By the eighth
milestone
on the road to nowhere
He drops his sack, and lights once more the pipe
There often lighted.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Noble
Hesperian
dragon, I call you courageous and forthright.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
'Twas in the
seventeen
hunder year
O' grace, and ninety-five,
That year I was the wae'est man
Of ony man alive.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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In other cases, as in the
few poems of
shipwreck
or of mental conflict, we can only wonder at
the gift of vivid imagination by which this recluse woman can
delineate, by a few touches, the very crises of physical or mental
struggle.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Lanier's growth in
artistic
form.
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Sidney Lanier |
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XLIV
Triumphs--their own or those of friends--
Hopes, frolics, dreams and sentiment
Their harmless
conversation
blends
With scandal's trivial ornament.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
Here the visiter bowed and withdrew--in what manner could not precisely
be ascertained--but in a well-concerted effort to discharge a bottle
at "the villain," the slender chain was severed that
depended
from the
ceiling, and the metaphysician prostrated by the downfall of the lamp.
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Poe - 5 |
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Beneath the moon that shines so bright,
Till she is tired, let Betty Foy
With girt and stirrup fiddle-faddle;
But
wherefore
set upon a saddle
Him whom she loves, her idiot boy?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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These men err not by chance, but
knowingly and willingly; they are like men that affect a fashion by
themselves; have some
singularity
in a ruff cloak, or hat-band; or their
beards specially cut to provoke beholders, and set a mark upon
themselves.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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One after one by the horned Moon
(Listen, O
Stranger!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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e
emperour
with his erles bolde,
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Nor haughty hope, nor swart chagrin,
Nor
murdering
hate, can enter in.
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Emerson - Poems |
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My days of life approach their end,
Yet I in idleness expend
The remnant destiny concedes,
And thus each
stubbornly
proceeds.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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LXIII
A
beautiful
child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
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Sappho |
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' The
interjected
'O knottie riddle' does not mean, 'Who is
to say which is the worst?
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John Donne |
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_Po, ben puo' tu
portartene
la scorza.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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That lends
corruption
lighter wings to fly!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And what for waste de vittles, now, and th'ow away de bread,
Jes' for to
strength
dese idle hands to scratch dis ole bald head?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Quanti si tegnon or la su gran regi
che qui staranno come porci in brago,
di se
lasciando
orribili dispregi!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I deem that I with but a crumb
Am
sovereign
of them all.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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860
What a fearful inheritance for my poor
children!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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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.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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One moment, one more word,
While my heart beats still,
While my breath is stirred
By my
fainting
will.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Pray, how did they
contrive
to know
So quickly that 'the place was low,'
And that I 'kept bad wine'?
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Lewis Carroll |
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He wrote histories of the Revolution,
of
Napoleon
and of France.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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, quod reuocabat Munro
28
_quiuis_
Lachm.
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Latin - Catullus |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Humbug,
_General
Taylor's antislavery_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Still, the
alacrity
with
which a Russian hostess will turn her house topsy-turvy for
the accommodation of forty or fifty guests would somewhat
astonish the mistress of a modern Belgravian mansion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Take, then, our hearts' rejoicing overflow,
Thou new-born
daughter
of Democracy,
Whose coming sets the expectant earth aglow.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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But I look on thee--on thee--
Beholding, besides love, the end of love,
Hearing
oblivion
beyond memory;
As one who sits and gazes from above,
Over the rivers to the bitter sea.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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A Single Smile
A single smile disputes
Each star with the
gathering
night
A single smile for us both
And the blue of your joyful eyes
Against the mass of night
Finding its flame in my eyes
I have seen by needing to know
The deep night create the day
With no change in our appearance.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Now the swift sail of straining life is furled,
And through the stillness of my soul is whirled
The
throbbing
of the hearts of half the world.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
365
It was a tene too doughtie to bee borne,
Wydhoute
an ounde of teares and breaste wyth syghes ytorne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I doubt na, lass, that weel ken'd name
May cost a pair o' blushes;
I am nae
stranger
to your fame,
Nor his warm urged wishes.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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er
charcole
brenned,
876 Wat3 gray?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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10
*Them to ensnare they chiefly strive
*Jithjagnatsu
gnal.
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Milton |
|
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Chanson de Roland |
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Goldsmith and
Sheridan
and Burke had become so much a part
of English life, were so greatly moulded by the movements that were
moulding England, that, despite certain Irish elements that clung
about them, we could not think of them as more important to us than
any English writer of equal rank.
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| Question: |
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Yeats |
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XXIII
Brought by a pedlar vagabond
Unto their solitude one day,
This monument of thought profound
Tattiana
purchased
with a stray
Tome of "Malvina," and but three(56)
And a half rubles down gave she;
Also, to equalise the scales,
She got a book of nursery tales,
A grammar, likewise Petriads two,
Marmontel also, tome the third;
Tattiana every day conferred
With Martin Zadeka.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Modern editors
separate
'thorny' and 'hairy' by a
comma.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Thou stirrest
earthquake
in the South,
And maelstrom in the sea;
Say, Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
Hast thou no arm for me?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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He, sick to lose
The amorous promise of her lone complain,
Swoon'd,
murmuring
of love, and pale with pain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Now know I what Love is: 'mid savage rocks
Tmaros or Rhodope brought forth the boy,
Or
Garamantes
in earth's utmost bounds-
No kin of ours, nor of our blood begot.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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The raven-mane that daily,
With pats and fond caresses,
The young
Herminia
washed and combed,
And twined in even tresses,
And decked with colored ribbons
From her own gay attire,
Hung sadly o'er her father's corpse
In carnage and in mire.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Und schafft die Sudelkocherei
Wohl
dreissig
Jahre mir vom Leibe?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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One of the
countless
victims of the Assassin's dagger was Nizam ul
Mulk himself, the old school-boy friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Of Peris I the loveliest far--
My sisters, near the morning star,
In ever youthful bloom abide;
But pale their lustre by my side--
A silken turban wreathes my head,
Rubies on my arms are spread,
While sailing slowly through the sky,
By the uplooker's dazzled eye
Are seen my wings of purple hue,
Glittering
with Elysian dew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Except the heaven had come so near,
So seemed to choose my door,
The
distance
would not haunt me so;
I had not hoped before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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How pleased they were at what you said;
You try to touch the smile,
And dip your fingers in the frost:
When was it, can you tell,
You asked the company to tea,
Acquaintance, just a few,
And chatted close with this grand thing
That don't
remember
you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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His bloude went downe the swerde unto his arme,
In
springing
rivulet, alive and warme.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Etalant sur un banc les
rondeurs
de ses reins,
Un bourgeois bienheureux, a bedaine flamande,
Savoure, s'abimant en des reves divins,
La musique francaise et la pipe allemande!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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les
colliers
tinteront cherront les masques
Va-t'en va-t'en contre le feu l'ombre prevaut
Ah!
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Swythynne
flie from mee, and ne further saie;
Radher thanne heare thie love, I woulde bee dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
said Enion
accursed
wretch!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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unconscious of thy doom,
All
innocence
and opening bloom;
Laugh on!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Therefore
thou felt'st
The mountain tremble, and the spirits devout
Heard'st, over all his limits, utter praise
To that liege Lord, whom I entreat their joy
To hasten.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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He did not wring his hands nor weep,
Nor did he peek or pine,
But he drank the air as though it held
Some
healthful
anodyne;
With open mouth he drank the sun
As though it had been wine!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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We might safely
accept the sustained
judgment
of a thousand years of Greece.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Hast any of thy late
master's garments in thy
possession?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
My long thread
trembles
almost at the knife;
The breeze, that takes you, lifts me up alive,
And I'll follow those I loved, I the exile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
This edition preserves the
original readings, but they are not to be
considered
authoritative.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Crimson it was,
With smokey
lightnings
braided, in its first
Swift surge into the gloom before her face;
But it began to golden, and became
Astonishingly white.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Invita, o regina, tuo de vertice cessi,
Invita: adiuro teque tuomque caput, 40
Digna ferat quod siquis inaniter adiurarit:
Sed qui se ferro
postulet
esse parem?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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That feeble in the mind's eye, lean your trust
Upon unstaid
perverseness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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A COMMONPLACE DAY
THE day is turning ghost,
And scuttles from the kalendar in fits and furtively,
To join the
anonymous
host
Of those that throng oblivion; ceding his place, maybe,
To one of like degree.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Each
snarling
lash of the stormy sea
Curled like a hungry tongue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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at
coyntlych
closed
His thik ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Silent was all in Jezreel and Ur--
The stars were
glittering
in the heaven's dusk meadows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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A VALENTINE
Let others wonder what fair face
Upon their path shall shine,
And,
fancying
half, half hoping, trace
Some maiden shape of tenderest grace
To be their Valentine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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He stops the richest tyrant's breath
And lays his
mischief
still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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--And whom doth he intend
To name as his
successor?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"I will teach you, sir," O'Donnell replied,
"that the law can protect its officers"; but my father
reminded
him
that he had no witness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Envoys were
dispatched
to Parthia and Armenia to secure that the
legions, while engaged in the civil war, should not be exposed to
attack in the rear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Here we perforce shall drag them; and throughout
The dismal glade our bodies shall be hung,
Each on the wild thorn of his
wretched
shade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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--
And only yesterday it was I saw
Veil'd in
streamers
of grey wavering smoke
My shapely Malvern Hills.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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De workmen's few an' mons'rous slow,
De cotton's sheddin' fas';
Whoop, look, jes' look at de Baptis' row,
Hit's
mightily
in de grass, grass,
Hit's mightily in de grass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Sweet moans,
dovelike
sighs,
Chase not slumber from thy eyes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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It was not a few faint prismatic colors merely, but a full
semicircle, only four or five rods in diameter, though as wide as
usual, so intensely bright as to pain the eye, and
apparently
as
substantial as an arch of stone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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--to tell
The
loveliness
of loving well!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
I trow not, if my sorrow were thereby
No whit less, only the more
friendless
I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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1157-1170)
A townsman's son from the Bishopric of Clermont-Ferrand, Peire d'Alvernhe was a
professional
troubadour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| 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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What need, O Earth, to have plucked this flower from
blossoming?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
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required
to prepare) your annual (or equivalent
periodic) tax return.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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20
XCVIII
I am more
tremulous
than shaken reeds,
And love has made me like the river water.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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It levelled strong Euphrates in its course;
Supreme yet weightless as an idle mote
It seemed to tame the waters without force
Till not a murmur swelled or billow beat:
Lo, as the purple shadow swept the sands,
The prudent crocodile rose on his feet
And shed
appropriate
tears and wrung his hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
[250] A sophist of the island of Ceos, a
disciple
of Protagoras, as
celebrated for his knowledge as for his eloquence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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I look'd, but all in vain: the potent ray
Flash'd on my sight intolerable day
At first; but to the
splendour
soon inured,
My eyes perused the pomp with sight assured.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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who dost oft return,
Ministering comfort to my nights of woe,
From eyes which Death,
relenting
in his blow,
Has lit with all the lustres of the morn:
How am I gladden'd, that thou dost not scorn
O'er my dark days thy radiant beam to throw!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Then doubt the sun gives light,
Doubt truth to teach thee wrong,
And wrong alone as right;
And live as lives the knave,
Intrigue's
deceiving
guest;
Be tyrant, or be slave,
As suits thy ends the best.
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John Clare |
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Long
conversations
she could rarely get,
And various obstacles the lovers met;
No interviews where they might be at ease,
But ev'ry thing conspired to fret and teaze.
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La Fontaine |
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The myrtle groves are those of the Underworld in
Classical
mythology.
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Ronsard |
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His
companion
goes after, following,
The men of France their warrant find in him.
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Chanson de Roland |
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But what is most, the gentle swain
No more shall need of love
complain
;
But virtue shall be beauty's hire,
And those be equal, that have equal fire.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Only three manuscripts have the, to
my mind, most
probably
correct reading in _Satyre I_, l.
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John Donne |
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'quid
grauibus
uerbis, animosa Tragoedia,' dixit
'me premis?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Life made an end of,
Life but just begun;
Life
finished
yesterday,
Its last sand run;
Life new-born with the morrow
Fresh as the sun:
While done is done for ever;
Undone, undone.
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Christina Rossetti |
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