Why good wits ne'r weare scarlet gownes, I thought
This cause, These men, mens wits for
speeches
buy,
And women buy all reds which scarlets die.
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John Donne |
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Their passes more alluring to the view
Of an
invader?
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Byron |
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So the memory of that dawn to me
When we ended our hostility,
And a most precious gift she gave,
Her loving
friendship
and her ring:
Let me live long enough, I pray,
Beneath her cloak my hand to bring.
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Troubador Verse |
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e
emperour
al-so
Ne my?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Hearke, who lyes i'th' second
Chamber?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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A DREAM
Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass
methought
I lay.
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blake-poems |
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" And the daughter
answered
gently,
"Yes, dear.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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t
certeyne
welle of alle ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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If thought is life
And
strength
and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Keats - Lamia |
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No long
discourse
together may we have;
Full well I know, Charles waits not our attack,
I take the glove from you, in spite of that.
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Chanson de Roland |
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'
The morrow dawned with needless glow;
Each snowbird chirped, each fowl must crow;
Each tramper started; but the feet
Of the most
beautiful
and sweet
Of human youth had left the hill
And garden,--they were bound and still.
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Emerson - Poems |
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His friends
rallied, and they were among the most
distinguished
people in Paris, the
elite of souls.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The liberty and even the life of the
insolvent were at the mercy of the
Patrician
money-lenders.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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He gathered all that springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling,
seasoned
sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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UPON THE HILL
A hundred miles of landscape spread before me like a fan;
Hills behind naked hills, bronze light of evening on them shed;
How many
thousand
ages have these summits spied on man?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Like to a forest felled by
mountain
winds;
And such the storm of battle on this day,
And such the frenzy, whose convulsion blinds
To all save carnage, that, beneath the fray,
An earthquake reeled unheededly away!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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But that Empire, so grand, so
glorious
a prize, 575
Is not the dearest gift of all, to my eyes.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Why fall the Sparrow & the Robin in the
foodless
winter?
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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--The
mansions
where the great reside:--
And these?
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Pretty
friendship
'tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time
Moping melancholy mad:
Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
Straight
into the river Kwasind
Plunged as if he were an otter,
Dived as if he were a beaver,
Stood up to his waist in water,
To his arm-pits in the river,
Swam and scouted in the river,
Tugged at sunken logs and branches,
With his hands he scooped the sand-bars,
With his feet the ooze and tangle.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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His hat slouched down, and great coat
buttoned
close
Bellied like hooped keg, and chuffy face
Red as the morning sun, he takes his round
And talks of stock: and when his jobs are done
And Dobbin's hay is eaten from the rack,
He drinks success to corn in language hoarse,
And claps old Dobbin's hide, and potters back.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Troy felt his arm, and yon proud
ramparts
stand
Raised on the ruins of his vengeful hand:
With six small ships, and but a slender train,
He left the town a wide-deserted plain.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Within his garden let him wait alone
Where benches stand expectant in the shade
Within the chamber where the lyre was played
Where he
received
you as the eternal One.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The
thoughtful
Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the WHITE HAND OF MOSES on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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So I lose none,
In seeking to augment it, but still keepe
My Bosome franchis'd, and
Allegeance
cleare,
I shall be counsail'd
Macb.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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though in the rural shade
Where at his will, so late, the grey-clad peasant strayed,
Now, clothed in war's
discordant
garb, he sees
The three-striped banner fluctuate on the breeze; 1836.
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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FAUST:
Schlange!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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It appalled, and at the same time
so
confounded
and bewildered me, that many days elapsed before I could
make up my mind to communicate the circumstances to my friend.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Si un rayon me blesse,
Je
succomberai
sur la mousse.
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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What is this sudden cradle song
That
gradually
lulls my poor being?
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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A space is created between them there,
Like a level pass between two hills
That the snowdrift's
whiteness
softly fills,
When the gusts of wind have dropped in winter.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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1922
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER
Fire and Wine Grant Richards (London) 1913
The
Dominant
City Max Goschen (London) 1913
Fool's Gold Max Goschen (London) 1913
The Book of Nature Constable & Co.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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O fairest of Creation, last and best
Of all Gods Works,
Creature
in whom excell'd
Whatever can to sight or thought be found,
Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Once a youthful pair,
Filled with softest care,
Met in garden bright
Where the holy light
Had just removed the
curtains
of the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Her bright hair flames, her burning glances scorch,
And with a daring art at her command
Her whole robe blazes like a fire-brand
From which is stretched each naked arm, awake,
Gleaming and
rattling
like a frightened snake.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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_Condita
qui uere
pectoris euoluo_ Conr.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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"
The
executioners
stayed their hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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It is in vain to seek in this air for energetic
accents capable of
producing
such astonishing effects, for which
strangers are unable to account from the music, which is in itself
uncouth and wild.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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XLIV
So long they fight, and fell revenge pursue,
That
fainting
each, themselves to breathen let,
And oft refreshed, battell oft renue: 385
As when two Bores with rancling malice met,?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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If ever anyone was
deservedly
cursed with an atrocious goat-stench from
armpits, or if limping gout did justly gnaw one, 'tis thy rival, who
occupies himself with your love, and who has stumbled by the marvel of fate
on both these ills.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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SONG AT SANTA CRUZ
Were there lovers in the lanes of Atlantis:
Meeting lips and twining fingers
In the mild
Atlantis
springtime?
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Mine arms enfold
That, which
unswayed
by me grew up and bloomed
To other worlds:
Mine own, and yet so infinitely far.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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for I think I have reason to be the
proudest
son
alive--for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city,
And who has been bold and true?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
Charles the King his snowy beard has clasped,
Remembering his sorrow and damage,
Haughtily
then his people all regards,
In a loud voice he cries with all his heart:
"Barons and Franks, to horse, I say, to arms!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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The officers were angry, the
Regiment
were furious, and the Bandsman
swore--like troopers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Double, double, toyle and trouble,
Fire burne, and
Cauldron
bubble
2 Coole it with a Baboones blood,
Then the Charme is firme and good.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Along that
wilderness
of glass--
No swellings tell that winds may be
Upon some far-off happier sea--
No heavings hint that winds have been
On seas less hideously serene.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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With the
decorative
arts it is not different.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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On the
fifteenth
day the bright moon is full,
On the twentieth day the "toad and hare" wane.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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;
MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE
PHILOLOGICAL
SOCIETY.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But still the elements o' sang
In formless jumble, right an' wrang,
Wild floated in my brain;
'Till on that har'st I said before,
My partner in the merry core,
She rous'd the forming strain:
I see her yet, the sonsie quean,
That lighted up her jingle,
Her witching smile, her pauky een
That gart my heart-strings tingle:
I fired, inspired,
At every
kindling
keek,
But bashing and dashing
I feared aye to speak.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Straight all the mother in her soul awakes,
And, owning her Ulysses, thus she speaks;
'Comest thou, my son, alive, to realms beneath,
The
dolesome
realms of darkness and of death!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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And the brown clay is
runneled
by the rain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Over the breast of the spring, the land, amid cities,
Amid lanes, and through old woods, where lately the violets peeped from the
ground,
spotting
the greydebris;
Amid the grass in the fields each side of the lanes--passing the endless
grass;
Passing the yellow-speared wheat, every grain from its shroud in the
dark-brown fields uprising;
Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards;
Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave,
Night and day journeys a coffin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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The leader then, by thy life,
besought
me
(sad was his soul) in the sea-waves' coil
to play the hero and hazard my being
for glory of prowess: my guerdon he pledged.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
_Der
Gefangene
von Chillon_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
e half, or a
hundreth
of seche
1544 As I am, o?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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She loves Rodrigue, I gave her him again,
Through me
Rodrigue
conquered his disdain;
Having thus forged these lovers' heavy chains,
I wish to see an end to all their pains.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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"
Forthwith
this frame of mine was wrench'd
With a woeful agony,
Which forc'd me to begin my tale
And then it left me free.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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All crime is vulgar, just as all
vulgarity
is crime.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_Arbor
vittoriosa
e trionfale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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I don't blame him for not
sticking
by me--I'm not much of a
man--but I do blame him for not sticking by the Pink Hussars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Girvan is the name of the river that suits the idea of the stanza
best, but Lugar is the most
agreeable
modulation of syllables.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Whether in death he waits for me, I know not;
But it had been an
unforgivable
thing
To have made this the end; not to have gone
To death as unto spousals, leaving life
As one sets down a work faithfully done,
And knows oneself by service justified,
Worthy of love, whether love be or not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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O thou,
Parnassus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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he hoped that Piso would accept the story with
alacrity
and thus commit himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
5b
He now superb with pride superfluous
Shall go
perambulate
the bedrooms all
Like white-robed dovelet or Adonis-love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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The artisans
gathered
about him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
XERXES
Shrill out your
simultaneous
wail!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Shall never the dear land in
prospect
rise,
Or the loved palace glitter in our eyes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Siris,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And hear you paint with endless insolence
His woe, my crime, and your brave
defence?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Let us ask God
To bind the men, whose greed now glares upon her,
In some strange feebleness; surely he will;
Surely not with woman's worst injury
Her noble
obedience
he will reward!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
XIX
"But thy father loves the clashing
Of broadsword and of shield:
He loves to drink the steam that reeks
From the fresh battlefield:
He smiles a smile more dreadful
Than his own dreadful frown,
When he sees the thick black cloud of smoke
Go up from the
conquered
town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Smearing
its gold on
the sky the fire dances, lances itself through the doors, and lisps and
chuckles along the floors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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What gladness, from the gladnesses
Futurity
is spreading under
Thy gladsome sight?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Come to my Womans Brests,
And take my Milke for Gall, you murth'ring Ministers,
Where-euer, in your
sightlesse
substances,
You wait on Natures Mischiefe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Oh, gentle face, radiant with happy smile,
And eager prattling tongue that knows no guile,
Quick changing tears and bliss;
Thy soul expands to catch this new world's light,
Thy mazed eyes to drink each
wondrous
sight,
Thy lips to taste the kiss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
W
[Illustration]
W was a whale
With a very long tail,
Whose
movements
were frantic
Across the Atlantic.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Mie friende, Syr Hughe, whatte
tydynges
brynges thee here?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
PHERES, _his father,
formerly
King but now in retirement_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
He began to figure as an exorcist in 1586, when he
pretended to cast out an evil spirit from
Catherine
Wright of Ridgway
Lane, Derbyshire.
| 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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Discreetly
we worship all powers,
Hoping for favor from each god and each goddess as well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Light laughs the breeze in her castle of sunshine;
Babbles the bee in a stolid ear;
Pipe the sweet birds in
ignorant
cadence, --
Ah, what sagacity perished here!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Race d'Abel, tu crois et broutes
Comme les
punaises
des bois!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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You
answered
questions as smoothly as a rolling ball, 12 you explained, giving the gist of the texts.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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--Je rentre dans la foule
Dans la grande
canaille
effroyable qui roule,
Sire, tes vieux canons sur les sales paves;
--Oh!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But the grim goddess, seizing from her watch-tower the moment of
mischief, seeks the steep farm-roof and sounds the pastoral war-note
from the ridge, straining the infernal cry on her twisted horn; it
spread
shuddering
over all the woodland, and echoed through the deep
forests: the lake of Trivia heard it afar; Nar river heard it with white
sulphurous water, and the springs of Velinus; and fluttered mothers
clasped their children to their breast.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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12
_concinens_
ACD: _continens_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works
possessed
in a physical medium
and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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No hint of mine may hence
To theeward fly: to thy locked sense
Explain none can
Life's pending plan:
Thou wilt thy
ignorant
entry make
Though skies spout fire and blood and nations quake.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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[Till they had drawn the Spectre quite away from Enion]
And drawing in the
Spectrous
life in pride and haughty joy
Thus Enion gave them all her spectrous life in dark despair.
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Blake - Zoas |
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57 CE) allowed three
officers
separate seats in court, one of which was Vice Censor in chief.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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O lover, in this radiant world
Whence is the race of mortal men, 10
So frail, so mighty, and so fond,
That fleets into the vast
unknown?
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Sappho |
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--Oswald, I have loved
To be the friend and father of the oppressed,
A
comforter
of sorrow;--there is something
Which looks like a transition in my soul,
And yet it is not.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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