Her anger burst into a flame
As she the
nightingale
espied
Which Kitty held; she could have cried,
And scolded, called her nasty slut,
And brazen hussey, bitch, and--but
Her husband stopped her.
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La Fontaine |
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THE BELL-MAN
Along the dark and silent night,
With my lantern and my light
And the tinkling of my bell,
Thus I walk, and this I tell:
--Death and dreadfulness call on
To the general session;
To whose dismal bar, we there
All
accounts
must come to clear:
Scores of sins we've made here many;
Wiped out few, God knows, if any.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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No
squirrel
went abroad;
A dog's belated feet
Like intermittent plush were heard
Adown the empty street.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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For _I_ have friends who dwell by the coast--
Pleasant
friends they are to me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The fourth's a Highland Donald hastie,
A d--n'd red wud Kilburnie
blastie!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Inner not outer, without gnash of teeth
Or weeping, save quiet sobs of some who pray
And feel the Everlasting Arms beneath,--
Blackness of darkness this, but not for aye;
Darkness
that even in gathering fleeteth fast,
Blackness of blackest darkness close to day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight
shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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of the Attic tomb,--
Were not these better far than to return
To my old fitful restless malady,
Or spend my days within the
voiceless
cave of misery?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Lucretius |
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All thou couldst have of mine, stern Death, thou hast:
The parent, friend, and now the more than friend;
Ne'er yet for one thine arrows flew so fast,
And grief with grief continuing still to blend,
Hath
snatched
the little joy that life had yet to lend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Triumphal arches, domes at heaven's doors,
That an
astonished
heaven sees full plain,
Alas, by degrees, turned to dust again.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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must bend,
And see thy
warriors
fall, thy glories end.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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E poi il mosser le parole biece
a dimandar ragione a questo giusto,
che li assegno sette e cinque per diece,
indi
partissi
povero e vetusto;
e se 'l mondo sapesse il cor ch'elli ebbe
mendicando sua vita a frusto a frusto,
assai lo loda, e piu lo loderebbe>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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His little range of water was denied;[2]
All but the bed where his old body lay,
All, all was seized, and weeping, side by side,
We sought a home where we
uninjured
might abide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
6 The brocade robe was a mark of
Zhangsun?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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would that in old
time the Cecropian poops had not touched at the
Gnossian
shores, nor that
bearing to the unquelled bull the direful ransom had the false mariner
moored his hawser to Crete, nor that yon wretch hiding ruthless designs
beneath sweet seemings had reposed as a guest in our halls!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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And therefore in Madrid when thou
shouldst
be
In Alcala.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
--On conversing with her I find her fully
equal to the
character
given of her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Round _thee_, when hundred
thousands
placed,
As some great Roman's triumph graced,
The little Romans all;
We boys hung on the procession's flanks,
Seeking some father in thy ranks,
And loud thy praise did call.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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I am
eternally
young, and as teacher I still love the young ones.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
THE TREE
CONTENTS
PERSONAE
LA FRAISNE 5 CINO 7 NA AUDIART
VILLONAUD FOR THIS YULE II A VILLONAUD, BALLAD OF THE GIBBET 12 MESMERISM 14 FAMAM LIBROSQUE CANO
IN TEMPORE
SENECTUTIS
17
CAMARADERIE
FOR E.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
'Ye Princes of the Earth, ye sit aghast
Amid the ruin which
yourselves
have made,
Yes, Desolation heard your trumpet's blast,
And sprang from sleep!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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All hold
spiritual
joys, and afterwards loosen them:
How can the real body ever die, and be buried?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
El
Desdichado
(The Disinherited)
I am the darkness - the widower - the un-consoled,
The prince of Aquitaine in the ruined tower;
My sole star is dead - and my constellated lute
Bears the black sun of Melancholy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
'
"For I could be King and Overlord
In the
wondrous
realm of the written word,
Am King there .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Thou strik'st the dull peasant--he sinks in the dark,
Nor saves e'en the wreck of a name;
Thou strik'st the young hero--a
glorious
mark!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Sherman, French & Company:--"The
_William
P.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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As with one half blind
Whom common simples cure, her act flashed home
In that mute moment to my opened mind
The power, the pride, the reach of
perished
Rome.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
In fact, Kate, I expect the young
gentleman
I have chosen
to be your husband, this very day; and my old friend his father, Sir
Charles Marlow, soon after him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Say what the use, were finer optics given,
To inspect a mite, not
comprehend
the heaven?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Rise, resty Muse, my love's sweet face survey,
If Time have any wrinkle graven there;
If any, be a satire to decay,
And make time's spoils
despised
every where.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Now all is done, save what shall have no end:
Mine
appetite
I never more will grind
On newer proof, to try an older friend,
A god in love, to whom I am confin'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Pale through
pathless
ways
The fancied image strays,
Famished, weeping, weak,
With hollow piteous shriek.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Penelope, my
venerable
friend!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Then the lord of the land[1]
comes from his chamber and welcomes Sir Gawayne, telling him that he is
to
consider
the place as his own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
He asked, but all the
Heavenly
Quire stood mute,
And silence was in Heaven.
| 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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travelling
along even to its destind end
Then falling down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
The play
by Day and
Haughton
to which Henslowe refers[33] is not
extant; Dekker's drama, _If this be not a good Play, the
Diuell is in it_, appeared in 1612.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
They grow as fast
Within my
wilderness
of purple seas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Our hearts are warm and cheery,
like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are half
concealed, but from whose
chimneys
the smoke cheerfully ascends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
And now they reach'd the earth's
remotest
ends,
And now the gates where evening Sol descends,
And Leucas' rock, and Ocean's utmost streams,
And now pervade the dusky land of dreams,
And rest at last, where souls unbodied dwell
In ever-flowing meads of asphodel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
To their untimely doom they went;
Ill strove they, and to no avail,
And minished is their
armament!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
And I said, "I will seek that city and the
blessedness
thereof.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
For all whose head this grey sword visiteth
To death are
hallowed
and the Lords of death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Pieces bearing on the poet
as such are placed first; then, those vaguely
definable
as of idyllic
character, 'his girls,' epigrams, poems on natural objects, on character
and life; lastly, a few in his religious vein.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
The golden cups,
remaining
in vain, were taken, 28 no more, the tasseled curtains blowing lightly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
Women claim she's ugly,
But for her the men go mad:
The
Archbishop
of Toledo
Kneels at her feet to say Mass;
For above her amber nape
Is coiled a large chignon
That, in her room, undone
Yields her body a cape.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
_65
How clear its open and
unwrinkled
brow!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
I wuz agoin' on to say thet wen at fust I saw
The masses would stick to 't I wuz the Country's father-'n-law,
(They would ha' hed it _Father_, but I told 'em 'twouldn't du,
Coz thet wuz sutthin' of a sort they couldn't split in tu, 20
An'
Washinton
hed hed the thing laid fairly to his door,
Nor darsn't say 'tworn't his'n, much ez sixty year afore,)
But 'taint no matter ez to thet; wen I wuz nomernated,
'Tworn't natur but wut I should feel consid'able elated,
An' wile the hooraw o' the thing wuz kind o' noo an' fresh,
I thought our ticket would ha' caird the country with a resh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
aut cunctis pariter uersibus oblinat
furuam lacticolor
sphongia
sepiam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
--now the tussle and the furious
maddening
yells,
Now the corpses tumble curl'd upon the ground,
Cold, cold in death, for precious life of you,
Angry cloth I saw there leaping.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
_Soldiers
enter, and form a Pile about the Throne, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or
proprietary
form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
At five in the morning
breakfast
was served
to the weary players.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
When Lil's husband got demobbed, I said--
I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself, 140
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Now Albert's coming back, make
yourself
a bit smart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Greet faute in thee now have I founde;
By god, anoon thou shalt be bounde,
And faste loken in a tour,
Withoute
refuyt or socour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
How
pleasant
on a feather bed to lie,
Or, sitting by the fire, in fancy soar
With Dante or with Milton to regions high,
Or read fresh volumes we've not seen before,
Or oer old Burton's Melancholy pore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
If thou on men, their works and ways,
Canst throw
uncommon
light, man;
Here lies wha weel had won thy praise,
For Matthew was a bright man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
and thou, Anchares bright,
And ye, whose cars controlled the fight,
Arsaces and Diaixis wight,
Kegdadatas,
Lythimnas
dear,
And Tolmus, greedy of the spear!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Did not you know that people hide their love,
Like a flower that seems too
precious
to be picked?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
While Summer, with a matron grace,
Retreats to Dryburgh's cooling shade,
Yet oft, delighted, stops to trace
The
progress
of the spiky blade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Let Freedom's land
rejoice!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Papiol is Bertran de Born's court minstrel,
jongleur
or joglar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
By the bamboo stream the last
fragments
of cloud
Blown by the wind slowly scatter away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
(For a
correspondence
on the subject, see _Literature_, August 12, 19,
26, September 9, 1899.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
But neither door nor window could he find,
Where he might glimpse the object of his mind,
Or even hear her voice, or sound her name;
No
fortress
had he ever found the same;
Yet still to conquer he was quite resolved,
And oft the manner in his mind revolved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
There is a hint of the long and desperate
struggle
between Reformed
England (St.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Scarcely has any
modern book of poems shown so sure a touch of genius in this respect:
the magic, in a continuous glow
saturating
the substance of every
picture and motive with its own peculiar essence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
_
O queen, I come in
reverence
of thy sway--
For, while the ruler's kingly seat is void,
The loyal heart before his consort bends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Atoms are
themselves
without senses, though they
produce things possessed of senses.
| 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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I began it upon leaving Tintern,
after crossing the Wye, and concluded it just as I was
entering
Bristol
in the evening, after a ramble of four or five days, with my sister.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Of this heresy Emerson said:
"I deny
personality
to God because it is too little, not too much.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
"
The Baron said--His
daughter
mild
Made answer, "All will yet be well!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
--hard
straight
lines
To score lies out!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
But no, go slowly as you will,
I should not bid you hasten so,
For while I wait for love to come,
Some other girl is
standing
dumb,
Fearing her love will go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Tranquil
and happy loves in this agree,
The evening to desire and morning hate:
On me at eve redoubled sorrows wait--
Morning is still the happier hour for me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
If Hope
prostrate
lie,
Love too will sink and die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
'
"And, would you believe it, the rascal
actually
went behind the
partition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Enter
Malcolme
and Seyward.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
So thou be good, slander doth but approve
Thy worth the greater being woo'd of time;
For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love,
And thou present'st a pure
unstained
prime.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
_To a
Highland
Air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get
yourself
some teeth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
We would prefer to send you this
information
by email.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you who hold it in your hands";
(Slowly twisting the lilac stalks)
"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,
And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
And smiles at
situations
which it cannot see.
| Guess: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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But bold Eurypylus his aid imparts,
And
dauntless
springs beneath a cloud of darts;
Whose eager javelin launch'd against the foe,
Great Apisaon felt the fatal blow;
From his torn liver the red current flow'd,
And his slack knees desert their dying load.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Dost
comprehend
things mortal, how they grow?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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VII
THE COASTS OF
CAESAREA
PHILIPPI
CHRISTUS, going up the mountain.
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Longfellow |
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Will any
scientific
touch
With my worn strings achieve as much?
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James Russell Lowell |
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They were
purified
by death--they were taught and exalted.
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Whitman |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I found it
fluttering
at the palace gates:--
'The Queen of England is delivered of a dead dog!
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Tennyson |
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")
Do I dare
Disturb the
universe?
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T.S. Eliot |
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With honest fervour I commend
Those lips, those eyes; you need not fear
A rival,
hurrying
on to end
His fortieth year.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"- Wer war's, der sie ins
Verderben
sturzte?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Sweet
Falsehood
that endears Consent!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Pole-star of light in Europe's night,
That never
faltered
from the right.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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But, as I was saying, we
listened
and heard The Dowd drawl worse
than ever.
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Kipling - Poems |
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