But here, where murder breathed her bloody steam;
And here, where buzzing nations choked the ways,
And roared or murmured like a mountain-stream
Dashing or winding as its torrent strays;
Here, where the Roman million's blame or praise
Was death or life, the playthings of a crowd,
My voice sounds much--and fall the stars' faint rays
On the arena void--seats crushed, walls bowed,
And galleries, where my steps seem echoes
strangely
loud.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Calcine ces lambeaux qu'ont
epargnes
les betes!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Be it lawful I love thee, as thou lov'st those
Whom thine eyes woo as mine
importune
thee:
Root pity in thy heart, that, when it grows,
Thy pity may deserve to pitied be.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And finally he compares him with the city fool:
Hee may perchance, in taile of a
Sheriffes
dinner,
Skip with a rime o' the table, from _New-nothing_,
And take his _Almaine_-leape into a custard.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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His turban has fallen from his forehead,
To assist him the
bystanders
started--
His mouth foams, his face blackens horrid--
See the Renegade's soul has departed.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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My life is like a broken bowl,
A broken bowl that cannot hold
One drop of water for my soul
Or cordial in the
searching
cold 20
Cast in the fire the perished thing,
Melt and remould it, till it be
A royal cup for Him my King:
O Jesus, drink of me.
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| Question: |
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Christina Rossetti |
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Unheard Midnight counts out his empty number,
Wakefulness urges you never to close an eye,
Before in the ancient armchair's embrace my
Shade is
illuminated
by the dying embers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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There's no Art,
To finde the Mindes
construction
in the Face.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Li
chevaliers
fu biaus et gens,
Et as armes bien acesmes,
Et de s'amie bien ames.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Quare nec tales dignantur visere coetus,
Nec se contingi
patiuntur
lumine claro.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water, where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes, dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
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| Question: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Rejoice: forever you'll be
The
Princess
of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a gurgling spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
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Ronsard |
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THE BUCKING-TUB
IF once in love, you'll soon invention find
And not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind;
The
youngest
'prentice, when he feels the dart,
Grows wondrous shrewd, and studies wily art.
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La Fontaine |
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My books closed again on Paphos' name,
It delights me to choose with solitary genius
A ruin, by foam-flecks in
thousands
blessed
Beneath hyacinth, far off, in days of fame.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Series
For the splendour of the day of
happinesses
in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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'Pore men han maad hir lord of me;
Although
they not so mighty be,
That they may fede me in delyt, 5995
I wol not have hem in despyt.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Here, take this too;
[Gives the ring]
It is a
basilisk
unto mine eye,
Kills me to look on't.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Like armored knight
The granite Castle fights with all its might,
Resisting
through the winter.
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Hugo - Poems |
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[Sidenote A:
Meanwhile
the lord of the land and his men hunt in woods and
heaths.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Morn is
supposed
to be,
By people of degree,
The breaking of the day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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This Collection will be edited in a
separate
volume some day for the E.
| Guess: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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With hoists and levers, joists and poles,
With knives and cleavers, ropes and saws,
Down the long slopes to the gaping maws,
The angels hasten; hacking and carving,
So nought will be lacking for the starving
Chosen of God, who in frozen wonderment
Realize now what the
terrible
thunder meant.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some
perfumes
is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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How boats can over bridges sail,
And fishes to the stables scale ;
How salmons
trespassing
are found.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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And, though I have grown serene
And strong since then, I think that God has willed
A still
renewable
fear .
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The wicked magistrate, in defiance
of the
clearest
proofs, gave judgment for the claimant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some
strangle
with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Almeria this, and that Granada guides,
And o'er
Marjorca
Baricond presides.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Some sailor,
skirting
foreign shores,
Some pale reporter from the awful doors
Before the seal!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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What
wretched
errors hath my heart committed,
Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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By my free will that chose sin,
By mine agony within
Round the passage of the fire,
By the pinings which disclose
That my native soul is higher
Than what it chose,
We are yet too high, O Spirits, for your
disdain!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Slowly exhausted by desire,
Yet satiated with success,
In solitude or worldly din,
He heard his soul's complaint within,
With laughter
smothered
weariness:
And thus he spent eight years of time,
Destroyed the blossom of his prime.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And one thinks of Rainer Maria Rilke, young, blond, with his
slender aristocratic figure, the slightly bent-forward figure of one who
on solitary walks meditates much and intensely, with his sensitive full
mouth and the "firm
structure
of the eyebrow gladly sunk in the shadow
of contemplation," the face full of dreams and with an expression of
listening to some distant music.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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of
isof is of
is
of
of
fit
This book should be
returned
to the Library on or before the last date stamped below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Thus bear I of true love the pains along,
Asking
forgiveness
of another's debt,
And for mine own; whose eyes should rather shun
That too great light, and to the siren's song
My ears be closed: though scarce can I regret
That so sweet poison should my heart o'errun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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--Written for the Society of the Army
of the Potomac, and read at its re-union with Confederate survivors on
the field of Gettysburg, July 3, 1888, the Twenty-Fifth
Anniversary
of
the Battle.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The genre, which is becoming one, like the symphony, little by little,
alongside
personal poetry, leaves intact the older verse; for which I maintain my worship, and to which I attribute the empire of passion and dreams, though this may be the preferred means (as follows) of dealing with subjects of pure and complex imagination or intellect: which there is no remaining justification for excluding from Poetry - the unique source.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Such a favour
tarnishes
his glory:
Let him not blush now for his victory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Thou'lt know anon,
'Tis bitter to be taught again in age,
By one so young,
submission
at the word.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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But, " 'Tis enough that she is vanquished," said
The pair, "No further press thy
vengeance
dread.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words
attitudes
ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
_
The rocky nook with hill-tops three
Looked
eastward
from the farms,
And twice each day the flowing sea
Took Boston in its arms;
The men of yore were stout and poor,
And sailed for bread to every 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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, _life,
principle
of
life, soul_: nom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Then along the sandy margin
Of the lake, the Big-Sea-Water,
On he sped with frenzied gestures,
Stamped upon the sand, and tossed it
Wildly in the air around him;
Till the wind became a whirlwind,
Till the sand was blown and sifted
Like great
snowdrifts
o'er the landscape,
Heaping all the shores with Sand Dunes,
Sand Hills of the Nagow Wudjoo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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For
discriminating
their merits, deciding their
comparative eminence, I have no inclination; and fortunately it does not
come within the requirements of this essay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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From her this even in her citadel,
His monarch
Agramant
to satisfy,
Brunello took: since where she had been crost
By Fortune, till her native realm was lost.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Is it word from Ninus or Arbela,
Babylon the great, or
Northern
Imbros?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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"
"When shall this slough of sense be cast,
This dust of
thoughts
be laid at last,
The man of flesh and soul be slain
And the man of bone remain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this
electronic
work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
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effort to identify, do copyright
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Her hair is a
sinister
black,
Her skin, tanned by the devil.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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If such a thing should happen as that I should outlive
you, I wish you would make me your
literary
legatee
and executor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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When he eats, he is liver and
bowels and the whole
digestive
apparatus to the company, and so all
admit the thing is done.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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For well our men remembered
How little when they came,
Had they but native courage,
And trust in Jackson's name;
How through the day he labored,
How kept the vigils still,
Till discipline
controlled
us,
A stronger power than will;
And how he hurled us at them
Within the evening hour,
That red night in December,
And made us feel our power.
| 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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And whistle: All's for the best
In this best of
Carnivals!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| 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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Within his garden let him wait alone
Where benches stand
expectant
in the shade
Within the chamber where the lyre was played
Where he received you as the eternal One.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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"'One of the greatest of the wise men of Khorassan was the Imam
Mowaffak of Naishapur, a man highly honored and reverenced,--may God
rejoice his soul; his illustrious years
exceeded
eighty-five, and it
was the universal belief that every boy who read the Koran or studied
the traditions in his presence, would assuredly attain to honor and
happiness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
How should I pay you,
miserable
people?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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But sleep came not,
And pity, with sad eyes,
Crept to my side, and told me
That the life of all creatures is brave and pityful
Whether they be men, with dark
thoughts
to vex them,
Or birds, wheeling in the swift joys of flight,
Or brittle ephemerids, spinning to death in the haze
Of gold that quivers on dim evening waters;
Nor would she be denied.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Je me
souviens!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
It is severe
and
aristocratic
in the application of its laws and impervious to appeal
to serve other than its own aims.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Those things alone
Are to be fear'd, whence evil may proceed,
None else, for none are
terrible
beside.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
com>
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Compare
the conception of
melancholy
in the _Ode on Melancholy_, where it is
said to neighbour joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
He of course knows very well (and I have also discovered)
What, beneath tapestries rich, gilded
boudoirs
conceal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It was an act of stealth
And
troubled
pleasure, nor without the voice
Of mountain-echoes did my boat move on;
Leaving behind her still, on either side,
Small circles glittering idly in the moon, 365
Until they melted all into one track
Of sparkling light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I
do--for my words are naught but thy own
thoughts
in sound and my
deeds thy own hopes in action.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Say, is she living still
Or dead, your
mistress?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Shall I not see the room in which you slept,
Palpitant still and breathing of your thoughts,
Where maiden dreams adown the ways of sleep
Swept noiselessly with
damosels
and knights
To tourneys where the trumpet made no sound,
Blow as he might, the scarlet trumpeter,
And were the dreams not sometimes brimmed with tears
That waked you when the night was loneliest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
How should thy
revelling
hurt, if that were all?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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And she hath watch'd
Many a
Nightingale
perch giddily
On blosmy twig still swinging from the breeze,
And to that motion tune his wanton song,
Like tipsy Joy that reels with tossing head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Merecraft
whispers: 'Master
Fitzdottrel and his wife!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Cast a
glance on war's
changing
fortune; pity thine aged father, who now far
away sits sad in his native Ardea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,
And how, how rare and strange it is, to find
In a life
composed
so much, so much of odds and ends,
(For indeed I do not love it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
The first Scene
discovers
a wilde Wood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
North's famous
translation first
appeared
in 1579.
| Guess: |
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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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The plenty hurt me, 't was so new, --
Myself felt ill and odd,
As berry of a
mountain
bush
Transplanted to the road.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
uilia non illo surgebant gramina luco:
pingunt purpureos
candentia
lilia flores;
hic rosa cum uiolis, hic omnis gratia odorum,
hic inter uiolas coma mollis laeta hyacinthi:
dignus amore locus, cui tot sint munera rerum.
| Guess: |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
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Not so Achilles: he, to grief resign'd,
His friend's dear image present to his mind,
Takes his sad couch, more
unobserved
to weep;
Nor tastes the gifts of all-composing sleep.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Urizen/ Cxxxg /
xxdxding
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Blake - Zoas |
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_ Come and let's in solemn wise
Both address to sacrifice:
Old
religion
first commands
That we wash our hearts, and hands.
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and fearefull more of shame,
Then of the
certeine
perill he stood in,
Halfe furious unto his foe he came, 210
Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win,
Or soone to lose, before he once would lin
And strooke at her with more then manly force,
That from her body full of filthie sin
He raft her hatefull head without remorse; 215
A streame of cole black bloud forth gushed from her corse.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Paris I saw, and Tristan; and beside
A
thousand
more he show'd me, and by name
Pointed them out, whom love bereav'd of life.
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--thy
priestly
raiment
Fills me with dread--thy ebony crucifix
With horror and awe!
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Poe - 5 |
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There on the mountain, a thousand white
unicorns
trampling; a thousand
riders with their swords drawn--the swords clashing!
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Striking
a bell,
They do it well.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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For the first time the sun
kissed my own naked face and my soul was
inflamed
with love for
the sun, and I wanted my masks no more.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Yet, why go
thither?
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La Fontaine |
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Audacious Hector, if the gods ordain
That great
Achilles
rise and rage again,
What toils attend thee, and what woes remain!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Now by the granite milestone,
On the ancient human road that winds to nowhere,
The pilgrim listens, as the night air brings
The
murmured
echo, perpetual, from the gorge
Of barren rock far down the valley.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Or be aliue againe,
And dare me to the Desart with thy Sword:
If
trembling
I inhabit then, protest mee
The Baby of a Girle.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Here life is the beginning of our death,
And death the starting-point whence life ensues;
Surely our life is death, our death is life:
Nor need we lay to heart our peace or strife,
But calm in faith and
patience
breathe the breath
God gave, to take again when He shall choose.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Ye see that I have not Wherewith to guard him, O angels, divine ones That pass us a-flying,
Sith
sleepeth
my child here Stay ye the branches.
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