how can Love's eye be true,
That is so vexed with
watching
and with tears?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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There may be some other reason,
And I'm merely making a guess;
But surely it hoards such wealth
Of happiness, hope and health,
Sunshine
and musical sound,
It may spare a foot from its name
Yet all the same
Superabound.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Gay
Pleasure
ran riot as bumpers ran o'er:
Bright Phoebus ne'er witness'd so joyous a core,
And vow'd that to leave them he was quite forlorn,
Till Cynthia hinted he'd see them next morn.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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f
k
AsS ye go through these palm-trees,
O
Sith
sleepeth
my child here Still ye the branches.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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A
battle royal takes place on the stage; the Wasps, with their formidable
stings, trying to storm the house, while the son and his retainers defend
their position with
desperate
courage.
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Aristophanes |
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* * * * *
_Wilde's Poems were first
published
in volume form in 1881_, _and were
reprinted four times before the end of 1882_.
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Wilde - Poems |
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a length of night behind remains,
The evening stars still mount the
ethereal
plains.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Hence comes
the epidemical infection; for how can they escape the contagion of the
writings, whom the
virulency
of the calumnies hath not staved off from
reading?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Once a
youthful
pair,
Filled with softest care,
Met in garden bright
Where the holy light
Had just removed the curtains of the night.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Winthrop performed
the ceremony on the frozen surface of the streamlet, the farthest limit
of his magistracy; and thereupon
bestowed
the name "Bride Brook," which
it still bears.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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No door of cedar,
Alas, shall lead her
Unto the stream that shows forever
Love's face like some
reflected
star!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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THE
ILLUSTRATIONS
OF DANTE.
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Yeats |
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Thomas, _A New and
Complete
Musical Dictionary_; _The Age of
Genius_; Drury Lane _Address_, i.
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Byron |
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The winds that make Icarian billows dark
The
merchant
fears, and hugs the rural ease
Of his own village home; but soon, ashamed
Of penury, he refits his batter'd craft.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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My breath caught, I lurched forward--
stumbled
in the ground-myrtle.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Sara Teasdale |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Sail fast, sail fast,
Ark of my hopes, Ark of my dreams;
Sweep lordly o'er the drowned Past,
Fly
glittering
through the sun's strange beams;
Sail fast, sail fast.
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| Question: |
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Sidney Lanier |
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I'd earn more worth than any other,
If such a
nightgown
were given me
As Iseult handed to her lover,
For it was never worn, certainly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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It is of Love, as of Fortune,
That chaungeth ofte, and nil contune;
Which whylom wol on folke smyle, 4355
And gloumbe on hem another whyle;
Now freend, now foo, [thou] shalt hir fele,
For [in] a twinkling
tourneth
hir wheel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The
departure
was
fixed for the day following.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And below this inquiet face, whose mobile nostrils breathe in the
unknown and the impossible, glitters, with an
unspeakable
grace, the
smile of a large mouth; white, red, and delicious; a mouth that makes
one dream of the miracle of some superb flower unclosing in a volcanic
land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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' The
Sperchius
is a river in
Thessaly, which has its source in the Pindus range and its mouth in the
Maliac gulf.
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Aristophanes |
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Now close, ye Nymphs,
Ye Nymphs of Dicte, close the forest-glades,
If haply there may chance upon mine eyes
The white bull's
wandering
foot-prints: him belike
Following the herd, or by green pasture lured,
Some kine may guide to the Gortynian stalls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Who bade you arise from your
darkness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Pompless no life can pass away;
The
lowliest
career
To the same pageant wends its way
As that exalted here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Do sailors stare this way,
Cramped on the Needle's sheaf,
To hail the sudden ray
Which
promises
relief?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
]
Auld Brig
"O ye, my dear-remember'd, ancient yealings,
Were ye but here to share my wounded
feelings!
| 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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Friday night again and all my songs
Forgotten?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Now by one yeare, time and our
frailtie
have 392
Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day, 9
*Now y'have killd mee with yo^{r} scorne 450
*O eyes, what do you see?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
A dire
completion
of her nuptial vows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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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 |
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Not Thames, not Teme is the river,
Nor London nor
Knighton
the town:
'Tis a long way further than Knighton,
A quieter place than Clun,
Where doomsday may thunder and lighten
And little 'twill matter to one.
| 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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He is
presumed
to have died in an ambush by Bulgarian forces.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Surely you don't think the goddess of love lost a moment reflecting
When, in Idean grove,
Anchises
caught her eye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I merely hinted to her: "Now, be
careful!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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As we were passing
through Ashburnham, by a new white house which stood at some distance
in a field, one
passenger
exclaimed, so that all in the car could hear
him, "There, there's not so good a house as that in all Canada!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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One only, true to Hymen's flame,
Was traitress to her sire forsworn:
That splendid
falsehood
lights her name
Through times unborn.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Unfeeling
fools can with such wrongs dispense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Its
upholders
may retort that much of the
work which I prefer seems to them, in its lack of inspiration and its
comparative finish, like tapioca imitating pearls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
The frequent mention in the course of this
poem of romances once enjoying a European celebrity but now
consigned to oblivion, will impress the reader with the
transitory nature of merely
mediocre
literary reputation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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It's past set down before the soul,
And lighted with a match,
Perusal to facilitate
Of its
condensed
despatch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Peace will descend on us, discord will cease;
And we, now so wretched, will lie stretched out
Free of old doubt, on our
cushions
of ease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
day — perhaps more than ever in her history—is in the minds and hearts of other nations, these two poetic and
romantic
episodes of her past are timely.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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May I rule my people
In glory, and like Thee be good and
righteous!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
To create new rhythms--as the
expression
of new moods--and not to copy
old rhythms, which merely echo old moods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Nous
reprendrons
la route
Blanche qui court,
Flanant, comme un troupeau qui broute,
Tout a l'entour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Mary's Isle, Burns was
requested
by the noble owner
to say grace to dinner; he obeyed in these lines, now known in
Galloway by the name of "The Selkirk Grace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Bartholomew's Day in Paris in 1572, and to the
persecutions
of Alva's
Council of Blood in the Netherlands in 1567.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Crazy parrots and
canaries
flew west,
Drunk on May-time revelations,
Crossed the Appalachians,
And turned to delirious, flower-dressed fairies
Of the lazy forest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
I had
firmly
resolved
to make peace with him, but I did not know how to begin.
| 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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Lasst uns auch so ein
Schauspiel
geben!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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By the
"forms" are meant, of course, the shadowy
personages
and scenes of the
drama.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I have sojourned in the Muse's land,
Have
wandered
with the wandering star,
Seeking for strength, and in my hand
Held all philosophies that are;
Yet nothing could I hear nor see
Stronger than That Which Needs Must Be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
The eaves are
dripping
on the south side of this simple
roof, while the titmouse lisps in the pine and the genial warmth of
the sun around the door is somewhat kind and human.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
230
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
One of the low on whom assurance sits
As a silk hat on a
Bradford
millionaire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
"
The mother of
Gilgamish
she that knows all things
[said unto Gilgamish:--]
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Let your flute be still and your soul float through
Waves of sound
formless
as waves of the sea,
For here your song lived and it wisely grew
Before it was forced into melody.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
It seemed that this fair Shape had looked upon
That
unimaginable
fight, and now
That her sweet eyes were weary of the sun,
As brightly it illustrated her woe;
For in the tears which silently to flow _275
Paused not, its lustre hung: she watching aye
The foam-wreaths which the faint tide wove below
Upon the spangled sands, groaned heavily,
And after every groan looked up over the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
"'At the Palace Gate, the smell of wine and meat;
Out in the road, one who has frozen to death'
form only a small
proportion
of his whole work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Marvell's intrepid patriotism and bold
writings
had now made him so odious to the corrupt court,
and especially to tlie bigoted heir presumptive,
James, that he was compelled frequently to con-
ceal himself for fear of assassination.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Wherever beauty dwells,
In gulf or aerie,
mountains
or deep dells,
In light, in gloom, in star or blazing sun,
Thou pointest out the way, and straight 'tis won.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
To hold thee lightly on a gentle knee,
And print on thy soft cheek a parent's kiss,--
This, it should seem, was not
reserved
for me
Yet this was in my nature:--As it is,
I know not what is there, yet something like to this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
)
The King of France in a loud voice has called:
"Barons and Franks, good vassals are ye all,
Ye in the field have fought so great combats;
See the pagans; they're felons and cowards,
No
pennyworth
is there in all their laws.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Then the noblest lady present took upon her
To speak nobly from her
carriage
for the rest:
"Pray these officers from France to do us honour
By dancing with us straightway.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
If our imagination can carve no bas-relief
From hostile soil and cloud, O grief,
With which to deck Poe's dazzling sepulchre,
Let your granite at least mark a
boundary
forever,
Calm block fallen here from some dark disaster,
To dark flights of Blasphemy scattered through the future.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
"
And they
answered
me saying, "No, not one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Both were of passion satiate
And both of dull existence tired,
Extinct the flame which once had fired;
Both were
expectant
of the hate
With which blind Fortune oft betrays
The very morning of our days.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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ai ben good; 119
Ne
schaltou
hem neuere good holde; bot with sterne mood.
| 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 |
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5
LIBATION
By Marjorie Allen
Seiffert
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Royalties are
payable to "Project Gutenberg Association/Carnegie-Mellon
University" within the 60 days following each
date you prepare (or were legally required to prepare)
your annual (or equivalent
periodic)
tax return.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
"I know you--
"All day
stuffing
your belly,
"Burying your heart
"In grass and tender sprouts:
"It will not suffice you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Ashburneri:
_Vriosque
portus_ Heinsius: _Surosque_ Voss:
_Chytrosque_ Bergk: _Thronosque_ Unger
13 _gnidumque_ (_que_ om.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Close lock'd above, their heads and arms are mix'd:
Below, their planted feet at
distance
fix'd;
Like two strong rafters which the builder forms,
Proof to the wintry winds and howling storms,
Their tops connected, but at wider space
Fix'd on the centre stands their solid base.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
This Diamond he greetes your Wife withall,
By the name of most kind Hostesse,
And shut vp in
measurelesse
content
Mac.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Beyond the line of blue--
The boundary of the star
Which turneth at the view
Of thy barrier and thy bar--
Of the barrier overgone
By the comets who were cast
From their pride, and from their throne
To be drudges till the last--
To be
carriers
of fire
(The red fire of their heart)
With speed that may not tire
And with pain that shall not part--
* There is found, in the Rhone, a beautiful lily of the
Valisnerian kind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
"
And I
believed
him--for now I too have forgotten the language of
that other world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
It
is vile, and a poor thing to place our
happiness
on these desires.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
Apollinaire's Notes to the Bestiary
Admire the vital power
And
nobility
of line:
It praises the line that forms the images, marvellous ornaments to this poetic entertainment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
I see a lily on thy brow
With anguish moist and fever dew,
And on thy cheeks a fading rose
Fast
withereth
too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
'Will', will fulfil the
treasure
of thy love,
Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Some of his pictures
show a mastery which has rarely been equalled over the difficulties of
painting an immense plain as seen from a height,
reaching
straight away
from the eye of the spectator until it is lost in a dim horizon.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Oh, what a vile and abject thing am I
That
purchase
length of days at such a cost!
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Longfellow |
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"What right," said I, "had the
old
gentleman
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"If I'd been rather later, I'll
Be bound," I added, trying
(Most unsuccessfully) to smile,
"You'd have been busy all this while,
Trimming and
beautifying?
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Lewis Carroll |
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Within the many-fathom'd port arrived
His lusty followers haled her far aground,
Then carried thence their arms, but to the house
Of Clytius the
illustrious
gifts convey'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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I adore her, and my soul, rebelling at your order, 1125
Can only breathe, and be
inspired
by her.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Mischievous celebrants we at these
mysteries
gay, and so solemn:
Silence exactly befits rites at which we're adepts.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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MARY VIRGIN
How came, how came from out thy night
Mary, so much light
And so much gloom:
Who was thy
bridegroom?
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Rilke - Poems |
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Many an honest, virtuous burgher
Lives on earth in evil odour,
Whilst your princely people reek of
Lavender
and ambergris.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Lo duca mio allor mi die di piglio,
e con parole e con mani e con cenni
reverenti
mi fe le gambe e 'l ciglio.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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e speche3 of
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Sur le
requisitoire
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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