Well now I'm up, you must
dispense
with the fascinating
Congleton for a while.
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| Question: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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hraðe wæs tō
būre
Bēowulf
fetod, 1311.
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| Question: |
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Beowulf |
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A pipe have I, of hemlock-stalks compact
In
lessening
lengths, Damoetas' dying-gift:
'Mine once,' quoth he, 'now yours, as heir to own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Never the heart of spring had
trembled
so
As on that day when first in Paradise
We went afoot as novices to know
For the first time what blue was in the skies,
What fresher green than any in the grass,
And how the sap goes beating to the sun,
And tell how on the clocks of beauty pass
Minute by minute till the last is done.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But ere the circle
homeward
hies
Far, far must it remove:
White in the moon the long road lies
That leads me from my love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown,
And the
grossness
of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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The gods themselves and the
almightier
fates
Cannot avail to harm
With outward and misfortunate chance 5
The radiant unshaken mind of him
Who at his being's centre will abide,
Secure from doubt and fear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Petersburg, where he was
the friend and schoolmate of Prince
Gortchakoff
the Russian
Chancellor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Halcyon
daughter
of the skies,
Far on fearful wings she flies,
From the pomp of Sceptered State,
From the Rebel's noisy hate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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lest the world should task you to recite
What merit lived in me, that you should love
After my death,--dear love, forget me quite,
For you in me can nothing worthy prove;
Unless you would devise some virtuous lie,
To do more for me than mine own desert,
And hang more praise upon deceased I
Than niggard truth would
willingly
impart:
O!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
s
earliest
poem to Yan Wu ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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And see, by their track,
bleeding
footprints we know.
| 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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They are _Two Stories of Prague_,
_The Touch of Life_ and _The Last_; three volumes of short stories; a
two-act drama, _The Daily Life_, points to a strong Maeterlinck
influence, and finally
_Stories
of God_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Before he was nine he was nominated for Colston's
Hospital, a local school where the Bluecoat dress was worn and at
which the 'three Rs' were taught but very little else, so that the
boy, disappointed of the hope of knowledge,
complained
he could
work better at home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Quali
fioretti
dal notturno gelo
chinati e chiusi, poi che 'l sol li 'mbianca,
si drizzan tutti aperti in loro stelo,
tal mi fec' io di mia virtude stanca,
e tanto buono ardire al cor mi corse,
ch'i' cominciai come persona franca:
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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And on the wall, by the seat,
Break the
entangled
ivy,
Scatter buds for a carpet,
Let all be balmy and sweet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
And I was loading you
with
chaplets
and gifts!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Warn't it more prof'table to bring your raw materil thru
Where you can work it inta grace an' inta cotton, tu,
Than sendin'
missionaries
out where fevers might defeat 'em,
An' ef the butcher didn' call, their p'rishioners might eat 'em?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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O ever failing trust
In mortal
strength!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
'Thou servest a ful noble lord,
That maketh thee thral for thy reward, 4640
Which ay
renewith
thy turment,
With foly so he hath thee blent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Come now to my castle, and we shall
enjoy together the
festivities
of the New Year" (ll.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
War once had for its
instrument
the sword:
But now 't is made, taking the bread away
Which the good Father locks from none.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
For how do I hold thee but by thy
granting?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
"
Not long that music lingers:
Like the breath of
forgotten
singers
It flies,--or like the March-cloud's shadow
That sweeps with its wing the faded meadow
Not long!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
He's mad that trusts in the
tameness
of a wolf, a horse's
health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
TO INDIA
O young through all thy
immemorial
years!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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For some are by the Delhi walls,
And many in the Afghan land,
And many where the Ganges falls
Through seven mouths of
shifting
sand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
" Lycius replied,
'Tis
Apollonius
sage, my trusty guide
And good instructor; but to-night he seems
The ghost of folly haunting my sweet dreams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Li T'ai-po was, I am afraid,
a bit of a Bohemian (laughter), and his Bacchanalian experiences have
been
repeated
in later days even with the great poets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
The flight of Cranes is most
famously
mentioned in Homer's Iliad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
'T was sooner when the cricket went
Than when the winter came,
Yet that
pathetic
pendulum
Keeps esoteric time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
_]
Long, long after,
When
settlers
put up beam and rafter,
They asked of the birds: "Who gave this fruit?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Various tongues,
Horrible languages, outcries of woe,
Accents of anger, voices deep and hoarse,
With hands
together
smote that swell'd the sounds,
Made up a tumult, that for ever whirls
Round through that air with solid darkness stain'd,
Like to the sand that in the whirlwind flies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
I stood in the porch and heard how the deacon
cried out:--Grishka Otrepiev is
anathema!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
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 |
|
As their families increase, the stronger
commit depredations on the weaker; and thus from generation to
generation, they who either dread just punishment or unjust oppression,
fly farther and farther in search of that protection which is only to be
found in
civilized
society.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
He was emotionally and
artistically
unable to forge a finished work from them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
"
After a few more remarks the officer walked up to the window where
Lisaveta
Ivanovna
sat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
And that must proceed
from
ripeness
of judgment, which, as one truly saith, is gotten by four
means, God, nature, diligence, and conversation.
| 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 |
|
Abyssinia, Egypt, Syria, Persia, and
Armenia were
perplexed
with this unhappy dispute, and from the earliest
times these countries have had a commercial intercourse with India.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
-- Which, by the way, reminds me how
I caught this
dreadful
hacking cough:
"I cut off the tail of my Ulster furred
To make young Kris a coat of state.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
You are, and doe not know't:
The Spring, the Head, the
Fountaine
of your Blood
Is stopt, the very Source of it is stopt
Macd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
"
This, this the saving doctrine,
preached
to all,
From low St.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
How strong the Dutch their
equipage
renew ;
Meantime through all the yards their orders run.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
A moment guessed--then back behind the Fold
Immerst of
Darkness
round the Drama roll'd
Which, for the Pastime of Eternity,
He doth Himself contrive, enact, behold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
82, 83, for a
discussion
of ll.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
If their
friend consent not to their vices, though he do not contradict them, he
is
nevertheless
an enemy.
| 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 |
|
When Caesar's self in
peaceful
town
The weary veteran's home has made,
You bid him lay his helmet down
And rest in your Pierian shade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Gryphon remained, and sullied with the scorn
Esteemed
himself, which on his mate was shed;
And rather than be there, he, in his ire,
Would gladly find himself i' the midst of fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
There is peace
In homeward waters, where at last the weary
Shall find rebirth, and their long
struggle
cease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Now
fighting
solely in my own cause,
You ask my death and I accept your laws.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
"
I bore it--bore it like a man--
This
agonizing
witticism!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
And cruel was the grief that played
With the queen's spirit; and she said:
"What do I hear,
reigning
alone?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
_See Note_]
[17 then thou knew'st when _1669_]
[19 must] doe _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_,
_O'F_, _P_, _TC_]
[20 Prophane,]
Profaness
_A18_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_,
_S96_, _TC_]
[24 feare's as strong _1635-54_, _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_,
_Lec_, _TCC:_ feares are strong _1669_, _B_, _Cy_, _O'F_, _P_,
_S_, _S96:_ feare is strong, _N_, _TCD_]
[26 have.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
"You are aware of the great barrier in the path of an
American
writer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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inde coronatas ubi ture
piaueris
aras,
luxerit et tota flamma secunda domo,
sit mensae ratio, noxque inter pocula currat,
et crocino naris murrea pungat onyx.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
35 Seeing Off Zheng Qian (18) Who Has Been
Banished
to the Post of Revenue Manager in Taizhou.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
The city was held by the
Archduke
Leopold for the
Emperor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
XXIX
Fast, fast, with heels wild spurning,
The dark-gray charger fled:
He burst through ranks of
fighting
men,
He sprang o'er heaps of dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the
beginning
of his four and a half year residence in Italy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Oh,
sweetest
mine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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That through the gross and murky air I spied
A shape come swimming up, that might have quell'd
The stoutest heart with wonder, in such guise
As one returns, who hath been down to loose
An anchor
grappled
fast against some rock,
Or to aught else that in the salt wave lies,
Who upward springing close draws in his feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
I adjure you, take that fearful Gorgon
somewhat
farther away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Is there a sky
overhead?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
I went with more, and kissed her for the last,
And thought with tears on
pleasures
that were past;
And, the last kindness left me then to do,
I went, at milking, where the blossoms grew,
And handfuls got of rose and lambtoe sweet,
And put them with her in her winding-sheet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
This only help I find amid Love's strife;
Wherefore
it me behoves to live my life
In arms, which else from me too rapid goes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
She
Had by the gods since time out of mind at their
banquets
been dreaded,
Yelling with brassiest voice orders to great and to small.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Have you got a brook in your little heart,
Where bashful flowers blow,
And
blushing
birds go down to drink,
And shadows tremble so?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
_General
Treatment of the Plot_
For the main plot we have no direct source.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Have you no mite to give away,
So the poor may eat on
Christmas
Day?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Thinks I, while I smoke my pipe
Here beside the
tumbling
Fleet,
Apples drop when they are ripe,
And when they drop are they most sweet.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Villon |
|
' they cried, 'The world is wide,
But
fettered
limbs go lame!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Most of his
familiar
short poems are in the old
style, which neglects the formal arrangement of tones.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Li Po |
|
La foule
Pres de cet homme-la se sentait l'ame soule,
Et, dans la grande cour, dans les appartements,
Ou Paris
haletait
avec des hurlements,
Un frisson secoua l'immense populace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious,
Not once
vouchsafe
to hide my will in thine?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Madden's Preface to his
edition of "Syr Gawayne," which also contains a sketch of the very
different views taken of Sir Gawayne by the
different
Romance writers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
he loved as in our times
Men love no more, as only the
Mad spirit of the man who rhymes
Is still condemned in love to be;
One image occupied his mind,
Constant affection intertwined
And an habitual sense of pain;
And distance
interposed
in vain,
Nor years of separation all
Nor homage which the Muse demands
Nor beauties of far distant lands
Nor study, banquet, rout nor ball
His constant soul could ever tire,
Which glowed with virginal desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
the
remembering
wine;
Retrieve the loss of me and mine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
EXPLICIT
LIBER PRIMUS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
"There is a sense of the word Love," he wrote
to
Wordsworth
in 1812, "in which I never felt it but to you and one of your
household.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the
palpitating
air!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Once lately, when someone was singing,
Suddenly
I heard a verse--
Before I had time to catch the words
A pain had stabbed my heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
"
"How can you expect me to be
thinking?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
The
song already referred to
possesses
delicacy and some beauty of imagery,
but lacks Jonson's customary polish and smoothness.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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did we stop
discouraged
nodding
on our way?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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How seriously we may
take this swing of the
pendulum
is to be noted in a speech of the poet's
at the time of the Revolution: "Come," he said, "let us go shoot General
Aupick!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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It is to these passages that Carlyle refers in his _Past and
Present_: 'A certain degree of soul, as Ben Jonson reminds us,
is indispensable to keep the very body from
destruction
of the
frightfulest sort; to 'save us,' says he, 'the expense of salt.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"
[Sidenote A: Sir Gawayne, in answer to
questions
put to him,]
[Sidenote B: tells the prince that he is of Arthur's court.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And
wherefore
ride ye in such guise
Before the ranks of Rome?
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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glancing
round he sees Cloanthus
passing up behind and keeping nearer.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"For it is wrought of pure
unmingled
light,
Dipped in the white flame whence all flame is born--
The flame that makes all eyes, though diamond-bright,
Seem obscure mirrors, darkened and forlorn.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Our
knocking
ha's awak'd him: here he comes
Lenox.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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