Thou
troubled
with such whimsy!
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| Question: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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that didst arise
But to be
overcast!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I was first on the list--
They may forget you tried to shield me
as the
horsemen
passed.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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That, however, was nothing compared with the calamity
of the oranges falling down on their heads by
millions
and millions, which
thumped and bumped and bumped and thumped them all so seriously, that they
were obliged to run as hard as they could for their lives; besides that the
sound of the oranges rattling on the tea-kettle was of the most fearful and
amazing nature.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Thence to revisit your imperial dome,
An old
hereditary
guest I come;
Your father's friend.
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Sweet is the shade of the
cocoanut
glade, and
the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o' the
moon with the sound of the voices we love.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Estimating the size of the creature by comparison with the diameter of
the large trees near which it passed--the few giants of the forest which
had escaped the fury of the land-slide--I
concluded
it to be far larger
than any ship of the line in existence.
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Poe - 5 |
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And now I go--as others already
crucified
have gone.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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But now help god to
quenchen
al this sorwe,
So hope I that he shal, for he best may;
For I have seyn, of a ful misty morwe 1060
Folwen ful ofte a mery someres day;
And after winter folweth grene May.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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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.
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| Question: |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Oh what a
multitude
they seemed, these flowers of London town!
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blake-poems |
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Man darf das nicht vor
keuschen
Ohren nennen,
Was keusche Herzen nicht entbehren konnen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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For
instance, the amiable circle I so lately mixed with in the hospitable
hall of Dunlop, their generous hearts--their uncontaminated dignified
minds--their
informed
and polished understandings--what a contrast,
when compared--if such comparing were not downright sacrilege--with
the soul of the miscreant who can deliberately plot the destruction of
an honest man that never offended him, and with a grin of satisfaction
see the unfortunate being, his faithful wife, and prattling innocents,
turned over to beggary and ruin!
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Oft, Jove's ethereal rays (resistless fire)
The
chanters
soul and raptured song inspire
Instinct divine?
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
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compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form,
including
any
word processing or hypertext form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
A gust of wind blew in and the king
bared his breast to meet it, saying: "How
pleasant
a thing is this wind
which I share with the common people.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Thus Li is said to have been a
native of the Province Shantung, which is
certainly
untrue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Lesbos, terre des nuits chaudes et langoureuses,
Qui font qu'a leurs miroirs, sterile volupte,
Les filles aux yeux creux, de leurs corps amoureuses,
Caressent les fruits murs de leur nubilite,
Lesbos, terre des nuits chaudes et langoureuses,
Laisse du vieux Platon se froncer l'oeil austere;
Tu tires ton pardon de l'exces des baisers,
Reine du doux empire, aimable et noble terre,
Et des
raffinements
toujours inepuises.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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for natural tears and simple pains,
For tender recollections,
cherished
long,
For guileless griefs, which no compunction stains,
We blush; as if we wore these earthly chains
Only for sport and song!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Dawn now breaks;
sunlight
rakes the swollen seas;
Ah, alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
They have lifted him up, but his head sinks away,
And his face showeth bleak in the
sunshine
and grey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Donne
uses 'scarce' thus as an
adjective
again in _Satyre IV_, l.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
405
XLVI
Now when that ydle dreame was to him brought,
Unto that Elfin knight he bad him fly,
Where he slept soundly void of evill thought,
And with false shewes abuse his fantasy,
In sort as he him
schooled
privily: 410
And that new creature, borne without her dew,?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
If you received it electronically, such person may
choose to alternatively give you a second
opportunity
to
receive it electronically.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Es wird ihr hoffentlich nicht
schaden!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
All
necessary
text will still be
there; it just won't be as pretty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Happy who quit life's banquet seat
Before the dregs they shall divine
Of the cup
brimming
o'er with wine--
Who the romance do not complete,
But who abandon it--as I
Have my Oneguine--suddenly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Then, over all the earth she runs,
And seeks, in the cold mists of life,
Those poor
forsaken
little ones
Who droop and weary in the strife.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Es ist doch
wunderbar!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Ance mair I hail thee, thou gloomy
December!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
" Having said this, he falls into the water,
gets out again, meets some
runaways
and pursues the robbers with his
spear at their backsides.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a
compilation
copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - 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: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
"I
intended
to see good white lands
"And bad black lands,
"But the scene is grey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
But, with this sad news, surprised,
Soon she let that
niceness
fall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
"
Was the first
question
Olga made,
Lenski, into confusion thrown,
All silently hung down his head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Do you think I am trusty and
faithful?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
AN IRISH
NATIONAL
THEATRE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
"
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the
Jumblies
live:
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue;
And they went to sea in a sieve.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
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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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& not
As Garments woven subservient to her hands but having a will
Of its own perverse & wayward Enion lovd & wept*
{written
vertically
up the right margin LFS}
Nine days she labourd at her work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Thus merrily the little noisy troop
Along the grass as rude
marauders
hie,
For ever noisy and for ever gay
While keeping in the meadows holiday.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
And twice
victorious
crossed Acheron:
Plucking from Orpheus' lyre one by one
The saintly sighs and the faerie cries.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Nor can those motions that bring death prevail
Forever, nor
eternally
entomb
The welfare of the world; nor, further, can
Those motions that give birth to things and growth
Keep them forever when created there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Entbehren
sollst du!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
belle comme la neige,
Oui, tu mourus, enfant, par un fleuve
emporte!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Then horn for horn they stretch an' strive,
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive,
'Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
Bethankit
hums.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
The brand he laid in Beowulf's lap;
and of hides
assigned
him seven thousand, {29b}
with house and high-seat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
The rescue of
Achilles by the fiery arms of Vulcan
scarcely
admits of the same
ready explanation from physical causes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Greie as the morne before the ruddie flame 415
Of Phoebus charyotte rollynge thro the skie,
Greie as the steel-horn'd goats Conyan made tame,
So greie appeard her featly
sparklyng
eye;
Those eyne, that did oft mickle pleased look
On Adhelm valyaunt man, the virtues doomsday book.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Why
standeth
she so still?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
"
Then the younger hermit was saddened and he said, "It grieves
me, Brother, that thou
shouldst
leave me.
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| Question: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The breakers were right beneath her bows,
She drifted a dreary wreck,
And a
whooping
billow swept the crew
Like icicles from her deck.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Resolved am I
In the woods, rather, with wild beasts to couch,
And bear my doom, and
character
my love
Upon the tender tree-trunks: they will grow,
And you, my love, grow with them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
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and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
O sing,
marching
men,
Till the valleys ring again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
"
He answers him: "Slain are you,
Baligant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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APPENDIX
THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL
A VERSION BASED ON THE
ORIGINAL
DRAFT OF THE POEM
I
HE did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead,
The poor dead woman whom he loved,
And murdered in her bed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
He pointed backward
Over his shoulder with his pipe-stem, saying,
"You can just see it glancing off the roof
Making a great scroll upward toward the sky,
Long enough for
recording
all our names on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
His family: a mass of dense
coloured
globes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
--_Enter_ ENGINE,
_followed
by_ WITTIPOLL.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
]
III
Having
performed
his service truly,
Deep into debt his father ran;
Three balls a year he gave ye duly,
At last became a ruined man.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Thou loosest labour
As easie may'st thou the intrenchant Ayre
With thy keene Sword impresse, as make me bleed:
Let fall thy blade on
vulnerable
Crests,
I beare a charmed Life, which must not yeeld
To one of woman borne
Macd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
You may convert to and
distribute
this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
--
_I watch thee as thou art,_
_I will accept thy
fainting
heart, be strong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
But they
Dreaded not more th'
adventure
then his voice
Forbidding; and at once with him they rose;
Thir rising all at once was as the sound
Of Thunder heard remote.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Quan lo rius de la fontana
When the sweet fountain's stream
Runs clear, as it used to do,
And there the wild-roses blow,
And the nightingale, on the bough,
Turns and polishes, and makes gleam
His sweet song, and refines its flow,
It's time I
polished
mine, it would seem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Marks, notations and other
marginalia
present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Is it Setebos
Who deals in her
command?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
And, entering with unsteady pace,
Receives a buffet in the face
That lands him on his back:
[Picture: Decorative border of man climbing hall] And feels himself,
like one in sleep,
Glide swiftly down again,
A helpless weight, from steep to steep,
Till, with a headlong giddy sweep,
He drops upon the plain--
So I, that had resolved to bring
Conviction to a ghost,
And found it quite a different thing
From any human arguing,
Yet dared not quit my post
But, keeping still the end in view
To which I hoped to come,
I strove to prove the matter true
By putting
everything
I knew
Into an axiom:
Commencing every single phrase
With 'therefore' or 'because,'
I blindly reeled, a hundred ways,
About the syllogistic maze,
Unconscious where I was.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
43
This throbbing shows what we
abandoned
44
By the waters that make faint moan 45
Lustre and fame!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
at ferly wat3 wylde,
Hi3e hille3 on vche a halue, & holt wode3 vnder,
[B] Of hore oke3 fill hoge a
hundreth
to-geder;
744 ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
But the credit for the
beauty of these often
erroneous
renderings must go to Mademoiselle
Gautier herself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
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: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your
inexperience
on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Though centuries falter and decline,
Your proven strongholds shall remain
Embodied
memories of your line,
Incarnate legends of your reign.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
THE
CHILDREN
OF THE POOR.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
drihtscype
drēogan, _to do a heroic deed_, 1471.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Yet graceful ease, and
sweetness
void of pride, 15
Might hide her faults, if Belles had faults to hide:
If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
TO
MISTRESS
AMY POTTER.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Such mad perverseness who may
apprehend?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
This air, whereof I am reminding thee,
Winding athrough the iron's
abundant
pores
So subtly into the tiny parts thereof,
Shoves it and pushes, as wind the ship and sails.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Holy Odd's
bodykins
!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
And I will kiss her in the waterfalls,
And at the rainbow's end, and in the incense
That curls about the feet of sleeping gods,
And sing with her in
canebrakes
and in rice fields,
In Romany, eternal Romany.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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You would have snared me,
and scattered the strands of my nest;
but the very fact that you saw,
sheltered
me, claimed me,
set me apart from the rest.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Again, behold,
Chariot and steed in purple
slaughter
roll'd:
Great Elvas triumphs; wide o'er Xeres' plain
Around him reeks the noblest blood of Spain.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Yet these men I could not but love and
admire, that they
returned
to their studies.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But best
befriended
of the God
He who, in evil times,
Warned by an inward voice,
Heeds not the darkness and the dread,
Biding by his rule and choice,
Feeling only the fiery thread
Leading over heroic ground,
Walled with mortal terror round,
To the aim which him allures,
And the sweet heaven his deed secures.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Your farm, profits, crops,--to think how
engrossed
you are!
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Whitman |
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They accompanied her to Heidelberg, but
Lord
Harington
died on his way home, Lady Harington shortly after her
return.
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John Donne |
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And now moves many a
pleasant
tongue
Upon his wasted hands,
For leading aged hounds and young
The huntsman near him stands.
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Yeats |
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Dear, too, unto Hiawatha
Was the very strong man, Kwasind,
He the strongest of all mortals,
He the
mightiest
among many;
For his very strength he loved him,
For his strength allied to goodness.
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Longfellow |
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[43] Text has
erroneous
form.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Its
business
office is located at 809
North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I know not to what character in the range of
her personations he alludes: she was a
favourite
on the Dumfries
boards.
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Robert Forst |
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