To the gate
He came, and with his wand touch'd it, whereat
Open without
impediment
it flew.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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nam quaecumque homines bene cuiquam aut dicere possunt
aut facere, haec a te dictaque
factaque
sunt.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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NURSE'S SONG
When voices of children are heard on the green,
And
laughing
is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And everything else is still.
| 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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He was
wandering
up and down moonlit streets, kissing cooks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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I thank you, Sir, for the honour you have done me; and to
my latest hour will warmly
remember
it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
My doubting heart thus questions in my grief:
"Whence comes it that
existence
thou canst know
When from thy spirit thou dost dwell entire?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Years later, when, in his
age, his old scholars assembled to greet him, he regretted that no hint
had been brought into the school of what at that very time "I was
writing every night in my chamber, my first thoughts on morals and the
beautiful laws of compensation, and of individual genius, which to
observe and illustrate have given
sweetness
to many years of my life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
She might have wept if that hand
Coldly placed against her heart,
Had ever felt dew's
heavenly
wand
Touch human clay with subtle art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
_ That HE will be an exile by his will,
As I by mine
election?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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On his head a crown,
On his
shoulders
down
Flowed his golden hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
I alone of all things
Fret with
unsluiced
fire.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Beautiful Women
Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young,
The young are beautiful--but the old are more
beautiful
than the young.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Marya, who was working in the same room, all at once
informed
my
parents that she was obliged to start for Petersburg, and begged them to
give her the means to do so.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
And then those ghosts that come out of their graves
And cry, "You
murdered
us!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
--Mais l'ange des
berceaux
vient essuyer leurs yeux,
Et dans ce lourd sommeil mit un reve joyeux,
Un reve si joyeux, que leur levre mi-close,
Souriante, semblait murmurer quelque chose.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
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: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
The horses stood
motionless, hanging their heads and
shivering
from time to time.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
If I lay here dead
XXIV Let the world's sharpness like a
clasping
knife
XXV A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
XXVI I lived with visions for my company
XXVII My own Beloved, who hast lifted me
XXVIII My letters!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
The
friend of regular manners, and the encourager of ancient virtue, by
which Rome was raised to the highest
pinnacle
of glory, he has
restored the public peace, and with it the blessings of liberty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
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: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
The first sort by thir own
suggestion
fell,
Self-tempted, self-deprav'd: Man falls deceiv'd 130
By the other first: Man therefore shall find grace,
The other none: in Mercy and Justice both,
Through Heav'n and Earth, so shall my glorie excel,
But Mercy first and last shall brightest shine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Besides, Vespasian's
reputation
was doubtful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
The
slaughter
was marked by one peculiar horror.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
He was
educated
at St.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Let whoso hath been With
worthier
works concerned, display his wares !
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
While it is founded on the English
translation
of
Machiavelli's novella, which appeared in 1674, and closely adheres
to the lines of the original, it shows clear evidence of Jonson's
influence.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
In that large lustre all our haste surceased,
The sail seemed fain to furl,
The silent steersman
landward
turned,
And ship and shore set breast to breast.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Why should your flow of tears be matched
By their mean life-blood
showers?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
But the glitter of luxury at the
banquets
of the rich
cannot satisfy this craving: there are the simpler joys of the open
country in spring.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
You can easily comply with the terms of this
agreement
by
keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project
Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
It moves me for the moment, and I think
How beautiful it is to be a saint,
As dear
Vittoria
is; but I am weak
And wayward, and I soon fall back again
To my old ways, so very easily.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
But they are few, and all romance has flown,
And men can
prophesy
about the sun,
And lecture on his arrows--how, alone,
Through a waste void the soulless atoms run,
How from each tree its weeping nymph has fled,
And that no more 'mid English reeds a Naiad shows her head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Man
generally
thinks, if words he only hears,
Articulated noise must have some meaning in it.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Why didst render not
Back unto us, the
children
of the dead,
Our father's portion?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Tomsky lit his pipe, took a few
whiffs, then continued:
"The next evening, grandmother appeared at
Versailles
at the Queen's
gaming-table.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Oh bitter wind with icy
invisible
wings
Why do you beat us?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
448
THE CHURCH-BUILDER 451
THE LOST PYX: A
MEDIAEVAL
LEGEND 457
TESS'S LAMENT 462
THE SUPPLANTER: A TALE 465
IMITATIONS, ETC.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
And the brown clay is
runneled
by the rain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
" I made him nail the door shut,
And push the
headboard
of the bed against it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Then believe me, my sweetheart, do,
While time still flowers for you,
In its
freshest
novelty,
Cull, ah cull your youthful bloom:
As it blights this flower, the doom
Of age will blight your beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
The Estampida, a
medieval
dance and musical form called the estampie in French, and istampitta (also istanpitta or stampita) in Italian was a popular instrumental style of the 13th and 14th centuries.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Spikky Sparrow said,
"Spikky,
darling!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
(_To
Orestes_)
Answer thou, setting word to match with
word;
And first avow--hast thou thy mother slain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Mightiest
of many such!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Milton |
|
'
Presently
the man in the conical cap began to speak,
but who heard him I cannot remember.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Where the fungus broad and red
Lifts its head,
Like
poisoned
loaf of elfin bread,
Where the aster grew
With the social goldenrod,
In a chapel, which the dew
Made beautiful for God:--
O what would Nature say?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
WORLD BUILDERS By Abigail Fithian Halsev
These are the things that make the world, The sun and air, the earth and sky,
The golden
sunlight
everywhere,
The wings of angels drifting by.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
"Leave me with mine own,
"And take you yours away;
"I can't buy of your
patterns
of God,
"The little Gods you may rightly prefer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
It is not difficult to trace the process by which the old songs
were
transmuted
into the form which they now wear.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Compare also
_The
Progresse
of the Soule_, st.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Donne |
|
The world was made for man, but made
Wisely a steep difficulty to be climbed,
That he, so labouring the stubborn slant,
May step from off the world with a well-used courage,
All slouch
disgrace
fought out of him, a man
Well worthy of a Heaven.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Again, those little sides of mirrors curved
Proportionate
to the bulge of our own flank
Send back to us their idols with the right
Upon the right; and this is so because
Either the image is passed on along
From mirror unto mirror, and thereafter,
When twice dashed off, flies back unto ourselves;
Or else the image wheels itself around,
When once unto the mirror it has come,
Since the curved surface teaches it to turn
To usward.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
If you do not, you can receive
a refund of the money (if any) you paid for this etext by
sending a request within 30 days of
receiving
it to the person
you got it from.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
_Now_ your dull eyes
glisten!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
When thus Duke Willyam to a Monke dyd saie,
Prepare
thyselfe
wyth spede, to Harolde haste awaie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
ANOTHER
Think well--must cry or sign of woe or pain
Fix our
conclusion
that the chief is slain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
They
gathered
the flowers
Each to himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
But with your betters, you are not to put
riddles of wit, by being too scarce of words; not to cause the trouble of
making
breviates
by writing too riotous and wastingly.
| 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 |
|
As the little tiny swallow or the chaffinch,
Round their warm and cosey nest are seen to hover,
So hovers there the mother dear who bore him;
And aye she weeps, as flows a river's water;
His sister weeps as flows a streamlet's water;
His
youthful
wife, as falls the dew from heaven--
The Sun, arising, dries the dew of heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Mere trifles these; you need not heed 'em,
If he, on his part, not o'er-nice,
Winked at, in you, an
occasional
freedom.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
196) Johnson refers to
'this fair-fitted _Globe_', and in the
_Execration
upon Vulcan_
(_Wks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
With specimens of song,
As if for you to choose,
Discretion in the interval,
With gay delays he goes
To some
superior
tree
Without a single leaf,
And shouts for joy to nobody
But his seraphic self!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
"
He heard her speak and
accepted
her words with favor.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
From remote and sunless suburbs came they to the friendly guild,
Building nests in Fame's great temple, as in spouts the
swallows
build.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Fool, to stand here cursing
When I might be
running!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Imagists |
|
orthodox, who believe in John Knox,
Let me sound an alarm to your conscience:
A heretic blast has been blown in the West,
"That what is no sense must be nonsense,"
Orthodox!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
licet
expositum
per limen aperto
ire redire gradu: iam nusquam ianitor aut lex
aut pudor.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Daffodil
bulbs instead of balls
Stared from the sockets of the eyes!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
I am come; and
straight
will bear her to the tomb.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
I died for beauty, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an
adjoining
room.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
My heart more love than your
forgetfulness!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Flower, tree, and bush, like all the shadows grey,
In leaden hues of
desolation
fade away.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Try the might the Muse affords
And the balm of
thoughtful
words;
Bring music to the desolate;
Hang roses on the stony fate.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
"
"This circuit," said my teacher, "knots the scourge
For envy, and the cords are
therefore
drawn
By charity's correcting hand.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
org
While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the
solicitation
requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Just then passed the dandy and turned up his nose:
They'd fain have him shove, but he looked at his clothes
And nipt his nose closer and twirled his stick round
And simpered, Tis
nuisance
to lie on the ground.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
My
gentleness
with scorn you cursed:
You knew not what I gave.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Still it
delights
my heart to hope once more
The welcome sight of that enchanting face,
The glory of our age, and life to me.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
When the
tradition
in question is really
heroic, we know what his way is.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
XIX
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
All imperfection born beneath the skies,
All that regales our spirits and our eyes,
And all those things that devour our pleasures:
All those ills that strip our age of treasures,
All the good the centuries might devise,
Rome in
ancestral
times secured as prize,
Like Pandora's box, enclosed the measure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
let him seize
Pure pleasure while he can; the
scorching
ray
Here pierceth not, impregnate with disease:
Then let his length the loitering pilgrim lay,
And gaze, untired, the morn, the noon, the eve away.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
The first is brevity; for they must
not be
treatises
or discourses (your letters) except it be to learned
men.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
Look out, beyond, and see
The far horizon's
beckoning
span!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
40
In
separate
herds the deer
Lie; here the bucks, and here
The does, and by its mother sleeps the fawn:
Through all the hours of night until the dawn
They sleep, forgetting fear.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Horner der Ziegenbock;
Der Wein ist saftig, Holz die Reben,
Der
holzerne
Tisch kann Wein auch geben.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
He suffered from
rheumatic
fever complicated by an enlarged heart, and died in October 1879, aged eight.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
And sullen Moloch, fled,
Hath left in shadows dread
His burning idol all of
blackest
hue;
In vain with cymbals' ring
They call the grisly king,
In dismal dance about the furnace blue;
The brutish gods of Nile as fast
Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
But the things I feel when wine
possesses
my soul
I will never tell to those who are not drunk.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
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Li Po |
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The Life in the so-called "Old T'ang History" is
shorter and
contains
several mistakes.
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Li Po |
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The crafty Moor by
vengeful
Bacchus taught
Employ'd on deadly guile his baneful thought;
In his dark mind he plann'd, on GAMA'S head
Full to revenge Mozambique and the dead.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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'Let love be free; free love is for the best:
And, after heaven, on our dull side of death,
What should be best, if not so pure a love
Clothed in so pure a
loveliness?
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Tennyson |
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CHORUS
Know, then, with these a fair device there is--
THE KING OF ARGOS
Speak, then: what utterance doth this
foretell?
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Aeschylus |
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So tired am I, so weary of to-day,
So unrefreshed from foregone weariness,
So
overburdened
by foreseen distress,
So lagging and so stumbling on my way,
I scarce can rouse myself to watch or pray,
To hope, or aim, or toil for more or less,--
Ah, always less and less, even while I press
Forward and toil and aim as best I may.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Jupiter's welcome to more from his Juno if he can get it;
Let any mortal find rest, softer,
wherever
he can.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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O
bounteous
seas that never fail!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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To you, likewise, these optics
are indispensable--yet I will
convince
you that my vision is more
penetrating than your own.
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Poe - 5 |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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