Most fair return of
greetings
and desires.
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Shakespeare |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are
in a constant state of change.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"
The
didactic
poems or "satires" belong to the period before his first
banishment.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And every day for seven moons I
proclaimed
my Joy from the
house-top--and yet no one heeded me.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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{32a}
Thus safe through
struggles
the son of Ecgtheow
had passed a plenty, through perils dire,
with daring deeds, till this day was come
that doomed him now with the dragon to strive.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Ben si
convenne
lei lasciar per palma
in alcun cielo de l'alta vittoria
che s'acquisto con l'una e l'altra palma,
perch' ella favoro la prima gloria
di Iosue in su la Terra Santa,
che poco tocca al papa la memoria.
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| Question: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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With joy I'm firmly bound in place,
Seeing nothing that's low or base,
Except a people, born our reverse,
As though
nourished
on the hills,
Who serve me worse than frost and ice,
For each one with his tongue can sting,
And murmurs evilly and whistles.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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In return for your glad words
Be sure all
greeting
that mine house affords
Is yours.
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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'
because they seem to me more
certainly
what Donne wrote.
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John Donne |
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I remember once asking a seer
to ask one among the gods who, as she believed, were
standing
about her
in their symbolic bodies, what would come of a charming but seeming
trivial labour of a friend, and the form answering, 'the devastation of
peoples and the overwhelming of cities.
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| Question: |
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Yeats |
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600
Creation and the Six dayes acts they sung,
Great are thy works, Jehovah, infinite
Thy power; what thought can measure thee or tongue
Relate thee; greater now in thy return
Then from the Giant Angels; thee that day
Thy
Thunders
magnifi'd; but to create
Is greater then created to destroy.
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| Question: |
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Milton |
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DONA SOL: Oh,
Hernani!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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o misero frater adempte mihi,
tu mea tu moriens fregisti commoda, frater,
tecum una tota est nostra sepulta domus,
omnia tecum una
perierunt
gaudia nostra,
quae tuus in uita dulcis alebat amor.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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How powerless were the
mightiest
monarch's arm,
Vain his loud threat, and impotent his frown!
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| Question: |
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Shelley |
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Strangely wrought from barking waves,
Soft music daunts the Indian braves,--
Convent-chanting which the child
Hears pealing from the panther's cave
And the
impenetrable
wild.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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* * * * *
JOHN DRINKWATER
Then I asked: 'Does a firm
persuasion
that a thing is so, make it so?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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[[pope crosst
through]]
com, & ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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If glorious deeds afford thy soul delight,
Behold me plunging in the
thickest
fight.
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| Question: |
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Iliad - Pope |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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(_To the
Attendants_)
So; guide her home.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Sonnet On The Death Of Robert Riddell
Of
Glenriddell
and Friars' Carse.
| 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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They think, because we serve, we've no more right
To
feelings
than their cattle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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No Knight of the Round Table has been so highly
honoured
by the old
Romance-writers as Sir Gawayne, the son of Loth, and nephew to the renowned
Arthur.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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, 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 |
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:--Hours of
Idleness
(_i.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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It grows dark--your voice and form no more
His senses seek; he now no longer sees
A white robe
fluttering
under dark beech trees
Along the pathway where it gleamed before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Methought
I saw the sylvan reign of Pan,
And heard the music of the Mantuan swan:[370]
With smiles we hail them, and with joy behold
The blissful manners of the age of gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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His grace's fate sage Cutler could foresee,
And well (he
thought)
advised him, "Live like me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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On came the
turbulent
multitude in war,
Dashing against the city's walls; and swept
Through all the streets, and robbed and burned and killed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Why,
carefull
wedlocke, 10
If I haue haue a longing to haue one tale more
Goe of mee, what is that to thee, deare heart?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
womb," are marked to be inserted; the entire group of lines is also crossed with a
diagonal
line which may indicate 1) a later intention to delete them; or 2) that the stanza is meant to replace the stanza beginning "I die not Enitharmon.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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There's
something
sweet in my uncertainty
I would not change for your Chaldean lore;
Besides, I know of these all clay can know
Of aught above it, or below it--nothing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
With not even one blow
landing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Wherefore
'tis sure that what hath been before
Hath died, and what now is is now create.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
What a wretchedness is this, to thrust all our riches
outward, and be beggars within; to contemplate nothing but the little,
vile, and sordid things of the world; not the great, noble, and
precious!
| 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 |
|
]
ELDRED He did not seem to wish for life: as I was
struggling
on,
by the light of the moon I saw the stains of blood upon my
clothes--he waved his hand, as if it were all useless; and
I let him sink again to the ground.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
As favorable fairies thronged of old and blessed
The cradled
princess
with their several best,
So, gifts and dowers meet
To lay at Wisdom's feet,
These liberal masters largely brought --
Dear diamonds of their long-compressed thought,
Rich stones from out the labyrinthine cave
Of research, pearls from Time's profoundest wave
And many a jewel brave, of brilliant ray,
Dug in the far obscure Cathay
Of meditation deep --
With flowers, of such as keep
Their fragrant tissues and their heavenly hues
Fresh-bathed forever in eternal dews --
The violet with her low-drooped eye,
For learned modesty, --
The student snow-drop, that doth hang and pore
Upon the earth, like Science, evermore,
And underneath the clod doth grope and grope, --
The astronomer heliotrope,
That watches heaven with a constant eye, --
The daring crocus, unafraid to try
(When Nature calls) the February snows, --
And patience' perfect rose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
CCXIX
Three columns now, he has, the
Emperour
Charles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Doubt, restlessness,
and insecurity are
undermining
society.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Some things that stay there be, --
Grief, hills, eternity:
Nor this
behooveth
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Troubled, wildered, and forlorn,
Dark, benighted, travel-worn,
Over many a tangle spray,
All heart-broke, I heard her say:
"Oh my
children!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Hart was the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Yes, Time reigns; Time has
regained
his brutal mastery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
I haue giuen Sucke, and know
How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me,
I would, while it was smyling in my Face,
Haue pluckt my Nipple from his
Bonelesse
Gummes,
And dasht the Braines out, had I so sworne
As you haue done to this
Macb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
{and} whanne she ap{er}ceiued[e]
by atempre
stillenesse
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
the
loiterers
call,
And thrones be tumbled in the mire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
e
stoundes of
forknowyng
[as] now ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
THE lover now the
tinkling
metal shook;
The path that t'wards it led the charmer took.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
In his
subsequent
poetic work Rilke did not again reach the sustained
high quality of this book, the mood and idea of which he incorporated
into a prose work of exquisite lyrical beauty: _The Sketch of Malte
Laurids Brigge_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
If you had only told me more about your hero in
the first
instance
it might have been finished by now.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
XXII
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Bounded on the Danube, in Africa,
Among the tribes along the Thames' shore,
And where the rising sun ascends in flame,
Her own nurslings stirred, in mutinous game
Against her very self, the spoils of war,
So dearly won from all the world before,
That same world's spoil suddenly became:
So when the Great Year its course has run,
And twenty six
thousand
years are done,
The elements freed from Nature's accord,
Those seeds that are the source of everything,
Will return in Time to their first discord,
Chaos' eternal womb their presence hiding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
In the
subjoined
copy, in which the two MSS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of
derivative
works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
It was taken
down in 1737, and the
cisterns
arched over at the same time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
]
[Footnote 240: This is an
alteration
of one of Crawford's songs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Be these the
expedients
until time and wisdom _290
Shall frame a settled state of government.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
They were
excluded
from the highest
magistracies; they were excluded from all share in the public
lands; and they were ground down to the dust by partial and
barbarous legislation touching pecuniary contracts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
MEPHISTOPHELES:
Wenn dir's beliebt, so bin ich auch bereit,
Dir zur
Gesellschaft
hier zu bleiben;
Doch mit Bedingnis, dir die Zeit
Durch meine Kunste wurdig zu vertreiben.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
new-found, beloved, and strong to hold from harm,
Stretching
to these across the seas the shield of her sovereign arm,
Who summoned the guns of her sailor sons, who bade her navies roam,
Who calls again to the leagues of main, and who calls them this
time home!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight
Bill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Hence, thou
suborned
informer!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
But out of earth's trammels your soul would have flown
Where glitters Eternity's stream,
And you shall have waked 'midst pure glories unknown,
As sunshine
disperses
a dream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Yet but awhile the slumbering weather flings
Its murky prison round--then winds wake loud;
With sudden stir the startled forest sings
Winter's
returning
song-cloud races cloud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
The host
hastened
to wait upon him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
One-third of it was an old
muzzle-loading fowling-piece with ragged rust holes where the nipples
should have been; one-third a
wirebound
matchlock with a worm-eaten
stock, and one-third a four-bore flint duck-gun, without a flint.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
e
fayre
goddesse
dou?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Grasses and mosses and the fallen leaf
Make
peaceful
bed for an indefinite term;
But underneath the grass there gnaws a worm--
Haply, there gnaws a grief--
Both, haply always; not, as now, so brief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
"
There was spread a
glorious
marriage feast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
On the other hand,
Alexander
Pope's verse rendering has nothing
Homeric about it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Only Hermes, master of word music,
Ever yet in glory of gold language
Could
ensphere
the magical remembrance
Of her melting, half sad, wayward beauty, 20
Or devise the silver phrase to frame her,
The inevitable name to call her,
Half a sigh and half a kiss when whispered,
Like pure air that feeds a forge's hunger.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
It's as if I began to build in the ocean depths
A
thousand
tombs: to vanish still virgin there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
So they began to sing, voice
answering
voice
In strains alternate- for alternate strains
The Muses then were minded to recall-
First Corydon, then Thyrsis in reply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
He had on a
gunnysack
shirt over his bones,
And he lifted an elbow socket over his head,
And he lifted a skinny signal finger.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
FLINT
Trees 53
Lunch 55
Malady 56
Accident
58
Fragment 60
Houses 62
Eau-Forte 63
D.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
and here for
America!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Scherer
proposes
hāte, = _from heat_, instr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
"A Valentine," one of three poems
addressed
to Mrs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
Time bring back the order of classic days;
Earth has shuddered with
prophetic
breath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
What peace, unravished of our ken,
Annihilate
from the world of men?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
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 |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Lat us holde forth our purpos fermely; 495
And sin that ye
bihighten
him to byde,
Hold forward now, and after lat us ryde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Deeming himself a veteran scarred
In love's campaigns
Oneguine
heard
With quite a lachrymose expression
The youthful poet's fond confession.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
"
The Two Hermits
Upon a lonely mountain, there lived two hermits who
worshipped
God
and loved one another.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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CCVI
That
Emperour
is from his swoon revived.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Tout cela ne vaut pas le terrible prodige
De ta salive qui mord,
Qui plonge dans l'oubli mon ame sans remord,
Et, charriant le vertige,
La roule
defaillante
aux rives de la mort!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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XLIII
"Ere new disturbance interrupt the deed,
Taking what costliest was and lightest weighed,
Me my companion by a chord, with speed,
Drops from a window, where with boat purveyed
In Flanders (as related) for my need,
His brother,
watchful
of our motions, stayed:
We dip the oar, we loose the sail, and driven
By both, escape, as was the will of Heaven.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Unbid, ix, 54,
unprayed
for.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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' If we drop the epithet 'good', this
criticism will apply to a considerable portion of
metaphysical
poetry.
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John Donne |
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And when the sieve turned round and round,
And every one cried, "You'll all be
drowned!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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--but if he sinned,
The sin that
practice
burns into the blood,
And not the one dark hour which brings remorse,
Will brand us, after, of whose fold we be:
Or else were he, the holy king, whose hymns
Are chanted in the minster, worse than all.
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Tennyson |
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Grandson
of Atlas, wise of tongue,
O Mercury, whose wit could tame
Man's savage youth by power of song
And plastic game!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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A madman Charles is not,
No
treachery
was ever in his thought.
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Chanson de Roland |
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the boy himself
Was worthy to be sung, and many a time
Hath
Stimichon
to me your singing praised.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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For pain and
pleasure
flow
Like tides upon us of the self-same sea.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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