Dost
comprehend
things mortal, how they grow?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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faith in fallen things--be thou my crown,
My force, my joy, my prop on which I lean:
Yes, whilst _he's_ there, or
struggle
some or fall,
O France, dear France, for whom I weep in vain.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Je vous fais chaque soir un
solennel
adieu!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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There where the
Texture o'er her sad lips is closely drawn
A
trembling
smile softly begins to dawn .
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| Question: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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For forty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Thou
beauteous
wreath, with melancholy eyes,
Possess whatever bliss thou canst devise,
Telling me only where my nymph is fled,--
Where she doth breathe!
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Keats - Lamia |
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Her
monument
is still extant, where her statue
is adorned with the diadem and the royal robe.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of
windows?
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T.S. Eliot |
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let my looks be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my
speaking
breast,
Who plead for love, and look for recompense,
More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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So judg'd he Man, both Judge and Saviour sent,
And th' instant stroke of Death denounc't that day 210
Remov'd farr off; then
pittying
how they stood
Before him naked to the aire, that now
Must suffer change, disdain'd not to begin
Thenceforth the forme of servant to assume,
As when he wash'd his servants feet, so now
As Father of his Familie he clad
Thir nakedness with Skins of Beasts, or slain,
Or as the Snake with youthful Coate repaid;
And thought not much to cloath his Enemies:
Nor hee thir outward onely with the Skins 220
Of Beasts, but inward nakedness, much more
Opprobrious, with his Robe of righteousness,
Araying cover'd from his Fathers sight.
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| Question: |
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Milton |
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[601] The Corinthians were
constantly
passing their vessels across the
isthmus from one sea to the other; we know that the Grecian ships were of
very small dimensions.
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Aristophanes |
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Despair,
despair!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"Surely," said I, "surely that is
something
at my window lattice;
Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore--
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;--
'Tis the wind and nothing more!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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:--
"By
Caedicus
Alcathous was slain;
Sacrator laid Hydaspes on the plain;
Orses the strong to greater strength must yield,
He, with Parthenius, were by Rapo killed.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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at my3t;
[B]
Brachetes
bayed ?
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| Question: |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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||
_palmisepto_
(_-seto_ BLa1 ?
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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His
influence
is great
With Henry, our good King;--the Baron might
Have heard my suit, and urged my plea at Court.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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HASTINGS: We must keep up the
deception
with Marlow; else he will
fly.
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| Question: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The
Macmillan
Co.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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--Un beau soir, foin des bocks et de la limonade,
Ces cafes tapageurs aux lustres
eclatants!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
In future when I celebrate his flame,
Expressions not so warm will be my aim;
I would not willingly abuses plant,
But rather let my
writings
spirit want.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
")
Do I dare
Disturb the
universe?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Thought Burbank,
meditating
on
Time's ruins, and the seven laws.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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She loved dumb things: and ere she had begun
To milk,
caressed
them more than eer she'd done;
But though her tears stood watering in her eye,
I little took it as her last good-bye;
For she was tender, and I've often known
Her mourn when beetles have been trampled on:
So I neer dreamed from this, what soon befell,
Till the next morning rang her passing-bell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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And
fiercely
by the arm he took her,
And by the arm he held her fast,
And fiercely by the arm he shook her,
And cried, "I've caught you then at last!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
' This account was in the best
Rowleian manner, with strange spelling and uncouth words, but for
the most part quite
intelligible
to the ordinary reader.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And stole from death thy
brother?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Note:
Dedication
to Vicount Bracly: Omitted in 1673.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Tasting, art thou,
What the Assyrians may have forced on me,
Ere thou hast well swallowed thy new
freedom?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
The
_Diuell_
is an _A?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"So intimate, this Chopin, that I think his soul
Should be resurrected only among friends
Some two or three, who will not touch the bloom
That is rubbed and
questioned
in the concert room.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
One night in his cell at the foot of yon dell
The priest heard a
frequent
cry:
"Go, father, in haste to the cot on the waste,
And shrive a man waiting to die.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Felon is Guene, since th' hour that he betrayed,
And, towards you, is perjured and ashamed:
Wherefore
I judge that he be hanged and slain,
His carcass flung to th' dogs beside the way,
As a felon who felony did make.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to
darkness
utterly,
It might be well perhaps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark
as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
In place of it
permit me to offer the universally
appreciated
"Bridge of Sighs":--
One more Unfortunate,
Weary of breath,
Rashly importunate
Gone to her death!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
_Visions
of the Evening.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Who would show such courage or
temerity?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Highbury
bore me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
The room
shakes, the
servitor
quakes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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`And
trusteth
this, that certes, herte swete, 1590
Er Phebus suster, Lucina the shene,
The Leoun passe out of this Ariete,
I wol ben here, with-outen any wene.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And how they guard it, who o'erween
A
stricken
people, with their might!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
"What do they say of me in
Orenburg?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Thy burning eyes already are
Grown wild and mournful as a star
Whose
occupation
is for aye
To look upon the place of clay
Whereon thou lookest now.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
This is ten thousand titles each to one hundred million readers,
which is only about 4% of the present number of
computer
users.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Look how the senators ape the clown,
And don the motley and hide the gown,
But yonder a fast-rising frown
On the people's
forehead
lowers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
What profits
loathing
ere ye know?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Thus the French translator:--
_Les yeux peuvent soutenir la clarte du soleil naissant, mais lorsqu'il
s'est avance dans sa
carriere
lumineuse, et que ses rayons repandent les
ardeurs du midi, on tacherait en vain de l'envisager; un prompt
aveuglement serait le prix de cette audace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Many obstacles frequently prevent this
perception from being immediate; these the mind attempts to remove in
order that the
perception
may be distinct.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
So, roll'd up in his den, the swelling snake
Beholds the traveller approach the brake;
When fed with noxious herbs his turgid veins
Have gather'd half the poisons of the plains;
He burns, he stiffens with collected ire,
And his red
eyeballs
glare with living fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
The orchard sparkled like a Jew, --
How mighty 't was, to stay
A guest in this
stupendous
place,
The parlor of the day!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
LXXXII
Over the roofs the honey-coloured moon,
With purple shadows on the silver grass,
And the warm south-wind on the curving sea,
While we two, lovers past all turmoil now,
Watch from the window the white sails come in, 5
Bearing what unknown
ventures
safe to port!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Play the old role, the role that is great or small,
according
as one makes
it!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
"
I feel like one who smiles, and turning shall remark
Suddenly, his
expression
in a glass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
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 |
|
CHORUS
O brave
endurance
of a soul resolved!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
The rat is the
concisest
tenant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Or friends or kinsfolk on the citied earth,
To share our
marriage
feast and nuptial mirth?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Canto IV
Intra due cibi, distanti e moventi
d'un modo, prima si morria di fame,
che liber' omo l'un recasse ai denti;
si si
starebbe
un agno intra due brame
di fieri lupi, igualmente temendo;
si si starebbe un cane intra due dame:
per che, s'i' mi tacea, me non riprendo,
da li miei dubbi d'un modo sospinto,
poi ch'era necessario, ne commendo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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'Tis now the time to wreathe the brow with branch of myrtle green,
Or flowers, just opening to the vernal breeze;
Now Faunus claims his
sacrifice
among the shady treen,
Lambkin or kidling, which soe'er he please.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
83
capable of
salvation
or
1
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
It was a
gorgeous
wedding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
thine
uttermost
hope:
Level red gold with blue sky-slope,
And base it deep as devils grope:
When all's done, what hast thou won
Of the only sweet that's under the sun?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Earth's
stablest
things are shadows,
And, in the life to come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Ye tradesmen vile, in army, court, or hall,
Ye
reverend
atheists--
F.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
One man
tried, but he died, and nearly the whole
regiment
went to his funeral
because it gave them something to do.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Io levai li occhi; e come da mattina
la parte
oriental
de l'orizzonte
soverchia quella dove 'l sol declina,
cosi, quasi di valle andando a monte
con li occhi, vidi parte ne lo stremo
vincer di lume tutta l'altra fronte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Finally, to make things
quite clear, his old father fights him openly, tells him home-truth upon
home-truth, tears away all his
protective
screens, and leaves him with his
self-respect in tatters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
You
neighbour
of the Danube!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Sleepily lull the wasps in the noon-day song,
And through the meagre shelter of the blades
Upon his
sunburnt
forehead slowly trickle
The poppy-petals: large red drops of blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
A Farm Picture
Through the ample open door of the
peaceful
country barn,
A sunlit pasture field with cattle and horses feeding,
And haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
[1] This office was usually undertaken by the Boots, who found in it
a refuge from the Baker's constant complaints about the insufficient
blacking
of his three pair of boots.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
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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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
The gods denying, in just indignation,
Your walls, bloodied by that ancient instance
Of
fraternal
strife, a sure foundation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
No more he sway'd the future and the past,
But on the moveless present fix'd at last;
As at a goal reposing from his toils,
Like earth
unclothed
of all its vernal foils.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Close by the
straight
Larissa road.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
He does not rise in piteous haste
To put on convict-clothes,
While some coarse-mouthed Doctor gloats, and notes
Each new and nerve-twitched pose,
Fingering
a watch whose little ticks
Are like horrible hammer-blows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
_
The last battles of Agricola were fought in Scotland; and, in the pages
of Tacitus, he achieved a splendid victory among the
Grampian
hills.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
1921
CONRAD AIKEN
Earth Triumphant The Macmillan Company 1914
Turns and Movies
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
The blind met
daylight
in his eye,
The joys of everlasting day;
The sick found health in his reply;
The cripple threw his crutch away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
]
[Sidenote E: Gawayne tells her that he will become her own knight and
faithful
servant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
And the
crucifixion
appeased
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
"
Which
distressed
that Old Man of Jamaica.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
org),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of
obtaining
a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
<
vagliami
'l lungo studio e 'l grande amore
che m'ha fatto cercar lo tuo volume.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
No; 'tis that of Time:
Triumph, arch, pillar, all he doth displace,
Scoffing; and
apostolic
statues climb
To crush the imperial urn, whose ashes slept sublime,
CXI.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
So, being hungry, they
immediately
flew at him, and were going to divide
him into seven pieces, when they began to quarrel as to which of his legs
should be taken off first.
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Ich herze dich mit
tausendfacher
Glut
Nur folge mir!
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on my feet fall vain tears
As the roar of my
laughter
redoubles their fears.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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This pleases me, and
furthers
my designs.
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Longfellow |
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Let
suppliant
youths obtain thine ear!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
Then the gauzes removes he which shade her,
At her beauty all wonder intensely;
One moment the Pasha survey'd her,
And,
dropping
his tchebouk, without sense lay.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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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.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"Whence, now, bear ye burnished shields,
harness gray and helmets grim,
spears in
multitude?
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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