I was that
Northern
tree and, in the South,
Amalia.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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' quoth Love:
"`For lakes of pain, yon
pleasant
plain
Of woods and grass and yellow grain
Doth ravish the soul and sense:
And never a sigh beneath the sky,
And folk that smile and gaze above --'
`But saw'st thou here, with thine own eye,
Hell?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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By some historians it is said that this prelate died
of the plague; but Petrarch thought that he sank under grief brought on
by the
disasters
of his family.
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| Question: |
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Petrarch |
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But never mind, dear
mother, some day you will come to see Enid and then she will wear the
golden, flowered
birthday
dress which you gave her three years ago.
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| Question: |
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Tennyson |
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Nick, Nick, iron
nightcap!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
VIII
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
So that one might judge this single city
Had found her
grandeur
held in check solely
By earth and ocean's depth and latitude.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
e guode man
grantede
his bone,
ffor al his blod gan menge sone
Ope his owene fode.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Haste--delay not--far within
This hallow'd cave's recess place we at once
Thy precious stores, that they may thine remain,
Then muse
together
on thy wisest course.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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And in this state she 'gallops night by night
Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;
O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on cursies straight;
O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees;
O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream,
Which oft the angry Mab with
blisters
plagues,
Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Art thou, indeed, to
ravening
wolf a prize,
Without thy faithful Roland's succour found?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Prince, why wilt thou smite
The
smitten?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
)
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: |
Imagists |
|
Honestly
He looked me in the eyes; he questioned me
Closely, and I repeated to his face
The foolish tale himself had
whispered
to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And far away across the
lengthening
wold,
Across the willowy flats and thickets brown,
Magdalen's tall tower tipped with tremulous gold
Marks the long High Street of the little town,
And warns me to return; I must not wait,
Hark!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Thel answerd, O thou little virgin of the
peaceful
valley.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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you are growing old, and still
You
struggle
to look fair;
You drink, and dance, and trill
Your songs to youthful Love, in accents weak
With wine, and age, and passion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Now Dick lies long in the churchyard,
And Ned lies long in jail,
And I come home to Ludlow
Amidst the
moonlight
pale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
>>
Immediatement
sa raison s'en alla.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
The whole was edited in
its present form from the
Boscombe
manuscript by Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
According to the
chronicles
which Livy
and Dionysius followed, Horatius had two companions, swam safe to
shore, and was loaded with honors and rewards.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Not mine such themes, Agrippa; no, nor mine
To chant the wrath that fill'd Pelides' breast,
Nor dark Ulysses'
wanderings
o'er the brine,
Nor Pelops' house unblest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
And on the wall, by the seat,
Break the
entangled
ivy,
Scatter buds for a carpet,
Let all be balmy and sweet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
With not even one blow
landing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Now lady, ful of mercy, I you preye,
Sith he his mercy mesured so large,
Be ye not skant; for alle we singe and seye 175
That ye ben from
vengeaunce
ay our targe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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If at the first great
outbreak
I rejoiced
Less than might well befit my youth, the cause 245
In part lay here, that unto me the events
Seemed nothing out of nature's certain course,
A gift that was come rather late than soon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
SILENCE
THERE are some qualities--some
incorporate
things,
That have a double life, which thus is made
A type of that twin entity which springs
From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Auto-da-fe and judgment
Are nothing to the bee;
His
separation
from his rose
To him seems misery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
In later
editions
he altered it to
'leaflets'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
The aim of all
Is how to shine: e'en they, whose office is
To preach the Gospel, let the gospel sleep,
And pass their own
inventions
off instead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
With
doubling
Voices & loud Horns wound round wounding
Cavernous dwellers fill'd the enormous Revelry, Responsing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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She wol not maken peple nycely
Gaure on hir, whan she comth; but softely
By nighte in-to the toun she
thenketh
ryde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
When a guest arrives
She gives up all to be with him; while I
Must be the drudge, make ready the guest-chamber,
Prepare the food, set
everything
in order,
And see that naught is wanting in the house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Canto XXXIV
<
prodeunt
inferni
verso di noi; pero dinanzi mira>>,
disse 'l maestro mio, <>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
His account of the matter is this: "The first discovery of certain MSS
having been deposited in Redclift church, above three centuries ago,
was made in the year 1768, at the time of opening the new bridge at
Bristol, and was owing to a publication in _Farley's Weekly Journal_,
1 October 1768,
containing
an _Account of the ceremonies observed at
the opening of the old bridge_, taken, as it was said, from a very
antient MS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
So much I fear to
encounter
her bright eye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
For I wol never
dispeired
be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Little {38a} kept back
of the tidings new, but told them all,
the herald that up the
headland
rode.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Nevertheless
they spoke only of mirth, and, though joyless themselves,
made many a joke to cheer the good Sir Gawayne (ll.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
For me no mother bore within her womb,
And, save for wedlock evermore eschewed,
I vouch myself the
champion
of the man,
Not of the woman, yea, with all my soul,--
In heart, as birth, a father's child alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for
destruction
ice
Is also great,
And would suffice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
How vain the word to
Menelaus
given
By Jove's great daughter and the queen of heaven,
Beneath his arms that Priam's towers should fall,
If warring gods for ever guard the wall!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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lenibus atque utinam
scriptis
adiuncta foret uis
comica, ut aequato uirtus polleret honore
cum Graecis, neue hac despectus pane iaceres!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
when the
strangers
pass the Alps and Po,
Crush them, ye Rocks!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Let not too much, however, be
expected
from this system.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Now I breathe the word of the
prudence
that walks abreast with time,
space, reality,
That answers the pride which refuses every lesson but its own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Better to be in my grave in the green old churchyard in England,
Close by my mother's side, and among the dust of my kindred;
Better be dead and forgotten, than living in shame and
dishonor!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that drenches itself in the sea,
O nights, or the
abandoned
light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
_Death_
Why should man's high
aspiring
mind
Burn in him with so proud a breath,
When all his haughty views can find
In this world yields to death?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
The sauntering horseman-traveller does not throw
With
careless
hand .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
And robd of royall robes, and purple pall,
And
ornaments
that richly were displaid;
Ne spared they to strip her naked all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
This lady brought in hir right hond 3705
Of
brenning
fyr a blasing brond;
Wherof the flawme and hote fyr
Hath many a lady in desyr
Of love brought, and sore het,
And in hir servise hir hertes set.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Meane you his
Maiestie?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
"
So we plunged the hand to the mid-wrist deep
In a
cinnamon
stew of the fat-tailed sheep,
And he who never hath tasted the food,
By Allah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Still
it did not prevent the bird from flying off, which it did, however,
at first slowly,
flapping
its wings and rising gradually into the
airs and teen flying off toward the sinking of the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
His
experiment failed ten times running, on the
eleventh
it succeeded only
too well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
The birds put up the bars to nests,
The cattle fled to barns;
There came one drop of giant rain,
And then, as if the hands
That held the dams had parted hold,
The waters wrecked the sky,
But overlooked my father's house,
Just
quartering
a tree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
_
For some wood-daemon
has
lightened
your steps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Here are only the rich, the happy; here is nothing that does not
inspire or exhale the pleasure of being alive, except the aspect of the
mob that presses against the outer barrier yonder,
catching
gratis, at
the will of the wind, a tatter of music, and watching the glittering
furnace within.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
A relation of mine has just written me a letter, in which
he says: 'It is natural to an Irishman to write plays, he has an
inborn love of
dialogue
and sound about him, of a dialogue as lively,
gallant, and passionate as in the times of great Eliza.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that drenches itself in the sea,
O nights, or the
abandoned
light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
One of the five straight branches of my hand
Is lop'd already, and the rest but stand
Expecting
when to fall, which soon will be;
First dies the leaf, the bough next, next the tree.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
LOVE, HOPE, AND
PATIENCE
IN EDUCATION
O'er wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule,
And sun thee in the light of happy faces;
Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces,
And in thine own heart let them first keep school.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Mount Venus, Jupiter, and all the rest
Are finger-tips of ranges
clasping
round
And holding up the Romany's wide sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Was man nicht weiss, das eben
brauchte
man,
Und was man weiss, kann man nicht brauchen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
The Cloud
descended
and the Lily bowd her modest head:
And went to mind her numerous charge among the verdant grass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
what
Senators
were
to be chosen?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
How do you mean to travel now
that all the roads be blocked by the
robbers?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
"
As for the She-devil, I should lie if I denied that at first I found in
her a certain strange charm, which to define I can but compare to the
charm of certain beautiful women past their first youth, who yet seem to
age no more, whose beauty keeps something of the
penetrating
magic of
ruins.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Nor could I rise with you,
Because your face
Would put out Jesus',
That new grace
Glow plain and foreign
On my
homesick
eye,
Except that you, than he
Shone closer by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
The willows
Are
yellowed
with bud.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
"No--no--"
There came
whisperings
in the wind:
"Good bye!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
It was as if a chirping brook
Upon a
toilsome
way
Set bleeding feet to minuets
Without the knowing why.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
I'll stride out with only my thought in sight,
Seeing nothing beyond, without hearing a sound,
Alone and unknown, back bowed, folded hands,
Sad, since
daylight
to me will seem night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Even homicide is atoned 126 by a certain fine in cattle and sheep; and the whole family accepts the satisfaction, to the
advantage
of the public weal, since quarrels are most dangerous in a free state.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
"His tomb," says Castera,
"is still to be seen in the
monastery
of St.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
A-shu is eighteen:
For
laziness
there is none like him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
It giveth both inwards and outwards
a clearer light then glasse, and for this respect is better than
either glasse or horne; for that it neither
breaketh
like glasse, nor
yet will burne like the lanthorne.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
When the false swain was
hurrying
o'er the deep
His Spartan hostess in the Idaean bark,
Old Nereus laid the unwilling winds asleep,
That all to Fate might hark,
Speaking through him:--"Home in ill hour you take
A prize whom Greece shall claim with troops untold,
Leagued by an oath your marriage tie to break
And Priam's kingdom old.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Close those
beauteous
eyes,
Sweet Sleep!
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"Well knows he how, in history's every page,
The laurell'd chief, the monarch on his throne,
The poet and the sage,
Favourites of fortune, or for virtue known,
Were cursed by evil stars, in loves debased,
Soulless
and vile, their hearts, their fame, to waste:
While I, for him alone,
From all the lovely ladies of the earth,
Chose one, so graced with beauty and with worth,
The eternal sun her equal ne'er beheld.
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As when to them who sail
Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past
Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow
Sabean odours from the spicy shore
Of Araby the Blest, with such delay
Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league
Cheered with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles,
So
entertained
those odorous sweets the Fiend.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Vincent Millay and Robert Frost
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK
AMERICAN
POETRY, 1922 ***
***** This file should be named 25880-8.
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For, lo,
That ether can flow thus
steadily
on, on,
With one unaltered urge, the Pontus proves--
That sea which floweth forth with fixed tides,
Keeping one onward tenor as it glides.
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Never (so chance I to please
Caecilius
owning me now-a-days!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Dispaire
thy Charme,
And let the Angell whom thou still hast seru'd
Tell thee, Macduffe was from his Mothers womb
Vntimely ript
Macb.
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For Elemental Gods their
thunderous
Organs blew; creating
Delicious Viands.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Then o'er her head she cast a veil more white
Than new-fallen snow, and
dazzling
as the light.
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Its valuable contents, however, had
been abstracted, and the magistrate in vain
endeavored
to extort from
the prisoner the use which had been made of them, or the place of their
concealment.
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Poe - 5 |
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Among the rocks--an empty hollow,
Secret, still,
mysterious!
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As when a ship, that flyes faire under saile,
An hidden rocke escaped hath unwares,
That lay in waite her wrack for to bewaile,
The
Marriner
yet halfe amazed stares
At perill past, and yet in doubt ne dares 5
To joy at his foole-happie oversight:
So doubly is distrest twixt joy and cares
The dreadlesse courage of this Elfin knight,
Having escapt so sad ensamples in his sight.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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For oak and elm have
pleasant
leaves
That in the springtime shoot:
But grim to see is the gallows-tree,
With its adder-bitten root,
And, green or dry, a man must die
Before it bears its fruit!
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