In _Lamia_ he shows a very much greater sense of proportion and
power of
selection
than in his earlier work.
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| Question: |
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Keats |
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I but say
I blame the
famished
season, and not you.
| Guess: |
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Yeats |
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For about two
thousand
five hundred years Sappho has held her place as not
only the supreme poet of her sex, but the chief lyrist of all lyrists.
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Sappho |
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What had Death in store to awe
Those eyes, that huge sea-beasts
unmelting
saw,
Saw the swelling of the surge,
And high Ceraunian cliffs, the seaman's scourge?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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finished so tragically his
unfortunate
life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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But 'tis the spouse's part to take the cup;
And first that vessel's cordial
beverage
sup.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Souls who dare use their immortality--
Souls who dare look the
Omnipotent
tyrant in
His everlasting face, and tell him that
His evil is not good!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Come to the
luxuriant
skies,
Whilst the landscape's odours rise,
Whilst far-off lowing herds are heard
And songs when toil is done,
From cottages whose smoke unstirr'd
Curls yellow in the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
27 _Castor_ D,
Diomedes
p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Your flight from out your bookless wilds would seem
As arguing love of
knowledge
and of power;
Your language proves you still the child.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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We reached a hundred and twenty once in the Court at noon,
(I've
mentioned
Pagett was portly) Pagett, went off in a swoon.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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But I wonder
If, from its being kept forever under,
These
thoughts
may not have risen that so keep
This new-built city from both work and sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Ainsi l'amant sur un corps adore
Du
souvenir
cueille la fleur exquise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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s
tortuous
route in flight to Chengdu.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
XX
"Franks, chevaliers," says the Emperour then, Charles,
"Choose ye me out a baron from my marches,
To
Marsilie
shall carry back my answer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Whiffs of delectable fragrance swim by;
Spice-laden
vagrants
that float and entice,
Tickling the throat and brimming the eye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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"They'll care not how, or when, or at what
You sighed, laughed,
suffered
here,
Though you feel more in an hour of the spot
Than they will feel in a year
"As I look on at you here, now,
Shall I look on at these;
But as to our old times, avow
No knowledge--hold my peace!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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However I with thee have fixt my Lot,
Certain to
undergoe
like doom, if Death
Consort with thee, Death is to mee as Life;
So forcible within my heart I feel
The Bond of Nature draw me to my owne,
My own in thee, for what thou art is mine;
Our State cannot be severd, we are one,
One Flesh; to loose thee were to loose my self.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
(Your
Highness
knows our homely word)
Millions for self-government,
But for tribute never a cent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Perhaps the Two Dogs
of
Cervantes
gave the first hint.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
" he replies,
"I scan all thy domain;
But since nor joy nor pain
Doth my clear
substance
recognize,
I read thy realms in vain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed,
The
mustering
squadron, and the clattering car,
Went pouring forward with impetuous speed,
And swiftly forming in the ranks of war;
And the deep thunder peal on peal afar;
And near, the beat of the alarming drum
Roused up the soldier ere the morning star;
While thronged the citizens with terror dumb,
Or whispering, with white lips--'The foe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
And
what comfort is there for controlled desire and unspent
passion?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Which in expressing, we
ourselves
betray !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Moi je ne peux plus croire,
Quand j'ai deux bonnes mains, mon front et mon marteau
Qu'un homme vienne la, dague sur le manteau,
Et me dise: Mon gars,
ensemence
ma terre;
Que l'on arrive encor, quand ce serait la guerre,
De prendre mon garcon comme cela, chez moi!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
It is a plausible view that he is also the
author of the remarkable _Peruigilium Veneris_--that poem
proceeds
at
any rate from the school to which Tiberianus belongs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
I haue giuen Sucke, and know
How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me,
I would, while it was smyling in my Face,
Haue pluckt my Nipple from his
Bonelesse
Gummes,
And dasht the Braines out, had I so sworne
As you haue done to this
Macb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
_CROSSING
BROOKLYN
FERRY.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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De quel droit payes-tu des
experiences
comme moi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Habitavi
cum
habitantibus Cedar; multum incola fuit aninia mea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Civilis was afraid that, if he killed him, he might
offend his countrymen, while if he spared him his
presence
would give
rise to dissension; so he sent him off by sea to the Frisii.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
The master knows that he is
unspeakably
great, and that
all are unspeakably great--that nothing, for instance, is greater than to
conceive children, and bring them up well--that to be is just as great as
to perceive or tell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
)
I see Freedom, completely arm'd and
victorious
and very haughty,
with Law on one side and Peace on the other,
A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste;
What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
And if we cannot sing, we'll say
Something
to the purpose, jay!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
_The Mother_
The only fault my husband found with me--
I went to sleep before I went to bed,
Especially
in winter when the bed
Might just as well be ice and the clothes snow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Wilbur's elbow,
ticklers
of.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
To vilayn speche in no degree 2225
Lat never thy lippe
unbounden
be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Und alles, was dazu gehort,
Es sind gar
wunderbare
Sachen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
She had a rustic,
woodland
air,
And she was wildly clad;
Her eyes were fair, and very fair,
--Her beauty made me glad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
And well she knew, to herself bitterly smiling,
How the King seated amid his fellow-kings
Devised his grievous rage, feeling himself
Insulted in his dearest mind, his rule
Over the
precious
pleasure of his women
Wounded: how the man's wrath would hiss and swell
Like gross spittle spat into red-hot coals.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
" 15
The pendent grapes
glittered
above the door;--
On he must pace, perchance 'till night descend,
Where'er the dreary roads their bare white lines extend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
BRAVE infant of Saguntum, clear
Thy coming forth in that great year,
When the prodigious
Hannibal
did crown
His cage, with razing your immortal town.
| 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 |
|
Money, root of ill,
Doubt it not, still grows apace:
Yet the scant heap has
somewhat
lacking still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
If I glance up
it is written on the walls,
it is cut on the floor,
it is
patterned
across
the slope of the roof.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Down plumbed the shuttled ledger, and the quill
On the
quicksilver
water lay dead still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
To which "They call me what they will," he said:
"But I was born too late: the fair new forms,
That float about the
threshold
of an age,
Like truths of Science waiting to be caught--
Catch me who can, and make the catcher crown'd--
Are taken by the forelock.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
I took thee as my staff to guide
Me on the road I did pursue,
And when my
weakness
most relied
Upon its strength it broke in two.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
"Here Lisbon's
spacious
harbour meets the view:
How vast the foe's, the Lusian fleet how few!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
_
Through the flats of Hades where the souls assemble
He will guide the Death-steed calm between their ranks,
While, like beaten dogs, they a little moan and tremble
To see the
darkness
curdle from the horse's glittering flanks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
All these did conquer; but the ones
Who
overcame
most times
Wear nothing commoner than snow,
No ornament but palms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
430
But you also know with what a
scornful
air
I regarded the suspicious conqueror's care.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Back, as a hand that pushes through the leaf
To find a nest and feels a snake, he drew:
Back, as a coward slinks from what he fears
To cope with, or a traitor proven, or hound
Beaten, did Pelleas in an utter shame
Creep with his shadow through the court again,
Fingering
at his sword-handle until he stood
There on the castle-bridge once more, and thought,
'I will go back, and slay them where they lie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Project
Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive
specific
permission.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR
UNDER THIS
AGREEMENT
WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT,
INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE
NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Sea Garden, by Hilda Doolittle
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Now, when I read, I read not,
For
interrupting
tears
Obliterate the etchings
Too costly for repairs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
"
Quoth she, and
whistled
thrice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
To Vashti, to the Queen of the world, to her
In whom the
striving
beauty of the world
Hath made perfection, from the King I come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
FRANCISCAE
MEAE LAUDES.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Thou His image ever see,
Heavenly
face that smiles on thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
He
wondered
first, then pitied, then he loved :
And with kind hand does the coy vision press.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
At foot
Of a magnificent castle we arriv'd,
Seven times with lofty walls begirt, and round
Defended by a
pleasant
stream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
34, only 19 comprise the standard text block; the rest are
marginal
additions, with 2 sizeable columns at the foot of the page, a 5-line stanza written up the lower righthand side of the page, and 2 additional larger stanzas appearing in the lefthand margin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
V
Night Song at Amalfi
I asked the heaven of stars
What I should give my love--
It
answered
me with silence,
Silence above.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
And when the welcome simmer shower
Has cheer'd ilk drooping little flower,
We'll to the
breathing
woodbine bower,
At sultry noon, my Dearie, O.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
And why it
scatters
its bright beauty thro the humid air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
University of
California
Berkeley
?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Joy tunes his voice, joy
elevates
his wings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
"If equal honours by the partial skies
Are doom'd both heroes, (Juno thus replies,)
If Thetis' son must no
distinction
know,
Then hear, ye gods!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Sie schiebt sich langsam nur vom Ort,
Sie scheint mit
geschlossnen
Fussen zu gehen.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
But indeed
For an
immortal
perils are there none.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Next, since by nature always every weight
Bears downward, doubled is the
swiftness
then
And that elan is still more wild and dread,
When, verily, to weight are added blows,
So that more madly and more fiercely then
The thunderbolt shakes into shivers all
That blocks its path, following on its way.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
But through the clefts itself has made,
We likewise see Love's
flashing
blade
By rust consumed, or snapt in twain:
And only hilt and stump remain.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
There can be no doubt, I think, that the 1633
text is here correct, though for
clearness
a comma must be inserted
after 'reasons'.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Donne |
|
But when thy glance rests on me then my whole
Being
quickens
and blooms like trees in May.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
The ears are senseless that should give us bearing
To tell him his commandment is fulfill'd
That Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern
are dead.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
The Phoenix was the
mythical
bird that rose again from the ashes of its own immolation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
A peaceful
rumbling
there,
The town's at our feet.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Herman
received
it and at once left
the table.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
"
exclaims
the impatient heir,
And sighs for sables which he must not wear.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Byron |
|
Toward the hall with her
attendant
train
She moved, and when, most graceful of her sex,
Where sat the suitors she arrived, between
The columns standing of the stately dome, 490
And covering with her white veil's lucid folds
Her features, to Antinous thus she spake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Why, Troilus, what
thenkestow
to done?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
What holy mystery e'er was noosed in
thought?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Schulze: _Ametina_ Haupt:
_Anniana_
Schwabe || _defututa_ DOG:
_defutura_ cett.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Haste thee nymph, and bring with thee
Jest and
youthful
Jollity,
Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles,
Nods, and Becks, and Wreathed Smiles,
Such as hang on Hebe's cheek,
And love to live in dimple sleek; 30
Sport that wrincled Care derides,
And Laughter holding both his sides.
| Guess: |
|
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CXVI cum CXV
continuant
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He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all abroad, --
They looked like
frightened
beads, I thought;
He stirred his velvet head
Like one in danger; cautious,
I offered him a crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home
Than oars divide the ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or butterflies, off banks of noon,
Leap, plashless, as they swim.
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Fondly these attach
A radical
causation
to a few
Poor drudges of chastising Providence,
Who borrow all their hues and qualities
From our own folly and rank wickedness,
Which gave them birth and nursed them.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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There
pilgrims
climb slowly one by one,
And behind them a blind man goes:
With him I will walk till day is done
Up the pathway that no one knows .
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Rilke - Poems |
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O skilful Death and full of bitterness,
Well mayst thou boast that thou the best chevalier That any folk e'er had, hast from us taken;
Sith nothing is that unto worth pertaineth
But had its life in the young English King,
And better were it, should God grant his
pleasure
That he should live than many a living dastard That doth but wound the good with ire and sadness.
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: 1) _forfeited to death,
allotted
to death by fate_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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I hear the beat
Of their pinions fleet,
As from the land of snow and sleet
They seek a
southern
lea.
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Longfellow |
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Aucassin and
Nicolette
has a similar context.
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Troubador Verse |
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It also tells you how
you can
distribute
copies of this etext if you want to.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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