Pain or pleasure
transported
her, and the whole of pain or
pleasure might be held in a flower's cup or the imagined frown of
a friend.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Cousin Nancy
Miss Nancy
Ellicott
Strode across the hills and broke them,
Rode across the hills and broke them--
The barren New England hills--
Riding to hounds
Over the cow-pasture.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Thou art the grave where buried love doth live,
Hung with the
trophies
of my lovers gone,
Who all their parts of me to thee did give,
That due of many now is thine alone:
Their images I lov'd, I view in thee,
And thou--all they--hast all the all of me.
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| Question: |
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Thus lies the sea-shell
Under the rustling
twilight
of the sea;
No gods remember it, no understanding
Cleaves the long darkness with a sword of light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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e
Emperours
sai ?
| 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 |
|
Madden suggests blows as the
explanation
of slokes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Enclosing
"The Gowan"
XVIII.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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But him the Goddess answer'd azure-eyed,
Telemachus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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" then he handed me his flask,
Saying, "Gal, you're looking shaky; have a drop of old Jamaiky:
I'm afraid there'll be more trouble afore this job is done;"
So I took one
scorching
swallow; dreadful faint I felt and hollow,
Standing there from early morning when the firing was begun.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Thus void of knowing clearly what they did,
They soon were brought to act as they were bid;
Conveyed to places, charming to the eye,
Enchanting gardens 'neath an azure sky,
With twining shrubs,
meandring
walks, and flow'rs,
And num'rous grottos, porticoes and bow'rs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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quid numerem gentis
Atlanteosque
recessus
oceani?
| 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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* You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Like rain it softly falls at that dim hour
When ghostly lanes turn toward the shadowy morn;
When bodies weighed with satiate passion's power
Sad,
disappointed
from each other turn;
When men with quiet hatred burning deep
Together in a common bed must sleep--
Through the gray, phantom shadows of the dawn
Lo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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_
Aenea: _Aeneas_: so
_Anchisa_
in _ii_.
| 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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What was Admetus really like, this gallant prince who had won the
affection of such great guests as Apollo and Heracles, and yet went round
asking other people to die for him; who, in particular,
accepted
his
wife's monstrous sacrifice with satisfaction and gratitude?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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THE
FORGOTTEN
GRAVE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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All have not
appeared
in the form of snowflakes but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp sorcerers and obey them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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--
I am too weak to stand; and Death is near,
And a slow darkness
stealing
on my sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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The silver cuishes first his thighs infold;
Then o'er his breast was braced the hollow gold;
The brazen sword a various baldric tied,
That, starr'd with gems, hung glittering at his side;
And, like the moon, the broad
refulgent
shield
Blazed with long rays, and gleam'd athwart the field.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Thick rolls the mist, that smokes and falls in dew;
The trees and
greenwood
wear the deepest green.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The
tapestries
of paradise
So notelessly are made!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
'Twas a
mistake?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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When Po entered in obedience to the summons, he was so drunk
that the
courtiers
were obliged to dab his face with water.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Since our ftp program has
a bug in it that
scrambles
the date [tried to fix and failed] a
look at the file size will have to do, but we will try to see a
new copy has at least one byte more or less.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
[Sidenote: And we have already shown that the perfect
precedes
the
imperfect;]
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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No sound of bruised
breasts!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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A demon constellation shook the Pole Star, the aura of killing lay level over the
imperial
tombs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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The little park was filled with peace,
The walks were
carpeted
with snow,
But every iron gate was locked.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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John's; they were above the
College kitchens; and from the window of his bedroom he could look into
the
antechapel
of Trinity, with its statue of Newton.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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She would have smiled, if the flower
That never bloomed, to please,
Could open to the coolest hour
Of passing and
forgetful
breeze.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
CASELLA
Test of the poet is
knowledge
of love,
For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove;
Never was poet, of late or of yore,
Who was not tremulous with love-lore.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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To hail thee thus, I by my heart am led,
That by my pen thy name renown should know;
No marble can the lasting fame bestow
Like that by poets'
characters
is spread.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Remember
Tchaplitzky, who, thanks to
you, was able to pay his debts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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To lower, or ease the
bellying
canvas aught
The sailors had no power; nor time had they
To mend that ill, or counsel what was best;
For them too hard the mortal peril prest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Thy specious
prologue
means no good, I trow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Take Nature's path, and mad opinions leave;
All states can reach it, and all heads conceive;
Obvious her goods, in no extreme they dwell;
There needs but
thinking
right, and meaning well;
And mourn our various portions as we please,
Equal is common sense, and common ease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's
countless
blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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In the meadow ground the frogs
With their
deafening
flutes begin,--
The old madness of the world 15
In their golden throats again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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A garden-plot the desert air perfumes, 295
Mid the dark pines a little orchard blooms,
A zig-zag path from the
domestic
skiff
Threading the painful cragg surmounts the cliff.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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When the group of people arose at last
And laughed and talked in a merry tone,
As
lingeringly
through the rooms they passed
I saw that she followed alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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It
also
contains
the conclusion of the devil-plot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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O Latonia, progeny great of
greatest
Jove, whom thy mother bare 'neath
Delian olive,
That thou mightst be Queen of lofty mounts, of foliaged groves, of remote
glens, and of winding streams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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" He in few
Thus
answering
spake: "Thou deemest thou art still
On th' other side the centre, where I grasp'd
Th' abhorred worm, that boreth through the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The fact is the
sweetest
dream that labor knows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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London:
Macmillan
and Co.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Here a great rumor of
trumpets
and horses, like the noise of a
king with his army, and the robbers shall take flight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Let us
challenge
meeting at the water's edge,
while they waver and their feet yet slip as they disembark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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He wrote to the Cardinal Colonna as follows:--"I gave you so long an
account of
Capranica
that you may naturally expect a still longer
description of Rome.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Does it still hold on
untired?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Modern Paris is often the
background
of the _New Poems_, and the crass
play of light and shadow upon the waxen masks of Life's disillusioned in
the Morgue is caught with the same intense realistic vision as the
flamingos and parrots spreading their vari-coloured soft plumage in the
warmth of the sun in the Avenue of the Jardin des Plantes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Who, for my safety, hast not scorn'd, in hell
To leave the traces of thy
footsteps
mark'd!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
[67]
What is left but the sighing wind blowing in the tangled
grasses?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
I roam anew,
Scarce
conscious
of my late distress .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
But
instead of
obtaining
relief, they meet with affronts only for the injury
done to the place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
and quench thy light,
Lest eyes see their own
delight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
What rumour without is there
breeding?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Into the earth for
safekeeping
the servant must bury the story,
Easing in this way the king: earth must conceal the tale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
A
Bachelor
I will, I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
How welcome is its
delicate
overture
At evening, when the moist and glowing west
Seals all things with cool promise of night's rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
"
Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear,
And best
distinguished
by black, brown, or fair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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I mount no longer when the
trumpets
call;
My battle-harness idles on the wall,
The spider's castle, camping-ground of dust,
Not without dints, and all in front, I trust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
'
Ne diu taceat procax
Fescennina iocatio,
Nec nuces pueris neget
Desertum domini audiens 125
Concubinus
amorem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Soon he was
swimming
who safe saw in combat
downfall of demons; up-dove through the flood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
"
--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
"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 |
|
[312] He had
remained
behind in camp (cp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Stout though the knight, the lion stronger was,
And tore that brave breast under its cuirass,
Scrunching
that hero, till he sprawled, alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The pigeons from the dove cote cooed over the old lane,
The crow flocks from the oakwood went flopping oer the grain;
Like lots of dear old
neighbours
whom I shall see no more
They greeted me that morning I left the English shore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Happy as holiday-enjoying face,
Loud tongued, and "merry as a
marriage
bell,"
Thy lightsome step sheds joy in every place;
And where the troubled dwell,
Thy witching smiles wean them of half their cares;
And from thy sunny spell,
They greet joy unawares.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
On every wooden dish, a humble claim,
Two rude cut letters mark the owner's name;
From every nook the smile of plenty calls,
And rusty flitches decorate the walls,
Moore's
Almanack
where wonders never cease--
All smeared with candle snuff and bacon grease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Cola diritto, sovra 'l verde smalto,
mi fuor
mostrati
li spiriti magni,
che del vedere in me stesso m'essalto.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
She snuffs and barks if any passes bye
And swings her tail and turns
prepared
to fly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Still, the
alacrity
with
which a Russian hostess will turn her house topsy-turvy for
the accommodation of forty or fifty guests would somewhat
astonish the mistress of a modern Belgravian mansion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
I'm
downright
dizzy wi' the thought,
In troth I'm like to greet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
He wrote histories of the Revolution,
of
Napoleon
and of France.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Apres se tenoit Courtoisie,
Qui moult estoit de tous prisie,
Si n'ere
orguilleuse
ne fole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Strange unto her each
childish
game,
But when the winter season came
And dark and drear the evenings were,
Terrible tales she loved to hear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
_Marino Faliero, doge of Venice_, an
historical
tragedy in five acts,
with notes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Over the graves of ten
thousand
soldiers, mournfully hovering.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
There
happiness
attends
With inbred joy until the heart oerflow,
Of which the world's rude friends,
Nought heeding, nothing know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
"
"I list no more the tuck of drum,
No more the trumpet hear;
But when the beetle sounds his hum
My
comrades
take the spear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
than a spectre from the dead
More swift the room
Tattiana
fled,
From hall to yard and garden flies,
Not daring to cast back her eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
In 1831
he married a beautiful lady of the
Gontchareff
family and settled
in the neighbourhood of St.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
_145_
BANDUSIA,
stainless
mirror of the sky!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
"Now wenches listen, and let lovers lie,
Ye'll hear a story ye may profit by;
I'm your age treble, with some oddments to't,
And right from wrong can tell, if ye'll but do't:
Ye need not giggle
underneath
your hat,
Mine's no joke-matter, let me tell you that;
So keep ye quiet till my story's told,
And don't despise your betters cause they're old.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
On every wooden dish, a humble claim,
Two rude cut letters mark the owner's name;
From every nook the smile of plenty calls,
And rusty
flitches
decorate the walls,
Moore's Almanack where wonders never cease--
All smeared with candle snuff and bacon grease.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
And while the old dames gossip at their ease,
And pinch the snuff-box empty by degrees,
The young ones join in love's delightful themes,
Truths told by gipsies, and expounded dreams;
And mutter things kept secrets from the rest,
As sweethearts' names, and whom they love the best;
And dazzling ribbons they delight to show,
And last new favours of some veigling beau,
Who with such
treachery
tries their hearts to move,
And, like the highest, bribes the maidens' love.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
is still the cause
unfound?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
In his loneliness and
fixedness
he yearneth towards the journeying Moon,
and the stars that still sojourn, yet still move onward; and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them, and is their appointed rest, and their native
country and their own natural homes, which they enter unannounced, as lords
that are certainly expected and yet there is a silent joy at their arrival.
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Among the fields she breathed again:
The master-current of her brain
Ran
permanent
and free;
And, coming to the banks of Tone,
There did she rest; and dwell alone
Under the greenwood tree.
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Golden Treasury |
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_The
Beautiful
Stranger_
I cannot know what country owns thee now,
With France's forest lilies on thy brow.
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John Clare |
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I love all that thou lovest,
Spirit of
Delight!
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Golden Treasury |
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do not dread thy mother's door,
Think not of me with grief and pain:
I now can see with better eyes;
And worldly
grandeur
I despise
And fortune with her gifts and lies.
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Golden Treasury |
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And then the rolling thunder gets awake,
And from black clouds the
lightning
flashes break.
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' was it so,
Or am I slandering my most inward friend,
To veil the fault of my most outward foe--
The soft and
tremulous
coward in the flesh?
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Still would her touch the strain prolong;
And from the rocks, the woods, the vale
She call'd on Echo still through all the song;
And, where her sweetest theme she chose,
A soft responsive voice was heard at every close:
And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair;--
And longer had she sung:--but with a frown Revenge
impatient
rose:
He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down;
And with a withering look
The war-denouncing trumpet took
And blew a blast so loud and dread,
Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe!
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Golden Treasury |
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