What fierce
conflict
I feel!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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That is to say, I had asked for the amount of freedom which every
nation has given to its
dramatic
writers.
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Yeats |
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In
provincial
Swedish almost everywhere a
church porch is called våkenhus,.
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Beowulf |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Even for this, let us divided live,
And our dear love lose name of single one,
That by this
separation
I may give
That due to thee which thou deserv'st alone.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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IV
And they bore to the bluff, and alighted--
A dim-discerned train
Of sprites without mould,
Frameless souls none might touch or might hold--
On the ledge by the
turreted
lantern, farsighted
By men of the main.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
XIX
Why did you fail to appear at the cot in the
vineyard
today, Love?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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La presente edition de 1895 a ete corrigee de la main de Verlaine, sur
des
epreuves
fournies par l'imprimerie Ch.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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It is pitiful when a man bears a name for
convenience
merely,
who has earned neither name nor fame.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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A hobbling, dirt-grimed drover guides
their
clattering
feet to death and shame.
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Imagists |
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Enough of Battle's
minions!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Derjavine flourished during the
reigns of Catherine the Second and
Alexander
the First.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Perhaps the theory of
Perizonius
cannot
be better illustrated than by showing that what he supposes to
have taken place in ancient times has, beyond all doubt, taken
place in modern times.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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XI
Hamburg
The day that I come home,
What will you find to say,--
Words as light as foam
With
laughter
light as spray?
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Sara Teasdale |
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non omnis arbusta iuuant
humilesque
myricae;
si canimus siluas, siluae sint consule dignae.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Above the lake are deep
mountain
valleys,
And men dwelling whose hearts are without guile.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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A fool is eyth [for] to bigyle; 3955
But may I lyve a litel while,
He shal
forthenke
his fair semblaunt.
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
{139a} "There is a god within us, and when he is stirred we grow warm;
that spirit comes from
heavenly
realms.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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That's all that's left already of our true play,
Where the pure poet's gesture, humble, vast
Must deny the dream, the enemy of his trust:
So that on the morning of his exalted stay,
When ancient death is for him as for Gautier,
The un-opening of sacred eyes, the being-still,
The solid tomb may rise, ornament this hill,
The
sepulchre
where lies the power to blight,
And miserly silence and the massive night.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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eorlscype
efne (_accomplish knightly deeds_), 2536; inf.
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Beowulf |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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With fist alone the gate he battered down
Of
Sickingen
in flames, and saved the town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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CAMILLUS, truly, some suspicions had,
That he was loved, though neither fool nor mad;
Nor such a novice in the Paphian scene,
But what he could at once some notions glean:
More certain tokens, howsoe'er, to get,
And set the lady's feelings on the fret,
By trying if the gloom that o'er her reigned
Was only sly pretence, he
coldness
feigned.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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AU LECTEUR
La sottise, l'erreur, le peche, la lesine,
Occupent nos esprits et travaillent nos corps,
Et nous
alimentons
nos aimables remords,
Comme les mendiants nourrissent leur vermine.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
Now I could not answer him, most
strangely
Touched me those old words I knew so well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Hence, thou
suborned
informer!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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[87] At Pharsalia Caesar
defeated
Pompey, 48 B.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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O
children
of the light, now in our grief Give us again the solace of belief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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In all drink
He
detected
the bitter,
And in all touch
He found the sting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Are the jay, and owl, and pewit
All awake and loudly
calling?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
And if I hate men of-newe
More than love, it wol me rewe, 5170
As by your preching semeth me,
For Love no-thing ne
preisith
thee.
| 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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Les bons vergers a l'herbe bleue
Aux
pommiers
tors!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the
gashouse
190
Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
And on the king my father's death before him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
NONE FORGOES
THE LEAP,
ATTAINING
THE REPOSE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
e
coempciou{n}
ne was not axed ne took effect.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
5, and
a ballad of 'goose-green starch and the devil' is
mentioned
in _Bart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
"Now I the strength of Hercules behold,
A towering spectre of
gigantic
mould,
A shadowy form!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
But come,
let us call our neighbour by
scratching
at her door; and gently too, so
that her husband may hear nothing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
60
"A cunning artist will I have to frame
A basin for that
fountain
in the dell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Lift thine eyes which lingering see
The shadows on the foot-worn threshold fall,
Lift thine eyes slowly to the great dark tree
That stands against heaven, solitary, tall,
And thou hast visioned Life, its meanings rise
Like words that in the silence clearer grow;
As they unfold before thy will to know
Gently
withdraw
thine eyes--
THE NEIGHBOUR
Strange violin!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Where lambs have nibbled, silent move
The feet of angels bright;
Unseen they pour blessing,
And joy without ceasing,
On each bud and blossom,
And each
sleeping
bosom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Per Contra
Go, Fame, an' canter like a filly
Thro' a' the streets an' neuks o' Killie;^3
Tell ev'ry social honest billie
To cease his grievin';
For, yet
unskaithed
by Death's gleg gullie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
And when I reached the market place, a youth
standing
on a house-top
cried, "He is a madman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
And Gawain went, and breaking into song
Sprang out, and
followed
by his flying hair
Ran like a colt, and leapt at all he saw:
But Modred laid his ear beside the doors,
And there half-heard; the same that afterward
Struck for the throne, and striking found his doom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Yet where now I rush,
Thy wisdom hath no power to drag me back;
Because I glory, glory, to go hence
And win for thee
deliverance
from thy pangs,
As a free gift from Zeus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Ere, departing, fade from my eyes your forests of bayonets--
Spirit of gloomiest fears and doubts, yet onward ever
unfaltering
pressing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
SENONES, inhabitants of Celtic Gaul, situate on the
_Sequana_
(now the
Seine); a people famous for their invasion of Italy, and taking and
burning Rome A.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
His great valour how can it be
counted?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
But now I sing not war,
Nor the measur'd march of soldiers, nor the tents of camps,
Nor the regiments hastily coming up
deploying
in line of battle;
No more the sad, unnatural shows of war.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
O sweet Revenge, now do I come to thee;
And, if one arm's
embracement
will content thee,
I will embrace thee in it by and by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
He may have
accompanied
Richard I and Aimar V ofLimoges on the Third Crusade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Oh, swift as light they speed, The first light into
darkness
hurled, Each to his work, above, below,
The sons of God that make the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
THE DEAD
How shall the living be
comforted
for the dead
When they are gone, and nothing's left behind
But a vague music of the words they said
And a fast-fading image in the mind?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
1070
Eager for the help I expect from your care,
For this greater need I
retained
my prayer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
By God's truth I 've seen The arrowy
sunlight
in her golden snares.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's
information
and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Sigh
My soul, towards your brow where O calm sister,
An autumn dreams,
blotched
by reddish smudges,
And towards the errant sky of your angelic eye
Climbs: as in a melancholy garden the true sigh
Of a white jet of water towards the Azure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
"
How many times have I cursed those
frivolous
pages that broadcast
Out among all mankind passions I felt in my youth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
This tablet has been
erroneously
assigned to Book
IV, but it appears to be Book III.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
I count myself happy if it brings delight,
My trial stroke
pleasing
him who gave me life;
But be not jealous, now, of joy's faction,
If I in turn choose to seek satisfaction.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
How
mournfully
it seems to fly,
Ever fading more and more,
To joyless regions of the sky--
And now 'tis whiter than before!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
They will return to us with gipsy grins,
And chatter Romany, and shake their curls
And hug the
dirtiest
babies in the camp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work
electronically
in lieu of a refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
490
Thys mie adented shielde, thys mie warre-speare,
Schalle telle the
falleynge
foe gyf Hurra's harte can feare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
]
[Footnote 10: Masson's reconstruction of the scene between Chatterton
and the editor of the _Freeholder's Magazine_ is very
convincing
(see
his _Chatterton: a Biography_, p.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight
Bill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
THE TOMB OF A YOUNG GIRL
We still
remember!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
an
or why
disputest
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
What
nonsense
is she talking here?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Yet others rapt in
pleasure
seem,
And taste of all that I forsake:
Oh!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
What sin you do to save a brother's life,
Nature
dispenses
with the deed so far
That it becomes a virtue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Then there
appeared
and spread faint streaks of gray o'er her forehead,
Dawn of another life, that broke o'er her earthy horizon,
As in the eastern sky the first faint streaks of the morning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Foul
architect
!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
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.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
CLEMENT SCOTT
NERO'S
INCENDIARY
SONG.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
LIMITED RIGHT OF
REPLACEMENT
OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
I opened it and read with emotion the
following
lines--
"It has pleased God to deprive me at once of my father and my mother.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
But what matters an eternity of damnation to him who
has found in one second an eternity of
enjoyment?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
The Cat
The Large Cat
'The Large Cat'
Cornelis Visscher (II), 1657, The Rijksmuseun
I wish there to be in my house:
A woman
possessing
reason,
A cat among books passing by,
Friends for every season
Lacking whom I'm barely alive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Where the wind calls our wandering
footsteps
we go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
It were fitting she should see
In that hour thine artistry,
And her husband's speechless corse
In the garment of
remorse!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Take away those rosy lips,
Rich with balmy treasure;
Turn away thine eyes of love,
Lest I die with
pleasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Drown
desperate
sorrow in dead Edward's grave,
And plant your joys in living Edward's throne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Elan,
daughter
of Healfdene, king of the Danes, (?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
At home he lighted, sought his bed, and found
The consort he had quitted
sleeping
sound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Of the old heroes when the warlike shades
Saw Douglas
marching
on the Elysian glades,
They all, consulting, gathered in a ring,
Which of the poets should his welcome sing ;
And, as a favourable penance, chose
Cleveland, on whom they would that task impose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
I have said it twice:
That alone should
encourage
the crew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Lady, who,
reckless
of the world's renown,
Reapest in virtue's field fair honour's sheaf;
Nor fear'st Love's limed snares, "that subtle thief,"
While calm discretion on his wiles looks down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
But say, and truly; knows the prudent Queen
Already thy return, or shall we send
Ourselves
an herald with the joyful news?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Pain
Waves are the sea's white daughters,
And
raindrops
the children of rain,
But why for my shimmering body
Have I a mother like Pain?
| Guess: |
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so rude him smot, 335
That to the earth him drove, as
stricken
dead,
Ne living wight would have him life behot:
The mortall sting his angry needle shot
Quite through his shield, and in his shoulder seasd,
Where fast it stucke, ne would there out be got: 340
The griefe thereof him wondrous sore diseasd,
Ne might his ranckling paine with patience be appeasd.
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In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's [3] breast;
In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest;
In the Spring a
livelier
iris changes on the burnish'd dove;
In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
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does clyme, 145
Adorned all with gold, and
girlonds
gay,
That seemd as fresh as Flora in her prime,
And strove to match, in royall rich array,
Great Junoes golden chaire, the which they say
The Gods stand gazing on, when she does ride 150
To Joves high house through heavens bras-paved way
Drawne of faire Pecocks, that excell in pride,
And full of Argus eyes their tailes dispredden wide.
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From Tmolus' sacred hill there came
The native hordes to join the fray,
And upon Hellas' neck to lay
The yoke of slavery and shame;
Mardon and
Tharubis
were there,
Bright anvils for the foemen's spear!
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{29e} The text is here
hopelessly
illegible, and only the general
drift of the meaning can be rescued.
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