There, in the windless night-time,
The wanderer,
marvelling
why,
Halts on the bridge to hearken
How soft the poplars sigh.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Now on the coast of Pyle the vessel falls,
Before old Neleus'
venerable
walls.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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* * * * *
JOHN FREEMAN
I WILL ASK
I will ask primrose and violet to spend for you
Their smell and hue,
And the bold, trembling anemone awhile to spare
Her flowers starry fair;
Or the flushed wild apple and yet sweeter thorn
Their
sweetness
to keep
Longer than any fire-bosomed flower born
Between midnight and midnight deep.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Linterno's sandy bounds it reach'd at last,
Great Scipio's favour'd haunt in ages past;
Famed Africanus, whose
victorious
blade
The slaughterous deeds of Hannibal repaid,
And to his country's heart a bloody passage made.
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Petrarch |
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Barbey d'Aurevilly himself a Satanist and dandy (oh, those comical old
attitudes of literature), had
prophesied
that the author of Fleurs du
Mal would either blow out his brains or prostrate himself at the foot of
the cross.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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Stephen Crane |
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And so growing gentler and clearer, it changes
and is
dispersed
and dies.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Or s'i' non
procedesse
avanti piue,
'Dunque, come costui fu sanza pare?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Wilt fly, and art not proof
against
dizziness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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O'er desert sands, o'er gulf and bay,
O'er Ganges and o'er Himalay,
Bird-like I fly, and flying sing,
To flowery kingdoms of Cathay,
And bird-like poise on balanced wing
Above the town of King-te-tching,
A burning town, or seeming so,--
Three
thousand
furnaces that glow
Incessantly, and fill the air
With smoke uprising, gyre on gyre
And painted by the lurid glare,
Of jets and flashes of red fire.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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As the
Knight of the Green Chapel I am known to many,
wherefore
if thou
seekest thou canst not fail to find me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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They blind all with their gleam,
Their loins
encircled
are by girdles bright,
Their robes are edged with bands
Of precious stones--the rarest earth affords--
With richly jeweled hands
They hold their slender, shining, naked swords.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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It seems
to hover in the air, like one of the island
enchantments
of Prospero.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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your
gypsying
soul
Is caught and held fast in the pipes of Pan's flute.
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Rilke - Poems |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful Athenian courtesan and mistress of
Alexander
the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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I did heare
The
gallopping
of Horse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Whither fled Lamia, now a lady bright,
A full-born beauty new and
exquisite?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Again, a blow beyond its nature's strength
Shatters
forthwith each living thing soe'er,
And on it goes confounding all the sense
Of body and mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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The supper is over--the fire on the ground burns low;
The wearied emigrants sleep, wrapped in their blankets;
I walk by myself--I stand and look at the stars, which I think now I never
realised
before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Whitman |
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O cunning green leaves, little
masters!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sidney Lanier |
|
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REMEDIES
FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He did: and with an absolute Sir, not I
The clowdy
Messenger
turnes me his backe,
And hums; as who should say, you'l rue the time
That clogges me with this Answer
Lenox.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Bright; and to the
authorities of Cornell University, for the loan of periodicals necessary to
the
completeness
of the revision.
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Beowulf |
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Come, let us to the islet's softest shade,
And hear the
warbling
birds!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Some lowly cot in the rough fields our home,
Shoot down the stags, or with green osier-wand
Round up the
straggling
flock!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Imagination flowers and vanishes, swiftly, following the flow of the writing, round the fragmentary
stations
of a capitalised phrase introduced by and extended from the title.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
During the same Consuls, a bloody
assassination
was perpetrated in the
nethermost Spain, by a boor in the territory of Termes.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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"Does spring hide its joy,
When buds and
blossoms
grow?
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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For my part I was
convinced
it was all right, and merely stepped aside,
out of the range of the Egyptian's fist.
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Poe - 5 |
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Autour, dort un fouillis de meubles abrutis
Dans des haillons de crasse et sur de sales ventres,
Des escabeaux,
crapauds
etranges, sont blottis
Aux coins noirs: des buffets ont des gueules de chantres
Qu'entr'ouvre un sommeil plein d'horribles appetits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
His
technique
is the transposition into
his waking hours of the unconscious technique of dreams.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
]
I
Having remarked Vladimir's flight,
Oneguine, bored to death again,
By Olga stood,
dejected
quite
And satisfied with vengeance ta'en.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Therefore
are feasts so solemn and so rare,
Since, seldom coming in that long year set,
Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,
Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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See how it totters- the world's orbed might,
Earth, and wide ocean, and the vault profound,
All, see,
enraptured
of the coming time!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Its
business
office is located at 809
North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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And Ecquo dyed for
Narcisus
735
Nolde nat love hir; and right thus
Hath many another foly don.
| 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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Comme then, and see you
swotelie
tune the strynge,
And stret[42], and engyne all the human wytte,
Toe please mie dame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Hence that it was a fiend, to upper air
Evoked from depths of nether hell I ween;
Which
Malagigi
raised by magic sleight,
That so he might disturb the champions' fight.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
XXXVIII
The winds out of the west land blow,
My friends have
breathed
them there;
Warm with the blood of lads I know
Comes east the sighing air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I was
filled with
astonishment
at the extraordinary connection of events.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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And since the warfare has not yet ceased, 12 all our lads are on
campaign
in the east.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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"
'Twas
throwing
words away; for still
The little Maid would have her will,
And said, "Nay, we are seven!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Three women were
assisting
at her toilet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
CXLII
Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin,
grounded
on sinful loving:
O!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Land of the
avalanche!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Worthiest
man!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
"What are you
thinking
of?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Is thy Master
stirring?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Poor wretch," they say, "one hostile hour hath ta'en
Wretchedly
from thee all life's many guerdons,"
But add not, "yet no longer unto thee
Remains a remnant of desire for them"
If this they only well perceived with mind
And followed up with maxims, they would free
Their state of man from anguish and from fear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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"
That admiral has bent his head down deep,
And
thereafter
lowers his face and weeps,
Fain would he die at once, so great his grief;
He calls to him Jangleu from over sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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And that same rabble,
splitting
for a hedge,
Had joined their rows to cheer the active headsman;
Perchance, in mockery, they'd gird the skull
With a hop-leaf crown!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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e whiche delit oonly
considered
1812
Epicurus Iuged {and} establissed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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They set a vile
example!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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For it will not worry itself about the past, nor care whether
things
happened
or did not happen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Two bodies
therefore
be;
Bind one, and one will flee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Then, with an aspect cold and grim,
Regardless
of its battered rim,
She took it up and gave it him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
From them
sometime in the rolling years the Romans were to arise indeed; from them
were to be rulers who, renewing the blood of Teucer, should hold sea and
land in
universal
lordship.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
To dig for water on the spot, the Captain
Landed with a small troop, myself being one:
There I
reproached
him with his treachery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
ENVOI
Struck of the blade that no man parrieth,
Pierced of the point that
toucheth
lastly all,
'Gainst that grey fencer, even Death,
Behold the shield !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Here I kneel:
If e'er my will did trespass 'gainst his love
Either in discourse of thought or actual deed,
Or that mine eyes, mine ears, or any sense,
Delighted them in any other form,
Or that I do not yet, and ever did,
And ever will, though he do shake me off
To
beggarly
divorcement, love him dearly,
Comfort forswear me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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So guide me,
goddess!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
II
You are useless,
O grave, O beautiful,
the
landsmen
tell it--I have heard--
you are useless.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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deep gash'd the
enormous
blade,
And for the soul an ample passage made.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Pier
Traversaro
e Guido di Carpigna?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
They have their own will,
and sweep hither and thither, and change
according
to its commands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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where the rigid North
A flush of rich meridian glow doth feel,
Caught from
reflected
suns of bright Castile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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No
squirrel
went abroad;
A dog's belated feet
Like intermittent plush were heard
Adown the empty street.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
for I will fly to thee,
Not
charioted
by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of Poesy,
Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Will there really be a
morning?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
28 _thiasiis_ RBLa1: _thy{a}siis_ G:
_thiasis_
O ||
_strepitantibus_ Voss
31 _animam agens_ Lachm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
'Gainst fate to strive
Where Desolation plants her famished brood
Is vain, or Ilion, Tyre, might yet survive,
And Virtue
vanquish
all, and Murder cease to thrive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
Nealles mid
geweoldum
wyrm-horda .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
So the bribes overlaid her that Rome once be*
trayed ;
The tribes ne'er
contributed
so to the temple.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Those men
Who reas'ning went to depth profoundest, mark'd
That innate freedom, and were thence induc'd
To leave their moral
teaching
to the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
s content If you get fine lines in writing poems, 48 send them to me
sometime
in a letter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
e
emperour
him say ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
To him who
speaketh
words as fair as these, Say that I also know the "Yearly Slain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Two
together!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
The victory of the foreign taste was decisive; and indeed we can
hardly blame the Romans for turning away with contempt from the
rude lays which had
delighted
their fathers, and giving their
whole admiration to the immortal productions of Greece.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Does my joy
sometimes
erupt?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
" [_Voila les
arguments
de M.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Beneath the armour of the Knight
Behind the chain's black links
Death crouches and thinks and thinks:
"When will the sword's blade sharp and bright
Forth from the
scabbard
spring
And cut the network of the cloak
Enmeshing me ring on ring--
When will the foe's delivering stroke
Set me free
To dance
And sing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
The Marineres gave it biscuit-worms,
And round and round it flew:
The Ice did split with a Thunder-fit;
The
Helmsman
steer'd us thro'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
in their own blood they lie--
Ill-omened the concent that hails our
victory!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Hac ego
pnecipua
credo herbam dote placere,
Hinc tuus has nebulas doctor in astra veliit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
--Ces yeux sont des puits faits d'un million de larmes,
Des
creusets
qu'un metal refroidi pailleta.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Defaced and dashed from sight the altars fell,
And each god's image, from its pedestal
Thrust and flung down, in dim
confusion
lies!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLXXIV
Now when the sky and when the earth again
Fill with ice: cold hail
scattered
everywhere,
And the horror of the worst months of the year
Makes the grass bristle across the plain:
Now when the wind mutinously prowling,
Cracks the boulders, and uproots the trees,
When the redoubled roaring of the seas
Fills all the shoreline with its wild surging:
Love burns me, and winter's bitter cold
That freezes all, cannot freeze the old
Ardour in my heart that lasts forever.
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I cannot get this venter of the cloake,
Out of my fancie; nor the
Gentlemans
way, 25
He tooke, which though 'twere ?
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In the
editions
1798 to 1843 the title of this poem is 'Anecdote for
Fathers, showing how the practice [1] of lying may be taught'.
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THOAS: Whate'er respecting thee the gods decree,
Since thou hast dwelt amongst us, and enjoy'd
The
privilege
the pious stranger claims,
To me hath fail'd no blessing sent from heaven.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Cincinnatus, a stock
character
in modern comedy.
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James Russell Lowell |
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wrecchednesse
of hym ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The Foundation is committed to
complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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