or
identify
"Joanna's
Rock"?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"I never saw aught like to them
"Unless
perchance
it were
"The skeletons of leaves that lag
"My forest brook along:
"When the Ivy-tod is heavy with snow,
"And the Owlet whoops to the wolf below
"That eats the she-wolf's young.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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--Ho, fling me a
Thessalian
steel!
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Euripides - Electra |
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He has said
everything
without omission.
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Aristophanes |
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_]
Pupils, dear friends, I have
deceived
you all this time.
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Yeats |
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ille etiam caelo genitus caeloque receptus,
cum bene
compositis
uictor ciuilibus armis
iura togae regeret, totiens praedicta cauere
uulnera non potuit, toto spectante senatu
indicium dextra retinens, monitumque cruore
deleuit proprio, possent ut uincere fata.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
(12)
I drive my chariot up to the Eastern Gate;
From afar I see the
graveyard
north of the Wall.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state
applicable
to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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3 The Earl of the South is worthy in
handling
matters,4 16 you will go to where he stands and chats.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The styles are taken from
Classical
art.
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Ronsard |
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Denying that which mine own spirit guesses
--Our great and ancient fame is also known--
Can I tear off the scarf which veils my tresses,
And with an early
widowhood
atone?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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But words are vain--Let Ajax once appear,
And Hector
trembles
and recedes with fear;
Thou dar'st not meet the terrors of his eye;
And lo!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Please do the poet a favor and shorten the
glorious
hours
Which the painter devours, eagerly filling his eyes.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"A weeping country joins a widow's tear;
The helpless poor mix with the orphan's cry;
The drooping arts surround their patron's bier;
And
grateful
science heaves the heartfelt sigh!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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at quanta est scelerum moles per saecula cuncta,
quamque onus
inuidiae
non excusabile terris!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Heartsome Ireland, winsome Ireland,
Charmer of the sun and sea,
Bright
beguiler
of old anguish,
How could Famine frown on thee?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Come, come to bed: the morning soon will peep;
Pinucio took the hint, pretended sleep,
And carried on so artfully the wile,
The husband no
suspicion
had of guile.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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HASSAN:
It may be so: _455
A spirit not my own
wrenched
me within,
And I have spoken words I fear and hate;
Yet would I die for--
MAHMUD:
Live!
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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"Aegyptus,
according
to the most widely spread reports, having
landed at Argos with his fifty daughters[507] .
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| Question: |
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Aristophanes |
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s more I fell into the dust of the Hu, coming home, my hair is all
streaked
with gray.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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As I was a-wand'ring ae midsummer e'enin',
The pipers and
youngsters
were making their game;
Amang them I spied my faithless fause lover,
Which bled a' the wound o' my dolour again.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it
under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License
included
with this
eBook or online at www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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XXXIII
A
thousand
times they their embrace renew,
And closely each is by the other prest;
While so delighted are those lovers two,
Their joys are ill contained within their breast.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
]
207 (return)
[ The Suevi possessed that
extensive
tract of country lying between the Elbe, the Vistula, the Baltic Sea, and the Danube.
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Tacitus |
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CXXXII
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,
Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain,
Have put on black and loving
mourners
be,
Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Four whole days he
journeyed
onward
Down the pathway of the dead men;
On the dead-man's strawberry feasted,
Crossed the melancholy river,
On the swinging log he crossed it,
Came unto the Lake of Silver,
In the Stone Canoe was carried
To the Islands of the Blessed,
To the land of ghosts and shadows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up,
nonproprietary
or proprietary form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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a wolf's among
Admetus's
merinos!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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LOVELL: I admire
The
toughness
of your nature.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The other maidens raised their eyes to see
And only she has hid her face away,
And yet I ween she loved him more than they,
And very fairly
fashioned
was her face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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This fashion of riding, these games Ascanius first revived, when he girt
Alba the Long about with walls, and taught their
celebration
to the Old
Latins in the way of his own boyhood, with the youth of Troy about him.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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_, coarse
illuminated
engravings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
LV
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone, besmear'd with
sluttish
time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
MARIE
_sleeping
in an arbour.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
Biron was a friend of Henri IV, Lusignan a famous family, both
associated
with the Valois.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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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: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
You have
stripped
the poor child
quite naked, and it is so small, so small.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
He always doted on the youth, and now
His love grew desperate; and defying death,
He made that cunning
entrance
I described:
And the young man escaped.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
KAU}
Of God clothed in Luvahs garments little knowest thou
Of death Eternal that we all go to Eternal Death
To our Primeval Chaos in fortuitous concourse of incoherent
Discordant principles of Love & Hate I suffer affliction
Because I love for I am I was love & but hatred awakes in me
And Urizen who was Faith & Certainty is changd to Doubt
The hand of Urizen is upon me because I blotted out
That Human terror delusion to deliver all the sons of God
From bondage of the Human form, O first born Son of Light
O Urizen my enemy I weep for thy stern ambition
But weep in vain O when will you return Vala the Wanderer
PAGE 28
These were the words of Luvah patient in
afflictions
{This line written over a pencilled line; Erdman posits that the word under "from" is "Los.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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All round the level rim thereof
Perseus, on winged feet, above
The long seas hied him;
The Gorgon's wild and
bleeding
hair
He lifted; and a herald fair,
He of the wilds, whom Maia bare,
God's Hermes, flew beside him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Her first book of poems was "Sonnets to Duse" (1907), [at least one poem
in the current volume, "Faults", is from this book,] but "Helen of Troy"
(1911) was the true launch of her career,
followed
by "Rivers to the Sea"
(1915), "Love Songs" (1917), "Flame and Shadow" (1920) and more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
'_And art thou gone_,
_beloved
Ghost_?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Do you see
nothing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
* * * * *
The background against which the figure of Rainer Maria Rilke is
silhouetted is so varied, the
influences
which have entered into his
life are so manifold, that a study of his work, however slight, must
needs take into consideration the elements through which this poet has
matured into a great master.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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I sit me in my corner chair
That seems to feel itself from home,
And hear bird music here and there
From
hawthorn
hedge and orchard come;
I hear, but all is strange and new:
I sat on my old bench in June,
The sailing puddock's shrill "peelew"
On Royce Wood seemed a sweeter tune.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
O worthy of thy mate, while all men else
Thou scornest, and with loathing dost behold
My shepherd's pipe, my goats, my shaggy brow,
And
untrimmed
beard, nor deem'st that any god
For mortal doings hath regard or care.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Flying
waterfalls
and rolling torrents mingle their din.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
I hearken for thy household cheer,
O
eloquent
child!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Zum Liebsten sei ein Kobold ihr
beschert!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
We are tempted to reply that no foreigner
can be
qualified
to decide such a point.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
We
celebrate
the feast of Ides,
Which April's month, to Venus dear,
In twain divides.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Vigour to the Zephyr's wing
Her nectar-breathing kisses fling;
And He the glitter of the Dew
Scatters
on the Rose's hue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
| 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 |
|
Now the queen called for a heavy cup
of
jewelled
gold, and filled it with pure wine; therewith was the use of
Belus and all of Belus' race: then the hall was silenced.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Down at the foot of the mountain
Two Japanese
families
had flower farms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Ye, who sometimes, in your rambles
Through the green lanes of the country,
Where the tangled barberry-bushes
Hang their tufts of crimson berries
Over stone walls gray with mosses,
Pause by some neglected graveyard,
For a while to muse, and ponder
On a half-effaced inscription,
Written with little skill of song-craft,
Homely phrases, but each letter
Full of hope and yet of heart-break,
Full of all the tender pathos
Of the Here and the Hereafter;--
Stay and read this rude inscription,
Read this Song of
Hiawatha!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Canst legibler write than Concord's large-stroked Act,
Or when at Bunker Hill the clubbed guns
cracked?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
The truth is, I think, that 'The Rape of the Lock'
represents Pope's
attitude
toward the social life of his time in the
period of his brilliant youth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
A power of butterfly must be
The
aptitude
to fly,
Meadows of majesty concedes
And easy sweeps of sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Gruesome
march
to Heorot this monster of harm had made!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
BATEAU IVRE
Comme je
descendais
des Fleuves impassibles
Je ne me sentis plus guide par les haleurs;
Des Peaux-Rouges criards les avaient pris pour cibles,
Les ayant cloues nus aux poteaux de couleurs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Any
alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
A mortal sovereign holds her
dangerous
throne,
And thou mayst find a new Calypso there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
That Popham is referred to seems not
unlikely from the fact that he was the most important personage who
had
embarked
upon an enterprise of this sort, that his scheme was one
of the earliest, that he was not a strict contemporary (d.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
This habit it was that brought about perhaps the gravest charge
that has ever been made against Pope, that of
accepting
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
The word _zodiac_ comes from the Greek +zodion+, meaning
a little animal, since
originally
all the signs were animals.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Justice, the high
vicegerent
of her God,
Her doubtful balance eyed, and sway'd her rod:
Hearing the tidings of the fatal blow,
She sank, abandon'd to the wildest woe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
XXIX
THE LENT LILY
'Tis spring; come out to ramble
The hilly brakes around,
For under thorn and bramble
About the hollow ground
The
primroses
are found.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
]
SIR,
While pursy burgesses crowd your gate,
sweating
under the weight of
heavy addresses, permit us, the quondam distillers in that part of
Great Britain called Scotland, to approach you, not with venal
approbation, but with fraternal condolence; not as what you are just
now, or for some time have been; but as what, in all probability, you
will shortly be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
XXXI
"Me on the distant bank of Euxine's flood
(I Guido am yclept) Constantia bare,
Conceived of the illustrious seed and good
Of generous Aymon, as ye
likewise
are.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
IV
If my praise her grace effaces,
Then 't is not my heart that showeth, But the
skilless
tongue that soweth Words unworthy of her graces.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
the disciple sank
With
anguished
cry .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
is kny3t, & to his cler arme3,
632 For ay
faythful
in fyue & sere fyue sy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
--which of us said
Politian
was a melancholy man?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
--a similar tale
Told of a
beauteous
dame beyond the sea!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,
And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar,
And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire
Girdled round with the belt of an
amethyst
ring.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
The stubborn Tories dare to die;
As soon the rooted oaks would fly
Before the
approaching
fellers:
The Whigs come on like Ocean's roar,
When all his wintry billows pour
Against the Buchan Bullers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
For thirty years, he produced and
distributed
Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
I see what is coming,
I see the high pioneer-caps, see staves of runners
clearing
the way,
I hear victorious drums.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
114) which Virgil has imitated here,
Contemplator
enim cum solis lumina .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
I pray you humbly in the name of God,
Not to say of these tears, which are impure--
Grant me such
pardoning
grace as can go forth
From clean volitions toward a spotted will,
From the wronged to the wronger, this and no more!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
IV
Hence the tune came capering to me
While I traced the Rhone and Po;
Nor could Milan's Marvel woo me
From the spot
englamoured
so.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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I do believe in
avenging
gods
Who plague us for sins we never sinned
But who avenge us.
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Imagists |
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The bitter little that of life remains:
No more the
thickening
brakes and verdant plains
To thee a home, or food, or pastime yield.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_Distant Hills_
What is there in those distant hills
My fancy longs to see,
That many a mood of joy
instils?
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1 If now there is enough to pour a drink, 12 for a while it will comfort my
twilight
years.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And then on us the world's curse waxes strong
In
righteousness!
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Euripides - Electra |
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The sky is low, the clouds are mean,
A
travelling
flake of snow
Across a barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Tangier was
part of Queen Catherine's portion, the match between whom
and the King he was
suspected
to have a hand in making.
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Marvell - Poems |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past,
representing
a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The fee is
owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
has agreed to donate
royalties
under this paragraph to the
Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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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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Why bathed in tears must I
unceasing
mourn?
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Petrarch |
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