But
speedily
now
shall I prove him the prowess and pride of the Geats,
shall bid him battle.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Then we said,
"Our feast, too, shall soon be spread,
Of good
Thanksgiving
turkey.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Let fair or foul my
mistress
be,
Or low, or tall, she pleaseth me;
Or let her walk, or stand, or sit,
The posture hers, I'm pleas'd with it;
Or let her tongue be still, or stir,
Graceful is every thing from her;
Or let her grant, or else deny,
_My love will fit each history_.
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Robert Herrick |
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or
filename
24689 would be found at:
http://www.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Infinite
hope below kills hope above;
And I at times e'en thus have been the talk.
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Petrarch |
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In return for your glad words
Be sure all
greeting
that mine house affords
Is yours.
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Euripides - Electra |
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e gode kny3t, & kene men hem serued
Of alle dayntye3 double, as derrest my3t falle,
484 Wyth alle maner of mete &
mynstralcie
bo?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I, with none beside,
Save hoarse cicalas shrilling through the brake,
Still track your
footprints
'neath the broiling sun.
| Guess: |
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Yet, 'mid the fervent swarm
Of these vagaries, with an eye so rich
As mine was through the bounty of a grand
And lovely region, [h] I had forms distinct
To steady me: each airy thought
revolved
430
Round a substantial centre, which at once
Incited it to motion, and controlled.
| Guess: |
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William Wordsworth |
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_Perhaps
read_ gan aryse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And
blossoms
fall upon an open sea.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The little pony glad may be,
But he is milder far than she,
You hardly can
perceive
his joy.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Those two make
an
intoxicating
drink, and have ruined more men than ever has Whiskey.
| Guess: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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Place me where on the ice-bound plain
No tree is cheer'd by summer breezes,
Where Jove
descends
in sleety rain
Or sullen freezes;
Place me where none can live for heat,
'Neath Phoebus' very chariot plant me,
That smile so sweet, that voice so sweet,
Shall still enchant me.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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A
distinguished
Scandinavian
writer has pronounced _Das Stunden-Buch_ one of the supreme literary
achievements of our time and its deepest and most beautiful book of
prayer.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Adjecisset enim, atque adjiciebat, cæteris
virtutibus
suis,
quod desiderari potest; id est autem, ut esset multo magis pugnax, et
sæpius ad curam rerum ab elocutione respiceret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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I sing but as vouchsafed me; yet even this
If, if but one with ravished eyes should read,
Of thee, O Varus, shall our tamarisks
And all the woodland ring; nor can there be
A page more dear to Phoebus, than the page
Where,
foremost
writ, the name of Varus stands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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and hail, O
household gods,
faithful
to your Troy!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Faint voices lifted shrill with pain
And multitudinous as rain;
From all the lands
And all the villages thereof
Men crying for the gift of love
With
outstretched
hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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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.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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This banquet hall looks an abyss outlined
With shadowy vagueness, though indeed we find
In the far depth upon the table spread
A sudden, strong, and glaring light is shed,
Striking upon the goldsmith's burnished works,
And on the
pheasants
killed by traitor hawks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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With solemn pomp he bids his lords prepare
The
friendly
banquet; to the regent's care
Commends brave GAMA, and with pomp retires:
The regent's hearths awake the social fires;
Wide o'er the board the royal feast is spread,
And, fair embroidered, shines DE GAMA'S bed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
She is in
mourning
garb,
and carries a large pitcher on her head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in
paragraphs
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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" pursues his way:
He soon is
downward
bound:
He lives, he suffers; in his grasp one day
Mere dust and ashes found.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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All shrieked; Ulysses at the sound awoke,
And, sitting,
meditated
thus the cause.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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'Andrew
Jones',--also suppressed after
appearing
in "Lyrical Ballads" of 1800,
1802, and 1805,--will be replaced, in like manner.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Jove heard his vows, and better'd his desire;
For by some freakful chance he made retire
From his companions, and set forth to walk,
Perhaps grown wearied of their Corinth talk:
Over the solitary hills he fared,
Thoughtless
at first, but ere eve's star appeared
His phantasy was lost, where reason fades,
In the calm'd twilight of Platonic shades.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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You see it, mistress, and start to hide once more:
Do you hate the
daylight
you were searching for?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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And
therfore
of his wyse purveaunce
He hath so wel biset his ordenaunce,
That spices of thinges and progressiouns
Schullen endure by successiouns
And nat eterne be, withoute any lye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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_ To get all one can; to display a
grasping
nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Tell me, thou
vnknowne
power
1 He knowes thy thought:
Heare his speech, but say thou nought
1 Appar.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
The rest of us our way to Phocis won,
And thence to Doris and the Melian gulf,
Where with soft stream
Spercheus
laves the soil.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Wilt thou teach us spell-words that protect from all harm,
And
thoughts
of evil banish?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
She is in
mourning
garb,
and carries a large pitcher on her head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Teeming with
monsters
dread
And plagues on every hand!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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1473 hoc modo _cui ego quasi eadem totidem mox
deprecor
illi ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Thou know'st her grace in moving, Thou dost her skill in loving,
Thou know'st what truth she proveth, Thou knowest the heart she moveth, O song where grief
assoneth
!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Aucun
jongleur
ne vous en dira une meilleure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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All sweet
emotions
e'er
By happy lovers felt in every clime,
Together all, may not with mine compare,
When, as from time to time,
I catch from that dark radiance rich and deep
A ray in which, disporting, Love is seen;
And I believe that from my cradled sleep,
By Heaven provided this resource hath been,
'Gainst adverse fortune, and my nature frail.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
XERXES
Smite, smite thy bosom, groan aloud for my
calamity!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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--I tell thee, holy man,
Thy
raiments
and thy ebony cross affright me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden [1] daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees, 5
Fluttering
and dancing in the breeze.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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It was long
before our frontiers reached their
settlements
in the West.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Nay, it is deeper than my sister's
depth and stronger than my brother's strength, and
stranger
than
the strangeness of my madness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
If it could be so I'd make no fuss,
All fate's
suffering
would seem sweet today,
Not even if I'd to be a vulture's prey,
Nor he who must roll the boulder, Sisyphus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Attention
held them mute.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And I was
astonished
and said to myself,
"Shall they of this so holy city have but one eye and one hand?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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She had dreams all yesternight
Of her own betrothed knight;
And she in the
midnight
wood will pray
For the weal of her lover that's far away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
1340
Should I in making a
statement
all too sincere,
Cover with shameful blushes the brow of a father?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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e best;
[J] To
trystors
vewters 3od,
Couples huntes of kest,
1148 ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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All down the hills of Habersham,
All through the valleys of Hall,
The rushes cried `Abide, abide,'
The willful waterweeds held me thrall,
The laving laurel turned my tide,
The ferns and the fondling grass said `Stay,'
The
dewberry
dipped for to work delay,
And the little reeds sighed `Abide, abide,
Here in the hills of Habersham,
Here in the valleys of Hall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
He
promised
'a new start'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Antidotes
Of medicated music,
answering
for
Mankind's forlornest uses, thou canst pour
From thence into their ears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the
sentence
set forth in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Both the war of Troy and the war of
Regillus
were caused by the
licentious passions of young princes, who were therefore
peculiarly bound not to be sparing of their own persons on the
day of battle.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
260
Ay--this is well--The villain leads the vile--
Thus
evermore
the Gods join like to like.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
The wayside
blossoms
open to the blaze.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Oneguine his excuses says;
"But," cried
Zaretski
in amaze,
"Your second you have left behind!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Down their broad shoulders falls a length of hair;
Their hands dismiss not the long lance in air;
But with protended spears in fighting fields
Pierce the tough
corslets
and the brazen shields.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Gode ic þanc secge,
"þæs þe ic þē
gesundne
gesēon mōste.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
And who wants to swallow a
mouthful
of sorrow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
GD}
He could controll the times & seasons, & the days & years
She could controll the spaces, regions, desart, flood & forest
But had no power to weave a Veil of
covering
for her Sins
She drave the Females all away from Los
And Los drave all the Males from her away
They wanderd long, till they sat down upon the margind sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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And while the old dames gossip at their ease,
And pinch the snuff-box empty by degrees,
The young ones join in love's delightful themes,
Truths told by gipsies, and expounded dreams;
And mutter things kept secrets from the rest,
As sweethearts' names, and whom they love the best;
And dazzling ribbons they delight to show,
And last new favours of some veigling beau,
Who with such
treachery
tries their hearts to move,
And, like the highest, bribes the maidens' love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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For mild she was, of few soft words,
Most gentle, easy to be led,
Content to listen when I spoke,
And
reverence
what I said:
I elder sister by six years;
Not half so glad, or wise, or good:
Her words rebuked my secret self
And shamed me where I stood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
That he, Castiglione' not being aware
Of any feud existing, or any cause
Of quarrel between your
lordship
and himself,
Cannot accept the challenge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
On
festal
occasions
in the country the whole party is usually
accommodated for the night, or indeed for as many nights
as desired, within the house of the entertainer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
My
memories
freeze
Like birds' cry
In hollow trees.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
During this time he had an
unrequited love affair with an unknown beauty whom he celebrated in the
_Shepheards
Calender_
under the name of Rosalind, "the widow's daughter of
the glen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
The flames of the Dog Days keep
Far from your green steep,
Because your shade around
Is always close and deep,
For the
shepherds
changing ground,
The weary oxen, the sheep,
And the cattle that wander round.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Then Doullie myghte his bowestrynge drewe, 115
Enthoughte
to gyve brave Tosslyn bloudie wounde,
But Harolde's asenglave stopp'd it as it slewe,
And it fell bootless on the bloudie grounde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
what darkness of
despair!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
XVIII
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
Were once
enclosures
of the open field:
And these brave palaces that to Time must yield,
Were shepherd's huts in some past century.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
There is a
buccaneerish
air
About that garb outlandish-- 70
Just then the ghost drew up his chair
And said, 'My name is Standish.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
The last stage of
collapse!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
The sea returning day by day
Restores
the world-wide mart;
So let each dweller on the Bay
Fold Boston in his heart,
Till these echoes be choked with snows,
Or over the town blue ocean flows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
THE SWORD DHAM
"How shall we honor the man who
creates?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Of fancies fair, and milder hours of youth, 20
Hybloean murmurs of poetic thought
Industrious in its joy, in vales and glens
Native or outland, Lakes and famous Hills;
Or on the lonely high-road, when the stars
Were rising; or by secret mountain streams, 25
The guides and the
companions
of thy way!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Lord Cardinal, will your Grace
Persuade
the Queen to send the Duke of York
Unto his princely brother presently?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
by the hues
Of heaven on the
spiritual
air begot:
Long didst thou sit alone in northern grot,
While yet our England was a wolfish den;
Before our forests heard the talk of men;
Before the first of Druids was a child;--
Long didst thou sit amid our regions wild
Rapt in a deep prophetic solitude.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
That's why Faustina as my
companion
in bed makes me happy:
Loving she always remains faithful, as I am to her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
upon all things, substance,
shadow,
Of the sheep that browsed the grasses, of the reapers in the corn,
Of the little
children
from the schools, seen winding through the
meadow,
Of the poor rich world beyond them, still kept poorer by its scorn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
E un ch'avea perduti ambo li orecchi
per la freddura, pur col viso in giue,
disse: <
specchi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
The clouds their backs together laid,
The north begun to push,
The forests
galloped
till they fell,
The lightning skipped like mice;
The thunder crumbled like a stuff --
How good to be safe in tombs,
Where nature's temper cannot reach,
Nor vengeance ever comes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
" The Pilot then replied,
"It cannot be--she is a human Maid--
Her low voice makes you weep--she is some bride, _3215
Or
daughter
of high birth--she can be nought beside.
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Shelley |
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And now my conclusion I'll tell,
For faith I'm
confoundedly
dry;
The chiel that's a fool for himsel',
Guid Lord!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The sickness--the nausea--
The
pitiless
pain--
Have ceased, with the fever
That maddened my brain--
With the fever called "Living"
That burned in my brain.
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"
In the evening
The far valleys were
sprinkled
with tiny lights.
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the only sound,
The dripping of the oar
suspended!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But should any dream of licence, there's a lesson may be read,
How 'twas wine that drove the Centaurs with the
Lapithae
to fight.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Then of Aelis I'll demand
Her adroit and
charming
tongue
Which must surely aid my suit,
That it be not dull or mute.
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Troubador Verse |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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When Li Yang-ping became
Governor
of T'ang-tu, Po went to live near him.
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Li Po |
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Then, for a little moment, all people held their breath;
And through the crowded Forum was
stillness
as of death;
And in another moment brake forth from one and all
A cry as if the Volscians were coming o'er the wall.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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A guard was set that he might not flee--
A score of
bayonets
ringed the tree.
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Kipling - Poems |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Imagists |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Our lays are of cities whose lustre is shed,
The laughter and beauty of women long dead;
The sword of old battles, the crown of old kings,
And happy and simple and
sorrowful
things.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I am always
displeased by
circumstances
for which I cannot account.
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Poe - 5 |
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