Like two doomed ships that pass in storm
We had crossed each other's way:
But we made no sign, we said no word,
We had no word to say;
For we did not meet in the holy night,
But in the
shameful
day.
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Wilde - Poems |
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That wild
Charybdis
yours?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The "lads" of Ludlow are so human to him, the hawthorn and
broom on the Severn shores are so
fragrant
with associations, he cannot
help but compose under a kind of imaginative wizardry of exultation,
even when the immediate subject is grim or grotesque.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Now,
farewell
Gawayne the noble!
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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e
congregac{i}ou{n}
1764
of alle goodes.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Burbank crossed a little bridge
Descending at a small hotel;
Princess
Volupine
arrived,
They were together, and he fell.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Look Down Fair Moon
Look down fair moon and bathe this scene,
Pour softly down night's nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple,
On the dead on their backs with arms toss'd wide,
Pour down your
unstinted
nimbus sacred moon.
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| Question: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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What lightning bolt, you
heavens!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Her love, too, is quite
different
from
his.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Not like the dew did she return
At the
accustomed
hour!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Leonor
To what can you
pretend?
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Erdman does not note this
placement
in his edition.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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WITHIN a nunnery, in days of yore,
A good old man
supplied
the garden-store;
The nuns, in general, were smart and gay,
And kept their tongues in motion through the day.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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She was never more than
ordinarily
pretty at the best of times;
and the illness made her ugly.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Text and
interpretation
uncertain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Is wealth thy
restless
game?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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John Clare |
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but with mine compare thou thine own state,
And thou shalt find it merits not reproving;
Or, if it do, not from those lips of thine,
That have profan'd their scarlet ornaments
And seal'd false bonds of love as oft as mine,
Robb'd others' beds'
revenues
of their rents.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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True Virtue never knows defeat:
HER robes she keeps
unsullied
still,
Nor takes, nor quits, HER curule seat
To please a people's veering will.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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how I loved my
darling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Young Love's first lesson is--the heart:
For 'mid that sunshine, and those smiles,
When, from our little cares apart,
And
laughing
at her girlish wiles,
I'd throw me on her throbbing breast,
And pour my spirit out in tears--
There was no need to speak the rest--
No need to quiet any fears
Of her--who ask'd no reason why,
But turn'd on me her quiet eye!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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And red wher-so thou be, or elles songe,
That thou be
understonde
I god beseche!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
For on those lovely lips the while
Dawns the soft relenting smile,
And tempts with feigned
dissuasion
coy
The gentle violence of Joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
More than for any work your guild adjureth,
Am I
ordained
to labour for my Lord,
Thus I will prosper, for my Lord endureth,
I ever serve my kindly Lord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
A mortal sovereign holds her
dangerous
throne,
And thou mayst find a new Calypso there.
| 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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Call 'em: let me see 'em
1 Powre in Sowes blood, that hath eaten
Her nine Farrow: Greaze that's sweaten
From the
Murderers
Gibbet, throw
Into the Flame
All.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
The Phoenix was the
mythical
bird that rose again from the ashes of its own immolation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
'Tis true on Lady Fortune's
gentlest
pad
I amble on; yet, though I know not why,
So sad I am!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
What though my course be rugged and uneven,
To prickly moors and dusty ways confined,
Yet, hearing thee, or others of thy kind,
As full of gladness and as free of heaven,
I on the earth will go
plodding
on,
By myself, cheerfully, till the day is done.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
There was a
compromising
legend--Dom Anna the tailor brought it from
Poonani--that a black Jew of Cochin had once married into the D'Cruze
family; while it was an open secret that an uncle of Mrs.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
)
Mery,
Without dawn too grossly now inflaming
The rose, that splendid, natural and weary
Sheds even her heavy veil of
perfumes
to hear
Underneath the flesh the diamond weeping,
Yes, without those dewy crises!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
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Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project
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legal
fees.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Ah, so irrevocably some hidden power
Betramples
forevermore affairs of men,
And visibly grindeth with its heel in mire
The lictors' glorious rods and axes dire,
Having them in derision!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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After many mishaps and wanderings, Hasan
became the head of the Persian sect of the Ismailians,--a party of
fanatics who had long
murmured
in obscurity, but rose to an evil
eminence under the guidance of his strong and evil will.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
My house hath never learned
To fail its friend, nor seen the
stranger
spurned.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Subjected to his service Angel wings,
And flaming Ministers to watch and tend
Thir
earthlie
Charge: Of these the vigilance
I dread, and to elude, thus wrapt in mist
Of midnight vapor glide obscure, and prie
In every Bush and Brake, where hap may finde 160
The Serpent sleeping, in whose mazie foulds
To hide me, and the dark intent I bring.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
In its barrow it trusted,
its
battling
and bulwarks: that boast was vain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Zeno shall be
A
constable
supreme of high degree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
For in a people pledged to idleness,
Like swollen tumour in
diseased
flesh,
Ambition is engendered readily.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
_
TO THE SUN, WHOSE SETTING HID LAURA'S
DWELLING
FROM HIS VIEW.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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"The
goodliest
land on all this earth,
It is the Saxon land
There have I as many maidens
As fingers on this hand!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Sleep is supposed to be,
By souls of sanity,
The
shutting
of the eye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
And then the elder monarch spake aloud--
_Ill lot were mine, to
disobey!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not
received
written confirmation of compliance.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Know then, that when I erst
Hither
descended
to the nether hell,
This rock was not yet fallen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
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WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
The tired flocks come in
Whose
bleating
ceases to repeat,
Whose wandering is done.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Long shall my country bless that day,
When soared our Eagle to the skies;
Long, long in triumph's bright array,
That victory shall proudly rise:
And when our country's lights are gone,
And all its
proudest
days are o'er,
How will her fading courage dawn,
To think on Erie's bloody shore!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
"Thy patient ear hath heard me long relate
A story,
fruitful
of disastrous fate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
For his son, the king must choose a tutor,
Your father
deserves
that high honour;
The choice is not in doubt, and his valour
Beyond all competition with another.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Project
Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive
specific
permission.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
Fair was thy blush, the fairest and first of the blushes of
morning!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Sighs ascended,
Thou
gleanest
not?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water, where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes, dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
As the little tiny swallow or the chaffinch,
Round their warm and cosey nest are seen to hover,
So hovers there the mother dear who bore him;
And aye she weeps, as flows a river's water;
His sister weeps as flows a streamlet's water;
His
youthful
wife, as falls the dew from heaven--
The Sun, arising, dries the dew of heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Let Sisyphus rest, Ixion's wheel be still,
And Tantalus once grasp the
fleeting
wave;
To-day let surly Cerberus hunt no shade,
By the mute bar loose let his fetters lie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Yet health three ages lengthens out his span,
And grandsons hail the
vigorous
old man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
An almes, sir
prieste!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
Thoughts
so all unlike each other;
To mutter and mock a broken charm,
To dally with wrong that does no harm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
"Tell him night finished before we finished,
And the old clock kept
neighing
'day!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
He gaz'd, and, fear his mind surprising,
Himself no more the hermit knows:
He sees with foam the waters rising,
And then
subsiding
to repose,
And sudden, light as night-ghost wanders,
A female thence her form uprais'd,
Pale as the snow which winter squanders,
And on the bank herself she plac'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
'By that last book of yours WE think
You've double damned
yourself
to scorn;
We warned you whilst yet on the brink _485
You stood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Workmen and
Workwomen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Burn, golden globes in leafy sky,
My orange-planets: crimson I
Will shine and shoot among the spheres
(Blithe meteor that no mortal fears)
And thrid the
heavenly
orange-tree
With orbits bright of minstrelsy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Much madness is
divinest
sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
A
starving
tom-cat I feel quite like,
That o'er the fire ladders crawls
Then softly creeps, ground the walls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Ellis, which
preserves
the metre of the
original:
WEEP each heavenly Venus, all the Cupids,
Weep all men that have any grace about ye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
How have those useless efforts brought
success?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
--a
question
that
tended even more than the waistcoat to fasten the terrible crime upon
the young man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
But ay the oynement wente abrood;
Throughout
my woundes large and wyde
It spredde aboute in every syde; 1900
Through whos vertu and whos might
Myn herte Ioyful was and light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
10
LXXXIII
In the quiet garden world,
Gold
sunlight
and shadow leaves
Flicker on the wall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
CXLIV
When Rollant sees those
misbegotten
men,
Who are more black than ink is on the pen
With no part white, only their teeth except,
Then says that count: "I know now very well
That here to die we're bound, as I can tell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
The combs are founded, the queen rules her court,
Bee-sergeants posted at the entrance-chink
Are sampling each
returning
honey-cargo
With scrutinizing mouth and commentary,
Slow approbation, quick dissatisfaction--
Disquieting rhythm, that leads me home at last
From labyrinthine wandering.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
It makes no difference abroad,
The seasons fit the same,
The
mornings
blossom into noons,
And split their pods of flame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Go on directly so, as just men may
A thousand times more swear than say:
This is that princely
Pemberton
who can
Teach man to keep a god in man;
And when wise poets shall search out to see
Good men, they find them all in thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
There is a Book
By seraphs writ with beams of heavenly light,
On which the eyes of God not rarely look,
A
chronicle
of actions just and bright--
There all thy deeds, my faithful Mary, shine;
And since, thou own'st that praise, I spare thee mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Beneath it Walt and
Jessamine
were wed,
Beneath it many a year has she lain dead.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
His
opponents
also raked up another charge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Shapes of the using of axes anyhow, and the users and all that
neighbors them,
Cutters down of wood and haulers of it to the Penobscot or Kenebec,
Dwellers in cabins among the Californian mountains or by the little
lakes, or on the Columbia,
Dwellers south on the banks of the Gila or Rio Grande, friendly
gatherings, the
characters
and fun,
Dwellers along the St.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Oldfield
with more than harpy throat endued,
Cries "Send me, gods!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
_Mynstrelles
Songe, bie a Manne and Womanne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
As the chief histrion,
Down to the footlights walks in some great scena,
Dominating
the rest I see the Admiral himself,
(History's type of courage, action, faith,)
Behold him sail from Palos leading his little fleet,
His voyage behold, his return, his great fame,
His misfortunes, calumniators, behold him a prisoner, chain'd,
Behold his dejection, poverty, death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
VI
Now for the first time I my Muse
Lead into good society,
Her steppe-like
beauties
I peruse
With jealous fear, anxiety.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Ronsard refers to Neo-Platonic
metaphysics
in criticising Plato's 'Idealism'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
e he3e felle;
724 [F] Nade he ben du3ty & dry3e, & dry3tyn had serued,
Douteles
he hade ben ded, & dreped ful ofte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
In a minute there is time
For decisions and
revisions
which a minute will reverse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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And those so slow to yield,
On many a hard fought field,
Muster together
Like a dark cloud
In summer weather,
Whose
threatening
thunders suddenly are stilled,--
And all the world is filled
With smiling rest.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The robin is the one
That
interrupts
the morn
With hurried, few, express reports
When March is scarcely on.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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) How happy
Is he, how flushed with
gladness
and with glory
His stainless soul!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
Then a silence suffuses the story,
And a softness the teller's eye;
And the
children
no further question,
And only the waves reply.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Or, when anew all Nature teems,
Do we foresee in
troubled
dreams
The coming of life's Autumn drear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Man
creating
his own destiny, man, however wearied with the
long task of resistance, achieving some conscious community of
aspiration, and dreaming of the perfection of himself: the poet whose
lovely and noble art makes us a great symbol of _that_, is assuredly
carrying on the work of Homer.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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For what are called
criminals
nowadays
are not criminals at all.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful Athenian courtesan and mistress of
Alexander
the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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Where, braving angry winter's storms,
The lofty Ochels rise,
Far in their shade my Peggy's charms
First blest my
wondering
eyes;
As one who by some savage stream,
A lonely gem surveys,
Astonish'd, doubly marks its beam,
With art's most polish'd blaze.
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Robert Burns |
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