Lest as a pilgrim, again,
In such
twilight
shadows,
HE should alight, peradventure
Onto our earth, and then
Over the way he should glide,
--Parting the leaves with his radiance-
Through the copse to thy threshold,
There awhile to abide.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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What to him are all our wars,
What but death
bemocking
folly?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And see, by their track,
bleeding
footprints we know.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Faithful
to whom?
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Milton |
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,
described
in the Lusiad.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Often a hidden god
inhabits
obscure being;
And like an eye, born, covered by its eyelids,
Pure spirit grows beneath the surface of stones!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Expectation and doubt 5
Flutter my
timorous
heart.
| Guess: |
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Sappho |
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This I forgot last night:
you must not be blamed,
it is not your fault;
as a child, a flower--any flower
tore my breast--
meadow-chicory, a common grass-tip,
a leaf shadow, a flower tint
unexpected
on a winter-branch.
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| Question: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Swote hys tyngue as the throstles note,
Quycke ynn daunce as
thoughte
canne bee,
Defte hys taboure, codgelle stote, 860
O!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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In fact the
satyr stands between
Gilgamish
and Ishara(?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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In buskin'd measures move
Pale Grief, and
pleasing
Pain,
With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.
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Golden Treasury |
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Till the mortal stroke shall lay me low,
I'm thine, my
Highland
lassie, O.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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said he; what led you thus to trace,
An humble slave of your
celestial
face?
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| Question: |
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La Fontaine |
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I use this word, as it is
pronounced in the Italian, as
consisting
of four
syllables, of which the third is a long one.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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55 _sese quae uisit uisere credit_ Voss:
_seseque
sui tui se
credit_ GOBLa1D: _seseque sui qui_ (suprascr.
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Latin - Catullus |
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With the other masquerades
That time resumes,
One thinks of all the hands
That are raising dingy shades
In a
thousand
furnished rooms.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The preceding Fenwick note to this poem is
manifestly
inaccurate as to
date, since the poem is printed in the "Lyrical Ballads" of 1800.
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William Wordsworth |
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Digitized by VjOOQIC
106 THE POEMS
Well might thou scorn thy readers to allure
With
tinkling
rhyme, of thy own sense secure.
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| Question: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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Horace still charms with graceful negligence,
And without method talks us into sense,
Will, like a friend,
familiarly
convey 655
The truest notions in the easiest way.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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It only remains to find (if we can) his Ruling Passion: That
will certainly influence all the rest, and can
reconcile
the seeming or
real inconsistency of all his actions, v.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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6740
'Or if his winning be so lyte,
That his labour wol not acquyte
Sufficiantly al his living,
Yit may he go his breed begging;
Fro dore to dore he may go trace, 6745
Til he the
remenaunt
may purchace.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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THE COUNT OF LARA
DON CARLOS
Gentlemen
of Madrid.
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Longfellow |
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Red is the fire's common tint;
But when the vivid ore
Has sated flame's conditions,
Its quivering substance plays
Without a color but the light
Of
unanointed
blaze.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Alexander Pope |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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383), and it
was no sooner
published
than it was pirated.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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And if the verse flow free and fast,
Till even the poet is aghast,
A
touching
Valentine at last
The post shall carry,
When thirteen days are gone and past
Of February.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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To the Right Honourable, John Lord Vicount Bracly, Son and
Heir
apparent
to the Earl of Bridgewater, &c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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V
Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers
Are lying in field and lane,
With
dandelions
to tell the hours
That never are told again.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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You then whose
judgment
the right course would steer,
Know well each ANCIENT'S proper character;
His fable, subject, scope in ev'ry page; 120
Religion, Country, genius of his Age:
Without all these at once before your eyes,
Cavil you may, but never criticize.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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I, Sappho, have made love the mastery
Most sacred over man; but I have made it
A safety of things
gloriously
known,
To house his spirit from the darkness blowing
Out of the vast unknown: from me he hath
The wilful mind to make his fortune fair.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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'
'But life is in our hands,' she said:
'In our own hands for gain or loss: 110
Shall not the
Sevenfold
Sacred Fire
Suffice to purge our dross?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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"There was an old man at a station
Who made a
promiscuous
oration.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Since then I heard that all there had suffered calamity, 16 massacred down to the
chickens
and dogs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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BALLAD OF THE GOODLY FERE1
SIMON ZELOTES SPEAKETH IT SOMEWHILE AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION
FA' we lost the
goodliest
fere o' all
L For the priests and the gallows tree?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The boy, that scareth from the spiry wheat
The
melancholy
crow--in hurry weaves,
Beneath an ivied tree, his sheltering seat,
Of rushy flags and sedges tied in sheaves,
Or from the field a shock of stubble thieves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Will you give a
drachma?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Happier in this than
mightiest
bards have been,
Whose fate to distant homes confined their lot,
Shall I unmoved behold the hallowed scene,
Which others rave of, though they know it not?
| 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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O coeurs de salete, bouches epouvantables,
Fonctionnez plus fort, bouches de
puanteurs!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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L aurel, so sweet, for my cause now fighting,
O live, so noble,
removing
all bitter foliage,
R eason does not wish me unused to owing,
E ven as I'm to agree with this wish, forever,
Duty to you, but rather grow used to serving:
Even for this end are we come together.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Thy
mornings
showed, thy nights conceal'd,
The bowers where Lucy play'd;
And thine too is the last green field
That Lucy's eyes survey'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Now, ere decay my bloom devour
Or thin the
richness
of my blood,
Fain would I fall in youth's first flower,
The tigers' food.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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) propounded terms
Of composition, strait they chang'd thir minds,
Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell,
As they would dance, yet for a dance they seemd
Somwhat extravagant and wilde, perhaps
For joy of offerd peace: but I suppose
If our
proposals
once again were heard
We should compel them to a quick result.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Ay,
wonderful
in Jewry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
But the principal failing
occurred
in the sailing,
And the Bellman, perplexed and distressed,
Said he _had_ hoped, at least, when the wind blew due East,
That the ship would _not_ travel due West!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
But now, what is't that strikes thy sceptic mind,
Constraining thee to sundry arguments
Against belief that from insensate germs
The
sensible
is gendered?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Farewell
the flax and reaming wool,
With which thy house was plentiful;
Farewell the coats, the garments, and
The sheets, the rugs, made by thy hand;
Farewell thy fire and thy light,
That ne'er went out by day or night:--
CHOR.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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For he has a pall, this
wretched
man,
Such as few men can claim:
Deep down below a prison-yard,
Naked for greater shame,
He lies, with fetters on each foot,
Wrapt in a sheet of flame!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
The word is
probably
an adverb; hardly a word
for cup, mug (?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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There's an
insidious
viper creeps into the loveliest gardens,
Lying in wait to attack all who seek pleasure therein.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Vida's description of the game of chess in his 'Scacchia
Ludus'
certainly
gave him the model for the game of ombre in the third
canto of 'The Rape of the Lock'; Boileau's 'Lutrin' probably suggested
to him the idea of using the mock-heroic for the purposes of satire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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A little
distance
from the prow
Those crimson shadows were:
I turned my eyes upon the deck--
Oh, Christ!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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'tis the night-raven sings
Tidings of
approaching
death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Thou
speakest
to me of love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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She dried her feet on the
riverside
grass;
She looked at me once again,
And the playful beauty then took thought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
I have no
brothers
and no peers,
And the dearest interferes:
When I would spend a lonely day,
Sun and moon are in my way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Grieve not so, dear mother, (the just-grown
daughter
speaks through
her sobs,
The little sisters huddle around speechless and dismay'd,)
See, dearest mother, the letter says Pete will soon be better.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Then suddenly there was a great light--
"Let me into the
darkness
again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
A strong
instance in the Iliad itself to
illustrate
this position, is the
passage where Jupiter laments to Juno the approaching death of
Sarpedon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Here, an
inaugural
sight, four horses of snowy [538-570]whiteness are
grazing abroad on the grassy plain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Many a thing you did to save me,
Many a holy gift you gave me,
Music and friends and happy love
More than my dearest dreaming of;
And now in this wide
twilight
hour
With earth and heaven a dark, blue flower,
In a humble mood I bless
Your wisdom--and your waywardness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Before the phantom of False morning died,
Methought a Voice within the Tavern cried,
"When all the Temple is prepared within,
"Why nods the drowsy
Worshiper
outside?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
at may
verrayly
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
the whole company of the
inhabitants
had each but a single
eye and but one hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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It is
needless
to add, that Father Urreta is a
second Sir John Mandevylle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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With fresh wiles she marked the spot
where beautiful Iulus was trapping and
coursing
game on the bank; here
the infernal maiden suddenly crosses his hounds with the maddening touch
of a familiar scent, and drives them hotly on the stag-hunt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
There as he stood, he heard a
mournful
voice,
Such as once heard, in gentle heart, destroys
All pain but pity: thus the lone voice spake:
"When from this wreathed tomb shall I awake!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Hubur,
mythical
river, 197, 42.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
, _speech of solemn sound,
ceremonious
words_, 1980.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Mark, how the heel and tendons' print combine,
Measured exact, with mine
coincident!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
"
Then I
stretched
forth my arms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations
received
from
outside the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
" replied)
"Was it for this you took such constant care 15
Combs, bodkins, leads,
pomatums
to prepare?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Similemente a li splendor mondani
ordino general
ministra
e duce
che permutasse a tempo li ben vani
di gente in gente e d'uno in altro sangue,
oltre la difension d'i senni umani;
per ch'una gente impera e l'altra langue,
seguendo lo giudicio di costei,
che e occulto come in erba l'angue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Thus soft she lies: and overhead
A spinner's circle is bespread
With cob-web curtains, from the roof
So neatly sunk as that no proof
Of any
tackling
can declare
What gives it hanging in the air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
At times we went through particular hardship, 20 a whole day spent
covering
just a few leagues.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
In those proud days he little cared
For
husbandry
or tillage;
To blither tasks did Simon rouse
The sleepers of the village.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
It is
certain that
satirical
poems were common at Rome from a very
early period.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
n 163
A Dream of
Mountaineering
164
Ease 165
On hearing someone sing a Poem by
Yuan Ch?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
It does not somehow
smack of the
marriage
bed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
"Her style was
anything
but clear,
And most unpleasantly severe;
Her epithets were very queer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Is it that summer's
forsaken
our valleys,
And grim, surly winter is near?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
With his love for the
absolute, why is it that he does not seek after an absolute in words
considered as style, as well as in words considered as the
expression
of
thought?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
I'll not be wooed for pelf;
I'll not blot out my shame
With any man's good name;
But
nameless
as I stand,
My hand is my own hand,
And nameless as I came
I go to the dark land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Hearing you praised, I say ''tis so, 'tis true,'
And to the most of praise add
something
more;
But that is in my thought, whose love to you,
Though words come hindmost, holds his rank before.
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Note: Ronsard's Marie was an
unidentified
country girl from Anjou.
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Ronsard |
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His fears were vain; impenetrable charms
Secured the temper of the
ethereal
arms.
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Iliad - Pope |
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590
From the deep urgency with which the Prince
Despatched
me to your sacred presence, I
Must dare to add my feeble voice to that
Which now has spoken.
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Byron |
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_Versions_ based on
separate
sources are treated as new eBooks receiving
new filenames and etext numbers.
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Iliad - Pope |
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On his return to India he founded
the Nizam College at Hyderabad, and has since
laboured
incessantly,
and at great personal sacrifice, in the cause of education.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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5280
Half his anoy he shal have ay,
And comfort [him] what that he may;
And of his blisse parte shal he,
If love wol
departed
be.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Many of his poems were never
printed during his lifetime, the most
remarkable
of these being "The
Jolly Beggars," a piece in which, by the intensity of his imaginative
sympathy and the brilliance of his technique, he renders a picture of
the lowest dregs of society in such a way as to raise it into the realm
of great poetry.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Let us go and throw
ourselves
at your parents'
feet.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Or if perchance one perfumed tress
Be lowered to the wind's caress,
The honeyed hyacinths complain,
And
languish
in a sweet distress.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
And they
answered
me saying, "No, not one.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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