Cleis speaks no word to me,
For the land where she has gone
Lieth mute at dusk and dawn
Like a windless
tideless
sea.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Yes, I had something of a subtler sense,
And often looking round was moved to smiles 210
Such as a
delicate
work of humour breeds;
I read, without design, the opinions, thoughts,
Of those plain-living people now observed
With clearer knowledge; with another eye
I saw the quiet woodman in the woods, 215
The shepherd roam the hills.
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William Wordsworth |
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Only one favor I beg of you, Graces (I ask it in secret--
Fervent my prayer and deep, out of a
passionate
breast):
My little garden, my sweet one, protect it and do not let any
Evil come near it nor me.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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You
Japanese
man or woman!
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Whitman |
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Alfred Prufrock
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai
tornasse
al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
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T.S. Eliot |
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THE HOUSLING FIRE, the
sacramental
fire.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
Till, for too long, none
ventured
thither nigh.
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Hugo - Poems |
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To know the world, for all its
grasping
hands,
For all its heat to utter its pent nature
Into the souls that must go faring through it,
Availing nothing against purity,
Made always like rebellion trodden under,--
By this was life a noble labour.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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They will remain for many years unchanged in the
ground,
protected
by the coolness and deep shade of the forest above
them.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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net/about/contact
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Cousin Nancy
Miss Nancy
Ellicott
Strode across the hills and broke them,
Rode across the hills and broke them--
The barren New England hills--
Riding to hounds
Over the cow-pasture.
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T.S. Eliot |
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fly sideways, or wheel in large circles high in the air;
Receive the summer sky, you water, and
faithfully
hold it till all
downcast eyes have time to take it from you!
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| Question: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Thus, with electuaries so satanic,
Worse than the plague with all its panic,
We rioted through hill and vale;
Myself, with my own hands, the drug to thousands giving,
They passed away, and I am living
To hear men's thanks the
murderers
hail!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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SEA VIOLET
The white violet
is scented on its stalk,
the sea-violet
fragile as agate,
lies
fronting
all the wind
among the torn shells
on the sand-bank.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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We are young and eager and yet we are
mateless
and unvisited, and
though we lie in unbroken half embrace, we are uncomforted.
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Many hamlets sought I then,
Many farms of
mountain
men.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Thither he comes with spring-time, there abides
All summer, and at sunrise ye may hear
His flageolet to liquid notes of love 200
Attuned, or sprightly fife
resounding
far.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Well, I could wish, that still in lordly domes
Some beasts were killed, though not whole hecatombs;
That both
extremes
were banished from their walls,
Carthusian fasts, and fulsome bacchanals;
And all mankind might that just mean observe,
In which none e'er could surfeit, none could starve.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Swift are the blessed
Immortals
to the mortal
That perseveres!
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| Question: |
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Longfellow |
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Is the Holy Ghost any other
than an intellectual
fountain?
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Yeats |
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Glooms, stagnantly subsiding,
Whose
lustrous
heart away was prest
Into the argent stars!
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Wilde - Poems |
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from what power hast thou this
powerful
might,
With insufficiency my heart to sway?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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A man sees only what
concerns
him.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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No longer a useless grief is man's life now;
For floating on it, for
enjoying
it,
A state of barges goes, the state of kings.
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| Question: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Ships of the line, each one,
Ye to the
westward
run,
Always before the gale,
Under a press of sail,
With weight of metal all untold.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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For, fisherman, what fresh or
seawater
catch
equals him, either in form or savour,
that lovely divine fish, Jesus, My Saviour?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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At length did cross an Albatross,
Thorough
the fog it came;
As if it had been a Christian soul,
We hailed it in God's name.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Orpheus
Orpheus
'Orpheus'
Pierre -Cecile Puvis de Chavannes, French, 1824 - 1898, Yale
University
Art Gallery
His heart was the bait: the heavens were the pond!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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The Cloud
descended
and the Lily bowd her modest head:
And went to mind her numerous charge among the verdant grass.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Heraus mit Eurem
Flederwisch!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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L'une,
insidieuse
et ferme,
Disait: << La Terre est un gateau plein de douceur;
Je puis (et ton plaisir serait alors sans terme!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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A poor torn heart, a tattered heart,
That sat it down to rest,
Nor noticed that the ebbing day
Flowed silver to the west,
Nor noticed night did soft descend
Nor constellation burn,
Intent upon the vision
Of
latitudes
unknown.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Their feet, that crushed down freedom to its grave
And felt the very earth they trod a slave,
How quiet here they lie in death's cold arms
Without the power to crush the feeble worms
Who spite of all the
dreadful
fears they made
Creep there to conquer and are not afraid.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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"
exclaimed
Lisa, drying her eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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[19]
How the character of Satan was to be
represented
is of course
impossible to determine.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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They hang us now in
Shrewsbury
jail:
The whistles blow forlorn,
And trains all night groan on the rail
To men that die at morn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But thou
forgotten
and far off shalt dwell,
By great Alpheus' waters, in a dell
Of Arcady, where that gray Wolf-God's wall
Stands holy.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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"
CORYDON
"This bristling boar's head, Delian Maid, to thee,
With branching antlers of a sprightly stag,
Young Micon offers: if his luck but hold,
Full-length in
polished
marble, ankle-bound
With purple buskin, shall thy statue stand.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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He himself fell
entangled
in the harness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Certainly
Pheres can be trusted
to do so, though we must remember that we see him at an unfortunate
moment.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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la bague etait brisee
Que s'ils etaient d'argent ou d'or
D'emeraude ou de diamant
Seront plus clairs plus clairs encore
Que les astres du firmament
Que la lumiere de l'aurore
Que vos regards mon fiance
Auront
meilleure
odeur encore
Helas!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Or the melon--
let it bleach yellow
in the winter light,
even tart to the taste--
it is better to taste of frost--
the
exquisite
frost--
than of wadding and of dead grass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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For whatever Reason, however, Omar as before said, has never been
popular in his own Country, and
therefore
has been but scantily
transmitted abroad.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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For in
daemonic
fears
Flee even the sons of gods.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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That is a
long way from the solid reality of
material
which epic requires.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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1020
So he with
difficulty
and labour hard
Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour hee;
But hee once past, soon after when man fell,
Strange alteration!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Then again he dips his wing
In the
wrinkles
of the spring,
Then oer the rushes flies again,
And pearls roll off his back like rain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Light from a crimson cloud
Crimsons the
sluggishly
creeping foams of waves;
The seaman, poised in the bow, rises and falls
As the deep forefoot finds a way through waves;
And there below him, steadily gazing westward,
Facing the wind, the sunset, the long cloud,
The goddess of the ship, proud figurehead,
Smiles inscrutably, plunges to crying waters,
Emerges streaming, gleaming, with jewels falling
Fierily from carved wings and golden breasts;
Steadily glides a moment, then swoops again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
F alse beauty that costs me so dear,
R ough indeed, a hypocrite sweetness,
A mor, like iron on the teeth and harder,
N amed only to achieve my sure distress,
C harm that's murderous, poor heart's death,
O covert pride that sends men to ruin,
I mplacable eyes, won't true redress
S uccour a poor man, without
crushing?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Fabius Pictor would be well
acquainted
with a document so
interesting to his personal feelings, and would insert large
extracts from it in his rude chronicle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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She wakes their smiles, she soothes their cares,
On that pure heart so like to theirs,
Her spirit with such life is rife
That in its golden rays we see,
Touched into graceful poesy,
The dull cold
commonplace
of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
When you did change your ring for mine
My yielding heart to win,
Though mine was of the beaten gold
Yours but of
burnished
tin,
Though mine was all true love without,
Yours but false love within?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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For upon us
confusion
vile is come,
Now have we lost our king Marsiliun,
For yesterday his hand count Rollanz cut;
We'll have no more Fair Jursaleu, his son;
The whole of Spain henceforward is undone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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He embraced all
subjects; in his philosophy, not always profound, but a keen censor of
the manners, and on moral
subjects
truly admirable.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the
countries
of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Some of thy modesty,
That
blossoms
here as well, unseen,
As if before the world thou'dst been,
Oh, give, to strengthen me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
And I and all the souls in pain,
Who tramped the other ring,
Forgot if we
ourselves
had done
A great or little thing,
And watched with gaze of dull amaze
The man who had to swing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
London my home is; though by hard fate sent
Into a long and irksome banishment;
Yet since call'd back,
henceforward
let me be,
O native country, repossess'd by thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Neither did Arminius or the other chiefs neglect to declare to their
several bands that "these Romans were the cowardly
fugitives
of the
Varian army, who, because they could not endure to fight, had afterwards
chosen to rebel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
THE DEAD DRUMMER
I
THEY throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
Uncoffined--just as found:
His landmark is a kopje-crest
That breaks the veldt around;
And foreign
constellations
west
Each night above his mound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceiue
Our Bosome interest: Goe
pronounce
his present death,
And with his former Title greet Macbeth
Rosse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
JULIAN'S PRAYER
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers,
How many round
attribute
all their cares!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
how oft the
sparkling
eye
Belies the inward tear, where none can gaze!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Charles his great host once more upon us draws,
Of
Frankish
men we plainly hear the horns,
"Monjoie" they cry, and great is their uproar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Le desert et la foret
Embaument
tes tresses rudes,
Ta tete a les attitudes
De l'enigme et du secret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
And I remember nothing more
That I can clearly fix,
Till I was sitting on the floor,
Repeating
"Two and five are four,
But _five and two_ are six.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
One
desperate
splash--and no use to me
The noose that swung!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Wearied
at last with public importunity and clamour, and with particular
expostulations, he began to unbend a little; not that he would own his
undertaking the Empire, but only avoid the
uneasiness
of perpetually
rejecting endless solicitations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
These priestly litanies are
accompanied
by wild dances--the
Salii are, etymologically, 'the Dancing men'--and by the clashing of
shields.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Like sheeted wanderers from the grave
They moved, and yet seemed not to stir,
As icy gorge and sere-leaf'd grove
Of
withered
oak and shrouded fir
Were passed, and onward still they strove;
While the loud wind's artillery clave
The air, and furious sleety rain
Swung like a sword above the plain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Come, my soul; and since we must end it,
Let us die without
offending
Chimene.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
)
If when the clockticks counted sixty,
when the heartbeats of the Republic
came to a stop for a minute,
if the Boy had happened to sit up,
happening to sit up as Lazarus sat up, in the story,
then the first shivering
language
to drip off his mouth
might have come as, "Thank God," or "Am I dreaming?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
What may this be,
That thou
dispeyred
art thus causelees?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Thy sign hath
conquered
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
In the
beginning
was the Word next God;
God was the Word, the Word no less was He:
This was in the beginning, to my mode
Of thinking, and without Him nought could be:
Therefore, just Lord!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Yet
sometimes
even in a dark day I have
thought them as bright as I ever saw them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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While the tyrant of Castile meditated a new war, he was killed by a fall
from his horse, and, leaving no issue by his queen, Beatrix (the King of
Portugal's daughter), all
pretension
to that crown ceased.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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No one
concerned
seemed to think so.
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fortiter
et ferrum saeuos patiemur et ignis,
sit modo libertas quae uelit ira loqui.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Then, since even this
Was full of peril, and the secret kiss
Of some bold prince might find her yet, and rend
Her prison walls,
Aegisthus
at the end
Would slay her.
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Euripides - Electra |
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For whom I robbed the dingle,
For whom
betrayed
the dell,
Many will doubtless ask me,
But I shall never tell!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Like the doves voice, like
transient
day, like music in the air:
Ah!
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blake-poems |
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This satirical song was composed to
commemorate
General Cope's defeat
at Preston Pans, in 1745, when he marched against the Clans.
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Robert Forst |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The churlish gales, that
unremitting
blow
Cold from necessity's continual snow, 1820.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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[Note 21: The poet was, on his mother's side, of African extraction,
a circumstance which perhaps
accounts
for the southern fervour of
his imagination.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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] life is blotted out & I alone remain possessd with Fears
I see the [remembrance] Shadow of the dead within my [eyes] Soul wandering*
{bracketed words blotted out, revised as indicated by italics LFS} In darkness &
solitude
forming Seas of [Trouble] Doubt & rocks of [sorrow] Repentance*
{bracketed words blotted LFS} Already are my Eyes reverted.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Peter thinks you mad;
You make men
desperate
if they once are bad:
Else might he take to virtue some years hence--
P.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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if e'er thy Gnome could spoil a grace,
Or raise a pimple on a
beauteous
face,
Like Citron-waters matrons cheeks inflame,
Or change complexions at a losing game; 70
If e'er with airy horns I planted heads,
Or rumpled petticoats, or tumbled beds,
Or caus'd suspicion when no soul was rude,
Or discompos'd the head-dress of a Prude,
Or e'er to costive lap-dog gave disease, 75
Which not the tears of brightest eyes could ease:
Hear me, and touch Belinda with chagrin,
That single act gives half the world the spleen.
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Alexander Pope |
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The scarce wakened troops of the garrison
Yield up their trust pale with fear;
And down comes the bright British banner,
And out rings a Green
Mountain
cheer.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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