He, hot and careless, on a turret's height
With sleep repair'd the long debauch of night:
The sudden tumult stirred him where he lay,
And down he hasten'd, but forgot the way;
Full
headlong
from the roof the sleeper fell,
And snapp'd the spinal joint, and waked in hell.
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| Question: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Oh, I'm the happiest,
happiest
man in Rome!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
|
I of
Book II in the new text, the
situation
in the legend is as follows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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[33] The soldiers and navigators were the only considerable gainers by
their
acquirements
in the Indies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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[PHERES _is now out of sight;_ ADMETUS _drops his
defiance
and
seems like a broken man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The cotter listens at his door again,
Half
doubting
whether it be floods or wind,
And through the thickening darkness looks afraid,
Thinking of roads that travel has to find
Through night's black depths in danger's garb arrayed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Such was Menestheus, but miscall'd by fame
The son of Borus, that
espoused
the dame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Iliad - Pope |
|
7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark
as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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"The most powerful, the most finely
imaginative
Ihe most powerful" (l, e.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Ah, with unmitigate heart
exciting
wretchedmost furies,
Thou, Boy sacrosanct!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Where
Falsehood
fills the throne, while Truth retires,
And vainly mourns her half-extinguish'd fires.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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tion of his works, and was
evidentlj
unknown to
all his biographers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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his boat and
twinkling
oar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
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: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
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electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set
forth in this agreement, you must obtain
permission
in writing from
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Outside the young boy-priest passed singing clear,
'Jesus the son of Mary has been slain,
O come and fill His
sepulchre
with flowers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Yet if my Julia kiss me, there will be
A
sovereign
balm found out to cure me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Till noon we
silently
sail'd on
Yet never a breeze did breathe:
Slowly and smoothly went the ship
Mov'd onward from beneath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
I shall no longer share
Respect and
reverence
among the Gods,
Since, now, Phaeacia's mortal race have ceas'd
To honour me, though from myself derived.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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did not wear the garment in question
at any period during the
remainder
of that memorable day, nor could
any one be found to say that he had seen it upon Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Years
rolled on, and I went from Khorassan to Transoxiana, and
wandered
to
Ghazni and Cabul; and when I returned, I was invested with office, and
rose to be administrator of affairs during the Sultanate of Sultan Alp
Arslan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
What
happened
the other night?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Let first the herald due libation pay
To Jove, who guides the
wanderer
on his way:
Then set the genial banquet in his view,
And give the stranger-guest a stranger's due.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
He preseth not so ofte, that ye
Ought of his come
encombred
be;
Ther presen other folk on yow
Ful ofter than [that] he doth now.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Smoothed
by long fingers,
Asleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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altrix infelix, sub quo custode pericli
commendas
natum, cui regia pignora credis?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Hostile the cities, friendly are the woods
To thoughts like mine, which, on this lofty hill,
Mingle their murmur with the moaning waves,
Through the sweet silence of the
spangled
night,
So that the livelong day I wait the eve,
When the sun sets and rises the fair moon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
There came a wind like a bugle;
It
quivered
through the grass,
And a green chill upon the heat
So ominous did pass
We barred the windows and the doors
As from an emerald ghost;
The doom's electric moccason
That very instant passed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Her head upon my
throbbing
breast,
She, sinking, said, "I'm thine for ever?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
The grass grew rare,
A blight lurked in the
darkening
air,
The very moss grew hueless and spare,
The last daisy stood all astunt;
Behind his back the soil lay bare,
But barer in front.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Of
sackcloth
was thy wedding garment made:
Thy bridal's fruit is ashes; in the dust
The fair-haired Daughter of the Isles is laid,
The love of millions!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
The dynasty was permanently enfeebled and the Empire
greatly
curtailed
by foreign incursions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
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+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Transcriber's Note |
| |
| Obvious typographical errors have been
corrected
in |
| this text.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
All my doing, all my leaving,
Reaches not to my perceiving;
Lost in
whirling
spheres I rove,
And know only that I love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
atilke,
&[1] I haf
worthyly
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
So don't you join our fraternity,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
I spake
Of thee, thy chestnut woods, [Ee] and garden plots
Of Indian corn tended by dark-eyed maids;
Thy lofty steeps, and pathways roofed with vines, 665
Winding from house to house, from town to town,
Sole link that binds them to each other; [Ff] walks,
League after league, and
cloistral
avenues,
Where silence dwells if music be not there:
While yet a youth undisciplined in verse, 670
Through fond ambition of that hour I strove
To chant your praise; [Gg] nor can approach you now
Ungreeted by a more melodious Song,
Where tones of Nature smoothed by learned Art
May flow in lasting current.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A
Sorceress
there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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quis erit, pueri, uitreas qui lapsus in undas
huc rapidum Tritona uocet, quo uecta per altum
deferar?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
He faces
the horror;
realises
it; and tries to surmount it on the sweep of a great
wave of religious emotion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Heu palmsB, laurique furor, vel
simplicis
herbae !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
"
"Quite enough," replied he, with a complacent and
satisfied
air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Peaceful
as some immeasurable plain
By the first beams of dawning light impress'd,
In the calm sunshine slept the glittering main.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Had
she been plain or stupid, this matter would have been
intelligible
to
Kashima.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
"
remarked
one of the
men, addressing a young officer of the Engineering Corps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Phlebas, le Phenicien, pendant quinze jours noye,
Oubliait les cris des mouettes et la houle de Cornouaille,
Et les profits et les pertes, et la cargaison d'etain:
Un courant de sous-mer l'emporta tres loin,
Le
repassant
aux etapes de sa vie anterieure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
at hym myght knowe;
Page 52
his owne men for
rebaundrye
255
dyd hym manye a welonye.
| 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 |
|
150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
21, 22:--
Lucretia
toto
Sis licet usque die: Laida nocte volo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
This sonnet was
originally
written in the German and published
in a German daily of Baltimore, while the author's translation
appeared at the same time in the Baltimore `Gazette'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Quel regret
incapable
le mord?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
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: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
"But the
Christians
will say, We believe Jesus to be the son of God,
because he cured the lame and the blind, and, as you assert, raised the
dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
those men that march below--
O
ignominy
dire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
But battle-death seized
and cruel killing my
clansmen
all,
robbed them of life and a liegeman's joys.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
"
"Hee has a spouse and
children
twaine,
Alle rewyn'd are for aie;
Yff thatt you are resolv'd to lett
CHARLES BAWDIN die to-daie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
LOUIS UNTERMEYER
MONOLOG FROM A MATTRESS
_Heinrich
Heine aetat 56, loquitur:_
Can that be you, _la mouche?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
880
What, platly, and ye suffre him in distresse,
Ye neither bountee doon ne
gentilesse!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Landward they reached the
mountains
old
Where pastoral tribes their flocks infold,
Saw rivers run seaward by cities high
And the seas wash the low-hung sky;
Saw the endless rack of the firmament
And the sailing moon where the cloud was rent,
And through man and woman and sea and star
Saw the dance of Nature forward and far,
Through worlds and races and terms and times
Saw musical order and pairing rhymes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
that you were your self; but, love you are
No longer yours, than you your self here live:
Against this coming end you should prepare,
And your sweet
semblance
to some other give:
So should that beauty which you hold in lease
Find no determination; then you were
Yourself again, after yourself's decease,
When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Yet I feared this time that I had hurt him, Such
offended
silence long he kept:
On his hand I laid my hand in pity, Penitent, —and softly he began,
"Ah that night in May, do you remember?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
And on his wey ful faste homward he spedde,
And right for Ioye he felte his herte daunce;
And Troilus he fond alone a-bedde, 1305
That lay as dooth these loveres, in a traunce,
Bitwixen
hope and derk desesperaunce.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Phaedra
You
Heavens!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Out of the heavy night she came, Silently calling his name;
Deep in her
mutineering
eyes Love chanting lullabies,
Timidly questioning
One who was wont to sing,
Stilling the songs upon his lips, Freezing his finger tips,
Stabbing his heart, and nailing his feet Fast to the iron street,
Trustingly going then
Down the dark street again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
But comes the
violence
of the bigger rains
When violently the clouds are weighted down
Both by their cumulated mass and by
The onset of the wind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
THE
AMERICAN
WAR.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
[folio 146a]
In holy chyrche vppon a daye 59
They were
spousyde
in goddys laue;
Atte here spousyng I wott there stode
Beshoppys felle and prestes goode;
Sythen theye made a mangery
With all the beste of here aleye;
Page 27
64
All that comyn thyder ?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
Abbot
Giraldus
of Einsiedel,
For pilgrims on their way to Rome,
Built this at last, with a single arch,
Under which, on its endless march,
Runs the river, white with foam,
Like a thread through the eye of a needle.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
By
composing
a drama full of the spirit of Ares.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
THIS ETEXT IS
OTHERWISE
PROVIDED TO YOU "AS-IS".
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
I know the grass
Must grow
somewhere
along this Thracian coast, If only he would come some little while and find
it me.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
I think, not only hunger makes them fierce:
They broke not long since into a village yonder,
A huge throng of them; all through the night we heard
The
feasting
they kept up.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Villon |
|
I scorn base man, and have sent
thousands
to the grave.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
It was in your cup I drank intoxication,
When they saw me praying at Iacchus' feet,
And from your
laughing
eyes' secret lightening,
For the Muses made me one of the sons of Greece.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Lives there a man beneath the
spacious
skies
Who sacred honours to the bard denies?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Two
tregetours
art thou and he,
That in myn hous do me this shame,
And for my soth-sawe ye me blame.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
The impossible, frankly accepted, with its
own strict,
inverted
logic; the creation of a new atmosphere, outside the
known world, which becomes as real as the air about us, and yet never loses
its strangeness; the shiver that comes to us, as it came to the wedding-
guest, from the simple good faith of the teller; here is a whole new
creation, in subject, mood, and technique.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
e
Emperors
bour,
a maiden god with gret honour,
to wedden wi?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
His
ambition
was boundless
and his audience was as limited in numbers as in understanding.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Men will know I
conquered
easily;
And only my regret would be left me.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
e wynne
worschip
&[1] he hym wayned hade,
As to honour his hous on ?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
The kingly lion stood,
And the virgin viewed:
Then he
gambolled
round
O'er the hallowed ground.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
' He rushed in pursuit;
something
white was moving before
him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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A soul
trembling
to sit by a hearth so bright,
To exist again, it's enough if I borrow from
Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The children of whose turbaned seas,
Or what
Circassian
land?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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non ille,
quamquam
Socraticis madet
sermonibus, te negleget horridus:
narratur et prisci Catonis
saepe mero caluisse uirtus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Ye vales, made vocal by my
plaintive
lay;
Ye streams, embitter'd with the tears of love;
Ye tenants of the sweet melodious grove;
Ye tribes that in the grass fringed streamlet play;
Ye tepid gales, to which my sighs convey
A softer warmth; ye flowery plains, that move
Reflection sad; ye hills, where yet I rove,
Since Laura there first taught my steps to stray;--
You, you are still the same!
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e myry mon, "Mary yow 3elde,
1264 For I haf founden, in god fayth, yowre
fraunchis
nobele,
& o?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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" The
poet then
repeated
a sonnet in praise of the ancient Romans.
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Petrarch |
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`Nece, al thing hath tyme, I dar avowe; 855
For whan a chaumber a-fyr is, or an halle,
Wel more nede is, it
sodeynly
rescowe
Than to dispute, and axe amonges alle
How is this candele in the straw y-falle?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Therefore
I proposed
to her that she should go to my parents' country house.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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—Sioux
City, Iowa, Daily Tribune
"Has in it finer stuff than we've seen in many another more pre tentious journal.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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