' 4060
With that the cherl his clubbe gan shake,
Frouning
his eyen gan to make,
And hidous chere; as man in rage,
For ire he brente in his visage.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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O lone
Plataean
plain!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Will he let his king and father be
betrayed?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"Coming to many ways in the
wanderings
of careful thought.
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Shelley |
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To her any neglect to ensure due protection for the
children would be as
unnatural
as to refuse to die for her husband.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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_ Glad are we her rare lustre to have known,
And sad from her dear company to stay,
Which
jealousy
and envy keep away
O'er other's bliss, as their own ill who moan.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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As old Toledos past their days of war
Are kept
mnemonic
of the strokes they bore,
So art thou with us, being good to keep
In our heart's sword-rack, though thy sword-arm
sleep.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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That Emperour was in the pass but now;
To France the Douce he would be homeward-bound,
Rereward he set, to save his great honour:
His nephew there installed, Rollanz the count,
And Oliver; the dozen peers around;
A
thousand
score of Franks in armour found.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Country free and courtly,
I'm glad of this honour you receive,
Since joy and worth, repose and gaiety,
Courtesy,
gallantry
and sweet ease
Are come to us, may they never leave;
To serve her well we must quickly see
In what ways we might court this lady.
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Troubador Verse |
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The prodigy
Of thy vast brows and
melancholy
eyes
Which comprehend the heights of some great fall.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320
Consider
Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Footsteps
shuffled
on the stair.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Great
understandings
are most
racked and troubled with it; nay, sometimes they will rather choose to
die than not to know the things they study for.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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This refers to
Taizong?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"Let pass the banners and the spears,
The hate, the battle, and the greed;
For greater than all gifts is peace, 15
And strength is in the
tranquil
mind.
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Sappho |
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Each care was now in soft
oblivion
steep'd,
The watch alone accustom'd vigils kept;
E'en GAMA, wearied by the day's alarms,
Forgets his cares, reclin'd in slumber's arms.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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He spans between them
also from east to west, and
reflects
what is between them.
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Whitman |
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tho' that long dream were of
hopeless
sorrow,
'Twere better than the dull reality
Of waking life to him whose heart shall be,
And hath been ever, on the chilly earth,
A chaos of deep passion from his birth!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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O proper stuffe:
This is the very
painting
of your feare:
This is the Ayre-drawne-Dagger which you said
Led you to Duncan.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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is
conclusiou{n}
is al clere.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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'mong reeds you hear
The one-toned
bitterns
bumming.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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There came a day,--they
suddenly
took her from me;
Her soul's shadow wandered I know not where.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Freedom and peace and
goodwill
among Nations,
Love that will bind us with love all our own.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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None finds me ugly today, though I am
monstrously
strong.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The hedges all have
vanished
from his eyes;
Een some tree tops the sheep could reach to bite.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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LES DEUX BONNES SOEURS
La
Debauche
et la Mort sont deux aimables filles,
Prodigues de baisers et riches de sante,
Dont le flanc toujours vierge et drape de guenilles
Sous l'eternel labeur n'a jamais enfante.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I
sometimes
think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The battalion called after the name of the Junii was
now, by the equestrian order,
entitled
the battalion of Germanicus,
and a rule made that, on every fifteenth of July, these troops should
follow, as their standard, the effigies of Germanicus: of these honours
many continue; some were instantly omitted, or by time are utterly
obliterated.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Nay rack your brain--'tis all in vain,
I'll tell you every thing I know;
But to the thorn, and to the pond
Which is a little step beyond,
I wish that you would go:
Perhaps when you are at the place
You
something
of her tale may trace.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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There's no Art,
To finde the Mindes
construction
in the Face.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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All
the
evidence
that there is goes to show that he was not.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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As a wind that has run all day
Among the
fragrant
clover,
At evening to a valley comes;
So comes to me my lover.
| 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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Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But microscopes are prudent
In an
emergency!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Take horse, and come, or be so kind
To send your mind,
Though but in numbers few,
And I shall think I have the heart,
Or part
Of
Clipseby
Crew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Not many there be
Who enter therein,
Only the guests of the
Irishman
Quin.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Among your heart-shaped leaves
Orange orioles hop like music-box birds and sing
Their little weak soft songs;
In the crooks of your branches
The bright eyes of song
sparrows
sitting on spotted eggs
Peer restlessly through the light and shadow
Of all Springs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Bragging to each other of successful depredations
They neglect to consider the
ultimate
fate of the body.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Sweet are the
blooming
cheeks of the living, sweet are the musical voices
sounding;
But sweet, ah sweet, are the dead, with their silent eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Why speak of the war gathering
from Tyre, and thy brother's
menaces?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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ELECTRA
Alas, the inborn curse that haunts our home,
Of Ate's
bloodstained
scourge the tuneless sound!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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LORD how many are my foes
How many those
That in arms against me rise
Many are they
That of my life
distrustfully
thus say,
No help for him in God there lies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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ADMONITION
TO A TRAVELLER.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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"
I listened to the
branchless
pole
That held aloft the singing wire;
I heard its muffled music roll,
And stirred with sweet desire:
"O wire more soft than seasoned lute,
Hast thou no sunlit word for me?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"THE SUNSHINE OF THINE EYES"
The
sunshine
of thine eyes,
(O still, celestial beam!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
' 1750
But now to yow, ye lovers that ben here,
Was Troilus nought in a cankedort,
That lay, and mighte
whispringe
of hem here,
And thoughte, `O lord, right now renneth my sort
Fully to dye, or han anoon comfort'; 1755
And was the firste tyme he shulde hir preye
Of love; O mighty god, what shal he seye?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The king visits the house of the kotwal 252
Addresses Gama, detained as a prisoner there 252
On what conditions he may be allowed to return to his fleet 253
Gama's indignant reply 253, 254
The king orders the signal to be given 254
The Moorish vessels
surround
the fleet, and attack it with
clouds of arrows 255
The drums and trumpets of the fleet call to action 255
Destruction of the Moorish vessels by the cannon of the ships 256
Bombardment of Calicut by the fleet 257
The terrified multitude implores the king to release
his prisoner 258
The king implores Gama to spare his city and people 258
Gama's dignified reply 258
The terms offered by the king rejected by Gama 259
Gama directs the king to hoist the Portuguese flag and
convey him to his ships 260
Peace restored.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Andrew,
translated
from the
Old English, with an Introduction.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I awoke, and then I knew
What Love said was too-too true;
Henceforth
therefore I will be,
As from love, from trouble free.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Slow he woke with a drowsy pang,
Shook himself without much debate,
Turned where he saw green
branches
hang,
Started though late.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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[42] Written during the war which
preceded
the T'ang dynasty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a pleasant fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the
livelong
day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Greek sang and Tcherkass for his pleasure,
And
Kergeesian
captive is dancing;
In the eyes of the first heaven's azure,
And in those black of Eblis is glancing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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I alone was sad,
inconceivably
sad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
I turn not to denial: thus I wrought
So that he could nor flee nor ward his doom,
Even as the trammel hems the scaly shoal,
I trapped him with
inextricable
toils,
The ill abundance of a baffling robe;
Then smote him, once, again--and at each wound
He cried aloud, then as in death relaxed
Each limb and sank to earth; and as he lay,
Once more I smote him, with the last third blow,
Sacred to Hades, saviour of the dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
's ist eine der
grossten
Himmelsgaben,
So ein lieb Ding im Arm zu haben.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
CYCLOPS:
Are the bowls full of milk
besides?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
So in your freshness, so in all your first newness,
When earth and heaven both honoured your loveliness,
The Fates
destroyed
you, and you are but dust below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
They tell us you might sue us if there is
something
wrong with
your copy of this etext, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
dear to Jove
As thou art dear to me, for this reprieve
Vouchsafed
me kind, from wand'ring and from woe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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"
Gawayne thanks his guide for his well-meant kindness, but
declares
that
to the Green Chapel he will go, though the owner thereof be "a stern
knave," for God can devise means to save his servants.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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She speaks, behaves, and acts just as she ought;
But never, never, reached one
generous
thought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Then when he had rambled
on well, and got half-way through the piece, he would spout some dozen
big, blustering, winged words, tall as mountains, terrible scarers, which
the
spectator
admired without understanding what they meant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Then I'd like to be a bull, white as snow,
Transforming myself, for
carrying
her,
In April, when, through meadows so tender,
A flower, through a thousand flowers, she goes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
The years are many that have pass'd away,
Since to this
fastness
Branca Doria came.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
CAROLINE
BOWLES (MRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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How
condescending
to descend,
And be of buttercups the friend
In a New England town!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Averse to me of all his heaven of gods,
At Thetis' suit the partial Thunderer nods;
To grace her gloomy, fierce,
resenting
son,
My hopes are frustrate, and my Greeks undone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
I never
followed
her, nor lifted high
My hand to bless her; never said good-bye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Much madness is
divinest
sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
"I have heard," I
exclaimed
(very much to the point), "that the Bashkirs
intend to attack your fort.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg"
associated
with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
_ played in their
right order, with all the links that bind play to play unbroken; and
partly because of a spirit in the place, and partly because of the
way play
supports
play, the theatre has moved me as it has never done
before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
"
The
conscious
stream, with burnished glow,
Went proudly o'er its pebbles,
But thrilled throughout its deepest flow
With yelling of the Rebels.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
I am come,
Fresh from the
cleansing
of Apollo, home
To Argos--and my coming no man yet
Knoweth--to pay the bloody twain their debt
Of blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
II
Who when returning from the drery Night, 10
She fownd not in that
perilous
house of Pryde,
Where she had left, the noble Redcrosse knight,
Her hoped pray; she would no lenger bide,
But forth she went, to seeke him far and wide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
But did you see my dearest Chloris,
In simplicity's array;
Lovely as yonder sweet opening flower is,
Shrinking
from the gaze of day,
But did you see, &c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
No new thing, this camp about the city:
Nebuchadnezzar and his hosted men
But fearfully image, like a madman's dream,
The fierce
infection
of the world, that waits
To soil the clean health of the soul and mix
Stooping decay into its upward nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
He glares blank and wide;
Then suddenly turning he kisseth the bride;
His lips stung her with cold; she glanced
upwardly
mute:
"Mine own wife," he said, and fell stark at her foot
In the word he was saying.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
"
O mandate
glorious
and divine!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Thy death and
fortunes
bid thy followers fly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
CANTO XXXII
COULD I command rough rhimes and hoarse, to suit
That hole of sorrow, o'er which ev'ry rock
His firm abutment rears, then might the vein
Of fancy rise full springing: but not mine
Such measures, and with falt'ring awe I touch
The mighty theme; for to
describe
the depth
Of all the universe, is no emprize
To jest with, and demands a tongue not us'd
To infant babbling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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What cities the light or warmth penetrates, I
penetrate
those cities
myself;
All islands to which birds wing their way, I wing my way myself.
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Whitman |
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A Boredom, made desolate by cruel hope
Still
believes
in the last goodbye of handkerchiefs!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Now 'gin the rueful
wailings
to be heard.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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God hath now sent his living Oracle 460
Into the World, to teach his final will,
And sends his Spirit of Truth henceforth to dwell
In pious Hearts, an inward Oracle
To all truth
requisite
for men to know.
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Milton |
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Fool, to stand here cursing
When I might be
running!
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Imagists |
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Yet less for loss of your dear presence there
Than that I thus found lacking in your make
That high compassion which can overbear
Reluctance
for pure lovingkindness' sake
Grieved I, when, as the hope-hour stroked its sum,
You did not come.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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'Illud enim quo
primo aliquid operatur, est forma eius cui operatio
attribuitur
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John Donne |
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Rest, rest,
perturbed
spirit!
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Shakespeare |
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Such
fragrance
round my couch it makes,
More rich than are Arabian drugs,
That my soul scents its life and wakes
The body up beneath its perfumed rugs.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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