What then avail their
virtuous
deeds, their thoughts
Of purity, with radiant genius bright,
Or lit with human reason's earthly ray?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
And the
Archbishop
lays on there with his spear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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745
And how his blushes
increased
my sense of shame!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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My heart more love than your
forgetfulness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
_ I accept
For me and for my
daughters
this high part
Which lowly shall be counted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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It was no dream; or say a dream it was,
Real are the dreams of Gods, and
smoothly
pass
Their pleasures in a long immortal dream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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That music, I must go nearer--sweet
marvellous
music--louder than the
trampling of the unicorns; far louder, though the mountain is shaking
with their feet--high joyous music.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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LES CORBEAUX
Seigneur, quand froide est la prairie,
Quand dans les hameaux abattus,
Les longs angelus se sont tus
Sur la nature defleurie,
Faites s'abattre des grands cieux
Les chers
corbeaux
delicieux.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Holpe, holpe, yee
seynctes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Po, thou upon thy strong and rapid tide,
This frame
corporeal
mayst onward bear:
But a free spirit is concealed there,
Which nor thy power nor any power can guide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
With
thunders
from her native oak
She quells the floods below--
As they roar on the shore,
When the stormy winds do blow;
When the battle rages loud and long
And the stormy winds do blow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
The
invisible
worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
6
What will be will be well, for what is is well,
To take
interest
is well, and not to take interest shall be well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
You can see the
principle
working in
any Indian Station.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Nay,
question
me no further:
I must be gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
They
stripped
him of his canvas clothes,
And gave him to the flies:
They mocked the swollen purple throat,
And the stark and staring eyes:
And with laughter loud they heaped the shroud
In which their convict lies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Firelight he saw,
beams of a blaze that
brightly
shone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
'--
'Till the strong Prince comes, who must come in time'
(Her women say), 'there's a
mountain
to climb,
A river to ford.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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My task is done--my song hath ceased--my theme
Has died into an echo; it is fit
The spell should break of this
protracted
dream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
II
THE IRONY
'Tis the morrow; the fog hangs thicker,
The postman nears and goes:
A letter is brought whose lines disclose
By the
firelight
flicker
His hand, whom the worm now knows:
Fresh--firm--penned in highest feather--
Page-full of his hoped return,
And of home-planned jaunts by brake and burn
In the summer weather,
And of new love that they would learn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Sooner shalt thou, a
stranger
to thy shape,
Fall prone their equal: first thy danger know,
Then take the antidote the gods bestow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
The orphans of the heart must turn to thee,
Lone mother of dead
empires!
| 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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yet may shine
In
glorious
light,
While sordid sons o' Mammon's line
Are dark as night!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
but from the
Universal
Brotherhood of Eden John I c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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LE CREPUSCULE DU SOIR
Voici le soir charmant, ami du criminel;
Il vient comme un complice, a pas de loup; le ciel
Se ferme
lentement
comme une grande alcove,
Et l'homme impatient se change en bete fauve.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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But I am now in bands of sorrow held,
And of misfortune, having much endured
In war, and
buffeting
the boist'rous waves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
is the
rhetorical
elegance in drafting edicts 3 ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Again, if
it be too little, there ariseth no
pleasure
out of the object; it affords
the view no stay; it is beheld, and vanisheth at once.
| 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 |
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Let whoso hath been With
worthier
works concerned, display his wares !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
It was to Jason,
powerful
king of the Cretans, she granted
Of her immortal self hidden sweet parts to explore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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_Miserable perdu_ that I am, I have tried
everything
that used to
amuse me, but in vain: here must I sit, a monument of the vengeance
laid up in store for the wicked, slowly counting every chick of the
clock as it slowly, slowly, numbers over these lazy scoundrels of
hours, who, d----n them, are ranked up before me, every one at his
neighbour's backside, and every one with a burthen of anguish on his
back, to pour on my devoted head--and there is none to pity me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Bro: For certain
Either som one like us night-founder'd here,
Or els som
neighbour
Wood-man, or at worst,
Som roaving robber calling to his fellows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
In the deeper poets it is
oppressed
by more Roman ideals.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Nam velut in summo quatientem brachia Tauro 105
Quercum aut conigeram sudanti cortice pinum
Indomitum
turben contorquens flamine robur
Eruit (illa procul radicitus exturbata
Prona cadit, late quast impetus obvia frangens),
Sic domito saevom prostravit corpore Theseus 110
Nequiquam vanis iactantem cornua ventis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
"
That
doubtful
Old Man of th' Abruzzi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
It is a land of
poverty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
quem modo cantantem rutilo
spargebat
acantho
Nais et implicitos comebat pectine crinis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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FAUST:
Suss
Liebchen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Quite an
extensive
catalogue;
Mostly, however, books of our own;
As Gariopontus' Passionarius,
And the writings of Matthew Platearius;
And a volume universally known
As the Regimen of the School of Salern,
For Robert of Normandy written in terse
And very elegant Latin verse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
And as they were speaking
together I inquired of them saying, "Is this indeed the Blessed
City, where each man lives
according
to the Scriptures?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
An
individual
is as superb as a nation when he
has the qualities which make a superb nation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
So shall I pass into the feast
Not touched by King,
Merchant
or Priest;
Know the red spirit of the beast,
Be the green grain;
Escape from prison.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
' 'Anima rationalis est
perfectior
quam
sensibilis, et sensibilis quam vegetabilis,' Aquinas, _Summa_, ii.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
You
have no true debitor and
creditor
but it; of what's past, is, and
to come, the discharge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
But now, all ignorant of the length
Of time's
uncertain
wing,
It goads me, like the goblin bee,
That will not state its sting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face,
The mirror where the stars and mountains view
The
stillness
of their aspect in each trace
Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue:
There is too much of man here, to look through
With a fit mind the might which I behold;
But soon in me shall Loneliness renew
Thoughts hid, but not less cherished than of old,
Ere mingling with the herd had penned me in their fold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
Moreover
Galba had let fall a remark, which augured well for
Rome, though it spelt danger to himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic
work is derived
from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied
and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees
or charges.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
The
unfeeling
heart can't know a pain so sweet:
Love reigns on earth above, not beneath our feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
" The spirits,
Who from my
breathing
had perceiv'd I liv'd,
Grew pale with wonder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
"
If he had always used such
jingling
words
He might have scorned Mark Antony's swords.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
To dreams I long have closed mine eyes,
Yet
sometimes
banished hopes will rise
And agitate my heart again;
And thus it is 'twould cause me pain
Without the faintest trace to leave
This world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
He has begun more Knavish suits at
Court, then ever the Kings Taylor
honestly
finish'd, but never thriv'd
by any: so that now hee's almost fallen from a Palace Begger to a
Spittle one'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Where be their riches, where their
precious
gems,
Their mitres, sceptres, robes, and diadems?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Nusch
The sentiments apparent
The
lightness
of approach
The tresses of caresses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Here let me sit upon this mossy stone,
The marble column's yet
unshaken
base!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
Wounded by what passion
Did you die on the shore, where you were
abandoned?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
And what's thy
purchase?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
And if the bright eyes which I show'd thee first,
If the fair face where most I loved to stay,
Thy young heart's icy
hardness
when I burst,
Restore to me the bow which all obey,
Then may thy cheek, which now so smooth appears,
Be channell'd with my daily drink of tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
These toils continue nine
succeeding
days,
And high in air a sylvan structure raise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
He
begins: "Rodin was solitary before fame came to him, and
afterward
he
became perhaps still more solitary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
The feeling heart, the
searching
soul,
To thee I dedicate the whole!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Can I pour thy wine
While my hands
tremble?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Or if perchance one
perfumed
tress
Be lowered to the wind's caress,
The honeyed hyacinths complain,
And languish in a sweet distress.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
XXXI
On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;
His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;
The gale, it plies the
saplings
double,
And thick on Severn snow the leaves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Who could see
clearly?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Sunshine
and shower be with you, bud and bell!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
An adverse star, a fate here only wrong,
Entrusts to one who
worships
her dear name,
Yet haply injures by his praise her fame.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Yet with a head freshly honed and
cunningly
fledged, certain others
Pierce to the marrow, inflame rapidly there our blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
No part of time but bart; his mark away
Ol' lionour, — all the yfur was Cromwell's day;
Hut this, of all the most auspicious found,
Twice had in open tielil hi in victor crowned,
Whoii up the armed
nuxintains
of Dunbar
lie marched, and through (h(;p Severn, ending wai*:
Digitized by VjOOQIC
OP MARYELL.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
" He said, and sate
Fast by
Alcinous
on a throne of state.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
A paradise, the host,
And
cherubim
and seraphim
The most familiar guest.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
These are Thy
Honours!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
PAPHOS: there were two towns of the name, both on the west side of the
island of Cyprus, and dedicated to Venus, who was hence the _Paphian_
and the
_Cyprian_
goddess.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
L'ame des vieux soleils s'allume, emmaillotee
Dans ces tresses d'epis ou
fermentaient
les grains.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Nay, we are dull with joy:
Of thee we thought not, out of the hands of outrage
Coming back,
although
with victory coming.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
The false and fond examples of thy lusts
Corrupt no less than they oppress, and sap
In the same moment all thy pageant power
And those who should sustain it; so that whether
A foreign foe invade, or civil broil
Distract
within, both will alike prove fatal:
The first thy subjects have no heart to conquer; 80
The last they rather would assist than vanquish.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
I am,
God knows, as
helpless
as the Devil can wish,
And not a whit more difficult to damn,
Than is to bring to land a late-hooked fish,
Or to the butcher to purvey the lamb;
Not that I'm fit for such a noble dish,
As one day will be that immortal fry
Of almost every body born to die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
XXVII
You, by Rome astonished, who gaze here
On ancient pride, once threatening the skies,
These old palaces, where the brave hills rise,
Walls, archways, baths, the temples that appear:
Judge, as you view these ruins, shattered, sere,
All that injurious Time's devoured: the wise
Architect and mason, their plans devise
Still from these fragments, these
patterns
clear:
Then note how Rome, still, from day to day,
Rummaging through her ancient decay,
Renews herself with hosts of sacred things:
You'd think the Roman spirit yet alive,
With destined hands continuing to strive,
That to these dusty ruins, new life brings.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
[29] The first extant edition dates from 1620, and has
been
reprinted
by W.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Act II Scene VI (King Ferdinand, Don Arias, Don Sanche)
King
The Count then is still proud,
unreasonable!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
And heard this voice of sorrow
breathed
from the hollow pit.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
--She ceased, and weeping turned away,
As if because her tale was at an end
She wept;--because she had no more to say
Of that
perpetual
weight which on her spirit lay.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an
admiring
bog!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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How the
floridness
of the materials of cities shrivels before a man's or
woman's look!
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Whitman |
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LXII
"O, worthy seed of
Hercules
the good,
Let not their guilt beyond thy love prevail;
Alas!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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CLXXXIII
That
Emperour
is lying in a mead;
By's head, so brave, he's placed his mighty spear;
On such a night unarmed he will not be.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Sidgwick
& Jackson, London, in _19l4, and Other Poems_).
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Du Fu
explains
why this is a mark of imperial confidence in the recipient?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us
thinketh
hem; and yet they spake hem so, 25
And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes, sondry ben usages.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this
electronic
work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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