nocturnas alii Phrygum ruinas
et tarde reducis uias Vlixis
et puppem temerariam Mineruae
trita uatibus orbita sequantur:
tu carus Latio
memorque
gentis
carmen fortior exseres togatum.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among
I woo, to hear thy even-song;
And, missing thee, I walk unseen
On the dry smooth-shaven green,
To behold the wandering moon,
Riding near her highest noon,
Like one that had been led astray
Through the heaven's wide pathless way,
And oft, as if her head she bow'd,
Stooping
through a fleecy cloud.
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Golden Treasury |
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Sometimes
a dropping from the sky
I heard the Lavrock sing;
Sometimes all little birds that are
How they seem'd to fill the sea and air
With their sweet jargoning,
And now 'twas like all instruments,
Now like a lonely flute;
And now it is an angel's song
That makes the heavens be mute.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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No, those are not the words--the
substantial
words are in the ground and
sea,
They are in the air--they are in you.
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Whitman |
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Something that hath a
reference
to my state:
No longer Celia, but Aliena.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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' I
wondered
at the words he spake, but I knew that his were
no idle words.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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, _speech, solemn
alliterative
song_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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1080
Ele vausist a ung prodomme
Miex que
trestous
li ors de Romme.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently
displaying
the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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But first a long
succession
must ensue, 330
And his next Son for Wealth and Wisdom fam'd,
The clouded Ark of God till then in Tents
Wandring, shall in a glorious Temple enshrine.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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But those whose hearts are devoid of joy or sadness
Just go on living,
regardless
of "short" or "long.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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^'
But 'twas beyond a mortal's share
To wander solitary there :
fTwo paradises are in one,
(To live in
paradise
alone.
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Marvell - Poems |
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I am not in a
sportive
humour now;
Tell me, and dally not, where is the money?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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A blast of Gabriel's horn has torn away
The last haze from our eyes, and we can see
Past the three hundred skies and gaze upon
The
Ineffable
Name engraved deep in the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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But to-night I don't care enough to lie--
I don't
remember
why I ever cared.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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There remained to
the Consuls, there remained to the Praetors the useful marks of their
dignities; to inferior magistrates the independent
exercise
of their
charges; and the laws, where the power of the Prince was not concerned,
were in proper force.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
| 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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Had the good youth been later, or less nigh,
To his
assistance
he had vainly pressed.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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My brother's hair
Is as a prince's and a rover's, strong
With
sunlight
and with strife: not like the long
Locks that a woman combs.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Then learn this
wandering
humour to control,
And keep one equal tenour through the whole.
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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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III
More than ever I dreamed, I have found it: my happy good
fortune!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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" But no sooner had he finished
speaking than the Mice turned round at once, and sneezed at him in an
appalling and vindictive manner (and it is impossible to imagine a more
scroobious and
unpleasant
sound than that caused by the simultaneous
sneezing of many millions of angry Mice); so that Guy rushed back to the
boat, having first shied his cap into the middle of the custard-pudding, by
which means he completely spoiled the Mice's dinner.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Far along,
From peak to peak, the
rattling
crags among,
Leaps the live thunder!
| 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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Wherever now
My heedless course I may pursue
One object on thy desert brow
I
everlastingly
shall view--
A rock, the sepulchre of Fame!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Alchemically she is De Nerval's feminine
principle
to be fused with the masculine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Should love, that's full for them of happiness,
Cause your noble heart this deep
distress?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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STREET CRIES
When dawn's first cymbals beat upon the sky,
Rousing the world to labour's various cry,
To tend the flock, to bind the
mellowing
grain,
From ardent toil to forge a little gain,
And fasting men go forth on hurrying feet,
BUY BREAD, BUY BREAD, rings down the eager street.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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And thus, I cannot speak
Of love even, as a good thing of my own:
Thy soul hath
snatched
up mine all faint and weak,
And placed it by thee on a golden throne,--
And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Redistribution is
subject to the
trademark
license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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WINDOWS where I gazed with you
At eve upon the
landscape
once
Are now illumed with other lights.
| 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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The wagons quickened on the streets,
The thunder hurried slow;
The
lightning
showed a yellow beak,
And then a livid claw.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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A SOLDIER,
preparing
the hyssop.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Come then, the colours and the ground
prepare!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
He scampered to the bushes far away;
The shepherd called the
ploughman
to the fray;
The ploughman wished he had a gun to shoot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the
talisman
that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
The more minute
relations
to contemporary
dramatists and to his own former work, especially in regard to
current words and phrases, are dealt with in the Notes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
The
radiance
of those eyes who could have thought
Should e'er become a senseless clod of clay?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
One
desperate
splash--and no use to me
The noose that swung!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
_ Now, straight through the chest,
Take him and bite him with the
clenching
tooth
Of the adamantine wedge, and rivet him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
In spite of the feelings which then
agitated
me, this
company wherein I was thus unexpectedly thrown greatly impressed me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
1380
I know I could free myself from your father,
Without harming even the strictest honour:
I would not be
escaping
from a parent,
Flight is allowed to those who flee a tyrant.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Puis, elle s'epanche, mourante,
En un flot de triste langueur,
Qui par une
invisible
pente
Descend jusqu'au fond de mon coeur.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Lucilius was the
earliest
satirist whose works
were held in esteem under the Caesars.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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" —Chicago Record-Herald
"Its poetry is
admirably
selected
to find any other American magazine verse more notable for originality and imagination.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation
copyright
in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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It is, of course, quite true, that, for sustained grandeur and
splendour, no poet can be put beside Homer except Dante and Milton; but
it is also quite clear that in Homer, as in Dante, and Milton, such
conspicuous
characteristics
are simply the marks of peculiar poetic
genius.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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But if 'twere possible,
Much rather might this very power of mind
Be in the head, the
shoulders
or the heels,
And, born in any part soever, yet
In the same man, in the same vessel abide.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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A heavy and terrible
knocking
reverberates upon the door, and, as in a
hellish dream, it seems to me as though I had received a blow from a
mattock.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
--D'autres fois, calme plat, grand mimoir
De mon
desespoir!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The sweet dame beckon'd me to follow them:
And, by that influence only, so prevail'd
Over my nature, that no natural motion,
Ascending or
descending
here below,
Had, as I mounted, with my pennon vied.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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How it woke one April morn,
Fame shall tell;
As from Moultrie, close at hand,
And the batteries on the land,
Round its faint but
fearless
band
Shot and shell
Raining hid the doubtful light;
But they fought the hopeless fight
Long and well,
(Theirs the glory, ours the shame!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
In a word, the
Nation which, after the Greeks in their glory, has been the most gifted
of all nations for Poetry, expressed in these men the highest strength
and
prodigality
of its nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Tired with kisses sweet,
They agree to meet
When the silent sleep
Waves o'er heaven's deep,
And the weary tired
wanderers
weep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
The strong light only
increases
its effect.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
He
recognized
me--nay, knew me right well,
And in my face would laugh--and that child-laugh,
Oh, poor old man!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"_If so, glide through the ranks of Virgins_, pass
The Showers of Roses, lucky four-leaved grass:
The while the cloud of
younglings
sing,
And drown _you_ with a flowery spring:
While some repeat
Your praise, and bless you, sprinkling you with Wheat,
While that others do divine,
'Blest is the Bride on whom the Sun doth shine';
And thousands gladly wish
You multiply as _do the_ fish.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
'Tis not wise until the latest hour
To enjoy delight's ephemeral dower:
Birds to
southern
seas have taken flight,
Fading flow'rs wait till the snows alight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
And wakeful men
Found solaces for their
unsleeping
hours
In drawing forth variety of notes,
In modulating melodies, in running
With puckered lips along the tuned reeds,
Whence, even in our day do the watchmen guard
These old traditions, and have learned well
To keep true measure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
805
Criseyde
mene was of hir stature,
Ther-to of shap, of face, and eek of chere,
Ther mighte been no fairer creature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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FROM THE
WOOLWORTH
TOWER
VIVID with love, eager for greater beauty
Out of the night we come
Into the corridor, brilliant and warm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
) Ha, there's drinking going on
here; we shall get
something
here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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For me, for years, here,
Forever, your
dazzling
smile prolongs
The one rose with its perfect summer gone
Into times past, yet then on into the future.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
"
The
temptation
was more than Simmons could resist, for the Corporal in
his white clothes offered a perfect mark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
XXII
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Bounded on the Danube, in Africa,
Among the tribes along the Thames' shore,
And where the rising sun ascends in flame,
Her own nurslings stirred, in mutinous game
Against her very self, the spoils of war,
So dearly won from all the world before,
That same world's spoil
suddenly
became:
So when the Great Year its course has run,
And twenty six thousand years are done,
The elements freed from Nature's accord,
Those seeds that are the source of everything,
Will return in Time to their first discord,
Chaos' eternal womb their presence hiding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,
And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar,
And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire
Girdled round with the belt of an
amethyst
ring.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
The tray, seven, and ace
soon chased away the
thoughts
of the dead woman, and all other thoughts
from the brain of the young officer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
In frost and cold though lame he's forced to go--
The call's more urgent when he
journeys
slow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
This crag is known as Coldwell
or
Caudwell
Crag, and is situated about half a mile east-south-east of
the High Crag.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
My
business
now is with another world,
Ah, Richard Bellingham!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
I wish,
Eurynome!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
And why on
horseback
have you set 10
Him whom you love, your Idiot Boy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
So shall the drudge in dusty frock
Spy behind the city clock
Retinues of airy kings,
Skirts of angels, starry wings,
His fathers shining in bright fables,
His children fed at
heavenly
tables.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
But because the same
Are, to thy thinking, of a nature frail,
It ill accords that thus they could remain
(As thus they do) through everlasting time,
Vexed through the ages (as indeed they are)
By the
innumerable
blows of chance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
If I never knew how to gain its flower,
Without every day enduring pain,
I'd be of good heart still, that's plain,
And my joy is
therefore
more alive,
Since I'm of good heart, and for it I strive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
To Numa, thus, the pale patricians fled--
'The hostile
squadrons
o'er the kingdom spread!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
O richest fortune sourly
crossed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Spir: Goddess dear
We implore thy powerful hand
To undo the charmed band
Of true Virgin here distrest,
Through the force, and through the wile
Of unblest
inchanter
vile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
For since 'tis fluid, smooth its atoms are
And round, with painful rough ones mixed therein;
Yet need not these be held together hooked:
In fact, though rough, they're
globular
besides,
Able at once to roll, and rasp the sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
_Quae per salebras_,
_altaque
saxa cadunt_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
Nothing could
induce him to change his mind on the subject, and
grandmother
was at
her wits' ends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
that came, amid a night of mirth,
A red
Daedalion
on the timid Earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Will you add to your load the sin of
slander?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
How many summers lived
The
murdered
boy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
"
These young and handsome men had seemed to grow
Deformed
and hideous--so doth foul black heart
Disfigure man, till beauty all depart.
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how else from bonds be freed,
Or
otherwhere
find gods so nigh to aid?
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Wait till we are in
Kinvara!
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"Does spring hide its joy,
When buds and
blossoms
grow?
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To Whom be Glory
Evermore
Amen [kai eskanosen en -[h]amen]
[ [What] are the Natures of those Living Creatures the Heavenly Father only
[Knoweth] no Individual [Knoweth nor] Can know in all Eternity] *{These lines, included in Erdman's transcription are unmistakably erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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List close, my
scholars
dear!
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Whitman |
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L'hiver, nous irons dans un petit wagon rose
Avec des
coussins
bleus.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Four snowy steeds a fiery chariot drew;
There sat the cruel boy; a
threatening
yew
His right hand bore, his quiver arrows held,
Against whose force no helm or shield prevail'd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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_ I take the quickening draught and call
For heaven's best
blessing
on one and all.
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I think Crab my dog be the
sourest-natured dog that lives: my mother weeping, my father
wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat
wringing
her
hands, and all our house in a great perplexity; yet did not this
cruel-hearted cur shed one tear.
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But
something
said, "This water is of Death!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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She turned away, but with the autumn weather
Compelled
my imagination many days,
Many days and many hours:
Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers.
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