In
harmless
tendril they each other chain'd,
And strove who should be smother'd deepest in
Fresh crush of leaves.
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Keats |
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you do not know how
longingly
I look upon you;
You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking (it comes to me, as of a
dream).
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Whitman |
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Thus she lamented day & night, compelld to labour & sorrow
Luvah in vain her lamentations heard; in vain his love
Brought him in various forms before her still she knew him not
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Still she despisd him, calling on his name & knowing him not
Still hating still
professing
love, still labouring in the smoke
And Los & Enitharmon joyd, they drank in tenfold joy To come in
From all the sorrow of Luvah & the labour of Urizen {These two lines struck through, but then marked (to the right of the main body of text) with the following: "To come in.
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Blake - Zoas |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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But the poor women suffer, you must own:
A
bachelor
is hard of reformation.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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'T will be thy proudest
conquest!
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Longfellow |
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Indeed, my heart is divided within me while I
ruminate
it in my mind, whether having snatched him up from out of
the lamentable battle, I should not at once place him alive in the
fertile land of his own Lycia, or whether I should now destroy him
by the hands of the son of Menoetius!
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Iliad - Pope |
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I like not to be dreaded otherwise
Than with the fear to which I'm used; know me,
For it is
Eviradnus
that you see!
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Hugo - Poems |
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115 _flam_(_mm_
O)_ineum_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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--A Man
Who has so
practised
on the world's cold sense,
May well deceive his Child--what!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Catullus
obdurate
grown
Nor seeks thee, neither asks of thine unwill;
Yet shalt thou sorrow when none woos thee more;
Reprobate!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Je
celebrai
mon jour de fete
Dans une oasis d'Afrique
Vetu d'une peau de girafe.
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T.S. Eliot |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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E quella che vedea i pensier dubi
ne la mia mente, disse: <
t'hanno
mostrato
Serafi e Cherubi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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NONE FORGOES
THE LEAP,
ATTAINING
THE REPOSE.
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Sappho |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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60
The earth is fattened with our dead;
She
swallows
more and doth not cease:
Therefore her wine and oil increase
And her sheaves are not numbered;
Therefore her plants are green, and all
Her pleasant trees lusty and tall.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Their office is to
illumine
and enkindle--
My duty, to be saved by their bright light,
And purified in their electric fire,
And sanctified in their elysian fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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I that was once a man of the North am now an exile here:
Bird and man, in their
different
kind, are each strangers in the
south.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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They who never go to the
Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and
vagabonds; but they who do go there are
saunterers
in the good sense,
such as I mean.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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--Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most
melancholy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Between the time of the wind and the snow _50
All loathliest weeds began to grow,
Whose coarse leaves were
splashed
with many a speck,
Like the water-snake's belly and the toad's back.
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Shelley |
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Redistribution is
subject to the
trademark
license, especially commercial
redistribution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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But to see and hear and touch Woman
Breaks our shell of this
accursed
world,
And turns our measured days to measureless gleam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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The lady
looked
attentively
at her, and Marya, who had stolen one glance at her,
could now see her well.
| 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 warld's wrack we share o't,
The warstle and the care o't;
Wi' her I'll
blythely
bear it,
And think my lot divine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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You mountaineer living
lawlessly
on the Taurus or Caucasus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Lo, Clausus of the ancient Sabine blood, leading a great host, a great
host himself; from whom now the
Claudian
tribe and family is spread
abroad since Rome was shared with the Sabines.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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"I know you--
"All day
stuffing
your belly,
"Burying your heart
"In grass and tender sprouts:
"It will not suffice you.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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quod tibi si sancti concesserit incola Itoni,
quae nostrum genus, has sedes defendere Erechthi
annuit, ut tauri respergas sanguine dextram, 230
tum uero facito ut memori tibi condita corde
haec uigeant mandata, nec ulla oblitteret aetas;
ut simul ac nostros inuisent lumina collis,
funestam antennae deponant undique uestem,
candidaque intorti
sustollant
uela rudentes, 235
quam primum cernens ut laeta gaudia mente
agnoscam, cum te reducem aetas prospera sistet.
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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E vidi poi, che nol vedea davanti,
lo
scendere
e 'l girar per li gran mali
che s'appressavan da diversi canti.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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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.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
XXXVII
Well I found you in the twilit garden,
Laid a lover's hand upon your shoulder,
And we both were made aware of loving
Past the reach of reason to unravel,
Or the much
desiring
heart to follow.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Rodrigue
No, that dear object to whom I brought terror,
Cannot in punishing show too fierce an anger;
I'd evade a
thousand
deaths that threaten pain,
If I'd die the sooner by angering her again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some
infinitely
gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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How artless was the note which spoke
Of love again, and yet again;
How deftly could he
transport
feign!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| 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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The seven young Fishes swam across the Lake Pipple-Popple, and into the
river, and into the ocean; where, most unhappily for them, they saw, on the
fifteenth day of their travels, a bright-blue Boss-Woss, and
instantly
swam
after him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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(quoth he) whom triall late did teach,
That like would not for all this worldes wealth:
His subtill tongue, like
dropping
honny, mealt'h?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Through me many long dumb voices,
Voices of the interminable generations of prisoners and slaves,
Voices of the diseas'd and despairing and of thieves and dwarfs,
Voices of cycles of
preparation
and accretion,
And of the threads that connect the stars, and of wombs and of the
father-stuff,
And of the rights of them the others are down upon,
Of the deform'd, trivial, flat, foolish, despised,
Fog in the air, beetles rolling balls of dung.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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--Yet
sometimes
my heart was trammelled
With fear, evader!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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To be
published
at an early date by ALFRED A.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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[94] now the peril's past;
For yonder view the opening plain,
And there we'll prick our steeds amain:" 570
The Chiaus[95] spake, and as he said,
A bullet
whistled
o'er his head;
The foremost Tartar bites the ground!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
The people pass through the dust
On bicycles, in carts, in motor-cars;
The
waggoners
go by at dawn;
The lovers walk on the grass path at night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Graham and
him, I have been partly forgiven; only I
understand
that all hopes of
my getting officially forward, are blasted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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I really do not believe anything was ever written under an equal number
of limitations; and when I first came to know all the
conditions
of the poem
I was for a moment inclined to think that no genuine work
could be produced under them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
"Warm
yourself
here a little space!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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'And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my
brothers
more?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Presently, while the whole party from the boat was gazing at him with
mingled affection and disgust, he suddenly arose, and, in a somewhat
plumdomphious manner, hurried off towards the setting sun,--his steps
supported by two
superincumbent
confidential Cucumbers, and a large number
of Waterwagtails proceeding in advance of him by three and three in a
row,--till he finally disappeared on the brink of the western sky in a
crystal cloud of sudorific sand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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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: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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XCV
Hark, where Poseidon's
White racing horses
Trample with tumult
The shelving
seaboard!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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All
creation
slept and smiled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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One of them is miraculously endued with voice, and
inspired to
prophesy
his fate: but the hero, not astonished by that
prodigy, rushes with fury to the combat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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It
must be, however, in the
miraculous
fusing of the two.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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At last the dead man walked no more
Amongst the Trial Men,
And I knew that he was
standing
up
In the black dock's dreadful pen,
And that never would I see his face
In God's sweet world again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Hence 'tis an easy matter to persuade
Mine host his buxom
daughter
to forego,
And let them, where they will the damsel bear;
In that to treat her well the travellers swear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
DAMOETAS
"My Muse,
although
she be but country-bred,
Is loved by Pollio: O Pierian Maids,
Pray you, a heifer for your reader feed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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_, at the
beginning
of the third century A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Fix the water-colour,
Too fragile tints that run,
Painter
In enameller's oven;
Make Sirens blue
Tails
writhing
free
For you,
Monsters of heraldry;
And with triple halo
The Virgin and her Jesus
the globe
With the Cross above.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
XV
With smiling face he Lenski hears;
The poet's fervid conversation
And
judgment
which unsteady veers
And eye which gleams with inspiration--
All this was novel to Eugene.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
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: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And the poet's
boyishness
demands still further consideration.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
An elderly waiter
with
trembling
hands was hurriedly spreading a pink and white checked
cloth over the rusty green iron table, saying: "If the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden, if the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
And is it far to the Luyov
mountains?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Each one kept shroud, nor to his
neighbour
gave
Or word, or look, or action of despair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Meos circa I umbos mica,
O castitatis lorica,
Aqua tincta seraphica;
Patera gemmis corusca,
Panis salsus, mollis esca,
Divinum vinum,
Francisca!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
THE HEART OF A SONG
Dear love, let this my song fly to you:
Perchance
forget it came from me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
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 |
|
The wasps flourish greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A
necklace
of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
They see you
piercing
like gray swords through flowers,
And smile, from souls at peace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
It was the
windfall
for which the youth had been waiting to enable him to
gratify his first love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Ah, parted by whirlpools
Widest, yon
truculent
main where yields it power of passage?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Thou hast the
knowledge
clear, but lo, I bring
More also.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
I
imagined
I could save my happy life by forfeiting
my honour; and the result is that I have lost both.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
]
[Sidenote E: Our knight
consents
to remain for another night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Kynge
Haroldes
knyghts desir'de for hendie stroke, 95
And marched furious o'er the bloudie pleyne,
In bodie close, and made the pleyne to smoke;
Theire sheelds rebounded arrowes back agayne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
at
neuermore
schal blinne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
PAUL KING: All of you who have been lately in China must be struck
with the extraordinary difference between the China
described
in these
poems and the China which has come into being since the revolution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
And, in that pause, a
sinister
whisper ran:
Burial at Sea!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
--They shall not see thee, when I display at large
The riches and the honour; I've enough
Possession, without thee, to stupify
The
assembly
of my men, my herd of kings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The first who mark'd them was the Cretan king;
High on a rising ground, above the ring,
The monarch sat: from whence with sure survey
He well
observed
the chief who led the way,
And heard from far his animating cries,
And saw the foremost steed with sharpen'd eyes;
On whose broad front a blaze of shining white,
Like the full moon, stood obvious to the sight.
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Iliad - Pope |
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As the punishment of your folly
and
blindness
you shall love me as I truly am.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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All is now secure and fast;
Not the gods can shake the Past;
Flies-to the
adamantine
door
Bolted down forevermore.
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Emerson - Poems |
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LXXXI
His ceaseless strokes scarce one the other wait:
Speedily
all his foemen are in flight.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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th
fful
richeliche
al a-ry?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Lucretius |
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_God's deathless plaything rolls an eye
Five hundred
thousand
cubits high.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Only the maidens question not
The bridges that lead to Dream;
Their
luminous
smiles are like strands of pearls
On a silver vase agleam.
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Rilke - Poems |
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fremmað
gē nū lēoda þearfe, 2801; inf.
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Beowulf |
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CHORUS
Forth from the royal halls by high command
I bear
libations
for the dead.
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Aeschylus |
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Hither came at noon
Mournful
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Tennyson |
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