Dusky and huge,
enlarging
on the sight,
Nature's volcanic Amphitheatre,[22.
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Byron |
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DEPARTURE
(_Southampton Docks_: _October_, 1899)
WHILE the far farewell music thins and fails,
And the broad bottoms rip the bearing brine--
All smalling slowly to the gray sea line--
And each
significant
red smoke-shaft pales,
Keen sense of severance everywhere prevails,
Which shapes the late long tramp of mounting men
To seeming words that ask and ask again:
"How long, O striving Teutons, Slavs, and Gaels
Must your wroth reasonings trade on lives like these,
That are as puppets in a playing hand?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But whom seest to be
Partakers of each shape, one equal blend
Of parents' features, these are generate
From fathers' body and from mothers' blood,
When mutual and harmonious heat hath dashed
Together seeds, aroused along their frames
By Venus' goads, and neither of the twain
Mastereth
or is mastered.
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Lucretius |
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Why not endure,
expecting
more?
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Lewis Carroll |
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But then the
beauteous
hill of moss 1798.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Thence Beowulf fled
through
strength
of himself and his swimming power,
though alone, and his arms were laden with thirty
coats of mail, when he came to the sea!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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- What, my young lady and
mistress?
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Shakespeare |
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Upward I reach
To draw chill curtains and shut out the dark,
Pausing an instant, with
uplifted
hand,
To watch, between black ruined portals of cloud,
One star,--the tottering portals fall and crush it.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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You
prostitutes
flaunting over the trottoirs or obscene in your rooms,
Who am I that I should call you more obscene than myself?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Those two on winged steeds, with all the stress
Of vision search'd for him, as one would look
Athwart the sallows of a river nook
To catch a glance at silver
throated
eels,--
Or from old Skiddaw's top, when fog conceals
His rugged forehead in a mantle pale,
With an eye-guess towards some pleasant vale
Descry a favourite hamlet faint and far.
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Keats |
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But
the former case
supposes
that the caprices of a limited intelligence can
occasionally instruct the Creator of the world how to regulate the
universe; and the latter, a certain degree of servility analogous to the
loyalty demanded by earthly tyrants.
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Shelley |
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When the Muses nine
With the Virtues meet,
Find to their design
An
Atlantic
seat,
By green orchard boughs
Fended from the heat,
here the statesman ploughs
Furrow for the wheat,--
When the Church is social worth,
When the state-house is the hearth,
Then the perfect State is come,
The republican at home.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
The hierodule called unto the man
and came unto him
beholding
him.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And eek I counseile thee, y-wis,
The God of Love hoolly foryet, 3245
That hath thee in sich peyne set,
And thee in herte
tormented
so.
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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| Question: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
The New Pleasure
Last night I
invented
a new pleasure, and as I was giving it the
first trial an angel and a devil came rushing toward my house.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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So Italy, by means of these last strokes,
Escapes the danger which preceded these,
Of leaving captured hands in cloven oaks,--
Of leaving very souls within the buckle
Whence bodies struggled outward,--of supposing
That freemen may like
bondsmen
kneel and truckle,
And then stand up as usual, without losing
An inch of stature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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new
collection
verse
WHITE FOUNTAINS
A BOOK OF VERSE
Published on February 2 1 st by Small, MaynarrJ & Company, 15 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He ended, and
received
a second draught, 420
Like measure.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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]
[This third and last ballad was written on the contest between Heron
and Stewart, which
followed
close on that with Gordon.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Perhaps in Grecian blood to drench the plain,
And glut his
vengeance
with my people slain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Along the
lichened
pathway of the leaf-crowned alley,
With faltering footsteps tardily we passed,
And then through ever lighter-glimmering twigs, the
valley
With distant dome re-opened forth at last.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,
As thou goest onwards, still will pluck thee back,
She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
May time
disgrace
and wretched minutes kill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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How happy is the soul for you that sighs,
Celestial
lights!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Many of them are
eulogies
of good rulers or
criticisms of bad ones.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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First
frightfully
groaneth Sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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He too bewailed his faults with penance sore,
Ay, and his wretched luck
bemoaned
a great deal more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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It was at last
possible
for me to go home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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[_The Attendants depart;_ CLYTEMNESTRA, _left alone,
proceeds
to enter the
house_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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She drew nearer and
stood in the dewy light,
studying
his face as though it was a god.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
One of us, pierced in the flank,
dragged himself across the marsh,
he tore at the bay-roots,
lost hold on the
crumbling
bank--
Another crawled--too late--
for shelter under the cliffs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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ye virgin
daughters
of the main!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Maintenant il dit: Je sais les choses,
Et va, les yeux fermes et les
oreilles
closes;
--Et pourtant, plus de dieux!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
| 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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--What said
Boileau to you--to you--O
lettered
Faun,
Who once with Virgil, in the Eclogue, held
That charming dialogue?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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For who that might undaunted stand,
The saviour of a sinking land,
Would crawl, its ruthless tyrant's slave,
And fatten upon Freedom's grave, _75
Though doomed with her to perish, where
The captive clasps
abhorred
despair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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But the seventh self remained
watching
and gazing at nothingness,
which is behind all things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And this is in the night:--Most
glorious
night!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Church and
Percival
say that _merry_ means _pleasant_ and referred
originally to the country, not the people.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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the Spirits
Of Luvah & Vala
shudderd
in their Orb: an orb of blood!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Walker idem
occupasse
in Corpore Poet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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This was Nizam ul Mulk, Vizier
to Alp Arslan the Son, and Malik Shah the Grandson, of Toghrul Beg the
Tartar, who had wrested Persia from the feeble Successor of Mahmud the
Great, and founded that
Seljukian
Dynasty which finally roused Europe
into the Crusades.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Only to
exquisite
lovers,
Fashioned for beauty's fulfilment,
Mated as rhythm to reed-stop 15
Whence the wild music is moulded,
Ever appears the full measure
Of the world's wonder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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No matter then
although
my foot did stand
Upon the farthest earth remov'd from thee;
For nimble thought can jump both sea and land,
As soon as think the place where he would be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Time,
scarcely
noticed, turns his hair to grey,
Yet leaves him happy as a child at play.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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I say, as if this little flower
To Eden
wandered
in --
What then?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
| 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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Salute with boding note the rising moon,
Frosting
with hoary light the pearly ground,
And pouring deeper blue to Aether's bound;
Rejoic'd her solemn pomp of clouds to fold
In robes of azure, fleecy white, and gold,
While rose and poppy, as the glow-worm fades,
Checquer with paler red the thicket shades.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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God's rod doth watch while men do sleep, and then
The rod doth sleep, while
vigilant
are men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Were you
initiated
into the Great Mysteries in that
cloak?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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(Note: The septet may
indicate
the constellation of Ursa Major in the north.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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3
He comes, scarce knowing what he seeks:
He breaks the hedge: he enters there:
The colour flies into his cheeks:
He trusts to light on
something
fair;
For all his life the charm did talk
About his path, and hover near
With words of promise in his walk,
And whisper'd voices at his ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Storm, wind, the wild March sky, sunsets and dawns; the birds and
bees,
butterflies
and flowers of her garden, with a few trusted
human friends, were sufficient companionship.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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An orphan with my parents lived, whose eyes
Were
lodestars
of delight, which drew me home
When I might wander forth; nor did I prize
Aught human thing beneath Heaven's mighty dome _850
Beyond this child; so when sad hours were come,
And baffled hope like ice still clung to me,
Since kin were cold, and friends had now become
Heartless and false, I turned from all, to be,
Cythna, the only source of tears and smiles to thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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we suffer much, but shall not seek
The shades, ere yet our
destined
hour arrive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Translators have
naturally
avoided the most allusive poems and have
omitted or generalized such allusions as occurred.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
April is the
cruellest
month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I thrust through antique blood and riches vast,
And all big claims of the pretentious Past
That
hindered
my Nirvana.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect
Some frail memorial still erected nigh,
With uncouth rhymes and shapeless
sculpture
deck'd,
Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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No suns on earth
Unclouded
glitter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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LXXIII cum LXXII
continuant
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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" No apology
was needed; they are the most rich, ripe, and
Rabelaisian
comic verses he
ever wrote, full-bodied and exultant in their exuberance of wayward and
good-humoured satire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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These relics once, dear pledges of himself,
The traitor left me, which, O earth, to thee
Here on this very
threshold
I commit-
Pledges that bind him to redeem the debt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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43
This throbbing shows what we
abandoned
44
By the waters that make faint moan 45
Lustre and fame!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty ordained for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was
abandoned
readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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and to
discoueren
me ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Cease then this impious rage,
And tempt not these; but hast'n to appease
Th'
incensed
Father, and th' incensed Son,
While Pardon may be found in time besought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
For him no tree of
knowledge
is forbid,
Or sweeter if forbid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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I shall not turn again and look,
But tenderly, like an old book,
That
childhood
loved with hot young heart, Now kindly closed and put away,
I shall set the old days apart,
1 may not rest where they must stay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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They doe light--
All that_ Loue's _world
comprizeth!
| 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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And
springing
in a marble-stoon
Had nature set, the sothe to telle,
Under that pyn-tree a welle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Perchance
euen there
Where I did finde my doubts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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]
but for as moche as thy syhte is ocupied {and} distorbed / by 1728
Imagynasyon of
herthely
thynges / thow mayst nat yit
sen thilke selue welefulnesse //
[Sidenote: _B.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
In diesem Kerker welche
Seligkeit!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Sweet stream, that winds through yonder glade,
Apt emblem of a virtuous maid--
Silent and chaste she steals along,
Far from the world's gay busy throng:
With gentle yet prevailing force,
Intent upon her
destined
course;
Graceful and useful all she does,
Blessing and blest where'er she goes;
Pure-bosom'd as that watery glass,
And Heaven reflected in her face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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There is a penny for thee;
remember
me in
thy prayers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of The Madman, by Khalil Gibran
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
"
MENALCAS
"Forbear, my sheep, to tread too near the brink;
Yon bank is ill to trust to; even now
The ram himself, see, dries his
dripping
fleece!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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uolantiore_ GRVen:
_uolantiore_
AC: _uoratiori
al.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
SAS}
Luvah was cast into the Furnaces of affliction & sealed
And Vala fed in cruel delight, the
furnaces
with fire
Stern Urizen beheld urg'd by necessity to keep
The evil day afar, & if perchance with iron power
He might avert his own despair; in woe & fear he saw
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Vala incircle round the furnaces where Luvah was clos'd
In joy she heard his howlings, & forgot he was her Luvah
With whom she walkd in bliss, in times of innocence & youth
Hear ye the voice of Luvah from the furnaces of Urizen
If I indeed am Valas King [Luvahs Lord] & ye O sons of Men
The workmanship of Luvahs hands; in times of Everlasting
When I calld forth the Earth-worm from the cold & dark obscure
I nurturd her I fed her with my rains & dews, she grew
A scaled Serpent, yet I fed her tho' she hated me
Day after day she fed upon the mountains in Luvahs sight
I brought her thro' the Wilderness, a dry & thirsty land
And I commanded springs to rise for her in the black desart
Till she became a Dragon winged bright & poisonous {Erdman notes that a revision was made to this line while it was still wet mending "fordemon" to "Dragon".
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Thus, to myself a prey, from hill to hill,
Pensive by day I roam, and weep at night,
No one state mine, but
changeful
as the moon;
And when I see approaching the brown eve,
Sighs from my bosom, from my eyes fall waves,
The herbs to moisten and to move the woods.
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Full many a
stranger
and from many a land
Hath lodged in this old castle, and my hand
Served them; but never has there passed this way
A scurvier ruffian than our guest to-day.
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E avvegna ch'io fossi al dubbiar mio
li quasi vetro a lo color ch'el veste,
tempo
aspettar
tacendo non patio,
ma de la bocca, <
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