Like impressionist pictures, or Wagner's rugged music, the very
absence of
conventional
form challenges attention.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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XV
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Too calm and sad a face in front of thine;
For we two look two ways, and cannot shine
With the same
sunlight
on our brow and hair.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Alfred Prufrock
Portrait of a Lady
Preludes
Rhapsody
on a Windy Night
Morning at the Window
The Boston Evening Transcript
Aunt Helen
Cousin Nancy
Mr.
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T.S. Eliot |
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There was a day when England had a wide room
For honest men as well as foolish kings:
But now the uneasy stomach of the time
Turns
squeamish
at them both.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Do you think a great city
endures?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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100
Cum saevom cupiens contra
contendere
monstrum
Aut mortem oppeteret Theseus aut praemia laudis.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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'Twas then in valleys lone, remote,
In spring-time, heard the cygnet's note
By waters shining tranquilly,
That first the Muse
appeared
to me.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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if thou know'st not to rise;
Sit up, thou tortured
sluggard!
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Hugo - Poems |
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XXIII
Brought by a pedlar vagabond
Unto their solitude one day,
This monument of thought profound
Tattiana
purchased
with a stray
Tome of "Malvina," and but three(56)
And a half rubles down gave she;
Also, to equalise the scales,
She got a book of nursery tales,
A grammar, likewise Petriads two,
Marmontel also, tome the third;
Tattiana every day conferred
With Martin Zadeka.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The maiden at her casement sits
As
daylight
glimmers, darkness flits,
But ah!
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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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.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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As for the rest of the world, it languished away, while Ceres,
Derelict of her true task,
dalliance
offered in love.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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[Note 65: Lepage--a celebrated
gunmaker
of former days.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"Our fathers
fashioned
for us after all
Some useful things," said Joss; then Zeno spoke:
"I know what Corbus hides beneath its cloak,
I and the osprey know the castle old,
And what in bygone times the justice bold.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Free scope he yields unto his glance,
Reviews both dress and countenance,
With all
dissatisfaction
shows.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The Clown Chastised
Eyes, lakes of my simple passion to be reborn
Other than as the actor who
gestures
with his hand
As with a pen, and evokes the foul soot of the lamps,
Here's a window in the walls of cloth I've torn.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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_120
languished
B.
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Shelley |
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He hath conquered, he cometh to free us
With
garlands
new-won,
More high than the crowns of Alpheus,
Thine own father's son:
Cry, cry, for the day that is won!
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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an was one of the
happiest
periods of his life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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You've forgotten the time when you were insane about the
Herriott
woman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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let not the fear
To want a guide
distress
thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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See social life and glee sit down,
All joyous and unthinking,
'Till, quite transmugrify'd, they're grown
Debauchery
and drinking;
O would they stay to calculate
Th' eternal consequences;
Or your more dreaded hell to state,
D--mnation of expenses!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them imprisoned in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves,
sounding
out magic words, so they themselves are immortal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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The first intrusts (our verse that name abhors)
Plenipotentiary embassadors
To prove by Scripture, treaty does imply
Cessation, as the look
adultery
;
And that by law of arms, in martial strife,
Who yields his sword, has title to his life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
[17] Manchurian,
Mongolian
and Turkestan frontiers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
I have, for ancestor, the gods' king and father: 1275
The sky, the
universe
is filled with my ancestors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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I
say fatal, for they are so to some, who, having no money, are obliged
to give up part of their scanty apparel; and if they have no bedding
or straw to sleep on, contract
diseases
which I have known to prove
mortal.
| 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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Whene'er we cross a river at a ford,
If we would pass in safety, we must keep
Our eyes fixed
steadfast
on the shore beyond,
For if we cast them on the flowing stream,
The head swims with it; so if we would cross
The running flood of things here in the world,
Our souls must not look down, but fix their sight
On the firm land beyond.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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ei ben boun
to wenden & sechen his deore sone,
in
eueriche
a ?
| 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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Routledge
and
Sons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Funeral
Libation
(At Gautier's Tomb)
To you, gone emblem of our happiness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
May know his
freezing
sorrows more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
"Will you give me a morning
draught?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
The first Satan, by his face, was a creature of
doubtful
sex.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Their faith the everlasting troth;
Their
expectation
fair;
The needle to the north degree
Wades so, through polar air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
He was
strongly
suspected of having
forged a will by which Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Are these thy boasts,
Champion
of human kind?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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ilke blisfulnesse ne be nat
sorweful
to hym.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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So how should I
presume?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
There casting glance of weeping eyes where vasty billows brake,
Sad-voiced in
pitifullest
lay his native land bespake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
1190
Thanne seyde he thus, fulfild of heigh desdayn,
`O cruel Iove, and thou, Fortune adverse,
This al and som, that falsly have ye slayn
Criseyde, and sin ye may do me no werse,
Fy on your might and werkes so
diverse!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
To
venerate
the simple days
Which lead the seasons by,
Needs but to remember
That from you or me
They may take the trifle
Termed mortality!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Lawrence
and Amy Lowell
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a
physical
medium
and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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My poor
forsaken
child!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
The land lay steeped in peace of silent dreams, There was no sound amid the sacred boughs Nor any
mournful
music in her streams,
Only I saw the shadow on her brows,
Only I knew her for the Yearly Slain
And wept, and weep until she come again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Full five and twenty years he lived
A running
huntsman
merry;
And, though he has but one eye left,
His cheek is like a cherry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"
"Tell Major Hawks to advance the
Commissary
train.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
But
what talk we of these traitorly rascals, whose
miseries
are to be
smil'd at, their offences being so capital?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
The
great majority of readers suppose that the device by which
Elfleda was substituted for her young mistress, the
artifice
by
which Athelwold obtained the hand of Elfrida, the detection of
that artifice, the hunting party, and the vengeance of the
amorous king, are things about which there is no more doubt than
about the execution of Anne Boleyn, or the slitting of Sir John
Coventry's nose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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He is read, if at all, in preference to the combined and
established
wit
of the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic
solitude!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
" They were too typical to omit; and a
comparison of the two
renderings
may be of interest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Toi dont l'oeil clair connait les
profonds
arsenaux
Ou dort enseveli le peuple des metaux,
O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
"
K said, "A
Kangaroo
is here,--this picture let him see.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
[B]
I met a little cottage Girl: 5
She was eight years old, she said;
Her hair was thick with many a curl
That
clustered
round her head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
you will fall off behind,
You
propitious
Old Man with a beard!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Who art thyself a Father, pardon me
If for a moment I have thee postponed
To the affections and the thoughts of earth,
Thee, and the
adoration
that I owe thee,
When by thy power alone these darkened eyes
Have been unsealed again to see thy light!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
--
But it was out of that dread August night
From which all Europe woke to war, that we,
This
beautiful
Dawn-Youth, and I, had come,
He from afar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And full in the midst rose Keenan, tall
In the gloom, like a martyr
awaiting
his fall,
While the circle-stroke of his sabre, swung
'Round his head, like a halo there, luminous hung.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
All but the Sylph--with careful thoughts opprest,
Th'
impending
woe sat heavy on his breast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
I then
mentioned
our steel; but the foreigner elevated his nose, and
asked me if our steel could have executed the sharp carved work seen on
the obelisks, and which was wrought altogether by edge-tools of copper.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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And none did love him: though to hall and bower
He gathered revellers from far and near,
He knew them flatterers of the festal hour;
The
heartless
parasites of present cheer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Next these a buckler, spear, and helm, he brings;
Cast on the plain, the brazen burden rings:
Arms which of late divine Sarpedon wore,
And great
Patroclus
in short triumph bore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Murmuring
under the tower.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Nor less the storm of
headlong
rage denies,
Or counsel to debate, or thought to rise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The poet
sees for a certainty how one not a great artist may be just as sacred and
perfect as the
greatest
artist.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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But over them, lying there
shattered
and mute,
What deep echo rolls?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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It was in this place, then called _Fort du
France Roy_, that the Sieur de
Roberval
with his company, having sent
home two of his three ships, spent the winter of 1542-43.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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We gazed with terror on the gloomy sleep
Of them that perished in the whirlwind's sweep,
Untaught
that soon such anguish must ensue,
Our hopes such harvest of affliction reap,
That we the mercy of the waves should rue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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My father disapproves: and laws most severe 105
Prevent him granting nephews to her brothers:
He fears the offspring born of a guilty strain:
He'd like to bury their sister and their name,
Submit her to his
guardianship
till the grave,
Ensure that for her no wedding torches blaze.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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How right I was to fear, with what true reason, 1595
Forgiving him in my heart, came cruel
suspicion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Hence too it comes that Nature all dissolves
Into their primal bodies again, and naught
Perishes
ever to annihilation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
A
movement
will often in its first fire of enthusiasm
create more works of genius than whole easy-going centuries that come
after it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Email
contact links and up to date contact information can be found at the
Foundation's web site and
official
page at www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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At the sight of me she
trembled
and gave a piercing
cry.
| 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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till to-morrow eve,
And you, my
friends!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
And he'll stand by a wreck in a
murdering
gale and count it part of his
work!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Awhile she paused in timid thought,
Then
promptly
hurried in and bought
'Two kippers, please.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
" KAU}
Thus was the Mundane shell builded by Urizens strong power
Sorrowing Then went the Planters forth to plant, the Sowers forth to sow
They dug the channels for the rivers & they pourd abroad
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The seas & lakes, they reard the mountains & the rocks & hills
On broad pavilions, on pillard roofs & porches & high towers
In beauteous order, thence arose soft clouds & exhalations
Wandering even to the sunny orbs Cubes of light & heat
{Lowercase
"cubes" mended to "Cubes.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Poe - 5 |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Alexander Pope |
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The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol.
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Robert Herrick |
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All joys are humbled, all must dance
To her law, and all lords obey
My lady, with her lovely way
Of greeting, her sweet
pleasant
glance,
A hundred years of life I'd grant
To him who has her love in play.
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Troubador Verse |
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Page 81
King Solomon's Book of Wisdom,
A BOOK OF MORAL
PRECEPTS
AND PRACTICAL ADVICE (lines 1-105),
Taken from the Laud MS.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Their faith the everlasting troth;
Their
expectation
fair;
The needle to the north degree
Wades so, through polar air.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Do their tongues ever shrivel with a pain of fire
Across those simple
syllables
"sac-ri-fice"?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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In front
The
cedarshadowy
valleys open wide.
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Tennyson |
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XCVI
For which he made what stately preparation
Was possible to make by
sceptered
king.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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He had never looked upon his
acquaintance
with Mrs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With
sorceries
sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's mysterious season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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