50 net
"Sleep on, 1 lie at heaven's high oriels Over the start that mumur as thye go
Lighting
your lattice window far below:
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof 1 know.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Now, down here, in this unknown angle,
A glimmering furrow of melancholy ruby,
A sweetly twinkling sun-spark trembles:
A
patriarchal
guide leads his family.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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not
completely
and for ever, but as well as
most of us learn such lessons.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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49
Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows 50
There were no ruins, neither fragments 51
In sorrow day and night the disciple watched 52
Sunlight slantingly flows 53
The wild resplendence of the year resolves 54
Doth live for thee again, Beloved that
October?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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She gan first smyle, and seyde, `O brother dere,
If thou a sooth of this
desyrest
knowe,
Thou most a fewe of olde stories here,
To purpos, how that fortune over-throwe 1460
Hath lordes olde; through which, with-inne a throwe,
Thou wel this boor shalt knowe, and of what kinde
He comen is, as men in bokes finde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I can repeople with the past--and of
The present there is still for eye and thought,
And meditation
chastened
down, enough;
And more, it may be, than I hoped or sought;
And of the happiest moments which were wrought
Within the web of my existence, some
From thee, fair Venice!
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Byron |
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It founds the homes and decks the days,
And every clamor bright
Is but the gleam concomitant
Of that
waylaying
light.
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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That is the dog that so bayed one time at my girl that he almost
Gave our secret away (when she was
visiting
me).
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It was in the
irregular
song-metres of his
_ku-shih_ that he excelled.
| Guess: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Nature herself was proud of his designs,
And joyed to wear the
dressing
of his lines!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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425
But for to tell her
lamentable
cace,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Defeat means nothing but defeat,
No
drearier
can prevail!
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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3304
but I denye {and} sey[e]
symplely
and pleynly ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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There's a
wandering
shadow that stares at the foam,
Though they sing all the night to old England, their queen,
Late, late in the evening _Kilmeny_ came home,
And nobody knew where _Kilmeny_ had been.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Did you show such harshness to my father
That
conquered
you might know your conqueror?
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| Question: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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[D] "Songs to Bacchus" (Note in the
original
edition.
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Robert Herrick |
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Ou l'Homme, dont jamais l'esperance n'est lasse,
Pour trouver le repos court
toujours
comme un fou!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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She
felt as I did, that her destiny was irrevocably linked with mine; still,
she
repeated
that she would only be my wife with my parents' consent.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The poets of
China appear to me to be emotional and descriptive, but
incapable
of
any high flights of imagination.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Li Po |
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He sits down with his holy fears,
And waters the ground with tears;
Then Humility takes its root
Underneath
his foot.
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blake-poems |
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Note: The last line is quoted by Eliot, in French, in The
Wasteland
(with reference to the Fisher King) as is the second line of De Nerval's El Desdichado.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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25
The
Macmillan
Co.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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que d'amours
splendides
j'ai revees!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Here in the
sultriest
season let him rest,
Fresh is the green beneath those aged trees;
Here winds of gentlest wing will fan his breast,
From heaven itself he may inhale the breeze:
The plain is far beneath--oh!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Thus our light race grows up and lives,
A moment effervescing stirs,
Then seeks
ancestral
sepulchres,
The appointed hour arrives, arrives!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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at nis nat
app{ro}ched
no ra?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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What a world of
happiness
their harmony foretells!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
e
bisshopes
hem alle among
?
| 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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Address these
prayers to heaven and demand
happiness
for yourselves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Pale,
dreadful
faces round the Shrine appear, 1815.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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William Wordsworth |
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And when the sun sinks slowly down,
And the great rock-walls grow dark and brown,
When the purple river rolls fast and dim,
And the ivory Ibis
starlike
skim,
Wing to wing we dance around," etc.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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(3) Fitzdottrel is a light-headed man of fashion, who spends his
time in
frequenting
theatres and public places, and in conjuring evil
spirits.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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There, when the turf in springtime flowers,
With downward eye and gazes sad,
Stands amid the
glancing
showers
A jonquil, not a Grecian lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And I will come again, my Luve
Tho' it were ten
thousand
mile.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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He did: and with an absolute Sir, not I
The clowdy
Messenger
turnes me his backe,
And hums; as who should say, you'l rue the time
That clogges me with this Answer
Lenox.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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NATHAN: Ay so; and I,
Bereft by
Christians
of my wife and sons,
Received the infant as a gift from Heaven,
And made it mine.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
Additional terms will be linked
to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
permission of the copyright holder found at the
beginning
of this work.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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How many
thousand
times shall I look on them ere this fire in me is
dead?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
VII
"You dance divinely,
stranger
swain,
Such grace I've never known.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And yet this time removed was summer's time;
The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,
Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,
Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease:
Yet this abundant issue seem'd to me
But hope of orphans, and unfather'd fruit;
For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,
And, thou away, the very birds are mute:
Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer,
That leaves look pale,
dreading
the winter's near.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Her lips began to borrow
Their former
wondrous
smile;
Her fair eyes, faint with sorrow,
Grew sparkling as erstwhile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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[Footnote 1: An
extraordinary
production for a boy of twelve, but we
need not suppose that if 'Elenoure and Juga' were written in 1764 and
not published until 1769 no alterations and improvements were made by
its author in the period between these dates.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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No melody was like a passing spright 160
If it went not to
solemnize
thy reign.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Who moves--what stirs in the
startled
air?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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(for all races are here;
All the lands of the earth make
contributions
here;)
City of the sea!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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guilty authors of my cherish'd pain,
That you alone can judge me, well I know,
When from your burning beams I melt like snow,
Haply your sweet disdain
Offence in my
unworthiness
may see;
Ah!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed;
Acquaint
her here of my son Paris' love
And bid her (mark you me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Let us on, by this
tremulous
light!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Everywhere as first she must shine,
He was treating her always with tarts and wine;
She began to think herself
something
fine,
And let her vanity so degrade her
That she even accepted the presents he made her.
| 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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Thou rich-man's
lawgiver!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
VINCENT MILLAY
Renascence
Mitchell
Kennerley 1917
A Few Figs from Thistles Frank Shay 1920
The Lamp and the Bell Frank Shay 1921
Aria Da Capo Mitchell Kennerley 1921
Second April Mitchell Kennerley 1921
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of American Poetry, 1922, by
Edna St.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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They were sold in the market as dwarf slaves and yearly sent to
Court;
Described as "an offering of natural
products
from the land of
Tao-chou.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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For from this
eminence
ye shall discern
Better the acts and visages of all,
Than in the nether vale among them mix'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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In the
wretched
little beast
Is life and heart,
Child and parent,
Not without relation
To fruitful field and sun and moon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Platonis
peregrinatio in Italiam_.
| 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 |
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"Is it
possible
that I have
written verses that are 'filled with beauty,' and is it possible
that you really think them worthy of being given to the world?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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USPE, a town in the
territory
of the _Siraci_; now destroyed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Or oft, when Heaven-descended,
Stood we in our wondering sight
In a mute apocalypse
With dumb vibrations on our lips
From hosannas ended,
And grand half-vanishings
Of the empyreal things
Within our eyes belated,
Till the
heavenly
Infinite
Falling off from the Created,
Left our inward contemplation
Opened into ministration.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Gie me ae spark o' nature's fire,
That's a' the
learning
I desire;
Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire
At pleugh or cart,
My muse, tho' hamely in attire,
May touch the heart.
| 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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De la male Sapho, l'amante et le poete,
Plus belle que Venus par ses mornes
paleurs!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Parable, A (Worn and
footsore
was the Prophet).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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In vain they ran, and felt, and stanched; for never truer blow
That good right arm had dealt in fight agains a
Volscian
foe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Obverse III 28-32
describes
Enkidu the slayer of lions and
panthers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I sometimes have a sentimental lapse
And long for saviours and a
physical
God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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[Sidenote: If you
consider
the infinite space of eternity you will
have no reason to rejoice in this supposition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Wisdom
When I have ceased to break my wings
Against the faultiness of things,
And learned that
compromises
wait
Behind each hardly opened gate,
When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange--my youth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Seven times
The letter, that denotes the inward stain,
He on my
forehead
with the blunted point
Of his drawn sword inscrib'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came
Missiues
from
the King, who all-hail'd me Thane of Cawdor, by which Title
before, these weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to
the comming on of time, with haile King that shalt be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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What was the
treasure
but withered leaves
when you got to your own door?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
e
gouernoure
of ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Elsewhere
he has shown himself a
master of brilliant portraiture, but Belinda, the Baron, and Thalestris
are something more than portraits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Sample copies can be
supplied
only at the full subscription price, fifteen cents.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Hippolyte looks for me, wants to say
goodbye?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
LXIII
A
beautiful
child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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And the still Valkyrie hover panting for
hallowed
souls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Quod Troilus, `Now god me grace sende,
That I may finden, at myn hom-cominge,
Criseyde
comen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
The next year he
succeeded, and brought away some thousands of drawings of the most striking
views from all three Presidencies and from the
tropical
island.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
"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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
When thou art
dreaming
then I am thy Dream,
But when thou art awake I am thy Will
Potent with splendour, radiant and sublime,
Expanding like far space star-lit and still
Into the distant mystic realm of Time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
"
So pass the
wondering
words away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Or if a
footstep
comes, 'tis mine
Sharp on the road or soft on grass:
Silence divides along my line
And shuts behind me as I pass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But he came,
At last,
bringing
that damsel, with the flame
Of God about her, mad and knowing all:
And set her in my room; and in one wall
Would hold two queens!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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I adore her, and my soul,
rebelling
at your order, 1125
Can only breathe, and be inspired by her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Say, with ours wilt thou let us
rekindle
in thine
The glow that has departed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
[201]
Before Galba's fall Titus Vespasianus had been
dispatched
by his
father from Judaea to Rome.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
But
wherefore
soars thy wish'd-for speech so high
Beyond my sight, that loses it the more,
The more it strains to reach it?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Jonson himself always
resented
it as an
impertinence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
The poets of
China appear to me to be emotional and descriptive, but
incapable
of
any high flights of imagination.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Elvire
Beware lest Heaven
punishes
your pride
And sees you avenged, though he has died.
| Guess: |
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Speeding Saturn cannot halt;
Linger,--thou shalt rue the fault:
If Love his moment overstay,
Hatred's swift
repulsions
play.
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Emerson - Poems |
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My father is a
dreamer himself, a great dreamer, a great man whose life has been
a
magnificent
failure.
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My lady shows herself, not to my good,
A woman indeed, scorns my behest,
Since she wishes not what she should
But what's
forbidden
her finds best.
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Troubador Verse |
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From the Fame-leaf and Angel-leaf,
From
monument
and urn,
The sad of earth, the glad of heaven,
His tragic fate shall learn;
And on Fame-leaf and Angel-leaf
The name of HALE shall burn.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Imagists |
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24, 1585 (he must have been
born some months earlier, if this date be right, for his sister Martha
was
baptized
in the following January), and alive in 1629, when he acted
as one of the executors of his mother's will.
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Robert Herrick |
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IV
Yet when within my heart I gaze
Upon my fair beyond the waters, Meseems my soul within me prays
To pass
straightway
beyond the waters.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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