Will those bright eyes
With
gladness
come, which, weeping, made me haste
To succour thee, thou mayst or seat thee down,
Or wander where thou wilt.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Paradiso
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Spurreynge
his palfrie oere the watrie plaine.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
He said, and fired their
heavenly
breasts with rage.
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Iliad - Pope |
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He died at an
advanced
age in Montpellier.
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Troubador Verse |
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Victorious
then in every solemn game,
Ordain'd to Amarynces' mighty name;
The brave Epeians gave my glory way,
?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Swallows check their winding flight,
And
twittering
on the chimney light.
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John Clare |
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" A blow from an unthought-of
quarter, one of those
terrible
accidents which peculiarly mark the
hand of Omnipotence, overset your career, and laid all your fancied
honours in the dust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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"In heaven's name where is Marya
Ivanofna?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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II
But, be it a hint of rose
That an instant hues her,
Or some early light or pose
Wherewith
thought renews her--
Seen by him at full, ere woes
Practised to abuse her--
Sparely comes it, swiftly goes,
Time again subdues her.
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| Question: |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Let the
superstitious
wife
Near the child's heart lay a knife:
Point be up, and haft be down
(While she gossips in the town);
This, 'mongst other mystic charms,
Keeps the sleeping child from harms.
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| Question: |
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Robert Herrick |
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LYCIDAS
But surely I had heard
That where the hills first draw from off the plain,
And the high ridge with gentle slope descends,
Down to the brook-side and the broken crests
Of yonder veteran beeches, all the land
Was by the songs of your
Menalcas
saved.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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To mortal combat I defy you both
Singly; or, if you will, I'm nothing loth
With two
together
to contend; choose here
From out the heap what weapon shall appear
Most fit.
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Hugo - Poems |
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' too,
And into the grassy ditch's tomb
Fall great and small to their doom,
Seeing the corpses twice run through
By lances on which
pennants
loom.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Yet the sibyl with
Latinate
face still sleeps
Under the arch of Constantine
- And the austere portico nothing disturbs.
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| Question: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Experience, this; by man's
oppression
curst,
They seek the second not to lose the first.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Special rules, set forth
below, apply if you wish to copy and
distribute
this eBook
under the "PROJECT GUTENBERG" trademark.
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| Question: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a
replacement
copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates
the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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She had never
really died; she only had a sort of nervous
catalepsy
induced by all the
"suggestion" of death by which she was surrounded.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Das ist noch lange nicht voruber,
Ich kenn es wohl, so klingt das ganze Buch;
Ich habe manche Zeit damit verloren,
Denn ein vollkommner Widerspruch
Bleibt gleich
geheimnisvoll
fur Kluge wie fur Toren.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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A noble
picture!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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A smile suffused Jehovah's face;
The
cherubim
withdrew;
Grave saints stole out to look at me,
And showed their dimples, too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
| 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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*Tis not a freedom that, where all command,
Nor tyranny, where one does them withstand ;
* Marine meteors, which Portuguese
nuiriners
call the
Bodies of the Saints; corpos santos.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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toward us in a bark
Comes on an old man hoary white with eld,
Crying, "Woe to you wicked
spirits!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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No, though more suasive than the bard of Thrace
You swept the lyre that trees were fain to hear,
Ne'er should the blood revisit his pale face
Whom once with wand severe
Mercury has folded with the sons of night,
Untaught
to prayer Fate's prison to unseal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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R sed uix ab eadem
manu
6 _truf_(_ff_
a)_antem_
Da: _crissantem_ marg.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Dolphins, playing in the sea
Hurling his ink at skies above,
Medusas,
miserable
heads
In your pools, and in your ponds,
The female of the Halcyon,
Do I know where your ennui's from, Sirens,
Dove, both love and spirit
In spreading out his fan, this bird,
My poor heart's an owl
Yes, I'll pass fearful shadows
This cherubim sings the praises
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Below us, on the rock-edge,
where earth is caught in the fissures
of the jagged cliff,
a small tree stiffens in the gale,
it bends--but its white flowers
are
fragrant
at this height.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
The
yellowhammer
never makes a noise
But flies in silence from the noisy boys;
The boys will come and take them every day,
And still she lays as none were ta'en away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Call hyther brave Coernyke; he, as warde
Of thys mie
Brystowe
castle, wyll doe welle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Rejoice: forever you'll be
The Princess of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a
gurgling
spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Thus thou, by means which th'Ancients never took,
A Pandect makest, and
Vniversall
Booke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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slakke {and}
delitable sou{n} of
strenges
how ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Orpheus
invented
all the sciences, all the arts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Either to please me, or torment ;
For thou alone, to people me,
Art grown a
numerous
colony.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers, pleasant in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit -
somewhat
deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Above, the pilasters are like to bars,
And, through their gaps, the dead look at the stars,
While, till the dawn, around Nitrocis' bones,
Spectres
hold council, crouching on the stones.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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--"Your hands were like paws then, your face blue and bleak,
But now I'm
bewitched
by your delicate cheek,
And your little gloves fit as on any la-dy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
He can then be restored only by an appeal to
the Highest Honor or
Magnificence
(Prince Arthur) through the good offices
of Truth and Common Sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Again, it was exclusive
not inclusive, since its object was, evidently, not the meritorious if
impossible one of attempting to be a
compendium
of present-day American
verse.
| 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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Am I thus
whitened
by the toil of battles
To witness in a day but withered laurels?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Whenn gentle wyndes doe blowe, to
whestlyng
dynne ys broughte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Wife and
children
all are there,
To revive with pleasant looks,
Table ready set, and chair,
Supper hanging on the hooks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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There is
still a something in the
distance
which he has been unable to attain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Or haue we eaten on the insane Root,
That takes the Reason
Prisoner?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
To smash legends, Eugene Crepet's biographical study, first printed in
1887, has been
republished
with new notes by his son, Jacques Crepet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
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: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
When Herod-Henry first
Began to batter at your English Church,
This was the cause, and hence the
judgment
on her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Yet though in light he dwell, no light was this
He showed to thee, but
darkness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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It would seem, from the present passage of Tacitus, that there were some legal forms taken in the case of Silanus, and that Julius
Graecinus
was ordered to be the accuser; and that that noble-minded man, refusing to take part in proceedings so cruel and iniquitous, was himself put to death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Thou drawest breath
Even now, long past thy portioned hour of death,
By
murdering
her .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Or let those men
confess, that you are not well
affected
to Rome in permitting her to do
things by which she suffers damage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
349:
'Since I
withdrew
unwillingly from France.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Aricia
Am I to believe a man, prior to his dying breath,
Could
penetrate
to the deep house of the dead?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
I
shall trouble your lordship with the
subjoined
copy of them, which, I
am afraid, will be but too convincing a proof how unequal I am to the
task.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of The House of Atreus, by AEschylus
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most
other parts of the world 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: |
Aeschylus |
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Songs can the very moon draw down from heaven
Circe with singing changed from human form
The
comrades
of Ulysses, and by song
Is the cold meadow-snake, asunder burst.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
_ And that
Is more than I can say for Madame Idenstein,
At least in beauty: as for majesty,
She has some of its
properties
which might
Be spared--but never mind!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
[3]
The
fragrant
tresses are not stirr'd
That lie upon her charmed heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
"
But out of the woods as night grew cool
A brown pig came to the little pool;
It grunted and
splashed
and waded in
And the deepest place but reached its chin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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[From an
autograph
MS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of
the intellect--simply a
confession
of failure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
--
O, horrible,
appalling
woe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
But now in every road on every side
We see your
straight
and steadfast signpost there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
O quick to prize me Love, how
suddenly
From out the tumult truth hath ta'en his own, And in this vision is our past unrolled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
when crafty eyes thy reason
With
sorceries
sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's mysterious season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
* * * * *
THE POEM
The little
hedgerow
birds,
That peck along the road, regard him not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
He said Burns had little to learn in
matters of levity, when he became
acquainted
with him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
NURSE'S SONG
When voices of children are heard on the green,
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And
everything
else is still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Don't close the
shutters
so soon.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
is tyme
twelmonyth
?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
The music of thy tongue I heard,
Nor wist while it enslav'd me;
I saw thine eyes, yet nothing fear'd,
Till fear no more had sav'd me:
The unwary sailor thus, aghast,
The wheeling torrent viewing,
'Mid circling horrors yields at last
To
overwhelming
ruin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Geseah þā be wealle, sē þe worna fela,
gum-cystum gōd, gūða gedīgde,
2545 hilde-hlemma, þonne hnitan fēðan,
(stōd on stān-bogan) strēam ūt þonan
brecan of beorge; wæs þǣre burnan wælm
heaðo-fȳrum hāt: ne meahte horde nēah
unbyrnende ǣnige hwīle
2550 dēop
gedȳgan
for dracan lēge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
To learn more about the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
The
rosemary
nods upon the grave;
The lily lolls upon the wave;
Wrapping the fog about its breast,
The ruin moulders into rest;
Looking like Lethe, see!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Poetry is reality's essence visioned and made manifest by one endowed
with a perception acutely
sensitive
to sound, form, and colour, and
gifted with a power to shape into rhythmic and rhymed verbal symbols the
reaction to Life's phenomena.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
The Jews took to themselves the
promised
destiny, and even defeat
could not convince them of the truth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
But the poor women suffer, you must own:
A
bachelor
is hard of reformation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Indeed, indeed,
Repentance
oft before
I swore--but was I sober when I swore?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
In
lodgings
by the Sea.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Her every turn with
violence
pursued,
Nor more a storm her hate than gratitude:
To that each passion turns, or soon or late;
Love, if it makes her yield, must make her hate:
Superiors?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
"
This criticism is not very trenchant, but its weakness is due, I think,
more to
timidity
of statement than to lack of perception.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
My
nosegays
are for captives;
Dim, long-expectant eyes,
Fingers denied the plucking,
Patient till paradise,
To such, if they should whisper
Of morning and the moor,
They bear no other errand,
And I, no other prayer.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Sometimes
a clockwork puppet pressed
A phantom lover to her breast,
Sometimes they seemed to try to sing.
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Wilde - Poems |
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thy chariot flew
Before the king: he, cautious, backward drew
His horse compell'd;
foreboding
in his fears
The rattling ruin of the clashing cars,
The floundering coursers rolling on the plain,
And conquest lost through frantic haste to gain.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Houghton, Mifflin & Company 4 Park Street Boston
NOTICE
So scarce are back num bers of CONTEMPORARY
Here is what literary critics say about
Contemporary
Verse:
"Slender in bulk — but it contains good poems.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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While I am lying on the grass,
I hear thy
restless
shout:
From hill to hill it seems to pass,
About, and all about!
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THE
AMERICAN
PEOPLE:
What guff are you giving us, Captain?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Sweet are the
blooming
cheeks of the living, sweet are the musical voices
sounding;
But sweet, ah sweet, are the dead, with their silent eyes.
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Whitman |
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(So call him, for so mingling blame with praise
And smiles with anxious looks, his earliest friends,
Masking his birth-name, wont to character
His wild-wood fancy and impetuous zeal)
'Tis true that, passionate for ancient truths,
And honouring with religious love the Great
Of older times, he hated to excess,
With an unquiet and intolerant scorn,
The hollow puppets of an hollow age,
Ever idolatrous, and changing ever
Its
worthless
idols!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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_Il mal mi preme, e mi
spaventa
il peggio.
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