Here the brute Harpies make their nest, the same
Who from the
Strophades
the Trojan band
Drove with dire boding of their future woe.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It is so
much of their
wildness
as I can understand.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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O deeth, sin with this sorwe I am a-fyre,
Thou outher do me anoon yn teres drenche, 510
Or with thy colde strook myn hete
quenche!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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)--"which flows
continuously, with only an aspirate pause in the middle, like that
before the short line in the Sapphic Adonic, while the fifth has at the
middle pause no similarity of sound with any part besides, gives the
versification an
entirely
different effect.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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e
corbeles
fee ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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For felonie is
emperisse
{and} flowre?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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{a}t men
hadde{n}
ywyst hem by-forn.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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10
Or (the least
comfort)
have I company?
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John Donne |
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Now like a mighty wild they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like
harmonious
thunderings the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged man, wise guardians of the poor.
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blake-poems |
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205
Who knows the
individual
hour in which
His habits were first sown, even as a seed?
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| Question: |
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William Wordsworth |
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In a little while
his heart and liver floated up,
reddening
the water.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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In all drink
He
detected
the bitter,
And in all touch
He found the sting.
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Stephen Crane |
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discountenance
every one
among you who shall pretend to despise art and science.
| Guess: |
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Yeats |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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They stand to the deck through the battle's wreck when the
great shells roar and screech--
And never they fear when the foe is near to
practise
what they
preach:
But off with your hat and three times three for Columbia's
true-blue sons,
The men below who batter the foe--the men behind the guns!
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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So all my spirit fills
With pleasure infinite,
And all the
feathered
wings of rest
Seem flocking from the radiant West
To bear me thro' the night.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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So it is I,
hands accursed -
who
bequeathed
you!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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An
innocent
life, yet far astray!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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They
embraced
the theory
that "by bringing himself into harmony with Nature" man can escape every
evil.
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| Question: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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) to
lovingmost
me,
Self thou restorest unhoped, and after despair thou returnest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Catullus - Carmina |
|
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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XV
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
Who joyful in the bright light of day
Created all that arrogant display,
Whose dusty ruin now greets our visit:
Speak, spirits (since that shadowy limit
Of Stygian shore that ensures your stay,
Enclosing you in thrice threefold array,
Sight of your dark images, may permit),
Tell me, now (since it may be one of you,
Here above, may yet be hid from view)
Do you not feel a greater depth of pain,
When from hour to hour in Roman lands
You
contemplate
the work of your hands,
Reduced to nothing but a dusty plain?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
The official release date of all Project
Gutenberg
eBooks is at
Midnight, Central Time, of the last day of the stated month.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Songs can the very moon draw down from heaven
Circe with singing changed from human form
The
comrades
of Ulysses, and by song
Is the cold meadow-snake, asunder burst.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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"
Here, again, he is
stealing
Nature's "thunder.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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the lotus-buds upon the stream
Are
stirring
like sweet maidens when they dream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I do confess thee sweet, but find
Thou art so
thriftless
o' thy sweets,
Thy favours are the silly wind
That kisses ilka thing it meets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Or,
perhaps, to divert the Jealous Eye by some sacrifice of superfluity,
as with the
Ancients
of the West?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
'
She looks into me
The unknowing heart
To see if I love
She has
confidence
she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The most horrible curse on thee
for
thousands
of years!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Please check the Project
Gutenberg
Web pages for current donation
methods and addresses.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Purgatorio
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
The Milky Way_
NAMQVE in caeruleo candens nitet orbita mundo
ceu missura diem subito
caelumque
recludens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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No chapter met, howe'er, when morrow came;
Another day arrived, and still the same;
The sages of the convent thought it best,
In fact, to let the mystick
business
rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
As I sit on a cliff in the southwest
part of our town, the sun is now getting low, and the woods in
Lincoln, south and east of me, are lit up by its more level rays; and
in the scarlet oaks, scattered so equally over the forest, there is
brought out a more brilliant redness than I had
believed
was in them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Conceited
gowk!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Let the Capitolian fane,
The favour'd goal of yon
vociferous
crowd,
Aye, or let the nearest main
Receive our gold, our jewels rich and proud:
Slay we thus the cause of crime,
If yet we would repent and choose the good:
Ours the task to take in time
This baleful lust, and crush it in the bud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Four
pennies!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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NO haggling, princess pray, my word receive;
What could be done, her terror to
relieve?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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I am come,
Fresh from the
cleansing
of Apollo, home
To Argos--and my coming no man yet
Knoweth--to pay the bloody twain their debt
Of blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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_I_ would _I_ were
So tranced, so rapt in ecstacies,
To stand apart, and to adore,
Gazing on thee for evermore,
Serene, imperial
Eleanore!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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If I might beseech you, gentlemen, to repair some other
hour, I should derive much from't; for take't of my soul, my lord
leans
wondrously
to discontent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
) We must suppose, therefore, that at some date when the
meaning of its words had been already lost this hymn was transferred
from a seedtime
festival
to a harvest festival.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Scythians
mine, close up your ranks, and
forward!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
One day Hasan said to me and to Khayyam, "It is a universal
belief that the pupils of the Imam
Mowaffak
will attain to fortune.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
"As you like," said Iwan Ignatiitch, "do as you please; but what good
should I do as
witness?
| 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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A strangling cavern wall;
The lighted ceiling of a music-hall
Where every actor treads a bloody soil--
The hermit's hope; the terror of the sot;
The sky: the black lid of the mighty pot
Where the vast human
generations
boil!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
At length--at length--after so many days
Of weary
pilgrimage
and burning thirst,
(Thirst for the springs of lore that in thee lie,)
I kneel, an altered and an humble man,
Amid thy shadows, and so drink within
My very soul thy grandeur, gloom, and glory!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Says the tinker, I've brawled till no breath I have got
And not met with
twopence
to purchase a pot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
God grant you may dwell there
Ever as faithful subjects, a happy and
peaceable
people!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark
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| Question: |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic
work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Like ape or clown, in monstrous garb
With crooked arrows starred,
Silently we went round and round
The
slippery
asphalte yard;
Silently we went round and round,
And no man spoke a word.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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No fond
illusions
live to soothe,
But memory like a serpent's tooth
With late repentance gnaws and stings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Here for those busy crews
Green leaves and pale-stemmed clusters of green strong flowers
Build heavy-perfumed, cool, green-twilight bowers
Whence, load by load, through the long summer days
They fill their glassy cells
With dark green honey, clear as chrysoprase,
Which housewives shun; but the bee-master tells
This brand is more
delicious
than all else.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Speak nothing more; through you I am dismayed:
What I owed you, I've
generously
paid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
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: |
Robert Forst |
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DAVIES
THE CAPTIVE LION
Thou that in fury with thy knotted tail
Hast made this iron floor thy beaten drum;
That now in silence walkst thy little space--
Like a sea-captain--careless what may come:
What power has brought thy majesty to this,
Who gave those eyes their dull and sleepy look;
Who took their
lightning
out, and from thy throat
The thunder when the whole wide forest shook?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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If Prayers
Could alter high Decrees, I to that place
Would speed before thee, and be louder heard,
That on my head all might be visited,
Thy frailtie and
infirmer
Sex forgiv'n,
To me committed and by me expos'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
[185] These feasts were also called the
Anthesteria
or Lenaea; the
Lenaeum was a temple to Bacchus, erected outside the city.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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O sweet Sleep-Angel, throned now
On the round glory of his brow,
Wave thy wing and waft my vow
Breathed
over Baby Charley.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And what for waste de vittles, now, and th'ow away de bread,
Jes' for to
strength
dese idle hands to scratch dis ole bald head?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
--Loud
whizzing
from the string
The black-wing'd arrows float along the sky,
And rising clouds the falling clouds supply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
One day, as
Lisaveta
was standing on the pavement about to enter the
carriage after the Countess, she felt herself jostled and a note was
thrust into her hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I refused fifty-five
shillings
for her, which was
the highest bode I could squeeze for her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
_ Then
I am to deem the
plunderer
is caught?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Se mala
cupidigia
altro vi grida,
uomini siate, e non pecore matte,
si che 'l Giudeo di voi tra voi non rida!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
His mother's
ancestors
were sprung from a
half-brother of Mary Stuart's, and his father's family dated back to
1400.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Then first within the South methought I saw
A wilderness of spires, and chrystal pile
Of rampart upon rampart, dome on dome,
Illimitable
range of battlement
On battlement, and the Imperial height
Of Canopy o'ercanopied.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Decline not thou
Her love, that she may both release thy friends,
And may with kindness
entertain
thyself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
"
'Twas in the
seventeen
hunder year
O' grace, and ninety-five,
That year I was the wae'est man
Of ony man alive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
"Now, if this earthly love has power to make
Men's being mortal, immortal; to shake
Ambition from their memories, and brim
Their measure of content; what merest whim,
Seems all this poor
endeavour
after fame,
To one, who keeps within his stedfast aim
A love immortal, an immortal too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
"
Still he stood and eyed me hard,
An earnest and a grave regard:
"What, lad,
drooping
with your lot?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
De workmen's few an' mons'rous slow,
De cotton's sheddin' fas';
Whoop, look, jes' look at de Baptis' row,
Hit's
mightily
in de grass, grass,
Hit's mightily in de grass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
For I have
followed
the white folk of the forest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
--William
finished
'Alice Fell'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
"--
Ere half this region-whisper had come down,
Hyperion
arose, and on the stars 350
Lifted his curved lids, and kept them wide
Until it ceas'd; and still he kept them wide:
And still they were the same bright, patient stars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
She was appeased,
And
shrouded
me in a protecting cloud.
| 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 the daughter
answered
gently,
"Yes, dear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Parable, A (Worn and
footsore
was the Prophet).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Faltered
the column, spent with shot and sword;
Its bright hope blanched with sudden pallor;
While Hancock's trefoil bloomed in triple fame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
The feud she avenged
that yesternight, unyieldingly,
Grendel in grimmest grasp thou killedst, --
seeing how long these
liegemen
mine
he ruined and ravaged.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
while the rush of life and death,
The roar of act and thought, of evil and good,
The avalanches of the ruining worlds
Tolling down space,--the new worlds' genesis
Budding in fire,--the gradual humming growth
Of the ancient atoms and first forms of earth,
The slow procession of the swathing seas
And
firmamental
waters,--and the noise
Of the broad, fluent strata of pure airs,--
All these flow onward in the intervals
Of that reiterated sound of--GOD!
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When the flesh that nourished us well
Is eaten piecemeal, ah, see it swell,
And we, the bones, are dust and gall,
Let no one make fun of our ill,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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Softer than rainfall at twilight, 5
Bringing the fields benediction
And the hills quiet and greyness,
Are my long
thoughts
of thee.
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Sappho |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Wisse, noch liegt auf der Stadt
Blutschuld
von deiner Hand.
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Acursed may wel be that day,
That povre man
conceyved
is;
For god wot, al to selde, y-wis, 470
Is any povre man wel fed,
Or wel arayed or y-cled,
Or wel biloved, in swich wyse
In honour that he may aryse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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'Deux examples serviront a nous rendre plus sensible le principe qui
vient d'etre pose; nous
emprunterons
l'un du physique at l'autre du
moral.
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Shelley |
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"
The
pilgrims
listened; but onward still they moved.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Hearing the march of long
resounding
strong heroic Verse
Marshalld in order for the day of Intellectual Battle
The heavens shall quake, the earth was moved & shuddered & the mountains
With all their woods, the streams & valleys: waild in dismal fear
Four Mighty Ones are in every Man; a Perfect Unity John XVII c.
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