81'
What two
meanings
are attached to "wit" in this couplet?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Which to
abrupter
greatness thrust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Lucilius was the earliest
satirist
whose works
were held in esteem under the Caesars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
'I walked through the great City then, but free
From shame or fear; those toil-worn
Mariners
_3515
And happy Maidens did encompass me;
And like a subterranean wind that stirs
Some forest among caves, the hopes and fears
From every human soul, a murmur strange
Made as I passed; and many wept, with tears _3520
Of joy and awe, and winged thoughts did range,
And half-extinguished words, which prophesied of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
of the Life in the Durham Cathedral Library, but my
enquiries
about it have not yet elicited any answer.
| 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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Fresh in the dew, far o'er the painted dales,
Each fragrant herb her
sweetest
scent exhales.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
where
The dancers will break footing, from the care
Of
watching
up thy pregnant lips for more.
| Guess: |
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If we accent these five words as Naevius and the Metelli would in
ordinary speech have accented them, we shall have to place our accents
thus:--
dábunt málum Metélli Naéuio poétae;
since by what is known as the Law of the
Penultimate
the accent in Latin
always falls on the penultimate syllable save in those words of three
(or more) syllables which have a short penultimate and take the accent
consequently on the ante-penultimate syllable.
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You wonder if they
remember
the localities, or discover them
by the scent.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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O the
beautiful
sharp-bow'd steam-ships and sail-ships!
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The evening, =erev=, of Genesis
signifies
a
"mingling," and approaches the meaning of our "twilight" analytically.
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As we drew near the Commandant's house we saw in the square about twenty
little old pensioners, with long
pigtails
and three-cornered hats.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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She might have wept if that hand
Coldly placed against her heart,
Had ever felt dew's
heavenly
wand
Touch human clay with subtle art.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Almighty they knew not,
Doomsman of Deeds and
dreadful
Lord,
nor Heaven's-Helmet heeded they ever,
Wielder-of-Wonder.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Ere my steel leap, and compassed round with death
Low he shall lie: and thus, full-fed with doom,
The Fury of the house shall drain once more
A deep third draught of rich
unmingled
blood.
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Aeschylus |
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